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Dealing with serious anxiety. What are some retro vidya that I can get completely sucked into to forget about my problems?

>> No.4315672

>>4315670
leave

>> No.4315675

Just go to /jp/ and fully jump off the cliff.

>> No.4315681

>>4315675
What does /jp/ have to do with it?

>> No.4315694

>>4315681

They're the penultimate example of what you're trying to do.

>> No.4315695
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4315695

>>4315670
try a relaxing game to chill with.

>> No.4315708

>>4315672
>>4315675
You people are rude.

>>4315670
Well, what are your preferences regarding genre and platform? Are JRPGs kinda your thing, because these tend to offer the longest playtime and put at least some effort into worldbuilding.

>> No.4315718

Contra. Killing colossal disgusting ass aliens makes me feel better about myself, but with what you're describing you probably want something more like an rpg, in which case I recommend Dragon Quest

>> No.4315727

>>4315718
>Dragon Quest
Any particular installment?

>> No.4315736

>>4315708
I like JRPGs but rarely have the attention span for them most of the time.

>> No.4315740

>>4315727
Definitely start with 3 to get your feet wet, has great party customization and is an enjoyable experience overall. If you find 3 too archaic, maybe start with 5. Has elements of monster taming and a generational system all while retaining the same DQ formula. Which can be said of most of them.

>> No.4315754
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4315754

>>4315670
FF5 is the cure for me when anxiety hits. Settlers 2 works too.

>> No.4315895

>>4315670
Well, if you really want some games to get lost in, I would recommend some roguelikes or games with big procedurally generated worlds.
But I don't have any retro recommendations in that category at the moment.

>> No.4315924

>>4315672
>>4315708
leaving really is the best thing you can do if your life is that fucked up

>> No.4315935
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4315935

>>4315670
SNES Sim City

>> No.4315941

Phantasy Star Online Episodes I & II (action-RPG)
Harvest Moon 64 (life sim)
Puyo Puyo~n (matching puzzle)
SimCity 2000 (management sim)
Side by Side Special 2000 (racing)
Cave Noire (roguelike)
Pokemon Snap (rail shooter)
Shenmue (open world action-adventure)

Those are the most relaxing /vr/ games I know

>> No.4315945

>>4315670
GAMES THAT YOU CAN PLAY FOR 100-1000 HOURS AND STILL ENJOY AND BE HEAVILY INTO:

Doom
Doom II
Final Doom
Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium
Final Fire Pro Wrestling
Fire Pro Wrestling Returns
WWF No Mercy
Thief
Thief II
Ultima VI
Ultima VII
Ultima Underworld
Ultima Underworld II
Master of Magic
Uncharted Waters New Horizons
RollerCoaster Tycoon
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
The Elder Scrolls Arena
The Elder Scrolls II Daggerfall

>> No.4316123

>>4315670
>muh escapeism

>> No.4316293

>>4315675
/jp/ is where anons go to die
t. /jp/sie

>> No.4316308

>>4315670
That never works. Deal with it or it will only get worse.

>> No.4316318

>>4316308
Says you, I've been hiding from my problems for 8 years now

>> No.4316324

>>4316318
And you suffer for it.

>> No.4316346

>>4316324
I'd suffer more if I dealt with them

>> No.4316436

>>4316308
You don't "deal" with anxiety. You take drugs, use escapism, and live with it. So tired of retreading this argument with morons on 4chan.

>> No.4316449

>>4316436
so tired of morons coming up with excuses for their cowardice

>> No.4316454

>>4315670
Something you can get absorbed into for a long time.
A long JRPG with a good story and enjoyable characters.

>> No.4316483

Escapism is a doctor suggested treatment for anxiety. Taking your mind off physical and emotional symptoms allows your breathing to return to it's natural resting rhythm, alleviating the phsyical portion of anxiety. Obviously concentrating on something stops obsession of whatever is triggering an anxiety episode too.

So in short fuck the edgelords ITT OP, play some JRPGs, world building sims or loot grinders (Diablo 2 is my personal favorite).

t. anon who has suffered from panic attacks most his adult life and has seen countless doctors, psychwards and rehabs.

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4316485

>>4316483
fucking KILL yourself you insufferable fucking faggot holy shit

>> No.4316495

>>4316485
kek, that faggot is now on suicide watch

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4316501

>>4315694
>penultimate
stop using big words to sound smart if you don't know what they mean

>> No.4316502

>>4315670

I find that the only kind of games I get completely lost in are really hard but engaging games.

Like Contra.

Try mastering the series, go for 1CC runs or something. That's what I would do if I really wanted to lose myself in a game. Pick something really hard, intense and fun.

>> No.4316505

>4316485
If you're serious which you probably are, brainlet, you're not getting a (You) for this weak shit.

>> No.4316506

>>4316449
>wow how dare he cope in his own way, enjoy life and not complain
Yeah how cowardly of me, woops. I'll just keep paying taxes for your leech ass while you bitch about me on the internet faggort

>> No.4316508

>>4316308

The whole thing about anxiety is that you can't really face it head on. You don't worry about rational things that you can't make sense of. You worry about shit that doesn't make sense. There's not much you can do to fight that except to do as much as you can to stop thinking about it.


Why am I trying to be rational on 4chan?

>> No.4316509 [DELETED] 

>>4316485
>>4316495
Super gay replies, this some youtube comment level trolling for real

>> No.4316515

The fuck is up with the influx of edgy rageaholic assholes recently?
Anyway OP try out Simcity like others have suggested. Mindlessly building with cheats or legit is a lot of fun and makes the time fly.

>> No.4316520

>>4316506
>>4316508
you fags should just grow a pair and stop complaining. there was no anxiety disorders in society 10 years ago

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4316521

>>4316520
>there was no anxiety disorders in society 10 years ago

>> No.4316523

>4316520
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anxiety_disorder#History
Watch as Hippocrates describes social anxiety in 400BCE

>> No.4316569

>>4315670
Earthbound, chrono trigger and super mario RPG are great if you want a game that sucks you in

>> No.4316625

>>4316436
You can waste the one life you have if you want, but don't expect me to stop encouraging others not to make your mistake.

>> No.4316645

>>4316436
You can go to state funded therapy though, that's what helped me, definitely not games

>> No.4316652

What's a good retro jrpg?

>> No.4316782

>>4315695
What game?

>> No.4316792

>>4315935
Wtf is that pic

>> No.4316806

>>4316515
yes, anything that makes you click click click and forget everything around you. most recently did that with the non-retro anno 1404, but anything works, really. simcity games, civ games, whatever. click click click

>> No.4316809

>>4316782
sc2000, of course.

>> No.4316813

>>4316436
There are ways to cope with anxiety, but using drugs isn't one of them. Then you just have another problem to deal with.

I have panic attacks dozens of times a day. I can't control my autonomic functions or chemical balances or whatever other shit is broken. But having suffered through enough of that, I can at least keep an objective mindset and cope with the fact that it's going to happen regardless of what I do.

>>4315670
Stay away from caffeine and other stimulants, eat right, and take regular breaks from whatever idle activities you're doing to engage in regular calisthenics.

Now, as for gaming, I find that open-world games, puzzles, sandboxes and simulators all have a sufficient level of immersion and replay value to keep my mind occupied. Basically, you want to look into anything that has a very free-form or open-ended style. Stuff like Tetris, The Sims, Sim City, Tycoon games, Elder Scrolls, roguelikes, Dwarf Fortress, historical war sims like Romance of the Three Kingdoms... I'd also pitch anything that would otherwise make a good party game, like Smash Bros. or Bomberman. You can whittle hours away just goofing off with versus CPU matches.

>> No.4316815

>>4316813
dwarf fortress seems really appropriate... as long as you don't develop an attachment to your dorfs.

>> No.4316823

>>4315670
easygoing puzzlers or just read a book imo

>> No.4316828

sengoku rance, good strategy and you get to jack off occasionally

>> No.4316923
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4316923

>>4315670
>What are some retro vidya that I can get completely sucked into to forget about my problems?
Pilotwings. Seriously good stuff, fells like a warm blanket and fuzzy shoegaze album in earphones.

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4316961

>>4316436

>> No.4316990

PS2 play Oblivion or Half Life series.

>> No.4317023

>>4315935
Still the best SimCity imo.

>> No.4317102

>>4316990
if we're really going non-retro, shadow of the colossus is a++ for coping

>> No.4317131

>>4315670
Wrong pic frogfriendo

>> No.4317180

>>4315695
dat crazy road man

>> No.4317637

>>4316652
see>>4316569

>> No.4319249

>>4315670
Any Rare collectathon. The worlds are vibrant and immersive, they take a ton of hours to complete, and they're not that difficult. Very easy to get lost in and overall low-stress experiences.

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4320354

>>4315670
Play this and see how you feel after. It's not a big grind fest, but there's enough there if you want a lite rpg.

>> No.4320464

>>4315695
Not OP, but I've tried to get myself to play this game but my management skills are piss horrible and I end up blowing the starting budget in just leveling ground or raising it along the river line to avoid floods and shit. How do I git gud? Are light zones worth the investment or should heavy ones be the norm?

>> No.4321318

>>4320464
>just leveling ground or raising it
don't do that. play the cards you're dealt with.

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4321321

>>4315754
>FF V and Settlers 2

Wow are you literally me?

>> No.4321596

>>4315670
Harvest Moon on the Nintendo Consoles is my game that gets me away from everything and everyone.