Escape from Tarkov. I got out of the cycle, the real escape
I got out of the cycle when I finally realized how many cheaters there are. Worthless to play an extraction shooter under those circumstances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5LfGcDB7Ek
The problem is that there is no alternative. Every other game fails to give me the dopamine rush that tarkov can. So I probably won’t escape anytime soon, even if it means spending thousands more hours dying to blatant cheaters.
I too still crave a game that gives the same rush Tarkov used to. But cheaters, poor servers, bad match times and just plain annoying design decisions aren’t worth hoping on every wipe. I actually had a good time with single player for a while, and I might try some more when it updates to the next major patch
DDLC.
ddlc ending spoiler
The 3750 hours were spent on the last part of DDLC talking to Monika
He just never figured out how to delete her
Morrowind
It’s one of my favorite games of all time. But choose a wrong setup and you’re screwed. Don’t get anything before heading out you’re dead. Attack a peasant, dead. Go in that cave, dead. Get winded before doing anything, dead and frustrated.
Brew a bunch of Fortify Intelligence potions, drink them, brew some more, repeat. Later make Fortify Strength potion, gives 1000+ strength for over an hour, one hit kill everyone.
At that point, you might as well just use console commands to set your strength to 1000.
Not the same thing. Abusing rules (or code bugs) is “cheating legally”. You can also make a spell that does Soul Trap to self + fortify attribute and said attribute will be permanently fortified.
If I recall correctly you meet a guy who did that with agility (or was it acrobatics?) just after leaving Seyda Neen. It didn’t end well for him.
(Also, I haven’t played that damn game in probably over two decades; how the fuck do I still remember that town’s name…? How the fuck do I still remember Fargoth…!?)
Scroll of Icarian Flight. It boosted acrobatics. AFAIK, there’s no way to make a spell or potion boosting a skill, just the 10 attributes. So the few jumping scrolls are all that you can get.
Also, a note about unexpected consequences. Boosting your strength to ridiculous proportions can cause your weapons to basically explode after one hit.
Is it even possible to forget Fargoth?
In case someone would like to know: I took this screenshot from the leaf blower revolution’s steam page
Wtf… The review gets a whole other dimension with this knowledge… It’s more the “help me” of an addicted now…
Ich wil
Was willst du?
ich will, dass ihr mir vertraut
What did you think this was – with 3750 hours of playtime on record?
Somebody grinding hours…
which is different to addiction how?
Grinding hours on steam aka using s.a.m. , archi steam farm or similar programs to emulate playing the games for hours while the games are actually not running.
Yeah, like DNU said, something more grindy. Or something difficult. So more like PoE where you can play thousands of hours without seeing everything or knowing everything. Or like Black Desert Online with its afk mechanics. Or a game with a lot rng like dwarf fortress or rimworld.
Or speedrunning stuff. But some kind of idle… 😅 indeed unexpected.
Well maybe it is because said games are my timesinks… Even though I haven’t played any game as long as he/she did.
Spacewar
Path of exile? Never played it but seems right.
I have 3800+ hours on POE according to steam… I hate this metric
Pure addiction. Pls help.
Satisfactory
I’ve spent 200 hours on just this building and I’m almost done making the working parts of my item storage facility lol
The amount of time I spend trying to optimize my base is concerning.
Dark souls
If you play Dark Souls for 2000+ hours you clearly enjoy it. The first play through only takes 100
RuneScape, Ark, … DOTA2 (especially with that cry for help).
Some people get lost for thousands of hours in grand-strategy games like Europa Universalis. Or MMOs like Eve Online.
But feeling like the game consumed you is grinder and MOBA territory.
Minecraft with factory modkit for me
Minecraft with tekkit/ftb mod packs has swallowed half of my life
Elite Dangerous, War thunder,
Any of the adult visual novels.
They are so hard (that’s what she said)
Rimworld for me. I would only end a session when shit hit the fan.
Team Fortress 2.
Still playing that game from 2007 with ps3 graphics lol I just wish that the [email protected] community gets bigger.
same
Escape from Tarkov… Fucking hate that game!! I’ll be on tonight 7pm central if anyone wants to team up.
