What's the point of "hunger" in video games?
What's the point of "hunger" in video games?
Joshua Richardson
Ryder Reed
To force the player to move forward
Christopher Jenkins
Piss off autists.
Blake Diaz
If you don't force people out of comfort zones they will set up simple loops to slowly progress without experiencing danger, same reason you need conflict zones to progress in MMOs.
Wyatt Roberts
HUNGER AND SANITY AMIRITE LOL IT'S LIKE REAL LIFE XD
Jaxson Morgan
>Don't Starve
>''wtf why is there a hunger mechanic in the game''
Hudson Ward
Keeping yourself fed isn't even hard in Don't Starve once you understand how to make actual food.
The actual challenge comes from keeping yourself fed efficiently so you can do other tasks.
Justin Thomas
In good games obtaining food is non-trivial, therefore it forces the player to move forward, interact with the world and take ever-increasing risks.
Don't starve isn't a good game. Obtaining food is laughably easy so all it adds is tedium.
Eli Howard
what is a game with a good food system then?
Every game is boring with a hunger mechanic as it's a limit on basic actions, or just a timer. And you replenish it by going into a menu reasonbly often to use an item.
Matthew Hughes
>Be me
>Playing Don't Starve when it basically just came out on steam. Pre-RoG
>Be a brainlet who can't really fight for shit, rely on pure tard-strength and try facetanking a pig
>Pig kicks my ass because no armor, no kiting, shitty weapon, etc.
>Sustain myself on morsels gained from rabbit traps and just that
>Don't even fucking make a crock pot. All my days are spent checking traps, gathering resources for more traps, and somehow living off just morsels
>Winter finally comes and throws a wrench into my plans since I built in a shitty spot, have to walk a fair distance to get stuff in the first place, so any trips I make have to be short
>Looked up what to do, couldn't do much of anything other than making rabbit earmuffs and rely on Wilson's beard for warmth
>supplies dwindle fast, know I'll die, decide 'fuck it' and just head south as far as possible away from base, see how far I could get before freezing
Those were the days. Even now with all the dlc, together, and whatnot I just can't get into Don't Starve even if my life depended on it. Survival games just aren't really my thing, I guess.