Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter was such an awesome game but way too hard for high school me - I don’t think I ever got very far. That said it was probably my first taste of a rougelike style game (now my favorite genre). I’d forgotten about it till now - wish I could get a hold of it somehow, I bet I’d really enjoy…

My girlfriend used to be super into it I guess and tried a couple of months to get back into her old account, but everything was broken and she couldn’t do anything at all. I did some Googling and it seems there was going to be a re-launch of everything in the website in an app last year, but that just seems to have…

This is too good.

Those are good delineations I didn’t notice at first. I’ve enjoyed playing for like 30 minutes each morning the past few days till I max my daily pack rewards, but I get the feeling I’ll burn out before I finish the season pass.

oof. That’s good to know - visually it’s a lot like MM, but that detail is gonna help me not to sink money into the game (I plunked down on the season pass for the month, but won’t invest further knowing that).

OT: Is Kinja hobbling along for anyone else lately at a speed so sluggish it resembles me only thinking about attempting (and most certainly not actually running) a marathon?

There’s also that whole global pandemic thing looming...

It’s almost an identical clone of Minion Masters, but with MTG branding. Clash Royale is the only other game I’ve heard of that is in this very small two-lane card-based real-time subgenre which is a highly distilled mashup of tower defense and MOBA mechanics, with cards as a central mechanic.

Eh, so far it doesn’t seem that bad - like $10 for enough gems to get a season pass (seasons last a month), and two $0.99 packages popped up over about two hours of playtime, in which I’d exhausted my daily playtime rewards. I don’t even see a way to buy extra card packs like Hearthstone willy-nilly. So far doesn’t…

I’m really not sure - I think Clash Royale may have been, but that’s a mobile title I never played (though I’ve seen ads for it for years). Minion Masters came out in like 2016 (and I was hooked for a while - it’s a fun and simple formula). Surprised to see a MTG iteration on this so much later.

Downloading to find out, but my money is on “Yes.” It’s developed by Netmarble, who became commonly known as “Moneymarble” in the time I was playing their Lineage II mobile game which was basically “which players can spend the most and are they in my guild or not” for anyone who stuck around after the first month.

Oh boy - here we go again. I swore I wouldn’t pick up another F2P game (since I have little spending/gambling control and the medium is predatory AF), but I’m downloading this to check it out at least.

This puzzles me as well. In 2015 I had a short story published about a robot orphanage where parents who had lost children would often go to replace what they had lost. Perhaps I am eligible for the suit as well! I have not seen her movie but she’s welcome to sue me for all I’m worth (roughly $45k of student loans).

I suppose it’s a good thing that I didn’t even have a glimmer of hope or excitement when I saw this headline. Perhaps I have finally learned my lesson that mobile “MMO” titles = eventual autoplay buttons and pushy IAPs. I have no reason to expect this will be any different.

Honestly, even at the time it was pretty janky - the Enhanced Edition went a decent way to resolving some of the game’s larger issues, but I do remember a significant amount of wonk even then. That said, between the Witcher I and the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R., that was when I realized European game devs were creating…

You know, I always wondered if Match.com and eHarmony were active at all anymore - I never used them in their heyday (because OK Cupid was free), and now it seems like Tinder has pretty much gobbled all the other apps/sites up. I had Bumble and Coffee Meets Bagel on my phone for years as well (in addition to a…

Beyond the Tran snub, I’m still impressed at how bad this movie was. Not Prequel-bad but still just head-scratchingly dull for a spectacle filled with colorful pew-pews. In general I thought the new movies were meh, but even then the new one felt shockingly rushed and contrived and the writing and acting was just not…

If it works it works, I guess! Kinda depressing that I owe my current happiness to some horny tech bros but hey, I’ll take it.

I am tempted to say “All dating apps are bad.” (because they are) ...and yet somehow I found my person on Tinder.

Totally agree - kind of glad I’m skipping on this, actually (and rather hoping to stop the money/time sink on “F2P” games altogether).