I feel like anon could’ve researched this online ahead of time
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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Yeah, nobody should ask clerks about their product anymore, that time is over. Most chains don't give a fuck about returning happy customers.
They also don't pay the clerks enough to give a shit.
I've also noticed a generational difference in the 20-some years I've been in the workforce.
Millennials and Gen X were/are given shit wages too, but still gave a fuck because their Boomer parents sold them on the lie that you will get recognized for your efforts if you just work hard enough (because it was true for them up until the Reagan era). I'm a Millennial and even to this day I notice that I put more effort into doing my job the way I'm supposed to compared to my younger coworkers, even though I know now that I'm being exploited. I can't help it; it's in my programming.
Gen Z, on the other hand, was born into a world where everything already went to shit decades ago, raised by jaded parents who didn't sell them on the same lie because it was never true for them. So they don't give a fuck because they were never programmed to believe that hard work will result in higher income.
Sometimes, I wanna pretend it is 2005 again, and aak the clerk aboit something. Of course, it won't be at GameStop and more at a local mom & pop shop, and I get most of my games online these days, but yaknow...
It's all just bullet sponges..
Vanilla Cyberpunk 2077 is like that on higher dificulties and it sucks. Luckily there are mods to fix that.
Like,
Not playing on a harder difficulty ? I’m sorry if I missunderstood something but if you don’t like enemies having more HP don’t play on a high difficulty
In many games harder difficulty means more, smarter, more aggressive or higher damage enemies. Increased HP is often the worst option
Skyrim does this too, fortunately mods fix it. I want hard to mean I can die as easily as everyone else.
Holy shit I never heard of this before but totally get why I love Valheim. It's actually got some mechanics and not only numbers!!
Edit: clarifying not just mechanics but a mix.
In a market plagued by generic survival crafting games, valheims devs wondered "what if we were the most generic of all?"
In a quick comparison Valheim vs Terraria. Terraria is numbers not mechanics.
I've challenged myself to kill mobs way before I was supposed to in epic souls-like battle and succeeded. There were even streamers trying to clear the game in "reverse" boss order.
Can't pull that in most games.
Dude, Valheim and Terraria are both numbers. Don't think there's a single survival crafting game that isn't numbers. Your not beating any of the late game bosses in starter armor, even existing in the areas they reside requires bigger numbers. Not so say their aren't mechanics, but they both rely on enemies getting spongier to force you to make your gear (numbers) better. Basically if you can use gear to brute force a solution, it's numbers.
Ninja Garden is mechanics. Shooters are mechanics. Furi is mechanics. Your power level stays more or less the same, the enemies change but don't really get tankier, but they force new/different tactics. If you get upgrades it's mostly to bypass older enemies which you've already mowed down dozens of times.
This is all imo.
Very valid. Valhiem has more mechanics than most sandbox games.
But it's numbers because its impossible to beat the end boss in starter gear.
Project Zomboid might be a mechanic intense survival crafting game. Armor and weapons only improve survivability slightly. Movement and experience save you from getting boxed in or losing from material means.
Doesn’t Zomboid rely on numbers in terms of skill levels for shooting, running, etc?
Mechanics come into play, sure, but the weapons and skill levels seem to make the biggest difference.
They make the biggest difference for each individual player. But an experienced player will take a CDDA character (scenario where you start with a bad character, naked, sick and with bad wounds all over in a flaming building in the middle of winter) and somewhat easily make them into the ultimate survivor, whereas you can give a seriously op character to a newbie with all the skill already maxed out and no negative traits and they'll probably die to the first zombie encounter.
A lot of words to say that PZ is neither a numbers game nor really a mechanics game. Ultimately it's more of a knowledge game