I have a hard time sticking to single player open world games with crafting and such as I feel like all my time is being wasted. I don't play single player games to 'craft' or to 'build myself up'. I like to play a single player game because each level increases with difficulty and power-ups/unlockables are attained as the game progresses. Single player crafting games leave me feeling drained after gathering all the materials and managing to find a workbench capable of using them to craft the next tier of armor/weapon needed to progress. So I understand the lack of enthusiasm for continuing Dead by Daylight 2.
Metroidvanias and side-scroller games do have an energy pumping vibe and a sense of accomplishment for beating a particularly hard level and that action is easily replicable whereas gathering the energy to play another 'open world crafting' game and beginning with a basic tool and wood tier gear is tiring after the 5th time, the 10th time, the 17th time.
Video Games are meant to be enjoyed and if the player isn't having fun playing it then what is the real point for the player?
Thanks for sharing your story though! I understood where you were coming from and why the game didn't feel fun to play.
never a truer word about gaming has ever been spoken. I really don't like to grind in any game and find that when that is what the game has become, it is not a game for me. For a game to start out with this tedious process makes it even worse. As impractical as it seems, I prefer just finding health packs stashed around like in Doom or Tomb Raider, even though they don't have any good reason for actually being there. It's a video game, not a life simulator.
The last 1-person open-world game that I truly enjoyed was the latest Zelda game but even with that I got tired of the cooking which is essentially like what we are talking about here. It was interesting for a while but then it just became some tedious thing that you had to do in order to progress. It shouldn't be that way.
Dying Light 2, after just these 2 comments, is going to get left in my rear-view. Moving on!