Galaga Wars+ is on Apple Arcade and it’s absolutely atrocious.
A slapdash rerelease of a free-to-play scam, it exposes just how terrible such scams can be once the premium shortcuts are disabled and all you’re left with is the malicious, aggressive grind.
It’s proven very valuable. Let’s look at it!
Your wrestling persona has legitimately gotten me into wrestling more than anything ever has
Dear Google play pass, please don’t do this. The micro transactions all at $0.00 is a way better system than disabling micro transactions for this reason. I like having dead cells and all the dlc for free through that on my phone.
Remember that arcade games are often criticized for being designed in a way that prioritizes profits over actually being fun, and are often derisively called “coin-guzzlers” for pushing the player to keep mindlessly spending money on them. And yet, micro-transaction based games are greedy, broken, unsatisfying and exploitative by _those_ standards. Think about that for a minute.
Interesting that this is based on an old 80s arcade games that were designed to to take as many of your coins as possible. But back then, ones you ran out of coins or (later) tokens, most players just walked away or if the game was too hard up front, they would move to the next machine. And watching others play was almost as fun. Today they took that idea and ran it to the ground.
It’s sad that I could believe either explanation. Something deliberately frustrating to get you to go to the MTX version or just sheer laziness is equally possible
I feel like it’s inaccurate to say these games are broken. They’re working as intended. Just in a very shitty way.
I tend to listen to these, but I probably look like an idiot in public when I frantically pull out my phone and glue my eyes to the screen when the wrestling bits start playing. So fun to watch.
That said, it really is a shame mobile gaming has become an absolute shit pile. It really could have been great, but at this point there are no free games. At MINIMUM you need to pay the ‘No Ads’ fee, which is getting increasingly pricey with every new game that charges more and more for it. Because if you don’t it’s just an unplayable mess where you get the privilege of playing a game for 10 seconds before getting sucked back into another ad either against your will, or to attain some insane burst of resources that would have taken you an hour grinding for.
‘I choke slammed a Tory’
With those words you’ve earned Legend status from me. If you’re ever wrestling in the Dudley area, I owe you a drink.
Also, that ‘ships equal lives’ thing was also done in Starlink Battle For Atlas, which was even worse because it was a toys to life game. Thankfully on Switch version the Arwing from Star Fox is so broken beyond belief I never needed an extra life.
You really have gone down the woke rabbit hole.
When a game become so exploitative there is no game left over for the player.
Galaga was the “first” pirated game I have ever played :P. My parents had found a guy who pirated arcade boards and had this and a dozen others in our bar.
“An unacceptable level of grind and regret” is going to be the title of my memoirs…
I used to watch your videos quite often before you came out as transfem and nonbinary, I had completely forgotten about you when I heard your coming out so I checked you out again out of curiousity. The quality of your content has gone up dramatically since then and while the subject matter is a lot darker than the olden days you keep looking happier and healthier by the day, I’m glad you’re doing better lately and I’m once more a lolay subscriber of you. Goodluck with your transition, keep up the good work with your videos, never stop being yoursel and of course a good old trans rights are human rights!
“I chokeslammed a tory” was simply music to my ears, sweet and pure like a child’s laughter.
This game perfectly shuts down the argument of “it’s optional”
I’m genuinely trying to sort through the painful dregs of emotion that is “They remembered Starblade existed” and “They’re polutting the name of one of my favourite Arcade games by putting it in this utter dreck”.
When I first got a smartphone I downloaded a game where you raise monsters. I thought it was pretty fun until the first time one of the upgrades I purchased told me it was going to take 24 real life hours to complete but I could pay them real money to speed that up. I deleted the game and never really went back to playing phone games after that
The funny thing about Games As A Service: games actually had more post-launch content before Live Service stuff existed. You’d get great DLC packs like every month or two. Nowadays, the game comes out, the devs take two months off, and you get maybe one or two subpar expansions per year. How is that a “live service”?
This game feels like malicious compliance to appease the “no MTX” crowd. And apparently, Apple is impressed by these offerings. Somehow.