/games/ - Video Games

Learning new card games and variations of games is a casual way to get you noggin jogging.

I got this solitaire game that has like 100 variations of solitaire. Some pretty standard while others work totally different from anything I played before so takes quite a bit of effort to understand. Then even more to get good at. Plus it has a timer and point system to keep track of progress and push myself.


Or another example is poker. The basic rules are relatively simple but to actually get good at the game takes massive brain power since you are ether constantly running odds or memorized full on books worth of knowledge that you have trained to access in seconds.
A good middle ground is getting good at video poker.

Obvious I am not recommending you play card games for money though. It's quite fun to play for free both solo and online against other people.

>>62084
You have a false dichotomy in this thread. Reaction time (what you call reflexes) always corresponds to general intelligence. In fact, reflex timing is the one way to have a cross-cultural iq level that doesn't depend on education. In other words, working on your reflexes will help your cognitive ability. Furthermore, the older you get, the more pronounced the effect is. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5608941/#:~:text=Highlights&text=Both%20simple%20and%20choice%20reaction%20time%20are%20strongly%20correlated%20with%20IQ.&text=The%20correlation%20increases%20with%20age.&text=The%20underlying%20relationships%20are%20different,is%20complex%20and%20non%2Dlinear, I'd say the great Metroid-Vania style games would keep you sharp without being board to death. Especially the main two, Super Metroid and Castlevania SOTN. WarioLand 3 is one of my favorites. That one has some great puzzle solving in it Metroid requires you to recall areas that you couldn't visit before because you lacked the power-ups. Getting one always triggers the memory of that area then you go back.
Personally I believe the best thing to stay sharp is to master different games. It could be anything, a platformer, shmup, puzzle, strategy game or whatever. Old games are very much about repetition and are short; try to overcome them without using features like save states or rewind, without worrying about finishing, just play them. Once you get really good at something, move on to a different game, And yet I specifically suggest a forgotten game called Locomotion (Kingsoft) A good mental workout, I don't think the premise is that accurate. On the surface it might seem a puzzle game is more about problem solving and cognitive skill, but there's no reason to elevate it above others.

Most games that you think are about reflexes are a combination of short-term decision making (problem solving), long-term decision making (strategy) routing (memory), and fine motor skills. I'd even argue the average arcadePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>62102
Interesting

>>62102
>master many games

Although I agree, my idea is to find a good game that give the best cognitive training with the least amount of money spent on multiply games.

>>62105
brain training on nintendo DS

>>62076
To be fair every single character in that game was a piece of shit, Swansea very much included.

>>62042
normal life made me realize I was happiest being a NEET and staying in my room all day, yes

the fuck is this game about

>>62082
Long haul space truckers crash, get stranded, and slowly turn on themselves and each other as they can't escape the issues they had been avoiding.

>>62086
sound intrrsting thank you

>non-competitive online games

What's even the point? If you want to talk, then just talk to people. There's VRChat if you really need to jump around a 3d world while you do it.

Roblox, Garry's Mod. GTAV online

>>61828
You can play Paradox Interactive games like Europa Universalis IV in multiplayer with an agreement that you and the other player don't attack each other. You instead stay allied and help each other out in wars. I can play with you like that if you want to.

>>61832
I second this, helldivers is pretty good.

People can't even kick you out, which is briliant. If someone decided to kick you end mission - you would just end up solo (they get out and you continue).
Rarely encountered any griefing. Amazing game, 100 hours flew by.

>>61832
>>62074
>>62074
The entirety of Helldiver's and II's Gameplay/Reward loops can be experienced in 15 miniutes. It's Destiny 2 with crappy flat maps

that game was disappointing after reading so many praise it as the best thing ever when it came out. too long, too repetitive and too easy.
and the sidekick sucked too, and i can't remember or pinpoint why exactly but i found the game world particularly lifeless and dull

still the best wolf game of 2006 but that's not saying much

>>62065
what made me like the game was the weapons. I found it cool and I hope there will be more in the sequel

what an odd announcement, is this official?
"okami sequel" huh ok

>>62067
yes it is even if they add the 'sequel', '2' would have been much more weird

>>62065
it was a signifcatnly above average action adventure game for it's time with a art style that still looks good to this day, and a story that didn't suck.

It's also more of a game then all the cat games that got attention recently, like Stray.

I played geometry dash for like a hour then played something else and never returned to it.
I have no clue what you are talking about, but it sounds like a bad time.

I don't think creating on GD was a bad time like you say, I mean i've always disliked elaborate gameplay but I like creating

>>61876
ohh…I'm dumb

Next game I'm getting is Mario & Luigi Brothership.

>>61878
Is there anything particularly interesting about it or is it just repeating the Super Star Saga formula but with minor gimmicks and better graphics?

>>61879
That's a good question.
Most of the reason I'm excited for it is that it looks like it's back to basics of the OG Game Boy Advance game without the gimmicks of the sequels.
But there might be some annoying rugpull where they make you play as princess peach or something.

Virtua Fighter had two huge announcements.
First is that they are actively developing VF6
Second that they are bringing a fully updated and online capable VF5 to steam.

It has been 18 years of waiting. It is my favorite fighting game series ever so I am super hype. I just hope they don't ruin it with shit monetization similar to what killed DOA.

You first, OP.

>>62040
I'm embarrased to say I didn't play any.

i wanna play runescape again but i gave away my entire bank so i have no idea how to get a bond again. ive been mining runite in free to play and only made like 2m.

Here's your RunEscape, bro

>>59947
Yeah, and? What's funny is I got a dragon med helm from the Odd-One-Out mystery box.

You losers could play this little direct RS clone that I linked. It has no players so you can grind your lives away into nothingness without competition.

>>59947
is this that runescape classic-esque game that someone was making a few years ago?

in france , the equivalent of runescape is dofus 1.29 (called dofus retro naowdays)

>>62006
I read/played more.
Got the "humanity wins" ending.
While actually answering some mysteries is was devastatingly depressing. While I don't think this VN has any good endings that was most certainly the bad one.
I didn't even have the emotional strength to roll my eyes at the dumb cosmic horror tropes. Was too sad at the deep all pervasive misery and hopeless despair of the ending. While not the most depressing thing I have read/played it was probably the most depressing in VN form I have ever come across.

I think I only got one rout left. By process of elimination it must be the closest the game has to a good end, but given the overall tone I still expect it to be painful, whatever it is.

Also did get eldritch H scene but not exactly in the form I expected, lol. Still I sort of got what I wanted in that regard.

Got into Umineko, got spoilered fast. Whatever. Doesn't seem worth the playtime, anyway. Kinda liked the George character - smart and level-headed. Would be my self-insert. Go online. People call him an insecure crab. Hits close home. Honestly, what can you do about being insecure? What can you about being in an involuntary celibate? Both labels are due to external factors.

>>62011
Allow me to spoiler you further, because I don't know if you've discovered an important reason George is disliked yet. Battler distanced himself from the rest of the family for a few years because he was angry at his dad for remarrying too fast after his mom died. He didn't completely drop all contact, though. He sent a letter that addressed every single family member at some point. It also addressed a servant girł who had feelings for him and they were in sort of a relationship but it wasn't anything too serious. George ended up reading the letter and specifically omitted that part of jealousy so that he could have a chance with her, which makes him one of the least wizardly characters in my opinion.

>>62011
>Umineko
Here's a good article debunking the supposed tranny shit https://sorel.substack.com/p/suicide-of-the-golden-troon

chaos;head is excellent at depicting the growing insanity and delusions of a person isolated from society

>>62021
>that are translated
That's your mistake.

>>62022
yeah I can't understand japanese

>>62022
where to find the indie japanese games anyway? I want to see what kind of game they do make

>>62024
I haven't looked too much into the Japanese indie scene but for example here's a Japanese website for "free games" https://www.freem.ne.jp/
Admittedly most of it seems to be more like RPG Maker kind of stuff though.

>>62025
indeed. thnk you