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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 ...
white sanctuary
  07/16/25
Pac-man
180 honey-headed boistinker
  07/16/25
(avg. xo poaster)
vigorous insanely creepy genital piercing field
  07/16/25
Somehow I never heard of those
Jet Hideous Laser Beams Stock Car
  07/16/25
They all basically had the same box
white sanctuary
  07/17/25
...
Twinkling Abnormal Electric Furnace
  07/16/25
Wow even that name sounds intimidating
Balding diverse mother
  07/16/25
4 isn't that bad if you start with spain or france or someth...
magical charismatic roast beef
  07/16/25
Also IIrC the Jane's games I mentioned in the OP came with e...
white sanctuary
  07/17/25


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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:50 PM
Author: white sanctuary

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751239&forum_id=2/en-en/#49107695)



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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: 180 honey-headed boistinker

Pac-man

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Date: July 16th, 2025 11:22 PM
Author: vigorous insanely creepy genital piercing field

(avg. xo poaster)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751239&forum_id=2/en-en/#49107743)



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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: Jet Hideous Laser Beams Stock Car

Somehow I never heard of those

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751239&forum_id=2/en-en/#49107704)



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Date: July 17th, 2025 12:43 AM
Author: white sanctuary

They all basically had the same box

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751239&forum_id=2/en-en/#49107884)



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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: Twinkling Abnormal Electric Furnace



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751239&forum_id=2/en-en/#49107707)



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Date: July 16th, 2025 11:18 PM
Author: Balding diverse mother

Wow even that name sounds intimidating

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



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Date: July 16th, 2025 11:18 PM
Author: magical charismatic roast beef

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/en-en/#49107738)



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Date: July 17th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: white sanctuary

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/en-en/#49108997)