[-] TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I find NMS a shallow sandbox. I have around 150 hrs in NMS, The activities do not appeal to me. I am 30 hours in playing Dwarf Fortress and I already have many self-made goals regarding child programs, fortification projects, military build-up, dam construction, production capacity, relocation of workshops...

If I just want to build something for aesthetics, I can always fire up SketchUp and other building games, instead of glitch building.

If I want shipbuilding, I have KSP and Children of a dead earth...

If I want a planetarium, I have Space Engine...

There is nothing left for me.

[-] TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or the boomers on Steam forums deflecting every criticism and trying to derail a thread by defending it as a "sandbox" game or not a bug, putting a post there is like controlling oversized children otherwise it devolves into dogpiling.

[-] TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I am a native; it's a very multicultural island, but I have never seen an American coming here.

[-] TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

ad nauseum

Thanks, this is an exact description.

[-] TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately, it is a split issue, so both sides get some support.

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When someone repeats an argument that has been proven false /badly argued many times before, but keeps repeating it in hopes of drowning out opposition or derailing a thread. Yet not disruptive enough to get banned on forums, as it wraps itself in non-hostile, nicely written sentences.

How exactly do moderators deal with this kind of behaviour?

[-] TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Clown Around looks promising, no open world though.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3011890/Clown_Around/

[-] TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No, Minecraft cannot deliver that kind of experience.

Go check out the video of The Golem city in Mankind Divided if you want to know what the writer is seeking, which is also inspired by Kowloon Walled City.

Secondly, the interior details of Kowloon Walled City have always been pretty sparse on the internet, Sluda has to imagine all of them, that is not the objective of the build.

[-] TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Still the best game in Exploration, really excited about what Morbius Digital is cooking.

[-] TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"This, it should be stated, was not the objective of Sluda's build. But it nonetheless made me think about what I deem important in virtual architecture and level design more broadly. My favourite games are always those that give me a complex, natty 3D space to unpick, like Dishonored 2's Stilton Manor, Hitman's Sapienza, and Thief: Deadly Shadows' Shalebridge Cradle. But playing Sluda's map made me realise these levels are more than just environmentally challenging sequences of rooms and corridors. They say something about the people who lived in those spaces, exuding their virtual history from their grimy walls, spooky attics, and beautifully recreated gelato shops."

Yeah, but...

Minecraft will never achieve the writer's design requirement; immersive sim level design philosophy is where he is aiming, where highly environmental detail for storytelling and possibly some competent AI, both hostile and friendly, to support the immersion.

MC is just a block-by-block construction, competent with building form, and it offers some simple decoration, and no more; I can't see how it is a fair comparison.

[-] TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

He cites a lot of Immersive Sim level design, Minecraft does not have that sort of detail; it merely provides a block-by-block construction system with some rudimentary decoration, it's not gonna achieve his design requirement.

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