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Choice of Dragon was kinda cool the first time around, but on the second playthrough it seems like your choices don't affect events much. Are the other games the same way or are they better about branching points?
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FF5 is small and replayable. Kind of expensive though, $17 or so. Sometimes like, FF1 goes on sale for $4 or something at this point. Old SE games get cheaper whenever a new one is out.
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Apr 14, 2013 19:39
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Boxman posted:I don't know what you consider "not too much space" or "too expensive", but Lunar: Silver Star Story Touch is a great port of SSSC for $7. Also, if you haven't played it for some dumb reason, The World Ends With You is certainly more expensive than you were hoping at $18, but its literally the best thing Square-Enix has done in, like, a decade, so it really deserves the money. Square Enix produced it, another company made it. That was it is so amazing. Seriously it is one of the best RPG to come out in a decade. The extra content after you have beaten the game is just so perfect  Anyways, Other good rpgs would be: The penny arcade game is pretty great too. I would recommend playing it on hard and treat all battles like a puzzle. Otherwise it gets too easy. It also was just produced by penny-arcade and made by someone else. Which is also why it has its funny moments. Beastie Bay is a fun little city builder/pokemon game. It is free, with IAP to remove ads, so try it out. Dragon Island is kinda similar to the Megami Tensei games, but most like the easier Gameboy color version. Fairune is a fun and 100% free (seriously how is that guy making money?). Very simple, but it has got some decent puzzles. I have had some good stuff about Eternal Legacy, but I haven't played it. Edit: Speaking of Final Fantasy 1 does anyone know how to open the world map? K Shwqa fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Apr 14, 2013 |
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Apr 14, 2013 19:44
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El Hefe posted:Apple would never allow that game to get anywhere near the App Store. This is true. And I know it from personal experience.
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Apr 14, 2013 19:52
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Tiramisu posted:Choice of Dragon was kinda cool the first time around, but on the second playthrough it seems like your choices don't affect events much. Are the other games the same way or are they better about branching points? Choice of Dragon is their first outting, and their most simple. There is some branches if you really look but largely it's just "success" and "failure" with different methods of going about it. The other games are similar but there's a lot more far reaching choices, and some of them go in completely different directions based on your earlier choices, like Choice of Vampire.
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Apr 14, 2013 20:02
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Boxman posted:I don't know what you consider "not too much space" or "too expensive", but Lunar: Silver Star Story Touch is a great port of SSSC for $7. Also, if you haven't played it for some dumb reason, The World Ends With You is certainly more expensive than you were hoping at $18, but its literally the best thing Square-Enix has done in, like, a decade, so it really deserves the money. As excellent a game as it is, TWEWY really doesn't meet the space criterion; it takes up around 2.5 gigs (and I think needs about 4GB of empty space to install). TWEWY's awesome, but it is a beast. e: The App Store says 656 MB. This is a lie.
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Apr 14, 2013 21:43
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:As excellent a game as it is, TWEWY really doesn't meet the space criterion; it takes up around 2.5 gigs (and I think needs about 4GB of empty space to install). TWEWY's awesome, but it is a beast. Funny, I was just about to ask that and that is precisely what I was hoping I wouldn't hear. Does it cheap you out of any game content through the IAP? Very interested in replaying this game sometime soon but really want to know that the £14 is for the whole thing.
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Apr 14, 2013 22:40
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Maybe they somehow made it smaller in an update? I definitely remember it sitting at 2 gigs when I had it installed, too. And I'm seconding that recommendation-- it's totally worth the pricepoint (and it's, by necessity, had a lot of work done to make it playable on something other than a DS-- not a half added port like FFT where they just added touch controls to the menus) and hopefully the storage requirements won't keep you from playing it. Edit: when I played it, right when it came out, there wasnt actually any IAP-- that got added in a later update. All it does, though, is basically let you pay to "cheat"-- I don't think the IAP adds any new content and game progression isn't balanced around it in any way whatsoever. Edit edit: yeah, I doublechecked-- the IAP gives you some extra soundtrack stuff (which is cool I guess), extra money, a stat-boosting food, and extra crafting materials. None of those latter three are new or necessary or give you anything you can't achieve in the game normally, and, again, the game's difficulty and progression was established before IAP ever became an option. goferchan fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Apr 14, 2013 |
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Apr 14, 2013 22:43
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goferchan posted:Maybe they somehow made it smaller in an update? I definitely remember it sitting at 2 gigs when I had it installed, too. And I'm seconding that recommendation-- it's totally worth the pricepoint (and it's, by necessity, had a lot of work done to make it playable on something other than a DS-- not a half added port like FFT where they just added touch controls to the menus) and hopefully the storage requirements won't keep you from playing it. What size is it currently sitting at? I know I'll have an insane amount of trouble getting it to install anything even close to 2gb right now. By the way... Why is that? Games are never as small as the store claims they are and they demand a hell of a lot of extra free space before they are willing to install.
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Apr 14, 2013 22:51
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Shwqa posted:Square Enix produced it, another company made it. That was it is so amazing. Seriously it is one of the best RPG to come out in a decade. The extra content after you have beaten the game is just so perfect TWEWY is worth all the pennies. It is such a fantastic game (on the DS). Make sure you don't buy the Penny Arcade card game. It's a poopy Ascension wannabe. Shwqa is talking about the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness RPG.
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Apr 14, 2013 22:59
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Sad lions posted:What size is it currently sitting at? I don't have it installed now so I can't tell you-- I'm not sure why games end up taking up more space, once installed, than the App Store description (barring those that download extra assets as you play or have IAP that actually requires downloading new content) but the reason they take a lot more space to install initially is simple-- the file you're downloading from the App Store is basically an archived installer. Imagine downloading a 400 megabyte ZIP file, when you unzip it you temporarily need the free space for the ZIP file AND its contents available-- afterwards, you can delete the ZIP file, but not until you've extracted it.
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Apr 14, 2013 23:06
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If you're looking for a non rpg time waster check out Cook Serve Delicious. It's a fantastically well made restaurant owner arcade game. Not sure how old it is Buy new foods, upgrade your current recipes and try not to piss off the health inspector while keeping your restaurants level of buzz as high as you can. There's no real failure state, if you do bad one day you'll just have less customers the next. The lunch and dinner rush can get pretty hectic though.
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Apr 14, 2013 23:10
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Anyone play the new King Cashing 2 chapter? The boss on page 8 is going to take some serious grinding I think. 1700 HP... 
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Apr 14, 2013 23:20
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Sad lions posted:What size is it currently sitting at? On my iPad it's currently 2.4 GB, and the save file is apparently . . . 120 KB  And yeah, the App Store says it's so small because that's the size of the installer that they actually host.
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Apr 14, 2013 23:37
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Thanks for the advice. TWEWY is definitely something I'm going to look at once I upgrade my iDevice to something that will run it and afford the space. I'll check out the other recommendations later.
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Apr 14, 2013 23:43
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TWEWY is as good as everyone says. I bought it a few hours ago when all the talk about it started, and I haven't put it down since. Sitting at home. Playing an iPhone game.
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Apr 15, 2013 01:15
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:TWEWY is as good as everyone says. I bought it a few hours ago when all the talk about it started, and I haven't put it down since. Sitting at home. Playing an iPhone game. Only downside is that there's practically no way to get the Social Pins, outside of knowing someone else with the game on iOS, with the time to sit down and connect to each other. Lost my phone when I was about half way through Really wished I'd backed up my saves for that game. Would have continued on no problem. In fact - Anyone got a couple of saves for it? Would love to get back into it. I was on the 3rd day of the second week. Just after you get access to Tin Pin Slash.
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Apr 15, 2013 01:25
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Vadun posted:If you're looking for a non rpg time waster check out Cook Serve Delicious. It's a fantastically well made restaurant owner arcade game. Not sure how old it is Oh man, I wanted CSD on my phone SO BAD. Thanks, JERK.
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Apr 15, 2013 01:55
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Trillest Parrot posted:Oh man, I wanted CSD on my phone SO BAD. Thanks, JERK. Good news: it's iPad only!
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Apr 15, 2013 01:59
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Cyberbob posted:Only downside is that there's practically no way to get the Social Pins, outside of knowing someone else with the game on iOS, with the time to sit down and connect to each other. According to the update that came out since I completed the game, they've made Mingle PP a lot easier to get and provided alternate ways of obtaining it.
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Apr 15, 2013 02:33
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:TWEWY is as good as everyone says. I bought it a few hours ago when all the talk about it started, and I haven't put it down since. Sitting at home. Playing an iPhone game. I just bought it and the combat system is awesome but boy howdy the main character is reminding me of why I don't play jRPGs much. Does he ever stop being such a mopey little poo poo?
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Apr 15, 2013 03:34
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Vhak lord of hate posted:I just bought it and the combat system is awesome but boy howdy the main character is reminding me of why I don't play jRPGs much. Does he ever stop being such a mopey little poo poo? Yep, he's kinda supposed to be a 13 year old rear end in a top hat in the beginning.
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Apr 15, 2013 03:36
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Vhak lord of hate posted:I just bought it and the combat system is awesome but boy howdy the main character is reminding me of why I don't play jRPGs much. Does he ever stop being such a mopey little poo poo? Yeah, the whole point of the story is how he goes from an insufferable shithead to someone who actually ~learns~ stuff and isn't an rear end in a top hat all the time.
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Apr 15, 2013 03:38
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Vadun posted:If you're looking for a non rpg time waster check out Cook Serve Delicious. It's a fantastically well made restaurant owner arcade game. Not sure how old it is Gunna second this recommendation as well - it's a fantastic game and (I think) completely devoid of IAP! Only downside is that it's iPad-only, but I can't imagine it would control that well on a small phone screen.
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Apr 15, 2013 06:58
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Cyberbob posted:Only downside is that there's practically no way to get the Social Pins, outside of knowing someone else with the game on iOS, with the time to sit down and connect to each other. You get Mingle points by playing Tin Pin Slammer on practice, which sounds like a pain, but both shutdown and Mingle PP "count" at I think a 9:1 ratio of what battle PP is, so you only need about a tenth of the Mingle or Shutdown PP to over-ride battle.
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Apr 15, 2013 07:01
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Vhak lord of hate posted:I just bought it and the combat system is awesome but boy howdy the main character is reminding me of why I don't play jRPGs much. Does he ever stop being such a mopey little poo poo? In the post content he gets to be the best jrpg hero of all time. It is worth the build up. Also that is kinda the point of the plot is that he is a mopey piece of poo poo. Shwqa fucked around with this message at 08:36 on Apr 15, 2013 |
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Apr 15, 2013 08:24
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People who played TWEWY on both DS and iOS - does the iOS version lose something in the switch to 1 screen and clumsier controls? I'm going through this weird phase where I'm only playing games I've already played through for some reason. Is it better to go for it on iPad or iPhone?
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Apr 15, 2013 08:32
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Vice Zoomler Aestro posted:You get Mingle points by playing Tin Pin Slammer on practice, which sounds like a pain, but both shutdown and Mingle PP "count" at I think a 9:1 ratio of what battle PP is, so you only need about a tenth of the Mingle or Shutdown PP to over-ride battle. They do? I also just got this game and it's good to have the bigger res, and I'm okay with the different controls and battle stuff, but gently caress the mingle pp.  I've been playing practice matches forever and they only fill up a teensy part of the bar each time, even assuming I win which is like 60% of the time. At least on the DS I could fudge it with the alien encounters and stuff. And my cell, for some reason.
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Apr 15, 2013 09:13
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:People who played TWEWY on both DS and iOS - does the iOS version lose something in the switch to 1 screen and clumsier controls? I didn't play the DS version, but I found the iPad controls to be really quite good. The partner combat system is greatly different, from what I've read. Here's a wiki page detailing the changes in Solo Remix. Sorry if this isn't really pertinent to your question. Corridor posted:They do? I also just got this game and it's good to have the bigger res, and I'm okay with the different controls and battle stuff, but gently caress the mingle pp. Yeah, you definitely don't have to fill the whole bar with Mingle PP. Tin Pin practice matches only give a pittance per pin, but 1 MPP = 20 BPP (and 1 SPP = 9 BPP). So even though you only get a dozen or so, that handful of MPP outweighs a couple hundred Battle PP. I'm almost certain that the color stripe in a given pin's menu description reflects the adjusted PP ratios, and can be used to quickly see which PP type is dominant.
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:I didn't play the DS version, but I found the iPad controls to be really quite good. The partner combat system is greatly different, from what I've read. Here's a wiki page detailing the changes in Solo Remix. Sorry if this isn't really pertinent to your question. Actually that's a pretty nice summary of how it's been changed, thanks. I'm tempted to get it on iPad over iPhone but I never actually play the games i buy on the iPad for some reason. My phone is always in my pocket so I'll finish something eventually. They also never updated the phone version for an iPhone 5 screen right?
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Apr 15, 2013 09:50
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Quick note, if it follows the DS version, you do not need to max a pin on a single type of experience to evolve it, you simply need to have the majority of the PP be from that type to get the evolution. Caveat, I think, battle PP counts the least in this 'majority', so you don't need over half Mingle if the other half is battle. I could be 100% wrong through, it's been a long time.
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Apr 15, 2013 10:06
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:Yeah, you definitely don't have to fill the whole bar with Mingle PP. Tin Pin practice matches only give a pittance per pin, but 1 MPP = 20 BPP (and 1 SPP = 9 BPP). So even though you only get a dozen or so, that handful of MPP outweighs a couple hundred Battle PP. Oh hey, you're right. When I was filling the gauge with only MPP, the red fraction was tiny, but as soon as I started getting BPP, the red bar shot up to fill like half the bar. I guess the bar only shows the PP in relation to one another. 
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Apr 15, 2013 10:51
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Trillest Parrot posted:Oh man, I wanted CSD on my phone SO BAD. Thanks, JERK. He was working on a CSD port for the iPhone but he says he kept running into clock speed and memory issues on older phones so he abandoned it because he didn't want to piss people off.
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Apr 15, 2013 12:22
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:People who played TWEWY on both DS and iOS - does the iOS version lose something in the switch to 1 screen and clumsier controls? I would go so far as to say the ios one is the definitive version. The basically made partners an extra badge so you can combo without looking at two screens. Plus multi-touch son.
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Apr 15, 2013 12:29
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I'm on a game purchasing rip and have just picked up Organ Trail, Bastion, Devil's Attorney and then got in on the free action with Angry Bird: Star Wars and Epoch. On the fence about Waking Mars and Horn (looks like ICO?) Any RPGs out there that have a battle system similar to Grandia II? Also, any decent simulations along the lines of Rollercoaster Tycoon or Tropico? 89 fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Apr 15, 2013 |
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Apr 15, 2013 13:38
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Corridor posted:Oh hey, you're right. When I was filling the gauge with only MPP, the red fraction was tiny, but as soon as I started getting BPP, the red bar shot up to fill like half the bar. I guess the bar only shows the PP in relation to one another. I think - and it's been a while since I've played - that the amount the bar is colored in is a cue for how much more experience is needed for evolution, and the color is a cue for what PP is dominant. Mingle counts 20 times for dominance, but mingle PP doesn't make a pin evolve 20 times faster.
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Apr 15, 2013 13:50
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Rigonauts: I want to buy it but I'm not sure whether it would play better on Steam (PC) or iOS. Are there any differences between the two versions, do the controls work better in one?
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Apr 15, 2013 14:16
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PC would probably be better but you can't take your desktop computer to the couch.
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Apr 15, 2013 15:02
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Ok, I'm missing something really basic in TWEWY. How do I see what my characters current stats are? When I go to the items menu I can estimate what BRV I'm at by trying different threads, but there has to be a better way.
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Al! posted:He was working on a CSD port for the iPhone but he says he kept running into clock speed and memory issues on older phones so he abandoned it because he didn't want to piss people off. Understandable, I've been trying not to drop $650 to upgrade my iPhone 4 for about 3 weeks now because it's so sluggish. God drat those things are expensive if you don't want to renew your contract.
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