/v/ - Video Games

Is there a game that appeals to you on a level that wasn't necessairly intended by the game creators, or at the very least was a side mechanic rather than the main mechanic? Something that isn't necessairly not allowed in game, but something that uses game mechanics in a slightly less conventional fashion?

For me it's farms and moving machines in Minecraft. I was never into Minecraft too much until I realized that some resources can be replicated infinitely by creation of farms, which had to be specialy created structures that would use the game mechanics to my advantage so that I could gather infinite amount of desired resources. A game like Factorio is based around a similar idea and making things effective, but it is for this very reason that I wasn't very interested in Factorio. It is the fact that Minecraft doesn't focus on this industrial-esque aspect that makes it so fucking appealing to me, because it means that I have to fuck around with the game mechanics to accomplish what I need instead of just playing the game well. Making an Iron Golem farm for example feels like exploiting something that wasn't supposed to be exploited in that way, same with a villager breeding farm or any other constructions of this type. The very idea of resources that seemingly should be finite like iron or gold being replenishable if you bend the rules of the game a bit is fascinating to me. I'm not very good at it yet, and right now can only learn and copy designs of other people, but I hope that after I create farms for basically everything I want to get, I will start to make them more and more complex and automated, learning more complicated designs from other people until I will be able to create my own. This finally motivates me to learn how to properly use redstone and build stuff in general to have a reason to create those materials in the first place. Due to the fact that I want to have an use for those materials I'm starting to get interested in other areas of the game like building, that I was never very adept at which motivates me to learn about architecture. I feel like I've finally understood what you guys meant when you said that those games invoke autism in you, I just had to find an element that I enjoy enough to get autistic about.