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Incrimental games Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 18:11:26 111ff1 No.16687729

What do you think about incrimental games /v/? I personally like playing them when I have nothing else to do or keep them running in the background while I do other shit. Obviously I never put any money into them because that would be fucking mental, and I don't believe anyone else should. If you ever paid for a currency in an idle game you should go fucking kill yourself.

I pop in and out of Realm Grinders sometimes while I have nothing to fucking do and play it on Kongregate. Sometimes playing other games that might interest me.

I think the best ones are those which give you a lot of mechanics to work with every once in a while. It's fun to reach a certain number and discover that you have new things to do or optimize. Technically Realm Grinder does that but it does that in such long periods of time that it becomes fucking boring. I personally disslike most of the idle games which try too much to be RPGs and add HP bars or death states as that just completely defeats the point of an idle game to begin with.

Do you have any idle games that you like /v/? If so, what games are those? Or do you hate them with a burning passion? Why is that if you do?

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 18:14:04 67c066 No.16687735

You can get the same experience with less kiked forms of Vidya, like simulators or city builders. You shouldn't do that to yourself anon.

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 18:15:35 719540 No.16687742

>>16687729

They're trash.

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 18:16:04 111ff1 No.16687743

>>16687735

When I play incrimental games I usually don't really have time to play life simulators or city builders as I'm waiting for something to happen.

That being said, give me some recommendations, maybe I will try and replace the time spent on idle games to something more productive.

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 18:21:41 111ff1 No.16687754

>>16687742

Care to expand upon that opinion?

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 18:23:00 0b2e80 No.16687760

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>>16687729

Is there a reason you spell incremental with crime or was that just freudian?

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 18:24:26 111ff1 No.16687765

>>16687760

I'm just shit an English because I'm not a native speaker, nothing more to it

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 18:27:19 ac0738 No.16687773

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>>16687754

do you really need an explanation?

they are trash because they are not game.

they are the origin of freemium game

>the more you "play" the more you wait

why don't YOU give us a reason as to why they are not trash?

>ive you a lot of mechanics to work with every once in a while. It's fun to reach a certain number and discover that you have new things to do or optimize.

like >>16687735 said , you are better off with managment game. i heard Dungeon 3 is good but i never tried it.

The only "dungeon" game i played was pretty warrior may cry :^)

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 18:34:32 111ff1 No.16687795

>>16687773

>do you really need an explanation?

Even shit games warrant discussion.

>why don't YOU give us a reason as to why they are not trash?

They are good to do as a background thing when you are bored waiting for something but have too little time to do anything else, they don't need to be much more than that. That's the very idea of the niche that they are supposed to fill, so waiting makes sense as a mechanic in itself as it's something you're supposed to tap into once in a while while you're doing something else to entertain you for a short span of time.

>they are trash because they are not game.

They are, why wouldn't they be?

>they are the origin of freemium game

I would say that the freemium model was already avalible in other types of games before Idle but fair point here.

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 18:37:33 928ff6 No.16687804

>>16687773

Not all incremental games are freemium trash, some wouldn't really work properly without incremental systems.

A bunch of such games come to mind:

Universal Paperclips

Crank

Kitten's Game

A Dark Room

And, of course Candy Box & Candy Box 2

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 18:41:04 111ff1 No.16687815

>>16687804

>Universal Paperclips

I just started playing this and shit is fun, I like the fact that I actually have to think a bit and not make too many paperclips as I can run out of wire.

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 18:43:52 dea6d0 No.16687822

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>>16687729

A lot of them have good aesthetics. For whatever reason the detailed, crowded sprites sooth my autism the same way city management games and RTS games do. I don't play them as I don't have the time, but I'd really like to rip open one, remove the skinner-box and tedium and just make a normal game.

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 18:57:10 58eddd No.16687866

>>16687742

False

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 20:29:40 afbde1 No.16688116

>Not english native

>Willingly plays games that debase him

>Considers it fun

It checks out

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 22:31:38 41f5b6 No.16688451

>>16687729

A Dark Room is the only 'incremental' game I've really played and its surprisingly good.

To be fair though it actually has some gameplay and an ending.

http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 22:39:42 ae0a11 No.16688476

>>16687729

What if you're on a limited data plan and running these things in the background will eat through it?

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 23:07:55 8729f4 No.16688560

>>16688451

>Look away from village for 5 seconds

>BEASTS

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 23:23:28 b84a1f No.16688608

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>>16687729

>not playing the game that's so good it literally plays itself

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 23:26:40 29153b No.16688614

>>16688476

Don't play them then.

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 23:26:40 00a681 No.16688615

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>>16687773

NO, dungeons 3 is awful, don't listen to those people. War for the Overworld is significantly better in every way.

I'll tell you why so you're armed with more than just hearsay.

Dungeons 3:

- Two resources: Gold (Basic Resources), Evilness? (Advanced Resource)

- Said advanced resource can only be acquired by taking units above ground and corrupting points of interest

- ABOVE GROUND IS PLAYED JUST LIKE BUDGET WARCRAFT 3. Seriously, this kills the whole management vibe

- You have to manage your dungeon while simultaneously playing a gook-clicker above ground

- After converting the point of interest, you have to have one of your units sit on the point of interest the rest of the game collecting the advance resource effectively gimping the unit's level and making him useless the rest of the game. (Takes up your population cap, and will leave him at like level 1 while the rest of your monsters are edging level 6)

- You also get new monsters in your dungeon by outright buying them instead of simply enticing them with a satisfying dungeon.

War For The Overworld:

No warcraft 3 horseshit, simply manage a dungeon, entice monsters to join and enjoy the campaign, scenarios or wave defense. Also no population cap.

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 23:27:34 29153b No.16688619

>>16688615

Wouldn't I just play Dungeon Keeper 2 han War for the Overworld? Or does WftO have something DK2 doesn't? I really liked DK2 though I should probably try the first one

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 23:35:29 501b7c No.16688640

>>16687729

I only ever played them while I was at work. You really have to be fucking bored to play that shit after decades of flash games sending hedgehogs to space and shit.

Anonymous 07/12/19 (Fri) 23:40:40 93d582 No.16688655

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>>16687729

>incrimental games

When the fuck have idlers been called that? Sounds like an attempt to make them sound like a legitimate game and not just a timewaster.

Anonymous 07/13/19 (Sat) 00:37:24 3066ef No.16688764

>>16688615

>No mention of the "humor" an "aesthetics" which would make even reddit scream internally.

Anonymous 07/13/19 (Sat) 00:39:25 fefc0f No.16688770

Cookie Clicker should be deleted from the Akashic Records

Anonymous 07/13/19 (Sat) 00:47:49 8729f4 No.16688790

>>16688770

Maybe the true grandmapocalypse was the clicker games it created along the way.

Anonymous 07/13/19 (Sat) 00:55:11 00a681 No.16688806

>>16688619

You can do that and no one would blame you.

WftO really is a spiritual successor to DK2. You can think of it as DK3 but no game will have the same bullfrog charm the actual DK series had.

>>16688764

Now that you mention, I vaguely remember shitbird tier dialogue in dungeons 3 but that game 100% was a painful experience. There's too many low hanging fruit to justify not playing that game.

Anonymous 07/13/19 (Sat) 01:17:34 5dac49 No.16688845

>>16687729

I think they're the worst type of game that still counts as a game and you should feel ashamed for playing them. Play something better.

Anonymous 07/13/19 (Sat) 01:21:08 11afb8 No.16688852

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>>16687729

China not welcome.

Anonymous 07/13/19 (Sat) 01:22:00 8d748a No.16688853

I couldn't care less about the screeching of small children, idle games are ｋｉｎｏ. You'd have to be the dumbest nigger imaginable to pay any sort of money to one, but they are very fun and enjoyable.

Currently playing NGU and WAMI on Kongregate. NGU is pretty crap at this point, but I've put too much time into it to just quit.

Anonymous 07/13/19 (Sat) 13:30:40 3eed41 No.16690274

>>16688615

>- After converting the point of interest, you have to have one of your units sit on the point of interest the rest of the game

Not true, it stays yours and you can fuck off and come back to deal with any heroes later. Aside from that, yeah, there's a lot of gameplay flaws in there, mainly the fact that surface part of the game is shite. And pop caps suck, too. It's also a shame that they dropped active abilities for units and different evil overlords and unit upgrades from 2 for only passive abilities and multicultural evil dungeons.

Anonymous 07/13/19 (Sat) 13:55:09 8cd246 No.16690302

>>16688853

what the fuck is WAMI

Anonymous 07/13/19 (Sat) 14:49:04 de4369 No.16690377

>>16688853

>kino

Kindly go fuck yourself you underage cunt.

Anonymous 07/13/19 (Sat) 15:05:04 f642ab No.16690407

>>16688853

>k i n o

Take your shitty /tv/-speak the fuck out of here

Anonymous 07/13/19 (Sat) 18:41:31 67e192 No.16690894

might as well be playing /v/scape if you're going to play a game completely dedicated to grinding