3721

Stay far away from Puzzle Quest 2. My impressions from another forum:

Puzzle Quest 2 is another programming travesty. It seems like Infinite Interactive will only deal with the most incompetent porting developers.

The loading times are absurd. 5-10 seconds when walking between screens on a 3GS. It’s loading a bitmap and a few sprites for chrissakes… there is absolutely no excuse for it. As crazy as it sounds, it takes less time to load a savegame from the main menu than to traverse between two screens once the game is loaded!

Also, there are 1-2 second pauses everywhere in the game. Cast a spell, pause. Use a weapon, you better believe there’s a pause (up to 3-4 seconds). Match some gems? Yeap, a pause.

Completing a quest is also ridiculous. After the quest complete dialog, it puts you back to the navigation screen and tells you that you need to go somewhere else. But can you go there? Nope. You have to sit there and wait while it displays “300 gold acquired” for about 5 seconds. Then can you go? Nope, another line of text appears telling you how much experience you received for 5 seconds. You tap the screen to try to skip past this information that it took you .2 seconds to digest, and the game actually beeps in complaint. So they register that you want to advance the text, but instead of actually doing it, they make the game yell at you for having the nerve. After looking at these prompts for 10 seconds, they finally go away, and guess what? Another 1 second freeze as the game attempts to place the sprite arrow showing where you need to go to. I guess they couldn’t use that 10 seconds of making you sit around to do the intensive sprite-placement algorithm.

I timed it, and it took 2 minutes to traverse from the front gate of the town to the entrance of the northern dungeon. That’s -4 screens-. 4 bitmaps, 2 minutes to cross them. This is inexcusable.

I then tried to find some of the sub-quests, thinking they were in the first town. Because of the nature of how it’s laid out, there are two places where the path branches. For me to traverse to all 6 screens of the town, it took me 5 minutes.

It’s seriously one of the shoddiest apps I’ve used on the iPhone. And I’ve played some pretty shoddy games on it. Did they program this thing in Visual Basic?

Spark Plug games should be ashamed of themselves.

3722

What does this even mean? “Like Doritos meets Tostitos”! “Like six of one meets a half-dozen of another!”

3723

I’m really enjoying Infinity Blade, even though I’m a long term hater of fight games. The interface is easy as an easy thing and the challenge of trying to improve my timing plus the RPG-ish progression stuff is enough to keep me interested. I hope they get enough money to make more content for this.

3724

So, I downloaded Dungeon Raid, selected new game on normal difficulty, and played all the way to level 100. It’s actually getting easier over time, skeletons took 2 swords to kill for a while, then one sword, and now I can kill most of them with my bare hands.

I realize there’s a harder difficulty, but I’m just going to name myself king of this game and retire, having never known defeat.

Half of my upgrades are on my armor, but if I try to examine it the game crashes. I’m going to call this the kill-screen just to have some sense of closure.

3725

Did you get the update? The new monsters are much tougher.

3726

I’ve never made it past level 6. I’ve been wondering actually, does the game end? Is it possible to win a game?

3727

I think I’m done with it. Like Patrick Stuart, I’ve already seen everything.

I did like the different types of resources, and how they work with stats and abilities though.

3728

But you haven’t seen everything because he just added a bunch of new stuff. Last night I ran into a fucking 50+ hp monster that set all the tiles around him on fire. He attacked me every turn like all the other enemies, plus matching burning tiles damaged me. The regular enemies were still in single-digit health. I died.

3729

Or the touch of a woman.

3730

People are getting to level 100 in Dungeon Raid?

Holy crap. I think the furthest I got is 10, and it was ridiculously difficult at that level.

It’s even harder now with the “special” monsters that were added

3731

I’m with you flyinj - i’ve never gotten past level 6 or so myself.

3732

on easy i got to 10

yikes

3733

So Infinity Blade… I think what’s there is rather great but it really is lacking on content, even with the replay/bloodline mechanic. I kind of feel that there needs to be at least double the number or enemies and sections. They list a bunch of stuff in the Coming Soon icon that would go a ways to rectifying this though, and I hope in that regard we get the Epic of old and these are free updates like we’ve seen on some other iPhone titles.

3734

I am completely new to this area, so please pardon anything that may seem silly for me to be asking. A family member recently purchased an iPad, and I admittedly have hijacked it many times.

I am curious about the Dungeon Hunter 2 game, as I absolutely love any decent action RPG. Has anyone tried this on the iPad? I am still very unclear at times what games can be run on the iPad, or at least is designed for it (doesn’t stretch, or sit in a tiny iphone size window). Have only been at this for a few weeks though so still getting a grasp of things.

Looking forward to Infinity Blade as well!

3735

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3736

Just another thought on Infinity Blade, one thing that I think they got very right with the game is that it’s very much a mobile game. What I mean by this is it’s a game which you can play in very short bursts, which is generally how I favor my mobile gaming. Some of the full on console style games are certainly impressive but generally that’s not what I’m looking for in a mobile game. The graphics also still blow me away a day later.

3737

Mirror’s Edge is a buck, and well worth it.

3738

What the shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

3739

Trailer for Real Racing 2, between this Infinity Blade and Rage the iphone is showing its graphics prowess.

3740

Anyone tried Aralon: Sword and Shadow yet?

I know someone commented that a 30+ hour RPG doesn’t seem well-suited to short phone play sessions, but it’s actually appealing to me if I can get my RPG gaming in 5 or 15 minutes at a time, when I have a moment. As long as you can save anywhere, it seems like it could be fun.