it had a lot of backtracking which was annoying
…but very immersive on the treadmill, no? LOL
…I‘ll show myself out
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I tried playing games like Tony hawk pro skater or racing games, but every time I'd turn I'd lose my balance and almost fall off the treadmill. So anything i could play had to be slow placed or not have a 3d camera.
Hello good sir, How does one play Porsche unleashed on PC these days? Would you have any hints please?
There's several videos on getting it to run on windows 10 on youtube, however I think the best way to play NFS Porsche is on an old computer. And a CRT monitor.
Another vote for turn based RPGs, but that also includes ones like Pokémon.
Slay the Spire
This and Balatro (and probably many rogue-lite deckbuilders I haven't tried) are perfect compulsive time killers. Even though they're newer, I would say they deserve serious consideration.
And Monster Train
And Dicey Dungeons
Turn based RPGs. I played through Persona 3, 4, and 5 on an elliptical machine in the past few months, and am now on Metaphor Refantazio. Atlus games seem perfect for this, heh. Not your pre-2005 style, but there's plenty of old RPGs out there.
I also played through most of the Yakuzas on the elliptical too, although on easy difficulty since they didn't become turn based until very recently.
Sounds like the Fire Emblem games would be perfect for this!
Agreed! There are several good ones on 3DS.
Advance Wars is also a great option - you can play a couple of them on 3DS with back-compatibility. Or, of the pocket can play GBA, there's those.
And there are some PC games out there (although much more recent than 2005) that are in similar genres, like WarGroove or Dark Deity.
No Man Sky. Pretty relaxing, not really needs super concentration.
Diablo II
Into the Breach, turn-based and would probably look great on a CRT
Resident Evil on a treadmill isn’t strenuous?! Mad lad territory.
I love a simple but satisfying puzzle game like Peggle, Nubbys Number Factory, Hexic, Lumines etc
I have played a few hundred hours of XCOM 2 on my treadmill. But I'll play anything turn based that I can use a controller with. Steam controller takes care of the ones that need a mouse.
As alternative, maybe audiobooks? Or your local public radio station
Balatro since it's not realtime
Balatro.
I would imagine any turn based game would work. I can't stop playing Slay the Spire but there's a bunch of options.
I do something similar on an exercise bike most turn based games are fine ie balatro but I have also enjoyed more casual time based games like katamari damacy
Beat Sabre.
Monster Rancher 2 There is also an enhanced version for the PC, you can find it on Steam.
Fucking Vandal Heats goddamn.
Vampire survivors!!
Egoism 440 on DDR A :P
Maybe some classic JRPGs? You mention PS1, so I'd personally think of games like the FFs, Chrono Cross, Legend of Dragoon, Xenogears, Suikoden, Grandia, etc.
None require full attention, but are games I'd like to play if I had the time.
since people are talkinmg about balatro here, is it possible to buy it somewhere other than steam if i don't want to support the child gambling company?
It's on mobile app stores too
yeah I thought about that but apple and google are each bad in their own ways. maybe i'll mail a tenner to the dev studio and just pirate it
Child gambling company?
Valve enables cs2 gambling through loot boxes. Many children are introduced to gambling this way
Ah I wasn't aware but not surprised. Not sure why you're getting down voted for sharing information. Ahh ~~reddit~~ lemmy
My best guess is people took “child gambling” to mean the game itself 🤷♀️ (or maybe they don't like that i insulted their favourite brand)
Volvo and the cs2 loot boxes incl. their weird workarounds like the X-ray scanner so they can enable child gambling in countries like France that have made it illegal. like they really love child gambling it’s fucking weird
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