“My nephew wandered into the mines, and I am afraid that the Goblin King has captured him. If you rescue him, I will give you this ring and you will earn 100 experience points.”
Do you accept?
Why?
The mines are northeast of town.
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And we have a late leader for Qt3 Analogy of the Year. Nice.
Going by your criteria practically any RPG is reminiscent of WoW. It’s a bullshit comparison that’s both misleading and misrepresentative of what the game actually is.
I have to wonder if Tracy Baker has ever read or used a comparison or understands their purpose.
Right back atcha, buckaroo.
Cos Aralon has a lot going for it that is similar to WoW, systemswise, combatwise, questwise. And while it may not be (and most certainly is not) as ambitious, beautiful, or successful in its various goals as WoW, it is very clear that WoW is its primary source of inspiration. As such referencing WoW is a perfectly reasonable point of reference to use when describing the fucking game.
Its systems, combat, and quests are similar to any generic RPG released in the last twenty years. Your decision to compare it to WoW brings in all sorts of other baggage that Aralon can’t carry.
Jesus, man. Did the creators of Aralon shit in your gas tank, or are you just this much of a twit all day long?
Mind telling me where I attacked the devs? I said Aralon is a decent game on it’s own merits. My problem is with you acting like it’s Pocket WoW, which it ain’t.
I’m quite enjoying Aralon, though it’s more than a bit buggy on a 2nd generation iPod Touch (though to be fair, they’re pretty clear that it wasn’t tested on that device). It’s certainly interesting; lots of variety of monsters to fight (with their own specials), lots of weapons to fiddle with, tons of loot, which is further customizable with attribute runes, etc.
However, save every freaking time you can. Game crashes a lot (though again, that’s on my 2nd gen iPod Touch). And the game lacks refinement; for example, when adding an attribute rune to an item, it will let you select one that you’ve already added a rune to previously. What it doesn’t tell you is that the 2nd rune will replace the 1st…so it made for a nasty surprise.
Aralon is definitely improving as I go along, and I retract what I said about it being skewered if it was released on another platform. It’s a basic but engaging RPG, warts and all.
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I got it - it’s alright, worth a buck for a little blat.
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Lord of the Rings: Middle-Earth Defense for iPad is on sale for 99 cents. Anyone tried it? Need a coupla good cheap iPad tower defense games…
Hey, Heroes 2 HD is on sale as well for $1.99. Looks like an iPad port of an open-source HOMM2 clone. [Edit: Well, AppShopper showed it, but it’s no longer showing up in the iTunes store. Perhaps the HOMM IP owners took notice?)
I got Palm Heroes, their earlier heroes rip, and it was playable but just barely. Even when it went on sale I never bit on heroes 2. Every review excoriated it as an unplayable, buggy mess.
If I have an app in my iTunes and I want to put it on my wife’s iPad and she has her own iTunes account, is there a way I can move it over there without having to rebuy the app in iTunes?
With music, I used to copy my songs over (when music on iTunes was DRM’d) and then iTunes would ask me to authorize her iTunes to use my account. I’d just enter my password and I’d be able to play the song. Is there a similar process for apps?
I hate DRM. It’s always annoying little shit like this that makes me want to scream.
Geez, you’re making it sound like it isn’t worth a buck.
rei
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Why didn’t you buy everything on just 1 itunes account? I have my 800+ apps loaded on 4 iOS devices.
I picked up Palm Heroes for free and I didn’t feel like I got my money’s worth. The idea that Heroes 2 HD could be even buggier kind of frightens me.
Same here, actually! I played Heroes for 15 seconds, tops.
No way is Heroes 2 by the same developer as Palm Heroes. Right. Right?
I quite like Palm Heroes, although it’s critical that you find the setting in the options to “auto zoom” on touch which then makes it playable. Without it you can’t select the correct cell at all. It’s certainly no HOMM or King’s Bounty but it’s at least competent and functional, and will scratch that particular itch.
Heroes 2 is an abortion of epic proportions, which I see has just been pulled from the AppStore. It was basically an unlicensed direct port of HOMM2 for the PC, which of course was totally unplayable because the iPhone doesn’t have a mouse, keyboard or a root C: drive (seriously, the save game dialog assumes you do).
Huh, according to Appshopper they aren’t. So I guess not. Don’t know why I thought they were.
Heroes 2 for the iPad works great for me so far. No trouble saving or loading, great touch controls, and no crashes so far. It is shameless, but stable.
I could imagine Heroes 2 working better on the iPad because of the bigger screen estate for the mouse cursor, but the save/load was non-functional for weeks. I eventually deleted it several weeks back when I was cleaning up, and the iTunes reviews were still full of complaints that you couldn’t save, and that there was no sound/music. They must have patched the file system since then, presumably, but there’s no update listed on my appstore (maybe because it’s pulled).
The official website is somewhat telling.
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So Generalsis free today. It’s just Risk, but it has Uniwar-style push multiplayer, apparently.
I didn’t do it that way. It never occurred to me to share an account with my wife and kids. That seems terrible. The kids would get all their Glee stuff mixed up with my 70s pop music. And I don’t even know what my wife listens to.
RE: Knizia’s Battlelines
Nooooo! Are you serious, Tracy? That is such a disappointment. I didn’t know the card game, so I’ve been playing the basic version without the tactics cards to learn the system. I haven’t figured the rules out well enough to tell much about what the AI is doing, but is it really bad? I love the basic game – it’s like Lost City, but with god powers! – and I’m going to be so bummed out if that’s the case. I’ve been really happy with the AI the other Knizia games I’ve tried, like Poison and Samurai.
-Tom
