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Had some fun with the Plasma deck (which equalises your Chips & Multi before scoring) - and got the Boot (+mult per $) & Bull (+chips per $) joker together with Rocket (+$ per Ante) - so I escalated up hands by having loads of money in the bank. Anyway burst through my highest hand score too 3.3m And unlocked a couple of new jokers too (+1m hand, $400+ in bank).
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On the Blue Stake I ran with the +1 per hand -1 per discard Joker - so predominantly played High Card or Single Pairs, as I'd also got the Splash (score every card) and a x2 Foil (so I could churn cards by scoring on them and not discarding, so ended up with a +65 mult on that one Joker) - then I bought loads of Tarots to get multipliers on loads of basic cards - that seemed to scale together pretty well too.
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Ha, Blue Stake, you're so yesterday's news - done and onto the next one ! I'd left the Challenges for now as noticed I've got a few Jokers still to unlock, so thought I might as well go through the Stakes & Decks in case some of those unlocked Jokers might be useful on the remain Challenge rounds.
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Rockstar are also one of the few publishers (along with Nintendo) who continue selling their games at full price for a good few years after their release too.
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*Moved to right thread*
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Weren't there GB / GBC games that you could link together two GBs (using cable) and use one access extra stuff - such as an inventory screen, map etc Can't recall for sure but think maybe one of the Zelda games had it There was then the GC to GBA cable later on too.
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Oh FFS - doing a Blue Stake difficulty run, took the Joker that gave zero discards and +3 hands, and what with vouchers etc, I hit the final Ante Boss with 8 Hands 0 Discards. Multipliers meant I was easily getting >20k worth of points for two pairs, other hands >10k - yet across 8 hands in that final round I didn't draw two pairs once - predominantly ended up with single pair and high card (dumping other cards to churn deck as I had no discards). So I got pretty close anyway, about 5k short of winning it - but pretty pissed off at the RNG having not drawn two pairs out at least once in 8 hands !
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I'm feeling that the end three challenges don't really give you much scope to develop if you don't get the right drops in the early antes - looking online seems too that people are saying if you don't get scaling jokers (or bonus tarots etc) early on (for these last 3) you might as well quit & retry.
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Just got the final 3 Challenges to do (Golden Needle, Cruelty, Jokerless) - but they are pretty tough ones - seems somewhat dependent upon luck in the early rounds as to the draw you get and Jokers available (well bar the Jokerless one). The "Blast Off" one was a rather problematic one to do, with regards to low hands & discards, and it wasn't until got a decent joker multiplier up and running on that one (after many null attempts) that I finally breezed through it by the end - so that might well be the same with the final three. It might be time to consult an online guide as I don't know whether I'm just missing something obvious for each - or whether it really is just dependant upon how your cards fall (i.e. as it sometimes is with this type of game, not all deck draws are necessarily winnable, and sometimes you really need those scalable Jokers, which have increasing +chips/multi or x multi, in order to get enough score on later rounds - and if they don't come out sometimes just can't win).
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Whilst not 'MS Smart Glass' there's a few games I can think of which used mobile phone interfaces instead of the controller: Erica & Hidden Agenda - rather underwhelming used a mobile interface for their choose the path / option games Just Dance - switched over from the motion sensors of Move, Kinnect and Wiimotes to using motion tracking in your phone (to some degree of success) - I think the later Singstar games used your phone mic rather than peripheral microphone too. Best in class though were the Jackbox party games that allowed multiplayer games, often with much hilarity - selecting answers, putting in spoofs, drawing etc on your smart phone / tablet - really successful implemented.
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I don't know - that sort of sounded great in principle - like having the Pipboy from Fallout 3 on a screen (arm mounted or not) - but it just wasn't very practical to have a separate screen (esp. in an armchair - maybe sat a desk was fine). But it's this hit & miss innovation that Nintendo often gets praised for, whilst much of what MS or Sony tries gets derided.
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Isn't that the essence of the discussion - where it feels like a reviewer has done exactly that in the first place - rather than reflecting a wider more objective opinion - although the issue with Metacritic is the entire focus becomes on the score rather than the supporting narrative (esp. where 7/10 has become the acceptable industry 'minimum')?
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Conversely I'll never forgive all those 9/10 reviews that "The Return of the Obra Dinn" gathered up - wasted a good few, mostly unenjoyable, hours of my life buying then playing on that one before regretting it ever since. Fair enough it tried something new in terms of presentation and gameplay - but for me it was neither fun or that engaging. Likewise I'm still not convinced those high marks for BG3 were ever really justified. So as a player I feel harshly done to after those positive review scores....
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Dead Island - pretty solid 7/10 game but inexplicably Edge game it a 3/10. Don't know if they just got a rogue broken review copy, but it always seems out of step with the rest.
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Really enjoyed this show - got 3 episodes of Season 3 left to watch - but I too hope they have an endgame in sight - rather than dragging it out for too much longer (it seems to just get renewed season at a time - which does mean it could be left hanging one time unless they wrap it up).