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So Colossotron was super simple and now I am dying just about every time I play. I'm on the Japan-type continent, and have no idea how to keep my segments alive. Should I concentrate on farming more of the in app currency until I can upgrade armor on all the colors, or what? Those freaking massive numbers of tanks just end me each time.
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Jan 20, 2014 18:37
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Bottom Liner posted:Get Survivalcraft instead. It's great. Or The Blockheads which is also great.
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Jan 20, 2014 19:04
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SquadronROE posted:So Colossotron was super simple and now I am dying just about every time I play. I'm on the Japan-type continent, and have no idea how to keep my segments alive. Should I concentrate on farming more of the in app currency until I can upgrade armor on all the colors, or what? Grind or pay to skip grinding. Collossatron was fun for 5 worlds and then it became a really bad game.
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Jan 20, 2014 19:50
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Did Sonic really not have game saves on Genesis, or was I just too dumb to find it as a kid? Playing through on iOS, I still have the first few worlds of the games memorized, but beyond that I'm so reliant on saves that I'm amazed anyone ever beat them honestly on Genesis.
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Jan 20, 2014 20:19
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eddiewalker posted:Did Sonic really not have game saves on Genesis, or was I just too dumb to find it as a kid?
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Jan 20, 2014 20:23
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:It didn't have saves until...Sonic 3 I think. This is correct.
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Jan 20, 2014 20:51
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When I use the Facebook app on iOS it will suggest apps or games sometimes. More often than not the game advertised is using a BLATANT screenshot of another game, today it was another one of those "collect cards and duel" games using a screen shot of God of War. No ambiguity, no "well it COULD be artistically similar", it was Kratos staring at a Medusa. Is it that insignificant in the long run that small companies are trying to use established brands to piggy back or do the companies just don't know ? Just curious to this. It isn't like its some back alley knock off shop, it's on Facebook.
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Jan 20, 2014 20:59
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Bro Nerd Alpha posted:It isn't like its some back alley knock off shop, it's on Facebook. Uh, well,
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Jan 20, 2014 21:21
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Speaking of which, the Candy Crush Saga devs registered claim to the word "candy" as it pertains to video games and clothing and are now asking developers of other games with "Candy" in the title to remove their games from the app store 
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Jan 20, 2014 21:25
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Urdnot Fire posted:Speaking of which, the Candy Crush Saga devs registered claim to the word "candy" as it pertains to video games and clothing and are now asking developers of other games with "Candy" in the title to remove their games from the app store I suspect Apple may take their side.
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Jan 20, 2014 21:29
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The rear end Stooge posted:Uh, well, Well what ? Only thing I can assume it is "lost" in the shuffle of so much information. Facebook isn't exactly low profile is what I am getting at. If I were going to blatantly plagiarize something I would advertise it on a major social media outlet.
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Jan 20, 2014 21:30
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Bro Nerd Alpha posted:Well what ? Only thing I can assume it is "lost" in the shuffle of so much information. Facebook isn't exactly low profile is what I am getting at. If I were going to blatantly plagiarize something I would advertise it on a major social media outlet. Have you seen other Facebook ads lately? They're the most bottom-of-the-barrel dogshit imaginable. Blatantly false advertising is the order of the day.
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Jan 20, 2014 21:32
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The rear end Stooge posted:Have you seen other Facebook ads lately? They're the most bottom-of-the-barrel dogshit imaginable. Blatantly false advertising is the order of the day. Valid point. I'm not sure if I am just naive or just choose to not believe that people are that stupid. Especially with that recent case where Apple had to pay back money to parents because "they didn't know what their kids were buying", I'm just curious to see how much Apple cracks down more on this stuff. From my limited knowledge, any company with enough start up money can get a game on the marketplace. Make it as much of a blatant rip off of a popular game, load it with IAP and anime girls/animal creatures and profit. Make as much money as they can before drawing too much attention then just disappear.
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Jan 20, 2014 21:44
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SquadronROE posted:So Colossotron was super simple and now I am dying just about every time I play. I'm on the Japan-type continent, and have no idea how to keep my segments alive. Should I concentrate on farming more of the in app currency until I can upgrade armor on all the colors, or what? Specialize. Oh wait. Dammit, Japan is before you get the ability to select your pod colour isnt it? Still, specialize. Just place yellow sniper pods and purple healing pods and only armor up those two. If it's your first time around, snipers will massacre everything around you. It's not necessary to have a super tier sniper either. In fact, it may be detrimental. I've found that long chains of 2s and 1s are way more effective because of their rate of fire. I build them just under the amount needed and just shuffle in pods as needed.
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Jan 20, 2014 21:47
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Bro Nerd Alpha posted:Valid point. I'm not sure if I am just naive or just choose to not believe that people are that stupid. Especially with that recent case where Apple had to pay back money to parents because "they didn't know what their kids were buying", I'm just curious to see how much Apple cracks down more on this stuff. With Apple's system, parents through they were authorizing a single specific purchase, not all purchases for the next 15 minutes.
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Jan 20, 2014 21:52
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Urdnot Fire posted:Speaking of which, the Candy Crush Saga devs registered claim to the word "candy" as it pertains to video games and clothing and are now asking developers of other games with "Candy" in the title to remove their games from the app store This is dumb. Also, does anyone have that article from before that talked about how Candy Crush was designed to be a form of digital crack? Edit: Because I want to tag people on facebook who keep sending me candy crush invites with these articles to tell them to stop playing the drat thing. ihatepants fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Jan 20, 2014 |
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Jan 20, 2014 21:57
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Starbound Anarkist is cool, thanks. Solid $2 game to play in short bursts and I'm loving all the ships that totally aren't from Star Wars. It does suck though that two out of three powerups reset all your upgrades. That part seems kind of lazy.
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Jan 20, 2014 22:01
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The Royal Scrub posted:Starbound Anarkist is cool, thanks. Solid $2 game to play in short bursts and I'm loving all the ships that totally aren't from Star Wars. It does suck though that two out of three powerups reset all your upgrades. That part seems kind of lazy. ACTUALLY (and this is necessary to get at least 1 achievement) the game defaults to "easy upgrade mode" which can be changed in the options. The REAL way it's supposed to work, which happens once you turn off easy mode, is that thrusters, weapons, and shields get upgraded (and color-changed) separately by their respective pickups -- so you can have a level 5 green shield, level 2 red thrusters, and a level 10 laser, or whatever. This makes things more difficult since a single pickup won't upgrade all 3 of your systems at once anymore, but allows you to specialize and end up with more powerful configurations. Really strange that they don't tell you about this anywhere, because as far as I'm concerned it's the "real" way to play the game. Also if you're frustrated with your upgrades getting reset, it's worth noticing how upgrades of the color you already have get pulled toward you, and upgrades of a different color are slightly repelled -- so, usually, if an upgrade is rushing towards you from off-screen it's one you probably want, and if it's just sort of floating in space you might wanna avoid it. There's a Magnet item for your ship you can unlock that increases the strength of both the attraction and the repulsion. Edit: there's also an item that makes upgrades count for 2 points in their respective category instead of just 1, making it a lot less devastating to pick up a different color when you have a system already maxed out-- you can usually get back up to speed really quickly Edit edit: I want to show off my ship! 
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Jan 20, 2014 22:17
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Yeah I'm changing that setting now. It does seem like the real way it should work, that's why I initially called it lazy. Nice ship 
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Jan 20, 2014 22:50
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I have had pretty much no luck searching for this game. What gives?
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Jan 20, 2014 23:22
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Sad lions posted:I have had pretty much no luck searching for this game. What gives? It's actually called "Starborn Anarkist." Try searching Appshopper.com next time you run into trouble, it's a bit more flexible in terms of how close you have to be to the actual title of the app for it to show up.
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Jan 20, 2014 23:34
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Are people really having that much trouble with Colossatron? I've prestiged 3 times now and I've had a couple of trouble on my third time through but it hasn't been to hard going. They switch up weapons every day so if you just save up and buy railguns or the ones you like on certain days it because really easy, but even if you don't I can't see it being too much trouble. Just save your gems until the end and use 'em to get you through the very last level.
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Jan 20, 2014 23:34
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The rear end Stooge posted:It's actually called "Starborn Anarkist." Try searching Appshopper.com next time you run into trouble, it's a bit more flexible in terms of how close you have to be to the actual title of the app for it to show up. Here is the link http://appshopper.com/games/starborn-anarkist
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Jan 20, 2014 23:42
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Solkanar512 posted:With Apple's system, parents through they were authorizing a single specific purchase, not all purchases for the next 15 minutes. Wasn't it also a big problem that the iTunes password prompt didn't mention that it was about to authorise a purchase? ihatepants posted:This is dumb. Also, does anyone have that article from before that talked about how Candy Crush was designed to be a form of digital crack? I'd also be interested in reading this if anyone has a link?
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Jan 21, 2014 02:26
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Bardbarian runs like poo poo on my iPhone 4S 
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Jan 21, 2014 02:32
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webmeister posted:I'd also be interested in reading this if anyone has a link? There's lots of them: http://business.time.com/2013/11/15/candy-crush-saga-the-science-behind-our-addiction/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerdooley/2013/11/19/candy-crush-lessons/ http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/candy-crush-saga-millions-stop-crushing-candy-facebook/story?id=19314358 King has something like 400+ employees including economists and psychologists to figure out how to maximize playing with people's brains to siphon more cash out of them. It's both ingenious and gross as hell.
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Jan 21, 2014 02:33
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silly posted:Bardbarian runs like poo poo on my iPhone 4S Weird, what version of iOS are you on? 4s user here and I haven't noticed ANY issues, let alone it "running like poo poo" -- sunk some time into it, too.
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Jan 21, 2014 03:01
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Yodzilla posted:There's lots of them: Ok, so I'm never going to download that game. Wow.
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Jan 21, 2014 03:18
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Why not? It's psychologically engineered so that you love it! 
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Jan 21, 2014 03:26
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The Royal Scrub posted:Why not? It's psychologically engineered so that you love it! I've heard Valve employs a few psychologists to make their games more fun/make people buy hats as well.
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Jan 21, 2014 03:41
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Costume Quest is really fun. I do not regret purchasing this game.
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Jan 21, 2014 04:46
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Marketing as a field of study was invented by a psychologist.
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Jan 21, 2014 04:50
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goferchan posted:Weird, what version of iOS are you on? 4s user here and I haven't noticed ANY issues, let alone it "running like poo poo" -- sunk some time into it, too. The latest iOS7 build I think. The framerate chugs super hard to the point where it's unplayable.
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Jan 21, 2014 04:56
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Zigmidge posted:Marketing as a field of study was invented by a psychologist.
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Psychology isn't secret brainhacker magic, if you are conscious of a manipulation it has surprisingly little effect. Knowing marketing is marketing reduces it to nothing more than an annoyance. I would even argue that most whales aren't some kind of spending frenzy prone game addicts as much as they're conscious of the idea that wasting money is less annoying to them than wasting time. Saying that, unless you really like puzzle games there isn't a whole lot there. The new night mode adds a pegglesque owl which powers up on matches but still revolves mostly on hitting a choco bomb or the like to really high score. Has anyone who's played barbarian speak to its similarity to nimble quest? The game looks fun but one of the things I got tired of with nq was the need to repeat the earliest levels. Arcadier games like Slayin' tend to be the same way, the earliest levels aren't so much a challenge as a necessary time sink in order to take a run at the game. Also has anyone checked out Lost Yeti? It looks kinda fun. CatelynIsAZombie fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jan 21, 2014 |
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Jan 21, 2014 20:06
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Waited until getting Keldorn and his true sight ability worked on getting through the circus tent bug in BG2EE.
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Bardbarian was well worth the 99c entry fee. I bought the coin doubler (99c) and am still having decent fun with it. I haven't beaten it yet, but there does seem to be an end of sorts right around the 6-7 hour mark. This isn't a knock against the game. The most important flaw in the game is that it starts to get really buggy and will freeze itself once you're pretty far into it. This is something that's going to need an update to fix, so hold off on buying it until then. Bardbarian isn't an infinite-runner/grinder. The main mode has one stage and three spots where enemies come from and you defend your town crystal thing against waves of dudes with your man-train of ninjas and wizards. Once you beat wave 20 it seems like the only things left are survival mode and potentially something that unlocks after you beat that mode.
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theblackw0lf posted:Waited until getting Keldorn and his true sight ability worked on getting through the circus tent bug in BG2EE. I bet that gets patched pretty quickly.
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Urdnot Fire posted:Speaking of which, the Candy Crush Saga devs registered claim to the word "candy" as it pertains to video games and clothing and are now asking developers of other games with "Candy" in the title to remove their games from the app store Could be an issue for these folks. Hope they have good lawyers: VideoGameVet fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Jan 22, 2014 |
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Thanks for the recommendations, think I'm going to download SurvivalCraft. I have a few more questions: the port of the original Tomb Raider - worth bothering with? Reviews are split on whether the controls are manageable or an insurmountable issue. Myst and Riven, never played them, worth a go now? Secret of Monkey Island, same question. Also the Baldur's Gate ports - I love 2 (although I'm not sure I've ever completed it), overall are they worth it on iOS or would I be better off just reinstalling them on a pc?
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