Adventure capitalist made me start a blog!

     So tomorrow morning smash brothers comes out. In an attempt to speed up the night I try to come up with something that won't interfere with my job, but still keep me entertained. I remember a site I used to visit all the time in college and highschool, kongregate.com. I go straight to the "top games" section where I see a game called adventure capitalist. Not caring what I play as long as it was easy to pause (you'd be amazed at how busy it can get at night) I clicked.

     Here's how the game went. At the start you have a lemonade stand, you click the button to make lemonade, you get money. You then get a newspaper stand, which is on a different cooldown timer then the lemonade stand. I could see where it was going, judging by the unavailable things I would be eventually clicking on 10 different things with different timers. This seemed pretty fun, hectic click games are ok. After I had about 4 shops unlocked, and I was just starting to have fun, I'm told about managers, who click the buttons for you. 30 minutes of play later I get a bank, which has a cooldown of an hour and a half, which makes me realize I'm playing a facebook game. I later learned these are called "idle" games, which is a new genre, to me at least. You click something, wait, click something, wait, and if you're impatient you spend real life money to speed up the time between clicking.

5 real life dollars buys the guy in the upper left corner a suit

     I was disgusted at this point, and went over to my facebook chat to vent about how stupid this is. Realizing no one actually cares, and that it would take forever to compress my annoyance into a facebook post, I decided hell! Let's make a blog! This way I can vent, but no one who doesn't want to has to listen!

     Why did this game annoy me so much? Well first because it's a game in the same way filling up a pool is a game. You turn on the hose, eventually it fills up. You don't even have to be present for it to fill, just walk away, come back the next day and you've won. This game makes farmville look like half life 3. The saddest thing is, there are a ton like it. Even one of my favorite time wasters, learn to fly, has an "idle" version now. You don't have to learn to fly, just get the penguin set up, leave the room, come back the next day and he's flying!

 I guess I can just hope these games don't leak off phones and computers into consoles, though it doesn't look good. The next sonic game "sonic boom" has the usual sonic running sections, but they use slot mechanics. Think subway runner, temple escape, etc. There are 3 lanes, you switch between them with the L and R buttons, jumping to avoid ground obstacles, rolling to avoid high obstacles.

Before I get started on sonic games, I'm going to stop there. Hope you enjoyed the rant, don't be a stranger!