If you do have any Zen games to recommend that don’t have a long learning curve, let me know!

Other than Minecraft, I’ll casually play some old iPad games on an iPad 2 I still have.

I don’t have an exact number but it would have to be at least 5000 hours I’ve sunk into Minecraft. Been on and off the game since 2013, I’d get bored of the current version and switch to Beta (fairly sizable community on r/goldenageminecraft), I’d do some worlds where I’d obtain stuff in older versions that weren’t obtainable later (whole wiki on Discontinued Minecraft items/blocks/structures/entities), of course I’d do modded.

I think the thing with Minecraft for me is that I spent all the time learning the game back in high school when I had more free time than I do as an adult, and I can nowadays play it extremely casually (~3 hours/week).

Its hard for me to get into new games (most recent game I got was Dredge) because I have like 2 hours a session to learn it, and it might be a few days between sessions.

Similar story here. For me what killed my enjoyment of it was the developer teasing and announcing Unturned 4.x but taking so long to polish it, that Unturned 3.x got abandoned.

He’s come back to Unturned 3.x since I stopped playing, but the fun’s no longer there for me anymore. I enjoyed the crap out of the arena gamemode and the creative servers (I basically played it more like a sandbox than a survival PVP game) but neither really have players anymore.

That’s what throws me through a loop, because my experience with LLMs is the same. I just can’t fathom that a human did this, its just nothing but waffle.

Is this article AI generated or something? There are constant grammatical errors throughout it and the pacing in general is difficult to follow. I’m struggling to actually read it, tripping up at each sentence. Just look at this paragraph.

“In recent years we have seen how many games have had a catastrophic launch, in many cases, caused by performance problems due to not being well optimized, but this has not been the only cause of these problems. And anti-piracy systems consume a large amount of our resources. PCmaking it very difficult to optimize a game when you have to take into account third-party software.”

Just looks like the original game setting with the same engine and problems that PvZ2 had. No thanks, the original game was where it was at and it’s surprisingly replayable. I still have it on my iPad for when I want to have some downtime.

I’ll definitely look into it, I have had a couple friends play it before actually, so they might be able to give me a steer on how to play.

I have, and generally I get overwhelmed with how complicated they can get, especially the really popular modpacks that add magic and stuff like that.

I usually end up making my own “Vanilla+” kind of modpack, but I’ve gotten bored with most mods that I would usually add to that.

With that being said, I might try adding only a few of the more technical mods and seeing if I enjoy that.

Was coming back into Minecraft but wanted to make the game feel more spicy because vanilla survival has gotten boring for me, so I’ve been playing the latest April Fools snapshot “The Vote Update” in hardcore, with a personal rule that I cannot say “Do nothing” to any vote.

I did lose my first world to “Replace Creeper spawns with Warden” but the second world has been going well, and it’s definitely a more chaotic and interesting way to play the game.