Trying The Crust, a space basebuilder.
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It has been THREE MINUTES since the moon was hit by a meteor. How are people already out of resources? It's not even like "debris rained down on earth", it's like "we panicked and ate all our batteries when the moon flashed."
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How the fuck is one guy and one - well, she's presumably intended to be a gal - on the moon supposed to supply EARTH? Sane writing would definitely have us just struggling to survive until earth sends us supplies.
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The voice actress KEEPS SAYING SILICONE.
It's silicon. Not silicone. How did the director not point this out? She keeps saying it wrong. Over and over.
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And this voice actor said "assign mining drones to the EVACUATION"
This is definitely human voice acting, at least.
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... "EARTH IS IN TROUBLE! PEOPLE ARE OUT OF SUPPLIES! dedicate your entire facility to manufacturing steel for an aerospace corporation, that will maximize ROI."
This seems like a really... soulless game. Like, everyone bickers and nobody thinks of anything besides optimizing profits.
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OHHHH, there's a kind of stone that you can't excavate. They don't tell you that, though. They just tell you to excavate 90 stone and then won't tell you why no stone is being excavated.
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NPC: "OUR SPACE SHIP EXPLODED! OH MY GOD! WE'RE GONNA CRASH!"
NPC: "Save those people, we'll give you the resources. They'll make GREAT slave miners."
Only available button: "I have some questions."
AI-Bot Waifu: "I DON'T SHARE YOUR DOUBTS BECAUSE I AM A STRONG INDEPENDENT WOMAN (1993 MODEL) BUILD THAT SHIT ASSHOLE!"
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...? Did the writing just... forget that CRUST literally said they'd cover the entire bill and give us slave miners? Why does this guy think it's a bad idea?
And he wants us to ship metal to an aerospace corporation. I don't think that will even reach earth, presumably they've got a space presence...
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Oh, good, the other 915 people that magically survived on the moon where everyone died are now each independently chiming in to bicker about whether we should save the people in exchange for money, resources, slave miners, and technology, or if we should... uh, not? Because we are against... al...truism?
You know, the altruism of being paid an enormous amount and getting a free workforce.
The writing is SO BAD.
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Wait, holy shit, they are giving me the choice. And the choice is literally "unlock the concept of research and gain a workforce" vs "get some money".
???? Who... would choose money? WHAT USE IS MONEY? WE'RE STRANDED ON THE FUCKING MOON.
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@Craigp I'm not sure I can think of a single Silicon Valley billionaire who *wouldn't* choose money.
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"These people have offered to let us use their habitats for rescuing people before they die but... if you read the fine print, they may ask for us to do the same for them later."
... Uh, OK? Why is that... bad? Isn't that just what we're already doing? We promise to do more of it later if another meteor hits?
Or is it that the writing is so incompetent we can't tell what the offer actually is?
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@Craigp Have you played the ancient game "Millennium 2.2"? (from somewhen in the late 80s)
It was also set on a post-apocalyptic moon base, but it was actually really fun.
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@datarama If I have, it's lost in the jumble!
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@Craigp Some of the controls were a bit janky, but I genuinely liked the plotline itself.
(An asteroid had trashed poor old Earth, and you're the director of a permanent moon base - mainly a science station with its support staff. Your task is to ... somehow survive.
The military-industrial outpost on Mars might unfortunately have some objections to your visions, though.)