• overload@sopuli.xyz
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    6 hours ago

    Who is the market for these simulator games? I don’t know anyone who plays them. They don’t look bad to me, but there must be a type of gamer I’m blind to.

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      2 hours ago

      It seems so niche but somehow more mainstream than horror games like Alan Wake. It always blows me away how popular simulators are despite not knowing anyone who plays them.

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      4 hours ago

      Sometimes I just want to sit back and play something that doesn’t involve shooting at anything or blowing shit up. It’s relaxing I guess.

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    15 hours ago

    As a fan of the original, I still haven’t played Alan Wake 2 because I refuse to buy anything from the Epic Game store.

    That being said, I also haven’t played any of the farming sim games, though that’s because they look incredibly boring–no offense to those who enjoy them, they’re just not for me.

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      16 hours ago

      It’s not farm sim, but Project Zomboid has some decent farming mechanics (and a shitload of mods). A lot of the very popular mods just add drugs into the game. A couple of those highest rated ones add a ton of weed stuff to the game (papers; grinders; bongs; pipes; farmable seeds and hemp with different strains, stages of growth, and even disease the plants can catch). Modders are wild.

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    17 hours ago

    It’s not a games job to protect the children, but the parents job. It’s pretty weird we’ve got to this point here.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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        16 hours ago

        The context here is hilarious. Makes it seem like farming simulator is some kind of super subversive, fucked up thing we shouldn’t allow children to play. lol

        “What if they actually become farmers? That’s not what we want for our children is it?”

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          16 hours ago

          If our kids become farmers they’d have to rely on goberment subsidies and I’m not raising no socialist!!!

  • Gamma@beehaw.org
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    17 hours ago

    Funny comparison. One is a yearly multiplayer-ish release and the other is a sequel to a 13 year old singleplayer action game. I have no doubt AW2 could sell a ton more copies… but they’ve decided they don’t want that

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      16 hours ago

      No, they decided that Epic was the best bet to get the game done at all as they were willing to finance it, and this is the unfortunate outcome.

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        16 hours ago

        Yep, I’m aware of why they went with Epic, but if Epic wanted to make more of a return they’d put the game on the platform with more paying users. But they decided they don’t want that

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            15 hours ago

            Fair, I wasn’t clear! I’m sure Remedy would LOVE to get the game in as many player’s hands as they could