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Gambling has zero return to the player, too, even if they ultimately profit financially from it. Go away.Urdnot Fire posted:Sprinkle Islands, a charming little water physics puzzler, just went free. This got lost on the last page. It's a neat game and y'all should download it. Bummey fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Sep 6, 2013 |
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duckfarts posted:There's a game called Simple Physics that's currently free and plays like Bridge Builder/Pontifex, but with specific build goals and just go get it it's cool. This one also got missed when the lovely dev unloaded his lovely poo poo IAP grab. Thanks Mr. Farts!
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Bottom Liner posted:Your posts, 0.0% return to reader. I'm sorry to disagree, but not really. We let people advertise their "regular" games all the time. A slot machine game that is literally a slot machine is way better than one that gives you worthless free coins, (which you lose) and then encourages you to actually buy more worthless coins. Or more time, or more turns, or whatever the hook is. I honestly don't get why you're so bent out of shape about it.
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Sep 7, 2013 00:07
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So Waking Mars is 50% off right now. Worth it?
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Disregard this post, I tried looking up my post in this thread and couldn't find it for the life of me so I reposted it and found it not even a second later SusanosWrath fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Sep 7, 2013 |
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Sad lions posted:So Waking Mars is 50% off right now. Worth it? I gave up roughy half way through. The story was compelling, but I didn't really like the gameplay. A bunch of other people here liked it, though, so I could be an outlier.
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I was really enjoying The Room until I ran across the puzzle with the orbs. Unfair and immersion-breaking! It makes no sense to be able to move them around with my ipad's accelerometer and not by touching them directly.
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Teddybear posted:It's not just that; UK law allows those apps to cash out, so it's just literally a slot machine for actual factual money. It's even more scummy than you think. So what happens when someone breaks the bank on one of those slot machine apps (whether legitmately or otherwise) and before they can cash out the server has an 'accident' and whoops your victory was lost? 
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Sad lions posted:So Waking Mars is 50% off right now. Worth it? Shalinor fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Sep 7, 2013 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:So what happens when someone breaks the bank on one of those slot machine apps (whether legitmately or otherwise) and before they can cash out the server has an 'accident' and whoops your victory was lost? You do understand that there is no incentive to cheat if you're the house, right? Given the law of averages AND the system which places limits on the wagers, the house is absolutely guaranteed to win. Let me repeat that: If you run a square house, you make out like a bandit. Those Multi-million dollar progressive payout machines are operated on a consortium basis - every club that owns one (they own a bunch) gets a cut of profits and no one owner is on the hook for millions the one time one of the 1000 machines actually hits. This is explained on the fine print somewhere on the machine.
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Shalinor posted:I also found it dull. The exploration was severely hampered by being designed to try and appeal to the Angry Birds audience. The game they had, stripped of the hand-holding, designed for core game players instead of each screen being like a mini "get 3 stars!" puzzle, would have been fantastic. Alas, that wasn't what they did with it. I grabbed it anyway since it was so cheap and yeah, the 'mystery' of exploring the caves of Mars is completely undermined by constantly repeated 'do this thing to remove barrier' and two people chatting about being the first person to do this like it just doesn't register how important it would actually be. I sort of imagined some moody, lonely descent into the caverns with an increasing sense of danger. Instead I get mission control cheerily telling me I'm doing great while I hurl seed pods around with no sense of purpose. But eh, it was £1.49 so whatever.
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VideoGameVet posted:IAP fests, 0.0% return to player. It takes a special kind of person to look at casinos, the associated addictions and all the misery associated with it and thinking "I've gotta get me some of that. I can even do it much cheaper than those scrubs. The users don't even get free drinks while they lose all their money.
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Heliotic posted:It takes a special kind of person to look at casinos, the associated addictions and all the misery associated with it and thinking "I've gotta get me some of that. I can even do it much cheaper than those scrubs. I went to Vegas 2 days ago. They already have gambling apps so you don't even have to leave your room to gamble.
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gently caress that the only reason I ever go to casinos is to shoot the poo poo with people and rake in as many comps as possible while I'm there. If I win some money too then swell.
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Shwqa posted:I went to Vegas 2 days ago. They already have gambling apps so you don't even have to leave your room to gamble. Do they bring free drinks up to your room? I have to know.
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Mods please change VideoGameVet's name to WhalingVet thanks in advance.
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Heliotic posted:Do they bring free drinks up to your room? I don't think so. Course I was in the VIP lounge that had unlimited free drinks and food 
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What's the consensus on Junk Jack X versus Terraria? I bought the former and found it very slow to start. Does it get better? I opted to not get Terraria as I already played the poo poo out of it on the PC.
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Protocol7 posted:What's the consensus on Junk Jack X versus Terraria? I bought the former and found it very slow to start. Does it get better? I opted to not get Terraria as I already played the poo poo out of it on the PC. Junk Jack X had a much better control scheme on a touch interface but more or less jjx is just for building stuff not a castlevania adventure or rpg. It's slow because there is no end goal other than build your house and explore everything.
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I'm really enjoying Terraria but it has a few game breaking bugs, one even completely halts progression.
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Wow, not sure if you guys are playing 868-Hack, but it is a roguelike par excellence.
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Shwqa posted:Course I was in the VIP lounge that had unlimited free drinks and food Because that paints a beautiful picture 
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aeglus posted:Junk Jack X had a much better control scheme on a touch interface but more or less jjx is just for building stuff not a castlevania adventure or rpg. It's slow because there is no end goal other than build your house and explore everything. Yeah, that's why I chose it over Terraria. I wasn't really expecting an adventuring type deal, it's just so slow to progress. It literally took me like 5 hours to get enough materials to make a house and a bed.
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bubbapook posted:Wow, not sure if you guys are playing 868-Hack, but it is a roguelike par excellence. Looks weird. For six dollars I'll throw it on a wish list. http://appshopper.com/games/868-hack
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Why doesnt anyone release an emulator if the gimmick is that you have buy a gba to iphone apapter. Or like since its legal to make a digital backup, lets you backup your games to a computer based app thats a library to play on the phone.
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Bummey posted:Looks weird. For six dollars I'll throw it on a wish list. Its by the Zaga-33 guy so why not.
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Okposolypse posted:Why doesnt anyone release an emulator if the gimmick is that you have buy a gba to iphone apapter. Or like since its legal to make a digital backup, lets you backup your games to a computer based app thats a library to play on the phone. You can already do this with Splashtop, the on-screen controls add-on, and your favorite emulator of choice. It's as awful as you could possibly imagine
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bubbapook posted:Wow, not sure if you guys are playing 868-Hack, but it is a roguelike par excellence. Yeah I've heard nothing but good things. Might have to try it.
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Protocol7 posted:Yeah, that's why I chose it over Terraria.
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EightFlyingCars posted:You can already do this with Splashtop, the on-screen controls add-on, and your favorite emulator of choice. Wait that sounds like a good thing but maybe Im missing something like lag?
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Tried some Battle Camp. It's basically PaD with some nice polish. I don't like many things about it though, like how you can only do 5 things before your Energy runs out and you have to wait 50 minutes for it to regenerate. That's dumb. Also, they don't give out the premium coins afaik so its already worse than PaD which at least gives them out during certain events. I'll probably try it for another day before I delete it.
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How do you make a bed in Junk Jack? I'm looking through all my crafting recipes and I don't see a bed anywhere. I mean I don't need to sleep, I guess I can mine all night but a bed would be cool.
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bubbapook posted:Wow, not sure if you guys are playing 868-Hack, but it is a roguelike par excellence. Haven't played this yet but I didn't even flinch at the price, it's by dude who made Zaga-33 and Corrypt so it's almost definitely solid gold.
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marktheando posted:How do you make a bed in Junk Jack? I'm looking through all my crafting recipes and I don't see a bed anywhere. I mean I don't need to sleep, I guess I can mine all night but a bed would be cool. What I did first before anything was generate a few different worlds and go through them chopping down a bunch of trees and digging up buried crates. Once night hit, I'd delete that world and start a new one. You get recipes as random drops from breaking blocks, so trees are a good source.
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Ascendency is 99 cents please buy it. http://appshopper.com/games/ascendancy
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Arkham City Lockdown is IGN's free iOS game of the month.
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Al Baron posted:Arkham City Lockdown is IGN's free iOS game of the month. Neato, thanks!
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Al Baron posted:Arkham City Lockdown is IGN's free iOS game of the month. Guess Canadians don't get it 
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The abstract artsy puzzle game Color Zen just went free.
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Urdnot Fire posted:The abstract artsy puzzle game Color Zen just went free. And I just blazed through all the free levels in what feels like 10-15 minutes. Fun, but there really needs to be a little more before I'd be convinced to shell out for more.
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