I always somehow find my way back to playing No Man’s Sky. No matter what I do, game I play, activity inside or outside of gaming, NMS is always there to play and chill. Sometimes I go on creative and spend a week amassing the perfect color coordinated team of ships, crew, frigates, and freighter.
That and every content update we get for free!
Minecraft for me. it’s not “perfect” but I always find myself going back to Minecraft. be it a modded server, trying another modpack, or just building. it’s relaxing.
Seconded, me and the homies always start up a modded server around this time of year and do a yearly mod pack playthrough, but I’ve been loading different mods onto it all year long and playing through them. Perfect way to unwind after a stressful work day.
Minecraft should almost be its own game engine at this pont. I find it truly incredible what some people can create in that game. T
Same.
Every once in a while that itch just comes back and before you know it, you’ve put in another 40 hours.
Lol for me that happens once a year for like 5 hours and thats it.
minecraft never had me for long at all…
My SO and I are about 100 hours into our N+1th world.
We met on Plenty of Fish. But we forged a relationship playing Minecraft together. It is simply my/our favourite game. We get bored, and I’ll go and play something else.
But a couple times a year, that itch between my shoulders will appear again, and only Minecraft will reach it.
This is the only way I play lol. Just getting dug in for a long weekend, generating a new seed and going ham on it with no end in sight.
Then I turn it off and don’t turn it on again till the next fiscal year
This is my answer as well. In fact, I’m currently 30 hours into a run. Finding different modpacks and trying new strategies is always a blast.
I picked Minecraft up (again) recently after a while and the big mountains update created a whole new game that i’m really struggling with.
I started in the mountains and i haven’t seen a gosh darn thing for hours and hours and hours. I even found the sea and i’m just sailing past mountains and mountains and mountains.
It’s a very lonely, empty game now.
I’m very much a vanilla Minecraft survival player and to me Minecraft survival is pretty much as perfect a casual survival game gets for me. Slight challenges you can seek out like going to the nether or exploring in the caves and/or far from your base but also a deep enough yet simple enough to grasp crafting system to make based on the fly creatively, in mass and not take forever to grind for. I love building like a straight up village with some friends then going out on horseback and exploring the pretty interesting procedurally generated world. Very relaxing but with nice little spikes of tension, how I romanticize the idea of an adventure in my head.
unfortunately vanilla bores the crap out of me anymore (I mostly played vanilla from Beta 1.8 up until like Minecraft 1.7, when some of the first major modern modpacks started showing up), but I always love that sense of wonder with new terrain, I remember seeing the 1.18 terrain gen for the first time and being blown away. Same for the first time (which was on ATM8, actually), where I was in the deep dark and realized the cave it was in went all the way to the surface.
Waiting for the final 1.20 update to come in then I’ll make my return.
It is all about modded minecraft for me now. GTNH is about a 5000 - 8000 hour playthru, and you are basically not expected to finish it. How far can you go? Perhaps start on Nomifactory, which is 1/10th the length, but still long for most people. It gets quite epic. The smarter you are about things, the less grind you do. By the end you are asking your factory to craft for you an item with millions of items, fluids and processes in it. You just sit back and watch with awe at that stage with what you have built. The factory must grow! Greg.
I haven’t even touched Gregtech yet in the ATM9 pack me and some friends are currently playing on.
Same. I always start building hotels and homes. It’s an endless cycle. I’m currently building a theme park on my holiday time off.
that is awesome. I always try to do towns/cities but never get far. I was making great progress on one but the world got corrupted (it was a custom modpack, my first serious attempt), so that all got lost. then I had a good sized minecolony on ATM8, that got corrupted.
ATM9 is attempt number 3 XD my big project right now is a steampunk-styled magic clocktower. With working clock faces because Create mod.
Tekkit classic on peaceful mode is my comfort game. Sometimes I play the tekkit pack that takes you to space as well.
Tekkit’s fine, I think it’s kind of aged like milk though compared to a lot of the newer mods.
Though that era’s version of Thaumcraft still can’t be beat.
Agreed. Every few months I’ll download a new mod pack play the shit out of it and then stop.