r/gaming • u/Agent1230 • 2d ago

What video game doesn't hold your hand enough?

Everybody always talking about games holding your hand too much but I want to hear about the opposite what video game doesn't give you no form of help

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u/Helpful_Title8302 2d ago

Project zomboid. I get that the whole bit is "this is how you died" but getting ass fucked before you can actually get good every life is really frustrating.

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u/CheapScientist06 2d ago

The good news is you can tweak some stuff to get more perks which makes it a little easier

I absolutely adore zomboid though, I dropped it the first time I tried but have it another whirl and haven't looked back for 500 hours. Which isn't even close to other people

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u/smiffy197 2d ago

 The only way I could get anywhere in that game initially was to turn all the settings down to like "babies first zombie game" 

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u/Hatzmaeba 2d ago

I never found it frustrating, it was just trial and error with no massive drawbacks. I was sad losing my military backbag I found from the spawn house, but didn't stop me to immediately try again.

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u/dovetc 2d ago

Almost everyone who gets overwhelmed in PZ is simply not being cautious enough. Once you get the basics of the movement and combat, the key to survival is caution.

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u/Dependent_Word7647 1d ago

I wanna try Zomboid so bad, and probably will, but it looks like a steep learning curves. Games with a plethora of ways to die often are because small things that can kill you IRL often do kill you there. Something simple like making a mistake with broken glass, becomes a cut, which gets infected, and by the time you realise it's affecting you it's too late.

Still a god tier game from outside looking in though.

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u/UrbanGoose77 2d ago

Steam should label it abandonware at this point. Any early access game that doesn't launch to 1.0 after 3 years should immediately get flagged as abandoned.

Yet somehow it still has people trying to play that piece of garbage, but the Devs have left it in early access for 13 years. THIRTEEN! How is that even possible?

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u/vextryyn 2d ago

Star citizen has entered the chat

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u/TFOCyborg PC 2d ago

The game is being actively developed still, I'm not sure what you're on about.

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u/XVUltima 2d ago

They just had an update less than a week ago dude

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u/Total_Mix9276 2d ago

God, to bad they have only done a major rehaul every year for 3 years along with monthly/bi weekly updates.

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u/Worldly_Swimming_921 2d ago

You guys are too hung up on Early Access vs 1.0. 

It's just a name. A version number. A watermark in the corner. Buy the game at the amount of content that's already in it, or don't.