I’ll start. pokemon. doesn’t matter if the game’s old or new I just can’t get into how it plays. idk the gameplay just gets old to me pretty quickly, palworld is an upgrade in every way tbh

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    A friend tried to get me into Half-Life multiple times and I just cannot get into it.

    It’s a fast-paced FPS game, which means I’m likely to get dizzy after some time but something about the ambience makes it worse than usual. I can play Skyrim for up to 1.5 hours at a time, Minecraft or Fortnite for 45-60 minutes, but I’d be lucky to play 20 minutes of Half-Life without my head pounding.

    Plus, it’s a linear, story-based game, and I’m more into games based more on mechanics and progression (like Pokémon, Factorio, Cities Skylines, Civ, Balatro, and incremental games) than story. And at least for as long as I’ve tried to play it, there isn’t even much of a story.

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      Have you tried Portal? I ask because it’s half life but worse, for you, it sounds like.

      You might like Dyson Sphere Program, and Vintage Story, given the list you named. They’re both early access and cheap.

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        I’ve never tried Portal but I know what it is. I’d imagine this would f*ck with my head even more than Half-Life.

        Funny enough, DSP is on my “purchased backlog”, games I decided to buy on sale on a whim but never got around to actually playing.

        Never heard of Vintage Story before.