Current Events > Jeopardy games today are bullshit.

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You pick an answer, and you get a multiple choice of three to match the question. The fuck is that? Thats not Jeopardy.

Remember in the old days on NES/SNES/older PC versions/etc when you got nothing and had to manually type in the answer with no hints? Yeah.

/oldmanrant
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Ryven posted...

you get a multiple choice of three to match the question

.... you're kidding me. I refuse to believe this is a thing.
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Ryven posted...

You pick an answer, and you get a multiple choice of three to match the question. The fuck is that? Thats not Jeopardy.

Remember in the old days on NES/SNES/older PC versions/etc when you got nothing and had to manually type in the answer with no hints? Yeah.

/oldmanrant

I'm with you 100%

Pretty sure I had a version on Commodore 64 that required a typed out answer.
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Its not I watch this shit all the time (not by choice)
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Ryven posted...

Remember in the old days on NES/SNES/older PC versions/etc when you got nothing and had to manually type in the answer with no hints? Yeah.

/oldmanrant

I remember literally being off because I accidentally made a letter capitalized in the middle of the word. That shit used to be so precise.
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Eevee-Trainer posted...

Ryven posted...

you get a multiple choice of three to match the question

.... you're kidding me. I refuse to believe this is a thing.

2SweetforTurtle posted...

Its not I watch this shit all the time (not by choice)

I think he's talking about video games based on Jeopardy, not the actual show.
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I have Jeopardy for PS3.

Easy mode gives you multiple choice.

Medium makes you type it in, but it assists with possible answers you might be typing in to help with typographical errors.

Hard forces you to answer and spell it correctly on your own.
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2SweetforTurtle posted...

Its not I watch this shit all the time (not by choice)

Look at this guy trying to act like he's too cool for Jeopardy
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Real talk TC. I grew up on the Genesis version so I feel your pain.

By the way, is there a good version of Jeopardy on current consoles anywhere nowadays? Ive been looking for a good trivia game for PS4, Switch, or even iOS for years now smh
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Yes, the recent Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune games by Ubisoft are probably the worst commercially released Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune video game adaptations to date.

Jeopardy looks like it had no effort put into it, there's no attempt whatsoever to make the aesthetic look like Jeopardy rather than Generic Quiz Game. As TC mentioned all the questions are multiple choice, with only 3 options per question. I don't mind multiple choice being an option but it shouldn't be the only option.

That said, Jeopardy actually works right for the most part. With Wheel of Fortune they at least bothered to make it look like Wheel of Fortune, but there's so many glitches and issues I don't even know where to begin.
- As demonstrated in the Game Grumps playthrough sometimes it doesn't correctly identify which wedge was landed on. Also items that should be taken off the wheel when claimed sometimes aren't, although the game acts like they're not there if they're hit when they shouldn't be there.
- The puzzle writing is mostly okay but there are unnecessary hyphens in quite a few of them, and at least one has a typo ("camping rip" instead of "camping trip").
- Sometimes the animation of the contestant reaching down to spin the wheel is delayed and the wheel spins on its own, then you see the contestant reach down and make the spinning motion a few seconds later.
- The online play is especially prone to game freezes.
- Instead of a variety of prize values, trips are always worth $7,320. Cars (both in the bonus round and from the -car tags) are always worth $46,840 (which makes the -car tags a ridiculous, pretty much impossible-to-beat golden snitch).
- The AI is moronic, even on the hardest setting it will randomly pick letters like J and Q for no reason frequently, almost always picks vowels (which are worth no money) during the final spin round, and is known to sometimes write inappropriate words in the blanks when it decides it's going to solve the puzzle incorrectly (seriously, look up "vulgar AI in Wheel of Fortune").
- The annoying jazz music in the background for some reason, which can't be turned off.
- There are a few issues with rules nuances that are incorrect (if you get the $10,000 mystery wedge it also gives you the $1,000 per letter which it shouldn't, and you keep the million dollar wedge even if you don't solve the puzzle you picked it up on).
- Oh, and of course the super-generic man and woman hosts they use because they were too cheap to license Pat and Vanna's likenesses. Also the host repeats the same few generic phrases way too often.

I mean this isn't some 100-hour epic open-world adventure with a billion things that could go wrong, it's fucking Wheel of Fortune. The THQ game on PS3/X360 from a few years earlier was miles better than this. If Ubisoft can't make a game that simple without that many ridiculous issues, I'm sure as hell not going to be inclined to try anything else they're associated with.
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^ Lol thats horrible.
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^ Lol thats incredible
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