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.

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I'm going to be honest, I hate games like minecraft and satisfactory; if I know a game has crafting elements that heavy I just won't buy it.

    Now if the mining is solely for selling as a means of making cash, that I can live with. I really can't be bothered to go searching for, and then collecting like 30 of one ore, then 15 of another resource, and then 20 of something else just to make something, and then go searching again for 40 of one resource, 20 of another and 5 of one more to build something else, especially as sometimes you're not even building the items so much as you are building components to then build the item.

    Rust for example is absolutely not for me. I don't have the patience for it.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      The reason i give Satisfactory a pass is that, once you get through the first couple steps and get your automated miners going (which takes about an hour the first time, then fifteen minutes once you know what you're doing), you never actually have to mine ever again. It just becomes about building a factory to get parts, then building an extension to that factory to get more advanced parts, and so on, and so on...