quizzers' paradise?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri May 09, 2008 10:11 am

it strikes me that the current front screen of the itbox has 15 games: TH'E poker, daily mail reader's bingo game and 13 Q&A games.

i do play the straight quiz games to an adequate (but lay) level but would welcome a bit of variety. a decent word game would be a priority but even something stupid like frogs jumping off lilypads would give the punter a choice.

i realise that many of you gents are uninterested in any game which is not questions and answers but, for joe schmo, there is very little to do in the pub other than answering question after question after question on subjects about which they couldn't care less.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Fri May 09, 2008 10:58 am

I'm uninterested in any game which is not questions and answers.

donttellhimpike · Post by **donttellhimpike** » Fri May 09, 2008 12:22 pm

On the positive side guys, i'm finding my word games are remarkably improved!
I can't imagine why!

Pikeletssssss

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Fri May 09, 2008 12:25 pm

There are still plenty of those games hidden away on the second screen. Maybe the fact that they are on the second screen is an indication that they just aren't very good and hence are being shunned by punters. I'd say from years of watching/waiting that 90% of games played by punters are of the Q&A type anyway, with Spot the Difference, Triple Towers and Word Up the "honourable" exceptions.

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Fri May 09, 2008 12:43 pm

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri May 09, 2008 1:28 pm

Nil Satis wrote:There are still plenty of those games hidden away on the second screen. Maybe the fact that they are on the second screen is an indication that they just aren't very good and hence are being shunned by punters.

i quite agree.

word blox is crap (pls excuse the technical language), scrabble is a building game which desecrates English, TSP is what it is, the hangman games are easy, unrewarding and boring, silly lilies is for imbeciles, card games are unedifying...

there are plenty of good skill games around which aren't under swingeing copyright (chuzzle, bejewelled etc. could be cloned without infringing any intellectual property law, and anyway the licence would be cheaper than e.g. ant&dec's premium rate scandal). i enjoy a good Q&A game as much as the next amateur but would like a bit of playability; BTS and goldenballs are in the right direction imo, so i'm hoping this is the way forward. i've seen puzzler and that looks to me to be playable and aimed a bit higher than the comic it is modelled on.

i have been dabbling with that king website and it seems that the most popular games on there are things like pop-it and match the colour games. i realise that the target demographic is different and that 50% of players on there win but these things should be popular, universal and current. (you can also smoke and drink cheaply with friends at home if you choose to. but this is another matter)

it was just an observation. i'm sure the good people at leisure link are following market trends with the front screen content but the weighting is not how i'd have done it. bring back WU and all will be forgiven, make it a pound a play and the maximum prize £2 for all i care, i want to play a game i enjoy while i drink the beer; for the time being that means i'm going to pubs with a paragon.

i am only one person and probably whistling in the wind but meh.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Fri May 09, 2008 1:49 pm

So really you just want to play Word Up then.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Fri May 09, 2008 2:11 pm

Ironically Word Up is the one non-Q&A game I would ever play consistently.

If you want an example of how bad the supposed skill games can get, has anyone seen 'Brainbox' on the Gamesnets? It consists of four or five pointless skill games - select the coins that add up to £1.54, press the four coloured lights when bubbles are released from the sea bed, put the rubbish in the bin ... - with no real hope of winning anything and it was relegated to the second screen in what seemed like record time. It's mystifying that dross like that can get commissioned and released.

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Sat May 10, 2008 4:29 pm

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Sat May 10, 2008 6:17 pm

A more serious version of Brainbox, along the lines of the DS' brain games, might do well.

Apparently this game increases your IQ - quizzer version imminent? http://cognitivefun.net/test/5

Admittedly, the playability sucks.