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Other Games / Re: Marvel SNAP!
« Last post by eabrace on August 29, 2023, 10:43:20 PM »
One of my favorite things about this game up to this point is it's not a job.
That's a HUGE selling point.
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Other Games / Re: Marvel SNAP!
« Last post by Xev on August 28, 2023, 11:35:02 PM »
One of my favorite things about this game up to this point is it's not a job.

Ya know?

I'm completely fed up with games that get me on a clock. It becomes a Daily Chore and the more I progress the more clocks I get. Oh and when I'm on the clock every single day I'm not playing for fun - I'm doing mindless, repetitive, tasks to fulfill daily and battle pass quests. When I'm done with that I can play for fun but I generally have to log off when/before the tasks are done. If I don't keep up with the daily clocks I feel like I'm falling behind competitively with other players.

Marvel SNAP, I log in, whenever (generally 30 mins to 2 hours a day and I could skip days if I wanted). Play for fun. Some time before it feels like time to log off my dailies and the battle pass complete themselves. I very mostly only play people near my skill/deck (gear) level which is gradually improving so I feel like I'm progressing. I have no fear whatsoever of falling behind. I play on my schedule and how I want to and the quests complete themselves. There are options, not requirements at all, to progress further, on my schedule, if I have more time to spend in the game (which I never do but I will this winter). If I don't put in the extra time, I still do perfectly well in my bracket. That's.... how ya do it......... I'm still kinda new to the game so I hope it's always like this.
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Other Games / Re: Marvel SNAP!
« Last post by Xev on August 22, 2023, 08:50:20 PM »
The big official launch for the PC version of Marvel SNAP starts...... today. Should be able to link my phone/tablet/PC to share the same gmail account. I'm guessing there's gonna be a giveaway or two this week.

I'm about to give it a try. Lil' theatrical trailer to mark the start of the event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmPpS4dpqo


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Downloaded and tried! Yipeee!

Man, games are just better on big screens than tiny tablets and phones. Luv the PC layout! The sound is so much better too. Forgot how much I like the SNAP music.

Can't drag the PC to the stationary bike or.... bio relief station. Tablet will rule there. Otherwise it's PC all the way.
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Other Games / Re: Star Trek Online
« Last post by Xev on August 19, 2023, 05:46:46 AM »
Yeah this is a great game.

I'm not playing since a year or so ago but did sneak on not toooo long ago during a Klingon recruit event and snagged a coupon for a free T6. Have at least 1 free experimental slot waiting in inventory and I dunno what else.

Sometimes I wish I'd have never left. Went to try something new I'd really been wanting to try and the next thing I knew a year or two passed and I was un-immersed. I'm really good at that..

Grats on re-immersion.
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Other Games / Re: Marvel SNAP!
« Last post by Xev on August 19, 2023, 05:29:45 AM »
Didn't even know it was going to be a card game. Just saw Marvel and thought hey that looks good. Had I known it was a card game up front I might have passed.

The only card game I ever played that didn't use regular playing cards is Magic. And UNO hehe.. Really liked Magic when it was new but sucked at it. Understood how to play it but couldn't get in the groove and there were so many cards and so many rare cards.

One thing that helps sort cards in SNAP is it has filters for cards that have similar effects which helps when putting together new decks. Starting out with a lot less cards than when playing Magic helps too. Then, when new cards trickle in, it makes more sense what deck to put them in if any because I know my existing cards and how they work together better than when I played Magic.

The matching seems good too. As I progress I play against better and better players with better cards. Win more hands than lose - go up a level eventually and gain a reward for doing it. Lose more hands than win - go down a level eventually. It pretty much always feels like I'm getting a good match. I like that the matches only take a few minutes too.

Only once did I feel like I was a free player going up against a paying player - this person had the pay cards from the last two Battlepasses which is about as far back as my knowledge of the game goes. I beat him, too. I expect the gap to massively widen between me and paying players eventually but so far so good. On the subject of paying - I don't pay a whole lot of attention to the pricing structure but what I've seen of it seems reasonable. 10ish dollar purchases?

There is a tournament type matching style in the game too. One main difference besides gaining a whole new currency is that you play the same person 3(?) times in a row before the win is decided. Been waiting until I feel more comfortable with the game to run these matches but in the few I have run, I won'em all. These matches don't count towards the battlepasses or daily 'quests'. They give their own currency and rewards such as a currency to buy special cards.

Most of the Luck part of the game seems to come more from the Location rules than the cards. There's 3 places to lay down cards and they all 3 usually have different rules such as 'no cards can be played here after turn 5" (that's a tame rule in comparison to many..). The rule choices are Random with every game. There must be maybe a dozen different rules and every few days there is a rule that has the highest chance to appear - this sometimes incentivizes playing different decks to take advantage of that. Daily quests and Battlepass quests sometimes incentivize not playing the same old deck all the time too. New rules are being regularly introduced. It sometimes adds way too much luck component to the game but more often than not just shakes things up to help keep things from being monotonous.

I've played all the other Marvel games I could find in the Google Play store. They were all cool in their own way but ended up deleting all but this one. DC Legends has been my DC pick.


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Other Games / Re: Star Trek Fleet Command
« Last post by eabrace on August 17, 2023, 10:18:17 PM »
That made me laugh.

I've played a couple of games like that.
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Other Games / Re: Star Trek Online
« Last post by Thunder Glove on August 16, 2023, 10:25:26 PM »
... I've gotten myself re-addicted to this this year. :D

I've been making new characters for the various Recruitment events, and doing missions and mission arcs I haven't done in years.
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Other Games / Re: Marvel SNAP!
« Last post by Thunder Glove on August 16, 2023, 10:23:43 PM »
I love superhero games, but I kinda hate card games.  They're all so luck based.  I can rarely draw the cards I need when I need them, assuming I have them in the first place.

(It gives me flashbacks to Hearthstone, where every single match I'd start off doing great, until I got wrecked because my opponent would whip out some uber-powerful card I never heard of and shred my entire team, even my best cards)
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