• Brave Little Hitachi WandEnglish
    30•4 months ago

    Part of why I love WFH. Tired? Set a timer and play for a little bit then right back to work. Still tired, but at least not completely sad.

    Hell these days I’m just excited if my kid lets me sleep all night. Yesterday was up since 3 am.

  • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13•4 months ago

    Final fantasy 12. You program your party’s battle AI, which they call gambits in the game. There’s enough interaction to still be playing a game and not watching a movie, but you can kinda zone out if you need to and not fuck up too bad.

    • @ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
      4•4 months ago

      Yes! I haven’t tried it on the Switch version, but im the OG version there were areas where you could set the gambits to target low-moderate HP enemies and hang out near high HP enemies that created lower HP enemies. When you added in heal and revive gambits, you could set it and come back to it in the morning many levels higher. Definitely died a few times when I wasn’t watching, but I enjoyed setting up the contingencies. I also liked having max characters and destroying my opponents.

  • AdoriEnglish
    9•4 months ago

    Thats why you gotta pull out the handheld console and lay back on bed.

  • @Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•4 months ago

    I think a lot of this would change if games didn’t have so much loading and setup. You get the opening logos, loading, then main menu, then continue at the checkpoint you were at, then recontextualize where you were, then finally get to some fun task. That can feel fatiguing to do all that setup.

    A lot of this changes through console “sleep modes” that keep a game in memory for multiple days.

    • @cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
      5•4 months ago

      recontextualize where you were, then finally get to some fun task

      This is my hang up, the other parts are pretty meh with the advent of SSDs and such and I’m old enough to remember how long things took in the before times lol

      But man, games are much more complex now and once you’ve lost that inertia it can take awhile to get going again on a game because of that whole recontextualiztion process and if it’s been long enough, re-familirizing yourself with controls and everything too.

      • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        1•4 months ago

        There have been a few times where I want to get back into a game, load up an old save, flounder around in it because I forgot some essential game mechanics, decide “fuck it, I’ll just start a new save” and then get back to where I was and beyond quicker than I remember getting there in the first place.

    • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
      2•4 months ago

      It still depends on the game, even with instant loading there’s various time commitments a game realistically takes. 15 minutes of Skyrim isn’t very fun, but 15 minutes of vampire survivors is awesome. 2 hours of time is a different story though.