Undecided on Runic for $2.99. Best Brick Buster game?

I gave Runic an "A" but gave a couple of the Ricochet games "A+". So... does anyone have a favorite brick buster game? I'm not really good at brick busters so need something that's not gonna drive me nuts!

I probably would have bought this right away but I was out of time on so downloaded it from another site. Got to level 20 and received an error message and it closed. When I got back in, I had lost all my power-ups and it restarted at level 1. Every time I restart after playing levels and quitting, it restarts at level 1. Don't know if this is just a bug in the other site's game or in every version including . I'm certainly not going to play 100 levels at one sitting!

TopazMystique wrote:I probably would have bought this right away but I was out of time on so downloaded it from another site. Got to level 20 and received an error message and it closed. When I got back in, I had lost all my power-ups and it restarted at level 1. Every time I restart after playing levels and quitting, it restarts at level 1. Don't know if this is just a bug in the other site's game or in every version including . I'm certainly not going to play 100 levels at one sitting!

I've had quite a few games from other sites that had bugs. The same games from BF worked fine. We have better quality control here. Plus, everytime I've had a problem with a game BF's "help" either gave me a refund or a free token.

Thanks, cll1950. Was thinking the same thing myself. I've had problems with games elsewhere but games were fine. Still undecided, tho, since I'm not really good with brick buster games. But I do like the different potions that you can mix in the shop. It's a lot of fun. Still may buy it and hope for the best.

Undecided, also. It isn't bad for a brick buster - which I'm also not good at. But it will probably get really hard later. (I do like that it has difficulty levels you can choose!) But how do you use the potions when you are busy chasing the ball??? I'm really slow, and this requires a whole new skill set. Though that may not be a bad thing...

phatcat, you use the potions by right-clicking.

But can anyone tell me how you can choose which potion to use?

Also, it would be nice if I knew what all of the icons & symbols meant. Other than this it seems like a pretty good brick-buster game and for the price I won't be complaining!

my first post, although i've been learning from you all for a year now. you've saved me $ and headaches, helping me make informed choices. thanks!
i was puzzled how to get out of the game til i hit "escape" to get the dialogue box with 3 options: resume play, abort game, or save. i hit save and it did save the game and all my magic/powerups.
but getting back into the saved game next time is less than obvious. on the screen with the difficulty levels, there is no continue button like most games -- you have to click the text which shows right below the difficulty levels. i didn't even notice the text the first time i tried to restart a saved game, i went straight to the button -- so of course i lost all my magic and coins since it was a whole new game. urgh...
now that i'm sure it will save the games, i'm going to get this one. it's a nice break from HOG's which i usually play. thanks again to all!

My first post but I've been reading you guys for a long time. Ta for all the tips and BFG is the best. I hit escape but don't get that dialog of "SAVE" etc. In fact is does nothing. At the moment the game is lurking in my windows, I like it and have bought it but need to save. HELPplease

Well let me answer my own post. press the escape key while in the game and not in the potion shop. For those of you who are unsure about potions read the tutorials as they come up. All will be revealed... and the right mouse button works too, Caio.

Okay. You all talked me into it! And I believe to switch the power-ups, you use the space bar but don't quote me on that. Right-click to use them.

NavyMom90 wrote:

But can anyone tell me how you can choose which potion to use?

It said that you can switch which potion is active by using the space bar.

This game is not for me though. Too much adrenelin = hot flash and I don't need to have more of those m

Thanks, kdubs, for the info on loading a saved game! That's what I was doing wrong; not using the CLICK HERE TO LOAD LAST SAVED GAME. Now I am able to continue saved games!

For those of you confused about the different power-ups, in the shop you can mouse over the different items that you can buy and it will show you a description of what they do.

I'm still undecided. It's hard to compare anything after you've played all the awesome Richochet games. But it is a nice change of pace from the Hidden Object and Adventure games. Does anyone know if a $2.99 game counts toward your Octoberfest total? That would help me decide!

Any game on the site is elgible for the Octoberfest including the Daily Deal and I have already purchased some of these games and this was included in my total!

Ok you guys got me on all this 'initial' stuff. I think I might know what HOG is. Hidden Object Game? But I've also seen IHOG elsewhere. What's that? And what is a "brick buster" game?

Just sign me
ITD.

PS: What's a Ricochet game?

I just bought it after trying it on XP and Vista laptop, sometimes these older games are glitchy to impossible on my laptop. Runs great, and such a small file if you don't want to use up much on pc.

On Vista after dl I did get an alert saying it may not have installed properly and tells you to uninstall and reload by switching compatibility settings. Mine didn't need a reload, but only did a few levels on the laptop.

Topaz - hi - glad you went for it too, you got me a bit worried about going on to higher levels but I guess that is solved with BF.

I'm terrible at other brick buster games, PowerBall, Richochet etc but THIS one has great options like Easy, and Slow down paddle. Nothing hard on the eyes, in fact very relaxing - so seniors, slowpokes like me don't be afraid to at least do the demo. It's a lovely game, so far restful painted backgrounds. I'm not too worried about learning all the powerups, can never remember them anyway to use them, but fun passtime just keeping it simple. I'm over 10 levelsl on XP pc and loving it, probably will never play those other crazy makers I bought again with this one!

I couldn't even get this game to work. I didn't check on the daily deal until late in the evening and decided to download this game to try it out. I'm about 30 minutes away (from the time of this writing) before it is no longer the daily deal.

I have XP with 1.67 GHz and 1 GB RAM

I load the game, everything seems alright until I choose the difficulty level and choose next and then the screen goes black with just a little bit of the previous "next" button showing at the bottom right corner.

I've had to reboot the PC twice because it wouldn't do anything. Thought maybe I had too many things going on that the PC was running low of memory...so I tried it again with everything else shut off.

Sassybee,

IHOG is an "Interactive" Hidden Object Game, where you use some of the objects you find to do something with other things you find on the screen. Examples are the "Nancy Drew Dossier" games, Laura Jones games, and Dream Chronlcles games.

You can just scroll down BIg Fish's "Find a Game" page, <http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/all.html >, to go to description pages for each of the above, plus the Ricochet series (which are some pretty slick brick-busters).

Brick-busters are games where the basic gameplay is bouncing a ball off of your paddle, which you move left and right along the bottom of the screen, in order to strike bricks (or other objects), which are in a pattern in the upper part of the screen, with the ball, in order to make the bricks crumble and disappear. There are many power-ups, good and bad things to catch with your paddle, and generally you lose one of your lives whenever the (main) ball gets past you off the bottom of the screen.