Why was The Oregon Trail never copied?

[Elok]

Oh man I want to play this game with a generation ship.

Actually, that would be pretty ****ing awesome. It'd be sort of like SimCity, I guess, only the main challenge would be maintaining order and civilization among the population, with the building part being minimal? By the time your ship reaches its destination, you could have turned into a socialist collective, a hive mind, a theocracy, or just cannibal tribes fighting over sections of the ship.

[Elok]

I want an underworld game where you're in charge of an expedition to find a mythic passage to the overworld, and you're allowed to use a variety of routes and gameplay approaches to get there. Do you "shortcut" through goblin territory, doing the requisite hacking and slashing and gathering plundered wealth along the way, or run a merchant party through the more out-of-the-way but civilized dwarven region? How many fighting characters do you bring, as opposed to gifted foragers, scouts, thieves, traders or diplomats? Do you hire mercenaries, and if so, how do you keep them loyal? Etc.

[The Mad Monk]

If you can get Loin's attention, he might tell you about Sunless Sea.

[Elok]

I looked it up, and while I generally don't do steampunk it seems interesting.

[Dinner]

I just downloaded some freeware app for android called Oregon Trail and it looked weird. I had a hard time even figuring out the UI.

[Dinner]

If you can get Loin's attention, he might tell you about Sunless Sea.

He ia a Forgotten Realms fan, eh?

[The Mad Monk]

It's not Forgotten Realms AFAIK; the Realms didn't do steampunk with a generous helping of Lovecraft, IIRC.

[Elok]

I'm only familiar with the Underdark via MrTemba's old Civ2 scenario (and wiki-ing to find out what all the stuff in it was supposed to mean), but certain parts of it have clear Lovecraftian influence--the Illithids, for example. Now, I found the Illithids incredibly boring, but then I didn't much care for my brief exposure to Lovecraft either.

[Dinner]

It's not Forgotten Realms AFAIK; the Realms didn't do steampunk with a generous helping of Lovecraft, IIRC.

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Glimmersea

Sorry theirs is the glimmersea. An underground ocean.

[The Mad Monk]

Illithids were in Greyhawk too -- part of the Slavers / Giants / Drow trilogy.

[ZEE]

lol nerds.

[SlowwHand]

Oregon Trail, and others, are available as an App at Play Store on your phone.

[The Mad Monk]

lol nerds.

Is that like lolcats?

[loinburger]

If you can get Loin's attention, he might tell you about Sunless Sea.

Sunless Sea kicks ass. It's by the people who made Fallen London, an online browser game set in London after Lovecraftian Horrors have transported it a mile underground. Fallen London primarily takes place in London, Sunless Sea primarily takes place everywhere else that's a mile underground.

Unfortunately there's a lot of grinding involved, fortunately your save games are text files so you can just edit them to give yourself a trillion dollars or whatever which lets you focus on exploration instead of on grinding.

[loinburger]

Here's an example of a Sunless Sea quest:
Your navigator has a strange tattoo and has lost some of his memories, so you decide to investigate the tattoo. It turns out that he's a cannibal, and the tattoo was supposed to help him to forget about his cannibal past but it's wearing off. You can resolve this issue by either a. dropping off your navigator at a location that will help him to come to terms with his cannibal past, or b. you can drop your navigator off at a location where he will be eaten by cannibals, or c. you and your navigator can eat your crew, thereby allowing your navigator to achieve apotheosis.