This game is awesome!

[P3nT4gR4m]

I found a strong armour! Two quests back. I will now kill with impunity!!! 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I got the Horn, but I feel like there's more for me to get in the Castle. Somehow.

[Cain]

I give, I'm just gonna keep eating candy until I don't need tactics.

Wasn't this the American strategy in Iraq?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I give, I'm just gonna keep eating candy until I don't need tactics.

Wasn't this the American strategy in Iraq?

[P3nT4gR4m]

Yeah, and it worked. Saw a thing on the news about it - the Iraqis are all bathing in the soft warm glow of freedom now

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hell keeps kicking my ass!

But I am getting 300 lollipops a second now.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

My summon sword spits out chupacabras. They protect me from harm and devour my enemies. THIS GAME IS AWESOME!

Goddammit, I need a sword upgrade!

DID YOU COVER YOUR SWORD WITH CANDY AND CHOCOLATE? BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO DO THAT

THEN YOU GET A MAP TO THE MAGIC ANVIL

AND THEN THE WITCH WILL UPGRADE YOUR SHIT FOR LIKE A BILLION LOLLIPOPS



I realize that you probably totally know all of this, but I felt compelled to spell out certain details of this game for outside observers. Otherwise, how will they know what's going on?

Yeah, I have a chocolate diamond life-giving sword but I'm still building my lolli cache.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Hell keeps kicking my ass!

But I am getting 300 lollipops a second now.

It gets past 100?

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Um, why does McAffee warn me about the site?

Because the game wouldn't let McAffee have a cameo in the game as a potion that evaporates ghosts.

McAfee is shit. It was actually SLOWING EVERYTHING DOWN AND FREEZING SHIT. I took it off while I still had a few months left and stuck in Microsoft Security Essentials, which is free, works and not only DOESN'T FUCK WITH ME NONSTOP, it DOESN'T FUCK WITH ME AT ALL.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Um, why does McAffee warn me about the site?

Because the game wouldn't let McAffee have a cameo in the game as a potion that evaporates ghosts.

McAfee is shit. It was actually SLOWING EVERYTHING DOWN AND FREEZING SHIT. I took it off while I still had a few months left and stuck in Microsoft Security Essentials, which is free, works and not only DOESN'T FUCK WITH ME NONSTOP, it DOESN'T FUCK WITH ME AT ALL.

+1 everything in this post.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hell keeps kicking my ass!

But I am getting 300 lollipops a second now.

It gets past 100?

You have to use GMOOH in the Castle. Possibly a few times.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also LOL GMOOH! I just now got that. 

[Junkenstein]

Kingdom of Loathing would probably work quite well in this kind of format.

And seriously, fuck potion making. Even when I follow it exactly I get nothing.

Fucking crafting mechanics. Bah. The intention is always good and the execution is always fucked up

Thinking about this, with crafting mechanics in general the thing that pisses me off is mainly the the "hidden grinding game" aspect that gets slipped into a lot of games by near accident. To mine X Click Y times/play Z tedious minigame. It's not infrequent enough to be an accomplishment and they tend to become intergral to winning the game (or at least speeding advancement in key areas)

In play terms the only difference between the click to kill RPG(Diablos/Skyrim), Making a friend in the Sims or more potions from the cauldron is graphics. With the diablos/skyrims other skills are tested so you notice the repetition less. The sims style games have content overload so interactions vary between purely functional to pure fun. The fun type rarely advances the game towards a typical "win" state which results in many players going soley for the known routine that improves regardless.

The cauldron gives you exact instructions and resource is abundant, so the key investment is time mixing/boiling/routining to win. I'm kind of averse to games where you win just by doing it more. I'd prefer some kind of skill challenge in with it, however minor. I'm not sure what would be a fair skill to test though.

I get that it's just a browser game and I'm not trying to shit on it or ruin it for everyone. I just like game mechanics.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Seriously? Serious game critique here?

[Junkenstein]

There's actually quite a bit to it. It's better designed than a lot of games i've blasted through recently. Been on a bit of binge and am now enjoying a lovely bout of self loathing. I had shit to do. It waited but it could have ended badly.

So now I'm working out why I hate them all again.