So who wants to try Lord of the Rings: Rise to War and confirm for me the is is nothing but a re-skin of the same soulless crap that is a malignant cancer of the App Store?
If Iām tutorialised for an hour, and have timers to upgrade my base, Iām going to blame you personally
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Yeah, there might possibly be some new ideas here, but itās spawned out of a fundamentally trash genre.
At the start, they asked me ā Your ringā¦.what does it look like?ā which I think shows their hand as to what they plan to do to my ring if I get hooked
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Yeah, thanks @Snotty128 ā¦ I thought about diving into the LOTR game, but I didnāt want to be depressed, and Iām already spending some time playing World Flipper, so Iām at my limit of F2P nonsense for right now.
(World Flipper isnāt badāI havenāt hit a wall yet and have enjoyed it so farābut the usual timer/loot box/etc. garbage is ever present.)
I bounced off World Flipper pretty quickly. The core concept is great and gameplay isnāt terrible but it is still the same f2p nonsense you find in every other character-collecting āRPG.ā Also, the fact that both flippers go at the same time drives me crazy.
The EXIT series is a popular tabletop escape room experience that now has an iOS game called EXIT - The Curse of Ophir.
Iāve not played the EXIT games as weāve always played the Unlocked series but I may give this game a go sometime, though the whole escape room/puzzle game isnāt exactly a unique idea with digital media like the tabletop versions were when they first burst into the scene a couple years ago.
Asmodee has just been sold for a whopping 2 billions dollars.
I donāt know who bought it (Iāve read Goldman Sachs is involved) but hopefully someone who cares more about their digital division implementing proper async. (Iām not holding my breath).
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Good grief, from bad to worse, in my very early opinion. The saga of Asmodee is such a good example of what happens when you go from gamers calling the shots to bankers and businessmen.
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Diablo 2 Resurrected is out and is if perfection. I bought it on my PS4 and am very happy to have the game on the system. I wouldnāt say the graphics are as good as Diablo 3, and there are a couple of quality of life changes that the latter made to the series that I miss a bit, but the core gameplay and character building are great and game game looks better than just good enough, if that makes sense.
For all you PoE fans out there, I was never able to get in to that game for my own various reasons so I canāt say if youāll be interested in going back to D2, but as someone who has milked D3 for years, this is a great return to a game that I couldnāt get enough of 20 years ago.
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I had Zoom chat with friends last night that I used to play D2 with. My problem with the game is that essentially there is only one gear build and that is MF. I felt that I would just run magic find and hope to drop good stuff, but then I never used that stuff because it would lower my MF.
Iām not quite sure why Iām playing it or how it hooked me, for now. Iām not enough of a pinball purist to care about the flippers. And I havenāt played a character-collecting game since FE: Heroes, so thatās probably why Iām willing to get into this one.
As weāre admitting to iOS freemium trash weāve become addicted toā¦lately I canāt get enough of Funko Pop Blitz:
I know itās pure match 3 gacha trash, but I enjoy seeing what abilities they give each new character (nearly 300 at this point) and get a chuckle with the weird mixes that can make a board, say E.T., The Trix Rabbit, and Doc Brown. I was never a fan of Funko Pops in IRL (or any collectible figures), but getting them in a game with each granting unique powers is kind of compelling. I even appreciate how the game tracks a MEGA SCORE which is the combined top score youāve achieved with each character. So while many of the common figures power and potential scores are dwarfed by the mighty juiced up legendary figurines, their little top score could make the difference in your combined scores hitting the next threshold level to unlock some prize.
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This is great to hear. I played briefly during the beta and I really liked it. However, the lack of any quality of life improvements regarding inventory (if nothing else) really dampened my spirits. I definitely want to play, but I may wait for a sale after a few patches have gone by.
I tend to pick up every last item that drops until I feel Iāve reached the point where first blues, then yellows really no longer matter and I can say that inventory management is still the beast that it used to be. I had to portal back from the very first zone to unload. Like I said, there have definitely been some quality of life improvements in the genre in the last 2+ decades, but this stuff is kind of minor for me. My biggest problem so far is that the game really makes me hate Diablo 3ās leveling system all over again. Oh, what could have been. D3 with star and skill points? Yes, please!
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Not actually sold yet. But for sale at that asking price.
This has always been the goal, and all of their decisions in both physical and digital were pointed towards it.
- Amass IP by acquiring successful board game companies.
- Grow user base in early digital phase by taking over publishing for existing digital games.
- Move to building original digital experiences based on board game properties rather than direct ports of board games.
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As someone who usually buys some games twice (thrice), in a very rare case of restraint I hadnāt bought D3 on my PS4. Soooo how is D2 (D3) on the couch with a controller? I havenāt bought D2R yetā¦and with that price tag I wonāt buy it twice soon either?
Specifically, controlling movement/skills/ menu slog on a PS4? I am already used to Diablo 2 per se, as I ruined a mouse or two in that game in the before-timesā¦
Movement is smooth as silk. Menu navigation not so much. The right stick can work like a mouse pointer, so maybe Iāll grow accustom to it, but the way D3 is so ingrained in my muscle memory all my menu work takes a bit of time.
Overall, though, Iām loving the game very much.
It is also a lot less forgiving than I remember. D3 has made me soft.
Concordia hitting Steam/iOS/Android from Acram Digital next Tuesday!
Hereās my review of it.
Itās good!
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Would not want it otherwise, I may have gotten soft as well (playing Ys 1+2 on easy (wth!)) but I remember the difficulty of that game pretty much (and my stubborness to not net-craft) my character but playing it my (stupid headstrong) way.
One thing I hated tough was the āno respecā of D2ā¦that was the most important fact to finally turn me away from itā¦