So apparently the National Museum of Play is in Rochester, NY which I was flying to for business. That’s the main theme of the airport and there’s various cases of old toys and collectibles along with a large amount of free to play games and arcade cabinets and other games.

The beer is cheaper than 90% of airports. I always have my Switch 2 with me but it’s cool you can play Ms. Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and others while your flight is being delayed for the 5th time.

I love the old-school console wars. I always remember my friends arguing over Mario vs Sonic and such.

I always love that moment in a game where you unlock something and can immediately tell it’s going to change the rest of the experience.
For me, nothing tops getting the Blades of Chaos in God of War. It’s such an incredible story moment, but they’re also just ridiculously fun to use. Combat instantly felt faster, more versatile, and I remember thinking, “Yeah… these are never coming off.”
Another one for me is the Super Shotgun in DOOM Eternal. The second I got it, the whole game just clicked. Flying around the arena with the Meat Hook made me feel like I’d finally become the Doom Slayer the game wanted me to be.
What’s the first weapon or ability that comes to mind for you?

I have a couple of examples:

Hell Let Loose: Hopefully I'll never actually need this one: In the game, if you hear a gunshot and you're still standing, you have a split second to react before the next one. The game forces you to learn situational awareness, instinctively process directionality from sound and visual context and cover mechanics. These are concepts that an "average european" like me, not at war, doesn't typically think about on a daily basis.

Civilization III: If you zoom out enough, whole-timeline view of "civilization" gave me a strange kind of insight (even if still inexact) into how real societies work. At that scale, history stops looking like a series of unique events and starts looking like patterns repeating, the masses behaving somewhat predictably, expansion, resource competition, empires extending and collapsing. It's made me see real-world news and history through that "zoomed out" lens ever since, contemplating what I would have done if X or Y, rather than "it is what it is"

Doesn’t have to be the focus, just something you do quite often

Ex:
The Yakuza series
I was a Teenage Exocolonist
Most visual novels
Planescape: Torment
Disco Elysium
BG3
Most CRPGS
The Stanley Parable kinda? You don’t talk but your every action is in a sense continuing a conversation.
Shadows of Doubt (only procedural story game I absolutely love)
The Pathologic series

Some obscure ones in there that age me. I wanted to add more fun screens of them hanging out but I can only post one image at a time, apparently

I’m a sucker for a phone game but it’s so infuriating having to pay to advance or watch a ton of ads. I miss buying a game and playing it without having to spend anymore on it.

I loved playing Harvest Moon, Sims The Urbz and cooking Mama

Don't mind the end.

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Im leaving Playstation, whats the best pre-built gaming PC for $2k US dollars? I dont want to learn how to make a PC. Thank you

First of all: I dont want this to become a keyboard warrior discussion between pc gaming and console gaming. Every person likes what he or she likes. It's all good.

I am just wondering of more people are experiencing what i am experiencing. I am a 38 year old gamer. Been gaming my entire life. I used to be mostly focused on pc for most of my adult life. I currently own a gaming pc with a 5070ti, so pretty capable. I also own all current gen consoles.

I live together with my girlfriend and our 5 month old son. I have a office job where i specialize in the legal aspects of real estate.

The last couple of years i find myself gravitating more and more to console because of the convience. I know PC offers a objectively better experience when it comes to fidelity and framerate but it lacks in convenience. I tried the whole steam big picture mode on the tv thing, but nothing beats just picking up a controller and pressing 1 button to play a game.

I wonder if this is more wide spread and if so, what is your experience?

I’m looking for something I can just chill and get completely immersed in. It doesn’t have to be your favorite game of all time—just one that’s especially fun to play while you’re high.