Favourite online games

May 2nd, 2010

I play a few games online, but I have never been interested in connecting my Xbox 360 to the internet and playing against other people. The games I play online are very low tech web browser ones.

I used to play text based games like Kingdom of Heros and Carrion fields, where instead of a description the area you are in is described to you and you have to work out what to do by searching for secret entrances and hidden objects. I used to spend lots of time drawing maps and finding all the secrets with the idea that I would publish them online for other people to see. I got as far as drawing them on paint (the only drawing package I can use) but never learnt how to make a webpage.

I now play tribal wars a lot. It’s a web browser game where you have a small village to look after and grow. You are on a world with lots of other players and can attack each others villages and eventually take control of more villages. The good thing about it is it’s a long term game, to upgrade building can take up to 30 hours some times. I currently have a small group of 11 villages on one world and 1 village on another. It is the only game my wife has really gotten into ever!!! She logs on at least twice a day and has been playing it for about 3 months not.

The nice thing about tribal wars is that it is all based around people forming tribes (which anyone can do) and supporting each other by coordinating attacks and sending troops to defend villages.

Of course there are the smaller browser games like the ones you find on Miniclips which are good for wasting time but there life span is very limited.

I like these games because you do not need a fast internet connection. I used to play Alien verses predator online when I was younger and only had a 54K modem. It was ridiculously slow and the winner was who ever had the quickest connection at the time. Nowadays I have a 2mbps connection which is only just quick enough to get on Xbox live. There is also the fact the you have to pay a subscription to play which I really do not like.

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