Poll of the Day > What's the slowest, most methodical, intelligent game you've ever played

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I wanna chance at the 4D chess of gaming

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Don't say SpaceChem, I got through the entire first few planets/chapters without knowing you can move nodes, so my solutions were crazy inefficient.

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Final Fantasy Tactics, maybe? But only if you do not grind.
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That I've personally done?

Final Fantasy Tactics 1.3 (Would love to try this again if FFT ever got a PC release...)
Final Fantasy X challenge runs (Although Pokemon Challenge runs would probably be harder, I was thinking about how viable it would be to so a SwSh Least Amount of Fights Game).
Final Fantasy IX Excalibur 2 Perfect Game
Final Fantasy FFVIII Rebalance Mod (I had to quit, couldn't do Missile Base - wonder how this mod ever progressed)
My Solo Rogue Divinity: Original Sin 2 run

Slow is really hard. Not a lot of turn based games anymore. I'd be interested if you find anything Lok.

I miss challenge runs (and the GameFAQs challenge run community). These days I just watch Pokemon challenge runs on Youtube.
* Not Speed Runs, I hate Speed Runs

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"Trapt" on PS2, if you've played then you know what I mean XD

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Judgmenl posted...

I miss challenge runs

Same, that's one of the reasons I love the Super Mario Maker 2 No-Ship Super Expert compilations.

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dragon ball z trading card game for the gameboy advance

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Human Resource Machine, maybe? You basically have to write programs to make an office worker perform various tasks.

There's a sequel that I haven't played yet called 7 Billion Humans, which is basically the same thing, but scaled up to do parallel computing with multiple office workers.

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I dunno if anyone would agree, but I think I would say Kerbal Space Program. Maybe I suck at it, but without looking up tutorials or walkthroughs, it's probably the single most challenging game I've ever played. can't even access 75-90% of the game (in career mode) since I don't have the ability or knowledge to.

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Probably Thief. Playing it for the first time when it was new was something of a marvel. It's been borrowed from extensively over the decades, but still holds up well.

The Witness

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"Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes"
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MTG, maybe...
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Divinity: Original Sin 2. That game actually requires thought.

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Marriage

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Shadow Tactics: Blade of the Shogun

Granted, I like to take my time in games like these, but most levels took me 3-ish hours.

My final time for the last mission in the game was 6 hours lol

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Nauticrawl?

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wolfy42 posted...

Marriage

I'm changing my answer to life.

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The Witness

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Cellfix posted...

"Trapt" on PS2, if you've played then you know what I mean XD

Any of the Deception/Kagero/Trapt series of games would be a good example.
I really loved Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess.
Especially if you're trying to fulfill the special requests it can require a lot of planning and thought towards the end.
"Slow" I guess is relative. Game itself moves at a regular speed, but when you're selecting your Rube Goldberg series of traps, it's paused and you can easily spend a very long time agonizing over what to do.

streamofthesky posted...

"Slow" I guess is relative

Was just using slow as a synonym -

For example, I find Xcom to be unbearably slow with its weird animations - and the pre-battle loadins in Final Fantasy 9 are hella slow annoying

But games like Frozen Synapse or FF11 where you can take entire minutes on actions are more methodical.

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Life

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spacechem

which I hate and didn't play long

Doom 2016

Board game: Chess
Video games: King's Quest franchise

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LinkPizza posted...

MTG, maybe...

Came to say this. There is a reason scientists call it the most complicated game of all time, and say it's the only game that AI can't play optimally.

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Call of Duty Ghosts

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Pokemon Snap

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