Biting the Bullet...
So I finally bit the bullet and paid for my first iPhone app last night. After thoroughly researching and reading what must have been a hundred reviews, I shelled out $4.99 for the game Orions: Legend of Wizards.
Think Magic: The Gathering meets Risk. I've always been fascinated by TCG games but was never willing to invest the money in them. They were quite popular when I was in high school, and I remember several of my friends playing daily during lunch, until all card and dice games were permanently banned (oh noes, gambling bad!). I was more a table top, D&D kind of nerd. Anyway, certain things, because of their tedious rules and maintenance, lend themselves very well to computers and TCG definitely falls in to that category. The developer is obviously a TCG lover himself.
It's funny, I debated with myself for a good long while whether or not to actually buy this game. But in retrospect, it's only 5 bucks. I guess I was worried about that slippery slope other iPhone owners have warned me about. The app store is evil they cry. Things are so cheap. A dollar here, two dollars there. It quickly adds up. I'll have to be careful.
But I wanted a new game since I beat Tap Defense on Hard and an update looks a long time coming. I considered Fieldrunners or 7 Cities, but wasn't really in the mood for another tower defense game. And a man can only take so much Sudoku. Mainly I wanted something that would have high replayability, and with it's random duel feature, I could theoretically play it forever.
I played my first duel on Easy last night and prompty got my ass handed to me by the computer. And I haven't even touched the campaign mode yet. Yeah... it's going to be a good long while before I can beat this one. Luckily the holidays are coming up :)
Think Magic: The Gathering meets Risk. I've always been fascinated by TCG games but was never willing to invest the money in them. They were quite popular when I was in high school, and I remember several of my friends playing daily during lunch, until all card and dice games were permanently banned (oh noes, gambling bad!). I was more a table top, D&D kind of nerd. Anyway, certain things, because of their tedious rules and maintenance, lend themselves very well to computers and TCG definitely falls in to that category. The developer is obviously a TCG lover himself.
It's funny, I debated with myself for a good long while whether or not to actually buy this game. But in retrospect, it's only 5 bucks. I guess I was worried about that slippery slope other iPhone owners have warned me about. The app store is evil they cry. Things are so cheap. A dollar here, two dollars there. It quickly adds up. I'll have to be careful.
But I wanted a new game since I beat Tap Defense on Hard and an update looks a long time coming. I considered Fieldrunners or 7 Cities, but wasn't really in the mood for another tower defense game. And a man can only take so much Sudoku. Mainly I wanted something that would have high replayability, and with it's random duel feature, I could theoretically play it forever.
I played my first duel on Easy last night and prompty got my ass handed to me by the computer. And I haven't even touched the campaign mode yet. Yeah... it's going to be a good long while before I can beat this one. Luckily the holidays are coming up :)
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