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  1. Comment on How do people get started in something completely new for them? in ~games

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    Oof, I feel that. I'm only motivated by wanting to have fun with the games that my friends love, but I even already enjoy base-building and management (rimworld, kingdom, etc). And here I am...

    Oof, I feel that. I'm only motivated by wanting to have fun with the games that my friends love, but I even already enjoy base-building and management (rimworld, kingdom, etc). And here I am having known them for almost a decade with no success... I wish you better luck at least.

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  2. Comment on How do people get started in something completely new for them? in ~games

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    While I (obviously) personally don't mesh with it, I just wanna say kudos for being so aware of what you like. I sorta struggle with identifying what I look for beyond "idk, fun" even though...

    While I (obviously) personally don't mesh with it, I just wanna say kudos for being so aware of what you like. I sorta struggle with identifying what I look for beyond "idk, fun" even though there's clearly more to it than that. I'm glad that you found Pikmin worth making an exception for; funnily enough, I actually just started playing through 2 since everyone's lovin' 4 and I remember enjoying 1 years ago.

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  3. Comment on How do people get started in something completely new for them? in ~games

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    I think I've given this exact same advice to another friend with similarly hard "barriers" lol. I appreciate the warning, but yeah this is mostly an internal "wanting to be interested" vs external...

    I think I've given this exact same advice to another friend with similarly hard "barriers" lol. I appreciate the warning, but yeah this is mostly an internal "wanting to be interested" vs external "being bad". I have games like Insurgency and Hoi4, but my playtime is noticeably a mere percent of my friends'. I actually forgot about MOBAs since I'm not that interested in them, but you reminded me that I actually had enough veteran friends that when they got me to try League, our entire team was people in VC, which definitely helped mitigate the guilt of being "the bad rando". Hmm...

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  4. How do people get started in something completely new for them?

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    I know that a lot of people can only get into gaming as adults, and I have no idea how they do it. I grew up playing all sorts of games, so I'll try/enjoy anything from Harvest Moon to Baldur's...

    I know that a lot of people can only get into gaming as adults, and I have no idea how they do it. I grew up playing all sorts of games, so I'll try/enjoy anything from Harvest Moon to Baldur's Gate 3. But something that's been frustrating for a while is whenever I can't "get" something. An individual game is tolerable; I couldn't get into Stardew Valley the way I could Rune Factory, but oh well.

    But shooters and (grand) strategy games feel incomprehensible to me. I enjoy Deep Rock despite being not any good at it, but it's my sole exception and probably because of the focus on PvE. Anything focused on PvP in general feels really unapproachable since I'll probably spend forever staring at a respawn or loss screen (I was just lucky growing up with SSB). I enjoy throwing myself at Dark Souls bosses way too early until I've finally gotten good, but in a team-based game I'd hate to force others into dealing with that. Strategy games are also kind of mind-boggling, but I also have trouble getting in the "conqueror" mindset that they seem to all require.

    My friends really like those two kinds of games, so I'd really like to at minimum not zone out whenever they start talking to each other about them. Best case scenario, I could even try some of them myself.

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