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I don't really get the musical part of Arranger. I don't get what makes specific instruments better than others. In the few musical battles I've had, I just chose instruments randomly, got scolded for choosing something inappropriate, and then won the battle anyway just by fingertap mashing.
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Arranger is fantastic but I seem to get a sore head if I play for too long squinting at the blocky shapes. I've been totally sucked in by Bridge Constructor, are there any other specific building type sims worth looking at?
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Apr 22, 2013 13:25
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Corridor posted:I don't really get the musical part of Arranger. I don't get what makes specific instruments better than others. In the few musical battles I've had, I just chose instruments randomly, got scolded for choosing something inappropriate, and then won the battle anyway just by fingertap mashing.
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Apr 22, 2013 13:53
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Palpek posted:The real question is whether you like waiting for your car to be repaired (or pay $ to do it instantly) and bare with all the microtransactions: I can't speak to actually getting all the cars (I quit playing long before car prices seemed unattainable), but I can say that the repair wait times aren't a big deal. They screwed up balancing that mechanic in a way that's good for players, actually - as soon as you get 2-3 cars (a couple hours of play), you never have to stop playing while something repairs. You just switch to another car. This is really weird, because it means the most bullshit wait times are right at the start, which is when most free/IAP games are generous.
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Apr 22, 2013 14:02
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Boxman posted:I can't speak to actually getting all the cars (I quit playing long before car prices seemed unattainable), but I can say that the repair wait times aren't a big deal. They screwed up balancing that mechanic in a way that's good for players, actually - as soon as you get 2-3 cars (a couple hours of play), you never have to stop playing while something repairs. You just switch to another car. This is really weird, because it means the most bullshit wait times are right at the start, which is when most free/IAP games are generous. In the article it says, "that does not include the cost for repairs, maintenance, or upgrades". Their figures just cover the time/monetary costs of 100%ing the game, i.e. getting every car and winning every race.
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Apr 22, 2013 14:53
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Original_Z posted:The worst part of Zynga Poker is that you just get idiots who constantly go all in, even when they have poo poo cards. It's horrible playing tournament matches, half of the players go all in on the 1st round and completely stack the flow of the game to one person for no reason. This is why I'm super bummed that Apple's poker game was pulled--it was pretty fun and was single player so you didn't have these issues. There isn't really anything to replace it that isn't full of IAP or requires you to play online.
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Apr 22, 2013 16:13
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I'm loving dying to play Leviathan warships. By saying it has cross platform play, I wonder if you have to buy the game multiple times or if buying the PC version nets you an iOS version. Also, for the life of me I can't tell is it's playable on an iPhone 5 or if it's an iPad only game.
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Apr 22, 2013 16:45
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NESguerilla posted:I'm loving dying to play Leviathan warships. By saying it has cross platform play, I wonder if you have to buy the game multiple times or if buying the PC version nets you an iOS version. Also, for the life of me I can't tell is it's playable on an iPhone 5 or if it's an iPad only game. I thought they meant/said that it was cross platform multiplayer.
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NESguerilla posted:I'm loving dying to play Leviathan warships. By saying it has cross platform play, I wonder if you have to buy the game multiple times or if buying the PC version nets you an iOS version. Also, for the life of me I can't tell is it's playable on an iPhone 5 or if it's an iPad only game. Me too. It reminds me a lot of a board game called Leviathans I played at GenCon a couple years ago (I wonder why, durrrrrr). It was loads of fun, and while I wasn't about to shell out $80 for such a niche board game, and I never followed up on its release/reception, this new iOS game has me hoping for a similar experience.
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^^^Yeah it has this kind of playing with toys aesthetic that makes me really want to play it. Also, the amount of ship customization looks glorious.Sad lions posted:I thought they meant/said that it was cross platform multiplayer. It cloud saves so you can continue the campaign on any device. I'm not sure if MP is cross platform. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Apr 22, 2013 |
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Original_Z posted:The worst part of Zynga Poker is that you just get idiots who constantly go all in, even when they have poo poo cards. It's horrible playing tournament matches, half of the players go all in on the 1st round and completely stack the flow of the game to one person for no reason. That's not a Zynga problem, that's an "all online poker everywhere ever" problem, especially in tournament play. Hell, I've seen that all the time in low-stakes real money tournaments online. Of course, it is magnified a little on Zynga since half the people have been playing forever and have 30 billion chips, but maniac players are everywhere. Echoing the guy who said it's too bad Apple pulled their single player Hold 'Em. I still have it on my device, but it's a shame everyone can't get it. It's surprisingly good.
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Apr 22, 2013 17:43
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I'm not big into poker, but I settled on Theta Poker as my go-to hold 'em game. It's single player only, and it's not pretty, but tons of poker people seem to think it's great and has awesome AI or algorithms or some poo poo. And there are lots of complicated options/stats to mess with. Zynga hold 'em looks like a goddamned Facebook game. And it's Zynga. I tried it out, but couldn't bring myself to get into it.
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Apr 22, 2013 17:50
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War of Eclipse looks great but it is annoyingly hard in wrong ways. If you can't hit the critical on the bigger enemies then you are basically going to take a bunch of damage, and fixing that poo poo up will negate any money you made from the win. It's probably a better game to play on an actual phone when you can just pull it out while waiting for a bus or something. iPad is sort of overblown for this game.
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Apr 22, 2013 17:57
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To anyone playing that Simpsons Tapped Out game: There is a buried options menu where you can turn on "notify me before spending donuts". I've accidentally spent too many donuts rushing timers before seeing that.
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Apr 22, 2013 18:14
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Anyone else play the Jurassic Park game? I just started and wondered if the game becomes paywall city later the way some freemium games do.
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Apr 22, 2013 18:24
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Jet Ready Go posted:Anyone else play the Jurassic Park game? I just started and wondered if the game becomes paywall city later the way some freemium games do. I'll save you the trouble: it's pay wall city. Many dinosaurs are straight up cash only. In better news, a new Cut the Rope is out and it's pretty good.
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Apr 22, 2013 18:27
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AppShopper is back on the store (now "AppShopper Social"), for anyone that missed it before the takedown. Hopefully the social angle's enough to let it stay up this time, but either way, I'd snag it fast.
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Apr 22, 2013 18:30
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Shalinor posted:AppShopper is back on the store (now "AppShopper Social"), for anyone that missed it before the takedown. Hopefully the social angle's enough to let it stay up this time, but either way, I'd snag it fast.
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Apr 22, 2013 18:40
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Make sure you check out THE iDOLM@STER SHINY FESTA Rhythmic Record! It's only 55 dollars! http://appshopper.com/games/the-idolmster-shiny-festa%E3%80%80rhythmic-record
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Kenny Logins posted:I've been using the old app and it's updating with price drops etc. just fine. Any reason to switch to this new one? iPhone 5 screen
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Apr 22, 2013 18:45
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Kenny Logins posted:I've been using the old app and it's updating with price drops etc. just fine. Any reason to switch to this new one? This one's on the App Store and can be updated, and you might as well have both, since it doesn't replace the other one.
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Necroneocon posted:Make sure you check out THE iDOLM@STER SHINY FESTA Rhythmic Record! It's only 55 dollars! http://appshopper.com/games/the-idolmster-shiny-festa%E3%80%80rhythmic-record EDIT: Oh, bro, you can't just buy the Rhythmic Record edition, you also have to pick up the companion apps, Melodic Disc and Harmonic Score, each also for $54.99: http://appshopper.com/games/the-idolmster-shiny-festa%E3%80%80melodic-disc http://appshopper.com/games/the-idolmster-shiny-festa%E3%80%80harmonic-score EDIT 2: Uh, so the Appshopper app added iPhone 5 support but it took out iPad universal support? That's... odd. Ah, it even mentions it in the description. Weird. JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Apr 22, 2013 |
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Apr 22, 2013 18:56
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:iPhone 5 screen Is there anything the new one does that the old doesn't? Or something the old one does that the new one doesn't? I don't use twitter and I don't care about any of this social nonsense.
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Bummey posted:Is there anything the new one does that the old doesn't? Or something the old one does that the new one doesn't? I don't use twitter and I don't care about any of this social nonsense. 
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Bummey posted:Is there anything the new one does that the old doesn't? Or something the old one does that the new one doesn't? I don't use twitter and I don't care about any of this social nonsense. http://gigaom.com/2013/04/22/appshopper-returns-to-ios-app-store-with-more-social-approach/ quote:If you’re familiar with the old version of the app, what you’ll find missing from AppShopper Social are the What’s New and Top 200 lists. Thankfully the Wish List and My Apps lists are still present and are linked to my AppShopper.com account data. While I may not be able to use the new app to shop for apps that are trending toward the tops of the lists, I will at least be able to track all of the apps on my Wish List again. So, you're losing What's New, Popular, and Top 200. I use What's New on Wednesday nights to find new games and Popular all the time to see the latest drops to free on apps that I haven't Wishlisted yet. I can't lose those features...
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JazzFlight posted:And based on the screenshots, it even has DLC! So for the low, low, low price of $165 (plus DLC) you can have the full (well, no, just the rhythm game) IDOLM@STER experience! Well done, SCAMCO.  Wonder how many people will bite on this one. Huh, and you thought SquareEnix was insane with their pricing....
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oblomov posted:So for the low, low, low price of $165 (plus DLC) you can have the full (well, no, just the rhythm game) IDOLM@STER experience! Well done, SCAMCO. The DLC is crazy money prices on XBOX too. I bought one of those over here in Hong Kong because I haven't had a good rhythm game since Elite Beat Agents and there were ten million of them on the shelves and shut up. Actually quite a good game the one time I played it, though I worry about being put on a government watch list just for owning it, because it's about picking your favourite barely legal J-pop girls and getting them to dance and sing through songs. The DLC that showed up in the store was something like 1600 MS funbucks for one extra song or costume. That's like $20. For one extra song or (and it was hard to tell from the description) some kind of special outfit for a girl. I think the deal is that the people that are into this game, are REALLY into this game.
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Parkingtigers posted:The DLC is crazy money prices on XBOX too. I bought one of those over here in Hong Kong because I haven't had a good rhythm game since Elite Beat Agents and there were ten million of them on the shelves and shut up. Actually quite a good game the one time I played it, though I worry about being put on a government watch list just for owning it, because it's about picking your favourite barely legal J-pop girls and getting them to dance and sing through songs. Huh, that's ridiculous. So.... one song plus probably an outfit or something for $20 vs something like 3 songs for $5 with Sega Hatsune Miku series (pick the platform)? That's a little adventurous... I mean Sega's Hatsune Miku games for iOS are outright reasonable in comparison (and I have the 2nd, though didn't buy the DLCs).
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Trustworthy posted:I'm not big into poker, but I settled on Theta Poker as my go-to hold 'em game. It's single player only, and it's not pretty, but tons of poker people seem to think it's great and has awesome AI or algorithms or some poo poo. And there are lots of complicated options/stats to mess with. Thanks for recommending this. Like you said, graphically it is a little primitive but the poker seems solid.
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oblomov posted:Huh, that's ridiculous. So.... one song plus probably an outfit or something for $20 vs something like 3 songs for $5 with Sega Hatsune Miku series (pick the platform)? That's a little adventurous... I mean Sega's Hatsune Miku games for iOS are outright reasonable in comparison (and I have the 2nd, though didn't buy the DLCs). As far as I can tell the entire gimmick of idolmaster, which Namco puts in everything (even Ace Combat  ), is making you pay triple digit prices for poo poo anyone else would make you pay $5 for.It works, too. I don't even know.
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I'm gonna just chalk IDOLM@STER up to some sort of subtle cultural difference between Japan and USA I don't fully understand, because I could never see paying $54.99 for a game (with DLC) on my cell phone.
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Anyone else playing Golf star? Add me as a friend and let's have a round. Name's Gallilee.
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robodex posted:I'm gonna just chalk IDOLM@STER up to some sort of subtle cultural difference between Japan and USA I don't fully understand, because I could never see paying $54.99 for a game (with DLC) on my cell phone. I agree that this is just weird. However, keep in mind you see quite a few VNs on Japanese Store and those run full prices (so $30-40) I believe. That said, I mean, I could see it go for say $39.99 on PSN or something, but this is just insanity. Heck, I could even imagine full Idolm@ster 2 port for that much but not the rhythm game. Edit: I would easily pay that for either Persona 3 FES with PSP features or Persona 4 Golden on my iPad (with proper resolution)! Hear that, Atlus? (yes, I have both on my Vita).
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robodex posted:I'm gonna just chalk IDOLM@STER up to some sort of subtle cultural difference between Japan and USA I don't fully understand, because I could never see paying $54.99 for a game (with DLC) on my cell phone. I probably would drop $40 if it was a proper release that had the whole manager half of the game. Without that it seems like it's just a anime rhythm game which you could probably get for way cheaper and better on the ios.
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StarkRavingMad posted:That's not a Zynga problem, that's an "all online poker everywhere ever" problem, especially in tournament play. Hell, I've seen that all the time in low-stakes real money tournaments online. Of course, it is magnified a little on Zynga since half the people have been playing forever and have 30 billion chips, but maniac players are everywhere. This is why we added private tables, where you can invite players you know for games. You can also browse tables and see who's playing at them. Finally we let you see the stats on the players, and you can get a pretty good idea of who is bluffing all the time. We don't have the number of players Zynga has, but we have some very good players in the game. Particularly at the higher blinds.
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gallilee posted:Anyone else playing Golf star? Add me as a friend and let's have a round. Name's Gallilee. I'm playing, if anyone wants to add me I'm triplexpac on there
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Shalinor posted:AppShopper is back on the store (now "AppShopper Social"), for anyone that missed it before the takedown. Hopefully the social angle's enough to let it stay up this time, but either way, I'd snag it fast. I think I'm missing something here since I don't read this thread often. Why was the original appshopper app removed? I'm not a huge fan of online social services so I don't really know what's up with that.
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Parkingtigers posted:.... I haven't had a good rhythm game since Elite Beat Agents ... Are there any other replacements for this? I've tried osu! but most of the beat maps just feel off somehow Though it may just be that you have to obscure the screen with your finger instead of a thin stylus like EBA/OTO had.
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DrManiac posted:I probably would drop $40 if it was a proper release that had the whole manager half of the game. Without that it seems like it's just a anime rhythm game which you could probably get for way cheaper and better on the ios. Well, yeah, that would be somewhat palatable. For music rhythm game, I think Hatsune Miku is a better bet: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/miku-flick/id503098602?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/miku-flick-02/id543121231?mt=8 Cheaper, better, more songs, cheaper DLCs.
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Beef Assistant posted:I think I'm missing something here since I don't read this thread often. Why was the original appshopper app removed? I'm not a huge fan of online social services so I don't really know what's up with that. Apple is wildly inconsistent with what they will and won't allow on the store. AppShopper's reason for being pulled was that it promoted other apps. That's it. Of course, the zillions of apps with tapjoy support, not to mention Touch Arcade's AppShopper for Games, remain unmolested. Who knows?
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