RurouniZel
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I don't have an iPad, but can anyone confirm if Ghost Trick can be played on one? Does it look okay?
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The iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch Gaming |OT2| Part II
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RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
neojubei said:
Cool. If v2 of the iPad is good, I may end up getting one anyway, and when Ghost Trick is released stateside I might buy it again! ^^
Steverulez
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What are the chances of Kairosofts other iPhone games coming out in on other stores? I love Game Dev Story and want more of their stuff.
Bungalow Bob
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I'm just going to clarify a few of your tips, and add a little.
The game is not very challenging (other than some of the puzzles) if you understand the combat system. So if you want to make a heavy weapon-using warrior (and heavy weapons do have some advantages), go right ahead, you'll have no difficulties. However, some of the expansions are very challenging in terms of combat.
Some Important Tips
If you're getting killed in the beginning, buy a spell (or better yet, a magical wand) that temporarily boosts your defense.
The wares in a shop randomly change from day to day. You can buy the 2 spells that allow you to teleport (Mark and Recall) in the first town if you go in on the right day.
You can play the card game in the inns to make money, but it's very slow. Making and selling potions is the quickest way to make money in the mid-game.
Attack magic is best for quickly killing enemies.
Magic resistance is very important. It can mean the difference between a one-shot death and magical invulnerability. You can drink potions to temporarily increase your magic res.
I'm sure there are some important things Mejilan and I missed, but this is definitely enough to get the new players started.
edit: You can also gain the bonuses of different potions of the same type at the same time.
For example, you could drink a small fortify magic potion, a large one and a homemade one, one after the other, and gain the bonus of all 3.
The game is not very challenging (other than some of the puzzles) if you understand the combat system. So if you want to make a heavy weapon-using warrior (and heavy weapons do have some advantages), go right ahead, you'll have no difficulties. However, some of the expansions are very challenging in terms of combat.
Since the NPCs that can train you to improve your skills can only do so up to a certain level (like level 30 light weapons, let's say), it's better to first learn from these NPCs and then use your skill points.Mejilan said:
You only need strength if you choose to go for heavy weapons. Dexterity is the governing attribute for light weapons (as well as other skills). Both raise carrying capacity, but strength raises it much more.Mejilan said:
In a nutshell you can enchant magical equipment to boost any of your stats, but only up to a certain amount determined by the piece of equipment. Let me give one example of how this all works. So after you get some new armor that is extremely enchantable, your magic abilities alone are only enough to partially enchant it. The only way to fully enchant it is to put on some equipment that you previously enchanted to boost your enchant ability. Then you drink some potions (that you made wearing different equipment enchanted to boost your potion making abilities) to further enhance your magic, and finally you can fully enchant the armor to increase your magic resistance, HP, or whatever you want. Note that you can only enchant equipment once.Mejilan said:
You can start making the perma-stat boosting potions (and other high level potions) at a low level by enchanting some equipment to boost your potion-making ability.Mejilan said:
Alchemy is far more important than repair because with a high alchemy level you can make potions to increase your melee and magic that are better than any you can buy or find in the game, but the blacksmiths that are in all the towns can repair your weapon just as well as you can.Mejilan said:
Some Important Tips
If you're getting killed in the beginning, buy a spell (or better yet, a magical wand) that temporarily boosts your defense.
The wares in a shop randomly change from day to day. You can buy the 2 spells that allow you to teleport (Mark and Recall) in the first town if you go in on the right day.
You can play the card game in the inns to make money, but it's very slow. Making and selling potions is the quickest way to make money in the mid-game.
Attack magic is best for quickly killing enemies.
Magic resistance is very important. It can mean the difference between a one-shot death and magical invulnerability. You can drink potions to temporarily increase your magic res.
I'm sure there are some important things Mejilan and I missed, but this is definitely enough to get the new players started.
edit: You can also gain the bonuses of different potions of the same type at the same time.
For example, you could drink a small fortify magic potion, a large one and a homemade one, one after the other, and gain the bonus of all 3.
I would definitely go with League of Evil.snack said:
Its very smartly designed so the controls are never a hindrance. Levels are short, and rely on exploiting a small set of obstacles for all their worth. It can get difficult but never impossibly or frustratingly so.
I just can't think of another ios platformer that plays to the strengths of the device while also avoiding its pitfalls so well. For what its worth, I constantly felt during Pizza Boy that I'd rather play it on a more dedicated platform while I never felt that way with LoE.
OMG the Dungeon Defenders update completely wiped my characters. Wow.
Why is the update still even available after the devs know that it wipes all your characters? Everything is gone now, as I updated via iTunes so I could not see the warning message.
I wonder how much updates it will take for the game to work? And the console versions are supposed to be coming out? Man, I feel bad for whoever buys those.
Why is the update still even available after the devs know that it wipes all your characters? Everything is gone now, as I updated via iTunes so I could not see the warning message.
I wonder how much updates it will take for the game to work? And the console versions are supposed to be coming out? Man, I feel bad for whoever buys those.
League of Evil is absolutely excellent. Amazing platforming with great controls. I'll definitely be collecting 3 stars + briefcase on each level. Hope people will support this $1 app so we can get more levels and game center support.
Also the game is just about unplayable on the ipad with the control layout.
Also the game is just about unplayable on the ipad with the control layout.
RelentlessRolento
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Movie Cat is free today
Dash Kappei
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Exactly.Zeth said:
That's why I wrote my suggestion for some different layouts and also I wish left and right had the same responsiveness as jump/kick.
For example, if you're tapping left and you tap right with your finger still touching on left as well, the latter input should just overwrite the former.
I wish there was an email/contact form to send this to the dev and not just to the publisher who'd never read it otherwise I guess.
graywolf323
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is it worth jailbreaking? now that an untethered jailbreak is out for 4.2.1 I'm tempted to try it with my iPod Touch
graywolf323
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eznark said:
according to the readme file yes
graywolf323
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Foob said:I got the in to win achievement
what did you have to do to get it? I still haven't :-(
graywolf323
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Foob said:
crap I really need to work on it then, I'm not that good yet
SnakeswithLasers
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Bumping this question because I'm interested too.spidye said:
Barry Lightning
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is it good? i qas going to grab it yesterday but all the reviews are so whiny it put me off.345triangle said:
parasight said:
They've identified the problem and should have a fix out soon. It has something to do with the game triggering or reading a line swipe when it shouldn't be. My advice is to slow down your pace a bit and don't go too crazy with using skills in rapid succession.
Reese-015 said:
If it's the game I'm thinking of, I'm rather pissed because they apparently pulled the paid version I bought months ago and now only offer this new ad-supported "full" version.
Dash Kappei
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Thanks, I Love it!RelentlessRolento said:
Also, just my two cents about Sad Princess
Let's put it this way: You probably shouldn't buy Sad Princess other than for the fact that you want to support the idea of Valillaware-inspired graphics and gameplay.
The art is very pretty but the game bored me to death already at stage 2-3. I tought I was going to fight on proper horizontal scrolling levels, instead it's basically little more than a screen with a background where you fight countless identical enemies with zero variety and zero depth to the combat.
And I loved Muramasa almost as much as I love classic beat 'em ups.
They should "just" flesh out the game and sell it for, say, 3,79 with Universal support.
graywolf323
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Mejilan said:
just looked it up on the app store and based on the reviews that is indeed the one
Minsc
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Good news for Puzzle Quest 2 fans!
Update will be coming adding retina display and more interestingly, online multiplayer support via Gamecenter. Should be interesting to see how it works out, I'd imagine you'd want to only play your lvl 99 characters against others though, to keep the balance as even as you can!
Maybe they'll even sneak a few speed optimizations in there as well!
Update will be coming adding retina display and more interestingly, online multiplayer support via Gamecenter. Should be interesting to see how it works out, I'd imagine you'd want to only play your lvl 99 characters against others though, to keep the balance as even as you can!
Maybe they'll even sneak a few speed optimizations in there as well!
Psy-Phi
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The frame rate is fine, it's the animation that needs...well...more animations. Seems like they skip on it and just do enough to make them look like they move, but not like they move smoothly.Reese-015 said:
Perhaps they're shooting for parity with the 3G still? Can't imagine the extra 10 animations would kill a 3G though. Think it's just cost/time savings or laziness.
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