Godus: Peter Molyneux's next Big Fun Thing.

[Teleku]

Yeah, ditto.


It's amazing how people can create stupid browser games that are immediately and massively more enjoyable to play than the stuff game 'visionaries' shit out decade after decade while burning through millions of dollars.   

[schild]

The problem with seers, regardless of their label - in this case, visionary, is that they tend to be blind.

[Rendakor]

There's already a clicking game that is superior.

http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

Thanks for wasting my evening.

[Sjofn]

Fine, you assholes, I'll try the damn cookie game!

[Soulflame]

One of us!  One of us!

[Samwise]

We are many.  We are one.

[Pennilenko]

Cookies need their own thread.

[Bzalthek]

So, back to Godus.  I played through one iteration and I enjoyed it but that is probably largely due to my whole land sculpting fetish.

I ran into quite a few cockblocks, not unexpected since it's "40% Beta" or whatever, but it was kind of annoying when I ran into them.   The resources from chests are random, and I would have liked to finish a few of the tech-tree things like mining (since I have a gem patch I can't mine), I ran out of chests before I could finish them off.  I also ran out of land expansion shrines, so my expansion capped at about 5k citizens (though I have plenty of space for more, it is now finite.)

I ran out of faith all the fucking time.  The Settlement statues were nice in the beginning, but after like 3 you have to spend gems on them too, and then after a few more hours you are back to clicking on individual houses to get the faith to sculpt the land which is horrendously expensive.  This is doubly irritating since the view/draw distance is a tiny box.

Despite the irritations and my newly inflamed carpal tunnel (which was exacerbated by fuck you cookie clicker) I enjoyed dicking around with the game.  I was tempted to restart, but found you have to uninstall and delete the folder and then reinstall in order to do so, so I figured I'll just wait for the next big update.

All in all I felt it was worth the 20 bucks so far, and will look forward to more content.

[Trouble]

So, back to Godus.  I played through one iteration and I enjoyed it but that is probably largely due to my whole land sculpting fetish.

I ran into quite a few cockblocks, not unexpected since it's "40% Beta" or whatever, but it was kind of annoying when I ran into them.   The resources from chests are random, and I would have liked to finish a few of the tech-tree things like mining (since I have a gem patch I can't mine), I ran out of chests before I could finish them off.  I also ran out of land expansion shrines, so my expansion capped at about 5k citizens (though I have plenty of space for more, it is now finite.)

I ran out of faith all the fucking time.  The Settlement statues were nice in the beginning, but after like 3 you have to spend gems on them too, and then after a few more hours you are back to clicking on individual houses to get the faith to sculpt the land which is horrendously expensive.  This is doubly irritating since the view/draw distance is a tiny box.

Despite the irritations and my newly inflamed carpal tunnel (which was exacerbated by fuck you cookie clicker) I enjoyed dicking around with the game.  I was tempted to restart, but found you have to uninstall and delete the folder and then reinstall in order to do so, so I figured I'll just wait for the next big update.

All in all I felt it was worth the 20 bucks so far, and will look forward to more content.

This echoes my experience pretty well. I have my doubts about the ability of the game to somehow work through the apparent desired tech tree of going through the space age (seriously?), but I also feel that the game as is, plus a bit more, is easily worth the $20.

I have to say that I like how the game deals with micromanagement. I think the amount of clicking required as a baseline is like 5x too high, but the underlying concept of requiring less management per unit as your empire grows larger is fucking genius.

[Sophismata]

Cookies need their own thread.

Every time I play it I inevitably give myself some exponent of cookies, get bored and leave. :(

I just don't get all the clicking.

Code:

function () {
Game.cookies += 1e40;
Game.cookiesEarned += 1e40;
}

[Ragnoros]

Every time I play it I inevitably give myself some exponent of cookies, get bored and leave. :(

I just don't get all the clicking.

These two are related.

[Xanthippe]

Clicking? What clicking?

That's what browser tabs are for.