A few years ago, Tabletopia (Free) pitched their idea on Kickstarter. In a nutshell, instead of having a million different individual digital board games, why not just build one super solid virtual tabletop that can effectively support any board (or card) game? Clearly, it resonated with tabletop gaming enthusiasts as they raked in just under $134,000 from their original $20,000 goal. The “full" version on PC has over 500 available games in it, and the platform monetizes by limiting how many games you can be involved in at once. Without paying anything you get access to a smaller, non-“premium," game library and you’re limited to two game sessions at a time. For $4.99 a month you get access to the “premium" games, and can play up to six games at once. For $9.99 you can have 10 sessions and invite guests to play the “premium" games with you. All in all, it seems like a fair setup, as I’m sure that money is being split a gazillion different ways as many of these digital versions have physical counterparts that are often quite expensive.
The iPad version launched this morning, and while it’s fairly limited, it shows some serious promise. Six games are playable right now: Sub Terra, Hansa Teutonica, The Shipwreck Arcana, Burgle Bros, Mint Works, and Champions of Midgard. Basically, it’s just a few games to test out which are local pass and play tabletop games that don’t require any information in the game to be private. More games are on the way soon, as is online multiplayer.
This trailer is for the Steam version, but it gives you a good idea of what’s in store for iOS:
I think Tabletopia is a super neat project, and I’m really excited to see it continue to be developed on mobile. If you’re at all interested in the Tabletopia system, and have an iPad, be sure to give this a try.
i actually liked this more than the console version, except for the touch to move controls. There was just way too much riding around in a car doing nothing in the console version and I just got bored and quit playing after a while.
I'd like to present the other perspective; I rather liked the road trip portion of the game, because I could actually chill out and take time to properly appreciate the world around me, which I honestly thought was *beautiful*. It's also my way of paying credit to the environment/world designers - those guys poured so much time and effort building this place, and it's kind of sad if their work gets glossed over because of all the attention-grabbing monsters & characters & plot that's going on. But I also understand that FF is for adventurers rather than tourists, so to each his own.
(If your problem is with the Regalia itself though, just ride the Chocobos. Prompto will thank you for it.)
You don’t have to ride around doing nothing, you can fast travel between places you’ve already visited. I personally enjoyed riding along, listening to various Final Fantasy soundtracks. A lot is lost in the mobile version.
Anyone have problems loading the game? I start the game three times and went leave the game (save correctly Local and iCloud) and try to load my save data my game keep forever on “Loading” screen. :(
I’m so sad guys. Please help me!
Played fine on my iPad Pro 10.5 with iOS 11.2.2. It does load a bit slowly though compared to most apps. I also downloaded all content from the options menu before playing, not sure if that might help.
Also, maybe restarting your device might help.
Oh, thanks but I try everything. Reinstalling the game, load form iCloud and download all the game content before playing but the data still corrupted, I think. I’m on iPhone X. :(
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i play with my iphoneX too and it works without problems
....mmmhh
same problem here with iPhone 6s. Sometimes data is corrupted it seems. I started a new game, loaded an elder save from the cloud, which worked.
The strangest thing is that when you open the AppStore in the description it says that it is compatible with my IPhone I can download the game but when it loads after the cutscenes the game crashes what a letdown I really want to play this I think Apple must be more precise in their compatibility info,it is such a disappointment that you are hyped and start the game but the game will not work.
It crashed on my iPhone X before I ever exited out to world map. And I’ve never been able to get that save to work on my iPhone or iPad. SO, I had to start again. On my second save I exited to world map and synced that save. I’ve gone back and forth between both devices without a loading problem. It’s crashed a couple more times, but I could load it up again. Also on my second save, I avoided that King’s Knight ad at the motel. Hope you try starting over and have good luck!
same here, using SE. After third mission, have to load, and then just the same problem as you.
the game keeps crashing out to the home screen constantly and at random times for me. im working through it, but its super annoying.
You aren’t alone. Only does it on my X. iPad Pro is fine.
iPhone 7 Plus
Same here. I left it loading for over 10 minutes cause I forgot it was on. I double checked for a quick save icon before closing but didn't change anything. I'm not going to restart, my backlog is too large for a watered down mobile game with bugs. Blame XIV for that though
Ugh. This is happening to me now, too. DO NOT WANT
this is how you make a real mobile game
I thought this would be like Final Fight! It's not!
there was information in TA about what kind of game it would be I had the impression that it has no similarity’s with Final Fight because that is a side scrolling punch em up in the SNES era while this is a 3D adventure a pocket version of FFXV. https://uploads.disquscdn.c... https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
Very good game !
Im a ff fanatic... without a new gen console, so I couldnt play XV. I love the story in FFs, this one is no exception, the story is great, the voice acting is spectacular (even in english), music is awesome, graphics are very vivid and full of style, gameplay is simple yet fun and addicting...
From the looks of it so far it looks like its a 15-30 hours experience depending on how much you fiddle around and explore, its shorter than your usual FF but not too short.
Highly recommended, iPad Pro 10.5 never had crashes mentionned by others, but I believe them, I also trust Square Enix when it comes to a Final Fantasy title, they will fix it.
Am I the only guy that finds this game really linear? It seems to be one location to another, with no ability to explore... There seems to be no ability to go to shops to buy anything and its all within the menu system. I find the battle sequences a little boring and not really engaging. Don't get me wrong, I really like the cutesy graphics, music and acting... but it isn't a Final Fantasy game for me.... What I will say however is I haven't played a FF game since FFX... So is this the way they all play now?
what you want is the original console version. this is a very pared down mobile version.
I have a PS4, but I never play games on it, I only use it for Sky Go upstairs... there is never anything released on PS4 that I fancy playing. Plus I am restricted to the TV, which is why I love mobile gaming.
FF7 and FF9 are perfect on mobile, I hope they release X.
Since the Vita could do FFX, modern mobile devices should be able to handle it no problem.
Oh I know it could easily handle it... it’s just whether they actually will. I paid my £20 to support Squeenix in the hope they will provide further titles.
Yup, same here ...
Sound gets crunchy sometimes for no apparent reason and it crashed once or twice in Chapter 1 (iPad Air 2), I wish there were another way to move around than tapping. It's kind of annoying to move long distances on the iPad because you have to reach so far to hold in the direction sometimes. And once in a while a character speaks in German for some reason.
But overall, it's a really impressive game, which just needs a little patching. The combat is "automatic" enough to not be a chore on the touchscreen, but way more engaging than the usual turn-based RPG combat that you might as well just let play itself, and in turn, might as well just not play.