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DJLarryt
@djlarryt

I wish I had been recording my last Arena game. Using the flowers, I sent Matilda into one of those teeny little pigs encased in a stone block, and the egg that got dropped into the flower got shot out afterwards on the same path. Both were a direct hit on the pig and sent it flying but the block never broke. Then I sent a yellow bird to at least try to roll it off a cliff. The yellow bird hit it and stopped dead. Then I threw the silver bird at it and it broke the stone but the pig flew out and survived (even after a piece of the stone flying up and coming right back down on the pig’s head). Finally I used my last bird, the blue ones and they hit the stone sitting beside the pig (the one that flew down and hit it) and rocked it over to hit the pig, who just rolled to the side and it still didn’t kill the f**king thing. This was all in the very first screen. I killed the app right then and there. As I mentioned earlier, suddenly pigs are harder to pop and structures are harder to demolish. This game sucks so many levels of azz.

As a matter of fact, I don’t recall ever killing an app as much as do this one.


@maiasatara
I never touched those Candy Crush games, because I know how infinitely addictive they are and well, I don’t have a lot of time to spend playing games. I do it for fun and for relaxation. I’ve been a faithful player ever since the very first AB and it looks like my love affair with Rovio is finally coming to an end because of AB2. I really want to like the game, and keep playing it- honestly I do, it had such promise. But every Arena match uses the same structures and every screen uses the same structures and every world is just a slight adjustment of the last one… same old, same old. It gets tired really quick. Especially with the constant money-grubbing reminders to buy gems.

Whenever I used to watch the ads (remember, I “X” out of them every single time now), if the ad said “from the makers of Angry Birds” I laugh to myself thinking “If this game is as patronizing as AB2 has become, there’s no way I’ll ever be touching it”. Funny that the tagline would meant to encourage the opposite.

I’m at the point where I no longer even WANT to “play”. At all. When the tournament ended Saturday night I got on my phone Sunday morning to try the arena one more time and the leader is already up to 100+ stars. Seriously… why even bother? And of course the first two games I tried got me obliterated, so I burned my game with a score of 30,000 in hopes that maybe someone will get that recording as an opponent and thank the skies that they can collect 10 stars off of such a garbage score.

And after reading that other thread where Rovio promised “better returns from the blue and red gift boxes if you buy the upgrade” (which I stupidly did) and now they kaibosh the gift boxes, it doesn’t give me a lot of faith that they care about anything else but scraping in money. I hope the movie bombs too.. it looks as stupid as any other CGI kids movie… probably full of burp and fart jokes and overanimated dolls rolling around going “woooooAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh”. Yeah, funny. Rovio you won’t be getting one more cent of my money.

Rant over :-)