Watched the Starfield gameplay, when Todd Howard pulled out his space laser to mine iron ore it was like my soul left my body and i watched the rest of the trailer in a dissociative state.

I like Minecraft. It's a good time. I also really like Satisfactory. But every single other game that has resource mining would be better off without it. It's like hacking and lockpicking minigames, the only thing it can possibly offer to the player is a minute of annoyance - but with mining it's often hours of annoyance.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Hate personally doing in a lot of the time, but setting up a system of automating it like in factorio or resource management being a fairly core part of strategic management, like every rts or 4x is fine.

    I think I resent resource collection as part of the grind. Did a bunch in Elite Dangerous. Eh.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I didn't mind asteroid mining in Elite Dangerous so much because there was more to it than "point and click". Cracking rocks open and picking out the low pressure diamonds has a satisfying flow to it.

      But the grind for mats to upgrade your ship components is a fuck.