As much as I'd love to see the timers go, the current positioning on the charts indicates that people are buying it regardless. I can't see them going anywhere anytime soon, or ever most likely. I usually avoid this type of model like the plague, but I love card games and am tempted to buy this even with timers. People do seem to be enjoying it, and I've got plenty to play while waiting for hearts to refill. Hmmm...decisions, decisions.
Timers may not go away, but it will free at some point. So I'll just be patient however long it may take not a big deal whether it be soon or a few months from now.
I ran into similar issues around LSP/Ash. The cards they use are simply too good. I'm not sure how to progress, unless I buy tons of Algebraic Chests and pray for some lucky pulls.
Yeah, at the moment - with such a success (they selling tons of that app; like selling sliced bread) - there won't be a price drop for months and neither an change in the system. Don't mend what is not broken. I bought the game a few minutes ago and I'm now downloading it. Never heard of Adventure Time before, but watched the episode on Youtube (yesterday evening) and liked it. Time to find out what the fuzz is all about. And yeah. I am a busy family father with a lot of real life. Not much spare gaming time. So timers do not annoy me.
Well ... if you just make one or two mistakes and you want to start over a level ... you can get in "trouble" within ten minutes ... nevertheless: Good luck and have fun. By the way: Maybe you should take a look at this gem: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=219514
Thanks for your advice! I am someone who plays a game first before judging over it, so I had to buy it. And if I need to wait 10 minutes, I always find something to do in the house. Or my wife finds something for me. Ah, Uhr-Warlords. (Funny fact: "Uhr" means "Clock" in German) This seems to be some kind of Archon game and I loved Archon in my youth. Sadly, I have no iPad and this is exclusively designed for the phone's bigger brothers, afaik. I am a PC gamer first, but also love playing on my iPhone. I am from Hannover, btw., but was a few times in Lübeck. Nice city.
Haha, come on. Mentally, you've already bought it. I give you a day or two until you break in and press that buy button. If you haven't meanwhile. Despite some negative things, people are already conviced when they find 2-3 positive reasons in a thing. Negative things are weighted less. Call it "usual human habit".
O.k., played the tutorial games. First of all, this game has the worst German tranalation I've ever seen. It's atrocious, mixed with Enlish terms and French sentences. This was CLEARLY a Google Translator job. This alone makes me wanting to refund the game. I can't simply switch to English in the options menu, this requires to set my phone to English language. But I am not even able to understand what they're talking about at several times. And there are hundreds of spelling errors, things not translated. Practically in every sentence. A ridiculous and embarrassing example? "Chest" in German means both "Truhe" (a container) and "Brust" (breast, tits, or as you like to call it). Now look at this, that's stupid beyond believe: The left box basically says "cool breast", the right makes no sense at all. What a craptastic job, unbelievable. *facepalm*
Lmao, that's quite funny, In all seriousness though that's pretty bad from a big company. The randomness of adventure time combined with a bad translation might not be the best combination.
I'm sorry if this has been discussed - I've tried to follow the thread but not seen this mentioned. Does the campaign end? Can you just play a normal AI battle outside of the campaign? I'm just wondering because if there's no multiplayer and you simply play the campaign until completion, what else is there?
Ok, so I finally got a chance to play this game over an extended amount of time. I am playing it at default settings(battle meter thing). I am on the last stage of princess bubblegum which is not very far at all. I have paid no money for new cards so my deck is average. The game is great but I will say the timers definitely hamper game play. I can't imagine how it will be later as I am really only just starting. It definitely bums me out. There really needs to be an option to remove it. If you were to buy gems to up the timer, it would be very expensive. I don't watch much Adventure Time and have never seen the episode this is based on and I still love it. I will continue to play even with the timers. The game could be even better if I could play all I want and farm cards for crafting. After a while the timers may wear me down. Again, the game needs a buyout for timer removal. I'd pay 3-5 bucks. I know some would be pissed to have to do that after paying 3.99 but IMO this game is worth 10 bucks. I think we are conditioned to think all ios games should be .99 I am torn but I am going to subtract a star for the timers.
That's kind of the same boat I'm in. The timer situation is not ideal but I will be playing very casually. It doesn't seem like that long ago that my portable games on my DS were costing me $40 and games on cell phones sucked. I just can't get worked up over a highly polished game that's four dollars that has some minor annoyances.
Well tbh, that doesn't sound weird at all. Most games are like that. You beat a game until it's over and that's that. I'd keep it if I liked it because you can easily replay it using all your cards. But that's how a typical game works - most games don't offer extras. If you noticed some console games try to throw in multiplayer because everyone wants it but it turns out being crappy because the game was never meant for multiplayer. Also you're making it sound like a quick play but the enemies get a lot harder, good cards get scarce, and the timer will prevent you from bull rushing the game.
Just incase anyone wants to see the card wars episode, here's a link to watch it online. https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=167108533423948
So is that a yes or a no? Haha. I'm just thinking, with every card game I've ever played there's the ability to just do a normal AI battle, right? Sometimes there's a campaign, sometimes multiplayer, but the ability to just play a match against the computer is always there. That's what I'm wondering about. EDIT: Or here, how about this - how long is the game / how many battles are there? Are we talking a hundred+ predetermined campaign matches or 50?
It's kind of random, but it might help people that are getting stuck. . . I've been trying to spin the bottle about 270 degrees (by just barely pushing it) so it lands on the opponent. It seems like being able to counter their "first string" always works out better than playing first. Also, the algebraic chest are kind of "hit or miss". (I opened 5 and got 2 great cards) In the long run having a lot of crafting materials for good cards is better than a few chances at great cards. . .
^ You know I've been meaning to post that but I keep forgetting. It's WAAYY better to go 2nd. Going first is worse. When you go first you basically set up defenses. Going 2nd allows you to see what the opponent has AND attack immediately. It's completely advantageous that it's almost unfair. I've put out some good cards first turn only to have them destroyed immediately and then all the other strong cards get "blocked". I wonder what the ultimate Algebraic card looks like. Is it a 5 star? I think they're called Algebraic cards right?
They'd really need to balance the game first. Currently, whoever had a few better cards/higher level hero, would pretty much always win. If the decks were fairly equal, the player who went second would have a huge advantage. Overall, this game seems designed to remain a single player experience.
