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ITT: video Games that you never bought bc you were intimidated, too complicated

Me - all of the 90s "Jane's" flight sim games ...
Drab sandwich
  07/16/25
Pac-man
very tactful pearly karate
  07/16/25
(avg. xo poaster)
Lake wonderful church
  07/16/25
Somehow I never heard of those
Stimulating Brunch
  07/16/25
They all basically had the same box
Drab sandwich
  07/17/25
...
Aromatic zippy knife macaca
  07/16/25
Wow even that name sounds intimidating
Deep new version nibblets
  07/16/25
4 isn't that bad if you start with spain or france or someth...
Trip Address
  07/16/25
Also IIrC the Jane's games I mentioned in the OP came with e...
Drab sandwich
  07/17/25


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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:50 PM
Author: Drab sandwich

Me - all of the 90s "Jane's" flight sim games

Just seemed like there were a million controls impossible to memorize

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%27s_Combat_Simulations

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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: very tactful pearly karate

Pac-man

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Date: July 16th, 2025 11:22 PM
Author: Lake wonderful church

(avg. xo poaster)

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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: Stimulating Brunch

Somehow I never heard of those

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Date: July 17th, 2025 12:43 AM
Author: Drab sandwich

They all basically had the same box

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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: Aromatic zippy knife macaca



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Date: July 16th, 2025 11:18 PM
Author: Deep new version nibblets

Wow even that name sounds intimidating

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751239&forum_id=2)#49107736)



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Date: July 16th, 2025 11:18 PM
Author: Trip Address

4 isn't that bad if you start with spain or france or something

EU3 otoh was arcane, bizarre, and hard to parse especially in the UI department

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751239&forum_id=2)#49107738)



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Date: July 17th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: Drab sandwich

Also IIrC the Jane's games I mentioned in the OP came with enormous manuals Almost as complicated as the IrL vehicle. I've read about people spending hours just figuring out how to take off the runway in an airplane on those Games

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751239&forum_id=2)#49108997)