The microtransactions are trash. I used to be huge on the Family Guy one when it first came out. I was able to get a ton of premium characters for free because it had a lot of ways to earn their currency. I don't see any decent earnings other than watching 3 minutes worth of ads every day. I think that special Nixon character is priced at $10 right now for this weekend only. Which seems like way too much for an app. I stopped playing Family Guy because I couldn't keep up with my 60 hour work weeks. I like this one so far because there will be a lot to do when I actually start making money.
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Futurama Worlds of Tomorrow Launched on Android/iOS to come Tomorrow
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RayearthRob
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I wanted this game so much... And now... Meh! I have to wait 4 hours to do anything and the battle system sux.
This isn't a game you play non-stop, your assign missions then come back later. I actually like some choices made here compared to Avengers Academy as that game made me upset that premium characters from past events have such large coin amounts to upgrade them whereas the free ones eventually get drops.
The mission structure is a nice change of pace from AA's watching a battle play out and hope you get first attacks in.
Getting pizza from 100 percent completion of missions is nice but that is only a finite amount. There may be some from daily logins but AA allows you to get 30 a day from watching ads.
The mission structure is a nice change of pace from AA's watching a battle play out and hope you get first attacks in.
Getting pizza from 100 percent completion of missions is nice but that is only a finite amount. There may be some from daily logins but AA allows you to get 30 a day from watching ads.
brianmcdoogle
Member
You played it. You can't unplay it!
Dandy Crocodile
Member
Seriously. Getting anything done is a crawl. And all the timers are different. It's not like everybody is on a neat 4 hours, I have people on 1, 2, and 4 hour tasks just to achieve one thing which is super tedious.
Lord of Castamere
Member
Yeah. It gets even worse. For Kif, two of the items are on 8 hour timers(3 each), and they're rare. So that's 24h min, if you get lucky on the drops. That's on top of the 6 hours it takes to clear his area of hypnowaves. I can't imagine how bad Leela will be. On top of that I need URL(police officer) to progress further in space, but I don't even have a quest for him yet.
Ths real kicker for me is forcing you to upgrade each character, instead of just the classes. Time on top of money on top of time.
So the game is not worth then?
I wanted to download it but I have no room for more apps in my phone. I could remove Game Of Drones, but don't want to, it's perfect to play on the subway, or when you are waiting for something/someone.
With those trailers they made, I hope they announce a comeback soon. I don't see the point on doing such animated trailers and reuniting all voice actor just because of a mobile game.
And what we all need, is a Futurama x Metroid crossover. That would work.
I wanted to download it but I have no room for more apps in my phone. I could remove Game Of Drones, but don't want to, it's perfect to play on the subway, or when you are waiting for something/someone.
With those trailers they made, I hope they announce a comeback soon. I don't see the point on doing such animated trailers and reuniting all voice actor just because of a mobile game.
And what we all need, is a Futurama x Metroid crossover. That would work.
BLAUcopter
Gold Member
Not worth... free?
He's asking if it's worth his time.
I'm also interested. Is this game any good? I never play games on mobile unless it's something like Mario Run or Fallout Shelter.
Also is this game always online or can you play it offline like Shelter?
Sorry for my bad English. I meant if it's worth our time.
Dandy Crocodile
Member
Nah. Maybe in the future after some updates but it could also go the other way and become worse. I'm not enjoying it so far.
It's online cause it's routinely syncing with a server.
Man I am running out space. Everything is just crammed in there and it's hard to tap on the right thing. I try to tap on checkmarks or monies and I end up tapping on other buildings instead.
I'm not getting enough Hypnowaves or whatever to unlock it all. Am I really going to have to grind 16 old missions at 25 hypnowaves each to unlock some space?
I'm not getting enough Hypnowaves or whatever to unlock it all. Am I really going to have to grind 16 old missions at 25 hypnowaves each to unlock some space?
Lord of Castamere
Member
Pimparoo is just scenery and not a separate character with actions... *uninstalled*
Chaserjoey
Member
When the Family Guy game launched, they had an exotic pets weekend event as well. I really hope they aren't just copying everything they did for Family Guy for Futurama.
Bluecondor
Member
I would love to try this game, but my phone is not a good fit for mobile gaming.
Is there an easy way to play mobile games like Fallout Shelter and this on the PC?
Is this playable on the Ouya console?
Is there an easy way to play mobile games like Fallout Shelter and this on the PC?
Is this playable on the Ouya console?
You can download bluestacks and play on your PC.
Man the RNC on George Takai is pissing me off. I just need one more autographed picture and the damn thing won't drop. Come on, He has 3 more space missions which means 15 more free pizza. I want the damn pizza!
Reptars Revenge
Member
Man having to unlock the square for the central beauracracy for 400 space points and 8 hours X1 time then the actual central beauracracy for 600 space points and 16 hours X1 time is straight brutal.
Agent Gibbs
Member
Having played this since launch i'm not overly keen but it has its positives
The world is as good as Simpsons tapped out or Family Guy's equivalent
The 8bit like battles/missions are a nice new mechanic for this sort of game
and new story is always good
HOWEVER
Its not like Simpsons tapped out, where premium currency was reserved more premium characters, the need for it was infrequent and there were reasonable ways to earn said currency, its more like Family guy the quest for stuff by TinyCo (well its made by them) only i'd argue its far far far worse!
You need Hypnotoads (a currency) to unlock areas/build certain things, which can only be earned in missions, which you need fuel (another currency)to do said missions. You're characters get hurt and you need to heal them with health packs, which you buy with in game currency pizza slices
So thats three currencies involved with unlocking areas and building, it means you either have to take days/weeks to earn the required items or pay real world money for pizza slices to accelerate things.
Then there is the premium characters! In tapped out or the likes some characters cost around 100-200 premium currencies so approx.£10-15 if you bought them and didn't earn the currency - with Futurama to launch the game there was a promotion to get President Nixon/Agnu which cost over 400 pizza slices so thats £20, it was a limited time character you had no hope of saving up currency! So effectively forcing new users who want him to pay real world money at launch
Right no they are running a limited promotion for Neil deGrasse Tyson at 300 Pizza Slices, so since the currency for £10 is only 275, youd need to buy £20 again
now i know you don't have to buy these, i certainly haven't but it seems even more mean and money grabbing than Family Guy which itslef was consistently slated on the social media pages for increasingly relying on premium currency to complete events or get limited time characters! as far as i am aware Family Guy the Quest for stuff is dying a death, where as Taped out has been going longer and seems to be surviving.
It doesn't fill me with hope for the longevity for this game
The world is as good as Simpsons tapped out or Family Guy's equivalent
The 8bit like battles/missions are a nice new mechanic for this sort of game
and new story is always good
HOWEVER
Its not like Simpsons tapped out, where premium currency was reserved more premium characters, the need for it was infrequent and there were reasonable ways to earn said currency, its more like Family guy the quest for stuff by TinyCo (well its made by them) only i'd argue its far far far worse!
You need Hypnotoads (a currency) to unlock areas/build certain things, which can only be earned in missions, which you need fuel (another currency)to do said missions. You're characters get hurt and you need to heal them with health packs, which you buy with in game currency pizza slices
So thats three currencies involved with unlocking areas and building, it means you either have to take days/weeks to earn the required items or pay real world money for pizza slices to accelerate things.
Then there is the premium characters! In tapped out or the likes some characters cost around 100-200 premium currencies so approx.£10-15 if you bought them and didn't earn the currency - with Futurama to launch the game there was a promotion to get President Nixon/Agnu which cost over 400 pizza slices so thats £20, it was a limited time character you had no hope of saving up currency! So effectively forcing new users who want him to pay real world money at launch
Right no they are running a limited promotion for Neil deGrasse Tyson at 300 Pizza Slices, so since the currency for £10 is only 275, youd need to buy £20 again
now i know you don't have to buy these, i certainly haven't but it seems even more mean and money grabbing than Family Guy which itslef was consistently slated on the social media pages for increasingly relying on premium currency to complete events or get limited time characters! as far as i am aware Family Guy the Quest for stuff is dying a death, where as Taped out has been going longer and seems to be surviving.
It doesn't fill me with hope for the longevity for this game
Reptars Revenge
Member
I do like the constant events and updates. Trying to unlock leela and leg mutant now. Funny to see my post two weeks ago of trying to unlock Hermes. Slow crawling game haha.
Futaleufu
Member
Fallout Shelter is available on Steam.
TharpDaddy
Member
Tried it and immediately got timers and all that shit I hate in mobile games. Didn't uninstall and started getting those obnoxious "COME PLAY ME!" notifications. I hate those with a passion and uninstall on the spot if I see them. Game seems really bad.
Updates mean free pizza.
The Bee Bender update had 35 free Pizza. I'm over 1/2 way there to Calculon!
I'm working on Leela and Cowboy Kif right now and I've 100%'ed all the space missions so far.
Slowly inching along.
RayearthRob
Member
251 pizzas... Almost there calculon 💝
Yagami_Sama
Member
I have been playing for a while, and, as many posted here, they took some bad decisions with the timer.
Wait 1 day for Bee bender complete one action was a pain and the combat could be way better, they should have worked more one each character, mainly the special of each one.
I like Futurama a lot, and I keep playing this for a while, they will not see my money.
Let's see if they improve the game a little. And this crash all the time on my Galaxy S7 Edge
Wait 1 day for Bee bender complete one action was a pain and the combat could be way better, they should have worked more one each character, mainly the special of each one.
I like Futurama a lot, and I keep playing this for a while, they will not see my money.
Let's see if they improve the game a little. And this crash all the time on my Galaxy S7 Edge
Week 2 of the event is live. Protip: don't level Malfunctioning Eddie or Mecha Hermes past them doing 12 damage. Spaceships have 36 health points and you don't do 18 damage till level 25.
Unless they are needed for a space mission. Then of course level them up as needed for the space mission.
Unless they are needed for a space mission. Then of course level them up as needed for the space mission.
It was a bug, it's fixed if you update and they gave out 38 pizza as compensation.
Yagami_Sama
Member
Really? I am stuck with this for 2 days.
I will check later if I can earn those pizzas.
I will check later if I can earn those pizzas.
Spent a lot of time and dedication to this game but they really have the timers wrong. I'm currently considering uninstall and move to another mobile game.
I would not recommend for someone hesitating to play.
At least with simpsons Tapped out we could finish (unlock everything within) the event with a bit of dedication.
Here you ALWAYS are under the impression to be late. I'll try a bit more but I think I'll put in on hold until next year to give it another try.
I would not recommend for someone hesitating to play.
At least with simpsons Tapped out we could finish (unlock everything within) the event with a bit of dedication.
Here you ALWAYS are under the impression to be late. I'll try a bit more but I think I'll put in on hold until next year to give it another try.
br0ken_shad0w
Member
Coming from someone who plays gacha games, even this is too much. Which sucks because I love Futurama. I might give Tapped Out another whirl though.