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Hey I love Balatro too!
Oh solitaire? You see what you can do with that 10 right?
throws deck of cards in the fire
See this: Ultimate Book of Card Games
Saw it on a friends shelf, read it, bought it for my kid and me.
Solid book for 1 deck of cards. This book has so many card games that can be played with a single deck, some of these I grew up knowing, but most I’d never heard of. There’s one solitaire game me and my kid love playing from this. Don’t recall the game, only you set out cards one by one in a 4x5 grid making poker hands trying to get the highest score. Pretty fun tbh.
As a new dad, single player games with anytime saving have been a life saver
Here's some dad advice for you:
Handhelds are there only way to get some gaming time in most of the time (Steam Deck, Retroid Pocket console, Switch, etc).
Roguelites are there best type of game. Single player. Can put down easily. Short bursts of play with progress in each run (not a 90 hour saga that takes a year to complete).
Slay The Spire and Hades have been huge timesinks for me when I can't commit time to sitting at the computer for a huge JRPG. Anything you recommend?
Balatro kept me sane through the first couple months after mine was born. I'd also say Risk of Rain (1 and 2), Enter the Gungeon, and Vampire Survivors
Hollow knight was great for these exact reasons! Very easy to pick up and put down. Also gives you something with a longer term progression. Oh and backpack battles too. Fantastic little game. These three games basically entertained a party of my brain through the first 2+ years of fatherhood
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Agree on handhelds. Disagree with roguelites and roguelikes, though I guess that depends on the person. I personally like to learn the map and the lay of the land.
I'd imagine turn based rpgs would be the best
Here's sone new dad advice for you: The baby needs good soil and plenty of water
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There's a real important question here: do you have solar panels?
Otherwise I think it's gonna be board games...
Solitaire it is!
And 'Mansions of Madness: 2E', I guess
Dynamo-bike!
Pedal faster, kid! I nearly beat the boss!
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If there’s an apocalypse that doesn’t just wipe us all out, people who are capable of collaborating and forming communities will do much better than people who think they’re going to hunt and scavenge and play games on their own.
I think he means games that requires constant Internet connection straight up won't work.
If the entire Internet is down then so too is power.
Ain't nobody playing video games after the lights go out.
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multiplayer games that can run p2p on intranet will be even more valuable
"You wanna piece of me, boi??"
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Metro but the russians are still playing CS professionally
Yes. Because you’ll have food, water, electricity to run a computer, and leisure gaming time during such a time.
I suppose it depends which type of apocalypse we are talking about. A zombie outbreak would, at least theoretically, leave infrastructure mostly intact. Nuclear war wouldn't.
You'll have better things to do with your time in an apocalyptic than playing video games.
Meh
Like what?
Like not die, unless your into that, in which case, you won't play video games for long.
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When I was a kid, pre-internet, there was a "computer club" that was basically a massive pirating event held once a month.
TV and Amiga in the car, large room in a hotel in Dublin city. You set up and swapped cracked games with all the other people there, copying floppies. It was so exciting to little me.
I don't plan on surviving any apocalypse. Also, the electrical grid will probably be one of the first things to go.
But not electricity itself.
I plan to relocate near a hydro dam,
Take a laptop, charger, and offline portable wiki on a flash drive.
Even worse than that. A lot of single player ones have to check in with the Internet eventually. This will restrict the set even further. PlayStation will become useless after a couple years.
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My Famicom is ready!
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
That also means that Steam won't work.
STEAM OFFLINE MODE!?!?!?
That werks rite? Or have we been (not bean) lied to??
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Ghost of Tsushima will be sold at fine art rates
I recently set up a raspberry pi with retropie so i have 1000s of games that dont require internet connections now :) fun project and tonight once my new ssd arrives im setting up linux mint on my desktop (dual boot) and am going to try to transition away from windows. Because its fucking shit.
The pi sparked the drive i needed to make it happen. Really enjoyed my intro to linux.
What do you think the apocalypse is? Ammunition and cans of beans are going to be valuable. Video games, not so much
It depends on the apocalypse.
If it's a mostly everyone dies quick apocalypse due to sickness or a "rapture" type event then "ammunition and beans" are not gonna be as high a commodity.
Hell even in a "I am legend" type apocalypse where beans and ammo are a high commodity so would entertainment be. (and I'd rather play video games than watch movies.)
Collapse is a process. There will probably be an extended period where we still have electricity, but lots of social unrest, food scarcity, etc.
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