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4/28/2019 5:17:30 PM
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Mundane should-be-boring activities in games that are fun for some reason?
Good evening everybody! This is Aifos coming to you alive from the Constant, where my pal Wendy is cooking us some food!
So, what’cha makin’, Wendy?
Wendy: “Dead things. Rolled into balls of meat.”
Oh.. What if I’m a vegetarian?
Wendy: “Then you can make your own food.”
Heh.. I’m gonna starve to death!
So, anyway, video games, generally speaking, are designed to be fun. Geberally speaking, this tends to be in the form of combat, running around cutting or shooting up enemies! Other times it takes place in the form of calmer things, like farming, or sailing.
But farming and sailing at least take a decent amount of work. Sometimes, though, the stuff that’s fun is what should be the most boring activities in the game. Pushing buttons in the right order, fishing, or maybe even just walking down a road.
Whatever it is, what are some of the activities you’d think would be boring, but are actually fun, for some reason?
[b][u]Tl;dr? Here’s my point![/u][/b]
Fun activities that you’d think would be super boring on paper?
My answer;
[spoiler]Let me explain how cooking works in Don’t Starve.
The most basic way is to just take a piece of food, and stick it in a fire.
Or, you can take a piece of meat and put it on a Drying Rack to make jerky.
But the way I want to talk about is the Crock Pot!
Fir the crock pot, you stick 4 ingredients in a pot, then push B, and then wait for it to cook into a nummy meal!
Now I know what you’re thinking;
“Aifos, scavenging around fir ingredients, and experimenting with recipes sounds really fun!”, and you’d be right! Except that’s not what I’m doing!
I make the same meal every day, and the fun part is waiting for it to cook!
No idea why, but I just think it’s fun watching the pot boil, and waiting for it to cook![/spoiler]
But that’s all for now, folks! Jambuhbye!
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2 commentairesModifié par michael : 5/2/2019 3:32:52 AMJust playing Osu in general Literally just clicking circles to a beat but it is one of the most addicting games I have ever played, many of my friends will say the same
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1 commentaireEverything about RuneScape. The most monotonous grindy game ever. To level woodcutting, you just click on a tree until it disappears. Then continue to do that for hundreds of hours. But I still found it satisfying and addicting.
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3 commentairesAlright, crafting is suuuuper boring to me. I hate sitting there making gear (I blame Skyrim's crafting), but something about the crafting in FFXIV got me. Maybe it's because I can practically open a shop with my gear as wares, maybe it's because it allows me to help lower level friends with gearing up, maybe it's because I can't keep my money. But I went and leveled Blacksmithing to level 50 of 70. The only reason I stopped? I couldn't afford the materials anymore. It's really hard getting into the market right now, if you weren't in it before you just can't compete.
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3 commentairesWould you count obeying traffic laws in GTA?
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2 commentairesHaving the option to sheath weapons on command is so satisfying.
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3 commentairesOriginally I thought the puzzles in Spider-Man ps4 were gonna be super boring and would overstay their welcome. Fortunately though, they managed to find that perfect balance of challenge where you actually have to think and experiment to succeed but not spend hours trying to figure it out. They weren’t too frequent either which was nice.
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2 commentairesStrikes in destiny. I should have been bored with doing at least 1000 + of them.. I wasn't. In fact the only reason I stopped is because... I was becoming toxic on the inside with the performance of randomly match-made teammates or fire-teams, as they call it. I also feel the same about firefite in Halo reach, something about playing it endlessly with random matchmade fireteams, they where just.. So god dam fun. I love to kill lots. In many different ways.
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1 commentaireWell let's see. In Star Wars: Bounty Hunter I used to love to use the flamethrower on the Ugnaughts whenever I found them. It wasn't really a task, but rather just a fun side quest of my own doing. Same for the first Star Wars: Battlefront and playing Hunt against the Gunguns. I loved slaughtering all those virtual Jar Jars. So gratifying. But that was just part of the game, not mundane side tasks. I don't particularly like crafting aspects in games. Oh, making Louis say "PEEEIIIIIIILLLLLLS HERE!" in Left for Dead 2.
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1 commentaireI got a weird one that even I don’t understand. Because I should hate it. And a lot of people do hate it. And I also don’t... like it... per se, but I find it oddly satisfying. But I’m also glad series dropped it, because it would not remain satisfying. And that weird thing is... ME2 planetary resource mining. I know. It sucked. But, for some weird reason, the combination of the controller vibration; watching the resource bar jump up when you find a hot spot; and methodically working over the entire planet, I got a this strange sense of satisfaction doing it. Don’t get me wrong. I know it was tedious, and when I replay now, I do it as little as possible. But that first playthrough I drained all the resources in the galaxy like an addict. And I don’t regret a second of it. There. It feels good to get that off my chest.
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1 commentaireWhile some probably find it boring, but I like running the numbers on stats to improve builds.
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7 commentairesGathering ingredients in Skyrim. Idk why, but damn is it fun to come back to your house with a ton of ingredients. And then comes the alchemy part hehehe
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1 commentaireStrip mining in Minecraft.
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4 commentairesWhen looking for specific materials in the division 2, backpacks make the game much more interesting. These backpacks tend to give the worst loot in the game too.
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2 commentairesOh, also: I don't know why, but I love placing bombs in Metroid games, just to watch the morph ball jump up into the air. It works in Smash Ultimate too! So any time I'm playing as Samus and no one is attacking me, I try to find a minute just to use her down special and watch the bomb throw her into the air lol.
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1 commentaire... I really like brewing alcohol in fallout 76, and I have no clue why... [spoiler]not a knock off[/spoiler]
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1 commentaireMining and fishing in Warframe.
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4 commentairesI loved opening drawers and shit in Layers of Fear.
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10 commentairesPretty much the entire game of Slime Rancher. I thought I wouldn't really get into it, but once I started, I couldn't stop until I actually beat the game.
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3 commentairesBulding in minecraft. Grinding levels in any souls game. Grinding levels in Pokemon. Any side activities in Spiderman Ps4.
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2 commentairesModifié par Uncanny_Vale : 4/28/2019 10:24:23 PMI found mining rocks in [i]No Mans Sky[/i] oddly calming. That whole game was built around taking all the boring activities from other games and creating an entire game out of it. It was a very zen game - soothing and relaxing. Having said that generally I can’t stand things like that in games. If a game has crafting or settlement building I usually ignore it entirely. I’m here to dismember bad guys not pick flowers.
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1 commentaireGetting dressed. [u]Real Life:[/u] Grab what ever is on the top of the pile and throw it on [u]Game Life:[/u] Hours wasted scrolling through different kinds of T-shirts
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1 commentaireGears of War 2 and 3 horde mode. It’s not mundane at first. However, I was trying to get all the related completion achievements for the various maps and then it did feel mundane, but I still enjoyed it.
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3 commentairesRuneScape as a whole.
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5 commentairesLone Wolf/Squad Realistic Terrorist Hunt in Rainbow Six Siege.
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1 commentairehttps://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/244741172/0/0 Here’s a #gaming post of yours from a year ago today with the same format. You’ve been doing this for a literal year, dude, respect. Keep it up!
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4 commentairesI agree with cooking. That little tune that played in BotW when you cook a meal was one of my favourite parts of the game lol.
