So, for the last 4 years, I’ve been on No Man’s Sky. I like that they continue to improve it. My current primary save has >700 hours.
Last year, I crushed Obduction, well worth the spend.
I just pulled X-Plane 11; had previously been on v9, and v8 prior to that. I might get back to flying VATSIM, in the near future. Brief deviations into Flightgear and Prepar3d. They are meh, X-Plane is the shiznit. My route is Piarco to Jonestown, and back, in a 738.
What games/sims are you nerds playing, on the regular?
Manifold Garden has been pretty good, it’s a nice chill abstract puzzle game. Also trying to get through Outer Wilds, and it’s been really great thus far.
Personally, I’m in awe of how you’d even come up with the design of these games, they both bend your brain pretty good. It’s also nice that they run on last year’s toaster, I appreciate when an artist creates a lot from a little.
Mostly my preference is turn based strategy and tactics games.
I have a pretty deep fondness for simulator games like Garage Simulator and games/websites/programs that use real world knowledge and skills like Rocksmith 1 & 2 and other educational music programs that allow me to hook up instruments and play skill challenges on my computer.
If I had a kid, I probably wouldn’t let them play most video games that are the classic time sink games such as WoW and similar life and body wrecking passtimes.
I’d make sure they could blow the other kids away with smooth guitar licks or build their own pickup or something practical or sport related. Basketball hoop, batting cage with a pitching machine, anything better than brain jellification with things like you get 1 hour of free play for every 2 hours spent on learning a skill… after homework and only if they have straight A’s.
Easier said than done but that’s how I was raised and it paid off.
