Also interesting is playing while disallowing movement, which makes things quite hard.
Out of curiosity, how close are you getting while not moving? Without some sort of obvious landmark, I can't imagine getting closer than: well, this looks like Japan and there's a sea to the north.
One thing I've noticed is that sometimes you get places that are exactly the same as ones you've been to before, which means either they have a relatively limited set of locations to choose form, or their randomization algorithm is buggy.
The rule it seems, is that if you have no idea where you are, you're in Australia.
I got the exact same location a bunch of times, which seems to indicate that these points were chosen manually, but I also get a bunch of Barely Paved Highway With No Features or Other Cars, which makes me feel like they're not. Unless endless void counts as a landmark.
I'm actually pretty good at this. About 3/5 times I get close. Was pretty proud of one I got in Poland, and one I got on the Black Sea. I knew it was on the black sea, and there was Cyrillic writing. Picked Ukranian coast, was Bulgarian coast.
The rule it seems, is that if you have no idea where you are, you're in Australia.
The problem with that is that sometimes you're in the U.S., in which case you just got very few points.
Here's some of the most useful tricks I've come up with so far (apart from the really obvious ones): 1) Check for left vs right-handed traffic 2) Whenever someone has a website on a sign, sometimes the top-level domain will be a dead giveaway.
This game would be fun to compete and compare scores on, but it needs better randomization, better scoring, and more well-defined rules. The last of those is one we could reach via agreement, at least.
Here's some of the most useful tricks I've come up with so far (apart from the really obvious ones): 1) Check for left vs right-handed traffic 2) Whenever someone has a website on a sign, sometimes the top-level domain will be a dead giveaway.
This game would be fun to compete and compare scores on, but it needs better randomization, better scoring, and more well-defined rules. The last of those is one we could reach via agreement, at least.
I've only ever seen a .com, (in Portugal), but I've seen a lot of other signs with useful language. If I'm really lost I like to use license plate shape, roof slope, and whether the people look like tourists.
One of them had a street sign for US 183. Another had a sign mentioning Lake Superior. The Italian one had a sign that talked about the Port of the Isla de Femminie in Palermo.
Doing terrible at this game. Either I'm at least guessing somewhat right but the place is actually some island hundreds of kilometers off the coast, or I'm guessing New Zealand when its Canada, Australia when its California, Mexico when its Spain, or vice versa.
Edit: At least I just guessed the city of Akita when it was in fact in the Prefecture of Akita. Missed by less than 82 km. Best hit yet.
Edit 2: I think I've hit a record for missing the most amount while still hitting the right country (saw a Canadian flag and a "Health and Human Services" sign in a coastal area with evergreens and some other things.) Yup, it's Canada alright, but the wrong end of Canada!
Beat my record. Got in under 44 km. Only because I got a streetview of a place in austria and they didn't obstruct the license plates on some cars (first one or two letters on austrian cars designate the place they're from). Overall a pretty good round. 11559 points (4k of which was the austrian guess).
Apparently Google Maps has been inside the Kushimoto Aquarium. Ended up getting 32k on that run. Got within .15km on all of them (.002km on one of them), so that's pretty close to max score. I think I'm gonna go no Google as I continue playing.
Haven't started a new game since finishing Crimson Shroud but my wife has started up Paper Mario: Sticker Star and is loving it.
If she has neve played a Paper Mario game before she may like it.
I however... Have already sold off my copy after finishing it. Very average.
She's never played a Paper Mario game before. I've personally tired out on both them and the Mario & Luigi games, although I'll probably wind up playing the recent iterations of each eventually. For her, it's definitely a departure from her normal gaming habits. I don't thing she's ever really played a game with RPG battle elements before. She's very into Layton/Phoenix Wright/Animal Crossing and only occasionally plays other stuff on her DS, like a New Super Mario Bros or a LEGO game.
Playing Civ5. One of my City State allies has managed to conquer two enemy cities all on their own. Burned one of them to the ground, but has kept the other, becoming a... double city state? Never seen this before. Fucking Monaco is a beast. They're not even military-based, they're cultural! O_o
Yeah, it's pretty easy to localise sometimes. I got 22k on Pegu's challenge; I'd done the first one before, but I would've beaten Pegu even without it.
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That being said, I've had a few cases with obvious landmarks, and some with very lucky guesses.
Also, I think if you were very good at identifying trees, that would help a lot.
Also, it really seems to like the Canadian Rockies.
I got the exact same location a bunch of times, which seems to indicate that these points were chosen manually, but I also get a bunch of Barely Paved Highway With No Features or Other Cars, which makes me feel like they're not. Unless endless void counts as a landmark.
Here's some of the most useful tricks I've come up with so far (apart from the really obvious ones):
1) Check for left vs right-handed traffic
2) Whenever someone has a website on a sign, sometimes the top-level domain will be a dead giveaway.
This game would be fun to compete and compare scores on, but it needs better randomization, better scoring, and more well-defined rules. The last of those is one we could reach via agreement, at least.
One of them had a street sign for US 183. Another had a sign mentioning Lake Superior. The Italian one had a sign that talked about the Port of the Isla de Femminie in Palermo.
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Edit: At least I just guessed the city of Akita when it was in fact in the Prefecture of Akita. Missed by less than 82 km. Best hit yet.
Edit 2: I think I've hit a record for missing the most amount while still hitting the right country (saw a Canadian flag and a "Health and Human Services" sign in a coastal area with evergreens and some other things.)
Yup, it's Canada alright, but the wrong end of Canada!
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I however... Have already sold off my copy after finishing it. Very average.
...god, what I would do for a sequel for such a brilliant, creative series.
I win.
The one in Brazil was hard, though.