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Who here plays any of the various games on Facebook? Vampire Wars is about the only thing I play with real regularity, since I've gotten bored with everything else. My only real irritations with it are the cliches (VAMPIRES VRS WEREWOLVES, GRR!!!) and that it's all about your Epeen, ie, number of fellow playing friends.
...so, really this is "doesn't it suck how these games we play are shittily designed, and who wants to help me manipulate that design shit?"
...so, really this is "doesn't it suck how these games we play are shittily designed, and who wants to help me manipulate that design shit?"
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
I repurposed one of my facebook dummy accounts into a games account. It has dozens of friends, not one of which is a person I know in real life. Some of the games can be fairly entertaining, but are necessarily broken up by long wait times on the completion of actions/refreshing of action points and often stalled while waiting to hit the 20+ number of friends needed to progress.
door games, like the upcoming Heroes of Neverwinted in closed beta on facebook now; are just time wasters with mostly clicking the mouse the most and spending more money, "wins" the game.
a better online game than the ones on facebook would be "quest for idle", but i forget where to find it.
the old text games such as Barren Realms Elite, Legend of the Red Dragon, Falcon's Eye, prior to AOHell and NWN.0 were MUCH better door games.
you still had limited energy per day that regenerates at a time, but you didnt have this "spend money to be better" micro-economics involved in them. also they had more depth than most website door games today.
Sims seems close to the original game, but there never was much to that to begin with, and some other games seem close to RTS games, but the energy-driven micro economics of them take away form them being anything like Warcraft, Age of Empires, etc.
a better online game than the ones on facebook would be "quest for idle", but i forget where to find it.
the old text games such as Barren Realms Elite, Legend of the Red Dragon, Falcon's Eye, prior to AOHell and NWN.0 were MUCH better door games.
you still had limited energy per day that regenerates at a time, but you didnt have this "spend money to be better" micro-economics involved in them. also they had more depth than most website door games today.
Sims seems close to the original game, but there never was much to that to begin with, and some other games seem close to RTS games, but the energy-driven micro economics of them take away form them being anything like Warcraft, Age of Empires, etc.
Play the game, not the rules.
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My brother has fun with Backyard Monsters. There's the usual method of bribing your way to victory, but the in-game currency can be acquired very slowly over time and most of its uses just let you do ordinary things faster. Just make sure you buy an extra worker ASAP.
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I played Backyard Monsters awhile. The "get stomped by everyone else" period lasted way too long for me.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
The only one I've played recently is Dragon Age: Legends. Unfortunately, it's gotten to the point where one combat has so many waves that it takes 20+ minutes to complete (compared to a minute or two at low levels). But on the bright side, it doesn't require a bunch of friends or "credits" or anything to play.
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Joke's on you, I don't even have a Facebook account.
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I played castle age for a while, til I realized I had about 500 friends on facebook I didn't know for the sole purpose of castle age bonuses, and the constant spam was pissing my real friends off, so I eventually just blocked the app and cleared my friends list.
I do sometimes play Tetris Attack, but I don't think that really counts.
I do sometimes play Tetris Attack, but I don't think that really counts.
The solution is to make a dummy account for it. I was actually rather surprised to see more people don't do this. I can just plug my dummy account into those rings of strangers who friend each other just to get game bonuses and watch while a million people add me. And now that account's wall is filled with the personal details of people I've never met. It's kind of surreal.
The problem with that, Cham, is when you're level 200 something and don't want to have to work back up.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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I've tried a few including a Pokemon clone and Farmville, but ultimately hid and blocked them all.[/list]
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I strongly suggest that if you want to play FB games you create a dummy account that doesn't have your name, then add friends who want to get spammed with the crap the games generate. I did that and had a lot of fun with them, and my friends weren't forced to look down on me with pity that I was wasting all my time on cartoon castles and trains.
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Actually, I'm really liking Words with Friends, but that's just scrabble
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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I was curious if anyone here has tried Heroes of Neverwinter yet, specifically in how closely it cleaves to 4e play. While a lot of classes/races/powers have been stripped from it, and things like healing surges have been removed, I got the impression that it does a decent job of emulating 4e skirmishes. This is not to say this is a laudable goal, and I got bored with it pretty quickly, but it was almost entertaining for 10 minutes.
I've played it and I agree with your assessment: it's moderately similar to 4E -- similar enough that it also becomes boring after about 10 minutes.Nebuchadnezzar wrote:I was curious if anyone here has tried Heroes of Neverwinter yet, specifically in how closely it cleaves to 4e play. While a lot of classes/races/powers have been stripped from it, and things like healing surges have been removed, I got the impression that it does a decent job of emulating 4e skirmishes. This is not to say this is a laudable goal, and I got bored with it pretty quickly, but it was almost entertaining for 10 minutes.
completely agree with hogarth. If I ever get into the situation where I have to explain someone what is wrong with 4E (again) I'll just invite them to Heroes of Neverwinter.
I'll say: Here, play this. Except you'll have to imagine playing it without animations, not having a selection wheel but a load of action cards and notes instead, and either using smurf figures for monsters or spending a LOT on maps, monsters and tokens.
I'll say: Here, play this. Except you'll have to imagine playing it without animations, not having a selection wheel but a load of action cards and notes instead, and either using smurf figures for monsters or spending a LOT on maps, monsters and tokens.