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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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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Well, you're comparing Satisfactory to No Man's Sky, the latter of which didn't even have base building in its original release (for real, it was added on update 1.1), that was a literal afterthought

I have very strong opinions on NMS, after playing 500h and not really enjoying my time there. The TLDR is "it's a collection of bad systems with little to no interaction between them". How the fuck did I even play so much if it's not that good of a game? No fucking clue.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would have raised an eyebrow but I get it. I'm only 50 hrs in, but that's what made me feel this way to begin with. I had no idea it was added later but I can completely see that. I just don't know how they didn't add together the ideas that "hey they may need to make a lot of these, let's connect this part to that part so they can walk away and craft other things".

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My uneducated guess is that they never review whether a design decision has been properly or badly implemented. The only things they managed to make work is space flight and the seamless transition from space to planet - but so did Evochron Legends many years prior.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 day ago

And that's the only reason I like nms is the perfect transition, and can't find any other games that do it well