Oh, nice. Haven’t got round to playing it yet but I’m really looking forward to it.
Gendal
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Will have to pick it up because I felt the same way about 3.
nKoan
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Agreed, it’s a good return to form. Definitely worth it if you liked the first two.
Is no one playing FFXV Pocket? I’m a couple of hours into the first chapter and really enjoying it so far.
LeeAbe
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Didn’t even know about it until you mentioned it. Downloaded.
How actiony is the combat?
Kind of hard to describe, but I will try.
You only control one character directly, unlike the original version. You don’t have to manually move from place to place. Tapping a target will take you to it and auto-attack. You can swipe or tap and hold on a target to dash to them. There are lots of QTE-type things: parrying, activating abilities of squad mates, etc. it is active but not (at least so far) frantic. Your character uses different weapons, which you could think of as stances. You tap icons to switch between them freely.
I’d liken it to something like cat quest or crashlands, but more involved/sophisticated. Does that help?
Oh, and if you check in your inventory, there should be a cactuar sword there. It not only looks ridiculous, but is much stronger than anything else you will find early on.
Speaking of MMORPGs, Vendetta Online launched for iPhone in the last few months. It is my gaming spirit animal.
Who was speaking of mmorpgs?
Alto’s Adventure was one of the all-time great timewasters, because of its simple premise, polished and tactile controls, and its stunning atmospheric visuals. Snowboard around, doing backflips, with a series of compelling challenges all along the way.
Alto’s Odyssey is all those things, just moreso. And this time you’re boarding on sand. And vines. And ancient temples. And ships wrecked in the desert. And there’s sunrises and eclipses and sandstorms. Birds and lemurs!
I wasn’t 100% sold on some of the new mechanics, like wall-riding, but I think it was just that they took a little more mastery than I realized at first. (If you’re feeling the same way about wall-riding, don’t lose track of the fact that letting go before you come to the edge of the wall does a wall-jump that boosts you up a bit!)
LeeAbe
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I bought it day one, but even with the wall riding, it just feels like the same old game I played in the first game and Ski Safari. Oh well, happy to give them my $5 for making a quality, premium game on iOS.
Just got an email about preordering some kind of mobile Westworld game. Not much info, wonder what it’s all about?
Eurogamer has a blurb about it, basically Fallout Shelter formula in Westworld style.
The Baldur’s Gate 1.5 game by Beamdog is now also available on ios. Impressive that they got the original cast back, including David Warner as Irenicus.
I was just introduced to Data Wing. It is a very simple topdown racer which feels very good in an Outrun 2 way when you start “nailing” those drifts. The presentation is quite cool. Surprisingly, it is absolutely free, without an ad in view.
Vesper
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Thanks for the recommendation. Just tried Data Wing and it’s really well done.
I played that, mostly because I want to develop a top down 2d racer of my own and was looking for such games to steal ideas from. It’s good, sweet presentation and progression and most importantly good controls.
As for my game I’ll maybe put together a javascript minimalistic version some day. An oval track, timer and little dude ship car you can zip around for a few laps. Features are hard!
jpinard
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Does that work well on a tablet? That’s a lot of clicking I remember. And wow, I so LOVE the voicework in that game!
I didn’t enjoy the game much at the time. Having some pretty serious pain issues, I was going through my purchased games list and decided to give it another try. It totally clicked this time around. I am glad it isn’t a multiplayer game, as I’d have had bad thoughts toward my opponents — those streaks where you just can’t get an aeon out, even when they make almost half your deck!
I just can’t seem to be able to put it down.
Heard about Deep Town from The Besties podcast this month, and while, yeah, it’s basically a free-to-play idle game, it’s a pretty good one. Digging, crafting, some story.
