What are, in your opinion, the best 'skinner box'-like games?
Skinner Boxes Thread
Jacob Rodriguez
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Josiah James
Conan Exiles
Brody Ross
ARPGs.
Jace King
how so?
it's quite broad as a genre definition
Levi Wright
Diablo clones. Looter shooters. Basically everything which is about item hunting.
Michael Nelson
MonHun
Brandon Brooks
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, and Bloodstained. The random soul/shard drops compel you to obsessively kill the same enemy again and again, until the item drops. Bloodstained is actually better in this respect, because it gave you incentive to desire weapon drops, food drops, and material drops, as you can craft them all. So now you're compelled to try and get every random drop possible. Just grinding away like a madman.
Charles Bennett
Fortnite.
Christopher Watson
warframe
Michael Brooks
the world is a skinner box
Charles Gonzalez
got it
I think Borerlands games are a great example of this
Christopher Parker
that’s why good video games are an escape
Kevin Russell
Warframe pre 2019
Seems like anything before then felt alot more fun. The think with skinner boxes is that you can easily and quickly get burnt out. My favorite moments was when i got Mesa Prime the week it was released. Alot time was when Trinity Prime was announced to be vaulted, needed 1 more part and got it when i used my last egg that had the part in it.
Joseph Sanchez
deep!!!
Easton Hill
came here to post this. I’d say diablo 2 clones though, as diablo 1 wasnt even that bad about it, it was moreso a limitation of the tech then, but fucking diablo 2 sealed the coffin, I will never not be mad about it. at least arpg’s like souls games are being made that flesh out the potential without relying on skinner box nearly as much
Jaxon Sanders
Gavin Phillips
William Barnes
fundamentally, no. but it can be if you never venture beyond what you already know.
Asher Hill
heh
Dominic Collins
what about gachas?
Kayden Garcia
I said best, not worst games
nice infographic tho
Joseph Ramirez
I AM THE ONE WHO ROLLS
Samuel Richardson
we live in a society
Asher Cooper
>hurr if you don't get yourself killed or starve to death you aren't living life
Anthony Davis
a RAT society
Charles Long
you what now??
Luke Thomas
FFXIV
as in do roulette once a day for daily dopamine hit
Caleb Hernandez
doin alright there friend?
Oliver Price
give me a quick rundown on the pic
Cameron Butler
Look up Fredrick Knudsen Rat Utopia on YT. Pretty great video covering it. I'll link it in case you don't feel like looking it up
Gabriel Mitchell
>At the peak population, most mice spent every living second in the company of hundreds of other mice. They gathered in the main squares, waiting to be fed and occasionally attacking each other. Few females carried pregnancies to term, and the ones that did seemed to simply forget about their babies. They'd move half their litter away from danger and forget the rest. Sometimes they'd drop and abandon a baby while they were carrying it.
>The few secluded spaces housed a population Calhoun called, "the beautiful ones." Generally guarded by one male, the females—and few males—inside the space didn't breed or fight or do anything but eat and groom and sleep. When the population started declining the beautiful ones were spared from violence and death, but had completely lost touch with social behaviors, including having sex or caring for their young.
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Julian Jones
How can you say something so controversial yet so brave?
Ayden Rivera
Rats are given a perfect life in a rat utopia they eventually go insane and kill each other or die of boredom, apparently without the exitement of surviving animals just fucking die... and is exactly what is happening to humanity right as we speak
Gabriel Lopez
Every gachashit app sold on the Apple store.
Cameron James
This is why utopias are destined to fail imo
Ayden Myers
bingo. living without problems is equivalent to death. all utopian systems are doomed from the start.
Elijah Butler
I dont think you understand the skinner box
Hudson Rodriguez
runescape
Dylan Reyes
for real
overpopulation is one of the greatest threats we, as mankind, will face in the near future
but nobody, politicians and the like, had the balls yet to admit it yet alone doing anything
Jose Morris
monster hunter
>kill monster
>receive mats
>make weapon to kill monster to receive mats to make weapon to kill monster to receive RARE mats
Jaxon Rivera
It really says more about the species' impulsive nature than the environment though.
Sebastian Martinez
explain then
Mason Sanders
>save edit
>still enjoy the game
really telling when you can shatter the progression into a million pieces and then still fight things for fun
Austin Martinez
At the end Zig Forums's Zig Forumsfags are the heroes humanity need because most of them won't procreate.
Gavin Gonzalez
csgo
queue with a good team and perform good, win and feel some sense of pride. queue and get a bad team and perform poorly, get some assholes ragging on you in chat and your teammates getting salty and toxic. online competitive games are skinner boxes
Charles Rivera
Hollow Knight
Ayden White
but that's almost every open world vidya there is
>exploration >gathering >combat >repeat
Henry Watson
Mobile games have perfected this
>tap your screen every day to make number go up
>also you can pay more for your dopamine fix