DayZ

2023-08-05
I apparently played this for 7.9 hours and the last time was Jan 5 2014. And it never really clicked. I dunno if I joined too early or what but I just remember wandering around and not seeing anyone and having nothing to do. On paper it sounded great: you explore and have to build up some gear and then you can help people or fight them. Just try to survive. But when I played it it just was too lifeless. I don't know if I ever got killed or even saw anyone.

It's funny then that this (really, the mod) really kicked off the game du jour of the past decade, battle royales by inspiring PUBG and then Fortnite and so on. Kind of wish it clicked but I think by the time I was playing this I was already off the multiplayer games train.