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Blanka:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on May 20, 2011, 11:51:55 am ---Anyone can play, but you really have to be good to three star every stage.
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Often you perfectly know how you can get 3 stars, but your thick finger and lack of marquees to remember previous shots makes it a time consuming waste of time to wait till you are lucky that multitouch chose the right starting-pixel for your shot. The toughness of the game is in the inaccuracy of controls. Just like Wii games are often annoying.
Guess the web-version will be too easy now. Mice are pixel-accurate and you can load an ad-on to keep your mouse clicks visible. If they are smart and want to stretch your play time, they should include a wiggle algorithm.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: shmokes on May 20, 2011, 10:15:31 pm ---It's frustrating primarily because it's crappy.  You can't get good at it.  For example, after finally three-staring a game if you replay the stage immediately you will likely one-star it.  It's just trial and error, doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over.  And even when you know exactly what needs to be done it's still just trial and error until you happen to draw the sling-shot back to precisely the right pixel, a feat that you won't be able to reproduce except by more over and over and over trial and error, aka luck. 
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Trust me, there are incredibly bad games out there that fit this description. Angry Birds isn't really one of them.

For example... My son discovered a racing game I made the mistake of downloading a few months ago. The physics are so incredibly loose (Havok loose) that the truck completely explodes at the slightest knock to the roof "zone" but is able to go vertically straight into the air and land on all four tires. Tilting the screen one way or the other "tweaks" the weight of the vehicle so it tilts forward or backwards as needed. The levels look like they're a combination of Caverns of Mars and Little Big Planet with a grand total of four... no three... textures to choose from and a rendering quality more suited to 8 bit consoles. Some levels require dozens of tries because the truck caught an invisible corner and is sent flying six blocks. It's maddeningly frustrating when there's no indication as to why the truck went flying in that direction anyways. 

My son thinks this game is the greatest. :banghead:

Given a choice, I would much rather he plays Angry Birds than that steaming pile of crap.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: shmokes on May 20, 2011, 10:15:31 pm ---
And that's how bad it is with the sound turned off.  With volume you are treated to bombarded with equally repetitive and even more obnoxious sound effects.


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Seriously?  The sound effects are almost the sole reason I like the game.  Cute little snorting sounds from the pigs, who also grumble because they are obviously grumpy, panicked birds screeching through the air.  Classic!

I think a lot of the complaints about the game come from "old schoolers" that are too focused on getting 100% completion than actually playing the game.  Yeah the star system is essentially broken, but why would you care if you get three stars or not?  Myself I go on to the next puzzle as soon as I finsh a board and I still have a metric tons of puzzles ahead of me.  There is no real reward or point to getting three stars, aside from one or two bonus levels and let me tell you... the bonus levels are crap and not worth unlocking.

AB isn't a game to master, it's a game to play... and that's it.  It's easily the best flash game I've ever played and showcases what the platform can really do when somebody talented gets ahold of it.

I will say this.... the game plays like crap on a phone/ipad.  It's a far superior game on a pc where you have the precise control of a mouse. 

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 23, 2011, 02:21:06 am ---There is no real reward or point to getting three stars
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I like to challenge myself to do more than the minimum. Though the game says I can move on once I've one-starred a level, my own rules state that I can't go to the next level unless I get three stars.

RayB:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on May 23, 2011, 11:16:48 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 23, 2011, 02:21:06 am ---There is no real reward or point to getting three stars
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I like to challenge myself to do more than the minimum. Though the game says I can move on once I've one-starred a level, my own rules state that I can't go to the next level unless I get three stars.

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Then you have OCD issues. Not the game's fault. Do you re-start Galaga every time you don't get perfect in Challenge Mode?

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