I play some Facebook games, but they are just mini-games to me, something to do with coffee in the morning, between e-mail and the real world. We'll see how that part turns out.
I have played a few browser games that were at least somewhat interesting and amusing. I check out everything my kids play, seeing what the game is like and (especially) what the community is like, and customers at our shop have recommended a few. In the course of looking at these things, I've found that "browser" could mean anything.
Freesky, Evony, and Business Tycoon Online are browser based games you can find on this site, but they are really more like persistent multiplayer strategy games with chat. Or chat with a strategy game, depending on how you play.
It could also mean Dead Frontier, AdventureQuest Worlds, Faunasphere or Earth Eternal. Those start to approach what traditional client-based MMO players would recognize as being at least similar to an MMO.
I might look at a Trek-themed browser game if it had plenty of social space and ways to interact with aliens besides shooting them. A problem-solving game could be okay, if there were just enough unpredictability to keep it interesting and some semi-smart AI presenting you with the situations based on what you'd done before.
(EDIT: My internal editor just threw that post back on my desk and recommended I engage my brain before posting again. I think she's mad.)
I know you guys probably don't care but I posted this at 35000 feet while over Indiiana. That's how much I love you all. Plane on the way to E3? Who cares! Gotta work!
I sense potential in the category of time-wasters, but if these thigns are going to start being labeled as MMOs, I"m out of this genre. Take me back to consoles and platformers where I can get at least a decent story with my RPG. I'm sick of people thinking that MMO means a bunch of sheep all being corraled in the same direction. Trekville, indeed.
I'm all for the casual market. It has its place. But it isn't a MMO. It just isn't. I don't care of 17 billion humans and aliens eventually play it at the same time. That's like calling Fallout 3 a MMO because 3 million people are playing it while connected to Live. What? I'm chatting with them. I might even be talking to them on voice. Isn't that the only thing that makes some of the crap being pimped here MMO? It has chat. I can talk to other people playing the same otherwise single-player game and so it much be a MMO now.
Give me a break. If other players aren't central, integral, and required for your game play experience, it isn't a MMO. It's a single-player game with chat. Call a spade a spade.
Best of luck to the publishers, but I despise Facebook with all my heart and soul and I dedicate my life to never becoign a minion of the most moronic thing to ever happen to gaming. I might be interested in seeing how the browser-based ones not affiliated with Facebook play, but the second I need a Facebook account to play a game, I'm gone.
Good chance we're talking Evony level quality game at best here having said that this company should join up with Cryptic convince them to offer their craptastic STO for free and utilize the revenue streams they planned to use on the farmvile edition of STO they are planning. Honestly though I'll probably give this game a go but until Cryptic makes that garbage game they made F2P/w cash shop (since we all know the cash shop is going nowhere) I'm never subbing again, the simplistic nature of the engine alone says it all in regards to this game.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
I just could not get past the Star Trek Online demo, it was just so bad. But one thing I did like was the space ship flying, kinda. So if they make a game based solely off the space aspect, I think that people would play it.
The anti-STO venom here is thick and kinda sucks. Some of you haters should give it another shot. Chapter 2 has continued to add a lot of features and overal "theme" to the game. Just watching the Federation ships passing by in space while at Spacedock is awesome. While still in need of additional missions, etc. the Federation Diplomatic Corps and the new non-combat missions are awesome and step in the right direction for those who do not like combat or find the incessant combat anti-Trek (I don't, I love blowing ships up hah). We have dabo at DS9, a minigame that gives us a chance to procure additional data in missions, and before long we'll have poker that we can play on our ships (just like in TNG)!
They (the devs) also agree that both Sector Space and land combat need to change/improve and are working on those... once land combat is on the same quality level of space combat (which is the best space combat in any MMORPG to date) then its going to be taking STO to the next level.
Anyway, try less bile and give the game another shot. Ship interiors are also in and with Chapter 3 I'm sure we will be seeing even more stuff.
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Trekville? Fantastic.
/smirk
I play some Facebook games, but they are just mini-games to me, something to do with coffee in the morning, between e-mail and the real world. We'll see how that part turns out.
I have played a few browser games that were at least somewhat interesting and amusing. I check out everything my kids play, seeing what the game is like and (especially) what the community is like, and customers at our shop have recommended a few. In the course of looking at these things, I've found that "browser" could mean anything.
Freesky, Evony, and Business Tycoon Online are browser based games you can find on this site, but they are really more like persistent multiplayer strategy games with chat. Or chat with a strategy game, depending on how you play.
It could also mean Dead Frontier, AdventureQuest Worlds, Faunasphere or Earth Eternal. Those start to approach what traditional client-based MMO players would recognize as being at least similar to an MMO.
I might look at a Trek-themed browser game if it had plenty of social space and ways to interact with aliens besides shooting them. A problem-solving game could be okay, if there were just enough unpredictability to keep it interesting and some semi-smart AI presenting you with the situations based on what you'd done before.
(EDIT: My internal editor just threw that post back on my desk and recommended I engage my brain before posting again. I think she's mad.)
My hero!
I sense potential in the category of time-wasters, but if these thigns are going to start being labeled as MMOs, I"m out of this genre. Take me back to consoles and platformers where I can get at least a decent story with my RPG. I'm sick of people thinking that MMO means a bunch of sheep all being corraled in the same direction. Trekville, indeed.
I'm all for the casual market. It has its place. But it isn't a MMO. It just isn't. I don't care of 17 billion humans and aliens eventually play it at the same time. That's like calling Fallout 3 a MMO because 3 million people are playing it while connected to Live. What? I'm chatting with them. I might even be talking to them on voice. Isn't that the only thing that makes some of the crap being pimped here MMO? It has chat. I can talk to other people playing the same otherwise single-player game and so it much be a MMO now.
Give me a break. If other players aren't central, integral, and required for your game play experience, it isn't a MMO. It's a single-player game with chat. Call a spade a spade.
Best of luck to the publishers, but I despise Facebook with all my heart and soul and I dedicate my life to never becoign a minion of the most moronic thing to ever happen to gaming. I might be interested in seeing how the browser-based ones not affiliated with Facebook play, but the second I need a Facebook account to play a game, I'm gone.
DO YOU HEAR ME BLIZZARD?!
Cryptic released a joke, a fraud, a pile of you know what. If a F2P game can jerk the rug from under them, good.
Whos the character from your avatar picture Warmaker? Looks familiar.
a facebook game....ugh...yeah...
then a browser flash game......
pffffffttt.......that is my response....
http://www.forceofarms.com/index.php
Good chance we're talking Evony level quality game at best here having said that this company should join up with Cryptic convince them to offer their craptastic STO for free and utilize the revenue streams they planned to use on the farmvile edition of STO they are planning. Honestly though I'll probably give this game a go but until Cryptic makes that garbage game they made F2P/w cash shop (since we all know the cash shop is going nowhere) I'm never subbing again, the simplistic nature of the engine alone says it all in regards to this game.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
I just could not get past the Star Trek Online demo, it was just so bad. But one thing I did like was the space ship flying, kinda. So if they make a game based solely off the space aspect, I think that people would play it.
The anti-STO venom here is thick and kinda sucks. Some of you haters should give it another shot. Chapter 2 has continued to add a lot of features and overal "theme" to the game. Just watching the Federation ships passing by in space while at Spacedock is awesome. While still in need of additional missions, etc. the Federation Diplomatic Corps and the new non-combat missions are awesome and step in the right direction for those who do not like combat or find the incessant combat anti-Trek (I don't, I love blowing ships up hah). We have dabo at DS9, a minigame that gives us a chance to procure additional data in missions, and before long we'll have poker that we can play on our ships (just like in TNG)!
They (the devs) also agree that both Sector Space and land combat need to change/improve and are working on those... once land combat is on the same quality level of space combat (which is the best space combat in any MMORPG to date) then its going to be taking STO to the next level.
Anyway, try less bile and give the game another shot. Ship interiors are also in and with Chapter 3 I'm sure we will be seeing even more stuff.
Oh yeah, heya Jamion
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