All cooking games suck

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There's a lot of careers and wish fulfillment that can be adapted to video games (and many have) but one of the things that just doesn't seem to translate well is cooking games or anything that has cooking as a mechanic.

All of them suck. You either have very basic surface-level stuff like Cooking Mama and its sequels, or you have some take on time management games, like the old "Papa Louie" Flash game and the like, or you have something that railroads you on specific recipes and foods behave in only in pre-determined patterns. This is what Cooking Simulator does and even then it's mostly sous-chef stuff; things often don't look like they should (partly because of the complexity of programming, certain foods become more prominent in mixing) and doesn't leave room for true creativity. The REAL top restaurants have something new and unexpected that often uses food in new ways. It may or may not be pretentious, but you can't do that in these types of games.

Of course, you can't taste or smell anything either, and that's extremely important to cooking as well. As a result, you get games that are neither detailed enough to appeal to autists and games chore-like enough that it turns off everyone else. Am I the only one who notices this sort of thing?
 
Why the fuck would you play a game about cooking?
Nigga, just try cooking for real, it's way more fun and you can actually learn how to cook.
 
There are a ton of fun cooking games, but I get what youre saying, you cant have an accurate cooking sim because cooking requires senses that are not used in video games like smell and taste. Its easy to drive a truck or use a forklift or do police work in a simulation because it uses the senses that we already use for video games, but cooking cant possibly translate well because of those limitations.
 
This is why you should play Brawl Stars, Clash Royale, Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Squad Busters, Boom Beach, and mo.co
 
Nicholas Gur said:
I assume the same mental illness that compels people to play truck driving sim. They will pay you to play it irl, provide the truck, pay for you training, etc. But people would rather come come after 8 hours and clock in to a digital job for another 8.
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In the case of that, you can keep the comfy driving parts while avoiding all the grunt work like the distribution center wasting your day for hours on end. With cooking simulators it's the opposite—you get all the grunt work like cutting up vegetables with none of the rewarding aromas and tastes and presentation.
 
Cooking simulator is pretty all inclusive and even allows for player expression when it comed to presentation. The 2nd one is coming out soon with multiplayer if it tightens up the controls and has a bit more involved assembly line style of gameplay to force more multitasking (or corrodination in mp) it should be a good followup
 
Nicholas Gur said:
I assume the same mental illness that compels people to play truck driving sim. They will pay you to play it irl, provide the truck, pay for you training, etc. But people would rather come come after 8 hours and clock in to a digital job for another 8.
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It's the same with those games where you are a janitor and you clean shit.
They sit in a messy room while making sure that they clean every speck in a video game.
Complete insanity.
 
Idiotron said:
It's the same with those games where you are a janitor and you clean shit.
They sit in a messy room while making sure that they clean every speck in a video game.
Complete insanity.
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