Let's play Godus!

Mar 2, 2015 5:24:44 GMT mindless said:

One glaring thing in my opinion, that seams missing from the game is some sort of end goal, a motivating force that drives you forward.

Is it to collect stickers? Is it to attain 100% happiness, is it to reach a certain population threshold. I have no idea because the game doesn't tell me, I assume the game doesn't even know itself. At the moment it seams like there are no goals, no end point to work towaards.

The voyages part of the game which appears to be generally looked down upon by the players. Does provide a basic motivation, you have to save your guys by getting them from point A to B. So why is this part of the game, which appears to give some reason to play being avoided? I have my suspicions about it being too simple or to annoying (you should be able to switch of their whistling) but is there some other reason why people don't like it?

Could it be because it just doesn't mesh with the rest of the game where you are essentially a city planner, and this part of the game provides you no ability to build anything? If this were settlers then I could picture my guys setting up a base camp, then producing weapons, training up some fighters, and then conquering territory. But here we have no such ability. There is almost no strategy involved other than avoidance. If that's all your able to do then after doing that repeatedly your going to get bored of it.

I don't think its an end goal that's lacking, I think its a lack of an ability to progress meaningfully and a lack of scope for creativity. Look at minecraft, what is the end goal there?

GODUS needs progression, but not the kind of progression we have now where we expand without reason and without progress. Current progression is like those nano doomsday scenarios where the whole world is taken over with black sludge.

For me the goal of GODUS should be to develop your faith, these are your people because they believe in you and I want to have them worship me in the most advanced ways. So at the start of the game they live in mud huts subsisting on a hunter gather lifestyle and worship me by offering me pieces of meat. The game should be about developing from this to a modern utopia where they worship me through the creation of vast wonders. I imagine a great capital city like Mecca, Rome or Jerusalem sitting in the middle of a religious empire spanning many cities, even nations. It would be funny to have religious wars between cultures and then sub culture wars between petty nations who believe in you. Combat like that would be more interesting to intervene into if it was two nations fighting who both worship you. I'd like to see a great nexus of trade and religion form at the centre, so that expansion fuelled its growth as wealth was channelled to the centre. Then the "end game" would be who creates the most elaborate empire. This would be enhanced if have different types of terrain was necessary so you'd have creative maps where people designed terrain around both aesthetics and efficiency. This is what GODUS should be, not this pale imitation of a game.

I forgot to say who needs story or levels when you have creativity instead.