I thought this game was well known but I haven’t seen almost any mentions of it recently. It’s very weird for a FOSS enthusiast not to advertise one of the best open-source games of all time so here I am trying to make it spoken about again.

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    Sorry didn’t know that. I’m not interested in Factorio because imo it looks terrible.

    EDIT: I’m gonna open an issue so Lemmy lets OPs edit and delete comments on their posts. The amount of argument on here is too bad for a standard centralized moderation model.

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      The person you’re replying to was just making a comment that alludes to the fact that people who like this genre get addicted to other games. It was a light-hearted comment and you’re the one who got negative first. People asked you to elaborate on your negativity and you got defensive. Now you’re doubling down on that defensiveness. I get it. I’ve been there. But come on, man. I think everyone’s got the same interests in mind here.

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      Factorio does look like Age of Empires with a 3 pack a day habit. And given pollution is a major mechanic in the game it’s on theme.

      Mindustry meanwhile has the look of a game you’d find on one of those old 101 games on 1 CD! complilations you’d find back in the 90’s, and yet it runs…well like every other game that’s ever been packaged as a .deb.

      I don’t really hitch horses with a game whose main gameplay loop involves keeping an eye on things that are off screen.

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      I don’t understand. You think Factorio is visually not pleasing but Mindustry is? Are you for real?

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        I like both games but this is subjectively true. I think a lot of people would find the art in Mindustry a lot easier to look at.

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        Seconding, Mindustry is much more visually pleasing to me than Factorio. From the screenshots I’m looking at, Factorio’s graphics just don’t have consistent composition, so elements in the same image look out of place. Shadows aren’t even going in the same direction or logical lengths, and only sometimes they’re pure black giving weirdly high contrast in certain objects and not others. Many environments are various shades of puke colors. The perspective looks weird to me, as if we could turn the map 90 degrees and then all the buildings would look like the leaning tower of Piza.

        I would compare and contrast between the original Fallout, perhaps, or as Captain Aggravated here else said, “Factorio does look like Age of Empires with a 3 pack a day habit.”.

        Now, whether these are problems or style is a matter of opinion, and furthermore whether it should have an appealing style (as Cpt. Agg also said, pollution is a theme in the game) but some of those points are objectively straying from conventionally appealing elements.

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        Yes. Mindustry has a decent style and its minimalism makes it less time-dependent. On the other hand, Factorio looks pretty much disgusting to me.

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        He just told you: “it looks terrible.” And he’s not wrong; Factorio’s art really does kinda suck.

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          Man I love factorio’s art, had no idea people thought it was bad. Maybe at release. But there’s alot of attention to detail in the sprites, even the trees sway gently in the breeze. You don’t see that often in other games of a similar style.

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            It’s the color palette. It’s genuinely terrible. The pixel art itself looks pretty good but those colours just kill it.

            Edit: god damn UK phone… color not colour.

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          Factorio’s art really does kinda suck.

          I will restate the original question: What do you not like about it?

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          I don’t think it necessarily sucks. It’s just old and I’m not a fan of it.

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            It looks like the “good enough” placeholder art that devs put in before they get around to hiring an actual artist. It’s serviceable to understand what things are and what’s happening, but there’s no style to it.

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              I personally disagree, I really love the dramatic sprite style they’ve gone with. Everything’s so hyper industrial with lovely details when you zoom in.

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                It’s also so wonderfully mechanical and smoothly animated. Might not hit for those that didn’t grow up with similar styles or something.

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                It is my understanding that Factorio’s art is 3D modeled and rigged, and then 2D animation frames are captured from that so the game doesn’t have to actually render 10,000 inserters every tick.

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                  Ah that’s awesome, but now I’m wishing I could take a peak at the 3d versions running and explore them a bit.

                  It would also explain why they all have the same visual vibe of the ancient dancing baby gif haha

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      Even as someone who doesn’t usually play the genre it’s a fantastic game

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      I like how other people are being nice about it. Makes me have a little hope for humanity.

      You’re objectively wrong though.

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        Makes me have a little hope for humanity.

        Don’t fall into that trap. There’s no hope for it.

        You’re objectively wrong though.

        Objectively? Hmm give psychological research papers please.

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      I’m gonna open an issue so Lemmy lets OPs edit and delete comments on their posts. The amount of argument on here is too bad for a standard centralized moderation model.

      LMAO you’re waaay too thin skinned to be given that sort of power. There is just some polite discussion of Factorio’s graphics going on.

      You should probably just leave Lemmy if you’re that hyper sensitive to any form of disagreement.

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        There we go again. I’m fine with disagreement but I’m not fine with the kind of expressing it that the modern society (and especially the American society) has fallen to. There are some people here who are discussing it very nicely and I respect it a lot but others are much more questionable. FYI my “hypersensitivity” is an expression of my different opinion on how disagreements should be done and is what I’m very proud of. Now bring that downvotes on. I haven’t had a good laugh in a while.

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          Ahh yes comments so deserving of being deleted or edited by hyper sensitive authoritarians such as

          What do you not like about it?

          my different opinion on how disagreements should be done

          Let me guess, all people should disagree the still unspecified way that you alone are aware of, so anything and everything remains free for you to censor because you made a post?

          You’re going to have a bad time on the internet snowflake.