but for me, currently, this game boils down to collecting items to not use them for anything (whether in vanilla or modpacks)
the last time I dedicated 20h+ was when I played Crash Landing. the challenge of staying alive, using for that all the contraptions the modpack gives you, managed to keep me hooked on the game, I put in 60 hours (until I got sick of it when the game started turning into infinite grind, besides the fact that the modpack doesn’t really have an end)
it’s tough to find something to play. after getting older, it seems you just get more and more demanding. it’s not any silly little game that makes you dedicate hours to it, and it’s not even about wasting time, but about sheer lack of interest. brutal.
If I saw any meaning in modpacks, I’d have almost infinite dopamine for quite a while. And the good thing about Minecraft is that you don’t need to be focused on the story, thinking, connecting the dots, etc… literally every single moment.
You just play, do what you have to do, and you get really well distracted and forget about life (theoretically, right)
by the way, since I put together a little PC to play, the only game that really hooked me was Dying Light.
I don’t know if it was because I’d always wanted to play this game — before, I used to watch it and drool over it — but this was the only one (though of course the fact that the game is at least decent also counts)
I’m thinking about buying Project Zomboid. The desire to stay alive in an apocalypse, in the most realistic way possible, makes me want to play it. But I realize that if the game is just survive, survive, and survive (almost infinitely), there will come a time when I’ll certainly get tired of it. The game won’t have an end in itself. Just my opinion.
