I’m talking more along the lines of, having simulator games where you work in a supermarket and you get to cause as much mayhem as possible. Not in terms of just simply killing, but more like, being a very disgruntled worker in a very annoyingly noisy environment with shitty customers. That game doesn’t exist to me and I wish it would.

Instead, we get more simulator games where you’re at the service of the people. That’s going backwards, if you ask me.

Also, I don’t remember asking for armchair psychologists to come here and start dropping unasked thoughts about how to best relieve stress. Check those at the door.

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    Also, I don’t remember asking for armchair psychologists to come here and start dropping unasked thoughts about how to best relieve stress. Check those at the door.

    oshi-- you guys its the king of fediverse

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    I feel like this is what people do with the multiplayer games where they are allowed to be mean to each other

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    If you want to shoot Nazis and klan members there are Wolfenstein games.

    I bought just for some cathartic relief. Unfortunately the first person camera jostled around too much and gave me too much motion sickness.

    Damn. Really needed that.

    https://youtu.be/JWfD4geJm2Q

    Here is a cool video from a small time creator about why we don’t get Nazi-killing games anymore.

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      I’d especially like to see more games making a modern take on this battle. We used to view Nazis as a historical, comically evil villain. I’d like something new that makes every one of them alive feel thoroughly unwanted in this world.

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    I had similar idea a while ago but admittedly more political than mundane.

    You’re a boss in your corporation. game’s objective is to be annoying and mess around with your worker. But somehow through your abuse you also have to keep your corporation alive financially.

    It’s a mix of sandbox & tycoon. but the gameplay should be more sandboxed to really allow player create mess, and not very pressured by the goals created by the tycoon aspect.

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    That’s what casual gaming is about.

    I used to dig a large room with stone pickaxes in Minecraft. With “large” meaning I could not see the ends in the long direction.

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      There’s already like hundreds and thousands of games where I can kill people in.

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        Bro there’s people who play Skyrim for 100hrs never leaving the first village or picking up a weapon.

        There might not be a game tailored to what you want, but I’m sure a game exists where you can do what you want to, especially if on PC and with mods.

        Like, you can just play a super market simulator, and instead of caring about score do what you get enjoyment from.

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    I saw an ad a few days ago for a game called Roadside Research.

    It’s a gas station management sim where you play as an alien disguised as a human, running a gas station and “researching” humanity.

    It looks pretty fun.

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    I had an idea for a mobile game.

    The premise. Circus/carnival games with gop theme.

    So one would be where 3 orange clown heads move and you have to throw a baseball at, and knock off the crowns.

    Another was like wack a mole but with ice agents and protestors. So make sure you only wack the ices.

    The old game with the water gun filling up a balloon. But it’s just faces of Trump’s cabinet expanding until they pop.

    Maybe something with those toy horse races.

    The bulls eye one that dunks someone.

    Ring toss

    Ski ball

    And letter boards with your friends.

    So many possibilities here. But I don’t know how to design games. So.

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    It’s interesting how simulators do tend to draw in people who also do the same thing as their IRL job.

    Lots of farmers play Farming Simulator. Lots of truckers play Euro/American Truck Simulator. Lots of pilots play MS Flight Simulator.