Do these nu-autism simulators have a genre name?
Games like pic related and dave the diver.
Do these nu-autism simulators have a genre name? Games like pic related and dave the diver.
Do these nu-autism simulators have a genre name?
Games like pic related and dave the diver.
Great game, stupid ass story
Stupid ass BBI. They had a great thing going on here
pls stick to topic
This.
I still don't understand why "writers" want to insert their slop so hard in small games like this when it's clear it doesn't really fit that well.
>capitalism bad!!!
Woah dude, that's some refreshing and original take you got there, hope you don't get cancelled or anything due to having such controversial thoughts.
I still don't understand why "people" like you get so visibly upset, red in the face and probably start sessions of facepunching and pant shitting when they see some cartoon depiction of a non white character. I mean, what kind of lard baby bubble do you live in?
The most revolting part is when you start making up ridiculous reasons for it, other than the diarrhea /misc/ skullfricked you with and you gleefully adopted.
What a waste of life.
Is this an AI shitpost?
I didn't say anything about the characters or their race, what are you on about.
Writer was fresh from shitting up Guildwars 2.
>image
This game seems like a 100% realistic simulation
highly, highly recommend that you pirate this game if you play it
it's definitely fun for a good bit but the story is obnoxiously woke slop and should not be supported in any way
>I enjoyed his work until his politics didn't align with my brainrot. cancel him! his politics are not the same as mine!
leftard tier
seethe
>troony mentality
dilate
I literally stole the product of woke leftards, had my fun with it and am recommending that other people do the same
seethe for eternity
didn't read
keep malding, troony
Gonna pirate it just to seed now, gj.
This is on par with
>When you ride alone, you ride with HITLER
it should change to
>if you ride alone, you ride with israeliteS and you gas planet Earth
>given choice between free play or story mode
>picks story
>there's story
Jokes aside, yea it's REALLY fricking forced. I just enjoy what's enjoyable about it, and look past the rest. It's really a fun game. I like cutting ships. I am immensely upset that there's basically no modding community for this game. Or Carrion, another game I love but has no modding community.
Apparently the devs coded the game so badly it's almost impossible to mod new ships in. They could have just made it modular and with snapjoints, but I suppose that was too much for a small indie company.
loved this game before that update, it was very comfy
>clock in
>disassemble stuff
>process it
>clock out
and then they added their "capitalism is le BAD" garbage and ruined the comfiness. Ihaven't played it since then
I played through the story and I'm sitting at the end and all these communists are sitting around working every day just like me eternally waiting for me to decide to implode my great job. I'm almost done with my debt.
The galaxy's greatest wagie
it’s pretty terrible, they spent all the dev time adding a story with non-whites
what's more is that it's such a tired fricking subject. Oh what's that, a futuristic setting where corporations have more power than the government and exploit people? How novel!
Even if you're doing down that route, you can be less obnoxious about it. Like have 99.9% of the player's wages get docked at the end of every mission or something instead of just TELLING ME the corporation did a big nono
Man, don't rag on Weaver. He's the one dude on comms that I don't want to send out the airlock every time they open their mouths.
i don’t understand why they used voice acting, it could’ve just been text transmissions and logs, tons of extra work just to ruin the atmosphere
the worst part about the plot is that the game is piss easy. even if you played it very safe you could pay off your debt in like a year with probably zero deaths. despite this the game is making it seem like you are making a dollar a day and every moment is pure life-on-the-line stress.
you cannot have a plot about labor exploitation when the base gameplay is so enjoyable and relaxing.
Some guy worked out that you could pay off your whole debt in several months or so of effecient work, which is actually really goddamn fast when you look at modern education loans.
If you play it absolutely as safe as possible and only salvage Mackerels you'd be making good money. Lynx is supposed to have some kind of ever-sliding upward goal in the background but we really never see that outside of people b***hing on the radio.
yeah, being able to salvage whatever you want at your own pace completely ruins the stressful atmospher. the plot would actually have worked fine if you kept getting harder and harder jobs with more strict salvage efficiency goals to the point where you're actually not able to keep up THEN it would have felt correct.
its so incredible how this game is an example of fantastic gameplay near-ruined by the plot.
It doesn't really help that everyone but Weaver is a frick up. No one else on the team can consistently salvage a reactor, which is literally the one thing you need to be able to do.
Like, yeah it sucks the job is hard I guess but some of you guys have been at this for years and you still can't yeet the reactor assembly into the giant frickoff net directly below you.
>never open a single mail from this dumb commie b***h
>just do my job
>the "evil" fat frick just gives me clearance for high banking ships (he tells people to just stop doing bullshit and just barge the shit, and he was right)
>you're in the green as long as you do around TWO minutes of work each day
>get literal millions in a single day of work
>comes the last day where you should RESIST
>do a perfect shift
in my headcanon they all get fricked while I keep racking stacks
Nothing wrong with being a company man.
>in my headcanon they all get fricked while I keep racking stacks
Did you miss the part where you're well over a billion dollars in debt thanks to all the shit Lynx charges you at the beginning of the game as well as the fact that thanks to all the shit they take out of your pay you're basically earning a fraction of what you should be earning?
You can pay off the debt in a couple of months in-game. Although in the final release I think the devs added new debt because they realized you could pay if off too quickly and that undermined their point.
Weaver's cool. You're a homosexual.
Somehow they claim that they took inspiration from early 20th century miner events. Y'know, forced to buy from the company store. Company owns your house. National Guard firebombs you when you get fed up etc. But nothing how the "story" plays out makes any sense if they're taking from such brutal history. Oooh the company clones you if you frick up and die and then charges you. But there's no actual failure-state with your debt, and you can never actually pay it off anyway. I can think of a few ways that would've made it better.
1. You can actually pay off your debt, but the company hires goons to try to kill you at work and/or easily paid off "protestors" to sabotage things for you.
2. The Media is not a friend to your little union. They slander your names, and make it increasingly difficult to get any real help. To the point where even your family is turning against you.
3. Most common end to the game should be the company agreeing with the unions terms. And then something catastrophic happens, killing all of you off. You wake up decades later with no memory of what happened, working for a company that's just one of many shell companies of the original, and with an entirely fresh list of debt worse than the one you had before. This is NG+.
yeah it should be
>you make some money
>prices in company shop for supplies, food, air increase
>your lodging price increase
>you get more off time(you still need pay rent, utilities, food, air etc)
>you get worse(less profitable, more time consuming, more dangerous ships to break) jobs for less
>you need to pay for your scavenging time(energy, fuel, suits, filters, tools whatever - you either need to rent them(and pay) or buy then(and pay)
>pay for tools, suit maintenance etc
So its endless race when you try to be in green but company will do extra to try to screw you over
A more brutal version of the bills at the end of each day of Papers Please would be perfect.
read Heavy time by Cherryh
its old SF book about indie asteroids miners
quite good
>if you have your own ship you need to pay for everything(water, fuel, energy, etc), fix/replace parts(cost time and money), pay for food and recreational time(you work mostly in 0g so you need heavy time to recover, so you need time off)
>if you don't own your ship you need to lease it and pay for it or work for COMPANY
>you mark stuff and if you find good things you get pay up but if you try to cheat/screw up COMPANY will take back pay ups
>COMPANY assign you the area so good luck on getting good one if you on bad boy list
etc
This games really fun but I fricking hate it any time some fricker comes on coms and prevents me from playing the game
Frick off I don't care
>autism simulators
thats not an autism simulator
thats propaganda disguised as a game
so i guess it does have a genre name!
The characters are not great but not letting corpos frick you over should appeal to everyone
i dont give a frick i wanted to dismantle spaceships, i literally could not give a frick about the shitty window dressing set up around doing that, untill it sat me down repetedly, for minutes long unskippable dialogues ranting at me about
>buhbuhbuh corpo bad buhbuh capitalism bad buhbuh GOMMUNIZM WILL SAVE UZ ALL
or listening to fricking mr plinket send the asian homosexual into the furnace because abuhbuhbuh im white corpo man i dunno what do oh god oh god nepobaby need help hey you trying to enjoy the game are you enjoying my blubbering moronation OOOOH NOOOOOO
games propaganda latched onto a fun casual game like a fricking parasite.
has the forced dialogue been modded out?
I think I remember one of the devs said that there was some kind of issue with the engine or their coding that made the implementation of a ship builder impossible, so I wouldn't be surprised if modding it is just impossible all around.
sounds like they cobbled the whole thing together like a pack of morons; which, given the state of Homeworld 3's demo, doesn't shock me in the slightest.
>issue with the engine or their coding that made the implementation of a ship builder impossible
I mean from a gamedev perspective I can understand it. They probably procgen those ships but it doesn't mean that any of the mechanics they've built into the game are suited for ship building. It would likely be pretty much building a whole new game inside the same engine to provide ship building.
nta but the problem is that the ending completely throws the entire plot into the garbage
I get it, the devs tried to go with a cynical outlook on labor organization and all, and tho it's sadly realistic I suppose, it unsatisfying as plot
light imm-sims
autsims
profession simulator
career sims
life sims
jobimulator
jobulator
>play that new jobulator yet? pretty cool stuff imho
yeah that works.
Yes, check out /egg/ on /vg/
>engineering games
seems a very narrow definition. nobody thinks engineer when looking at dave the diver.
I don't know what the frick that is.
its a jobulator where you dive for fish and run a restaurant
Who looks at dave the diver and shipbreaker and goes "yeah thes are totally the same game"?
well op for one.
hell job sims?
OSHA violation sims?
I've seen dad game used
shipbreaker got turned into a ""narrative"" game instead of being a shipbreaker game, very sad because it had massive potential.
>Play story mode
>It has a story
Pick your poison, there are two.
>DAD GAMES
This is your realistic, simulators, german 'fun' tier, or more for boys' games
>powerwash simulator
>roadtruck simulator
>shipbreaker
>vicera clean-up
>factorio
>"any job/autism" simulator
And there is
>COZY GAMES
These are more mainstream and appealing, particularly to women, they are often cartoony, focusing on farming (usually a jack of all trades with multiple stuff to do) or a single hobby/activity, involve routines, organizing/management, decoration, and might have light dating or combat mechanics
>stardew valley
>animal crossing
>dave the diver
>cult of the lamb
>unpacking
>bear and breakfast
what about modded minecraft? where does that fall?
Vanilla Minecraft is a cozy game until you start getting into redstone, so becomes autism simulator.
Modded Minecraft depends,
>if you are into those factory/industrial mods, it just redstone all over again.
>If you go for RPG, monsters, weapons, magic and shiet, it falls into terraria (not a cozy game nor a dad game).
>if you go for farm mods, jenny mod, comes alive(...) it becomes a cozy game.
Depends on the modpack. Anywhere from "i built a cozy farm and went to kill a boss on my pet dragon" to "i automated uranium mine logistics which now automatically loads and launches a rocket to my main base and written a custom sql-like DMS which keeps track of all the resources in all of my outposts after starting out in a stone age and having to handcraft clay pots for storage"
I would add, Dad games are usually mind-numbing monotonous chore tasks. Something that a dad would enjoy despite having no interest in video-games whatsoever. Both cozy/dad games appeal mostly to non-gamers.
Autism simulators like Factorio and industrial mods, are not dad games.
>COZY GAMES
This is not a thing, it was never a thing, don't listen to this gaylord.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozy_game
there is no entry for "dad game". Get rekt
Shipbreaker is good though, just a chill game.
Frick of Gankertards trying to shit on anything fun just for (You)s
Like subnautica, it's a good game with gay devs so it's a mandatory pirate
I really wish the devs would have gone the hostile-AI-story-route and not the shitty unions story the game has now. I was really hoping to see the AI nodes fleshed out some more and the helmets and data logs telling more about an incoming doom in the shape of Homeworld infected ships precursors or something like that. Also, some more ships, not just variations would've been great. And some kind of decompression tool. The fourt tool slot was empty anyways, so some kind of hull borer which would seal to the hull but slowly decompress the interior it punctured would've been great. Maybe even a repairer for the interior atmosphere controls.
Instead the game was rushed out of the door, the devs were pulled from the project mid-way, and now HW3 is a thing, but looks bad as well... sad times.
Played on gamepass, why cant I skip the frickin union shit?
Because the devs are fricking leafs.
One of the biggest wasted potentials out there. Literally every update made the game worse.
This falls into 'game ruined by sweetbabyinc' category. It never got better than the very first release.
Our god Yahtzee coined the term post-dad games for games with gameplay that is reminiscent of sim games but with added context and more traditional game framework.
The story was so bad I had to uninstall it. Waste of $2.
But remember that "SJWs" are the snowflakes.
>Just subject yourself to it, goy.
have a nice day, troony.
nah you're being psychotic right now, no one is gonna back you up
>you JUST HAVE to like the story and the strong independent characters, you just have, m'kay!
>comfy ship scrap sim
>mindless radio chatter becomes louder
>starts screaming about rights and unions and shit
>instead of focusing on giving players more ships to scrap, they focused on a garbage story
>final game has 4-6 ships total
Post-dad
The story sounds like some californian PR guy was confronted with actually having to do some work and immediatly started a union.
I pirated this game and beat it like 5 times, but had to resort to muting all speech audio, or just leaving the room till the speeches are over.
I'm not even trying to complain about the story, it's just heavy handed and feels more so with each additional play through.