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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: knagl on January 06, 2012, 03:16:49 PM
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Apologies if this has been discussed in another thread -- I took a quick look and didn't see any threads about it.
Anyone here playing the new PYL and LMAD games on Facebook? They're not terrible, and I was pleased to see (and hear) that PYL is using the original gameboard and sounds. I'm sure I'll get tired of both games in a few weeks, but for now they're fun to play.
I was also amused to see a mention of the Flokati Rug during one of the "loading" screens:
http://i43.tinypic.com/de0391.png
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Apologies if this has been discussed in another thread -- I took a quick look and didn't see any threads about it.
Anyone here playing the new PYL and LMAD games on Facebook? They're not terrible, and I was pleased to see (and hear) that PYL is using the original gameboard and sounds. I'm sure I'll get tired of both games in a few weeks, but for now they're fun to play.
I was also amused to see a mention of the Flokati Rug during one of the "loading" screens:
http://i43.tinypic.com/de0391.png
Clearly, you posted this before you played PYL. That game is as much PYL as Numberwang (http://"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc") is Countdown. I feel as if the big board is slightly more interactive than the DVD PYL game, which is to say, that pressing your buzzer does nothing more than forward the game to a random square, regardless of what's highlighted when you press the button.
Rubbish.
/LMAD is quite good, though.
//love its fake Bejeweled game
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Now see, I think it's the other way around. Facebook games (with the exception of perhaps Deal or No Deal and Wheel, among those that aren't carbon copies of the video games on which they're based) aren't made to be carbon copies of the game show themselves. As such I think calling the PYL game "rubbish" is being quite ridiculous. It is by far the better of the two games because it doesn't look like they bothered to put a whole lot of effort into the LMAD game.
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Now see, I think it's the other way around. Facebook games (with the exception of perhaps Deal or No Deal and Wheel, among those that aren't carbon copies of the video games on which they're based) aren't made to be carbon copies of the game show themselves. As such I think calling the PYL game "rubbish" is being quite ridiculous. It is by far the better of the two games because it doesn't look like they bothered to put a whole lot of effort into the LMAD game.
What it "looks like" is not particularly relevant to the discussion. Let's Make a Deal was never anything more than "Pick the box with the car, not the box with the goat." PYL has some controllable luck, though. And without this, any interest I have in playing the game goes out the window.
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Now see, I think it's the other way around. Facebook games (with the exception of perhaps Deal or No Deal and Wheel, among those that aren't carbon copies of the video games on which they're based) aren't made to be carbon copies of the game show themselves. As such I think calling the PYL game "rubbish" is being quite ridiculous. It is by far the better of the two games because it doesn't look like they bothered to put a whole lot of effort into the LMAD game.
What it "looks like" is not particularly relevant to the discussion. Let's Make a Deal was never anything more than "Pick the box with the car, not the box with the goat." PYL has some controllable luck, though. And without this, any interest I have in playing the game goes out the window.
Okay. Fair point. Now this challenging a position I like. Defends his own without being overly insulting.
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Seems to me that PYL is a perfectly adequate adaptation of the TV game onto Facebook's platform. (I hadn't noticed the lag time between button-press and board-stop, but if there is such I wrote it off to network traffic.) Sure, in the TV game questions were worth SPINS rather than dollars, but to play the FB game that way, either everybody who answered a question would get to spin, which seems unwieldy.
If there's anything I'd care to snark about it's the content of the questions. I realize that all the questions are easy if you know the answers, and I don't mind being wrong, but I seem to have gotten more than my share of questions about the cover images of video game packages, which hardly seem like "general knowledge." When one of these comes up there might as well be a randomly flashing light pattern helping me choose an answer...
An amusing game but I can see myself tiring of it pretty quickly.
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Okay, where can I play LMAD?
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Okay, where can I play LMAD?
It is moments like this that I am sad there is not a LetMeFacebookSearchBarThatForYou.com.
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It is moments like this that I am sad there is not a LetMeFacebookSearchBarThatForYou.com.
To be fair, there are times where I have entered the most likely search query ("let's make a deal," for instance) but what I was looking for was nowhere in the top search suggestions, or there are duplications not related to the real thing. The game is located here (https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=209843922367855&sk=wall).
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To be fair, there are times where I have entered the most likely search query ("let's make a deal," for instance) but what I was looking for was nowhere in the top search suggestions, or there are duplications not related to the real thing. The game is located here (https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=209843922367855&sk=wall).
Which is why I checked before I typed that. Third freakin' hit, without even having to hit Enter on the search.
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The problem is that JepMasta only mastered Jep.
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Big mistake on my part, should have looked closer. I apologize.
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One of my friends played PYL this week, and since PYL is my favorite game show of all, I gave it a shot. For a moment, I thought it was another one of those slots games, but was okayed that it was another bonus slots mini-games. The questioning was reminiscent of how the Millionaire Facebook game with the money tree and the option to pass/jump the question. The Whammy element is good because it gives the player the option to take a pass (with the real Pass sound) or gut guess, hoping not to Whammy out. I've became one of the top 3 in every game so far, meaning I got to play the Board with the second sound with 5 spins.
To me, this ranks right between the Newton DVD game and the 2010 Edition. It cannot get any better, but it is not as bad as the Newton DVD. Still good enough for daily play for me.
I have not tried LMAD yet. I was ready to check it out when I got a mention of it a few weeks ago, but the game was not ready yet.
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One of my friends played PYL this week, and since PYL is my favorite game show of all, I gave it a shot.
A. Given your username, I would have thought your favorite game show was Beat the Odds.
B. Your standards are real low if the 2010 game is even respectable.
C. The question round is like Millionaire because it came from the same folks who did the Millionaire FB game, our good friends at Ludia.
The Whammy element is good because it gives the player the option to take a pass (with the real Pass sound) or gut guess, hoping not to Whammy out.
D. What the heck is that supposed to mean?
E. I need some aspirin after the headdesking done just now.
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Wow.
If he likes the game, let it be. No need to be so hard on someone for not having the same popular opinion as most people.
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I don't think it was the opinion so much as the utterly cryptic fashion in which the opinion was presented.
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If he likes the game, let it be. No need to be so hard on someone for not having the same popular opinion as most people.
I never said his opinion is wrong because, well, it's his opinion. If he enjoys playing the same old, same old from Ludia, that's on him.
I don't think it was the opinion so much as the utterly cryptic fashion in which the opinion was presented.
Among other things.
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I don't think it was the opinion so much as the utterly cryptic fashion in which the opinion was presented.
Among other things.
The guy has posted a whole bunch of episodes of TPIR to his Youtube page. Every one I've clicked on has the header summary "Contestants bid and play games for cash and prizes." Gee thanks, that's helpful. Whatever we expect from The Whammy, I'm not sure he has the capacity or caring to give it.
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The guy has posted a whole bunch of episodes of TPIR to his Youtube page. Every one I've clicked on has the header summary "Contestants bid and play games for cash and prizes." Gee thanks, that's helpful. Whatever we expect from The Whammy, I'm not sure he has the capacity or caring to give it.
That description sounds like it was lifted from either a TV listing site or from a DVR. I have seen that generic description somewhere...TiVo maybe? My DVR has a similar description--"Contestants bid for prizes then compete for fabulous showcases."
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The guy has posted a whole bunch of episodes of TPIR to his Youtube page. Every one I've clicked on has the header summary "Contestants bid and play games for cash and prizes." Gee thanks, that's helpful. Whatever we expect from The Whammy, I'm not sure he has the capacity or caring to give it.
That description sounds like it was lifted from either a TV listing site or from a DVR. I have seen that generic description somewhere...TiVo maybe? My DVR has a similar description--"Contestants bid for prizes then compete for fabulous showcases."
I've definitely seen that generic description on the DirecTV guide, word for word.
/Not as bad as Millionaire's
//"Contestants answer questions for escalating prizes"
///Great...you just described 90% of the game shows of the last 60 years
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Back on topic.
Yes, it is Ludia that makes this, but at least this time they seemed to put more effort into it. Yeah, the random frame skipping is a problem when you hit the spin button, but when you're using what's probably one of the smallest flaws of the game to call it bad when there's an even more glaring flaw involved (not having the ability to know what your three opponents did until after you took your turn and potentially passing from third place as a result) doesn't really say a lot about your opinion.
Like I said, I enjoy the game but you can't deny there are at least SOME problems with it. To me, it doesn't affect my opinion enough to not play the game. I think the Millionaire game is worse.
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What I meant was: There will be and were some questions that I do know the answer to. If I have a high score during the question round and I easily do not know the answer to the question, I could either take a pass (using a friend wildcard) or take a guess, hoping the question is not worth a Whammy, which would wipe out my score and could result me in not playing the board round. I have played some games in which I did not have friend passes, which meant that I have to make good guess without help passes. My last game resulted in not having passes, answered the Whammy question correctly, had some questions correct and incorrect, resulting in me not playing the board round (I do not want to spend 9 Credits to play the Board round).
Yes, I did use the information from a TV listing somewhere. My household did have DirecTV in the early 2000s. I actually thought I was doing a little paraphrase. It was either that or leave the video descriptions blank, which I do not want to do. I'll just say I do not have enough "capacity" for more.
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Yes, I did use the information from a TV listing somewhere. My household did have DirecTV in the early 2000s. I actually thought I was doing a little paraphrase. It was either that or leave the video descriptions blank, which I do not want to do. I'll just say I do not have enough "capacity" for more.
Sorry what? You're incapable of coming up with a blurb and entering that?