Thanks, I ended up getting Comic Zeal, it's great.
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The iOS Gaming |Thread5| From Zero to Gaming Hero
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Thanks, I ended up getting Comic Zeal, it's great.
I'm wondering how it is possible that like almost all of their games are pure crack to me.
Unbelievable. I guess they simply nailed how to make small, plug and play strategy games.
dr3upmushroom
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Yeah, I was going to mention too, the people warning that file sizes are increasing are right to an extent, but personally I find myself spending way more time with smaller games than the 1-2GB+ monsters. Infinity Blade is pretty grindy, Lili is basically a tech demo, Bastion is great but not something I need on my iPad permanently...
To each their own but I think if you're able to stay away from the hoarding mentality of keeping every app you've ever purchased on your device and if you mostly stream music and video, 16GB is plenty. For example, I'm fine with 16GB on my iPad but wouldn't want any less than 32 on something I was also using as an MP3 player.
CrashPrime
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Battle = multiplayer only .. you get 2 games to play then you have to wait for more credits which populate over time (6min per I think).
Makes games matter more, you are ranked, you are playing real people, it's free.
Honestly Zookeeper Battle is one of the few games I keep coming back to over and over. It's the perfect bite size game that forces you to take breaks and not just play it over and over and over.
Fuuck... well done! Must've been satisfying as shit. One round, too. Did he put up much of a fight?
Until today my peak average has been around 1900 (although I suspect I've hit 2000 for a short while). I have a long way to go
Does it ever seem to anyone else that there are just some games you're set up to win and some you're destined to fail? Because I'm sure I've had times where I've blasted the shit out of opponents for a good 4-5 game run, but then I've just been given the worst heap of shit, the opponent gets more health pickups than I do and it just generally does it's best to fuck me over.
Until today my peak average has been around 1900 (although I suspect I've hit 2000 for a short while). I have a long way to go
Does it ever seem to anyone else that there are just some games you're set up to win and some you're destined to fail? Because I'm sure I've had times where I've blasted the shit out of opponents for a good 4-5 game run, but then I've just been given the worst heap of shit, the opponent gets more health pickups than I do and it just generally does it's best to fuck me over.
It's okay for apps only. My iPad is 16 and it's working for me. Then again, my music library isn't on my iPad. If it was I'd need a 64 GB device.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
Ive been playing around with true skate so much. Really hope the devs make some money off it and turn it into a full game with different levels.
Fuuck... well done! Must've been satisfying as shit. One round, too. Did he put up much of a fight?
Until today my peak average has been around 1900 (although I suspect I've hit 2000 for a short while). I have a long way to go
Does it ever seem to anyone else that there are just some games you're set up to win and some you're destined to fail? Because I'm sure I've had times where I've blasted the shit out of opponents for a good 4-5 game run, but then I've just been given the worst heap of shit, the opponent gets more health pickups than I do and it just generally does it's best to fuck me over.
For a guy who had a rate of 2875, he was one of the easiest players :lol
1 game, I had a board that had no moves right from the start. I didn't even do shit. It just flat out told me I had no moves :lol
In that sense, the game is random in what kind of board you get. But I guess that's what separates the good players from the bad. You need to be able to spot the 1 and only match available. Opponents getting item pickups consistently is pretty rare to me but it does happen
I'm now... dropped to 1'200 out of 78'000 in the leaderboards, after i was top100
Yeah, I know I've got blind spots (it's usually the corners) but I do my best to train myself during time-out with lightning mode (no hints!) in Bejewelled
There are leaderboards?I'm now... dropped to 1'200 out of 78'000 in the leaderboards, after i was top100
Yeah, I know I've got blind spots (it's usually the corners) but I do my best to train myself during time-out with lightning mode (no hints!) in Bejewelled
There are leaderboards?
Yeah there's a leaderboard for "most points in a single trick". Go into gamecenter, there it shows it. I'm first among... 10 people here? With 2661.
TwiztidElf
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I was free. I'd quit late level 14. Then a friend told me about some of the crazy story twists later, and I'm back. Fuck.
fierrotlepou
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Anyone here playing Carmageddon on an iphone 4?
batmandarkknight
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whats the diff with the paid and free version of zookeeper?
PittaGAF
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I know I'm repeating myself but I feel like a complete idiot having waited so long before buying Elder Sign Omens.
If you are a Lovecraft fan, just get it.
After having completed all the campaigns (really just different difficulties) of the vanilla game I bought the first expansion, the Chtulhu one, and it's freaking amazing.
New gameplay dynamics, new setting, new quests, new characters, whole new story and cutscenes...I love it, especially the second part.
It's, as expected, MUCH harder...but so satisfying....in my last game I was close, soooo close.
Fantasy Flight Games is my new top dev for board games (too bad the game is solo and not universal).
If you are a Lovecraft fan, just get it.
After having completed all the campaigns (really just different difficulties) of the vanilla game I bought the first expansion, the Chtulhu one, and it's freaking amazing.
New gameplay dynamics, new setting, new quests, new characters, whole new story and cutscenes...I love it, especially the second part.
It's, as expected, MUCH harder...but so satisfying....in my last game I was close, soooo close.
Fantasy Flight Games is my new top dev for board games (too bad the game is solo and not universal).
PittaGAF
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LOL we posted almost togheter.
Belive me...after a while you will control the odds almost completely.
Bad luck could be a factor, but MUCH less than one could think in the beginning.
I do the museum part almost automatically now (and I'm by no means a pro or lucky).
After you are done with the vanilla game, get the expansions...at least the Cthulhu one is soooo damn good with added mechanics and things to do.
What's this Pokemon-esque game u speak of?
GeekyDad
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Okay, that right there scares me because this museum is already challenging enough.
Well, I hope you're right and I eventually learn how to exploit all of the elements to my advantage. There's definitely a lot going on, but I'm still trying to figure out how to effectively control the midnight effects. I still don't have a firm grasp on what effects will activate at midnight. I was under the impression that only adventures you begin with effects attached to them affect you at midnight if not completed, but that doesn't seem to be the case in execution.
PittaGAF
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Start against Yig, and play till you defeat him (took me 3 or 4 full games).
Try to know your characters and their skills.
After that you are ready for the other 2 Ancient Ones (harder difficulties but really different).
Took me 2 tries each to defeat them (and I almost always defeated them since then).
Do NOT be afraid to use items...usually every quest (succeful) will repay it.
Aim always for Elder signs quests or outer planes ones.
Consider the ORDER of you characters...if one fails you can use her/him as a glyph lock spell next round.
As for midnight effects...AVOID.
At midnight all mid effect in place will trigger, so complete the quests with the little moon icon BEFORE midnight (you can check their effects tapping on the quest).
Also...glyph lock quests will be your first target.
Yes...Cthulhu campaign is MUCH harder...consider the museum just the tutorial
But I won't spoil anything!!!
Kairosoft's Beastie Bay on Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.kairosoft.android.mujin_en
GeekyDad
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Start against Yig, and play till you defeat him (took me 3 or 4 full games).
Try to know your characters and their skills.
After that you are ready for the other 2 Ancient Ones (harder difficulties but really different).
Took me 2 tries each to defeat them (and I almost always defeated them since then).
Do NOT be afraid to use items...usually every quest (succeful) will repay it.
Aim always for Elder signs quests or outer planes ones.
Consider the ORDER of you characters...if one fails you can use her/him as a glyph lock spell next round.
As for midnight effects...AVOID.
At midnight all mid effect in place will trigger, so complete the quests with the little moon icon BEFORE midnight (you can check their effects tapping on the quest).
Also...glyph lock quests will be your first target.
Yes...Cthulhu campaign is MUCH harder...consider the museum just the tutorial
But I won't spoil anything!!!
How does that work exactly and what is the benefit?
chickdigger802
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that is one kinky title.
Splashtop
arts&crafts
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I dont understand zookeeper at all. The first couple rounds I won without getting hit, since then i die in the first round every time. Since it is match 3 is it just who can match the most in 60 seconds? or is there some type of strategy..
EleventhDoctor
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No. The game fucking sucks-contrary to popular opinion.
Barkley's Justice
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Son. Why are you playing this on Game Gear
There's quite alot of Android's exclusives there. Pisses me off really.
We never got that one, never got the Cruise and also never got the Sushi restaurant one.
There's even 2-3 others I am forgetting about at the moment
I am a sad panda
Splashtop
PittaGAF
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))Feels good right?
It will go downhill from now on (more or less)...till the expansion of course
Having more than one character on a spot (you can't move them, they will be there if they have failed) can aid you because when you discard a glyph you can lock one with your character AND the characters already there.
So if you previously failed and retry a quest with another character, the first time you will be (sadly) forced to discard a glyph, you can lock TWO (if convenient) for later.
I used sometimes all four characters in a quest, maybe the final one that granted the winning Elder Signs, to secure the victory.
Another very important thing to keep in mind is that yellow and red glyphs do not have the full span of glyph types...check the help screen to understand which ones they can produce.
base shagohod
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Does anybody have any suggestions for an impressive iOS game, graphics-wise?
Preferably optimized for the 5.
Preferably optimized for the 5.
Shotgun Kiss
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Does anybody here have an iCade?
I'm really tempted to buy one, but I'd like to get some impressions from GAFfers first.
I was thinking about going with an iCade Core, because it allows you to put the iPad in vertically or horizontally (Metal Slug 3 is the main game I want that would benefit from a horizontal positon), but the regular iCade looks so awesome, I think it might be worth the tradeoff. How many other games benefit from being played in landscape?
Speaking of Metal Slug 3, can you play it in portrait mode?
EDIT: Never mind; just found out you can slot the iPad in horizontally in the regular iCade as well.
I'm really tempted to buy one, but I'd like to get some impressions from GAFfers first.
I was thinking about going with an iCade Core, because it allows you to put the iPad in vertically or horizontally (Metal Slug 3 is the main game I want that would benefit from a horizontal positon), but the regular iCade looks so awesome, I think it might be worth the tradeoff. How many other games benefit from being played in landscape?
Speaking of Metal Slug 3, can you play it in portrait mode?
EDIT: Never mind; just found out you can slot the iPad in horizontally in the regular iCade as well.
Lili.
EleventhDoctor
Banned
Sounds like someone isn't very good at the game
You ain't kidding.
chickdigger802
Banned
Anyone else check out EpicHearts?
Apparently it's the new hot krpg on TA. controls are a bit iffy, but it does do some stuff nicely. Free with iap naturally.
Apparently it's the new hot krpg on TA. controls are a bit iffy, but it does do some stuff nicely. Free with iap naturally.
Practice, practice, practice! If you have Bejeweled, lightning mode is a great substitute for winding down the clock
Also, I find holding the screen farther away than you normally would helps with finding patterns.
The only time I ever get really fucked over beyond belief, is when there's one match at the top and clearing that brings in another match, but you have to wait for it to fall to clear THAT. Which chews up so much fucking time.
Also, if you can see where there are matches when there's binoculars on the screen, don't get the binoculars. There can be a tiny delay with it that completely ruins my flow.
Also, I find holding the screen farther away than you normally would helps with finding patterns.
The only time I ever get really fucked over beyond belief, is when there's one match at the top and clearing that brings in another match, but you have to wait for it to fall to clear THAT. Which chews up so much fucking time.
Also, if you can see where there are matches when there's binoculars on the screen, don't get the binoculars. There can be a tiny delay with it that completely ruins my flow.
Outtrigger888
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Is lili any good, thinking about buying it for my iPad. What do you do in the game?
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