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The iOS Gaming Thread December 2012: Santa touched me somewhere weird.
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Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Ghost Trick updated with some minigame.
Exentryk
Member
Has Ghost Trick ever been on sale? I want to buy all the chapters, but waiting for a price drop. Also, is this mini game free or after you have the whole game?
Speaking of P&D, I wonder why it's not available on the UK store? Had to get it from the US store :/
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
I've been enjoying Most Wanted, it's pretty great for the price (0,89), the first racer I've enjoyed on iPad2 since Real Racing 2. The controls are pretty good though with less options (you can't map a manual gas pedal for example, the nitro can't be mapped to anything but swipe up with breaking and drifting also not mappable to anything other than tap/hold on the left/right of the screen respectively). I can't seem to hold the car steady in the center or make minor adjustments as easily as in Real Racing 2 and the art style sometimes makes it hard to see what turns are coming ahead. There's also no interior camera, just third person and bumper. That's about all the issues I have noticed. Oh, and I guess there's no multiplayer beyond comparing times in events or something, I haven't tried to explore that. The frame rate seems okay on iPad2 too, steady if not great, the game looks and controls pretty good and there seems to be a decent amount of cars, tracks and events so I'm happy with it.
Not that I know of, because I've been wanting to buy the full game too. C'mon Apple, release a new iPad mini already. I'll buy it.
Also yeah I hate how I always feel like I'm doing the wrong thing in P&D. I was enjoying it more when I was blindly playing it how I wanted, now I'm trying to conform to all these rules and considering starting over my level 16 account just for a better starting monster, etc. I restarted on iPad and got an awesome 5* two-element one so I dunno what do do with that. I really want to make a red team but the one I got was green/blue.
This probably won't help but for those who have Apple keyboards, Apple does issue replacement USB extender cables for those (to 'replace' the bundled extension cable) which are fully usable with all iOS devices.
Never before, but looks like it's on sale now. You can buy the full game for $8 instead of $10 until 1/11.
Score would be so awsome if you could see videoclips of the real goals as well
Oh wow, Ghost Trick all chapters IAP is indeed on sale (down from $10), alfrednever.gif am cry.
Tried the mini-game, such a random update. It's a sliding puzzle with a moving picture that lets you select the difficulty. Three different pictures to choose from. According to the description you need to clear the game at least once to unlock it, so you need to have all the chapters in order to play it. Thankfully I had my save backed up (and the app, since it's on the huge side). Took some screencaps:
I can vouch for the iPhone version being good and I heard the iPad one is fine too, so it depends on where you plan to be playing it. SE went down the asshole route with this one and made it so you can't play the iPhone version on the iPad, which is weird since their following big port-release turned out to be universal (FFIV).
toythatkills
Member
Score was kind of annoying. You'd get two stars then do almost exactly the same thing and get three stars because you managed to pass a pixel to the left or something. So many times it happened I just got sick of it because it seemed almost random in the end as to what it actually wanted.
Got it for free, so I'm uust playing through it once remembering all the great momenta. Gave up three starring everything early in the game
StarCreator
Member
You don't really have a choice in the matter since the iPhone version won't install on iPad and vice versa.
toythatkills
Member
Yeah, I can't ignore three stars when three stars are there to get :lol
I think I'd have probably had a lot of fun with it if it weren't for that, but they just sapped all the enjoyment from it and it felt more like work.
Maybe not exactly the same, but Adventure Bar Story is pretty good. (Might be Korean though?
)chickdigger802
Banned
It's a port of a Japanese psp game.Maybe not exactly the same, but Adventure Bar Story is pretty good. (Might be Korean though?
I enjoyed it as well. Felt a bit like recateer
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Recettear. Or Rocketeer, not sure which you mean
Damn, that's a lot of JRPGS.
Check out Cthulhu Saves the World. It's quite fun and humorous.
StarCreator
Member
So it's almost 2013. Who's got the January OT?
Not it.
Not it.
Diablohead
Member
I just had to ask apple for a one time bump on my iTunes Connect app name reserve, so this means that my game will finally be released... sometime in the next 180 days. Need to pull my finger out.
a secret-boss
Banned
Thanks for the heads up. Buying it
Oh wow, Ghost Trick all chapters IAP is indeed on sale (down from $10), alfrednever.gif am cry.
Tried the mini-game, such a random update. It's a sliding puzzle with a moving picture that lets you select the difficulty. Three different pictures to choose from. According to the description you need to clear the game at least once to unlock it, so you need to have all the chapters in order to play it. Thankfully I had my save backed up (and the app, since it's on the huge side). Took some screencaps:
I can vouch for the iPhone version being good and I heard the iPad one is fine too, so it depends on where you plan to be playing it. SE went down the asshole route with this one and made it so you can't play the iPhone version on the iPad, which is weird since their following big port-release turned out to be universal (FFIV).
Snkfanatic
Banned
Finally picked up Pen and Paper holy crap I am addicted. A steal for a dollar, just wish it had cloud saving.
OK so now I am just grinding. But I loose stamina so fast. Whats the best way to grind so I can keep playing?
PittaGAF
Member
Always wondered the same.
Ravenmark does that too.
Not that I complain...I wish every game did that (so I could delete and reinstall at will).
EleventhDoctor
Banned
Cut the Rope does this too.
toythatkills
Member
It's probably not iCloud. A lot of games save stuff on their own servers and tie your progress to your Game Center account, for example.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
But Ghost Trick English localization is great...
But I want to play the puzzles in Japanese. Sorry, I don't buy (at least try not to buy, the AppStore on the iPhone doesn't list languages like iTunes does, so occasionally one slips through) games where the publisher locks the localization to a region. It's a similar stance to those who don't by games that aren't universal.
StarCreator
Member
You're free to switch to a Japanese iTunes account and make your purchase there instead. It released nearly a year before the International version did, even.
Are the IAP locked so that I would need to pay inflated prices on an "imported" iTunes card? Or can I switch to my US account when buying the IAP and they will work in the Japanese release?
Yep. I got a divine azure mask from the pal machine today, was shocked. Need it too since I'm doing a grass/dark dragon team (no idea why an azure mask is green...).
StarCreator
Member
The Japanese version is exclusive to the Japanese App Store so you would have to make the purchase in yen.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
I reached the part of Puzzle & Dragons where it stops being a fun little Pokemon + Bejeweled mashup and turns into a hellspawn demon bent on showing you the true meaning of despair.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Yeah I play iOS games to escape from my girlfriend not emulate her.
Unless the AppStore takes 現金 or suica, looks like I'm out of luck, no way in hell am I paying a 70% markup to get someone to type in the code on a gift card, that's what I figured. Thanks anyway.
EleventhDoctor
Banned
*High Five*
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
This needs to find its way into the next OT. Preferably the title. (replace girlfriend with partner, if necessary.)
Jan 13 OT title
EleventhDoctor
Banned
So what do I do with this?
That's exactly what it says it is. "Enhance material." Use it to power up your other monsters in power-up fusion. It's pretty worthless for anything else, like evolution material is for anything not dealing with evolve fusion.So what do I do with this?
EleventhDoctor
Banned
But you can only use it with certain monsters? When I choose to evolve, no one is eligible.
Since the game is free, the stamina system is intended to limit the playtime and hopefully act as a source of income for the developers. Just play as you would and take breaks to regain your stamina.
Metal dragons grant a large amount of exp. Even more so if you can fuse them with the same element. Every day there is a metal dragon dungeon that spawns every 5 hours and they can grant a huge amount of exp. Just check the special dungeon every hour until you see it and it'll appear again 5 hours from then.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Guys I love you but you HAVE to get an OP for this game you're all talking about. It's bewildering.
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