Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:34 am
Hopefully you'll be able to get the £70 somehow. Wonder if it still does an IM. They were rare as on the original anyway. Besides which, they surely wouldn't have gone to the trouble of putting all £70 worth of fiver icons for stuff like that notation feature where you hi/lo for the next note if you couldn't get it?? Or maybe it's a graphic bank like some old machines used to do.
I'm sure there is a psychological edge to graphic banks - the die hards will just want to max it out to be able to wave an e-penis around. I know I did when I was younger. There was a poker game that had all notes for the bank on the top glass - great fun hitting that and maxing it out for £50 or whatever it was.
Whatever happened to that machine where it paid you coins - real coins into a kind of slot on the top glass like a road that wound around the glass. Shit machine but novelty value idea.
There are so many ways you could entice a player these days with bells and whistles - just an apathetic industry that only supplies the the bare bones with no imagination.
I feel multiplayers really fail in this area - the initial buzz of games linked to 1 top screen did a lot for revenue - still does - not sure the community type bonus was the next best enhancement - it just takes a little more imagination. Stuff like agreeing to split/share or compete for pots with other players - bonus awards for say hitting 5 sets of bars in a row - I know I've had side bets with other players on boring machines just to make things interesting. Going to Vegas in a couple of weeks - hoping to see some nice advances in the big multiplayers - but I bet it will still be bloody Wheel of Fortunes galore and 'Ebay - the machine' (lol) still being the freshest release.
I'm sure there is a psychological edge to graphic banks - the die hards will just want to max it out to be able to wave an e-penis around. I know I did when I was younger. There was a poker game that had all notes for the bank on the top glass - great fun hitting that and maxing it out for £50 or whatever it was.
Whatever happened to that machine where it paid you coins - real coins into a kind of slot on the top glass like a road that wound around the glass. Shit machine but novelty value idea.
There are so many ways you could entice a player these days with bells and whistles - just an apathetic industry that only supplies the the bare bones with no imagination.
I feel multiplayers really fail in this area - the initial buzz of games linked to 1 top screen did a lot for revenue - still does - not sure the community type bonus was the next best enhancement - it just takes a little more imagination. Stuff like agreeing to split/share or compete for pots with other players - bonus awards for say hitting 5 sets of bars in a row - I know I've had side bets with other players on boring machines just to make things interesting. Going to Vegas in a couple of weeks - hoping to see some nice advances in the big multiplayers - but I bet it will still be bloody Wheel of Fortunes galore and 'Ebay - the machine' (lol) still being the freshest release.