<story><title>‘This game is so realistic it feels just like working overtime’</title><url>https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1009982/this-game-is-so-realistic%21-it-feels-just-like-working-overtime</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>This was how I felt playing &lt;i&gt;Papers Please&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I absolutely respect and appreciate that the game wasn&amp;#x27;t trying to be &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot;; it was trying to communicate a message. And I firmly believe that not all games &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be fun.&lt;p&gt;But at the same time... well, I have enough work to do in my life. There has to be a balance. Not every movie is &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; but even art house films are generally &amp;quot;pleasant&amp;quot; to watch on some level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>Interesting. I didn&amp;#x27;t feel that way about &lt;i&gt;Papers Please&lt;/i&gt;, because it has a story and it&amp;#x27;s more like a short puzzle.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not endless. It&amp;#x27;s basically a sequence of puzzles (with a story and some choices thrown in), where each stage introduces a variation on the puzzle. There is a very limited number of stages, after which the game ends.&lt;p&gt;Compare this to something like Factorio, which is essentially endless (and you&amp;#x27;re programming, so basically it&amp;#x27;s job #2).</text></comment>
<story><title>‘This game is so realistic it feels just like working overtime’</title><url>https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1009982/this-game-is-so-realistic%21-it-feels-just-like-working-overtime</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>This was how I felt playing &lt;i&gt;Papers Please&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I absolutely respect and appreciate that the game wasn&amp;#x27;t trying to be &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot;; it was trying to communicate a message. And I firmly believe that not all games &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be fun.&lt;p&gt;But at the same time... well, I have enough work to do in my life. There has to be a balance. Not every movie is &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; but even art house films are generally &amp;quot;pleasant&amp;quot; to watch on some level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>INTPenis</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t work as hard at work as I did in papers please.</text></comment>