Not one of my favorite games but why the hell is it crap? I was impressed with the polish, the production values and how it was immediately fun.
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Not one of my favorite games but why the hell is it crap? I was impressed with the polish, the production values and how it was immediately fun.
Glass Rebel
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Time to add GAF members to GC. Hype.
Minsc
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Out of all the games, I believe Epic Astro Story is supposed to be one of the deeper ones, I'm glad it finally showed up!
Buttonbasher
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I want more companion apps in the style of the Mass Effect Datapad app. I really enjoy how it connects to the actual game. I'll be playing a mission in 3, then save/quit and walk to class. Waiting for class, and reading notes on the app from my squad about the mission I just completed is just really neat to me. The Galactic Readiness stuff is cool too.
It's not a perfect fit for every game, but I could imagine it working well for games like Assassins Creed 3 (trade Galactic Readiness for Brotherhood Assassin missions, and Mail from the crew outside of the Animus). The Datapad app has just really impressed me, in ways that previous companion app things haven't before.
It's not a perfect fit for every game, but I could imagine it working well for games like Assassins Creed 3 (trade Galactic Readiness for Brotherhood Assassin missions, and Mail from the crew outside of the Animus). The Datapad app has just really impressed me, in ways that previous companion app things haven't before.
You linked to TouchArcade's second-hand post about my hands-on, instead of my hands-on itself -_-
It's linked right in the first paragraph.
Buttonbasher
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It's really added to my enjoyment of Mass Effect 3 (which I've already been enjoying quite a bit). Also having the Codex on iOS devices is a much better platform for that stuff than reading it in-game.
Battleloot Adventures free on the 8th and 9th
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battleloot-adventure/id475728716?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battleloot-adventure/id475728716?mt=8
Okay?
Why would you not link to the original source, that has a lot more detail and firsthand info?
It's the first link I saw
Just experienced a pretty big bug in Nightfall. Anyone know who to report that to?
Just got in a situation where if I click to see between my hand and the minions I have played, and now all my cards disappeared and I can't see anything.
Edit: Nevermind, I think my discard pile was open and empty nd it was overlaying my hand and minions.
Just got in a situation where if I click to see between my hand and the minions I have played, and now all my cards disappeared and I can't see anything.
Edit: Nevermind, I think my discard pile was open and empty nd it was overlaying my hand and minions.
GAF is against promotion of sites for personal gain, so what's the big deal here?
Touch Arcade is the go-to site for many iOS gamers.
Fox Mulder
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yes.
I actually found the controls in GTA 3 decent, but the game was just so damn dated. I'll be all over vice city or san andreas though.
Okay. Well, this is my story, with more hands-on impressions & details:
http://wireless.ign.com/articles/122/1222492p1.html
There are screens of the new desert environment and Gem Forge and some other details as well:
http://www.ign.com/images/games/infinity-blade-ii-iphone-119380
I wasn't sure why someone would link to a post that says "Hey IGN has a bunch of Infinity Blade 2 details" instead of taking a moment to link to the post itself.
It's not a big deal. I just wanted to make sure where was no specific reason my story was snubbed. I've been posting on GAF for much much longer than I've been covering iOS games for IGN.
I check IGN from time to time for iOS reviews, as well as Slide to Play. Touch Arcade just looks sloppy to me.
I usually hear about most iOS news here in this thread first.
What bugs? I got it a month or two ago and didnt run into any.
bigwinnerx
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Can you reproduce it? Or that's the current state? Do a picture (power+home button)
Playdek Twitter or Facebook. But, they're at PAX East.
http://twitter.com/playdek
https://www.facebook.com/Playdek
ThatStupidLion
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just out of curiosity. why will vice city be less dated? it came out 1 year later.
Palette Swap
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I've only played it for 15 minutes so I can't really answer the first question, except I like the fact you can expand.
To answer your second question, I'm playing on a 4S and with the default zoom, I felt inaccurate at times but zooming in helps tremendously.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
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Don't know if this was posted but Lost Winds for $0.99!
And Astro Story looks pretty cool. It looks like it has RPG elements.
And Astro Story looks pretty cool. It looks like it has RPG elements.
njean777
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It wont be, I recently played it on pc and OMG it is not the best looking game, but the characters and plot save it.
Edit: Can't wait for Vice City too.
Fox Mulder
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I didn't mean that GTA 3 felt dated purely on graphics.
Vice City has better characters, plot, setting, music, and personal nostalgia. It also received some gameplay refinements over GTA 3 which will be appreciated.
Anyone try Ninja Dino Showdown?! and the !? is part of the title lol.
http://itunes.apple.com/app/ninja-dino-showdown-!/id504432971?mt=8
Anyway game is currently on sale for $.99 and looks pretty fun and based on what I've read its like PvZ but with real time elements since ur towers are ninjas and u have to move em around.
http://itunes.apple.com/app/ninja-dino-showdown-!/id504432971?mt=8
Anyway game is currently on sale for $.99 and looks pretty fun and based on what I've read its like PvZ but with real time elements since ur towers are ninjas and u have to move em around.
AngmarsKing701
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This sounds like a tiny version of Civilization.
Yes?
And where's the Dragon Village one or whatever it's called.
Cjdamon042
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*Wink wink, nudge nudge*
But I agree, it's a neat idea and something I wish I'd used during my play-through but forgot it existed. I'll be using it again when I play through the game again soon.
Barkley's Justice
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Wow, Cave slipped out Bug Princess 2 huh? I wasn't even aware. Luckily stumbled on it during the sale period.
Anyone try Ninja Dino Showdown?! and the !? is part of the title lol.
http://itunes.apple.com/app/ninja-dino-showdown-!/id504432971?mt=8
Anyway game is currently on sale for $.99 and looks pretty fun and based on what I've read its like PvZ but with real time elements since ur towers are ninjas and u have to move em around.
First off, where's the feathers? Second, why make the dinos the same damn color as the ground, practically?
I think it was a derp move by me. It looks like I had my discard pile open and then I was switching between hand and minions and that doesn't actually close the discard pile view..if that makes sense.
I'll wait for the first sale for Epic Astro Story to, I'm sure it'll drop down to like 2.99 at some point... too much other things to play right now (Nightfall, I'm looking at you, despite your online servers not working atm)
Also, if Vice City comes to iOS... oh god. One of my favourite games of the series, because it has by far the best time-decade in it, it was awesome.
Also, if Vice City comes to iOS... oh god. One of my favourite games of the series, because it has by far the best time-decade in it, it was awesome.
Lol I didn't even notice that. Game sounds fun though was curious for impressions since google comes up with nothing besides like 1 review.
cross-posting from the iOS boardgame thread for anyone figuring out Nightfall. Happy to answer any questions:
-You start out the game with 12 basic cards (2 copies of 6 different weak cards in each of the 6 colors actually).
-At the beginning of the game and at the end of every turn, you draw your hand up to five cards from your draw deck.
-Then you perform all of the phases in order: Combat, Chain, Claim, Cleanup.
-Combat:
Let's skip for now even though it does come first because on Turn 1 you won't have any minions in play to engage in combat.
-Chain:
Funnest part of the game! The cards you have remaining in your hand (if any) you can play to the table. Each card has a big moon -- that is the card's color -- and a little moon or two -- that is what other cards that card can chain into. So I can play a card with a big purple moon and little red and yellow moons, and then if I have any cards with big red or yellow moons I can play one of those, and so forth until I can't "chain" anymore or I don't want to. Now is where it gets even snazzier: Going clockwise from you others can join your chain following the same rules you did and adding to the stack. Just like P1, you can add as many cards as you can chain or want to chain and then once you're done you're done for that round. Then the stack is resolved starting with the last-added card.
Here's a good place to talk about the two different kinds of cards (all cards = "orders") -- Minions & Actions. Minions resolve their chain effects when they come off the stack and then go into your "in play" area to both defend (if you want) and attack at start of your turn (mandatory). Actions just resolve and go to your discard.
Two other notes: "Kickers" mean that if you chain off a card and its main color is the color of the kicker, you get that bonus event. Actions that say "Your Chain" only give you the benefit when you play them on your turn, not others' chains. (The red start guy is like this.), but they still go to your in play area no matter what if they're minions (red start guy).
-Claim:
Buy cards! You can buy cards from your private archives or from the common archives -- as many as you can afford. You pay with "influence" which you get two of for free every buy phase -- and then you can discard cards in hand to get more influence to buy better stuff. The max price I think is 4, so you can often buy a couple cards every Claim phase. Try to get some decent chains going so you don't get stuck often. Everything you buy goes to the top of your discard, which gets reshuffled whenever you run out of cards in your draw deck (which will be many times a game). So you don't get them right away, but often pretty soon.
-Cleanup:
Draw back up to 5. If you have 1 card you held onto (didn't discard for influence), you draw 4, and so forth.
-Combat:
Remember this happens at the beginning of your turn! So as described under Chain you put Minions out to fight for you. Let's say I put two dudes out that have attack 3 and health 2 on a chain phase. They survive and the turn comes all the way back to me. Now I have to send them out to attack others. I get to choose which opponent they attack. Attack is simple -- send a guy out and the target has to decide whether to block (with his in-play minions) or eat the damage. Every point of damage that gets through gives a wound card, and of course person with the fewest wound cards at end of game wins. Then attackers get discarded (attackers never take damage). Blockers get discarded if their health goes to 0, or stick around if not.
Game ends when the wound pile has run out.
hth!
-You start out the game with 12 basic cards (2 copies of 6 different weak cards in each of the 6 colors actually).
-At the beginning of the game and at the end of every turn, you draw your hand up to five cards from your draw deck.
-Then you perform all of the phases in order: Combat, Chain, Claim, Cleanup.
-Combat:
Let's skip for now even though it does come first because on Turn 1 you won't have any minions in play to engage in combat.
-Chain:
Funnest part of the game! The cards you have remaining in your hand (if any) you can play to the table. Each card has a big moon -- that is the card's color -- and a little moon or two -- that is what other cards that card can chain into. So I can play a card with a big purple moon and little red and yellow moons, and then if I have any cards with big red or yellow moons I can play one of those, and so forth until I can't "chain" anymore or I don't want to. Now is where it gets even snazzier: Going clockwise from you others can join your chain following the same rules you did and adding to the stack. Just like P1, you can add as many cards as you can chain or want to chain and then once you're done you're done for that round. Then the stack is resolved starting with the last-added card.
Here's a good place to talk about the two different kinds of cards (all cards = "orders") -- Minions & Actions. Minions resolve their chain effects when they come off the stack and then go into your "in play" area to both defend (if you want) and attack at start of your turn (mandatory). Actions just resolve and go to your discard.
Two other notes: "Kickers" mean that if you chain off a card and its main color is the color of the kicker, you get that bonus event. Actions that say "Your Chain" only give you the benefit when you play them on your turn, not others' chains. (The red start guy is like this.), but they still go to your in play area no matter what if they're minions (red start guy).
-Claim:
Buy cards! You can buy cards from your private archives or from the common archives -- as many as you can afford. You pay with "influence" which you get two of for free every buy phase -- and then you can discard cards in hand to get more influence to buy better stuff. The max price I think is 4, so you can often buy a couple cards every Claim phase. Try to get some decent chains going so you don't get stuck often. Everything you buy goes to the top of your discard, which gets reshuffled whenever you run out of cards in your draw deck (which will be many times a game). So you don't get them right away, but often pretty soon.
-Cleanup:
Draw back up to 5. If you have 1 card you held onto (didn't discard for influence), you draw 4, and so forth.
-Combat:
Remember this happens at the beginning of your turn! So as described under Chain you put Minions out to fight for you. Let's say I put two dudes out that have attack 3 and health 2 on a chain phase. They survive and the turn comes all the way back to me. Now I have to send them out to attack others. I get to choose which opponent they attack. Attack is simple -- send a guy out and the target has to decide whether to block (with his in-play minions) or eat the damage. Every point of damage that gets through gives a wound card, and of course person with the fewest wound cards at end of game wins. Then attackers get discarded (attackers never take damage). Blockers get discarded if their health goes to 0, or stick around if not.
Game ends when the wound pile has run out.
hth!
ACTUALLY, YOUR minions fight at the end of HIS turn, and HIS minions fight at the end of YOUR turn. Which makes adding your own minions to an opponents chain even more awesome, because they'll be in attacking in combat right away.
No, your minions only attack at the start of your own turn. This is probably more evident in 3-5p games. See page 11 here: http://www.nightfallgame.com/files/2011/02/AEG-NF-Rulebook.pdf
Ah I got confused by the ingame-layout, when turns end and when they start. "End of his turn / very start of your turn" is the same thing, I just thought the combat was still part of the other's turn, but it is in fact the start of your own turn, you're right. it's just the VERY first thing, and that's why it confused me, sorry
Ah, I've only played 2p games so far so that might be why.
Amibguous Cad
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I have been ADDICTED to Dice Soccer recently.
It's one of those free to plays that really would have been better as a 3 dollar download- some grinding required, and it's a bit buggy- but damn, if it isn't amazingly fun.
It's one of those free to plays that really would have been better as a 3 dollar download- some grinding required, and it's a bit buggy- but damn, if it isn't amazingly fun.
TerryLee81
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Anyone?
Deadly Cyclone
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Agh, should I buy this for my iPad even though it's an iPhone game?
Edit: bought. Retina assets on new iPad at least. Although now I'm getting iTunes store errors.
Retina assets? Isn't it 320x480 like all other Kairosoft games?
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