So, I understand that a lot of people here like WoW. Personally, I prefer browser games, since they tend to have a limited number of actions/day, meaning that you cannot just sit around forever and play them, you actually get to go outside and see the sun once in a while, and they tend to be free.

Currently, I'm playing Kingdom of Loathing and Nexus War.

Kingdom of Loathing is a mostly satirical game with lots of geek culture references, and is largely PvE, with most of the social interaction coming from the chat and mall. Almost every adventure and enemy is a reference to something, and I'll be honest in admitting that I don't get more than half of the references overall. Some examples include the Possibility Giant, whose description and attacks reference the band They Might Be Giants, the Whitesnake (like a drifter, he was born to slither alone, he tries to rock you like a hurricane but you remind him that he's not a scorpion, etc.), and the Battlefield of the war between Cloaca-Cola and Dyspepsi Cola.

Where a monster/area/item is not a reference to something, it's probably a bad pun. Take, for instance, the area called The Goatlet (which in itself is a reference to The Gauntlet, a typical name for a fiendish section of a maze, labyrinth, pass, etc.).

The quests themselves are generally very clever, and require at least *some* thought on your part(usually) while keeping you entertained, and the character classes are fun as well. I don't know what it about my character being called a Seal Clubber or a Disco Bandit that I enjoy, but I still giggle over it from time to time.

Finally, the mechanics are fairly simple to learn, as long as you don't want to know *everything* about them, and you're restricted till around 40 adventures per day, until you either get pretty rich or understand the game a lot better, and they go by pretty fast, so it's a fun way to entertain yourself for a good 30 minutes or so without eating up your day. Also, the creator adds new content nearly every week, and it is about to go through a major update, so there isn't a whole lot of danger of it stagnating anytime soon. But, if you do start playing, let me know in here or send me an IM, because it really does help if you have someone to show you the ropes.

Nexus War, however, is quite a bit different. I'm still pretty new to it, but it is a heavily PvP based game where the entire economy is player-based. There are no NPC stores, and no items that someone did not search for themselves of craft. Gameplay itself is also heavily based around factions, as they offer you safe resting places for the night.

Gameplay is the most important aspect of this game, so let me address it first. The way turns work is that every action you take (pretty much) costs 1 AP. You get approximately 1 AP every fifteen minutes or so, and for the first ten levels you can only store 50 AP. Any excess is lost. You get roughly 100 AP every day, so in the beginning you get about 2 full AP cycles every day. However, you can log on any time, and take any action that you're capable of, as long as you have the AP for it.

Now, what I mean when I say that the game is heavily PvP based is that you will die. You will die very, very often. But, death is relatively painless. You kind of get used to it. And, most combat is not live combat. Most of the people you kill will simply be people who are APed out and are doing things in the real world till they get some more AP. Your best defenses against other people tend to be class skills, good hiding places, and your morality.

Nexus War is a sort of traditional good and evil having an interplanar war to decide the fate of the cosmos kind of thing. Certain actions make you good, certain actions make you evil. Killing good people makes you more evil, killing evil people(unless you're already evil) makes you more good. Actions associated with chaos, like destroying doors, or removing power from buildings, makes you more evil, while actions associated with order (repairing doors or restoring power) make you more good. Besides combat, there are also crafting trees, healing trees, defensive actions (magically warding or physically barricading an area), innate defensive skills, mobility skills(since moving one square takes 1 AP, normally), general "fucking people over without killing them" skills, and so on and so forth.

It has a surprising amount of death, and regardless of the fact that you'll come back to your character to find them dead more often than not, is actually really fun.












......................So, the point of this entire post?

I just wanted to see if anyone else here played them, or other brower games. I figured I'd explain what they were as well since I am bored, and there might have been questions. But, guess what? Rollover just happened! I have my daily allottment of KoL adventures now! See you later, suckers!

I have played AlienAA, DragonSwords, and Utopia. I'm content with Doom and Marathon right now.

I'm playing Bitefight, currently (see the links in my sig ).

I did play Runescape, but I repented.

I used to play some Ogame before my planets all dissappeared. ShadowOps was pretty cool but I got sick of all the resets. That's pretty much it for me.

Kingdom of Loathing (See top for link), Travian, which is a good semi-RTS, a bit like Age of Empires. The only thing about it is THE SHEER AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES TO DO STUFF. its a game designed to be played for about five minutes, then you go off, and come back in about half an hour. Still, its addictive, and i love it, even if no one else does.

I used to play Utopia, MonstersGame, and KnightFight.


Then I discovered Sid Meier's fantastic creation: Civilization.

I'm playing bitefight too...it's pretty fun

my link to get bit by me...because you KNOW you want to: http://s6.bitefight.org/c.php?uid=25281

Bow-chicka-bow-wow!
Sorry, it had to be said

No, actually, it didn't.

Anywho, one good browser game I have found is Insane Aquarium, where you feed fish and get a cool pet alien. Its pretty sweet. Its from some game place, I dont recall who though. I think its popcap.

Well Sylvarius, you've got me addicted to KoL. FUCK TO YOU.

I've always been a fan of Legend of the Green Dragon. Search for it if you've never heard of it. Great game.

Hey, man. You, uh, you wanna try some goofballs? First bottle's free, man.

Ha, lol. Goofballs. That's a good effect. but it can "cause undue stress to his family and inhibit his interaction with other people." (or something like that) Prvt. Donut, Blood Gulch Red team.

I've actually found a Dragon Swords clone, think diablo 2 without graphics, magic, or classes. It's here

i play urban dead. it's a graphicless f2p where you get 50 action points and like nexus wars just about everything takes AP. unlike nexus wars, 50 is the set limit. it takes place in a quarantined city with 4 classes. military, scientist, civilian, and zombie. there are several sub classes too. for military there is: scout, private, and medic. scientist: necrotech lab assistant or doctor. civilian: cop, firefighter, or consumer. zombies have no subclasses. each class has its own set of skills which you get by buying them for 100xp each. you level up with every 100 xp. you can get skills from any class, exept for zombie when you're a survivor or survivor skills when your a zombie. the only benefit from the subclass you start out with is your weapons are different and you start out with one skill. you can find more info about it at http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Main_Page and the actual game is at http://www.urbandead.com/

So it basically sucks?

I'm level nine now on KoL, have joined a clan, passed all literacy and haiku tests, defeated the bonerdragon, only 1K meat away from a store. In a few weeks.

WWtNSD?

i like playing Cyber-Wars, i started a new post but i dont think ittle get posted, so ill post here too, cyber-wars is like nexus i guess you could say, your raise your stats and attack other people, yor dont get any weapons till your I.Q. above 35, which takes a while believe me, you dont need weapons tho, becuse the higher your stats the more damage your do, its a fun game so you should all join, it even has a chat thing on it so people can talk. im putting upmy reqruimen link,becuseits a good way for me to raise some of my stats.

Cyber-Wars Reqruitment Link

Browser rpg's ehh, runescape is playable but not overly enjoyable since its open to so much abuse nowadays, i tend to play Dragonfable, its a good game by the people that made AdventureQuest, only problem is its basically one player =\ there is a battle arena knida like the wildy but a lot more organised... anyway does anyone know of a really awsome browser mmo? because im looking atm

I realize this is an old post but I thought I'd reply to it because of the recent increase in decent browser games

I personally play Ikariam, tribal wars, knights divine, legacy (legacy-game), cybernations, and I used to play travian. very fun games though the only ones i've stuck with for a long time have been knights divine, legacy, and cybernations.

Well, you should not do that. That is what we like to call NECRO-POSTING. Now, a Mod is going to come close this topic, and then promptly tell you off.

Mmmm....a post dead almost a year normally means you should create a new one, not reply to one dead one.

Closed.