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Azathoth posted:This sounds intriguing, but the "roguelike" part concerns me. Is that just referring to the infinitely generated content? I like that, but don't like the permadeath and rip-your-hair-out difficulty that usually comes with the genre. Thoughts? The permadeath is an enhanced starting option so if you want you can just play it as demon pokemon. It isn't mega difficult esp as without permadeath when you die you go back to the castle and when you go out into a realm it'll be a bit lower level as you've died.
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Siralim is basically Dragon Warrior Monsters meets Disgaea. You build a team of six monsters by "extracting cores" from injured enemies (3 cores gets you a copy of that monster), and every single monster has a unique passive ability. Monster abilities range from "Gives your entire team damage shields every battle" or "When killing an enemy, heal 50% of max hp, take another turn, and gain a buff for 3 turns that gives you multiple hits per attack" to simple buffs like "50% of luck stat is added to attack". It's also got a ridiculous list of character perks for your non-combat main character, equipment for your monsters that levels up and can have its stats upgraded and altererd, a town (castle) that you expand and level up, and even more crap to do. The battles aren't super complicated, monsters can only attack, defend, or provoke (taunt effect that lowers your defense), or spend their turn letting you extract from enemies or cast a spell, or run away. Your monster choice makes a big difference in your strategy, though, so it isn't just spam attack. There are 5 classes for monsters that form a circle of advantage, so your Life monsters do extra damage to Death monsters, but the Death guys are strong against Chaos, and so on. As an example, my team has a Nature guy whose attack bounces to 2 random enemies and does 35% damage to them and bleeds them, so i try to always aim him at a Life monster for the damage boost. Then I have a Life guy who stuns anyone at 100% hp, and a Death monster with the ability I mentioned above where he gets huge buffs when he kills enemies. So rather than just focusing down the worst monster, I'm spreading damage around waiting for my cleanup guy to get 3 extra turns and wipe half the battlefield. This game is everything I've wanted in an RPG. Even the random dungeons are less boring than most games that tout procedural/random levels. You always get a quest in each level that gives a huge chunk of XP, great items, and a perk point for your main character. Each dungeon type has different conditions, like the winter realm can cause monsters to slip and lose their attack, or in the grasslands you might fall in a hunter's trap and get snared. The only black mark I give the game is that virtual gamepad controls typically suck (but if your phone allows it, it adds that little haptic feedback buzz so you know you hit the buttons), and there are still a few bugs (using a consumable that buffs you for the next battle can crash the game, which refreshes your current dungeon floor). Still, holy crap this game has all kinds of hooks in me. SynthesisAlpha fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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The developers of the Reckless Racing games have a new non-racing game out called Space Marshals. It's a tactical top down shooter with some very nice graphics and the iOS version has gotten some pretty great reviews too. You can pick it up for $5.
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SynthesisAlpha posted:
Good post. Relating to that crash though, I tried to replicate it maybe ten times to post the crash report on their forums, but even though it literally happened every item use before and after a reinstall, it completely fixed itself when I tried to do it purpose. 
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Locke Dunnegan posted:Good post. Relating to that crash though, I tried to replicate it maybe ten times to post the crash report on their forums, but even though it literally happened every item use before and after a reinstall, it completely fixed itself when I tried to do it purpose. heisenbug strikes again!
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Lutha Mahtin posted:heisenbug strikes again! That blue meth does strange things...
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I'm really enjoying Space Marshals. The gameplay is really satisfying, especially once you replace your hilariously pathetic starter weapons with more useful ones, and the game gives you incentives to replay levels by offering you multiple unlockables to choose from. The game is also quite challenging with a bit of a leaning curve to get used to its quasi-tactical combat, but thankfully there's a really forgiving checkpoint system in place too. The virtual controls can be fiddly at times though, and although the game seems to encourage stealth, there doesn't seem to be a way to do silent kills so it seems a bit pointless to play that way (to be fair I'm still early on though). Its also a bit of a battery hog and its heated up my phone much more than any other app I've used on it before. Aside from those grumbles, I think its pretty great. It's super polished, has no IAPs and there's at least one more content pack of new levels on the way to add to what's already in the game. mrkillboy fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Apr 11, 2015 |
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Apr 11, 2015 01:38
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 Wayward Souls is the Amazon free app of the day
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I think I've won IOT. It got to a point I couldn't even buy one more level in the Saudi Fields without the game crashing, so I stuck the one specialist on it that makes them go up anyway. When I went to turn the game back on an hour later it just sits there with it's icon in the top left for 5-10 seconds, then goes all black and stops responding. I literally cannot open the app any more. I won.
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dpack_1 posted:I think I've won IOT. So how much money did that end up being? There's actually a physical limit for "all the money", assuming it was similar in size and composition to the linen and plastic sheets we use: around seven Y (yotta, 1024) would fill the observable universe; eight Y would smother it or maybe worse (it'd fit eventually) - and that's four Y more than you could make out of all the stuff in the universe, even if you could fuse it into the proper elements on the spot and assumed Zimbabwe dollars or something. If it's all in ledgers and databases, or the sheets are plastic credit cards rather than wet-weather national bank notes, or you hold with new findings that the physical universe is several orders of magnitude larger than the observable universe (still only a Y and change at the outer limit), you could have quite a bit more. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Apr 11, 2015 |
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Sir Unimaginative posted:So how much money did that end up being? Two rows of Y with a P infront of it.
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Mine is crashing too and I have 306.352 TYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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Apr 11, 2015 13:34
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I let my iot unattended for like 3 weeks... it never opened again
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A port of the original Postal is out on the Amazon App Store. This comes after Google rejected a potential release on the Play Store last week because of "gratuitous violence".
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FadedReality posted:
Thank you kindly good sir. I had been meaning to give it a go, but I never got around to it.
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Is Ticket to Ride any good on mobile, especially if I'm playing on my own? I played the boardgame again last night for the first time in years, and I need more.
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the app is a pretty solid implementation of ttr. there's online and computer players if you are completely friendless and i would say it's completely playable on mobile even for local games w/ pass and play
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dpack_1 posted:Two rows of Y with a P infront of it. Jesus. And I'm still stuck at the part where I'm just trying to get gas well and oil sands to 1800. Ffffff.
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Longbaugh01 posted:Jesus. And I'm still stuck at the part where I'm just trying to get gas well and oil sands to 1800. Ffffff. I had Saudi Fields at around 16000 before it died. Gas Well was around 6700. I have no life.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Is Ticket to Ride any good on mobile, especially if I'm playing on my own? I played the boardgame again last night for the first time in years, and I need more. I played the game both on tablet and phone, and it is definitely enjoyable on. smartphone. I feel the AI gives a reasonable challenge, and as said before you can also play online. Looking into the humble tabletop bundle might be a good idea, since you will get all the DLC (though of course it will also mean you will have Talisman in your library, but you can't have everything).
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Parenthesis posted:I played the game both on tablet and phone, and it is definitely enjoyable on. smartphone. I feel the AI gives a reasonable challenge, and as said before you can also play online. The issue with TTR is that only IOS gets CPU players in pass n play  other than that it's great.
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Hello Siralim players, is there a reason to extract cores from guys after you have enough to summon one? Thanks.
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Update: Siralim is really neat once you get into the dungeons though that first 5 minutes is excruciating, and I suppose I could go read all the books in the library but I'll take any opportunity to double post, so I'll ask here: what's the endgame? How do I Win (don't say 'badly' please). Also the very first guy I fought was a Lich King, so yeah. That's a thing.
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MPLS to NOLA posted:Update: Siralim is really neat once you get into the dungeons though that first 5 minutes is excruciating, and I suppose I could go read all the books in the library but I'll take any opportunity to double post, so I'll ask here: what's the endgame? How do I Win (don't say 'badly' please). In the app description it states there is no end. Just keep leveling or whatever.
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I completely missed the word 'Disgaea' from the Siralim plug post earlier. I feel a little ill.Locke Dunnegan posted:In the app description it states there is no end. Just keep leveling or whatever. No. Absolutely not
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MPLS to NOLA posted:Hello Siralim players, is there a reason to extract cores from guys after you have enough to summon one? Thanks. No reason unless you wanna create a nether version of that creature? MPLS to NOLA posted:Update: Siralim is really neat once you get into the dungeons though that first 5 minutes is excruciating, and I suppose I could go read all the books in the library but I'll take any opportunity to double post, so I'll ask here: what's the endgame? How do I Win (don't say 'badly' please). As Locke Dungeon said there is no game end, just stop when you want to.
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you must have missed all the posting about cookie clicker etc, it there's one thing goons are bad at its stopping when they want
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I wouldn't say I 'missed' it, you lowercase auspol reprobate, I'm agitated because someone crammed f2p nonsense on an otherwise good frame !
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MPLS to NOLA posted:I wouldn't say I 'missed' it, you lowercase auspol reprobate, I'm agitated because someone crammed f2p nonsense on an otherwise good frame ! Isn't the only IAP an unlock to go past level 15? That seems reasonable. I think that would be a decent trend. That essentially reverts to a shareware model.
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MPLS to NOLA posted:I wouldn't say I 'missed' it, you lowercase auspol reprobate, I'm agitated because someone crammed f2p nonsense on an otherwise good frame ! Yeah, don't get the wrong idea (if 1337kutkufan6969 :sotasty: is on the money with that guess), the infinite gameplay model isn't the lovely Candy Crush or Farmville exploitation stuff; it's just that the love that clearly went into the old school style pokemon-meets-FF1 (sorta?) didn't extend to making a coherent story to play through. Think of it as a lack of funding, not psychologically precise sociopathic greed fuckery. I'm strongly considering buying it and I'm stupid poor just to support a mobile dev that clearly loves good games for the gameplay instead of how much money they can trick you out of. EDIT: wtf where's our Monster Hunter emote? Is it just a clan tag? 
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Hearthstone is now available on android phones... good luck everyone doing anything else. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blizzard.wtcg.hearthstone
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It's been up for a while, just a warning: It makes my N7 2013 cry for help. It's incredibly resource hungry.
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No, this update makes it available for phones. Not just tablets.
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It's been out on tablets for awhile. The phone version is today. Pretty cool, but yeah it's going to tank battery life and it's not async multiplayer which makes it more annoying to do mobile. Good potential lunch or commute game though!
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Anybody looking for a good pool game should give Pool Break Pro a look. Lots of different variations of billiards, with Carrom and Crokinole thrown in as well, it's got online or hotseat multiplayer in addition to playing against the CPU, only a dollar right now, no IAP! There's a trial version too, but for a dollar I jumped right in and I like it a lot.
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I installed Hearthstone. Doesn't run super well on my Nexus 4, but hopefully there will be some performance tweaks. It gave me a free pack for playing a game on an Android phone. I opened it and found  Ragnaros For those who don't play, it's a really good, really rare card. Not something I was expecting at all 
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Its weird. I had hearthstone on my tablet. No idea what account. Tried on my phone and logged into one email that had barely any progress and the other email I use was on the tutorial. Logged out on the tablet because I thought it would show what account I used but now in the same boat....what?
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Lutha Mahtin posted:I installed Hearthstone. Doesn't run super well on my Nexus 4, but hopefully there will be some performance tweaks. It gave me a free pack for playing a game on an Android phone. I opened it and found Lots of people in the Hearthstone thread have been pulling Legendaries out of their free iPhone/Android packs, I got Al'Akir myself 
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I got some Doomsayer. It runs on my Nexus 5. Likes to slow down though. I don't really know how to play though.
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