I actually don’t hate the genre itself. The idea of these games is what drives me to try them out in the first place looking for one that actually feels like it has some quality to it and isn’t 2D. Plenty of good ones in 2D. I can think of just 1 that is high quality, 3D, and isn’t Minecraft or a blatant clone of Minecraft: Project Zomboid. And I am not sure if that even technically counts. It does have all the basic elements except for tech progression, tho.
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Given your distaste for the genre, whichever one you might feel is “luxurious”, you probably haven’t played. Minecraft also has the benefit of working in precise squares/cubes.
Systems-driven games tend to have more bugs than ones where all of the solutions are finite and predetermined.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I only got into some of this genre lately, because the right twist was applied to it. I’m playing Palworld now, and it was quite fun until about level 60, at which point I’m feeling like I need to turn up some sliders to adjust the economy, because it slowed way down. It’s janky, it’s buggy, it crashes from time to time, but it’s fun. Enshrouded comes out in 1.0 later this year, and I’m looking forward to it, but I doubt it plays like Palworld. I’ve played Factorio and Satisfactory; liked the former a lot and didn’t care for the latter, but they don’t feel the same, and there’s a lot of variation in how the two of them handle their central loops. I played the beginning of V Rising with a friend and only fell off due to scheduling; it doesn’t feel like any of the above either. There are a lot of variations on this genre out there.
Fierro@piefed.social 4 days ago
Couldn’t put it more succinctly if I tried, great job!