I've kept an eye on it, and there is enough interest to keep these going for now. Though, if someone else prefers to do them, feel free.
Questions:
- What are you playing and on what platform(s)? Reviews?
- Did you pick up anything based on the last thread?
- Do you want recommendations? Genre(s)? Past enjoyed games?
Single player Ark on console. What I'm really engaged in is a metaphysical battle of wills against the developers - the stakes are simple: if I win, I gain fun, but if I lose, then I don't have fun.
The game is shitty (unfortunate pun), yet I keep playing it. The devs -do not- want me to play their game the way I want to, so I have to do my best to navigate their bad designs and nerfs. Every time I'm forced to use console commands, it's a small loss on my part, unless I'm cheating to circumvent an unfixed bug or broken geometry.
I think the appeal to me is the potential of their game. This potential will be forever unrealized by the devs, going by their sense of balance, priorities, monetization, and communication. But I can see it, even if they cannot. Their primary mistake was making the game revolve around pvp and multiplayer; this prevented them from looking more deeply into the experience of play.
From playing local co-op Ark on console, I finally understand what my programming teacher was trying to tell me about the importance of multithreading. The input of player1 should never affect the menu actions of player2.
I played Ark a lot waaay back when it was an early release PC game. Totally understand what you mean. I wanted an open ended survival exploration game that I could play with friends. It was sort of like that at first too. They went so heavily towards online PVP though and I lost interest.
Yeah, it's weird, solo ARK only holds me for maybe an hour or two, but I keep going back to No Man's Sky instead.
My main games on rotation are generally NMS, FO4, Rimworld, and Garden Paws.