In the landmark Fifty 50 episode 50, Lewis Murphy goes behind the scenes of his podcast and has a chat about Superstar Dogs.
Also the Pointless app that Richard Osman said would never happen is in fact out RIGHT NOW for £1.49 on the iOS store. That’s the same price as The Chase, but is it as good? Find out in due course. Android version to follow.
The app is generally okay. In single-player, it’s three rounds of pick-an-answer-from-a-list questions (one go at each), and if you beat a computer player’s answer three times, you go to the open-ended final.
Preliminary questions repeat, but there’s usually a mostly different roster of choices on the second go, so it at least keeps itself fresher for a little bit longer. The animated Xander and Richard are cute, but that’s all the personality they have, given they regurgitate the same three lines through the entire game. Every game starts with the same kilopound in the jackpot, ignoring previous wins or losses. Why not let it build up? Surely that’d make the eventual win more exciting.
Overall, the presentation is “meh” but if you’re looking for a means to play a couple Pointless questions, the app is serviceable, though I don’t know how much you’ll get before the questions AND answers start repeating. I have not tried the multiplayer yet.
Will give it a ‘proper’ write up tomorrow, think serviceable is good description, more I play it the more little bits of it annoy me.
The Chase gets the little things right as well as the big stuff, this feels rather clunkier compared to its source.
Actually in fairness I’ve got several games on the go now and I think the structure is fairly well thought out.
I’ve only had a little play around with the single-player function as yet. To be honest, I was expecting more from this app like a local multiplayer mode where you pick an answer, hand the device to someone else to pick an answer and so on, then see who gets knocked out at each stage of the game. If enough people leave reviews requesting something like that then they may put it in with an update, one would hope. At the moment, it’s just sheer dumb luck with what score the computer player gets and you just blindly pick whichever answer you think could beat it.
It’s a bit late for me to be playing around with the online multiplayer, but I may give it a shot at some point.
I was worried that the fiftieth episode wouldn’t be landmark. Good work.