Westward Trail

supermario566 · Post by **supermario566** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 7:40 pm

Think Oregon Trail, but browser based and free.

http://westward.globalgamenetwork.com/c ... =startgame

Odds · Post by **Odds** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:11 pm

FORD THE RIVER

Snarf · Post by **Snarf** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:31 pm

Odds wrote:FORD THE RIVER

You die.

Odds · Post by **Odds** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:31 pm

dammit

Mr. Mander · Post by **Mr. Mander** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:34 pm

Odds wrote:FORD THE RIVER STYX

Post by **DarkSurfer** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:36 pm

Post by **Superior Bacon** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:37 pm

STOP EATING SO MUCH GOD

stupid party

Odds · Post by **Odds** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:55 pm

hunting for food is the worst

HERE'S A DEER

no fuck you you're too slow aiming your gun you go hungry

WhiteCrestAngel · Post by **WhiteCrestAngel** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:03 pm

I'm so bored, I may be tempted to play this...

You have a cold.
You take tylonel.
Too late you died of AIDS!

Game Angel · Post by **Game Angel** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:05 pm

But AIDS didn't exist in the 1800s.

Post by **DarkSurfer** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:05 pm

That doesn't make any sense.

Plasma · Post by **Plasma** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:06 pm

This version...

...is HORRIBLY sucky!

Okay, first, the graphics. I mean, the original hardly-ever-an-image graphics were better than this! I mean, it really ruins the whole scale of epicness of the whole game when the image of your wagon only moves 2 meters a day!
Second, the advice stuff is completely gone. How much food am I expected to buy?
Third, they completely removed actually being able to tell how wide and deep the river is. I mean, in the original, half the fun of Fording the river was laughing at how you lost half your oxen crossing a river that's 10 centimeters deeper than the one you got past perfectly safely! Now it's just "the river is wide and shallow"
Fourth, the death messages. In this one, it's just "X has died" in a tiny red font. They don't even tell you what they died from!
And fifth, and perhaps the biggest of all, hunting:

Odds wrote:hunting for food is the worst
HERE'S A DEER
no fuck you you're too slow aiming your gun you go hungry

You bought bullets? Why would you do such a thing?! I mean, the chance of actually getting an average of 20lbs per hunt is pretty slim (mostly because of the god-awful way you have to do it), not to mention that hunting eats up quite a lot of time!

But in terms of actually good Oregon Trail remakes, I'm looking forward to the WiiWare one coming out!

WhiteCrestAngel · Post by **WhiteCrestAngel** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:06 pm

Since when have I ever cared about making sense?

Post by **Superior Bacon** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:10 pm

WhiteCrestAngel wrote:Since when have I ever cared about making sense?

This is why people bitch at you.

Plasma · Post by **Plasma** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:23 pm

Oh, and it gets worse. The image of Oregon itself? Nothing but a ridiculously colourful rainbow and three giant butterflies. What the hell?!

I did laugh at the fact that, 5 miles to go (1/4 of a day), one of my members actually said they wanted to stop and turn around!

God, this game is rubbish!