I've tried people and AI for recommendations for games. Both have made me decide to give up and spend my time elsewhere. I won't play anything with cards, strategy, puzzles, reflexes required, must be easy, but
still really fun. No parodies. I must be able to save the game every 10-15 minutes. Nothing meets all of those categories...

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Re: Giving Up...
By: Shurato to All on Sat Aug 01 2026 04:16 pm

I've tried people and AI for recommendations for games. Both have made me decide to give up and spend my time elsewhere. I won't play anything with cards, strategy, puzzles, reflexes required, must be easy, but still really fun. No parodies. I must be able to save the game every 10-15 minutes. Nothing meets all of those categories...

So there's nothing you really enjoy playing?

Nightfox

10-15 minutes. Nothing meets all of those categories...

What types of games, or games in particular have you played in the past that you really enjoyed, and what aspects of them did you like? I wonder if finding games similar to them in those regards might be something we could help with.

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I've tried people and AI for recommendations for games. Both have made
me decide to give up and spend my time elsewhere. I won't play anything with cards, strategy, puzzles, reflexes required, must be easy, but
still really fun. No parodies. I must be able to save the game every 10-15 minutes. Nothing meets all of those categories...

I know you said no to card games - but have you seen/played Balatro??? I'm NOT a gamer - but this one grabbed me something fierce!



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I've tried people and AI for recommendations for games. Both have made
me decide to give up and spend my time elsewhere. I won't play anything with cards, strategy, puzzles, reflexes required, must be easy, but
still really fun. No parodies. I must be able to save the game every 10-15 minutes. Nothing meets all of those categories...

It's very difficult to find you something to play if you have all those requirements. If you boot up a game with a shopping list of requirements, you're going to be disappointed. To me, it sounds like there's an issue with how you're going about this. Gaming is just a fun activity to do while you relax or kill time or whatever. No one is going to have fun searching for the game that is so perfect it will give them a transcendental experience. Also, give games chances even if it doesn't meet requirement #47 (Game must have one or more cowboy or cowboy adjacent character(s) with a large colourful foam cowboy hat). Maybe it will surprise you later on down the line. Lastly, if you're not enjoying any video games, you can do other past times. That's cool too. :)

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It's very difficult to find you something to play if you have all those requirements. If you boot up a game with a shopping list of requirements, you're going to be disappointed. To me, it sounds like there's an issue with how you're going about this. Gaming is just a fun activity to do

or needs to go back to the old 386/486 days of gaming.

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It's very difficult to find you something to play if you have all those requirements. If you boot up a game with a shopping list of requirements, you're going to be disappointed. To me, it sounds like there's an issue with how you're going about this. Gaming is just a fun activity to do

or needs to go back to the old 386/486 days of gaming.

I have some classic games, I think my birthday present 30 years ago was a copy of Earthworm Jim
1 and 2 for the PC.

Who needs a PS1 when you have the PC.


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Re: Re: Giving Up...
By: Matthew Munson to Sirronmit on Mon Aug 10 2026 09:40 pm

I have some classic games, I think my birthday present 30 years ago was a copy of Earthworm Jim
1 and 2 for the PC.

Who needs a PS1 when you have the PC.

I think there are still some games that were only available for the PS1 that weren't available for the PC. But if you have a PC, you can run a PS1 emulator to play them. :)

Nightfox

I think there are still some games that were only available for the PS1
that weren't available for the PC. But if you have a PC, you can run a
PS1 emulator to play them. :)

Yes, ever since Bleem in 1999 :).

Cheers

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Re: Re: Giving Up...
By: Peter London to All on Tue Aug 11 2026 10:35 pm

I think there are still some games that were only available for the PS1
that weren't available for the PC. But if you have a PC, you can run a PS1
emulator to play them. :)

Yes, ever since Bleem in 1999 :).

I remember buying a copy of Bleem when it was available in stores. And I heard Sony sued the company that made Bleem, so they had to stop selling it. I also remember another PS1 emulator called Connectix Virtual Game Station.. These days there are other PS1 emulators available (and they're free). I thought Bleem was cool though because it attempted to improve the graphics of the PS1 games in real-time.

Nightfox

I remember buying a copy of Bleem when it was available in stores. And I heard Sony sued the company that made Bleem, so they had to stop selling it. I also remember another PS1 emulator called Connectix Virtual Game Station.. These days there are other PS1 emulators available (and
they're free). I thought Bleem was cool though because it attempted to improve the graphics of the PS1 games in real-time.

Has anyone tried the Dolphin emulation software? My son and I were thinking of using it to play some old Nintendo titles. Looks pretty good, but haven't tried it out yet.

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Re: Re: Giving Up...
By: Knight Shadow to Nightfox on Tue Aug 11 2026 06:40 pm

Has anyone tried the Dolphin emulation software? My son and I were thinking of using it to play some old Nintendo titles. Looks pretty good, but haven't tried it out yet.

I think Dolphin is for Nintendo Wii, isn't it? I remember trying it on a handheld device I have.

Nightfox

I think Dolphin is for Nintendo Wii, isn't it? I remember trying it on a handheld device I have.

Oh, you're right. The Wii and Gamecube. For some reason I thought it emulated other systems too.

I'd like to play Zelda Windwaker on it, I liked
that one. And Metroid.

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I remember buying a copy of Bleem when it was available in stores. And
I heard Sony sued the company that made Bleem, so they had to stop
selling it. I also remember another PS1 emulator called Connectix
Virtual Game Station.. These days there are other PS1 emulators
available (and they're free). I thought Bleem was cool though because
it attempted to improve the graphics of the PS1 games in real-time.

Cool! I never owned a copy of Bleem, but I read about it in the game
magazines at the time.

Yes, the emulator scene is quite different these days :). Retroarch runs
on everything now.


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I've tried people and AI for recommendations for games. Both have made me decide to give up and spend my time elsewhere. I won't play anything with cards, strategy, puzzles, reflexes required, must be easy, but
still really fun. No parodies. I must be able to save the game every 10- minutes. Nothing meets all of those categories...

All the retro games, fill these categories. Setup a Retropie machine, use a Bazzite or Batocera live image and play games up to the PS2 (you can more) era. Specially the Arcade games, are very fun for short time periods.

You can save/restore the games, at any time!

You can even buy a cheap chinese handheld device, like the RG35xxx devices and play whenever you have the time.

Present time games are very time consuming and i don't enjoy them, also.

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