You're sure he doesn't!?!cool wrote:Nils Satis you are right. Why this fixation with somebody who doesnt contribute to the website! and I dont mean you.
£50 cleudo/monopoly
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Istenem
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£50 cluedo is an excellent game. a really brilliant example where style has triumphed.
i think i said something similar when the previous cluedo redo was released but this is a thing of beauty. all congratulations to those behind it.
i'd imagine those of us who take these things seriously would welcome double stake for double prizes; if any game can hope to make the punter think that £1 a game is worth it, this is ploughing a furrow.
it really is a great product, and even though the pub i was in had awful beer, i stayed for two pints. yes, i killed him, and i'd do it again, he is a surmountable bore. brilliant.
i think i said something similar when the previous cluedo redo was released but this is a thing of beauty. all congratulations to those behind it.
i'd imagine those of us who take these things seriously would welcome double stake for double prizes; if any game can hope to make the punter think that £1 a game is worth it, this is ploughing a furrow.
it really is a great product, and even though the pub i was in had awful beer, i stayed for two pints. yes, i killed him, and i'd do it again, he is a surmountable bore. brilliant.
nobody ever wins on those things.
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'i think i said something similar when the previous cluedo redo was released but this is a thing of beauty. all congratulations to those behind it'.
perhaps Istenem can set up a website for people who can get their rocks off on beautiful looking quiz games--- (S---king Whilst Perving redefinin SWP!).
The game can look better than Keeley but if I cant get much out of it Im not interested.
perhaps Istenem can set up a website for people who can get their rocks off on beautiful looking quiz games--- (S---king Whilst Perving redefinin SWP!).
The game can look better than Keeley but if I cant get much out of it Im not interested.
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Istenem
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i am going to back the new cluedo (ignoring, for the time being £50 monopoly which just seems to have moved the goalposts in the prize amounts).
cluedo has several elements which will appeal to the pubgoing public.
the speech of characters. i have not played it enough to discern whether each character has only one phrase for each of the situations or more for each eventuality. i used to like that old 80 days SWP game where the plummy guy would say "top hole", "utter crap", "i say" (which was subsequently nicked for the topper in monopoly and (i think) colonel mustard's opening gambit in this) etc. this is the single most impressive element for me. when my c64 first talked to me i was awed.
overt win plan. yes, it probably won't let you get the room you need (just like all the previous versions) but joe public will collect at the first opportunity anyway.
spurious features like unlocking rooms which, imo, have some interactivity with the player who thinks they have made some small achievement even if it means bugger-all in terms of the game itself.
ergonomic characters. when you catch the people they move in a sensible way within the environment and their supposed characteristics. admittedly it is pretty clunky but it is ten times better than a static picture of some bearded goon.
production values. i consider this important even if nobody else does.
anyway, i will be playing this game, hopefully in a pub where the machine has noise turned up. perhaps it reflects on the dreariness of my life but i get a small kick from the flourishes of new cluedo.
thus far i've not won a bean from the game but that doesn't bother me too much. there are other games to play for an easy buck.
cluedo has several elements which will appeal to the pubgoing public.
the speech of characters. i have not played it enough to discern whether each character has only one phrase for each of the situations or more for each eventuality. i used to like that old 80 days SWP game where the plummy guy would say "top hole", "utter crap", "i say" (which was subsequently nicked for the topper in monopoly and (i think) colonel mustard's opening gambit in this) etc. this is the single most impressive element for me. when my c64 first talked to me i was awed. overt win plan. yes, it probably won't let you get the room you need (just like all the previous versions) but joe public will collect at the first opportunity anyway. spurious features like unlocking rooms which, imo, have some interactivity with the player who thinks they have made some small achievement even if it means bugger-all in terms of the game itself. ergonomic characters. when you catch the people they move in a sensible way within the environment and their supposed characteristics. admittedly it is pretty clunky but it is ten times better than a static picture of some bearded goon. production values. i consider this important even if nobody else does.anyway, i will be playing this game, hopefully in a pub where the machine has noise turned up. perhaps it reflects on the dreariness of my life but i get a small kick from the flourishes of new cluedo.
thus far i've not won a bean from the game but that doesn't bother me too much. there are other games to play for an easy buck.
nobody ever wins on those things.
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Yet to see the 50 quid incarnation, but I have played my last game of Monopoly.
Target was 6000, I managed to get up to around 5,500 and keep all my try agains through a series of almost unbelievable guesses (and a few obscure questions I knew). I proceeded to get sent to jail THREE times, get assessed for street repairs and still managed to fluke my way to the end game.
It then offered me 1 nugget for my cards. I knew what would happen if I didn't take it, but I went for it anyway (it's only 50p and it gives me something to moan about).
And lo, there was the 50p Old Kent Road card. Quel surpris!
Target was 6000, I managed to get up to around 5,500 and keep all my try agains through a series of almost unbelievable guesses (and a few obscure questions I knew). I proceeded to get sent to jail THREE times, get assessed for street repairs and still managed to fluke my way to the end game.
It then offered me 1 nugget for my cards. I knew what would happen if I didn't take it, but I went for it anyway (it's only 50p and it gives me something to moan about).
And lo, there was the 50p Old Kent Road card. Quel surpris!
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It's on the Indegos. There is one of these in the O'Neills on Euston Road but I can't confirm whether or not it has these two games. However there is also a dreaded Paragon by the front door so at least you would be getting two machines to play * if you did pay a visit.grecian wrote:Which terminal is this on? I've not seen it thus far. Isty - can you point me in the direction of any London venues?
* Legal disclaimer - if the bloody things are both working, which is becoming less and less predictable as we all know. I know of Gamesnets that have been in the same unplayable state for THREE MONTHS - surely the pub and/or management company should realise at some point that they aren't taking anything at all through the coinslots?
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had a jaunt on another one of these over some roast dairy cattle.
i still like cluedo although the £1 entry doesn't appear to be getting much play from the punters. it is so much more sophisticated (in terms of design and production values) than anything else out there.
i'm fairly sure now that each accusation has a different reaction. e.g. if you play as mustard and accuse green, he says: "Harry, how could you think i'd do such a thing" (or similar) it is very, very good.
also saw family fortunes which is okay but not one to make your fortune. decent replayability but the endgame is doubly rigged in that you only get the bottom values (10p, 20p etc) and these correspond to the stupidest answers out of the 100 people surveyed.
crystal maze seems very similar to the previous game but with more sophisticated treatment.
i like this release very much. well done to the indego team.
i still like cluedo although the £1 entry doesn't appear to be getting much play from the punters. it is so much more sophisticated (in terms of design and production values) than anything else out there.
i'm fairly sure now that each accusation has a different reaction. e.g. if you play as mustard and accuse green, he says: "Harry, how could you think i'd do such a thing" (or similar) it is very, very good.
also saw family fortunes which is okay but not one to make your fortune. decent replayability but the endgame is doubly rigged in that you only get the bottom values (10p, 20p etc) and these correspond to the stupidest answers out of the 100 people surveyed.
crystal maze seems very similar to the previous game but with more sophisticated treatment.
i like this release very much. well done to the indego team.
nobody ever wins on those things.