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Apogee15
Jun 16, 2013
I've been doing it for about 2 weeks now, and i've earned $3.71 so far. I don't even go out much, so *shrug*.

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Mega Comrade
Apr 22, 2004

Listen buddy, we all got problems!

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Is it actually fairly good for emulation?

Raspberry Pi 2 is a fantastic little toy and a steal at the price for all the things it can do.

I use mine as a media center and game emulator. I have 2 xbox360 pads plugged into it for controllers.

Chas McGill
Oct 29, 2010

loves Fat Philippe

Geokinesis posted:

What stores should I loiter around in the UK to get surveys?
John Lewis.

mrkillboy
May 13, 2003

"Something witty."
Table Tennis Touch is on sale for $2. I like it a lot; it's just a really polished, really satisfying to play ping pong game.

mrkillboy fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Apr 26, 2015

Aranan
May 21, 2007

Release the Kraken
Does anybody play that Spider-Man endless runner game? I snagged it because Spider-Man is cool but I don't know if I'll be hitting a brick wall in terms of IAP stuff soon.

mrkillboy
May 13, 2003

"Something witty."

Aranan posted:

Does anybody play that Spider-Man endless runner game? I snagged it because Spider-Man is cool but I don't know if I'll be hitting a brick wall in terms of IAP stuff soon.

You should be fine if you're just playing the weekly events or the endless mode but the campaign mode will require you to have Spider-Men of ever increasing XP levels to progress, which you may need to fork over some gems for at the portal. Otherwise the game is pretty forgiving with handing out Spider-Mans (you get a new one per day), and I've never really come across a situation where I absolutely needed to spend money to get more gems/vials for something.

mrkillboy fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Apr 26, 2015

Rirse
May 7, 2006

by R. Guyovich
Whoa, when was GTA:SA finally available to download for non-Kindle devices. I got it last year on the Amazon Marketplace when it was only a dollar since buying it there would give you 16 dollars in coins to buy other games with. Never could play it prior since it was Kindle only, but the deal was too useful to pass up.

Downloading it now, but how was the port anyway? It only 81 MB according to the downloader, which seems odd due to all the content the game has.

tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


Rirse posted:

Whoa, when was GTA:SA finally available to download for non-Kindle devices. I got it last year on the Amazon Marketplace when it was only a dollar since buying it there would give you 16 dollars in coins to buy other games with. Never could play it prior since it was Kindle only, but the deal was too useful to pass up.

Downloading it now, but how was the port anyway? It only 81 MB according to the downloader, which seems odd due to all the content the game has.

Awesome will need to see if itll work on my note once my screen gets fixed.

Valle
Apr 16, 2004

Telling customers how to solve world problems since 2001

Mega Comrade posted:

Raspberry Pi 2 is a fantastic little toy and a steal at the price for all the things it can do.

I use mine as a media center and game emulator. I have 2 xbox360 pads plugged into it for controllers.

How does it deal with MAME?

Qylvaran
Mar 28, 2010

Somebody here recommended Leo's Fortune. I'm not far in it, but I don't think I'll continue. Platformer touch controls remain horrible, and the only difficulty is from not seeing where you are going, while a lot of the puzzles so far rely on maintaining momentum. I like the voice acting, though.

Hitman Go, though, was well worth the dollar in surveybux.

Mega Comrade
Apr 22, 2004

Listen buddy, we all got problems!

Valle posted:

How does it deal with MAME?

Not well. Mame is a different beast and the extra cores of the pi2 don't help run it right.

Anything up to N64 is fine though. With N64 it depends on the game but I hear a little overclocking smooths things out nicely.

mrkillboy
May 13, 2003

"Something witty."
Just in time for the big new movie (The Age of Adaline I think?), beat 'em up/action RPG Marvel Future Fight should be rolling out globally sometime this week. I've been playing it since it soft launched a few weeks ago; its pretty fun though ultimately quite mindless.

Flaggy
Jul 6, 2007

Grandpa Cthulu needs his napping chair



Grimey Drawer
I have well over 20 bucks in survey money, but no idea what to get. Any recommendations? I already have all the FF games.

Die Sexmonster!
Nov 30, 2005

Qylvaran posted:

Somebody here recommended Leo's Fortune. I'm not far in it, but I don't think I'll continue. Platformer touch controls remain horrible, and the only difficulty is from not seeing where you are going, while a lot of the puzzles so far rely on maintaining momentum. I like the voice acting, though.

It works very well with physical buttons, that's unfortunate. It's got momentum puzzles, definitely.

Qylvaran
Mar 28, 2010

Pyroxene Stigma posted:

It's got momentum puzzles, definitely.

Which wouldn't be a problem if I could see where my momentum was taking me. I wish more was visible on screen at once.

Aredna
Mar 17, 2007
Nap Ghost

Longbaugh01 posted:

Finally got the last two achievements in Idle Oil Tycoon by letting a specialist buy levels of it until 1800. So, a bit anticlimactic. I guess it was worth it? I can die in peace now!

That's not really the end - you should check out unlimited mode...

(Sorry)

TheLawinator
Apr 13, 2012

Competence on the battlefield is a myth. The side which screws up next to last wins, it's as simple as that.

Flaggy posted:

I have well over 20 bucks in survey money, but no idea what to get. Any recommendations? I already have all the FF games.

Start a Hearthstone addiction since you can get the expansions with survey money. Or just a bunch of packs.

Semisponge
Mar 9, 2006

I FUCKING LOVE BUTTS
I'm looking for a match-three game with rpg elements a la Puzzle Quest. Anyone got any recommendations?

Drone
Aug 22, 2003

Incredible machine
:smug:


Mega Comrade posted:

Not well. Mame is a different beast and the extra cores of the pi2 don't help run it right.

Anything up to N64 is fine though. With N64 it depends on the game but I hear a little overclocking smooths things out nicely.

MAME itself is complicated, but Final Burn Alpha runs all of my Neo Geo / some other arcade cabinet stuff perfectly with only mild overclocking.

NPR Journalizard
Feb 14, 2008

mrkillboy posted:

Just in time for the big new movie (The Age of Adaline I think?), beat 'em up/action RPG Marvel Future Fight should be rolling out globally sometime this week. I've been playing it since it soft launched a few weeks ago; its pretty fun though ultimately quite mindless.

Yeah, been playing this as well. It's possibly the most grindy game I have seen. They throw a lot of energy at you, which is nice, but goddam. Ranking up team members takes 20 drops of biometrics per rank, if they drop at all. You can only do each elite level 3 times a day, which is where most of them drop. Then you have to increase mastery which requires more drops of a different mcguffin.

Its fun, in a way. Most of my game time is spent with iron-man, collecting up all the possible enemies, then doing his AoE attack to take them down asap. Boss fights are largely the same as well. Avoid attack by moving in a circle, attack once, avoid next attack by moving in a circle, wait for special attack to come off cool down while moving in a circle and attacking.

mrkillboy
May 13, 2003

"Something witty."

Frogmanv2 posted:

Its fun, in a way. Most of my game time is spent with iron-man, collecting up all the possible enemies, then doing his AoE attack to take them down asap. Boss fights are largely the same as well. Avoid attack by moving in a circle, attack once, avoid next attack by moving in a circle, wait for special attack to come off cool down while moving in a circle and attacking.

I'm running a main trio of Black Widow, Cap and Blade and I've gotten to chapter 5 by mainly just running up to enemies and punching them in the face until they die. I don't think I even bother trying to dodge enemy attacks at all.

They've also just updated the game to be way, way more difficult so it's going to somehow be even more grindy now. Good thing I've got like something like 1100/60 stamina banked!

NPR Journalizard
Feb 14, 2008

mrkillboy posted:

I'm running a main trio of Black Widow, Cap and Blade and I've gotten to chapter 5 by mainly just running up to enemies and punching them in the face until they die. I don't think I even bother trying to dodge enemy attacks at all.

Elite or normal?

That tactic doesn't work for me in chapter 4+ elite. Plus AoE is quicker.

mrkillboy
May 13, 2003

"Something witty."

Frogmanv2 posted:

Elite or normal?

Normal. I had gotten them to level 22 so they were fairly resilient before the update (now they get hammered in the first wave of enemies - this is how much they increased the difficulty).

NPR Journalizard
Feb 14, 2008

mrkillboy posted:

Normal. I had gotten them to level 22 so they were fairly resilient before the update (now they get hammered in the first wave of enemies - this is how much they increased the difficulty).

Jesus, just updated and they cranked the difficulty up too high. Doubled the hp in villain siege, and added more bomb bots. Can barely scratch the first boss now.

NPR Journalizard
Feb 14, 2008

Whelp, gently caress that game till the next update when they will either reduce the difficulty or lose 9/10 of their user base.

Shwqa
Feb 13, 2012

Frogmanv2 posted:

Jesus, just updated and they cranked the difficulty up too high. Doubled the hp in villain siege, and added more bomb bots. Can barely scratch the first boss now.

This is the cycle of all f2p mobile marvel games. They make a decent game that is a bit too grindy but not impossible. People play it because it's fun being a super hero. Then they patch the game to make impossible to have fun and then the game goes into a slow death spiral only surviving so long because of its name.

We are still in the Howard the duck phase for marvel f2p games.

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Flaggy posted:

I have well over 20 bucks in survey money, but no idea what to get. Any recommendations? I already have all the FF games.

I strongly recommend Galaxy Trucker, as well as Sproggiwood, when it comes out of beta. It's a really solid roguelike with great art. Made by a goon! (unormal)

Also, I've heard good things about GTA: Chinatown Wars. I played it on DS, and absolutely loved it. The drug trading alone is awesome.

Edit: Also check out Noir Syndrome, a procedurally generated noir-themed murder mystery game. I have it on PC and, while not incredibly deep, is still really fun. It also has a fantastic soundtrack.

Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Apr 27, 2015

Nyx
Mar 24, 2006

Like some cat from Japan
As far as new incremental/clicker games to get addicted to, I've recently started playing Goat Evolution and it is a pretty neat new way to play those types of games. Basically you run a farm of goats (whose poop is worth a certain amount of coins per second) in which you can merge said goats together to evolve into larger, weirder goats. The bigger the goat, the more coins per second their poop is worth. There's IAP but it's definitely not essential to "winning" and while you can use the coins you earn to instantly buy a specific goat you have already evolved, you sometimes have the option to watch an ad instead to get it. It looks like it's the third game after Cow Evolution and Platypus Evolution. I've only tried the latter, but the features didn't seem as polished.

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost

Nyx posted:

As far as new incremental/clicker games to get addicted to, I've recently started playing Goat Evolution and it is a pretty neat new way to play those types of games. Basically you run a farm of goats (whose poop is worth a certain amount of coins per second) in which you can merge said goats together to evolve into larger, weirder goats. The bigger the goat, the more coins per second their poop is worth. There's IAP but it's definitely not essential to "winning" and while you can use the coins you earn to instantly buy a specific goat you have already evolved, you sometimes have the option to watch an ad instead to get it. It looks like it's the third game after Cow Evolution and Platypus Evolution. I've only tried the latter, but the features didn't seem as polished.

Looks like everyone is jumping on the Alpaca Evolution bandwagon.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Beltheva.Alpaka2
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Beltheva.Giraffe
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.selectbutton.manbotheworld&hl=en

coyo7e
Aug 23, 2007

by zen death robot

Frogmanv2 posted:

Yeah, been playing this as well. It's possibly the most grindy game I have seen. They throw a lot of energy at you, which is nice, but goddam. Ranking up team members takes 20 drops of biometrics per rank, if they drop at all. You can only do each elite level 3 times a day, which is where most of them drop. Then you have to increase mastery which requires more drops of a different mcguffin.

Its fun, in a way. Most of my game time is spent with iron-man, collecting up all the possible enemies, then doing his AoE attack to take them down asap. Boss fights are largely the same as well. Avoid attack by moving in a circle, attack once, avoid next attack by moving in a circle, wait for special attack to come off cool down while moving in a circle and attacking.
All the reviews I saw on top were people bitching that it's been made grindier and more expensive. Moving on...

FredMSloniker
Jan 2, 2008

Why, yes, I do like Kirby games.
Is Pixel People any good, or should I give it a pass?

Longbaugh01
Jul 13, 2001

"Surprise, muthafucka."

Aredna posted:

That's not really the end - you should check out unlimited mode...

(Sorry)

Noooooo. Actually I already decided to forego unlimited since I imagine that, true to its name, it has no end.

Cool Dad
Jun 15, 2007

It is always Friday night, motherfuckers

I think one guy got to the end of unlimited mode by getting a high enough score that the game crashed on start up.

Longbaugh01
Jul 13, 2001

"Surprise, muthafucka."

Gilok posted:

I think one guy got to the end of unlimited mode by getting a high enough score that the game crashed on start up.

As far as end goals in games go, I guess that's one way to do it.

Aredna
Mar 17, 2007
Nap Ghost

Longbaugh01 posted:

Noooooo. Actually I already decided to forego unlimited since I imagine that, true to its name, it has no end.

There is an end - when every number rolls over to infinity, which is the max value of a double or about 1.8e308. Put it in scientific notation and see where you're at now.

But the game definitely plays different in unlimited mode and you'll find different strategies to try to get to your next reset the fastest. There were times when it was best for me to go almost a week between resets and I would increase my multiplier by like a factor of a trillion. Other times I'd reset just when it would double.

Gilok posted:

I think one guy got to the end of unlimited mode by getting a high enough score that the game crashed on start up.

The game crashes when you use the letter mode like 3.4YYYYY, etc. and one of the numbers rolls over to infinity. If you use scientific notation it doesn't crash.

1337kutkufan6969
Feb 13, 2010

Oh, Yian Kut Ku!
Where have you been all my life?
Let me break your head.


Grimey Drawer
Does anyone in the Sproggiwood beta know when they're planning to launch? I have to remember to save my Google bucks for that one.

InShaneee
Aug 11, 2006

Cleanse them. Cleanse the world of their ignorance and sin. Bathe them in the crimson of ... am I on speakerphone?
Fun Shoe

Semisponge posted:

I'm looking for a match-three game with rpg elements a la Puzzle Quest. Anyone got any recommendations?

Try Marvel Puzzle Quest.

ModeSix
Mar 14, 2009


I think you just recommended the same game to him that he's looking for something similar to. :v:

mrkillboy
May 13, 2003

"Something witty."

Semisponge posted:

I'm looking for a match-three game with rpg elements a la Puzzle Quest. Anyone got any recommendations?

Try 10000000, Adventure Xpress, Spellfall or Fat Princess: Piece of Cake.

The sequel to 10000000 is also out next month.

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wall monitor
Jan 1, 2007

mrkillboy posted:

The sequel to 10000000 is also out next month.

:getin:

I didn't realize it was so soon!

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