I was just browsing the Google Play Store and I am getting frustrated seeing games being tagged with the genre, but aren’t actually simulating anything. E.g. Idle Miner/Mining Tycoon (can’t remember name). Nothing in the game is accurate or even tries to represent real life. It even has cartoon graphics. Now I’m not getting mad about the games themselves, just the fact that they are being labelled as sims. Anyone else annoyed by this?

  • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Play store is a shitshow. It’s so hard to spot the few actual gems in the absolute avalanche of ad-ridden asset flip time wasters that have the only goal of harvesting your data or running a monero miner in the background. The chances are better with paid games, but even it’s hit-or-miss.
    I gave up on mobile gaming long ago.

  • starbreaker@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Marketers gonna market. If “simulation” is a hot-selling category, then games are going to be sold as “simulations” if they bear even a slight resemblance to an actual simulation. This the same industry in which the customers con themselves into thinking that Final Fantasy is still a role-playing game.

    • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      What are the new Final Fantasies like? 8 was the last one I “beat” and then I never played 9 because the characters looked so cartoonish.

      I played the sky pirate one and liked the Gambit system.

      I played the one with lightning, but I never got into the whole crystals thing that is so prevalent in FF and it was just such a huge part of that, and they were trying so hard to make her the new cloud.

        • starbreaker@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

          Since 14 is an MMO you’ve really only missed two main-series games

          You can play most of it solo, aside from some of the major boss fights, and it’s both a “greatest hits” nostalgia trip and a damned good FF in its own right once you get into the Heavensward expansion and beyond.

      • starbreaker@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        What are the new Final Fantasies like? 8 was the last one I “beat” and then I never played 9 because the characters looked so cartoonish.

        With its protagonist Noctis as the chosen lightbringer, Final Fantasy XV was just an Andrew Lloyd Webber song away from being Lucifer Christ Superstar.

        And Final Fantasy XVI is basically Devil May Cry with a story that resembles a George R. R. Martin fanfic only if you aren’t familiar with Michael Moorcock’s Hawkmoon stories.

  • rubikcuber@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Also, most albums tagged with shoegaze on Bandcamp are not shoegaze. It’s a travesty.

    • KingJalopy @lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The shoegaze like emo music? like those emo kids in South Park that just look at the floor and kind of not dance?

    • kralk@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Same with grunge, weirdly there’s a lot of shoegaze in there

  • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Technically a simulation is some mathematical model that captures some but not all aspects of a system. (A model that captures every aspect is the system itself)

    So like “Idle Miner” models the basic concept of buying capital then putting it to work extracting value. Yeah it’s an ultra-simple model, but it is a model.