Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2024?

candycanearter07 wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote at 10:23 this Thursday (GMT):

On 02/04/2024 18:20, candycanearter07 wrote:

I find the games pretty varied, and extremely rewarding, but at times
they can definitely get a bit much.  Breaking controllers throwing them
out of frustration is a common meme of people playing these games.

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I absolutely can't stand super difficult games. Thanks, though.

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I used to enjoy games with big manuals and a steep learning curve when I
was younger - the type of game where you have to spend at least an hour
reading the manual and several hours playing just to get the basics of
the game. Nowadays, totally different and I really want to be able to
pick the basics in at most an hour and preferable far less than that.

  Yeah, exactly.
 

I like difficult games, but not difficult-to-learn ones.  Like chess, for example.  There's a handful of rules and practically infinite number of possibilities.  Steep learning curve is not too important to me. Maybe only Civilization of the games that I play has a learning curve like this.  Why put all that time into learning some esoteric game when chess is already strange enough.  I ask myself sometimes if learning those moves like of the knight has any practical benefit.  Then you come in with a 200 page manual and tell me to play Hearts of Iron III.