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What Do You Like Most About Oregon Trail? (And other games)
7 years ago
In your opinion, what's your favourite things about the game Oregon Trail?
And while we're on the subject, what do you like about mech sims, and what do you like about survival horror?
These questions seem strange, almost random, but I bring these up because I'm beginning to feel a disconnect between my tastes, and those of other people.
For example. For me, the appeal of the Oregon Trail was seeing what unfortunate things happened to your party, who were almost always named after friends or fictional characters. Yet later versions and spin offs have pre-set NPCs, and searching for similar games gets a bunch of rogue-likes with little to no party customization.
I've played many mech games. Shogo, Front Mission, Armoured Core, Titanfall 2, MechWarrior 4 Mercinaries, among others. But while customizing a mech can be fun, other times I find it to be a tedious chore that harms the gameplay. Either there are a small handful of viable builds you have to use to win, or the game is a complete push over, or it's trial and error as specific builds are needed for specific missions. Not to mention the various min-max horror stories I've heard like people putting weapons in the legs.
Yet every time I ask, customization is their favourite feature, usually followed by complaints that MechWarrior 4 was a betrayal to limiting where you could put weapons.
More over, I hear people wax nostalgic over single player classics, but almost every new mech sim I see from Hawken to Code 51 is multiplayer only.
And while we're on the subject, what do you like about mech sims, and what do you like about survival horror?
These questions seem strange, almost random, but I bring these up because I'm beginning to feel a disconnect between my tastes, and those of other people.
For example. For me, the appeal of the Oregon Trail was seeing what unfortunate things happened to your party, who were almost always named after friends or fictional characters. Yet later versions and spin offs have pre-set NPCs, and searching for similar games gets a bunch of rogue-likes with little to no party customization.
I've played many mech games. Shogo, Front Mission, Armoured Core, Titanfall 2, MechWarrior 4 Mercinaries, among others. But while customizing a mech can be fun, other times I find it to be a tedious chore that harms the gameplay. Either there are a small handful of viable builds you have to use to win, or the game is a complete push over, or it's trial and error as specific builds are needed for specific missions. Not to mention the various min-max horror stories I've heard like people putting weapons in the legs.
Yet every time I ask, customization is their favourite feature, usually followed by complaints that MechWarrior 4 was a betrayal to limiting where you could put weapons.
More over, I hear people wax nostalgic over single player classics, but almost every new mech sim I see from Hawken to Code 51 is multiplayer only.
Survival Horror game... Fatal Frame! Why? Basically it was a very quite unique game as your only weapon is the Camera Obscura which is able to dispel ghosts that attack you. Not an easy game. I really long to play the original once again but seeing as Nintendo owns the franchise now, I doubt we'll be seeing it again anytime soon, if ever.