oyceter | New addictions

I have, strangely enough, been spending all my time playing social games online. I say strange because while CB is a gamer, I am not. I discovered with my ex that I enjoy watching games with stories—I loved watching Eternal Darkness even though it freaked me out, and I had a lot of fun watching Zelda: Wind Waker. But I'm terrible at playing them... I tried other Zeldas on Wii and Nintendo DS, and I never made it past the tutorial on the former and rapidly got bored of killing things in the latter.

But then, CB got hooked on Sims Social on Facebook, and then he sicced it on me! Argh! Now I am actually active on Facebook, what the heck?! (I play on an incognito browser window and delete cookies every so often due to recent reports of Facebook tracking you everywhere.) I think Sims appeals to my rampant consumerist nature, and at least buying virtual things online with virtual cash slightly appeases the desire to do so offline. (Also, I am geekily excited about all the Halloween stuff coming out right now. My Sim can sleep in a coffin!)

And then

troisroyaumes introduced me to Glitch, an extremely cute MMORPG that involves no fighting or killing whatsoever. Normally I would have found it too complicated to play—the learning curve is much, much steeper than Sims—but the absolutely gorgeous and adorable art direction kept me in it even as I couldn't figure stuff out.

So possibly now I have a free trial at Gamefly... I have tried City Interactive's puzzle/quest games Murder in Venice and Tree of Life, both of which I find very clunky in design but puzzly enough to spend my time on. Am still waiting for the new Professor Layton to come out. I tried Sakura Taisen: Takarazuka in New York in the Roaring Twenties! Sadly, not its actual name. Even more sadly, I bounced off it due to all the talking and how obvious it was that the game was written for fanboys to ogle at all the different women. Ew.

Anyone have Gamefly recs (Wii or DS preferred)?

I don't like anything that involves combat or combat stress. As in, I found Plants vs. Zombies and Angry Birds too stressful. And I am really sad, but I couldn't get past the tutorial for Okami too =(.
I can't do 3D games with a lot of movement because they make me queasy (see: Ilo Milo, which is fun and adorable and sadly makes me feel like throwing up, and Portal, which looks really cool and has great writing but makes my head spin. Picross 3D is ok because of the tiny DS screen.)
I am awful at physics-based games (see: Angry Birds and Cut the Rope).
I really like puzzly games like Professor Layton, and I have been chronically addicted to Picross (as well as Piczle Lines on iPhone).
I can do block-type games like Tetris, Dr. Mario, and Puzzle Fighter.
Despite my current addiction to Sims Social, I generally find simulation games too complicated... I hate amassing armies; I don't want to run a city or a shop, much less a country or a world; and mostly I'm as much a giant homebody in games as I am offline.
I like a very easy ramp-up period. I.e. I tried Myst a long time ago, entered the world, stared at the screen for ten minutes, clicked on five things, and then gave up.

(Both Sims Social and Glitch accounts are under my legal name, ergo my not linking.

ETA: And now the Glitch account is fandom friendly!)

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I've been enjoying some demos of Mindcraft - even though their television spots upset me. (I saw the vids on the web and.. yeah, upsetting isms ahoy). The part I like (and thus makes me hesitant about buying, given the recent new releases - it's in beta currently and keeps releasing updated models) is that I can play on peaceful, and through the community have lots of (save game) puzzle mysteries etc to go exploring in, or do farming type things, etc, or breed my own pegasus or hunt for a unicorn to add to my stable, or design a home, garden, city, whatever, etc...

The newer releases seem very much rpg/action adventure oriented with new monster releases and a hunger bar etc and much less 'this is the product, do what you want with it' - which is the aspect that appeals to me the most.

Makes me a bit sad actually, I'd gotten excited that despite the PR which I dislike there might be an actual game that wouldn't bore me - and... well...

Now I'm curious about Glitch and going to go peek.

Annd, I keep forgetting that I don't actually like multiplayer games. I don't want other people crowding up my screen, or wanting me to chat w/ them, or asking me to multi-task when I want to just brain-off. Also, lots of shrining and buying.

Is Mindcraft the pixel-art game where you can build stuff? Or is that different? People keep reccing the latter to me, but I don't know much about it.

Ooof, yeah, Glitch is definitely multiplayer =(. It really freaked me out at first too, because Sims Social isn't realtime interaction, and I hate that everyone can watch me futz up all my jumping and whatnot.

Uhm, there is pixel art in the game, or people make pixel art for the game. But yes, it's also possible to have 4x4 and 6x6 resolution when building stuff. I stick around 16x16 for the demos.

And yes, I tend to forget I don't like people. I think I can be 'social' then it stares me in the face and I want to punch it.

Okay, yeah, that sounds like the same thing... booo monsters! I was kind of intrigued because everyone was all "You can do whatever and set your own goals!"

It's got peaceful mode, and if you get the Peaceful Pack Mod/Add In, you won't need to kill anything to get certain supplies. But yes, I can't stand Zombies, so I don't want monsters on. I also don't want to battle Spiders - or do any battle really, all that OMG wtf. And now they've added creepier stuff, and I'm not feeling it.

Okay, spiders means the game is RIGHT OUT. EW.

Coolio. I repeat peaceful mode means no monsters at all. You'll see chickens and pigs and cows. But yeah, I totally understand the 'OMGWTF NO!'

**hugs**

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