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I replay my favourite games.

Yes 18 85.71%
 
No 3 14.29%
 
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SvennoJ said:
LegitHyperbole said:

Damn. Seems like you've been been playing Hitman all year. Must be a stellar experience.

Every night since it came out on March 27th, 2 months so far :p

And yep, it's stellar. Too much fun discovering everything there is to do while knocking out guards etc and filling up all the storage spaces for bodies. Trying out all the different ways to kill them with traps in the environment.

And still haven't gone Rambo style, no shots fired (except in the final mission on my 1st play through). Knocking them out is more fun lol. And sometimes leaving a naked body around for them to find and watch / take advantage of all the commotion :) Dumb rather predictable AI, which is always fun to toy with.

Lmao. You're training to become a serial killer it sounds like. Just don't take anything you learn back into the real world. :)



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TheRealSamusAran said:

Why do we feel the need the listen to new music and watch new movies? Just keep listening to Black Sabbath and watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy and nothing else for the rest of your life!
Also, my dude, Clair Obscure is barely one month old. Ask yourself, why did you play that game?

Cause it was new and everyone said it was great. Lol. Yeah, indeed I'm way over thinking this, lmao. As they say variety is the spice of life. As much as I would like to have the inclination to do what some do and stick to speed running the same games and save money it really would not be the same whatsoever, I have to leave weeks invetween sessions of Sekiro cause I get burned out, I will one day get a no hit run or an only parry run the full length of the game but it's years off. I could probably do it in a year and save the money for a few months, it would just be so exhausting, I spent 32 hours doing another run of Khazan for the platinum over the last two weeks and I hope I never see that game again in my life.

New things are just better, not knowing how something works and the learning process is exactly what Svennoj's article says, it's anticipation and I think that article is wrong about thinking of playing games is better, there is much of that anticipation dopamine reward system happening with a good mysterious story and anticipation of the next boss or so. That said, the article is scary accurate to my purchasing habits and what I see from most gamers. Physical buyers for example live for buying the games and less so playing them, trophy data also says massive percentages of players only dip their toes into a game, two hours or so, 50% are usually gone before the half way point even in great games, 10% usually don't even pop the first trophy so boot it and drop it. Dopamine from the anticipation of the new games out must pull them away as to why everyone you ask has a backlog. 

Last edited by LegitHyperbole - on 29 May 2025

LegitHyperbole said:
SvennoJ said:

Every night since it came out on March 27th, 2 months so far :p

And yep, it's stellar. Too much fun discovering everything there is to do while knocking out guards etc and filling up all the storage spaces for bodies. Trying out all the different ways to kill them with traps in the environment.

And still haven't gone Rambo style, no shots fired (except in the final mission on my 1st play through). Knocking them out is more fun lol. And sometimes leaving a naked body around for them to find and watch / take advantage of all the commotion :) Dumb rather predictable AI, which is always fun to toy with.

Lmao. You're training to become a serial killer it sounds like. Just don't take anything you learn back into the real world. :)

I avoid killing 'innocent' civilians! Knock em unconscious and hide them in a closet. It's more like training to become a quick change artist, try out all disguises.

But yeah some take it a lot further lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/HiTMAN/comments/1ku028g/what_a_dexter_video_game_would_look_like/

Red flags.



SvennoJ said:
LegitHyperbole said:

Lmao. You're training to become a serial killer it sounds like. Just don't take anything you learn back into the real world. :)

I avoid killing 'innocent' civilians! Knock em unconscious and hide them in a closet. It's more like training to become a quick change artist, try out all disguises.

But yeah some take it a lot further lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/HiTMAN/comments/1ku028g/what_a_dexter_video_game_would_look_like/

Red flags.

Yep. That's a bit much. I had a hard time killing the zombies in The Walking Dead saints and sinners. It was so up close and personal, not sure I'd be able to play Hitman. 



LegitHyperbole said:

Yep. That's a bit much. I had a hard time killing the zombies in The Walking Dead saints and sinners. It was so up close and personal, not sure I'd be able to play Hitman. 

It's mostly comedy kills, and those are also in 3rd person. Drowning someone in a toiler, throwing them off a balcony, dropping a car on them, etc. While knocking them out with a crowbar is throwing the crow bar from 30 ft away.

The in game models are also not very realistic, but still enough to get nightmares from 'terrorism'. I 'experimented' with what would happen when dropping a bomb in the middle of the dance floor in the Berlin scenario. Fuck, deleted that video clip straight away. There's not even any carnage depicted (bunch of rag dolls get thrown around), but the screams, cowering people and resulting panic stampede all felt far too real in VR. That gave me bad dreams that night.

I haven't used explosives since in the game.

It was after I made this clip


I took a step too far after that. Curiosity killed the cat, or rather the fun of playing with explosives...

It's still fun to knock out the guards though (from a distance) and pile em up in a tool shed lol.


But it does beg the question, how far should realism go in games.

And yes, TWD S&S is a bit much as well. There I resorted to grab and stab, done. Chainsaw and hacking zombies to pieces, too much in VR for me even though they look like plastic dolls. Same with shotguns in RE games in VR. Maybe it's for the best GTA6 doesn't come to VR...

It was hilarious in Skyrim though



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SvennoJ said:
LegitHyperbole said:

Yep. That's a bit much. I had a hard time killing the zombies in The Walking Dead saints and sinners. It was so up close and personal, not sure I'd be able to play Hitman. 

It's mostly comedy kills, and those are also in 3rd person. Drowning someone in a toiler, throwing them off a balcony, dropping a car on them, etc. While knocking them out with a crowbar is throwing the crow bar from 30 ft away.

The in game models are also not very realistic, but still enough to get nightmares from 'terrorism'. I 'experimented' with what would happen when dropping a bomb in the middle of the dance floor in the Berlin scenario. Fuck, deleted that video clip straight away. There's not even any carnage depicted (bunch of rag dolls get thrown around), but the screams, cowering people and resulting panic stampede all felt far too real in VR. That gave me bad dreams that night.

I haven't used explosives since in the game.

It was after I made this clip


I took a step too far after that. Curiosity killed the cat, or rather the fun of playing with explosives...

It's still fun to knock out the guards though (from a distance) and pile em up in a tool shed lol.


But it does beg the question, how far should realism go in games.

And yes, TWD S&S is a bit much as well. There I resorted to grab and stab, done. Chainsaw and hacking zombies to pieces, too much in VR for me even though they look like plastic dolls. Same with shotguns in RE games in VR. Maybe it's for the best GTA6 doesn't come to VR...

It was hilarious in Skyrim though

Yep. The VR community is constantly on about GTA5 in VR but they don't know what they are asking for, it would be possible with PSVR 2 but my God would that severely fuck with you. I suspect I would play the game as a model citizen outside of the main missions. 

Skyrim indeed is no problemo, something about it felt really disconnected from reality and there was no weight in melee attacks so I had no trouble slash my way through people but holy fuck, Saints and Sinners man. I still feel ill when I think of that game, what a mind fuck. 



LegitHyperbole said:

Yep. The VR community is constantly on about GTA5 in VR but they don't know what they are asking for, it would be possible with PSVR 2 but my God would that severely fuck with you. I suspect I would play the game as a model citizen outside of the main missions. 

Skyrim indeed is no problemo, something about it felt really disconnected from reality and there was no weight in melee attacks so I had no trouble slash my way through people but holy fuck, Saints and Sinners man. I still feel ill when I think of that game, what a mind fuck. 

What they're asking for is to go to the virtual strip club ;p The requests for VR porn never stop and seems to be the main complaint against PSVR2 now lol. (Can't watch 'VR' videos, no buy)

Sony would sell a lot more headsets if they allowed porn on it. It had VHS win the battle against Betamax... (Sure it's dismissed as a common myth, or so they say)



SvennoJ said:
LegitHyperbole said:

Yep. The VR community is constantly on about GTA5 in VR but they don't know what they are asking for, it would be possible with PSVR 2 but my God would that severely fuck with you. I suspect I would play the game as a model citizen outside of the main missions. 

Skyrim indeed is no problemo, something about it felt really disconnected from reality and there was no weight in melee attacks so I had no trouble slash my way through people but holy fuck, Saints and Sinners man. I still feel ill when I think of that game, what a mind fuck. 

What they're asking for is to go to the virtual strip club ;p The requests for VR porn never stop and seems to be the main complaint against PSVR2 now lol. (Can't watch 'VR' videos, no buy)

Sony would sell a lot more headsets if they allowed porn on it. It had VHS win the battle against Betamax... (Sure it's dismissed as a common myth, or so they say)

Oh you can't use that one app anymore? Yup, that would be the reason many people are choosing Quest over PSVR2, I would reckon. It's the first thing I looked up when researching PSVR1. 



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We like to experience new things. Learn new things. It's exciting, it releases chemicals in our brains. What is life if not experiencing things?



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LegitHyperbole said:

Oh you can't use that one app anymore? Yup, that would be the reason many people are choosing Quest over PSVR2, I would reckon. It's the first thing I looked up when researching PSVR1. 

There is one shady app left, RAD TV I think. It wants you to pay in NFTs, nuff said.

https://rad.live/psvr/

Not even porn can save NFTs!