Sans the lack of shooting, this will serve.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366540/Dyson_Sphere_Program/

Mmm... there are many games that fit that criteria.

Is it somehow set in a high school and it's all anime?

Can we date the Pinky?

Depression.

Naudience.

Pretty interesting tiktok take on this posted earlier today on lemmy about a boomer meme:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/just-coffee-black#fnr11

He goes on to talk about what might have motivated the artist to draw the comic, pointing out that nobody has taken black coffee away from him. Pargin says:

"All that happened is the range of options for other people expanded and he perceived that as persecution […] this is not political, this is a human nature thing. Most people are not satisfied to simply have the option to live their life the way they want. They also want to feel normal […] and see that most people have made the same choice they have made.

This! If someone could explain that to republicans, please?!?

They can enjoy whatever they want, but they have to enjoy them the right way!

Yep and part of that is just letting the things exist and be what they are, even if they aren't for you.

Let DOOM be what it is for those of us who were the right edgy age at the right time to eat it up. Let the calm games be what they are too, without requiring combat mechanics.

People gotta practice letting go. In general. About literally anything. The correlation I see in my acquaintances between not letting go of trivial shit (including the existence of different types of people that like different things) is stark.

I dunno man, I'm going through it for the first time right now and I convinced a demon to kill his minions and himself in front of me.

It's a very mixed bag. You can (technically) do a Pacifist Run in BG3 that leans on conversation to keep earning XP in a game that heavily favors combat rewards.

But without prior experience in the story paths, it can be hard to know who can actually be cajoled and who is innately unreconcileable. Lots of NPCs lie or bluff or just bait you into giving up initiative.

You do get more story in dialogue. So if you don't mind the odd ambush or icy rebuff, I'd say there's more to diplomacy than just pain.

The Shin Megami Tensei games have speaking to demons as an important part of the gameplay

Agreed

Also more importantly, people should argue in good faith.

"To distract myself from feeling sick!"

I see a lot of people bitch about invasions, but personally I think surprise boss fight is the best mechanic.

And, we can see a huge set of third party fromsoft games that are generally doing well, even after removing the bad parts. I wonder what that says.

Maybe? The devs played DnD during development and the chapter text definitely sounds like a GM setting the scene. Supposedly Daikatana is closer to John Romero's vision of ~~Doom~~(it was Quake). It's not great though, so if they tried to implement those ideas back with Doom, it probably wouldn't have been as well received. Doom has a sort of K.I.S.S. design.

are you thinking of quake?