Time Management Games
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Has anyone played one of these? I played SimCity2000 when it came out ( many years ago ~ ha ha), and being a designer/architect, I was addicted to it for six months, building cities, managing things, etc. So I thought maybe one of the TMs on Big Fish would fun to try. I'm not expecting much, but on first look,they appear to be mostly excessively cartoony, "sugar-candy-land" stuff, with musical soundtracks that would seem to get on your nerves after a while. Are they all like that? I'd like to try one, but have no idea how to sort through all the dross. Thanks in advance!
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Re: Time Management Games
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03/10/17 05:37 PM
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Being as you mention SimCity 2000, I thought of this: All My Gods The Promised Land Adelantado: Book One These are casual games, of course, so they are on a smaller scale, but you might enjoy them. There are a lot of different kinds of games that fall under the heading of "time management": some are timed, some are not, some offer both timed and untimed. And then again there are other games that are more like simulations, and some of them are pretty darn good. I can find more for you to recommend, but let's start with the three listed above and you can tell me what you think. If this isn't the sort of thing you are looking for, I can make other suggestions. While some of them appear cartoony, the play mechanics are sound.
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Re: Time Management Games
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03/11/17 01:41 PM
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I don't enjoy this style of agme and got bored to tears with every one I tried [And any that were "timed" went out of the window right away ] But many, many people do seem to really enjoy them Nowt like folks and their different tastes, eh
Time : The Most Precious Commodity
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Re: Time Management Games
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03/11/17 03:43 PM
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You trying to tell me something Marian? I don't know if Restaurant Empire is considered time management but when I look at the videos and descriptions of games that are supposedly (classified) as TMs, I don't see anything interesting. Just my opinion only though, of course.
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Re: Time Management Games
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03/11/17 03:54 PM
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You trying to tell me something Marian? I don't know if Restaurant Empire is considered time management but when I look at the videos and descriptions of games that are supposedly (classified) as TMs, I don't see anything interesting. Just my opinion only though, of course. No, I wasn't trying to tell you anything, oldbroad. Speaking for myself, though, I would call Restaurant Empire a simulation/strategy game.
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Re: Time Management Games
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03/11/17 10:42 PM
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I played the Roller Coaster Tycoon game. It was a standard PC game, back in the day when we bought games in a box at the Computer Game Store (remember those? ) I bought and played it because I had learned to design roller coaster systems, working for many years with a Norwegian engineer on a huge amusement park project we did in Japan. That project was a blast. So, I thought the game would be fun. It wasn't. It was all about managing vandalism in the park, making sure park guests had food and drink but not enough to make them puke everywhere, keeping watch on the maintenance crew every minute, etc. A continual juggling act, and you didn't really have any time to enjoy it.
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