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Just came out, its not really a deal but its good to keep an eye for a price drop.

Horn™ $6.99

http://itunes.apple.com/app/horn/id549350579?mt=8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKM-7k-rAKU

Originally Posted by Shimrra Just came out, its not really a deal but its good to keep an eye for a price drop. Horn™ $6.99 http://itunes.apple.com/app/horn/id549350579?mt=8

It's like Ico and Fable had a baby

Has anyone found Horn on appshopper?

Originally Posted by jacknicklson Has anyone found Horn on appshopper?

Not there yet, far as I can tell.

Okay, played through the tutorial of Nightfall. Obviously, I'm not experienced enough to do a full review, but here are the basics:

it's set in 'endless night', so basically some sort of vampire/monster setting.

Each card has a color, and 1 or 2 secondary colors. On your turn, you chain your cards together -- if the first card has green as one of it's secondary colors, you can chain a green card to it, and then chain to that. Once your done chaining, all opponents can chain to you. Resolve, and then the next player goes. When it comes around to you again, any minions of yours attack enemies.

There are actions and minions, like spells and basic attackers. If your minions are dead and you take damage, you get wound cards. Wound cards fill up your discard pile, so can eventually overtake your hand. Game is over when the set number of wound cards are used, winner = least.

I like that you can play card into enemy chains and vice versa. I like the 'influence' system to buy new cards too (mostly from a shared deck, though each player has a small well of private cards).

My biggest complaint so far is that the cards are just small enough on my ipad that i find it a bit straining to study potential chains. I don't mind zooming to study effects while i'm new to the game (i used to have to do that in ascension,now i don't) but i feel like i'm -always- going to be straining my eyes to create chains since even two identical action cards can have different chain colors.

I also found it odd that while buying new cards, i couldn't find a way to see my existing cards in my hand; if you can, it's certainly not apparent. This is a problem, since it makes it harder to buy cards that properly chain.

I'm.... mixed on this. It seems like a solid game, except I'm really not sure I'd ever play this over Ascension.

I'll try out Summoner Wars soon.

Originally Posted by jacknicklson Has anyone found Horn on appshopper?

took me awhile too, lol

http://appshopper.com/games/horn-3

EDIT -- well, not ever getting it since:
PLEASE NOTE: iPad(1st Generation), iPhone 3GS, iPod touch DEVICES NOT SUPPPORTED.

Thanks!

can someone explain this to me?

i've already got Nightfall on my ipad. I don't remember buying it, and according to appshopper it's never been on sale before that i can tell. Was it free with an iap unlock?

And if so... how the heck do i unlock it?

Also - 'play online' is greyed out and unselectable. I can find no option to sign in to anything or otherwise unlock it. And no way to buy anything, such as an iap unlock.

Very confused.

Nightfall was never free. The online button will be grayed out until the game logs into GameCenter, which can take a minute.

Originally Posted by crunchewy Nightfall was never free. The online button will be grayed out until the game logs into GameCenter, which can take a minute.

odd. oh wait, it went to .99 in july. must have got it then.

i don't have gamecenter set up... it appears there's no way to do this in game that i can tell. no login screens, nothing. totally at a loss.

EDIT - oh, it looks like there is a game center app and that i need to sign in manually from there. haven't played anything online with the ipad, ever, so this is new to me.

Originally Posted by affa odd. oh wait, it went to .99 in july. must have got it then. i don't have gamecenter set up... it appears there's no way to do this in game that i can tell. no login screens, nothing. totally at a loss. EDIT - oh, it looks like there is a game center app and that i need to sign in manually from there. haven't played anything online with the ipad, ever, so this is new to me.

Yup, gamecenter is annoying to set up but once you set it up, it's pretty seamless for online play. Also, make sure to double check your app store to make sure your nightfall (and other playdek games) are up to date. Ascension used to not let you play online or time out if you didn't have the latest version of the game.

Originally Posted by Shimrra Just came out, its not really a deal but its good to keep an eye for a price drop. Horn™ $6.99

I say we take bets on how long it will take to get to hit .99, how long it will take to hit free.

Since it's zynga and has iap I don't see how this won't go free before the end of the year.

Originally Posted by envelopes Since it's zynga ....

i no longer care that it doesn't work on my ipad. i wouldn't pay a dime for this, and you're right, the odds of them screwing paying customers is high.

Originally Posted by affa took me awhile too, lol http://appshopper.com/games/horn-3 EDIT -- well, not ever getting it since: PLEASE NOTE: iPad(1st Generation), iPhone 3GS, iPod touch DEVICES NOT SUPPPORTED.

Yeah in the appshopper app search just change the relevance tab to last updated and horn will be close to the top ... Oh and thanks for dashing my dreams. 3Gs user here ...

Originally Posted by daminion Just want to point something out that I did not realize. The Bard's Tale (iPhone and iPad) is a remake of the console / PC version from the mid 2000's. HOWEVER -- it also includes ALL 3 of the original bard's tale games. I'm dating myself here, but I played through, but likely never beat, all of these games when I was a teenager. I started playing the original Bard's Tale, and it's an excellent port. It's hard, and requires you to pull out your graph paper and map every dungeon, but it's so much fun. I haven't played anything else in 2 weeks as I've leveled my characters up to the point where I can finally take on the final dungeon. The game itself is $5 or $6, but considering it includes these 3 classic games I consider this one hell of a deal.

A while ago it was on sale for $1.99, and I grabbed it then. I think it had the first two at that point, with the third one promised. It really is a great deal to have all of the games in one package (large install, though).

does anyone know if the 'promo' expansion for ascension is worth the .99? i just bought both regular expansions, but i can't quite decide on the promo one.

Originally Posted by daminion Just want to point something out that I did not realize. The Bard's Tale (iPhone and iPad) is a remake of the console / PC version from the mid 2000's. HOWEVER -- it also includes ALL 3 of the original bard's tale games. I'm dating myself here, but I played through, but likely never beat, all of these games when I was a teenager. I started playing the original Bard's Tale, and it's an excellent port. It's hard, and requires you to pull out your graph paper and map every dungeon, but it's so much fun. I haven't played anything else in 2 weeks as I've leveled my characters up to the point where I can finally take on the final dungeon. The game itself is $5 or $6, but considering it includes these 3 classic games I consider this one hell of a deal.

You should buy silversword. very enjoyable love note to bard's tale. the dev kept a little too true to the original interface at times (as in, he intentionally didn't streamline anything, even when he could have) but the game itself is quite fun and most definitely 'feels' like a bard's tale game. i definitely did not mind supporting the dev; he plans to do a wizardy like game next if i remember correctly.

Nightfall confuses me. I can't really get a handle on the long game yet so I have no idea how to draft a winning combination. The mechanics seem simple but I don't see how I need to bring strategies together.

Originally Posted by affa does anyone know if the 'promo' expansion for ascension is worth the .99? i just bought both regular expansions, but i can't quite decide on the promo one.

it has some fun cards. sometimes that's enough.

i would say 'wait' for sure... when your ascension needs a jolt in the future then buy the promo pack.

Originally Posted by affa You should buy silversword. very enjoyable love note to bard's tale. the dev kept a little too true to the original interface at times (as in, he intentionally didn't streamline anything, even when he could have) but the game itself is quite fun and most definitely 'feels' like a bard's tale game. i definitely did not mind supporting the dev; he plans to do a wizardy like game next if i remember correctly.

Bought, thank you! I got Bard's Tale when it went on sale last time, but another quality 100-hr RPG for the backlog is too good to pass up!

Originally Posted by Rsmobile Nightfall confuses me. I can't really get a handle on the long game yet so I have no idea how to draft a winning combination. The mechanics seem simple but I don't see how I need to bring strategies together.

I've only played a couple games but one strategy is to try to get cards that will work together in a chain. A lot of the game is how you chain things together so if you have cards that can be played in a long row, then that will help a lot.