Not sure how to title this better 😅

Are there any games that you tend to play contrary to how they are intended?

What prompted this question was playing Project Zomboid; but I am all comfortable and snug in my home base that it doesn’t feel like playing a zombie survival game anymore. I feel like I am just playing The Sims with a character that mimics my introverted ass. I never leave the house and just spend all day reading, watching videos, learning new crafts, and just staying alive. I have no need to scavenge since I am loaded up with tons of armor, guns, ammo, food, a source of water, a generator and acess to a near limitless supply of fuel from an underground fuel tank generated in the basement.

How 'bout y’all? Do you prefer Surf to actual Counter-Strike? Have an unconventional way of playing Pokemon? I wanna know! 😃

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Speaking of Project Zomboid I often, but not always, play that game with the infection turned off or set to bites only at least because I don’t want my run to end just because I made a tiny mistake or something really janky happens with the user interface that gets me scratched.

    I set the infection to take like a month to kill you, and have a mod that lets you research and develop a cure. It makes it so that being bitten isn’t an automatic end run, it just changes my priorities to finding everything I need to stay alive.

    I also play Project Zomboid with a game controller which isn’t how the game was originally designed but luckily someone on the team decided it was worth coding and I love them for it.

    Oof. I actually came back to it because I saw they added controller support and wanted to try it because I much prefer using a controller these days for comfort reasons. I gotta say, I really hope the new chsnges they are planning make it better because right now the controls for controller kinda blow. Controlling the game is purposefully clunky as is with a mouse and keyboard; the controller exacerbates it. 😞

    • urata@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Yeah it’s tough using a controller sometimes. The frequent use of dpad directions or the select button while also wanting to hold the sticks both in whatever directions gets me holding my controller in some interesting ways. Having a controller you’re very comfortable with helps. The controls of like TVs and radios is super terrible also, but I’ve gotten somewhat used to it.