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When you finally play a game beloved by most gamers, but you don't enjoy it at all (thelemmy.club)
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When you finally play a game beloved by most gamers, but you don't enjoy it at all
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[–] 29 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Me with Satisfactory. I realized all the factory lines need to feed into something I get to use, and not just to.make number go up. I haven't played it since I found out 98% of the shit you make literally has no purpose but to be sent up the space elevator for points. Project Ozone 3 probably set me up to hate that.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    You would probably click quite a bit more with Factorio then.

    Actually, I wonder if that is why Satisfactory wasn't clicking for me. Since I kept making stuff to feed into the big box.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I have wanted to play that one but can't catch it on sale. Satisfactory just felt like a game based on every peg going into the square hole.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Factorio will not go on sale and never has. The devs have always been committed to offering the game at a reasonable fixed price. They did increase the price in modest small increments during early access as they got closer to 1.0. After 1.0, the price has not changed.

    The price is completely justified if you like factory automation games. You can easily get 40 to 100 hours from the game. But if you want to really dig into it you'll be in for >200 (none of it is a grind). If you decide to install mods you could easily bump thst playtime out to 1000+ (again, all of it is enjoyable if you like these games).

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    Damn. I just finished my first play through yesterday and I had a blast. Sunk 250 hours to get credits. Top 10 game for me.

    My only complaint was the combat system. I turned it off around 40 hours in when I realized the combat is pretty shallow and was detrimental to my experience. I like that the game allows you to turn off combat so easily although I wish it was off by default.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I havent played in a long time but Satisfactory is one of the worst games I've ever played. On paper it's everything I love but the gameplay is so agonizing. Fuck the chainsaw and cutting down stupid trees for wood and having to run belts across half the map and all the animals getting in the way. I do like the buildings how they look how it feels to walk through the factory. I like the ratios but hate that there are different recipes that get unlocked/locked.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Really? The different recipes seem like a pretty cool addition to me. Does it work out differently in practice? (I haven't played much Satisfactory)

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    No it sucks because of you want to build something you have to do all the calculations. But because there are different recipes you have to weigh that up and at the time you're choosing the recipes you don't know what will be built down the line.

    I'm sure the community has optimized to the point where all the recipe choices are set in stone but still from a blind playthrough it feels bad.

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