I typically go with single player games. Niche stuff casuals rarely play. It's not a flex or anything, I just a "distinct" taste in gaming

Give us names here.
This is what it's like when normies ask me what music I listen to.

Since you didn't mention those games by name: do you play them with one hand, perchance? 🤪

Call to Arms: Gates of Hell 💪🏻

I go to the same barbershop every two month or so, but not always tge same barber. Every now and then i get a guy around my age who is pretty chatty, but we have literally nothing i. Common. So every time he remembers that i play video games, because he also plays video games. But for now a decade or so, his answer is always: fifa and cod and gta, when the new one came out. He has literally no idea what i'm talking about when i name some games i play. "Video games" to him is synonymous for fifa and call of duty. So we still have nothing in common

What it’s like is the person saying they like all music but not that music.

indie only

Noita only

It's just more like they've never heard of anything outside of the top 40 so the conversation gets weird when I show them my music library and they've never heard of any of it.

Yes, but at least soon he'll have another GTA to discuss with you!

UFO50!

VVVVVV N QWOP

Exclusively Europa Universalis 4 with my kids. Is that weird enough?

Niche stuff casuals rarely play.

that's the kind of gatekeeping I'd like to avoid in my hobby

Get ready to be called the casual for not playing competitive games.

I play the wikipedia game. Start on a random article, click the first link over and over until you reach philosophy. How many clicks did it take? try and beat that

i really wanted to play noita , but my old laptop couldn't handle the game ☹️

I only play old games.

Whenever someone asks, they are usually a decade ahead of me.

OP likes playing Witcher 3, doesn't they?

Hitler ->
Political Philosophy ->
Philosophy

every individual's preference is distinct.

Le hidden gem of a game

Well they said "click the first link"

I've had several girlfriends who were like "you play video games? Like... call of duty?"

They were all relieved when I was like no.

Less relieved when I got them to play cuphead co-op.

Oh I totally missed that. I suspect you'd end up in a lot of circles tbh.

Heh, I found one starting from the featured article of english wikipedia today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Krugers
I clicked on the first link in the article, not on the page, and also skipped the reference links. Took about 8

I think some people have heard of it.

Only seven games have sold more than The Witcher 3.

This is awesome!

Though in my first attempt I ended up in an infinite loop. To be fair, the 4th link in the last pages of the loop is philosophy
George Krugers -> Dutch East Indies -> Dutch Colonial Empire -> Overseas Territories -> International Politics/Relations -> War -> Armed Forces/Military -> Armed/Weapon -> Kill/Death -> Life -> Matter -> Physical Science -> Natural Science -> Science -> Knowledge -> Descriptive/Declarative Knowledge -> Awareness (4th link here is Philosophy , so not quite) -> Back to Knowledge

But it was a fascinating exercise. Yes I am bored and need something to occupy my mind.

Edit: typo

When people ask me about music I just say “I don’t really listen to much music”

I know they’re trying to develop a conception or me, I recognize that they’re trying to get an idea of who I am, trying to start a conversation but I also know they will not draw any meaningful information from the answers I could give. Not because what i like is “too sophisticated and they just wouldn’t get it” but because my taste is completely incoherent. My taste is obscure and trash, and each listened facet is tonally dissonant from the last.

yeah you do find yourself clicking in circles sometimes

Ahhh, one of those digital sadomasochists. How are the polymorph pixels treating you? Do they still keep you up at night?

Just name off a few sub-sub-subgenres they don't know and watch their eyes glaze over.

just get into 70s prog or 80s hair metal that’s way cooler than “not being into music”. Cool t shirts n all that.

I’m not a musician really at all but I’m a huge music listener of a lot of genres and the “don’t like music” people are the worst ever. No offense

hah yes sometimes the game breaks, you have to restart it

A lot of that ‘niche’ stuff may also be what ‘casuals’ do play

Now we just need someone to publish a paper on probability of landing in a cycle without philosophy in it, and cycle length statistics

Maybe you should allow skipping links already visited, then it could (?) converge

They may get even more sales this autumn with the new DLC coming out soon

Old games, oh, like <names a game that was published 10 years ago but feels like it was yesterday>

Indie narratives games only.

that sounds like it would work

Better than acting like you're a better person because you listen to some math rock group.

Idk what it means to have trash tastes, id like it if someone said that and then named the stuff they liked and I conformed it was trash lol. Id find it really endearing.

I have really eclectic tastes too, and I like my own taste in music, but I've also found a lot of people don't really like some of the music I get really into. I can't tolerate like 90% of popular music from the last 20 years or so, but I still like a lot of indie and experimental stuff.

I play the Sakura series and everything from my favorite publisher Kagura Games.

Don't ask why I have so many boxes of tissues. They're uh....really sad and emotional games.

Can't wait since i won't play it.

I have to find out what genre they are into and think of what I like ajacent to that.

From Anakin's look it is obviously Rapelay.

G*mers really make it easy don't they

I'm not a COD guy, I prefer battlefield.

I always included my partners into playing it with me. Either taking turns or, as my partner for life, has come to love. Minimap watcher!

She calls out whatever is on the radar. Saved my ass so many times. I know it has to have made somebody mad, cause there's times when she notices someone on the minimal and tells me turn around or something, and I end up getting em.

Word.

Probably 95+% of the time I play is Single player.

I also dislike competitive gameplay, so with that most of the PvP goes into drain for me 😃

Half-Life?

How dare you have a reasonable take!

I feel like FIFA should have been in the list