/v/ - Video Games

>>15563223

I feel like a lot of us recall the days of early minecraft where the potential seemed high and all we were waiting for was a few more features and some polish to really make it the game we thought it could be. Instead, we got hunger meters, a moronic XP and enchanting system, and some copy-paste dungeons.

Where Minecraft and a lot of its clones fuck up most is in their general progression curve. Once you get some pretty low-tier tools, you can hurry and grab some diamonds and then there's just nothing to do, unless you want to build a super red-stone automated autism mansion. Games like Dragon Quest Builders actually improved on the formula in many ways, but still fall short of completely saving the awful idea from itself.

Also, an inchling game would be pretty nice. I'd probably be sold just on the aesthetic of crafting things on an adorably tiny scale and building sprawling treefort cities, but it would definitely need a lot more than just craftan and buildan as mechanics. I'd want a full blown inchling life simulator.

>>15563269

Haven't played it before. What's it like?

>>15563304

>hunger meters, a moronic XP and enchanting system, and some copy-paste dungeons.

Too ambitious for one guy fiddling with java and appealing to the wrong group too early on, I suppose. You're right about the progression. You reach the top within an hour or two then you're stuck with nothing to actually work towards unless you want to build something, then you could've just used creative mode for it.

>full blown inchling life simulator

Wouldn't that be nice?

>inb4 someone brings up Rust and everyone calls him RottenRedditor regardless of what the anon actually thinks of Rust or what he says about it

>>15563407

I think that S.C.U.M. game might be right up your alley. The devs were all about hyper-autistic simulation of bodily condition, including stuff like body heat being affected by wet clothes, which affects your stamina because wet clothes are heavier, and so on.

Personally, survival mechanics have always left a bad taste in my mouth. Most games that force them on you don't seem to understand that the human body can go more than 5 minutes without food and days without water. Conversely, they either ignore carry weight entirely, but try to complicate things with stacks (ex: You can carry 500 cubic feet worth of dirt in a slot, but only 1 shovel in another), or they heavily overemphasize carry weight to the point that you can't bring anything with you, because 50 pounds worth of clothes, gear, and tools spread out across your body is so heavy that your character has to move at a crawl. And games that do that sort of thing are typically prone to rejecting the idea of craftable bags or backpacks, because of some spergy notion of "balance"