Well I guess the title says it all, I was just wondering who ya'll thought were the most active 'forumers' in this part of the AG forum. Opinions, that what this Forum is going to be, pure opinions, and yes you can say 'Me'.
Of course I can see more appeal in something like that (as long as you could save), than other real-time life simulations like, say, Second Life. At least I'd be pretending to live from a completely bygone era rather than trying to live a life I don't have merely because I'm spending it in front of the computer.
Whoa... There's an idea. Instead of having it be a console rpg ,have it be a mmorpg. Keep the slow wagon speed and the scale of the trail.
Instead of leveling up from experiance, your rank would be determined by your progress along the trail. Speed wouldn't be an issue, because you would be able to intereact with other players along the whole way, getting in duels, trading, etc.
After players completed the trail (maybe three-five months), they could restart from the begining, but with a higher rank. They would be able to act as guides, or take advantage of other player's newbiness for profit.
It would follow the basic mmorpg format, but instead of a bunch of little quests, you would have one gigantic (but dynamic) quest.
That sounds like a cool idea, but at the same time, a bunch of people nowadays would consider it more boring than fun.
Most teens who play games, would rather have more of an open world to explore in, rather than be stuck on one trail the whole way.
So it would depend on what audience the game is aiming for. The teenage gaming community, or older. It would all depend on which group of people would appreciate the game for what it is, and not complain that it has no open world.
That sounds like a cool idea, but at the same time, a bunch of people nowadays would consider it more boring than fun.
Oregon Trail's fun, it is.
The original topic was abysmal and lacking compared to what Strop did to this thread. We must thank him because we now have a broad conversation thread.
The reason why it's nostalgic to people is because it was popular in North American schools in the 80s and 90s.
True, very true. I spent many hours playing oregon trail as a wee child. But it wasn't the original version, because it was in full color.
However, in order to keeps things "local" I spent a lot more of my school time playing Yukon Trail, which was made by the same people as Oregon Trail. It wasn't nearly as good, however.
There was also the Amazon version, where you got to be a in canoe.
I also played a lot of Bugdom. I don't know how that fit into the whole education thing, though.
Hmm.. The original version was from the 1970s. You played DOS? I played that one and the Deluxe edition.
I've managed to find Oregon Trail II. I played a demo years ago (more than eight I guess) and I wanted to get a hold of the game ever since. Now that I do have it, it's awesome. I like eBay.
Yukon Trail? Haven't tried that out yet. I did play Amazon Trail though. I believe it was Amazon Trail II. For some reason I had it on Windows 95.
