Recent posts by neo32x on Kongregate

Topic: General Gaming / rpg games with no level cap

i have a few such games bookmarked actually and none of which are tick based (energy bar type waiting games).

http://www.eternalwars.com/Index.php

http://lordsoflords.com/ (theres multiple servers and a .net version of it)

https://www.neflaria.com/ (can lvl up super fast here at the start if you get a low lvl quest worth a few million exp ;) )

http://www.hero-town.com/

don’t think theres a game with truly infinite lvling but these go up to..i think its E+59 or some such. they’re all text based and easy to get into if thats to your liking. but yeah, no real lvl cap anywhere on these.

Topic: DarkOrbit / Ooops, we ran into an Error here. Please try again later.

hah, fail, looks like this problem persists to 2013 lol

Topic: Kongregate / kong devs please read: rating system stagnation/complaints

@bobby71983: um, no, it isn’t. i like that series so i’m not complaining about it. in fact, the only complaint i did have was a minor one with the music seeming to feel less epic than in EBF3 but whatever.

hmmm… i guess you have a point there 123aaa789.

sometimes it just feels like the highest rating list never changes.

far as the recommended game list goes… the oldest currently showing for me is from ‘09 but overall its nothing except those i’ve already played/beaten so thats not much help to me. the thing seems to go off of what you rate highly >.> maybe if i rated like 3 dozen random zombie games it would recommend more of that genre or something, i dunno. could be nice to narrow down or expand what gets recommended though.

Topic: Kongregate / Suggestions

i, like many others, just want to see some change in the way the rating system works so we don’t have to go digging through the lists or wait forever for a miracle and see for only a few days, a new game in the highest rating range and otherwise always see the exact same games day after day, month after month, year after year, etc. long LONG after we may’ve beaten it well beyond submission.

Topic: Kongregate / kong devs please read: rating system stagnation/complaints

first off let me say this: i’ve been coming to this site to play games for around… this’ll be my 5th year this november. i was around when games like sonny, epic battle fantasy (the 1st one), the protector franchise, the gemcraft franchise, and the bloons td franchise (need i continue?) all started out years ago. and i still like this site, i just hate seeing what this dated system does to it as i’m sure many others do as well.

now, thanks to the current 5-star rating system, you very rarely see anything new unless you actually go through pages and pages of each category to find something “good” to play.

yes yes, i know the 5-star system lets whatever is popular get its turn in the light which is fair but, BUT, it also allows those same games and whatnot get buried easily under the mountain of games that’ve been highly rated (usually by like a 1-100 thousandth of a star or less) and once that happens all you see at the top are old games that have been around for almost 1/2 a decade now.

with the current rating system, once a game reaches the 4-4.5 star point thats pretty much as good as its rating will get unless the dev does something and it turns around and it somehow bombs big time >.> even that isn’t enough to change a games rating sometimes.

yes, i know i’m gonna get some argument over this next part but honestly, i could care less as this DOES work. a thumbs up/down system.

if anyone even tries to point out that that system is more about popularity or some such then know that the current 5-star system is the exact same way only with 5 things to click instead of 2.

we already have that for comments here (dear lord, please don’t let them fully convert kong into a facebook clone or so help me, the devs will have my undying hatred, sorry just really don’t like facebook) so why not the games?

an alternative to that would be a new sub-category like maybe veteran or relics or something where games over a certain age with high enough ratings would be resorted into allowing the current categories to actually be kept up-to-date with newer games be they good or bad.

as it is now, its maybe 1 to…well anywhere up to maybe 3 years, if that, before the current highest rating sort option has anything remotely new at the 1st page of a category.

as i type this the new game Epic Battle Fantasy 4 sits at the top of the highest rated adventure & RPG games with a rating of 4.7. yes i’m sure that will go down abit over time but i highly doubt it will ever touch 5-star as that is nearly impossible (how often has that ever happened on this site…? whatever) i’m sure. point is, now that its at the top its not likely to move down the list very far ever again and so it’ll be added to the growing pile of stagnation over the next few months.

thats all the highest rating sort option ever shows, pure and utter stagnation. i mean, seriously, each category has (i guarantee you) no less than 5 titles that have been at the top of the highest ratings for no less than 2-3 years with no change at all.

i don’t know what more to say. you can look atany category and see the proof yourself. far as i can tell, the current 5-star system only serves to promote high rated stagnation and bury any and all other games in obscurity. i get the highest rated games currently shown as such are fun, i really do but doesn’t anyone want some change and/or variety aside from just those games?

off-topic but could the recommended games on the front pages actually be “fixed” for once in its miserable life?! i hate seeing every single game i’ve already played or low rated crap always being shown on that short listing. maybe have a setup page where you could specify a certain rating threshold and/or tags to allow or block to force it to sort things a bit better. i’ve seen complaints about that before too.

tl;dr, i, like many others, just want to see some change in the way the rating system works so we don’t have to go digging through the lists or wait forever for a miracle and see for only a few days, a new game in the highest rating range and otherwise always see the exact same games day after day, month after month, year after year, etc. long LONG after we may’ve beaten it well beyond submission.

Topic: Spiral Knights / so many problems

you’d think that after being out so long that the devs would’ve fixed the game by now but no, its STILL cluttered with login issues and more or less unplayable to a lot of people.

i stopped playing this game, i dunno, soon after it was released? (not on kong but the main site)

my reason? switching to full screen mode by any means made it crash, followed by login errors, download errors, amongst other problems. boy it sure is fun when you have to redownload a game EVERY SINGLE TIME just to “attempt” to login only to hit more errors and start the process all over again, yeah thats really playable and fun (note sarcasm >.> ).

i’d give it another try but more than likely, even now, i’d get much of the same that everyone else does. a faulty, buggy, semi-playable, if at all playable game.

does that sum up most of the problems everyone faces with this game, least as far as technical issues go?

Topic: Wings of Destiny / hey look, its another...

"i don't know how to play games so hold my hand through every single click through the start of the game" type of game. seriously? this is obviously a pay-to-win game where the exp rates are likely so off balance grinding against monsters gives virtually nothing compared to quest payouts. this type of game is so ridiculously common and (pay-to-win is such a utterly retarded idea) idiotic type of game that i could tell right away after making my character what it was going to be like. geez, what is wrong with devs these days? i'm certain a good number of people would probably agreee with me on this. enough with the crappy "pay-to-win" games, its a freaking BAD idea. plus, most of us who play legitimately have to always put up with those who dish out IRL $ having the obvious unfair advantage over us unless we decide to do the same. UGH, even without the whole pay-to-win aspect i'd wager that it'd still be off balance with the grinding vs quest exp issue. Soul of Guardian and i think crystal saga are 2 examples of that flaw. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- feel free to take this as a review for the game which i needed less than 5 minutes of play time to ID as one of the countless others like it if you want. also, no you shall not be getting IRL $ OR my free time dev. that and 0 of 5 rating >.> as if that means anything on kongregate anymore. edit: wow, talk about conflicting formats, i had that split into pieces when typing it yet kong spat out a massive text wall. what the heck?

Topic: Nova Raider / [READ ME] Connection / login problems

i agree, crazymunky, avast! isn’t a bad antivirus. o.O

now if you were speaking of something along the lines of norton (and don’t you dare say that one isn’t bad) then i’d agree with you, sublinet.

give me a “good” reason and i may consider disabling avast!, otherwise forget it.

Topic: Nova Raider / can't load the game

been asked before but it looks like this problem is still persisting. was gonna give the game a try earlier (first time) but the loading screen stopped at a whopping 0%. refreshing a few times didn’t help (using firefox btw) and i even got a message saying impossible to connect at one point.

any solutions?

Topic: Kongregate Multiplayer Games / [Pirate Galaxy] Glitches that must be fixed NOW!

this glitch has been around forever, in my experience it usually either demands a page refresh (if it really does get you stuck) or just sit and wait a few seconds/minutes and it should load.

Topic: Kongregate Multiplayer Games / [Waraxe] Jesus, game, Why the long face?

i’m inclined to agree with you here, jut aw a units tooltip info extend so far that it went off the screen in fullscreen mode (firefox), that not a good thing.

Topic: Dawn of the Dragons / too much lags lately

were this not a flash mmorpg i’d attribute the lag partly to latency from peoples internet connections (wireless and dial-up as i know from experience, are horrible when it comes to that). this however can’t simply be internet connection alone, not entirely anyway as its not so much lag per say but the game just loads everything (icons/pics/backgrounds/etc.) very, VERY slowly every single time i go to play it.

so far no other game on kong “loads” anywhere near this slow or if it does it’ll usually crash the flash plugin or browser (firefox) but that doesn’t happen on this game so its not that issue.

lag would be if the game responded to clicking and other actions slowly, in this case its painfully slow load times what with having to wait minutes for anything to load in the game.

edit: wireless high speed internet connection here as my dial-up doesn’t like mmo’s like this :(

Topic: GemCraft Labyrinth / gemcraft 2

well it certainly looks nice. i just hope they’ll have solved the framerate issues with high rank/speed gems that plagues GCL here :/

Topic: GemCraft Labyrinth / can't play the game

:/ IE = same thing, a massive lag spike where the game seemingly freezes then nothing once that passes except i can tell its still running properly as the clouds in the background continue moving normally.

Topic: GemCraft Labyrinth / can't play the game

pardon the double post but no help here? older versions of the game (hacked and unhacked on other sites) work fine but i’m not gonna waste my time buying premium everywhere as its kinda dumb to do that.

well this sucks

Topic: GemCraft Labyrinth / can't play the game

the game loads fine up till the title screen but as soon as i hit start game it just stops responding followed by the flash plugin crashing. i probably should’ve brought this up before but i never bothered and after a few months i decided i’d like to try this game again now, but that won’t happen unless this is cleared up.

honestly i haven’t a clue what the problem is, i mean i have premium and iirc my save in slot 1 was lvled well into the thousands with the majority of the board cleared.

if anyone has a solution lemme know, i’ll dig around and delete the saves on my computer if that’d help (not sure if thats the issue though)

edit: just checked and if i leave the page up without trying to change tabs or minimie the browser (an attempt to bypass or lower the lag spike) it won’t crash the flash plugin BUT the list of save files you get to choose from won’t come up at all.

Topic: Epic War Saga / Suggestion and Ideas

just an idea for how the menus and such look but what if the red/blue background were animated to look like a upward flowing mist or fog? and for the victory/lose words after a fight, have victory sparkling (its already in gold) and for lose a dull color or maybe the word could looked partially cracked or something.

just a couple cosmetic ideas i’ve been thinking about though they might look pretty nice if implemented.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Daily Reward Combination Thread

book 1 – 42135 – 4 plat for 2 hours

Topic: Epic War Saga / You know you're addicted to Epic War Saga when ...

Originally posted by calvin_hobbes:

You know you’re addicted to Epic War Saga when you duck at the gorilla cages at the zoo.
You know you’re addicted to Epic War Saga when you think a totem pole will kill you.
You know you’re addicted to Epic War Saga when you think a rhino will execute you.
You know you’re addicted to Epic War Saga when you think a fist will fly at you when someone punches you.
You know you’re addicted to Epic War Saga when you think you’ll turn into a White Tiger instead of a Werewolf.
You know you’re addicted to Epic War Saga when you play EWS instead of educational games at school.
You know you’re addicted to Epic War Saga when you think eating an egg is going to give you +500 Health.
You know you’re addicted to Epic War Saga when you ask for a “Dino Steak” instead of regular steak at a restaurant.
You know you’re addicted to Epic War Saga when you think the “Firewall” in your computer is made my Succubi.

Check back often to see new ones.

pffft since when are educational videogames all that good/interesting anyway? (edutainment as some call such games always managed to be a big bore imo)

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Daily Reward Combination Thread

book 1 – 32415 = 1 plat/120 min.

Topic: Kongregate / New Rating System

that may be but it doesn’t give much chance for the highest ratings to change. just seems to me that depending on how many games here reach the 4+ star rating it could all be considered the same.

oh, just remembered the real reason they changed from the 5-star system (probably should’ve said this earlier since i’m comparing 2 different system here, pardon the multiple links but its kinda hard to compare without showing what i’m talking about). where is that blog post… http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/9299

and now i’ve lost my train of thought… great _ i’ll come back later when i figure out what else i was gonna say

oh, right. 2. (Literally) 70%+ of ratings on Fimfiction are 5 stars. thats why it was changed, once the ratings started stalling there was little to no change amongst the highest rated stories as there is here in the games. i get that at a certain point the ratings for a game will seem “fixed” but that may be whats got the highest rated selection of games here stuck in the first place.

how many years have some games like sonny or gemcraft chapter 0 been sitting in the same places they are now?

Topic: Kongregate / New Rating System

pardon my necro posting but i just read through this topic and the talk of stagnation of the ratings here has been something i’ve been thinking about even before another site i frequent changed from this same 5 star system. just linking this to show what i’m talking about: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/14916/My-Little-Wesker

the system they changed to there seems to be more fair and it doesn’t cause what i’m sure we’ve all seen over time with the old 5-star rating system. instead of something old with with thousands of votes getting stuck at a certain point, from what i’ve seen over the years here at kong most games ratings tend to i.e. stall somewhere in the 3.5-5 star rating and after that it has so many votes that it never really changes at all. (the very same problem they had at the site i linked)

overall, be it fanfics (or as they call them there, fimfics) or games or whatever this same problem likely comes up everywhere in time. this just seems to be working better there and i figured it might work here too, its worth thinking about if nothing else i suppose.

Topic: General Gaming / Official Enigmata Stellar War Thread

just checked and i have solved what the glow is from chargors. they heal, simple as that. actually i’ve known that for a while now as if anyone would look at they’re stats in-game they’d see it as well. unless its been updated with a actual number now it was ??? as the healing strength before.

i doubt they make your units go berserk when glowing as well. that’d be news to me if they do though.

Topic: Kongregate / Broken badges

checking now and :/ i overlooked that when i was checking how to get the badge it seems… still no premium though but the most i’d use that for is endurance mode anyway

Topic: Kongregate / Broken badges

not broken but just plain unobtainable here.

Hands of War Tower Defense hard badge, grand champion’s challenge badge: you have to complete all 10 lvl challenges (the badge description is incorrect as well seeing as challenge 10 is getting 3 stars on all lvls). the problem is, to got all 10 challenges completed you need endurance mode (playing a hacked version on a different site currently so thats how i found out) for the watcher’s field (clear 40 waves on this lvl: base count is 12 with the +15 waves setting it falls short 8 waves) and probably the hammerfall challenge too (haven’t reached hammerfall yet so not sure).

so basically, no premium content for the kongregate version of the game = impossible hard badge.