Looking for a new game

[galadriel1010]

I'm looking for a new game to play in which there is a sufficiently interesting crafting element. Details of what I'm looking for are hidden behind

I used to be a big Runescape fan, but I've lost my account since then (passwords and email addresses lost in the mists of time). I wasn't keen on the fighting part of it, but I did love wandering around the world collecting stuff and crafting it. I could go back to Runescape, but it would be annoying to build up a character when I've already done it once.

So I'm looking for a similar game, where crafting is more involved than it is on Farmville. You know, you go to the mine and mine gold, you keep going until you happen to get a ruby, you take the gold to a furnace and smelt it into a bar, you cut the ruby, you go back to the furnace and smelt the gold with the ruby into a ruby ring, you find the shop that will give you the best price. I likes Runescape because there was a range of crafting things to do - I did armour, cooking and jewellery mainly, but there was leatherworking and other things as well.

So if anyone can point me to a decent game like this, preferably free but definitely not subscription (I'll get it if you tell me there's a Sims-like game, but I don't play regularly enough for subscription games to make sense), I will love you forever.

Comments

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

I was going to rec Runescape to you, too. Darn. Lol we could totally play together if you joined again...I'm sariagray on there. :)

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

Well in that case I shall certainly join up again :D

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

Hee! I need someone to play with that I know that ISN'T my brother, so I really really hope you do. (Although, I just mentioned this whole thing to him and he asked how I know you. "Torchwood," I said. And he looked so stricken, poor thing...).

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

Lol! Poor thing indeed. My mum expects it these days, bless her.

It won't let me add you :/ I'm Fiwengala

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

I added you - says you're offline, though.

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

It's telling me you don't exist :s

[razorzknight.livejournal.com]

Extensive crafting systems, dunno about it... Games with relatively good crafting systems:

Fallout New Vegas. It has a lot of crafting going, and you can pretty much play Fallout Crafting with it with a few added mods, but the base game's crafting system is funky, dumb and lacking from all sides. With the right mods and a good enough computer, though... *Looks at his stash of 100+ Nuka-Cola-and-alcohol bottles.* Funcraft!

My Sims. It's a crafting game disguised as an Kill Nook Animal Crossing clone. Basically you collect fruit, wood and other stuff and then use it to create stuff (like a chair made of apples. Yeah) and have to complete requests from people in your city (apparently they're too lazy to walk to the apple tree right across the street and make themselves a chair.)

I'd say Musou Orochi Z too. Weapon crafting done right takes about as much as a short mission, and is a requisite to have an easy time beating any top-level mission. But the game's main objecting is slashing and stomping on soldiers with whatever weapon you may think of (A football? Check!) and the crafting itself is all made through menus (using weapons you find by defeating important characters) so it might be boring (not counting the whole 'killing people with a japanese guitar' part.)

I generally don't play many craft-heavy games. The Sims Medieval might be a good choice too, but from what I've played, the crafting system is pretty simple (getting the right ingredients for some formulas/spells/weapons is the challenge.)

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the advice! I think I'm going to look up MySims when I have more free time