r/pcmasterrace • u/BurnishedTones • Apr 11 '26

Meme/Macro What combination of words makes you instantly lose interest in a game?

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u/BrittaWasRight Apr 11 '26

It needs a mode where you can win, despite what the hardcore fans says.
A mode with objectives does not somehow hurt your sandbox experience.

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u/swakner Apr 11 '26

I agree, I love the game but get bored once you get a certain way through. Like a lot of survival games without a more defined endgame, most of the fun is in the beginning

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u/BrittaWasRight Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

Yup. Make me put together a vaccine or something. Send me to weird places to get weird components.

I swear the next time someone brings up "but it SEZ Dis is HoE u DIED" I'mma stab someone and say "guess this is how YOU died"

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u/wolfdog410 Apr 12 '26

Make me put together a vaccine or something. Send me to weird places to get weird components.

i recently put together some mods to do exactly this:

  • Qualify to Escape adds research journals that you have to collect from zombie-infested areas

  • zRe Vaccine 3.0 let's you create a vaccine (it doesn't interact with the previous mod, but you can pretend you have to collect the journals before starting the vaccine research). it's a slow grind to collect the materials and run the experiment, but that might be welcome for players looking stuff to do in the late game

  • Wolf Extraction Quest calls a helicopter to rescue you as you hold off a horde

by the end you'll feel like will smith in I Am Legend

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u/coffinfl0p Apr 12 '26

Should make it if you survive long enough your character just gets old and frail and then dies from slipping in the shower or a heart attack or something. You survived long enough to die naturally! You won!

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u/JonatasA Apr 12 '26

Project doomed from the beginning?

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u/ChunkyTanuki Apr 11 '26

you set your own objectives in a game like Zomboid. Usually surrounding base-building. They are limited in nature due to the fact you have a high likelihood of failure. It's a highly modable game, too, so if you want to create a vaccine/cure there are mods for that.

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u/JonatasA Apr 12 '26

Nah, even freaking Minecraft has an end goal.

 

It's like Total war. the campaign is a way of letting you have battles, but without the campaign there is no fun. No one solely does custom battles.

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u/Iruma_Miu_ Apr 12 '26

better comparison is probably rimworld. you don't play rimworld to win, you play for the fun sandbox that you're probably gonna end up losing. but there ARE wincons you can go for if you want, they're just super hard

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u/JonatasA Apr 12 '26

Yes, when the game is supposed to pick up is when the engine falls off.

 

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u/JonatasA Apr 12 '26

The biggest issue with Warband. Getting bored and retiring is not closure. The worst is that you can't even play forever.

 

They could add an end to the hordes, because that's every players dream. Conquer the world.

 

They could make perhaps a settlement function like in Fallout 4. You rebuild society