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[–] [email protected] 87 points 9 months ago (22 children)

That last one hit best.

I'll constantly make entire spreadsheets to analyze the most random things, and then I get annoyed when my wife doesn't want to hear the summary and conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

I used to play this game called RAGE many years ago. It was a first person shooter, with a bunch of late game overpowered guns, had a crafting system to make ammo and the like, shops to sell and buy said ammo, but had strict resource controls to keep it competitive and fun.

So I spent around four days tabulating values of every ammo and crafting material in the game, mapping out which in-game traders sold what and when, and then spent maybe the next three days just craft-selling the cheapest item, a wingstick(basically a boomerang) in the game.

Hundreds and hundreds of wingsticks, grinding like a little kid in a sweatshop. I made enough money to max. out capacity on every ammo capacity in the game. As a result I breezed through the endgame, and what was supposed to be a long, tough, engaging mission into the heart of the enemy turned into a caricature of a boss fight, and I probably spend more time admiring the environment design there than worrying about dying or running out of ammo. I think I ran out only on one ammo type, and in total I used only the three most powerful ammo types in the game.

A level I should have enjoyed and formed the neat little bow for that game to be wrapped in, turned into a comical doom guy-esque slaughter of the scariest enemy in-game.

I am truly my own worst enemy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's like that saying goes. "Players will optimize the fun out of a game." Game studios spend many, many man hours on just this one aspect of development. It's the reason Skyrim's systems were fewer and simpler than Oblivion and Morrowind. I believe Todd Howard himself said they were trying to get away from all the spreadsheet inducing aspects of their games.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What they fail to realize is that optimizing and spreadsheets are fun for some people

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Exactly. I stay away from EVE online because I know that if I start it, my life is over.

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