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Viva Piñata - The Official Thread
- Thread starter Speevy
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Awesome.
goldenpp72
Member
Something cool to note, all progress you make in one garden is transfered to new ones, so if you go to start another garden you have all your upgraded equipment, level, money and don't need to take the tutorial again! Awesome 
goldenpp72 said:Something cool to note, all progress you make in one garden is transfered to new ones, so if you go to start another garden you have all your upgraded equipment, level, money and don't need to take the tutorial again! Awesome
Holy snot, that is really awesome. Infinite single player offline replay value FTW!
goldenpp72
Member
Anyone figure out how to get the sour sherbat to become a residence, it said to make it eat a jack o latern and I figured a pumpikin would do, but I apparently need a jack o latern :lol
How do I carve one?
How do I carve one?
goldenpp72
Member
Eventually this cat lady opened up shop and sells some accessories.
BamYouHaveAids
Member
I can't believe I'm considering getting this game, but your impressions sound awesome.
goldenpp72
Member
no its called paper pets or something like that, shes some emo lady with a cat helmet and fish bowl on her head.
tHa_vIlLaMaN
Member
:lol Cute.Speevy said:
chocolatecandy
Member
Here are some useful tidbits on the game:
Unlock 5 accessory items
Beggar/Trader
Tame sour bat with Jack-o-lantern
Achievements list
Unlock 5 accessory items
Beggar/Trader
Tame sour bat with Jack-o-lantern
Achievements list
Speevy said:
yes, i know you can send pinatas. I was talking about also sending pictures/photographs you may take of your garden. Something like what can be done on PGR3.
btw: for people that doesnt have the game yet or is not sure about getting it, they talk about it in the latest 1upyours ( lol about luke´s tag designs )
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Speevy said:
Releasing two 80% games followed by an ~85% game is not too shabby at all. Hopefully their next few games can blast it out of the ball park (Banjo + Perfect Dark Next + Killer Instinct 360, I'm looking at you!)
purgeface said:
Same thing happened to me and I didn't want any of my Pinatas to die so I paid the doctor to heal them all and then wound up with little cash. I also was delinquent for a time in mating my Wyrm Pinatas and then found myself with none left so I had to go hire the hunter. I think I'm going to scale back also and get a nice cash reserve.
McBacon said:
The Wii crowd I would think would go apeshit over Viva Pinata. It's that good but I've only played 5 hours (1 night) so we'll see how it plays it out.
chocolatecandy
Member
You can crate-up and send pinatas and items.
My girlfriend played it all night last night and now has been playing it since around 10A.M. this morning. She's got some questions for GAF.
is there any way to stop them from fighting?
what does the sour tour do?
You can add my girlfriend and trade with her if you want.
She has more questions about the game, but can't think of them right now.
is there any way to stop them from fighting?
what does the sour tour do?
Speevy said:
You can add my girlfriend and trade with her if you want.
She has more questions about the game, but can't think of them right now.
I stop my pinata from fighting by giving them a good whack with the shovel before they really get going. That seems to work, but sometimes they also just reengage the fight.
I think my girlfriend went to Best Buy the moment they opened today. She didn't have it last night but at around 10:15 I checked XBL and there she was on Viva Pinata.
I think my girlfriend went to Best Buy the moment they opened today. She didn't have it last night but at around 10:15 I checked XBL and there she was on Viva Pinata.
goldenpp72
Member
added a couple of ya, hopefully rare gets their shit together with the online co op soon.
okay i have some dillemas.
1. i can NEVER stop pinatas from fighting. I put my cursor over them with the shovel and it won't lock onto them, it just says "dig a hole" when i want to spank them with it to try and get them to stop fighting.
2. nothing is happening with my trees. they look awful and no fruits or nuts will grow and i tried fertilizers.
3. can pinata's eat budding flowers and corns? I keep planting them and then a minute later they're gone, and there was definitely not enough time for them to have withered from not enough water.
1. i can NEVER stop pinatas from fighting. I put my cursor over them with the shovel and it won't lock onto them, it just says "dig a hole" when i want to spank them with it to try and get them to stop fighting.
2. nothing is happening with my trees. they look awful and no fruits or nuts will grow and i tried fertilizers.
3. can pinata's eat budding flowers and corns? I keep planting them and then a minute later they're gone, and there was definitely not enough time for them to have withered from not enough water.
Okay. I took a break last night and did Gears multiplayer all night.
Today I will get back to Pinata with a vengeance.
I'm at a point right now where my garden is crowded, I don't have enough money, and I'm constantly at a loss as to how to proceed.
This game is hard. And deep too.
Today I will get back to Pinata with a vengeance.
I'm at a point right now where my garden is crowded, I don't have enough money, and I'm constantly at a loss as to how to proceed.
This game is hard. And deep too.
alkaline black said:Exactly what I'm thinking of doing. There must be something we're missing in terms of keeping the population happy because all these damn pinata shouldn't be fighting so much.
I tried to fence in my bunnies and they started fighting each other
What happens if you trap them up in pens and keep them sedated with the happy candy?
I figured I had things nice and squared for the size increase. I just didn't know it would increase the perimeter of my garden. I thought it would give another chunk of land to the north or something. It kind of took me by surprise. I then spent a day and a half clearing out the new land and seeding it with grass, and by the time I got back to my garden, things were falling apart. And that bad guy that busts sick pinatas open was going nuts.
laceystorm
Member
great impressions. sound like a great game
DarkAngelYuna
Banned
Just picked it up during my lunch break. I won't have time to play it until 9-10 pm tonight. I must say that while the case is really cheap and unsafe feeling it's still just so damn cute.
Gamertag is Kateri. I won't be on until probably 8 or 9 tonight, but I can ship stuff out then.
As for getting honey...
As for getting honey...
To get bees to make honey I figured out/found that you have to put a beekeeper hat on the bees. Then they'll gather stuff and you have to direct 'em into the hive. It sells for 100.
Here is the next entry in my pinata journal:
So late last night, I reached level 11 or so and my garden grew in area. I knew this was going to happen eventually, so I had [my garden] Demi's Crotch built up in a modular fashion so the coming expansion wouldn't throw things into chaos.
Unfortunately, the expansion added to the perimeter of the garden, a bit of land on each side. My build plans only took into account the possibility that the land would be given to me in one big chunk, like say another lot to the north. The expansion along the perimeter did throw things into chaos since I was using the original boundary points on the map as the back wall of some cages and pens. In other words, a lot of the friskier and more deranged pinatas escaped. Within moments of the expansion, Demi's Crotch went from something resembling necessary totalitarianism to something much worse: a theatre of battle resembling the near-future race in LA.
I feebly tried to mediate. I beat some of the worst offenders to death, but I had to face the facts: the garden had fallen and would require massive changes. Since so many pinatas were dead and wounded and in the midst of violence, I decided to move into less chilling territory for a pinata day or two - landscaping.
The new land had to be flattened and seeded, and the junk on it had to be busted up for chocolate coins. This got me some much-needed capital for the future rebuilding.
I then destroyed that iteration of Demi's Crotch and sold off its inhabitants on the pinata black market. It was a brilliant, beautiful, and failed social experiment. Now the field where Demi's Crotch had been lies barren, but it is bigger and potentially more satisfying than it was when I first began. And now I shall start anew.
So late last night, I reached level 11 or so and my garden grew in area. I knew this was going to happen eventually, so I had [my garden] Demi's Crotch built up in a modular fashion so the coming expansion wouldn't throw things into chaos.
Unfortunately, the expansion added to the perimeter of the garden, a bit of land on each side. My build plans only took into account the possibility that the land would be given to me in one big chunk, like say another lot to the north. The expansion along the perimeter did throw things into chaos since I was using the original boundary points on the map as the back wall of some cages and pens. In other words, a lot of the friskier and more deranged pinatas escaped. Within moments of the expansion, Demi's Crotch went from something resembling necessary totalitarianism to something much worse: a theatre of battle resembling the near-future race in LA.
I feebly tried to mediate. I beat some of the worst offenders to death, but I had to face the facts: the garden had fallen and would require massive changes. Since so many pinatas were dead and wounded and in the midst of violence, I decided to move into less chilling territory for a pinata day or two - landscaping.
The new land had to be flattened and seeded, and the junk on it had to be busted up for chocolate coins. This got me some much-needed capital for the future rebuilding.
I then destroyed that iteration of Demi's Crotch and sold off its inhabitants on the pinata black market. It was a brilliant, beautiful, and failed social experiment. Now the field where Demi's Crotch had been lies barren, but it is bigger and potentially more satisfying than it was when I first began. And now I shall start anew.