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Has Satisfactory ruined other crafting games for you? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 5 days ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/satisfactory@lemmy.world
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I've found over the last few games that I find crafting more and more frustrating in games. It took me a while but I honestly think it's because Satisfactory did such an amazing job with automation that I find other systems cumbersome and clunky.

For my example today, I've always wanted to like No Man's Sky. Building bases wherever you want to, flying around the galaxy, it seems amazing! But the crafting, dear god the crafting. I have to go over here, get an ore, bring it back, put it in a machine, take the output, put it back in another machine to finally get something out. The entire time (and now I'm at 15 hours so this was not a 20 minutes and I give up scenario) I was thinking "Why can't I just connect the miner to the machine here?

I went on the forums, maybe there's something I need to unlock? Nope, in fact the forums I found literally said "This isn't Satisfactory, stop trying to change our game, the fun is in the crafting."

So, maybe my fun isn't the same anymore. Anyone else feel that way?

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[–] thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They say that Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game, for me satisfactory I love but I have been playing Factorio for longer and it kinda ruined satisfactory and lots of other games for me. Whenever I try a new game that has any kinda crafting it's just I always compare it to Factorio and I simply just like. Ruins it.

So yeah I can relate to this a lot.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm glad someone else feels the same. That's a good line, I remember Satisfactory devs used it, maybe that's what I'm doing with NMS, but I guess for me I'd rather be up there exploring, instead I'm walking 600m to carry some copper back for the umpteenth time

[–] thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

Tbh I couldn't play NMS for the amount of walking and just looking for things everywhere constently over and over again for stuff.

Exploration is fun and enjoyable but not when I have to spend hours trying to find one fucking thing to make something. But that's just a me thing.