acemuzzy wrote:

So yeah kinda fun. No major rush, particularly as surely it should be a digital purchase and hence awaits a sale Half price via Sainsbury's doors tenor though, given it drops during double up week...

Can you explain this last sentence please?  Think autocorrect has done you?  I like Tetris and occasionally use Sainsbury’s for grocery delivery and enjoy things being half price but I can’t quite work out what you’re saying and why opera singers are going to make Tetris be half price.tyvm

But only if you're an opera singer.

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

So yeah kinda fun. No major rush, particularly as surely it should be a digital purchase and hence awaits a sale Half price via Sainsbury's doors tenor though, given it drops during double up week...

Can you explain this last sentence please?  Think autocorrect has done you?  I like Tetris and occasionally use Sainsbury’s for grocery delivery and enjoy things being half price but I can’t quite work out what you’re saying and why opera singers are going to make Tetris be half price.tyvm

"Does tempt" was I think what I was attempting...

But yeah basically what they said.

chat after
http://thebearandbadger.co.uk/discussion/comment/1524174#Comment_1524174

or see eg
https://skintdad.co.uk/nectar-double-up-2018/

This drops 9 Nov, key week for the deal is 12-18 Nov.

So there are opera tracks in this too? I don't like opera at all.

AJ wrote:

Now that's all sorted, I'm going to bring this over to save it being lost in the page turn.

AJ wrote:

I had another couple of blasts this evening and got reminded that I don't really enjoy Tetris very much once it gets past a certain speed. It'd be a lot more likely to buy it sooner if it had a chill mode where it never web over a certain level.

JonB wrote:

It does.

AJ wrote:

Nice. Is that only one of the effects things or can the journey be played like that?

The Effects mode has a 'chill marathon' option or something, which I assume is marathon without the speed increases.

The stuff in Journey mode has a Beginner level option, which I think means it increases, but not so much.

There are also various other options in Effects mode that don't seem to be about increasing speed. Overall, there looks to be a lot of different ways of playing.

JonB wrote:

The Effects mode has a 'chill marathon' option or something, which I assume is marathon without the speed increases.

The stuff in Journey mode has a Beginner level option, which I think means it increases, but not so much.

There are also various other options in Effects mode that don't seem to be about increasing speed. Overall, there looks to be a lot of different ways of playing.

Thanks. I've only played journey on beginner. Assuming a steady increase, it'll be too fast for me by the end. Effects mode is okay, but it's the progression in journey that I like. Guess £15 is more likely if the chill mode is as you say, but unfortunately it still doesn't sound worth any more to me.

Could well do, but some of those clusters are twice as long and I've only finished the demo once out of three or four attempts.

I’m not great at it. I got a B last night. Keep forgetting to use Zone. Could get mega points if you can set up a couple of Tetris (Tetrix??) and use Zone to clear

Decahexatris is 16 lines.

Think there's a Perfectris too.

hylian_elf wrote:

I’m not great at it. I got a B last night. Keep forgetting to use Zone. Could get mega points if you can set up a couple of Tetris (Tetrix??) and use Zone to clear

That certainly seems to be the secret to getting higher rankings.

I played this a bit over the weekend.  I thought the VR stuff was effective if not world changing - at the end of the day it's still Tetris, no matter what other stuff is going on around the edges.

My wife, who looooves Tetris was a bit underwhelmed by it - she described it as "Tetris with terrible music" though she conceded that there was a sense of immersion once you got into it.  (I knew better than to suggest that Tetris has always had terrible music..)

I liked it more than her, but have to admit I'm not really convinced by it yet.  The much vaunted elements of synaesthesia didn't really click for me at all.  I got into the zone because it was Tetris, not because the blocks sometimes pulsed in time to the music.  So, yeah, I fear I'm in the "get it when the price drops" crowd.  (Which is a shame, because we both really wanted to like it.)

ChopperByrne wrote:

Decahexatris is 16 lines. Think there's a Perfectris too.

Look at this FFS:

As daft as it sounds, even with it being one of the most ubiquitous and brilliant games in the history of the medium, I never really "got" Tetris. Ten minutes was all I could muster before the boredom set in. Turns out all it needed was a Rez skin and an immersive trance soundtrack, and suddenly I can't seem to stop playing it.

JonB wrote:

ChopperByrne wrote:

Decahexatris is 16 lines. Think there's a Perfectris too.

Look at this FFS:

Ho Lee Fark

Damn I didn't see the demo on the store bah

I've always been a big tetris head and am annoyed I can't play this as I haven't moved past 360 yet.

I've always been able to play tetris for lengthy sessions - but I really like 2 player versus as well. Tetris went through a period of ill judged "improvements" that only sullied its purity which is more a salute to the original design.

However there have been versions of the game that have gently introduced new gameplay features that have improved upon the formula.

Wall kicks - meaning you don't have to move a piece one square in from the side to rotate it.
Lock delay - meaning you have a period of time to rotate and move after touch down before the piece locks.
Hold piece & Preview Queue
Bag randomiser - meaning the game creates its random piece sequence based upon a series of randomised "bags" each containing the 7 different shapes. Means the longest you can go between 2 pieces the same is limited to 12. And skilled players can predict the shapes to come even without a preview.

Then there have been games with gentle rule changes - recognising t-spins for example, or back-to-back tetrises that help.

New Tetris on N64 introduced bonus lines for making 4x4 squares from the same pieces.

Tetris Party Dx on Wii by Hudson added in a pile of new modes that require Tetris skills but are completely different from the main game. The first game I've encountered to be successful at that.

Atari made a really nice arcade game of Tetris that ditches the "continuous mode" aspect of the game and makes it very enjoyable - though it suffers nowadays from older control scheme limitations. Was an excellent stab at introducing changes though.

Tetris Effect looks to be good from the point of view of a tetris game forgoing the visuals as the rules introduce new targets and combos to go for.

I'd like to see some sort of training mode that you can set at your skill limits which on prompting by the player can increase/decrease the speed. I reckon it would help me to improve.  Sprint mode isn't a bad option for this of course - a basic 25 or 40 line TT mode can stand in - but it's better to be forced along by the game.