Why are you looking at me Starvling cat? - Page 2

Professor Smarmiarty · 01-31-2011, 08:36 AM

So pretty sure I'm massively behind the times, but over the weekend starting hitting some Echo Bazaar. If you haven't heard it's a free browser game where you explore a subterranean victorian style London full of mystery and intrigue.
On my first few days I've broken out of prison, hunted down an escaped devil for the agency of Hell, starting hanging out with bohemians and anarchists (what else would I do?), learnt the secret language of tatoos and lingered on the brink of madness.
Also I've been to lots of dinner parties and played chess (once you have friends on their you can invite them to come do stuff iwth you and get lots of rewards).
One of the best things is the major NPCs all have twitter feeds in character which are hilarious.
The major problem with the game is its slow pace- you can make a maximum of 70 actions a day and you can have 10 actions recharged at a time. Once used an action takes 6 minutes to recharge so once you've run through your actions you need to wait an hour to use them again (or a good chunk of the day if you hit your 70) which is massively frustrating. It has a simplistic art style but works pretty well and the descriptions and the world are all very flavourful, intriguin and comic.
So anybody playing?

01-31-2011, 08:36 AM	#1
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	Why are you looking at me Starvling cat? So pretty sure I'm massively behind the times, but over the weekend starting hitting some Echo Bazaar. If you haven't heard it's a free browser game where you explore a subterranean victorian style London full of mystery and intrigue. On my first few days I've broken out of prison, hunted down an escaped devil for the agency of Hell, starting hanging out with bohemians and anarchists (what else would I do?), learnt the secret language of tatoos and lingered on the brink of madness. Also I've been to lots of dinner parties and played chess (once you have friends on their you can invite them to come do stuff iwth you and get lots of rewards). One of the best things is the major NPCs all have twitter feeds in character which are hilarious. The major problem with the game is its slow pace- you can make a maximum of 70 actions a day and you can have 10 actions recharged at a time. Once used an action takes 6 minutes to recharge so once you've run through your actions you need to wait an hour to use them again (or a good chunk of the day if you hit your 70) which is massively frustrating. It has a simplistic art style but works pretty well and the descriptions and the world are all very flavourful, intriguin and comic. So anybody playing?