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beccaelizabethI played a bunch of computer games, and I finished Elementals: The Magic Key. So the game threw me a birthday party :-)
... it's set on the main character's birthday, so.
First time I played it the stupid thing got stuck and then the new computer game ate my savegames anyway so I had to start at the beginning. But now I've finished it properly I can play all the puzzles over again - including the one I had to skip because I couldn't think of any more combinations I hadn't tried and it was getting really frustrating - plus I can play all the battles and there's extra bonus battles. And they say I've won them all at Easy level. There are two more harder levels. For all the battles. So that's some definite play left in that game.
The battles are like a little board game where elementals squish each other and can combine to make bigger ones that squish more at greater distances. Also there are spells for extra squish. Is fun. Except I keep playing really badly and still winning, which is a bit less fun, but I suspect my current gaming habits are aimed at rather younger players, so *shrugs*
I like clicky games where the background stays still. If it swoops around and moves a lot then I can make myself travel sick playing. It's ridiculous. I miss side scrolling flat games, all this 3d stuff just makes me dizzy.
... things I wouldn't have thought about as 'accessibility'...
I like hidden object games and trading games and build a town games and the Tradewinds games with the pretty ships and the games where you run a shop and have to fill everyone's orders before the time runs out and also games where you make cake and save up for your wedding cake. That's a lot of different games. But I do not like swish games that need a bazillion buttons and go swooping around the screen and you spend half your time figuring out which gaps count as gaps and what you can actually interact with and how you're supposed to get there and then you get killed a lot and start again. Probably I'd like them if they didn't make me sick and I'd played them often enough for long enough there wasn't such a lot of uphill before they were play. There's lots of games that sound like they'd be awesome if I was any good at them.
I don't like Westward. I don't like the gameplay much, but what I mostly don't like is there's a lot of white people winning the west by moving in to empty places, shooting a bunch of bandits, and then cutting down or digging up every resource in sight. There's no eco options, you can't build sustainable, you can only progress by totally laying waste to the landscape. It would be annoying in any setting, but it's the American wild west, and it's kind of creepy by omission.
If I was playing tabletop RPGs I'd now want to settle in and do some building and trading before we went off doing more fighting. It's just more fun to do something with what you earn. But on the computer you can see little pictures of it. And in some games you can design it and choose the prettiest versions. I likes.
I still want to link all the games up together though, so you could zoom right in and spend time playing in the shop filling orders, or right out and take a massive army over the border to clear out the undead from previously tainted lands. Huge great caravan routes and a general store in every city. Smuggling horses. All sorts. And then sometimes having to do hidden object or puzzle games to get into ancient tombs and stuff.
As long as I could do it all with mouse clicks it would be awesome.
... it's set on the main character's birthday, so.
First time I played it the stupid thing got stuck and then the new computer game ate my savegames anyway so I had to start at the beginning. But now I've finished it properly I can play all the puzzles over again - including the one I had to skip because I couldn't think of any more combinations I hadn't tried and it was getting really frustrating - plus I can play all the battles and there's extra bonus battles. And they say I've won them all at Easy level. There are two more harder levels. For all the battles. So that's some definite play left in that game.
The battles are like a little board game where elementals squish each other and can combine to make bigger ones that squish more at greater distances. Also there are spells for extra squish. Is fun. Except I keep playing really badly and still winning, which is a bit less fun, but I suspect my current gaming habits are aimed at rather younger players, so *shrugs*
I like clicky games where the background stays still. If it swoops around and moves a lot then I can make myself travel sick playing. It's ridiculous. I miss side scrolling flat games, all this 3d stuff just makes me dizzy.
... things I wouldn't have thought about as 'accessibility'...
I like hidden object games and trading games and build a town games and the Tradewinds games with the pretty ships and the games where you run a shop and have to fill everyone's orders before the time runs out and also games where you make cake and save up for your wedding cake. That's a lot of different games. But I do not like swish games that need a bazillion buttons and go swooping around the screen and you spend half your time figuring out which gaps count as gaps and what you can actually interact with and how you're supposed to get there and then you get killed a lot and start again. Probably I'd like them if they didn't make me sick and I'd played them often enough for long enough there wasn't such a lot of uphill before they were play. There's lots of games that sound like they'd be awesome if I was any good at them.
I don't like Westward. I don't like the gameplay much, but what I mostly don't like is there's a lot of white people winning the west by moving in to empty places, shooting a bunch of bandits, and then cutting down or digging up every resource in sight. There's no eco options, you can't build sustainable, you can only progress by totally laying waste to the landscape. It would be annoying in any setting, but it's the American wild west, and it's kind of creepy by omission.
If I was playing tabletop RPGs I'd now want to settle in and do some building and trading before we went off doing more fighting. It's just more fun to do something with what you earn. But on the computer you can see little pictures of it. And in some games you can design it and choose the prettiest versions. I likes.
I still want to link all the games up together though, so you could zoom right in and spend time playing in the shop filling orders, or right out and take a massive army over the border to clear out the undead from previously tainted lands. Huge great caravan routes and a general store in every city. Smuggling horses. All sorts. And then sometimes having to do hidden object or puzzle games to get into ancient tombs and stuff.
As long as I could do it all with mouse clicks it would be awesome.