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Game Design Perspective: Stardew Valley (2020)

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Re: Game Design Perspective: Stardew Valley (2020)

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I didn't get it. Can you please explain?

Adding an 'f' in front of the word 'mining', just to make all the words in the list alliterate. :) It's pretty funny to me, and shows the author is just ever so slightly making fun of the compulsiveness and repetitiveness in the game.

I also thought it was a reference to the "Four Fs" of evolutionary psychology where the final F is often switched out depending on the environment: Fighting, Fleeing, Feeding and... mating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Fs_(evolution)

Re: Game Design Perspective: Stardew Valley (2020)

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I used to be really into strategy games. When Starcraft 2 came out, I went hard on the competitive ladder. Then I got my first management job, and overnight I felt like I had no energy to play strategy games anymore. I found I needed to play FPS games to relax, which I had never done before. It was comical how immediate the switch was. In the past year, I've taken a sabbatical from work in a conscious attempt to slow…

That's a very unique take that I agree with. It would also explain why I just couldn't get into management games (I played them to death when I was a kid), Zachtronics games (reminds me of my day job) etc. What games would you suggest playing aside from FPS? I don't usually have a lot of time to sink in front of a PC anymore and have just been playing mobile games during my commute. I essentially went from hardcore g…

In addition to most FPS games, I found that roguelikes, platformers, and RPGs were still pretty satisfying. Basically, any game I could simply react to that didn't require thinking more than a couple seconds in advance.

A lot of Nintendo games are still that way. If you don't have a Nintendo Switch, you may find that you would enjoy it on your commute.

Re: Game Design Perspective: Stardew Valley (2020)

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I have to agree with both your general point and your specific regarding The Orville. I wasn't excited to watch it, because I don't find McFarlane funny (as a writer/showrunner and especially not as an actor), and because I think I've only ever enjoyed maybe one sci-fi parody ever. (2 if you count MST3K as "sci-fi"..?) But my wife wanted to give it a shot because she's such a sci-fi nerd (even more than me), and you'…

Wow, this has the biggest reviewer/audience score difference I've ever seen on Rotten Tomatoes. 30% vs. 94%. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/orville/s01

I used to purposefully look for movies with low critics score and high audience score and I found some pretty good ones. My personal favorite is "Old Fashioned" (2014, ratio 18/84) [1].

[1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/old_fashioned

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