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    Dwarf Fortress. It’s always broken, and historically has an interface style that most people don’t get. It’s also the masterpiece of a reclusive genius, and is a simulation so deep it has to be explained in parables, like the drunk cats one.

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      Dwarf Fortress is such a special game. One guy added capitalism to the game and the dwarves ended up doing a communist revolution.

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        Lol, do you have a link? Off the top of my head I’m not sure how you’d do that, mod-wise, since dwarves only do fairly undirected violence when unhappy right now. (Insurgencies will be in a future version, eventually, just like everything else)

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      That’s such a fun story.

      Drinking Dwarfs spill beer on the floor.

      Liquid behavior on floors is modelled.

      Cats might walk through the puddles.

      Cats clean their paws by licking them.

      Animals inherent the ability to get drunk from some class.

      QED: cats get drunk.

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        And, because every drink of alcohol was assumed to be one cup worth in some throwaway bit of code, and cats are small, they got massive alcohol poisoning and almost instantly puked themselves to death.

        So, bug. The observed behavior was cat corpses and cat vomit accumulating in bars. The expected behavior was… not. Eventually Tarn managed to figure it out, and it was fixed by better modeling of the volume of just a layer of liquid on body part. You also cant suck stuff off yourself to quench thirst in adventure mode anymore.

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        I mean, I enjoy it, but usually games are supposed to just work. Most of the difficulty of DF, at least historically, comes from trying to work around the hard edges and broken bits. Adventure mode is also pretty aimless and depressing, and Legends mode isn’t even really a game.

        I’d break it down in more detail, but I’m not really a great video game designer either. Most other people certainly agree that it’s not very good as a game. Tarn even has said things to that effect.

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        alot of the rebuttles are arguments that i would classify as attribution spoofing.

        technically anything that anyone has ever, said, done, or wrote, has happened before. after experiencing a novel concept… you can search back through history and claim it to be “not a new idea” and claim it for yourself. no?

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    Victoria 3 on launch. First game I turned Finland into the richest country on earth by capita is 30 years.

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      Victoria 3 is the game I keep tabs on the news feed for - it’s getting better (mostly - slowing down economic growth is just far less fun) but not there yet… and the potential is amazing.

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    Alpha Protocol - rereleased on GOG now! Get it while it’s hot with only a slight discount!
    Still as buggy as ever! And it will probably work on your modern PC!
    Support the revival of old games!

    This is not an ad! It’s a series of exclamations!

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      Shadow of Mordor wasn’t bad. In fact, all reviews agreed the Nemesis System is amazing. Shadow of War, with its microtransactions that were later removed, was the problematic one. I only bought it long after the transactions were removed so I never got to experience them and was overall very happy with the game, having spent aboit 200 hours on it.

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    Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. It comes with a laughable 11 modules which you tire of after a couple weeks of playing. It’s badly coded and its modding support is flimsy and haphazard. The developers are unreachable and uncooperative.

    Without mods, you’d put down the game after a week and forget about it completely. With mods (created for free by the community) you now get a wealth of thousands of modules, but you also need multiple extra mods to get simple basic functionality that should be in the base game. Wanna play more than 100 modules? Game crashes on startup unless you install the Tweaks mod. Wanna play just the modules that your friends enjoy? Gotta mess around with Steam workshop subscriptions for hours unless you install the Mod Selector mod. Wanna play a specific set of modules you like? Good luck getting the right RNG, unless you install the DMG mod. Wanna play more than one bomb? Needs the Multiple Bombs mod. Some modules are genuinely unplayable unless you get the Boss Module Manager mod, which in turn relies on a volunteer-run external website to be running and to be constantly updated by volunteers. Even Camera Zoom is a separate mod!!

    99% of the game is made for free by volunteers, and yet it’s the garbage 1% that everyone has to pay for. It’s a travesty.

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      Cool, didn’t know the modding community was the way to go. I would always break it out at a party, it would be fun for a bit, but yeah, eventually it’s just the same thing but faster. I’ll have to take a look at the mods.

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    Sonic R. Genuinely the worst racing game I’ve ever played. But the low poly models and the music are so charming to me. I used to just sit down and 100% it when I was stressed.

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    I really don’t enjoy bad games. They’re bad because something significant disrupts the fun, such as major bugs, janky mechanics, poor pacing, bland story or characters, no sense of progression, grindy RNG time-wasting, systems (e.g. crafting) that are either far too shallow or way too convoluted, half-baked level design, or even external factors like obnoxious DRM or microtransactions.

    The bad game I sunk the most time into by far is No Man’s Sky. People keep insisting “it’s good now”, but all the gameplay mechanics are truly awful. It’s an okay sandbox and entertaining enough if that’s all you’re after, but as a game specifically it has about 2/3 of the issues I mentioned above.

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    Raid: Shadow Legends. The commercialization is ridiculous, the constant attempts to grab money are downright pathetic, but hey, it looks good on my tablet.

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    Kinetica for PS2

    • Nausiating physics engine
    • Tacky and nonsensical maps
    • Unnecessarily and confusingly sexualized characters

    But it’s a fun fast-paced racing sim and the soundtrack slaps.

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    Wanted Dead

    But I don’t agree with the general perception that it is “bad”, because in all the aspects that actually matter for making an action game fun, it was actually really good. It just got blasted for being lacking (admittedly, very lacking) in production value because somehow we are still giving importance to that in the 2020s…