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I wish i did. All the games I want to obsess over take up too much time and energy

This is a pretty common mega man fan experience I fear. I have a novelty buster arm on my desk and I am trying to find one of those helmets cheap on ebay

Sonic the Hedgehog

It's not really the same, but I tend to play a single game at a time until I've exhausted its in game secrets or got bored of its story/gameplay, and if I exhausted its secrets I'll go looking for the most similar games I can find. I only have a very passing interest in bugs and speed running, and no particular interest in game engines, so I don't seek that information out, but I will memorise story details, hidden gameplay mechanics, ability interactions, that kind of stuff. Most of the games I own probably have less than 10 hours played because they didn't interest me or hold my attention, but the ones that did have hundreds of hours - Tactics: Ogre Reborn, Hades, the Owlcat games, and Warframe (again) over the last 5 or so years.

when i read the title i thought, yes that's me, but then i read the post that's a big nope from me.

i was thinking more along the lines of i download and play hundreds of games, but mostly just for a few minutes or a couple hours, then i delete them and forget them forever

niche videogame knowledge occupies every single open space inside my skull

i am autistic about videogames as fuck, honestly seeing this post made me very excited that someone is like me to the point of shutting my brain off

I have done nothing but play minecraft for the past month

Nope not yet; on the upswing for falling back into Hunt Showdown and deep into flesh and blood (but that’s not quite a vidya game)

I like the Kirby and Mega Man franchises and can whip up lots of trivia about each at a moment's notice. Two years ago, the Mega Man Star Force series and its main character Geo's progression out of loneliness and anxiety struck a lot of emotional chords with me on a deeply personal level. As a result, that series has practically become my identity as it sits very close to the heart. Geo unironically is a role model for me.

You are me when I was a kid. I even got angry when my brother couldn't remember the controls or what exactly you are supposed to do in every Chicken Little stage.

I got a bit more normal when I aged (I still know where all important stuff is in every Dark Souls)

I've picked a couple games from the late 90s early 2000s like Majora's Mask and pokemon to learn all about the beta content, game engine, and speed runs. I listen to all sorts of piano and orchestral remixes of the OST. There's like a million Dire Dire Docks remixes

I don't do it to that degree, but I do wonder sometimes how much space in my brain is taken up by obscure Binding of Isaac knowledge