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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Bobby Lee did it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The fuck is with the clickbait title? For shame, OP

Edit: Thanks for changing it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It didn't mention portal 2 before OP edited the title

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

would've been better from the start indeed but it's not that clickbait

it was the name of the original article

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

God I wish I could enjoy it. I feel like I'm missing out. I just, I don't get it :(

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you into dramatic NPCs? If no, you have to play it multiplayer with someone who gives a crap about pixel people.

I tried playing it alone but every system in the game is puddle deep so I was only able to play until winter by myself.

Then I played it with my girlfriend, and I spent 100 fondly remembered hours.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (8 children)

While I enjoyed it, it was also very stressful. I think we just played wrong. We covered every millimeter of the plot with farms or other useful stuff and then proceeded to be busy for more than half the day with just maintenance. At some point this meant that we never got to explore and often barely had time to go to the stores or talk to the people in the village.

Apart from overcooked it was probably the most stressful game Is ever played and it's not supposed to be like that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The urge to make even more money

The days are just too short in the game

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Some people have a money anxiety built in that translates into the game. The funny thing is they bring it all themselves, the game makes absolutely no fuzz at all about making money.

The very first scene is the main character running away from the ratrace to a farm. Yet the very first thing some players do is bring in the ratrace with them. Everything in the game makes money and no money at all is ever required by the game from the player, except to advance the farming itself. It doesn't even have banks or debts like animal crossing.

It's bizarre how people, when left to their own devices, simply reproduce the worse habits of real life.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no money at all is ever required by the game from the player

Yes it is though? To upgrade the house, purchase new equipment, buildings, to see more features

Sure, you can do without money, but then you're going to miss half of the game's features

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I might be remembering wrong, but I think it is entirely possible to develop relationships with the town characters and see almost all of the cutscenes without ever upgrading any of those.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No the game has a much, much worse anxiety time crunch in trying to 100% it before the end of year.. 2 ( I think) when grandpa shrine first measures progress.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

You don't find out what that means unless you made it to year two and it immediately tells you that you can keep trying anytime you want.

It's not a one and done, you can literally retry the test infinitely. There is no crunch period at all, this anxiety comes from players misunderstanding things the game says in plain English.

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