Not to sound too bitter but why are the HD versions nearly twice the price?
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The iOS Gaming Thread December 2012: Santa touched me somewhere weird.
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Not to sound too bitter but why are the HD versions nearly twice the price?
It's a shame I already own them all. Lol
McKeeverFever
Banned
Finally gonna buy Espgaluda HD.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Espgaluda 2 HD =/
I think I'll just get both Bug Princess games and be done with it.
This is starting to get really annoying. All of these premium priced games finally dropping, I really don't need to buy them but can't resist.
Chrono Trigger, TWEWY, Dodon Pachi Maximum, Stark Trek - Pinball Arcade Table. Plus Baldur's Gate and Vice City. I need a bigger iPhone.
Chrono Trigger, TWEWY, Dodon Pachi Maximum, Stark Trek - Pinball Arcade Table. Plus Baldur's Gate and Vice City. I need a bigger iPhone.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Or Canada...
I guess because they can get away with it. The only other option is to import it from Japan for X360 which will probably cost you a bit more than $10
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
The saves carry over your decisions. Otherwise you will get a made up number of decisions until the episode.
Wow, still no Bug Princess 2 Black Label. That game's never gone on sale and it's quite overpriced at $14 (it's not HD, btw). If they drop it to around $5, I'll buy it. Otherwise, no sale.
a secret-boss
Banned
King of Dragon Pass also went down to 7.99
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
The only ones I need are the HD releases, but $11 each? Hahaha. No.
Solideliquid
Member
Are FF IV saves in the cloud?
So, heads up on more free stuff...
For US residents only, our monetization partner Kiip are running a "25 days of Xmas" promotion where every day this month they are pushing premium rewards into a Kiip enabled game or app. This is in addition to the usual stuff you get.
Reward days for our games are
21 Dec - Slam Dunk King
23 Dec - Into the Dead
24 Dec - OREO: Twist, Lick, Dunk
The "day" runs from midnight to midnight EST.
Prizes include
- Assassins Creed III on PS3/360
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II (not sure on platforms)
- Dark Knight Rises DVDs
- The Amazing Spiderman DVDs
- $5 Amazon gift vouchers
- $20 AMC gift vouchers
- $20 Regal Cinemas vouchers
- Kindle Paperwhites
- Nerf guns
- Jawbone JAMBOXs
- SKLZ Pro Mini Basketball Hoops
- The Walking Dead S1 DVD (Into the Dead only)
- "So Now You're A Zombie" guidebook (Into the Dead only)
All you have to do is play (for SDK you want over 1,000 points in a round, for Into the Dead you want to be completing missions or running over 2,000m). The more you play and achieve, the more likely you are to pick up a prize, though you are limited to one prize from the above.
Some pretty cool prizes there I think. You can keep an eye out for each daily app receiving premium rewards at http://www.facebook.com/Kiip
For US residents only, our monetization partner Kiip are running a "25 days of Xmas" promotion where every day this month they are pushing premium rewards into a Kiip enabled game or app. This is in addition to the usual stuff you get.
Reward days for our games are
21 Dec - Slam Dunk King
23 Dec - Into the Dead
24 Dec - OREO: Twist, Lick, Dunk
The "day" runs from midnight to midnight EST.
Prizes include
- Assassins Creed III on PS3/360
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II (not sure on platforms)
- Dark Knight Rises DVDs
- The Amazing Spiderman DVDs
- $5 Amazon gift vouchers
- $20 AMC gift vouchers
- $20 Regal Cinemas vouchers
- Kindle Paperwhites
- Nerf guns
- Jawbone JAMBOXs
- SKLZ Pro Mini Basketball Hoops
- The Walking Dead S1 DVD (Into the Dead only)
- "So Now You're A Zombie" guidebook (Into the Dead only)
All you have to do is play (for SDK you want over 1,000 points in a round, for Into the Dead you want to be completing missions or running over 2,000m). The more you play and achieve, the more likely you are to pick up a prize, though you are limited to one prize from the above.
Some pretty cool prizes there I think. You can keep an eye out for each daily app receiving premium rewards at http://www.facebook.com/Kiip
Max Payne plays well, especially after the shoot+aim update.
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GUYS. Which Cave titles are high-def? By that I mean, at least Retina for 4S, if not iPad 3.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Cave shmups are on sale in US / Canada now. http://www.cave-world.com/en/sp/winter-sale/
Leona Lewis
Banned
Square-Enix on iOS in general is a case study in awful decision-making. It's like they draw names out of a hat to determine what to release next, regardless of what the fans actually want.
Actually, that describes their strategy regardless of platform.
I fucking love Bastion, stick it in me!
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Super Monsters Ate My Condo! is free atm.
Beat Runner is out and looks pretty awesome.
Trailer
Gonna grab it after the holiday sales die down.
Trailer
Gonna grab it after the holiday sales die down.
StarCreator
Member
Cave's primary business is making these games, and they've been doing it for well over a decade. The prices their products command are therefore a direct valuation of the company as a whole; no company is going to drop their flagship product to pennies to the dollar, because that would effectively devalue the company itself as a whole. And fans of the genre don't regard them as the masters of their craft for nothing.
Remember, these games command the equivalent of $80 each on the Xbox 360 in Japan, and they clearly sell well enough that there's still more coming next year.
Only Espgaluda II HD, Dodonpachi Resurrection HD, and maybe Dodonpachi Maximum (and that's sort of a toss-up).
I'd have no problems with it being $14 if it came out before Bug Princess 2, so that I didn't buy Bug Princess 2 first.
LumpOfCole
Member
Pinball Arcade, I love you, but these UI Photoshop jobs....... Please. This is layer effect abuse.
It's not a traditional FF. It's a strategy RPG using FF liberties. No walking around, everything is done in cut scenes and turn based strategy battles.
Leona Lewis
Banned
Fewer frames of animation to draw, creates a lively sense of activity on what are largely static environments, etc.
I meant the animation while units are standing still, not the gameplay.
Too lively I'd say, lol.
Also, just found out Hunters 2 doesn't support retina on ipad. Looks pixelated as all hell, especially when you zoom out. Great game, but this lack of retina crap needs to stop.
I also played Knights of Pen n Paper a bit. It's really fun, but the jungle is kicking my ass. What exactly is broken in this update apart from weird text bubbles?
Cool I won a $1 amazon card on my first game. Do we only get one prize/day?
RedAssedApe
Banned
At least it looks like they are starting to change this? FFIV was just released this week and its universal.
Aw man I got the silly basketball hoop. This is awesome though, it got me back into playing Slam Dunk King (still a genius name).
Yeah, you can only get one Kiip reward a day. Not sure whether you can skip individual offers to try for something else. Will try to confirm that.
I was thinking that too, but 2-4 weeks means everyone will be gone for the holidays. Oh well, here's to getting a Kindle on Into the Dead.
I was thinking that too, but 2-4 weeks means everyone will be gone for the holidays. Oh well, here's to getting a Kindle on Into the Dead.
So how many credit card applications am I going to get by giving them my address?
I only check my mail like once a week as it is.. Oh well. Free hoops.MrGame&Watch
Member
I wish I could give out codes for the games I work on, but they're all free to play!
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
Are you suppossed to get a popup or something? Been playing slam dunk king but I don't see anything. I think I am missing something
For Slam Dunk King you either need to level up or get over 1,000 points in Arcade mode in order to get a chance of a reward coming up.
And of course, the special prizes are US only.
nub said:
Hmmm normally you are only supposed to be able to redeem 1 Kiip reward a day. Maybe with this special promotion you can win more? Did you redeem both though?
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
Ah, arcade mode. Thanks.
Dog Problems
Banned
Hundreds, Ridiculous Fishing, more Cave releases.
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