Well, today I think I'll talk about a subject near and dear to my heart. ProgressQuest. Well, okay, it's not really all that near or dear. It's funny, though. And I can spend literally hours sitting there watching the progress bars and having nearly as much fun as I do level grinding in any other RPG. More, in fact, because I can leave ProgressQuest to do its own thing and, say, go to sleep, without worrying about dying horribly and having to restore and replay the last however many hours of mind-numbingly dull combat.
See, that's the thing. I really like RPGs, but almost entirely for the story and the visual effects. The combat, which most other people I know seem to regard as the high point, is really just an obstacle in the way of getting to the next story part, and I generally don't find it enjoyable in the slightest, except when you get, like, a new spell or power or whatever, and you get to look at the new effects. 'cause really, now that I think about it, I'm not a real fan of RPGs, I'm a fan of adventure games, and except for a couple of real standouts in the last couple years, adventure games are mostly dead. And RPGs are just the next best thing.
So, anyway, ProgressQuest is a great game, if you take it on its own merits. It doesn't really have any, see. It's just making fun of More-Pigs.
Posted by stirge at May 13, 2004 08:48 PM