For me it was minesweeper clones. I got frustrated one day and decided to learn how to be good at minesweeper. After beating the medium and large boards a couple times I looked on Steam for minesweeper versions, and turns out there’s a whole genre of clones. Some of them are direct clones of the game, while others are very heavily inspired by minesweeper. The two best I played were Hexcells and Tametsi. Hexcells is stylish and is only hexagons (as opposed to the minesweeper squares), while Tametsi has squares, rectangles, and hexagons and is a lot more barebones. However I found Tametsi to be much harder. There were some levels on there that took me an entire day, and I think there’s like 500 levels. 150 levels

  • xray@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Your logic is 100% correct. I just started gaming again recently for the first time since childhood, and my natural reaction is still to say I beat the game because that’s what I used to say back then, but it does feel weird. Especially because, like you said, games are setup to be more of an experience now. I’m so used to games being near impossible to finish or the last battle to be extremely difficult since that’s what I grew up on. But that last battle/task seems a lot more manageable nowadays, so it almost feels like I don’t deserve to say I beat the game lol.

      • xray@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yeah sorry, I keep having this issue where I start typing in a thread and then magically the thread changes to a different one, even though I still saw comments from the thread I intended to post in. I noticed as soon as I posted.