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Sorry to say but Stardew Valley for me -- and it is not for a lack of trying, I've put in a bit over 82 hours into it, but a fair amount of that was forced and it quickly got stale. Maybe I just played it wrong or the game simply isn't for me.
I mean, 82 hours... I'd say you got your money's worth.
If I may ask, which aspect of it bothered (or bored) you?
I couldn't exactly put a finger on it but I am guessing it was just the repetitiveness of it. I didn't feel like there was anything inherently wrong with the game, it's just that I was hoping for the moment where it would hook me so hard that I wouldn't be able to stop playing, but this never really happened.
That's kind of the game's theme, ironically. Meditative peace.
To be fair, the gameplay loop isn't the most fun for me either, but I got really hooked by the ambience and characters.
To be fair, I think you were expecting something from it that isn't part of its core.
I don't play it myself, but I have several friends and family that do, and they all cite it as their comfy, repetitive (by design) game that they play for a half hour at the end of a day to unwind and shut their brain off. From what I can tell, THAT seems to be the goal of the game, and it sounded like you wanted the opposite from it.
Yeah, that could very well be true. The reason I had this expectation is probably because I've seen reviews of other people, some of them having hundreds of hours on it and I probably had the impression that I might be doing something wrong and it's just a matter of getting 'hooked'. That's why I kept playing even though I didn't find it very fun. While I do remember some slight annoyances about it, I do not think it is overall a bad game.
There are diehard fans of this game with less hours than you lmao
82 hours!
It took me like 3 tries to get into it, and even then, I respect it more than I enjoy actually playing it, these days. If it's not your thing, it's not your thing.