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Thwomp posted:So ummmmm.....I'm not sure i'd consider this a win. Looks like Defcon on the Geoscape.
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Notorious QIG posted:This game looks pretty neat but I don't really want to plop down $4 on an impulse buy. Would you say it's worth it? It looks kind of shallow, is it? Jesus Christ. Have you ever tried a new food or drink? It's a $4 risk.
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Mar 14, 2014 16:02
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But .. butt... my pleasure per dollar ratio will plummet if its bad 
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Notorious QIG posted:This game looks pretty neat but I don't really want to plop down $4 on an impulse buy. Would you say it's worth it? It looks kind of shallow, is it? I'd say wait for sale/price drop. It's fun but there isn't too much to it right now. You basically have two main weapons to work with: cruise missiles and nuclear weapons. Cruise missiles are mostly used to shoot down incoming nukes but that can also be used on the attack (they just aren't super effective). Nukes come in two flavors: intermediate (IR) and intercontinental (IC). Depending on your starting country, you may start with ICs or have to research access to nukes from the beginning (at which point, you unlock IRs first). There's no real reason to build IRs as they have limited range and don't get any of the range upgrades you can research for the IC. So you end up building at least one cruise missile per territory spot for defense, and then build as many IC nukes as you can while also watching for incoming nukes to shoot down. Fending these off while attacking/expanding and driving opponents into corners is pretty much the whole game. Most games you can fend off one-off attacks easily allowing you to build up an arsenal and really attack when you're ready. There's always the chance an enemy could launch a First Strike, in which it launches every nuke at once that has the range to hit the target. These are generally indefensible (not for lack of trying though. The targeting for cruise missiles only attacks the nearest warhead so, when you've got a nice defense set up, it's wasted a bit if 20 nukes are inbound all at once). Depending on your starting superpower, you'll have certain research unlocked already for you. USA gets satellite recon and ICs unlocked right away while North Korea gets no starting research. What research you start with as well as the number of starting territories belonging to your superpower at the start generally dictates the difficulty (although you can play with the number of other superpowers involved but, strangely, that has no effect on the stated difficulty). So the USA gets a bunch of research as well as 4 or 5 starting territories as its classified as 'Easy'. North Korea gets no starting research and territories outside of itself so it's classified as 'Impossible'. I've encountered a few weird bugs where territory I own is unselectable. I'm not sure why it's happening and I can't replicate it with reliability.
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My companies new game "Pork Chop Hero" is now out on iOS. It's a top down shooter where you are a pig that shoots bacon at people until they explode (dual stick controls). It has a survival mode and a campaign mode (with door/switch/ally type puzzles). There is also a Pro version for $1.99 with no ads and all levels unlocked. (the non pro version has 16 campaign levels and 1 survival map)
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Fractal Wave posted:It's a top down shooter where you are a pig that shoots bacon at people until they explode God bless you and your company. Sold.
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Mar 14, 2014 16:06
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The Dave posted:Jesus Christ. Have you ever tried a new food or drink? It's a $4 risk. The Dave posted:Jesus Christ. Have you ever tried a new food or drink? It's a $4 risk. Please tell me more about the current state of my finances, thanks.
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Mar 14, 2014 16:12
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They're awful. You're welcome.
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Mar 14, 2014 16:15
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Thwomp posted:I'd say wait for sale/price drop. The Dave posted:Jesus Christ. Have you ever tried a new food or drink? It's a $4 risk.
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Mar 14, 2014 16:23
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I'm sorry ma, we can't feed the children. The harvest was not good this year and that 4 dollar cat simulator I bought turned out to be a bad investment. We will be hungry this winter.
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Mar 14, 2014 16:24
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Ok then, how about this: Paying money for lovely games encourages developers to develop more lovely games.
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Mar 14, 2014 16:27
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The Dave posted:Jesus Christ. Have you ever tried a new food or drink? It's a $4 risk. I rate this review a 4 out of 5. Low on content, but could easily be cross posted on a food and wine site.
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Mar 14, 2014 16:29
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gigawhite posted:I'm sorry ma, we can't feed the children. The harvest was not good this year and that 4 dollar cat simulator I bought turned out to be a bad investment. We will be hungry this winter. I can't tell if this is being said by the game dev company or the consumer. Maybe both?
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The Dave posted:Jesus Christ. Have you ever tried a new food or drink? It's a $4 risk.  Just rub some dirt in it and walk it off. Getting owned happens to the best of us. Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Mar 14, 2014 |
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Mar 14, 2014 18:20
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MissMarple posted:
I have yet to uncover any healing cards besides 16% Healing Coal. I'll keep digging. Thanks for the tips.
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Mar 14, 2014 18:31
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Helical Nightmares posted:
Helical Nightmares posted:So the guys who made Hero Academy (which I am enjoying) put out another iOS game a while back called Echo Prime.
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Mar 14, 2014 18:40
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I think Helical Nightmares was being sarcastic.
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Mar 14, 2014 18:43
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axleblaze posted:I think Helical Nightmares was being sarcastic. HN himself I know has done some good work for this thread with thorough write-ups and reviews and presumably his purpose is to steer us to the good things.
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Mar 14, 2014 18:54
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Notorious QIG posted:I don't really want to plop down $4 on an impulse buy
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Mar 14, 2014 18:57
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Not expensive enough? I hate you 
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Mar 14, 2014 18:57
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Spend-shaming is real. Don't be a dick guys.
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Mar 14, 2014 18:58
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Hey the Crazy Taxi port that is free right now is pretty good.
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Mar 14, 2014 19:15
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Free? I only buy games if they cost $4
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Fix posted:Hey the Crazy Taxi port that is free right now is pretty good. YA YA YA YA YA
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Mar 14, 2014 19:26
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Does it really still have Offspring music?!
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Mar 14, 2014 19:27
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I was worried it doesn't but app description says it has Offspring and Bad Religion in it so probably yeah.
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Mar 14, 2014 19:28
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GreenNight posted:Does it really still have Offspring music?! The Yum brands (Taco Bell, KFC, etc.) are not present, but who cares.
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Mar 14, 2014 19:30
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bobfather posted:Paying money for lovely games encourages developers to develop more lovely games. He's cracked the case: there are so many lovely iOS games because everyone keeps buying them!.  If you ever released a game on iOS you'd know how incredibly crazy that sounds.
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Wow, hopefully the IAP won't be crazy. Now I'm jazzed. As a side note, the latest Bad Religion album is their best, if you enjoyed them on CT.
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Jake Armitage posted:He's cracked the case: there are so many lovely iOS games because everyone keeps buying them!.
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Kenny Logins posted:You have a point for the general view but then you have Square Enix's "take" on iOS (or anything related to one of their JRPG properties, really) where his logic works. It's sort of hard to use Squeenix as an example as I'd argue that when you buy a Final Fantasy game these days you're not even buying the game as much as you're paying $20 for the nostalgia of remembering what playing the game was like. I'd loving love to see analytics of any of their games to see how many people launch the app more than once. That's something no one can duplicate, ever, on any level, aside from other publishers with equally revered classic IP.
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Fix posted:Hey the Crazy Taxi port that is free right now is pretty good. Goodbye, my weekend.
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Notorious QIG posted:I hate you 
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io_burn posted:It's sort of hard to use Squeenix as an example as I'd argue that when you buy a Final Fantasy game these days you're not even buying the game as much as you're paying $20 for the nostalgia of remembering what playing the game was like. I'd loving love to see analytics of any of their games to see how many people launch the app more than once. That's something no one can duplicate, ever, on any level, aside from other publishers with equally revered classic IP. I guess I can't really think of any devs who make bad games with high prices who don't also have classic IP going for them.
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diapermeat posted:I have yet to uncover any healing cards besides 16% Healing Coal. I had the healing crate card and I turned it into the healing coal card. That was a huge mistake. Now I'm saving up for a rainbow crate. Should I just crack my three diamond crates instead?
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tuyop posted:I had the healing crate card and I turned it into the healing coal card. That was a huge mistake. I did the same thing. Fun fact : healing blocks do not spawn unless you have a healing crate card or any of the cards that upgrade healing blocks. Also go for it -- you're guaranteed legendaries from rainbow crates. This was better back when you'd get things like Coal Galore from them instead of Topaz Industry or whatever the gently caress, but this applies to all crates now  I've been generally pleased with Pocket Mine, which is surprising considering how simple it is. The only complaint I have is how the new ore types are both rare as hell and have their own associated upgrade cards (more blocks, more nuggets, rigged, salesman, industry, galore) which really dilutes the number of actually useful cards you see and get. Even the touch cards seem to be depth limited -- I got a Topaz Touch card and only saw them start spawning after 300 depth, at which point I'm almost out of hits anyway. Also regarding Block Legends -- I'm walking back what I said about agility being a trap. The fact that agility actually increases the amount of turns per swing for enemies is super huge, and way better than the increased crit / evasion rates (of which I never saw any). A pure magic / agility build can heal up to full easily, has 5 turns to prepare attacks, and is pretty good as long as you stay about the one-shot threshold for bosses. This means that Tony Meow is probably better than the Witch, just since his starting stats are more focused to AGI/INT
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I don't usually play iPhone games (other than Words with Friends for social purposes), but when I found out that Seanbaby's game "Calculords" was not just a joke, I had to try it out. Especially when I found out it was free. I am really impressed. I think that a lot of the buzz about it was that it was a math puzzle game. It isn't really a math puzzle game, it is a strategy game with a math puzzle element. It took me a day or two of play to get beyond "play all my numbers" before I realized the deeper strategy of placing push units first, then attack units, etc. And then started editing my deck to not include every card I have in it! So far, I've beaten all of the levels besides Hate Bit. I am guessing that even with good cards and a good deck, I am only going to beat Hate Bit with some luck.
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glowing-fish posted:I am really impressed. I think that a lot of the buzz about it was that it was a math puzzle game. It isn't really a math puzzle game, it is a strategy game with a math puzzle element. It took me a day or two of play to get beyond "play all my numbers" before I realized the deeper strategy of placing push units first, then attack units, etc. And then started editing my deck to not include every card I have in it!
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RoboCicero posted:
I played block legends today and got the furthest I ever got pumping agi into a witch and it crashed. I really want to like the game but the constant crashes (always when I'm going well ) and poo poo like equipment straight up not working is seriously holding it back.
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Jake Armitage posted:He's cracked the case: there are so many lovely iOS games because everyone keeps buying them!. I've never released a game because I can't program, nor can I design assets, therefore it would be poo poo. If I did make and release such a poo poo game and everyone made sure not to buy it, I would most assuredly not spend the time or money to make another. On the other hand, if I made a poo poo game and lots of people bought it, I would be convinced that making games that were a bit poo poo was fine, and I would thus make more probably lovely games. The classic case for this is the infamous 100 Rogues. A game that went through incarnations that ranged from "completely broken" to "workable" to "fixed, but with crazy levels of IAP". The fact that people even spent money on the game led to "100 Trials" being released in 2012. And whereas 100 Rogues has had 25 updates to fix the outrageously broken poo poo in the game, 100 Trials has never been updated. Because people learned their lesson and didn't pay money for what was probably a poo poo game.
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