Poll: Genre Wars

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Here's a test of your Escapist age.

Describe Genre Wars to the new kids. What was your army? Did you actually participate?

Would you like to see something similar attempted these days? Something preferably low maintenance so the Tech Team don't have to go overtime on it. There's new content on the horizon, why not look at what we used to have and ponder?

[sup][sup]Boredom and looking at my old badges reminded me that it was a thing once upon a time.[/sup][/sup]

 

[Queen Michael]

I've been around for some time, but I only played a couple of times. It wasn't really my thing.

 

[sky14kemea]

I was overly-pirate.

I remember making a thread offering to put the symbols in peoples avatars for them.... Good times.

Never actually played it all that much though. I liked the gimmick more than the game.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Uh what are Genre Wars?

 

[Strazdas]

i remmeber genre wars, but i never tried them. and when i envetually did noone but the bot was still playing.

obviuosly robots are the best factions. you never go to a war with a robot. in words of Stephen Hawking - "You would loose".

 

[CrystalShadow]

I played it a few dozen times. Have the badges to prove it, but, I never really got the hang of a good strategy. I tried pretty much every group a few times, but I mainly played as Ninjas.

It was an interesting concept, but it clearly had some issues.
I tried to figure out the game logic behind it for a while, but I didn't get that far. (was mainly trying to determine what the actual unit stats were, given most of them were cryptic text descriptions like 'weak' or 'legendary', but two units with the same description often had different stats from what I remember)

 

[Barbas]

I didn't get as far as I'd hoped with the robots. Still, it was an amusing distraction for a few minutes before I rediscovered Flash tower defense games.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

I remember it, but I never actually played it.

So I guess that doesn't really count for a whole lot.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Now I'm just curious... What would be the site reaction to a new browser based free to play game on the Escapist. Platformer? Trading card game? Or maybe even a...

Flash tower defense game.

It would be at least a minor success if there were badges involved. Escapists love badges...

 

[Scarim Coral]

I was pretty much late to the party when it was up. If only I wasn't a lurker back then and signed up sooner!

 

[Kae]

It was a thing that was there and I tried it and it was boring so I stopped...

There was also a pretty similar X-Com thing back when Enemy Unknown was about to come out, I gave it a bit more of a chance but eh couldn't be bothered