I work with teenagers with autism. I have tried so hard to understand Undertale, because they all love it so so much. I even used to stream me playing it so my students could tag along. I want to get it, but I just don’t.
If anyone can explain me the appeal (better than my students did) I would appreciate it greatly.
The problem you are running into has two faces, both of which are that you are not the target audience.
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The first problem is that it is a very meta form of satire. It kinda depends on you having played enough rpgs to have internalized how they work. The idea that killing the various monsters and gaining Lv. is objectively bad will not hit you as hard if you are an outsider to the genre. There’s also lots of other little details you will miss the meaning of, like how Toriel leads you through the spike puzzle because “its too dangerous”.
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Undertale has a lot of messages woven together in its themes, but the loudest and clearest ones are “Your actions matter, even if nobody notices” and “People are fundamentally good, and you can make friends with anyone if you try hard enough”. I don’t imagine those are messages you need to hear, since you are an adult, but when I was in school I did not feel like I mattered. School is a rough place, and I think your kids really appreciate being told they matter and that they are loved.
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I don’t know about you specifically, but I think the problem might be that it’s too meta. It subverts your expectations really hard but, of course, it will fail if you don’t have any.
I really like this guy’s videos so I’ll take the opportunity to link him. TLDW: it knows it’s a game and that fucks with our brains’ way of experiencing fiction.
I mean as someone with adhd which shares a lot of symptoms with autism: can confirm
I think I was quite lucky with my games but I would love to be able to spend 1/3 of my life on one game, I usually play a single game a lot for max 1 month and then don’t think about it at all for at least 3 months
For me I focus on like 2 or 3 games over the course of a couple months usually and some games fall out of the rotation and some games have stuck in
Right now the silly hyperfixation is playing a ton of Skyrim and planetside
Dayz and Rust are the only two that broke this mold for me. If Rust still had Linux support I’d be playing it rn. Instead I’m killing pvpers on the coast and forcing freshies to eat the corpse 😅
Same situation. I was surprised how well DayZ runs on Linux.
I was surprised mods worked so well. Honestly when I played in a group I’m almost positive it crashed on windows more then Linux.
I haven’t played in a while because I’m on my next hyper focus rn (music… Again) but lmk if you want some one to play with.
What launcher did you use?
https://github.com/aclist/dztui I think that’s the one. I just woke up and haven’t had coffee.
Terraria is good
I’m in this image and I don’t like it 😡
Same. In my experience Ive put the least time into games Ive enjoyed the most. Even sometimes it feels like I have put a lot of time in, yet havent.
Then I will just dump time into crappy experiences that I think will get better if I keep trying to improve myself or tweak the game.
