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SpclKen posted:Infinity Blade is really good! I think I am going to buy Infinity Blade Two because of how much I enjoyed 1 for free. I thought someone mentioned IB Dungeons, but I don't see that in the App Store. Is that for iPad only or is that even a game? It's not a game and is a huge shitstorm because Epic closed down the studio that was developing it.
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Ok, Legit Real Racing 3 talk: 1) I have an iPad 3. I find the "performance" of the game (read: Framerate) to be, oh, just a hair south of acceptable. It stutters a lot. 2) This is definitely made LESS acceptable, when you compare it to your experiences on an iPhone 5 (almost never hitches, very rock solid.) 3) Not that I'll likely still be playing this then, but given the tilt steering, and the beefy processing needed, this game would be basically IDEAL on some future version of the iPad Mini that runs better processors and such. Good size/weight for Tilting, and hopefully no chugging. Does this game support iCloud, multiple device profiles?
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Feb 15, 2013 20:00
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Feenix posted:Good size/weight for Tilting, and hopefully no chugging. That's disgusting.
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Feb 15, 2013 20:07
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Feenix posted:It is an un-game now. Admittedly, there is more story/content in IB games than in most freemium stuff, but it's still pretty thin, on about the same level narratively as any fighting game. Also, I saw this article on the Penny Arcade Report a couple days ago, which was kind of interesting. It compares the current state of F2P games with IAP to amusement parks, which started evolving from microtransactions (tickets) entirely to one-price "bracelet" admission systems a couple dozen years ago. Overall the trend was that the parks made more money with one-price admissions than they ever did with tickets. I think it's an interesting comparison, especially when you note the people who disdain all IAP except currency doublers, timer halvers, etc. which are "one-time" purchases. That being said, the analogy to amusement parks is kind of a hollow one. There's a finite, discernible amount of rides in an amusement park, and you can clearly see what they are like and ask people coming off of them about their experience. The park can also still make money off of concessions and skill games, which is essentially just real-life IAP to "round out" your amusement park experience.
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Feb 15, 2013 20:12
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I don't seem to be seeing updated timers in RR3. Repairs still take time although servicing takes a bit less time I think. Did they reverse the change?
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Feb 15, 2013 20:29
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radge posted:I don't seem to be seeing updated timers in RR3. Repairs still take time although servicing takes a bit less time I think. Did they reverse the change? They reduced everything by 2/3 it seems to me, if they did remove repair timers they put them back in again but at the lower rate. I don't know if upgrades have changed as I have nothing I can afford to do atm on the only car that isn't maxxed. Starting at the back on a fairly short race sucks pretty hard, by the time you've had to crashem smashem your way through the field the leaders are usually way too far in front for you to have a chance to catch them.
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Feb 15, 2013 20:32
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Fazana posted:They reduced everything by 2/3 it seems to me, if they did remove repair timers they put them back in again but at the lower rate. As of this morning, Repairs are still instant to me. Services take time (but less).
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Feb 15, 2013 20:42
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Feenix posted:As of this morning, Repairs are still instant to me. Services take time (but less). In the interests of  I just took the Focus for a spin and ended up with 6 repairs needed at the end of the race after using the other cars as braking points. 2minutes 15 seconds worth. I *think* that's a third of what it was when I played last night but I'm not 100% certain. Still peanuts, repairs weren't the big hassle. Or at least not for a start but eventually I was racking them up every race as you have no choice but to bump and grind to get anywhere in a 22 car field in a 2-3 minute race.
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Feb 15, 2013 20:52
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Fazana posted:In the interests of Are you not near internet or something? Sometimes the game updates when you launch it. Repairs are instantaneous. (for me.) As in, press the button, and a sound goes off and you are repaired. SERVICING still takes time. That said, I just did dumb poo poo. I assumed the timers could run concurrently. So I had a 30 minute service and was like, ok might as well also do any other <30 minute servicing. Sure enough, I didn't realize they queue. (Which makes sense, sadly.)
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Feb 15, 2013 21:14
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I'm still waiting for Phoenix Wright, I want to play that so bad.
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Feb 15, 2013 21:14
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SpclKen posted:Infinity Blade is really good! I think I am going to buy Infinity Blade Two because of how much I enjoyed 1 for free. I thought someone mentioned IB Dungeons, but I don't see that in the App Store. Is that for iPad only or is that even a game? IB2 is a great game if you like the system in the first one. Improves the first one in every way including the addition of Troy Baker as a voice actor for the main character  .IB dungeons however, was just cancelled and I am very sad. Both for Impossible Games who was developing it (ex-38 studios people who got another shot  ) and because I want a good dungeon crawler on the ipad.
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Feb 15, 2013 21:21
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Feenix posted:Are you not near internet or something? Sometimes the game updates when you launch it. Repairs are instantaneous. (for me.) Yup, I've been rerolling P&D JP version a big chunk of today including just now and have an ongoing chat window with my son while I help him diagnose some trouble with his PC  I *think* each of the three types run consecutively within their own tree but concurrently with the other groups. I get "Focus is repaired" notifications which are essentially useless as it will still be sat in servicing etc. I forgot to mention I'm running it on an ipad3 and whilst I see the odd stutter I've been pretty impressed at how well it runs with how many cars can be onscreen and the level of detail on some of the tracks. I don't have anything to compare it to though, a friend has an ipad4 and he was really raving about it.
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Fazana posted:Yup, I've been rerolling P&D JP version a big chunk of today including just now and have an ongoing chat window with my son while I help him diagnose some trouble with his PC Actually, I killed everything (including RR3) and restarted and yes, now Repairs take time and must be queued. Not MUCH time, but time.
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Feb 15, 2013 21:28
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Kepa posted:Closest thing I could figure out was that Lite versions used to really flood the App Store. Every game had a lite version. And it seems people just got tired of all these demos, with Lite getting a negative connotation, so they stopped downloading them completely. This was it for me. When I got my first iOS device I grabbed a bunch of particularly crummy Lite versions. Tons of ad spam for other titles by the publishers, less than five minutes of gameplay if any gameplay at all, etc. It was way more of a headache than it was worth to decide if I wanted to spend a buck. Bummey hit on a big part of the problem earlier, I have such a huge backlog of titles that went free/I got on sale it drives the standards for a full price sale up to an unreasonable level. I've barely started Dungelot, Dungeon Story, Dragon Island, Scribblenauts, Ticket to Ride Pocket and Europe, Bard's Tale, Song Guru, Radballs, Can't Stop, War on Terror, Titus, all the EA holiday stuff and more, all titles that were free. I also have stuff I picked up on sale like the full Summoner Wars unlock, all the Ascension expansions, Nightfall, 10000000, PvZ, Adventure Bar Story and more. So the first challenge for any developer wanting to get a full price sale from me is to create something so compelling I absolutely must play it before all of those titles, and anything that might go free in the meantime. No wonder it's such an uphill battle to monetize good iOS games.
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Feb 15, 2013 22:05
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Bottom Liner posted:What is your strategy to break the game like that? I'm pretty bad at it. "Broken" is a strong word.  Yet sometimes it applies. (Good to know: Attack power can go over 1000, it just truncates the display. Health tops out at 999, so I will likely be dying soon as ninjas are popping up with 160 attack and such, and sooner or later I will run out of spells.)
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Feb 15, 2013 22:14
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Boxman posted:Cytus is also on sale for just a buck, and I think there's at least 20 songs there without having to pay to unlock more. I haven't tried DJ max, but Cytus is a blast. Cytus has 42 songs out of the box and 20 more available as IAP. (The IAP would run you ten bucks though. It's kind of an odd deal.) They are also doing a really weird thing where they are planning to have a total of 100 songs and every 100k purchases of the game makes another set of IAP songs free. Or maybe it's 10 new IAP songs every 100k players? Their wording is not great but they have dreams of getting a million players across all platforms and having 100 songs out of the box.
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Feb 15, 2013 22:27
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Det_no posted:Cytus has 42 songs out of the box and 20 more available as IAP. (The IAP would run you ten bucks though. It's kind of an odd deal.)
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Feb 15, 2013 22:35
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loudog999 posted:Is anyone else playing that Need for Speed game that IGN gave away a few days ago. It was posted in this thread, which is how I learned of it, and I am have so much fun with it now. It really is the reason I became interested in Real Racing 3, now Real Racing 2 instead, because it shows the iPad is an awesome device for racing games. I've been playing Need for Speed and I enjoy it. Have you logged into their GameCenter alternative? It's a little lonely with only my name on the leader boards and I wanted to know if that was a big hassle to sign up for?
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Feb 15, 2013 22:37
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JazzFlight posted:Yeah, that million thing is going to take forever. Consider how long it took them to just get to 100k. I just bought the two dlc packs to support them. I honestly don't think they'll ever manage but the game is pretty drat good and a great deal even without the discount going on right now.
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Owlkill posted:So am I missing something with this Pixel People gold exploit? I'm supposed to move a building and then move it back and the amount of gold coming in should increase? I've been trying this and mine just seems to stay at a pretty steady rate. It's basically like adding an identical building to your village, so if you move around a 10 CPS building you're not going to notice it much. When I moved around my 208 CPS Town Square I was able to hit 100k CPS pretty quickly. By the end of a day leaving the app open on my iPad I had over a billion coins. And now I'm pretty much done with the game. This glitch has to be costing them money; I'm surprised the last patch didn't fix it. MissMarple posted:And don't move Residential because I have a suspicion that fixes it. Not true. Going back to the home screen fixes it but one time I accidentally swiped between apps and when I went back to the game it was still glitched.
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El Hefe posted:I'm still waiting for Phoenix Wright, I want to play that so bad. It's been a long year since we've heard any news.
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How does Horn compare to Infinity Blade II? I know they both use the Unreal engine, and have a similar combat system.
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ChocNitty posted:How does Horn compare to Infinity Blade II? I know they both use the Unreal engine, and have a similar combat system. I haven't played Horn, but I've seen the gameplay and Horn is much more RPG-like. You're actually running around, clearing obstacles, and moving around in the world. Combat looks to be a bit more varied in Horn as well, but the general idea's the same as IB2. The only gameplay in IB2 is the combat, and tapping to move from one background to the next for more combat (if you want to get specific, the gem timers kind of count as "gameplay"). I can't say if Horn is actually a good game or not but reviews seem pretty positive.
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Feb 16, 2013 03:57
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Anyone else playing TNNS? It's pretty loving cool but hard as hell.
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Feenix posted:Ok, Legit Real Racing 3 talk: It totally runs ragged on my iPad 3 - stuttering, and hitching. And not just when I get a notification. I like the Time Shifted Multiplayer - much better than AI that follows a racing line no matter what.
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Feb 16, 2013 04:28
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Ascendancy is 99 cents now.
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hadji murad posted:Ascendancy is 99 cents now. What is it? The description assumes I already know what the game is.
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Feb 16, 2013 06:31
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Port of a PC 4x game with unique art. Solid buy at $1 if you like the genre.
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How well does the interface work on an iPod Touch?
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porktree posted:I'm re-evaluating my opinion, the instant repairs, and reduced maintenance time let me play as long as I'd like. I've picked up some other cars and am at 50% on Pure Stock, and with the new balance I can see this being fun again. Are you Bill A.? Scourge of my TSM? 
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Flame112 posted:How well does the interface work on an iPod Touch? 
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According to http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPad/Final+Fantasy+Tactics%3A+The+War+of+the+Lions/news.asp?c=48587 the Android port of FFT has updated graphics and a redesigned touch interface. Why I'm linking the story is that it also says they will be putting these features into the iphone/ipad version "pretty soon." They are already on discounted sale on the Japanese store so perhaps that will happen here as well to coincide with the update. 
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I'm looking for either something Pokemon-y or Fire Emblam/X-COM-y to play on my iPad. Are there some must-plays in either of those genres?
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Coq au Nandos posted:I'm looking for either something Pokemon-y or Fire Emblam/X-COM-y to play on my iPad. Are there some must-plays in either of those genres? There's a WIP xcom clone I forget the name of. Alien Invasion maybe? Otherwise, Ravenmark and the Hunters series come highly recommended.
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eeenmachine posted:Freemium Frog loving was the true sign of the iOS gaming apocalypse. loving isn't free  Played a bit of Sky Gamblers, seems pretty decent so far. Anybody know if the WW2 flavor of it is any good?
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Thirst Mutilator posted:There's a WIP xcom clone I forget the name of. Alien Invasion maybe? Otherwise, Ravenmark and the Hunters series come highly recommended. http://appshopper.com/games/aliens-versus-humans As far as Pokemans, the two to look at seem to be http://appshopper.com/games/dragon-island-blue and this one http://appshopper.com/games/zuko-monsters popped up a couple of weeks ago, not tried it yet though.
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Fazana posted:According to http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPad/Final+Fantasy+Tactics%3A+The+War+of+the+Lions/news.asp?c=48587 the Android port of FFT has updated graphics and a redesigned touch interface. Why I'm linking the story is that it also says they will be putting these features into the iphone/ipad version "pretty soon." They are already on discounted sale on the Japanese store so perhaps that will happen here as well to coincide with the update. Here's hoping the update doesn't include a bunch of IAP to unlock jobs as well 
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Ursine Asylum posted:Here's hoping the update doesn't include a bunch of IAP to unlock jobs as well I'd pay a couple bucks to get access to even more jobs. I'm a total addict for job-based RPGs though.
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Feenix posted:Are you Bill A.? Scourge of my TSM? I am, I can only assume you are the oddly accented Feenix. I am not sure how to change back to porktree other than unhitching it to my faux face book account.
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