Shooting the shaggy dog

[Slyguy65 499]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShootTheShaggyDog

DayZ in a nutshell, i can list a lot of the reasons why but i think this link and its explanation will be suffice

Here's hoping other activities become available soon since right now PVP is the ONLY activity besides scavenging (finding things to kill others quickly)

[ZedsDeadBaby 2287]

If you want to use your imagination, be creative and craft your own narrative in a brutally harsh, cruel and bleak world then play DayZ.

If you want mommy to read you a bedtime story because you can't think of your own, there are plenty of games out there just for you.

[Slyguy65 499]

If you want to use your imagination' date=' be creative and craft your own narrative in a brutally harsh, cruel and bleak world then play DayZ.

If you want mommy to read you a bedtime story because you can't think of your own, there are plenty of games out there just for you.

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I take it you didn't even read the STORY in the link nor understood the reference....

Ill be the understanding one here and consider dayz like a story as you do.

Well ya it is a story except its the same exact story every other time.

You spawn

You try to get gear

You die

OR

You spawn

You try to get gear

You live

Now you spend a lot of time doing nothing but running to one of maybe 3 locations.....

You can end up dieing on your way to said locations or you can succeed.

(repeat step 1)

Ok you explored the only places worth exploring and your still alive.

Ya that is about the whole story...man that was fascinating. Get real, the game is fun but it needs more things to do right now it is pointless...there is literally nothing to do.

Surviving is pointless it literally just becomes a game of doing nothing but walking aimlessly around the map

PvP Ah well there is that...but then wait why don't i just go back to battlefield...it has shooting and killing and it doesn't take half as long.

If you really think i don't have a point your closed minded to all ghettout.

There needs to be some activities (a lot of people on the suggestion section have great ideas), like restoring power to cities, creating settlements, starting an economy and trade.

It is a bit discerning that there is no news what so ever of implementing any kind of activities or optional objectives. Cause right now there is really nothing else to do but kill people or hide from people just to have that end with wasting time and eventually dieing anyway....so ya

IF YOU DID NOT READ THIS...just reply to the original post or not at all.

[ZedsDeadBaby 2287]

I take it you didn't even read the STORY in the link nor understood the reference....

I read it, I understood it and then I replied intelligently to it. I get that I was subtle, so I'll be a bit more blunt: the story you linked is about how authors treat their readers. It's a false analogy. rocket is not penning a story, he is giving us blank paper and pencils with which to write our own. If the stories YOU create end up "shooting the shaggy dog," that's your own fault and nobody else's. You are the one writing the story - if it ends up being boring, you can't blame rocket.

Your entire argument boils down to "I choose to do boring things, so the game is boring for me." Well, congratulations. You proved grass is green. Score one for you.

I've never had a boring survivor. Every one has been unique and done unique things. I don't go to "one of maybe 3 places" because I don't make the game about getting more loot so those 3 places - I assume you're referring to the airfields and military camps - are no more important to me than any other place my survivor might end up.

More mechanics are coming, and they HAVE been discussed despite your claim to the contrary, but if you truly believe there is "nothing to do" in the game as it stands, then no amount of additional mechanics will make this game interesting to you. It is ALWAYS going to rely on your personal ability to take those mechanics and craft them into an interesting narrative for your character and you just seem incapable of doing that on ANY level, mechanics or no.

If you want spoon-fed objectives like quests in WoW, then just go play one of the countless games that already have them.

[Macenzie 79]

Stop playing DayZ, you obviously don't get it OP