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Monster Hunter Stories for Smartphones now available in the West
- Thread starter ggx2ac
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Can anyone confirm if, after agreeing to the initial privacy blah blah and signing into Google play, I can play this offline? About to get on a plane and want to play a bit.
I just checked this myself, and there seems to be a license check when you launch the app which fails if I have airplane mode turned on.
The check only seems to work at launch though, so if you launch the game while you still have data, leave the app open, and then turn on airplane mode, it didn't seem to check again and allowed me to load my save.
I don't really know, that's why I'm asking. You may be able to, but with most games in order to agree to the various policies or sign into your Google Play account to save progress, you obviously need a connection .
Exactly what I planned to do, thanks.
You only needed to agree to policies once and you don't even need to sign in to save progress though. This just seems to have an online requirement for no reason.
$20 is pretty steep for a game that will probably not even run stable on my phone (Galaxy S7). Might actually pick up the 3ds version now that I know this exists, though...
edit - wow, okay, this game goes for more than MH4U on the 3ds for some reason. Was there a limited run or something?
edit - wow, okay, this game goes for more than MH4U on the 3ds for some reason. Was there a limited run or something?
I've got the same phone as you, I'm happy with the performance. Its obviously not the the best or perfect or anything, but I feel like the resolution on smartphones might push me over the edge compared to getting it on 3ds.
Here's the main reason I don't like "premium" pricing in mobile games: abandonware.
I've had too many games that two or three years down the road, new iOS version rolls around, and dev just decides they don't want to update the game and it no longer plays. But because of the nature of iOS and how we use phones, I don't really have the option to roll back. Whereas with an old console, I can just pick it up out of my closet and start playing again. Or easily find a used one for cheap, generally.
OTOH I bet MHS looks great on my phone. :/
I've had too many games that two or three years down the road, new iOS version rolls around, and dev just decides they don't want to update the game and it no longer plays. But because of the nature of iOS and how we use phones, I don't really have the option to roll back. Whereas with an old console, I can just pick it up out of my closet and start playing again. Or easily find a used one for cheap, generally.
OTOH I bet MHS looks great on my phone. :/
Would love to try this but... I hate playing high performance games like this on my phone, they EAT my battery alive! Tried Lineage 2 Revolution but had to stop because it was killing my battery (and ever since playing that, my battery has been running out of juice faster than usual).
Port it to home consoles please, stop trying to kill our phone's batteries!
Port it to home consoles please, stop trying to kill our phone's batteries!
Yeah, it is pretty lazy. I'm pretty sure it's not the first time I've seen something like that though. I remember other Japanese games still having error messages in Japanese despite it being in english.NANI?
Cloud not bother to do error messages in English...
Because of the expense of phones and the frequency at which they are replaced, not as easily. My iPhone 5s that I had for five years barely holds battery charge anymore. And already was updated well past playing some games.
Take a look at post #139. That might help a little bit, I too was confused with some of the battle system.
Thanks!
Great explanation, thanks!
I gotta ask though, how do I know if my monster and mc will team up for a double attack? Is this random? I've tried do the same type attack with both monster and mc but they don't team up.
Also how do I know what attack the opponent will use if there's no color in the corner of its icon? I'll just have to use items to reveal their attack patterns and weaknesses then?
And if the opponent isn't targeting my mc (main character), then I can just use Power for most damage?
Power doesn't actually do more damage. The attack types only matter for head to heads or for doing combos. If it looks like your monster is going to win a head to head, the best thing would be to join in with an attack of the same type to trigger a double attack.
Monsters have a preference on the types of attacks they like to do, and knowing that preference is crucial to winning the fights quickly. Like Velocidrome will prefer to do speed attacks, so you're better off using a move to counter those attacks when it's targeting you. But if you see it's targeting your monster, and you think your monster's about to do the right counter-move to beat a speed attack, you can do the same counter-move and hope for the powerful double attack. Or, you might try to finish up a weapon combo that's in progress. Or maybe spend some gauge to do a special rider move of your own. Or maybe use an item like a trap to disable your opponent for awhile.
It looks simple at first, but there is a decent amount of depth to it.
It looks simple at first, but there is a decent amount of depth to it.
I think a lot of my confusion is coming from the fact that really the only other turn based RPG's I play are Pokemon. Its rules are so ingrained in my head that I'm having a hard time a different system. It's actually kinda funny.
