How can I get to games on ti-84 plus?

How do you get the most out of playing video games without spending too much time on them?

• Video games are a massive massive timesink. And some of the timesinks I feel are really unnecessary (e.g. playing the same mission over and over again when you fail a mission, like in the earlier GTA games). I want to optimize for novel experiences that I feel like I can learn from. Diplomacy style games with other players are especially rewarding, though they often depend on the existence of a close-knit multiplayer community that often doesn't really exist for most games (I was fortunate enough to play them in AoK back when Age of Kings Heaven was super-active).At the same time, I feel that I've learned A LOT from some video games and I think that they've really improved my imagination. The Sims, SimCity, Civ III/IV/V, GTA IV, Age of Empires II (back when it had very active MP), Starcraft 2. Some of my fondest memories really are of playing video games.How can I optimize for novel experiences when I have limited time? Sometimes I feel that game developers don't respect the limited time that many people have (especially when they're no longer children), but it does seem that later games are better at this than earlier games. I really like Tyler Cowen's Average is Over book too, where he said that the best combo is a combo of human input on top of machine automation. I value my time so I hate doing things like the first 15 minutes of an Age of Empires II build (always the same things you do) or manually making my workers in Civ III/IV/V do stuff. I also try to avoid going on harder difficulty levels and play for novel experiences rather than win (it's pointless to beat all custom scenarios in a game, and also often pointless to go through a game's entire single-player campaign once the campaign gets awfully repetitive - e.g. La Noire during the later phases). Other things like collecting achievements (e.g. shooting all the pigeons in GTA IV, getting all the achievements in SC2) seem to do nothing other than show much how much time that you have to waste - time that you'll never get back. I also tend to avoid playing games whose campaigns turn out to be more like interactive movies than like games (e.g. Call of Duty) though I don't know how much I'm missing out. I'm also staying away from the League of Legends craze (as I don't perceive it to have the level of complexity that SC2/GTA IV/AoK/Civ/etc have) though I don't know what I'm missing out from it.After all, see . But I know that Yishan actually likes playing video games himself.Or also see , where instead of saying "optimize studying for learning rather than for grades", here I'm trying to optimize video games for novel experiences rather than for mastery.(also I feel that video games have a lot of potential to teach a lot about the human condition, though they really haven't fully realized their potential in that yet).

• Answer:

  This only works for games with those interactive movie-like campaigns that you describe, but my recent solution is to just watch the playthrough of games (the kind without commentary) on Youtube. Most games have a full playthrough uploaded in 1080p. If I feel there's something particularly interesting about a certain part of a game, I might just play that part. Otherwise I simply watch it (skipping if it gets boring) and enjoy the story lines and graphics. You can also download saved games that other people upload to skip over certain parts of games - if not available, find a forum where you can request for one, there's bound to be people who will help you out.