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How many and which bad games did you play this year?

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[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think that's true and one reason I like SDV so much. There isn't a lot of time spent on material gathering, and you don't have to craft your own tools or make your own buildings. I think those things COULD be fun if they weren't so complicated in so many sim games - I could not make heads or tails out of the crafting mechanics in "My Time at Portia," for example. I think if you're goingg to task the gamer with those things, they should be very easy to do, because most people don't want to waste time on mundane chores and drawn out searches for rare materials or who knows what the game requires (in many cases I simply have no idea what the game is wanting from me!).

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think MTaP and to a lesser extent MTaS both really carried over a lot of the complexity from Planet Explorers, Pathea's first game they released internationally. It's a survival crafting game, with a LOT of complexity (e.g. manual, voxel-based weapon and vehicle designs). I don't think it worked well in combination with other systems like farming being very underdeveloped (in MTaP especially).

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What is MTaP and MTaS? *(sorry for my ignorance). Are they available on Switch? Or just PC? Just curious.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My Time at Portia and My Time at Sandrock (sequel). They're both on Switch.

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh OK - sheesh, I shoulda known that. I've seen My Time at Sandrock and it's available on Switch, but I'm afraid to check it out because I hated MTaP so much.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you didn't enjoy MTaP I wouldn't recommend it. :)

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks for letting me know, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't. Instead I'll end up wasting my money on something else that looks good and then I end up hating : (