Stately Citizen Journalism

#910

I haven’t played it, but I do have a couple thoughts:

  1. I believe there are some new classes.
  2. There is also multiplayer, which is a first for the series.
  3. The original was grindy, too. That’s kind of the point. You aren’t exploring the world or anything like in a traditional RPG, you’re picking a battlefield and fighting off some waves. You gain some XP, then do it again. And again. And again. In this respect, the original was a great mobile title.

This isn’t to say his complaints aren’t valid. I’ll probably pick it up over the weekend and can offer some impressions. That said, I haven’t played the original for a couple years, so I don’t know how well I’ll be able to compare it with the first.

#911

Fighting Fantasy Legends is out too - they’ve released so many that I don’t remember if this is the one I was looking forward too…

Link to TA since App Store doesn’t post correctly here.

#912

Seems like it’s a sequel to the last Fighting (not Final) Fantasy Legends app they released, with three different gamebooks, but the same gameplay. I’ve been sufficiently confused to just steer clear of all of them.

#913

Hey, red mage, I think you meant “Fighting Fantasy.”

:smile:

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#914

Nope, it’s all about Final Fantasy, all the time. :joy:

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#915

Agreed… I downloaded one a few months back, thinking it was the one with dice and character development, and it was purely a digital game book. Dunno if this is the one reviewed a few months back or not, that now goes to a dead link?

ETA: an App Store search shows about 10 different Fighting Fantasy titles, and TWO Fighting Fantasy Legends… no idea what the difference is, but I’m gonna steer clear for now too.

#916

Interestingly, that link leads to the new app, but Nomad still has a page describing the “old” Fighting (yes, I wrote Final AGAIN) Fantasy Legends app, too.

#917

I was a huge fan of the first Battleheart, and I was really disappointed with Legacy changing up the format to controlling a single guy. I’ll definitely pick this up tonight.

#918

Motorsport Manager 3 has been announced and is “coming soon.” I know a bunch of people here were fans of the first two iterations; I have MM2 but have yet to delve deeply into it…

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#919

Ah, tycoon games. Games that I want to love so much and put down so quickly.

I believe my problem is that I want tight control over my creations; I want things to be laid out the way I want, look the way I want, function the way I want, etc. What I want is a sandbox. Yet sandboxes don’t have the gaminess of a tycoon game. It’s a cyclical love/hate relationship. I wanted to love MM, but once I got in to it and saw how many levels of decisions there were, and realized that I actually had to lose before I won, I started to get lost.

I’m going to try Jurassic World Evolution this weekend (more on that to come), so I’m hoping that scratches my tycoon itch as I’ve read it is slightly less complex than others in the genre.

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#920

FF Classics = the old gamebooks. It’s also a library of sorts – the idea is that new books will just be released into the app as IAP. The old method of one app per book is being phased out.

FF Legends = a new engine for playing original adventures. It’s heavily influenced by the classic FF stuff, but is definitely different.

#921

Wait … what the eff?

I see the confusion now. Two apps, same name (except for a weird apostrophe on one of them), and neither looks technically new at all.

Also … where’d my purchase go? I paid for one of these the day it came out (the blue logo, I think). I’m not buying it again.

Asmodee: Far more money than sense.

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#922

IIRC, the original FF Legends app wasn’t published by Asmodee. When Asmodee took over Nomad, they put out a different version of that app, which is complete BS.

#923

Fully agreed on all points - I think the best compromise is a tycoon game that also has a sandbox mode… I gave MM2 a good three hours of play yesterday and am really enjoying it, despite not knowing fuckall about racing (other than drive fast, turn, don’t crash). Wish there was something to explain things to a noob other than having to google wtf a blue flag for my driver means (spoiler: it doesn’t mean it’s going to rain, as I assumed). Wish I could zoom way in and see my tiny pink (yes, the daughters were there when I was picking colors. Least I got to name the team SixOneNine Racing instead of Sparkle Rainbow Unicorn Sprinkle or whatever they would’ve picked) F1 car going around the track though…

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#924

Show your girls some pictures of the modern Force India cars. Yes, there is an F1 team with pink livery.

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#925

So I put about an hour and a half into Battleheart 2 last night, and I expect if someone enjoyed the first one, they will enjoy this. I haven’t played the original since probably 2012, so I’m fuzzy on some of the details. But like the first, it gives me the feeling of running dungeons in WoW in a short stint on my phone. Warning, it is quite the battery hog though!

It has been a little grindy, but I’m not sure how much of that is from cranking it up to the top difficulty. At that level I haven’t had any luck with any missions more than 1 level higher than the party. There’s tons of classes to mix and match your party composition. I started with the classic Knight/Rogue/Mage/Priest combo, but given how much my Knight has been forced to kite the entire screen, I think I’ll be better off running a Bard for group healing.

Each class has 3 abilities, and once you have unlocked them there are tons of passives to customize each of the classes. This has the effect of making missions that give Talent points seems more rewarding than missions giving Crystals for enchanting, or gold to shop, but maybe the balance shifts as make it further into the game.

While some may find this “more of the same” as the original, I have no regrets paying $4 for more of something so fun…

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#926

Lost Portal just updated with a new expansion. This one hasn’t hooked me like it should, but I know it is generally highly regarded.

#927

From GMTGames “Counting down: Twelve more days to a big announcement that is going to make a lot of digital players very happy!” (And retweeted by Playdek).

What’s it going to be???

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#928

They are going to add chat to the Agricola app?

#929

GMT isn’t Agricola. I’d love a Twilight Struggle phone update, but I think the announcement is a new game.