Doing things in games because it simple felt good.

I’ve been thinking about the PS1 game ‘Driver’ a lot recently. It’s a game I spent a lot of time on during my youth, and whilst I’m sure it doesn’t hold up some 20 years later, it was still a highlight from my ‘gaming youth’.

As much as I know I enjoyed it however, I don’t remember all that much about it. Aside from pulling the perfect reverse hand-break-turn in order to leave the garage/lockup area and begin the game proper. I didn’t need to pull this manoeuvre of course, I could just, you know…drive out, but something felt so incredibly satisfying about it that I couldn’t stop myself.

Which brings me to this point of this thread. What’s something you do in a game for no reason other than it feels damn good?

Ormulum,

Flying around in the birdsuit in Pilotwings 64. I could do that for hours. Except I usually eventually try to fly through a cave and crash. Gosh I’d love a new Pilotwings

llii,

I’d also love a new pilotwings in the N64 style. With the music it was so relaxing.

SGforce,

YOU COULD JUST LEAVE??? WE HAD TWO RENT IT THREE TIMES IN A ROW TO BEAT THAT TUTORIAL!!

llii,

I don’t think you could. Maybe he meant after you passed the tutorial, if you load a saved game?

SaddlerFan,
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Drive all around the map in GTA V’s multiplayer (invite only session, of course) when the weather is nice. Or just walk around the city. Browsing tattoos or clothes etc. Just doing ordinary things instead of riding around on a flying motorcycle and whatnot.

Kolanaki,
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I kinda hate that I am targeted because what I have fun doing in GTA5 is stunting with the Oppressor Mk1. People see it on the map and immediately start trying to fuck with me when I’m just in the mountains doing flips and ignoring everyone. :/

I don’t even have the guns unlocked for it!

uninvitedguest,
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I would always play AVP2 as an Alien. I loved the mobility of being able to traverse walls and the unique challenges/opportunities it presented. I played it a lot and got quite good at it (would easily be the top player in most games I played), but would more often focus on making use of those unique mechanics for novelty situations.

One map (the forge, or something similar) had high ceilings with ridges built in to it, perfect for hiding an Alien. Instead of running around the map tearing up victims and moving up the leaderboard, I would cling up on that ceiling and wait for an unsuspecting human to pass underneath. I would drop down like a spider, paralyze them with my tail, and immediately headbite them. The glee that I would get from perfectly executing that surpassed any MVP received from high scores. It was fun to just play an Alien like an Alien.

CynAq,
@CynAq@kbin.social avatar

I want to play that so bad right now. The cat like movement with wall-climb, plus the alien vision is easily one of my top 5 unique gaming experiences.

joelfromaus,
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Easily one of my favourite PvP games because of the species dynamics and the lobby options. Used to play it at LAN parties now and then, up to maybe 8 players. Once you had enough players it was great to have 1 Predator vs 2-3 aliens and the rest humans. Species were selected at random so sometimes you’d get a derpy predator or a one hunter killing machine. It always lead to interesting games that sort of naturally lead inadvertently to roleplay scenarios like the humans keeping an eye on vents and banding together.

Oh and alien life cycle was always on for more challenge to the alien players. Trying to find a facehugger victim in and trying not to get blasted straight out of the chest as a chestburster to become the ultimate killing machine.

Easily one of my top PvP games.

storm_koala,

Riding around in GTA San Andreas. Like taking a truck and making long trips while listening to K-DST radio.

kratoz29,

K-DST formed many of my current favorite musical genres lol.

bbbhltz,
@bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar

When I was young (probably too young) I would always play as Kabal on UMK3. That spin attack plus the easy combos was great.

massive_bereavement,
@massive_bereavement@kbin.social avatar

Kabal also felt like someone bringing meathooks to a fistfight.

floppy,
@floppy@rabbitea.rs avatar

Activating the Super Sheep in Worms DC. It was always “argh, I can’t control this, kaboom I’ve blown up one of my own worms”, but it was fun to try!

massive_bereavement,
@massive_bereavement@kbin.social avatar

When someone played the sheep, you knew that they were either confident or desperate.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

In Minecraft I run in one direction for half an hour and build little forts. I don’t sleep in the bed and when I die I die. There’s a neat sense of satisfaction finding all the little things I’ve left behind.

I used to do pixel art too so I’ve run into giant glowstone Pikachus in the past

massive_bereavement,
@massive_bereavement@kbin.social avatar

More than ten years ago, I played with coworkers in a Minecraft beta server at a place I used to work.

Recently I was told that the server still existed and one of my ex-coworkers still maintained and played actively on it being the only one left.

He built around whatever others did, so I could (theoretically) still find all the cubic dirt houses we made.

heliodorh,
@heliodorh@beehaw.org avatar

Threads of Fate. Shape shifting into the cool creature forms (esp the gargoyle) and running around.

Okami. Literally, the whole ass game lol.

WoW. Exploring, collecting herbs, and skinning mobs in druid forms.

LOTRO. Just riding around.

Witcher 3. Just riding around, taking in the views - and possibly being waylaid by random wolf packs and bandits, but then the cool music starts playing and Geralt says hilarious random shit while chopping heads so that’s also fine.

Genshin Impact. Just running around doing random shit as Klee.

TheRazorX,

In Diablo 3, I always saved the NPCs in Act 2 while doing bounties, even though there was no incentive to do so. Dunno if it counts as feeling good, but could never bring myself to ignore their cries.

Skua,

Noita: building wands with horrendous recoil. I know it's going to get me killed when I launch myself in to something dangerous, but it's just funny to be able to fly by the power of destroying everything in a given direction

kd637_mi,

Shooting out of a cannon with the wings hat and flying around in Mario 64 was such a pure fun experience for my kid brain. The switch in music and just soaring around a 3d level was really something special at the time.

llii,

Yeah, that was great! I always wished that you could fly longer.

shapesandstuff,

That level in the clouds when you look up in the entrance was so magical. Always a little sad when it ended.

But yeah that and the slide behind the stained glass window were so awesome

Limeaide,

In CSGO I constantly switching guns andbinspecting my weapons. The animations and sounds are really satisfying to me

In Minecraft flying around in the Elytra feels really nice. I wish there was some sort of time trials minigame for the Elytras

Zozano,

Anyone else play Airblade? It was like a Tony Hawk game but with a hoverboard.

With only six levels, it was quite short, but really fun. Eventually I started speed running it before I knew what speed running was.

If I recall correctly I was able to finish it in under twenty minutes.

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