Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Just What Am I Playing? January 2011

I think this blog series might need an acronym, so here's the second JWIP:

I stopped playing City of Wonder around Christmas. I was sick and tired of it, and I was too busy playing other games and doing various personal tasks to play a casual Facebook game. Steam has a sale, OK?! Anyway, around the end of December, I had to get back into school, and I started toying with a few more Facebook games.

I went through a lot of text-based games, and none of those worked all that well, except Dynasty Wars. However, I didn't find that game fun, so I tried a bunch of trivia. I sucked at Popcorn Hero, so I moved to arcade games, and I found Robot Unicorn Attack.

I love that game! It has very simple controls and an addictive gameplay mechanic: jump over stuff. You also get a dash power, and you will find times when you have to immediately jump, dash, land, dash, and jump in that order. Yes, it can be hard, but it's always fun to see how long you can last or how far you can go. There's a score board, too, if you're into that sort of thing.

Another game I'm playing on the side is Monster Fantasy. It has a very unoriginal title, but it is one of the few actual MMORPGs I've seen that work entirely through Facebook, and it looks pretty. My only problem with it is the loading screen doesn't always finish loading, and I have to refresh the page and even empty my cache to even load the game. If you're looking for a MMOG to play with your Facebook friends, try Monster Fantasy. You could also try RuneScape, but hey, whatever.