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Friday Fun Thread for November 10, 2023

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Man, this is actually tough for me. Everything I want to say already has a game. There is already a Something Builder for nearly everything.

Is there a Wii style or VR game for chopping wood yet? Could maybe select various wedges or splitting axes to get the job done. Or different species of wood or knottedness. Could be a fun activity up there with VR boxing simulators and the like.

Oh wait, I have another idea! A commuting simulator, but in a fantastical style. I'm thinking really loose physics and a nearly complete disregard for the law. Start with a relatively simple commute, then add some normal events like school buses stopping constantly, or construction. Escalate to civil unrest and alien invasions. Could be fun to allow the user to choose their own route by basing the map from geographic data. I think it'd also be fun to preserve damage to the terrain and buildings from accidents you caused and/or the chaotic events going on around you.

Crazy Taxi: Commuter Edition

Of course there's a lumberjack simulator already! That second idea is great though, I especially like the idea of retaining damage from previous rounds. What exactly would the player control though?

You went and got my hopes up, only to dash them! That one is all about using industrial equipment to log trees. Not the manly activity of swinging an axe.

Ah shit, I linked some dlc instead of the main game. Looking into it more though, it's not what I thought it was. I figured that since lumberjacking is an actual sport there would be a strong emphasis on using your chainsaw and axe, maybe a bit of a qwop style mini game for climbing trees, a robust selection of flannels and beards to wear - lumberjack things. But the gameplay sounds more like euro truck sim with a half assed first person log cutting section on top. Here is the blurb from under the heading First-person chainsaw and axe -

The map is an open world, its details numerous and filled with challenges. From high slopes to varying surfaces, there is plenty to look out for, and you need to stay focused in order to deliver your logs to their final destination (and keep your truck intact).

That's right, it's open world! You can chop down a whole forest, assuming you aren't killed by all the varying surfaces out there, varying when you least expect it. And you can tell they are proud of it too, because out of the 32 screenshots on the store page a grand total of two of them feature the first person mode.