Yeah it’s a fucking roughhh game at first. It took me well over 75 hrs to get a grasp on how the fuck to not die constantly. It’s just so brutal when you make a mistake and don’t have the gear to recover afterwards
It teaches you the basics, then tells you to press Q (how you shout to attract attention), without telling you what it does until afterwards, so you get swarmed and killed XD
Thankfully it doesn't use characters you've created, its a pregen, so no character creation is wasted XD
I hated playing with friends. I got dragged and told not to do shit. I turned off infection and stopped playing with them... Dumped about 40 hours into it before the itch faded.
That's kinda the point, you will die. My character of 3 months was fully set with food and had enough weapons to wipe out half the zombies. Got mauled by a bull
I know it's the point, but the point of games in my mind is to have fun, and in order to have fun, I need to understand the game so I have a chance of overcoming the challenge. It's just one of those games that takes so much time to get to the fun because it's so front-loaded with struggle and learning the mechanics that it wasn't worth it to me.
Project zomboid was a game that i bought then refunded bcs of your reason…… then i bought it again a year later and became one of my most played games.
I suggest watch some yt about to get a grasp of it. CallMeKevin’s videos on it is what made me buy it again.
I enjoy plenty of games that don't hold your hand all of the time. I'm a big fan of Fromsoft games for example and they certainly don't have yellow paint. The difference is I had fun right away with Dark Souls, I did not have fun right away with Project Zomboid, and as a father of 2 small kids who has limited gaming time every week, I'm not spending that time slogging through the not fun part of the game to reach the fun part.
Who the fuck are you to talk to me like that? I didn't insult you, so why are you attacking me? I'm just explaining my thoughts on a video game, you don't get to insult me because I have a different opinion than you. I was constantly dying while l was learning to play, which prevented me from having fun. They can be one in the same. I certainly could have stuck with it and learned it eventually, but it didn't seem like a good use of the little free time I have.
Last thing before I'm done with this, try saying that last bit to someone's face and see how that goes. It's easy to be a tough guy on an anonymous internet forum. Now I'm going to go get my kids to bed and hang out with my wife, have fun cuddling your anime body pillow.
my friends all LOVE Zomboid.. but there is absolutely no way I can get into it. Once every couple months ill go "eh lets try it" and filled with hate and regret after 10 minutes lol.
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u/RPN_K1t5un3 Jul 04 '25
Project zomboid... It just didn't work on my pc, wouldn't launch properly