snowkatt: urgh
i had it as a kid
hated it
tinyE: It's inane and boring as fuck which makes it perfect for when you are killing time but need to be able to pay attention to things other than the computer.
I always have it running during a football game, cooking, or when I'm waiting for check-ins.
You can't play Tie Fighter
and keep an eye on the bread baking in the oven. I know, I've tried. The Empire won. The bread got it's ass kicked. :P
Hmmm... Not that long ago before starting FF8 again I was playing Chocobo tales
RPG... ended up putting it on auto explore/auto action to do the grinding, and saw a few cutscenes. Otherwise it was a total waste of time. So it's a bit similar in it's own way.
I could only think that more real Rogue-like games are the answer because you can go as fast or as slow as you want with those games.
Baking bread while playing Tie Fighters... I almost see an image of them doing the run on the death star and then
'oh I can't help you Luke, I gotta get my bread out of the oven reactor' type of thing... Nahh...