January 18, 2015

The Oregon Trail


I bought this used from Gamestop thinking it would just be the standard Oregon Trail game on 3DS. That sounded awesome at the time. Instead, they tried to modernize the formula. Instead of a straight simulation, they added in some unneeded stuff. Instead of making choices and watching the wagon travel across the country, you have to drive it the whole way. Sound boring? Well I'm sure it did to the developer as well so they decided to add in a bunch of rocks so you can't just go straight the whole time. Terrible. Every rock looks the same and nothing happens when you hit them aside from a broken wheel every hundredth time.

I liked the randomness of coming down with diseases in the previous games. Now only one person can get a disease at a time. If Macho Man has the measles, you can guarantee Miss Elizabeth will be the picture of health even on meager rations.

My favorite part of previous games was always hunting. The hunting in this game sucks. You have to use the touch pad. All the joystick does is turn left to right.

Blah blah blah this game fucking sucks.

1 comment:

  1. if you're looking to play the original, it's available for free in your browser-

    https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games

    as well as a few others that i'm debating tossing in the ol' backlog...

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