whiney game recco station -- cool, not-difficult games to play with sound off

i haven't been much of a "gamer" since the 90s since I don't hate women

BUT i have dabbled in every other nintendo system (N64, but no gamecube; wii, but no wii u), have played two Mac games (riven, gone home) since the turn of the millennium, and have an iphone where I usually have one or two play games for subway or bedtime goofing off (right now: bad piggies)

I don't like stuff that requires a lot of ambidextrous skills (like shooters — I bought Goldeneye for Wii and played it once) and only like games that you can play with the sound off because I basically see them as a place to put my brain and hands while I listen to music. I like mario 64 and mario galaxy and zelda games and animal crossing. gone home was fun. i really enjoyed the neverhood when it was poppin.

Are there any cool non-neckbeard games to recommend a whiney?

idk, but thats awesome that you're not a neckbeard or a misogynist dude congrats

Limbo

that looks cool! I liked World of Goo

i think you should try binding of isaac which is kinda like zelda

it's gross tho, i know you're picky about aesthetics so maybe check out some screenshots first and see if u like it. if u can handle it i think it's a really fun game.

Ugh, fucking casual

recommendation*

i play every game with the sound off

anyway my recommendation is dark souls

nerd

What's your preferred platform(s)? desktop/console/laptop/phone? What venue do you want to plays games on? E.g. some mobile games are great for futzing around with in line, some are better on planes/trains

Whiney: Dust City is fucking great

so is Tower of the Blood Lord, which you play in-browser

cave story might be up yr alley? it's modeled after old-school 16bit platformers but has really smooth physics and great world and character design. the only drawback for me is that it's too short.

xpost whoa, Tower of the Blood Lord is awesome. thanks for that recco

omg it's hilarious

i don't think whiney would like cave story why bc furries

tower of the blood lord is cool - reminds me of shrapnel

tetris attack

If you played Gone Home with the sound off you shd give it another run through with the sound on b/c you missed most of it

Tower of the Blood Lord is by Michael Lutz, who did The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo, which I also enjoyed. One of the better twine/twine-esque creators.

Oh, the Uncle... says it makes extensive use of sound but I played it muted and still found it effective.

If you played Gone Home with the sound off you shd give it another run through with the sound on b/c you missed most of it

― ambergris shmambergris (silby), Sunday, November 23, 2014 1:56 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I turned off my music and played the little cassette tapes

You might like SimCity maybe?

phone timewasters:

auto-runners -- temple run, the end, pitfall, agent dash, ronin, robot unicorn attack, punch quest.
platform fighters -- spell sword, super crate box, the blocks cometh, buzz killem, bill killem.
cave flyersish -- tiny wings, jetpack joyride, time surfer, wave trip, whale trail

platform navigators: bean's quest, rayman run.

casuals-meet-rpgs: dungelot, pixel kingdom, tales of the adventure company, 10000000, dungeonraid, pixel defenders puzzle

puzzle-meets-arcade [aka tetris-ish-sorta]: dream of pixels, tripletown, drop 7, super monsters ate my condo

word games: spelltower, puzzlejuice, qatqi

golfish: super stickman golf (1 and 2), golfinity, flappy golf

arpgs: quadropus rampage

dual-stick-flier-shooter where you can use your own music: beat hazard ultra

set puzzles: symbol link, har*mo*ny, bicolor, lyne, strata, paint it back, trainyard, rgb express

did i mention i like casual phone games

katamari damacy

do you like 2d platform games? if so, the 2 recent Rayman games and wii Donkey Kong are all good.
sports/racing games are ideal to play while listening to music, depends whether you like racing or sports tho
also strategy games- europa universalis etc/ sim city 4 / civilization
maybe xcom?
on iphone - Drop 7!

which systems do you own - wii, mac and iphone? narrows it down a little.

drop7, bejeweled, peggle

important question: do you like roguelikes?

tony hawk pro skater 2

^^ great choice

Kinda forgotten by time due to several other """more important""" platformers (braid, fez, limbo, &c&c&c) but I think you & virtually everyone would have fun playing Splosion Man. Goofy platformer with fun mechanics. Haven't played the sequel tho.

looool yes whiney play braid let us know what you think

that little fucker and his fucking tie

― zappi, Friday, December 18, 2009 11:25 AM

gta 5

HA

thanks for the uncle suggestion emily, so good

Definitely Katamari Damacy. My first time playing that was sort of a revelation, it felt like the first new videogame control scheme since Super Mario Bros. It's just so much FUN to roll that ball around and collect stuff, and it's got this great mash up of surreal/humor/horror/Zen/monster movie feel to it. Controls are SUPER easy.

wow s/o on super stickman golf, this is my fav iphone game ever

s.clover that post is a service to the human race!

This doesn't meet any requirements or whineys but everyone who has at least one friend should play space team

i've got stacks of friends and i don;t see how that'll help me play Space Team

Limbo

― festival culture (Jordan), Saturday, November 22, 2014 1:02 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was a good recco, thank u

what did you think of the end? I found it actually kind of moving

don't you laugh at me

kind of dark

Actually, upon further evaluation the "dark" ending I remember is one I made up in my head as the happy ending was happening hahahahahahaha

haha. glad you enjoyed it.

You might like SimCity maybe?

― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Sunday, November 23, 2014 11:50 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How is SimCity these days?

Hot garbage

threes

i liked braid a lot

would i hack it in civilization v?

the manual is like 225 pages

i think i'm gonna try nu-simcity even though everyone says it sucks

cities: skylines is the same thing except not sucks

amazed that you liked braid and weren't pissed at the narrative
i would guess both are true?

i mean, braid was a cornball decemberists game but it was certainly fun to play

simcity is taking hours and hours to download. i have decided to read a book instead.

cities: skylines is the same thing except not sucks

― adam, Monday, July 27, 2015 10:49 PM (25 minutes ago)

i needed that qualification whiney.
you should play "little inferno". it's fine on any system, ios included.

whiney if u have played any of the other civs civ 5 should be fine - it's all the normal 4X stuff, build cities, build armies, conquer other cities, research technology etc

I lasted like one night with the new sim city

The Room 3 is my jam

There's a Room 3? Hooray!

We’re recommending an iPad 3 or iPhone 5 or better for The Room Three, because we’ve had a few issues reported on the iPad 2 and 4S.

Boo!

The Room 3 was fun but it had no plot of interest. The final ending is a big "fuck you" to anyone looking for a deeper meaning -- spoilers, the face on mars turns out to be a building with another face on it.

I don't go to puzzle games for the plot tbh.

I would be fine with The Room 1-3 without any plot. It's that they try to shoehorn in a plot and it's a waste of time.

see i WANT the plot and that's why part two sorta soured for me.

wanting a plot from a video game reminds me of thos kotaku posts where they're like THIS HORROR GAME CHILLED ME TO THE BONE and then write a post spoiling the whole thing

well see that's why i didn't explain how the box opens a dimensional pathway to a different universe where you oh shit i'm doing it now aren't i

Machinarium and Botanicula are both in this vein and come recommended!

machinarium has an A+ soundtrack, i would not want to play that one with the sound off

it's like the only game soundtrack in my main music rotation

could use a new recco

Just Cause 3.

Towerfall Ascension? Kero Blaster? Galak-Z? Nuclear Throne? Trails in the Sky? Pixeljunk Monsters? the Half-Minute Hero games? XCOM 2?

Framed. good music but you can turn it off.

whiney i think you would like The Witness, although sound is crucial because some of the puzzles depend on it

http://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/

That said as long as you remember to turn the sound on if you're stuck you could do without

Framed's a fun one

Framed was fun but I blew through it p quick...

Witness isn't on Mac yet!