Patient Gamers

Playing the Tony hawk pro skater demo and trying to hurt ourselves as badly as possible.

Just Cause 3

I fire it up just to drive aound / grapple-hook float for an hour or more

In Rust you can host your own server, and if you do that on your own local network with nobody else connected, then you have a very large world, with only like a couple of things that can kill you, and you can have a very fun, laid-back, relaxing, you know, builder, simulator, survival thing.

And also Skyrim. I have been trying to complete every single side quest and every single add-on side quest that I can, while basically not advancing the game at all. My current game is easily 40 hours in, and I only recently defeated the first dragon that you can kill as part of the main quest.

Going back a while - Monster Truck Madness 2 was a great game of exploration if you just drove off in a random direction rather than doing that silly racing stuff :-)

The maps were big, and there was no time limit, so you could just go and do your own thing ... a favourite made-up mini-game was sliding around a frozen lake on the winter map.

This probably isn't what you mean, but I usually only make like, 3 or 4 military units in Civ 6 and play entirely peaceful, zero war games. And yes I play on deity difficult

I enjoyed playing Baldur's gate 3 as a rogue, playing it like a assassin's creed game. Nothing but stealth attacks and running away. Never get into a full combat if possible.

Chess 😐

Beamng drive.

I don't actually know the point of this game but it's awesome.

No Mans Sky exclusively in creative mode.

I don't care for getting resources or any of that. I just want to build stuff and explore. it would be 10x better if they made building regular ships as easy as the new ones and that's my only gripe, having to sit in a station to wait for a ship to show up with a part you want. It's an incredibly idiotic system for creative mode.

I've never finished FF7 because there is a snowboarding mini game that gave me SSX vibes so good I put like 15 hours into it and then stopped playing FF7. No idea what happens in the story but man that Bits and Chitz style mega arcade was fun.

I just remembered another one - the original Car and Driver game (way before Need for Speed 1) was a vector 3D affair that ran at full speed on a 386.

One of the courses was the San Dimas Mall parking lot - I worked out that I could use the "drop camera" command in one spot, and then it became a radio control car simulator since the 'dropped' camera followed the car being driven :-)

I make custom maps in Civilization that essentially turn it into a tower defense

Yes! Action RPGs and I ignore all the RPG because, despite my thorough research, I've been bamboozled by COMBO MAD videos.

Fuck you, NieR:Automata—I'm not collecting 5 mushroom and 3 pyrite or whatever else you want me to collect. I paid for an action game and I'm getting one!

Civilization VI, I usually make "multiplayer" games so that I can set every AI's team and difficulty, and I'll make a somewhat large map with way too many players, each on teams of two or three, and then one AI will be the god-emperor-king that we all have to band together to defeat.

Money generated from Community Chest/Chance goes to Free Parking and players can buy Jail.

In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, I used a mod to allow unlimited saving. I will do the same for the second game if I ever find time to play it.

I remember doing the warthog jump an awful lot in Halo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGQIQljaAc0

Speaking of Hitman, my buddy said Hitman has a club level that is somewhat popular as a place to chill

Any ImmSim games, where I basically try to pull of moves and finish the game with the most unlikely approach for combat.

Also, open world racing games like Carx Street. I just drive around with wheel and VR and drift for fun. I have 200 hours and barely finished the forced tutorial lol

Persona 3 FES, rush each block of Tartarus, then hyperfocus on the social sim side of the game for the next in-game month. Rinse and repeat.

Final Fantasy XII, go out of my way to powerlevel, but then mix up multiple powerleveling methods in one. Also spending an excessive amount of time reading the in-game lore and accidentally triggering the eternal delay glitch in the game by trying an unrelated cheese against a superboss.