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[Kogut]

How it should be designed? What is important? What will cause you to skip game without checking anything else?

[Catastrophic lolcats]

It's this browser game where it lets me install a client folder which includes all the game's data so I'm able to mod it and back it up at my will. It will also be offline so you'd never have to log into the browser for the game ever again. 

It sounds a little familar but I just can't put my finger on it.

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[lordcooper]

Any actually good game on Onlive/Gaikai.

[ConscriptFive]

It just happened:

http://nothingsgonnastopmenow.com/

[Dariush]

The perfect browser game must: 1) greatly emphasize interaction with other players and 2) lack the ability to buy items for real money. The best (though still terrible) among browser games I've seen so far are Economies of Scale with free market economy (though it's insanely grindy and dull) and Ikariam with island-based communism (which failed on the second point).

[Muz]

The perfect browser game must: 1) greatly emphasize interaction with other players and 2) lack the ability to buy items for real money. The best (though still terrible) among browser games I've seen so far are Economies of Scale with free market economy (though it's insanely grindy and dull) and Ikariam with island-based communism (which failed on the second point).

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

I find that the best browser games so far actually have shitty gameplay, but sometimes the gameplay is simple enough that it actually encourages people to skip the hard rules and powergaming and focus on inter-player relationships.

The facebook recipe of logging on often might actually work with online mobile phone games. With a computer, it's really tiring to do so unless you sit in front of a pc all day. But a mobile game lets you grind anywhere, even while eating dinner, or at a traffic light, or waiting at the bank.

[miauw62]

A 100% free browser game. (then i mean general games like grepolis, economies of scale, not the gaming sites like kongregate)

[Leafsnail]

I really enjoyed Die2Night since I felt it actually had an element of community and even morality (IE do you try to protect yourself at the expense of everyone else) in terms of your interactions with other players.  The issue I have with that, like with every other similar game, is that it kindof requires you to be online at certain times to be effective as a player (I got killed due to staying out longer than I expected to).  Could work if I ever get a more regular schedule.

[SeaBee]

Games like BattleMaster are ideal for me because they emphasize what I enjoy.

• Actually free (there's no cash store at all)
• Players drive the game via diplomacy, war, complex feudal relationships
• Not an attractive game graphically, but very lightweight
• Supports a variety of playstyles (RP-heavy, no RP at all etc. via different "islands" (versions and rulesets) of the game)

The community you end up with really makes the game in this case. Interacting and dealing with your fellow players isn't something you do "on the side," it's the entire point of the game. It IS the game.

I liked Economies of Scale, too, but got tired of fairly quickly. I suppose accumulating money doesn't appeal to me, heh, but it is a fun game. Die2Night was great for reasons already mentioned.

Other browser games I've tried (very briefly) often look good and have an addictive quality when you start, but they rapidly start forcing you to the in-game store. Everything starts to take forever. Things need to be queued up at awkward times. Pre-existing power blocs roll over everything with ease. The hordes of Travian/Evony clones are all guilty of this, and they're all bad. And seriously, why would I play Evony when I could play Crusader Kings 2? Or Civ IV?

[Aoi]

Things that'll get something very, very close to an instant pass:
Evony-style ads/theme.
Registration is required before you get any information on what the game is like.
That godawful font that practically every Korean MMO uses because they didn't switch to a Western font after translating.

Things that I view very negatively:
Elements that force the player to check in periodically, intra-day. This ranges from 'action points', to things like Farmville. Real cash required to get anywhere with anything less than a herculean effort.

Things I view positively:
A non-hostile stance towards interface modifications, whether they're interactive or purely informative. (If botting is going to cause major problems, that's usually indicative of other issues. I've dropped a few simply because the interface got too irritating.)

[Darkmere]

I wouldn't call it absolutely perfect, but Urban Dead was greatly enjoyable for me. Entirely player-driven, no real money anywhere (there is merchandise, but it's limited to shirts and mugs and stuff from what I remember), free-form gameplay and what have you.

I got out of it because I didn't have enough time to commit to a group and got bored with being a loner, but it's worth a look if you like large-scale social/survival intrigue type stuff.

[loose nut]

Yeah, I played Urban Dead for a pretty long time as a zed. What I'd like to play is a casual game where you're just a guy who walks around a tile-based/ turn-based environment picking up things and fighting monsters and exploring, but without a lot of heavy grinding or 3D graphics or other hardcore MMO stuff. Urban Dead and its few descendants are sort of like that. I could do with a bit more graphics than Urban Dead though.