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SynthOrange posted:I'm surprised that you've managed to make it to 2014 without encountering this sort of gameplay before. Not even Tiny Towers? It's pretty easy to avoid: Only buy games that cost minimum 2 digits before any sale prices. You might still end up with FF:ATB though 
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Zigmidge posted:It's pretty easy to avoid: Only buy games that cost minimum 2 digits before any sale prices. You must be pretty skinny with all those cheeseburgers you can't buy because you spent it on the app store!
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Apr 1, 2014 22:17
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SynthOrange posted:I'm surprised that you've managed to make it to 2014 without encountering this sort of gameplay before. Not even Tiny Towers? Nope. I've mostly just played games that you buy outright instead of f2p.
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Apr 1, 2014 22:19
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Horde of Heroes (Canadian / Soft-Launch) is a pretty fun '1000000-alike'. It's got IAP stuff and an energy mechanic but I'm early enough I can't comment too hard on it. So far, I only know it's fun.
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Apr 1, 2014 23:07
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Trig Discipline posted:Boom Beach is the first game I've played with this sort of gameplay, and it's almost irritated me to the point of ditching it. I understand that they might make more money this way, but dammit I'd really like to just give them $5 and have the game unlocked so I could play it without feeling like I'm hooked up to a milking machine. Sweet maybe you'll play my upcoming game. It's no boom beach though  .
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Apr 1, 2014 23:33
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I have tried a few f2p games on both PC and ios but never found one that was engaging enough to play more then twice. Even payed games w/ iap never really get me to buy. Like, I bought Warhammer Quest, enjoy it and play it in spurts maybe once every other week, but I never feel the urge buy any more characters or expansions. I keep hoping that ios games will be awesome and stuff but honestly of the dozens and dozens I have tried I don't think that any have really hooked me unless they are ports of PC games or games that were natively released on both, like most adventure games or wargames.
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Apr 2, 2014 00:34
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Two big things today- FTL for iPad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqXofij4NI Hodappy Bird trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gES0fXF3bmg
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Apr 2, 2014 01:25
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io_burn posted:Two big things today- Does that mean it's supposedly out now? Because I can't find it on the iTunes store.
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Apr 2, 2014 01:26
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Bad Munki posted:Does that mean it's supposedly out now? Because I can't find it on the iTunes store. Oh, no, sorry, it's coming tomorrow for $9.99. Normal time games are released. I have an early copy and they just gave the all clear to publish video.
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Apr 2, 2014 01:28
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io_burn posted:Two big things today- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUABzeh55hQ
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Apr 2, 2014 01:37
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Bad Munki posted:Does that mean it's supposedly out now? Because I can't find it on the iTunes store. Comes out on the 3rd. Two more days 
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Apr 2, 2014 01:42
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Such a tease. TACD posted:I'm looking forward to Monument Valley, personally. I really need to be writing down a list. I wish there was a way to make a wish list in iTunes for apps that aren't out yet.
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Apr 2, 2014 01:51
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io_burn posted:Hodappy Bird trailer: Where's the part where he throws his trash into a river and posts pictures of stacks of Wiis on release date while bragging about how rich he is
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Apr 2, 2014 02:06
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Fallom posted:Where's the part where he throws his trash into a river and posts pictures of stacks of Wiis on release date while bragging about how rich he is Right next to the part where people from the internet still haven't figured out that was a troll and a photoshop a decade later.
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Apr 2, 2014 02:08
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io_burn posted:Two big things today- Ftl better not be a loving April fools joke.
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Apr 2, 2014 02:08
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io_burn posted:Oh, no, sorry, it's coming tomorrow for $9.99. Normal time games are released. I have an early copy and they just gave the all clear to publish video. Notorious QIG posted:Comes out on the 3rd. Two more days Is it the tomorrow or the 3rd? Also, tuyop posted:Ftl better not be a loving April fools joke.
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Apr 2, 2014 02:31
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I had to write 1500 words on the mental status interview for school and I ended up writing like, 3000 words on a bi-polar girl I know who likes to gently caress a lot. My fear is that when I get FTL, the due date will swing around in this fluxy/pendulous way like a metronome made from meat because that's how due dates feel like to me, and because like, I don't get mopey or down or otherwise indigent when due dates do sneak up on me and instead get super, like, angry and aggressive, shouting "gently caress you" and kicking poo poo and eating things that are bad for me, that I'm concerned like I've done before, I'll just be like "good enough" and sending my intolerably tangental assignment off unedited not because FTL is ruining my life but I'm ruining my life with FTL and I don't have the loving wherewithal to control myself as a 28yo single guy etc. But yeah anyway, looking forward to FTL and Monument Valley. Woo. Don't hold back, yeaaah first day buy first day buy
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Apr 2, 2014 02:37
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What the gently caress man? I think you need help.
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Apr 2, 2014 02:40
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Gatla posted:Is it the tomorrow or the 3rd? The magic of iTunes surrounds a lot around the different regions iTunes operate in. FTL will hit New Zealand first at around 6:00 AM central time and filter out across Asia and Europe as the clock slowly shifts to the third in those areas. For the US, newly released games and apps actually show up at 10:00 PM central on the day before the advertised release date. So, in the case of FTL, they say it's coming out on the 3rd, that means 10:00 PM central on the 2nd.
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Apr 2, 2014 02:47
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Was an eight comma sentence there.
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Apr 2, 2014 02:48
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Can someone explain the adoration for FTL? I don't mean that like " I tried it and didn't like it what the hell does everyone see in it?!" I genuinely know nothing about the game. What is it like and what makes it so lusted after?
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Apr 2, 2014 03:22
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The premise is that you're the captain of a ship with some inside knowledge on the enemy fleet and they're chasing you across space. You have to stay ahead of them, while trying to upgrade your ship and crew along the way to survive the increasing challenges you meet, and to eventually do battle with the enemy fleet itself. The mechanic is a simple RTS: you have a view of your ship, and you can manage weapons, engines, shields, upgrades, and crew. You have a star map that lets you select which system to go to next, hopefully staying ahead of the fleet as you hop from planet to planet, system to system, completing missions, fighting enemies, and shopping around for crew and upgrades. The game, while simple, offers a variety of approaches to success. It rapidly becomes brutally hard and and your success often relies heavily on a bit of luck. That will make some people rage quit, and reasonably so. Others can't help but continue playing because dammit, that last run was so close! Success is tantalizingly close even when just starting out, and remains so as your skill in the game increases. And then you finally beat it once and you're like "UGH gently caress that, I will never play this again," and then ten minutes later, you're at it again, but this time you're going to try the stealth approach, or with a different ship/race that you unlocked last time, etc. All of that coupled with a short amount of time required to play through an entire game makes for something that is surprisingly hard to put down, if you can get over losing frequently. Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Apr 2, 2014 |
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Apr 2, 2014 03:33
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I played it on my computer a while back and although I enjoyed it I'm wondering if it's worth coming back for more. There were never a lot of events and progressing to the final battle wasn't too difficult so I'm worried the replayability. Can anyone here weigh in on that?
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Apr 2, 2014 03:54
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I think there's a bunch of new content? I can't really remember, though.
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Apocron posted:I played it on my computer a while back and although I enjoyed it I'm wondering if it's worth coming back for more. There were never a lot of events and progressing to the final battle wasn't too difficult so I'm worried the replayability. Can anyone here weigh in on that? FTL for iPad is launching with a ton of new stuff, including a hard mode. It'll all be patched into the PC version for free, so would you like to pay $10 to play on your iPad?
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Also the luck in the original version of FTL is ridiculously wild. Your first encounter could be 'Hooray, you found a YOU WIN superweapon!' to 'giant space spiders eat you and everyone you love'. Seriously gently caress those space spiders.
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Apr 2, 2014 04:24
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I'm really enjoying Boom Beach now. It feels a lot more tactical than Clash of Clans and its interesting trying to work out decent layouts of defenses, and then breaking other people's bases easily that looked impenetrable. Its a nice improvement on CoC.
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concerned mom posted:I'm really enjoying Boom Beach now. It feels a lot more tactical than Clash of Clans and its interesting trying to work out decent layouts of defenses, and then breaking other people's bases easily that looked impenetrable. Its a nice improvement on CoC. I absolutely love people who put all their towers and guns in a line across the front of their base, with their HQ at the rear. Blow up the one defense that is going to hit you if you deploy to the far right or left then use flares to guide your dudes through the forest outside of the range of the guns until you are standing right behind the HQ. FLAWLESS VICTORY
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Victorkm posted:I absolutely love people who put all their towers and guns in a line across the front of their base, with their HQ at the rear. Blow up the one defense that is going to hit you if you deploy to the far right or left then use flares to guide your dudes through the forest outside of the range of the guns until you are standing right behind the HQ. This works for about two weeks. Then people stop doing that. Then the game gets frustrating, since well placed defenses always beat equal or slightly better offenses.
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FlashBangBob posted:This works for about two weeks. Then people stop doing that. Then the game gets frustrating, since well placed defenses always beat equal or slightly better offenses. Then you get stun grenades and statues. Statues and a heavy focus on offense will help you destroy everything later on, though troop training costs get pretty high and you have you skip people giving out 10k gold unless you are okay with a gold loss.
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Wait until you come up against the people who have been playing since before statues were nerfed. It gets pretty hard to compete when they have 15% x 3 defensive building damage + 15% x 3 building health or whatever. Make you work for it!
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Does the Dr. Terror challenge come back after the timer expires? I got it recently for the first time and managed to clear the first two levels, but level 3 is just a giant gently caress-you to my troops and it's going to be quite a while before I can take on 4-5 level 10+ defenses with Heavies and Zukas.
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Apr 2, 2014 19:26
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Giiiiive meeeee FTLLLLL  You guys could have waited until, like, just after it was out, y'know.
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Apr 2, 2014 19:42
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Is there a good slot machine and/or casino app for iPad that isn't an IAP shitfest? Paid or free is ok.
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Dragonrah posted:Is there a good slot machine and/or casino app for iPad that isn't an IAP shitfest? Paid or free is ok. There is king cashing and king cashing 2. They have rpg elements but at heart they are slot games. The first game is just a king trying to get treasure and the 2nd he is a zombie trying to eat mankind. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/king-cashing-2/id551751482?mt=8
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Shwqa posted:There is king cashing and king cashing 2. They have rpg elements but at heart they are slot games. The first game is just a king trying to get treasure and the 2nd he is a zombie trying to eat mankind. Those games are great.
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Shwqa posted:There is king cashing and king cashing 2. They have rpg elements but at heart they are slot games. The first game is just a king trying to get treasure and the 2nd he is a zombie trying to eat mankind. I guess I should have mentioned it's for my Mother and she'd probably just want a more traditional experience. I might go ahead and get it for her, but I doubt she'd enjoy the RPG elements.
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I'm starting to think that in Boom Beach doing anything to upgrade your base is totally secondary to totally upgrading your landing craft and offensive capabilities. I've been doing things the opposite way trying to protect my base and it seems like I'm always behind the curve, and while I often defend alright when people attack my base I have a real hard time with anything near equal level when I'm out fighting. I wish there was a strategy guide for this game that was worth a poo poo.
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Dragonrah posted:I guess I should have mentioned it's for my Mother and she'd probably just want a more traditional experience. I might go ahead and get it for her, but I doubt she'd enjoy the RPG elements. She may also like the 5/6th naked hooker in the background too.
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io_burn posted:I'm starting to think that in Boom Beach doing anything to upgrade your base is totally secondary to totally upgrading your landing craft and offensive capabilities. I've been doing things the opposite way trying to protect my base and it seems like I'm always behind the curve, and while I often defend alright when people attack my base I have a real hard time with anything near equal level when I'm out fighting. I wish there was a strategy guide for this game that was worth a poo poo. I have wondered similar, however, in order to upgrade your Landing Craft (or have more, I guess) you need to upgrade your HQ. In order to upgrade your HQ, you need to hit levels. In order to hit levels, you need to earn XP. As far as I can tell, building poo poo is the only way to earn XP. (Or the only significant way.) So, unless I'm missing something obvious, you kinda HAVE to keep expanding your home base to be offensive.
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