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this article is correct, the game is good & very funny. but: it talks about the steel beam task near the beginning, but the thing it *doesn't* talk about is the excellent joke at the end of that task. @Kotaku/1673476190634483717Permalink Look on archive.org
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at the risk of ruining the joke: you gotta carry this steel beam across some bumpy terrain. it's heavy & awkward & long & you don't have many parts yet. so you (probably) drag it across, losing it repeatedly along the way, finally getting it to it's destination, and...Permalink Look on archive.org
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the place you gotta put it is narrow... and tall. everything up until now had a nice easy acceptance zone! and now you gotta make a whole new vehicle just to stand it up on its end.Look on archive.org
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it's a boring joke explained like this, but that's because it's not a joke that works on the level of words. it's a joke told in game design. you had an expectation... and that expectation has been violated in a way that is congruent with everything you were told before.Permalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, go play Mars First Logistics, it's a good gamePermalink Look on archive.org