Playing POE on My IPad

There is nothing novel about the iPad or its derivatives. They are simply a tablet PC with different components, based on the evolution of laptops and phones.

One day it will be powerful enough to play games like this, and you will simply pair them with wireless mouse/keyboard or even a virtual mouse/keyboard.... or potentially just kinect style gestures.

That day is not today however.

Why? I mean if u want to play it somewhere else play it at a portable computer, with an ipad how are u going to control it? u need 8 keys only for the skills and for the spam of the basic atack ur Ipad would suffer the shit out of ur finger, just think about it: pokepokepokepoke keep pressed to walk pokepokepokepokepoke keep pressed to walk pokepokepokepoke ur ipad has been perforated with a dull object D:

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rustypup escreveu:

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DeF46 escreveu:

Some games though are perfect on this kind of device

I call shenanigans. These devices are so much marketing hoopla with all the functionality and productivity of a wax toothpick.

Well you're clueless then. The iPad has an extremely user friendly touch interface. It's my #1 device now to read and follow RSS feeds. I read all my gaming news on it too, in Flipboard. It's a lot more easy to discover new feeds, to watch gameplay trailers and such. In fact this device takes RSS feeds to a level where it enters the mainstream and is no longer an advanced user feature for those that know about Google Reader, because of the front ends that make it completely transparent to find news sources and follow websites and such.

Not to mention you can also follow YouTube channels, Facebook pages, etc from Flipboard.

When it sits in a stand next to my PC, I continue to check my feeds on it, Twitter, GMail, I respond to GMail straightaway with a bluetooth keyboard that stays on my desk, so it's a lot more functional than when using it on the sofa. It has some great podcast apps, and music apps too.

Dude, that thing costs 400$. It's worth every cent. You can get an Android tablet for half the price too.

With DropBox, Google Drive etc. and Apple's own iCloud you can pretty much work on the iPad as a small laptop, if you use a keyboard and a stand.

http://brettterpstra.com/ios-text-editors/

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zeto escreveu:

There is nothing novel about the iPad or its derivatives. They are simply a tablet PC with different components, based on the evolution of laptops and phones.

No, see, you don't understand what this medium is about. The iPad is NOT a tablet PC. A tablet PC is just a PC in a tablet, it's a useless P.O.S.

The iPad and now its copycats, has been extremely successfull especially because it is NOT a tablet PC. It is a OS that is entirely customized and designed from the ground up for a touch interface. You have to try one to understand there is a huge difference between reading gaming news in Flipboad and trying to work in excell on a tablet PC with an interface that was designed for a mouse.

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DeF46 escreveu:

Well you're clueless then.

Given the authority behind this diagnoses I'm almost tempted to claim benefits...

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DeF46 escreveu:

The iPad has an extremely user friendly touch interface.

Correction. The iPad and its ilk has a butchered, retard-friendly, interface designed around a backward and entirely un-friendly input mechanism. I get that every mouth-breather and its cousin wants to play at cool-minority-report-type-super-hero but that is hardly an excuse for endorsing this form of silliness.

<..followed by a whole swathe of marketing twaddle around browsing which has nothing to do with gameplay or productivity and pretty much sums up what these devices are... over-priced e-readers for the technologically victimised who think pricey gadgets offer an IQ buff...>

It's not a gaming device. It's not a productive tool.

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AlteraxPoe escreveu:

They are remaking Baulder's Gate.

It is called Baulders Gate Enhanced Edition.

http://baldursgate.com/

The windows version is available for preorder now, and an Ipad version is supposed to be out in September, and android at a later date.

From what I have read it still uses the infinity engine, just cleaned up a little and a couple of things added.

I'm wondering how Baulder's Gate will play out in today's world. From what I remember its fairly complicated.

Well to give a more precise information, PC version in coming in the middle of September and Ipad, android and mac versions some time after that.

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redeux escreveu:

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xAntiHerox escreveu:

This is Exactly what i was looking for ..... TY sir

No problem, here's another video from the same guy in the first one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GYczgIct7w&feature=youtu.be

He's kind of giving more in-depth instructions on following it. He does say that the xbox controller he's using is connected to his computer, not his ipad or android so that's one downside. As other's have pointed out the UI could be a struggle. I'm not sure about splashtop but I know Kainy allows you to fully customize your UI to include buttons that you change the size, shape, position, and function. So basically you can do whatever you're comfortable with. Another limiting factor is going to be your internet speed. Obviously the guy doing it in the videos is in his house, under the same network so if you're actually doing this on the go then you're going to want to make sure you have a reliable internet connection.

Well, I have a sixaxis (Playstation 3) controller linked to my Samsung Galaxy S, no cables or anything, key mapping is fine, so, while maybe not for the Apple devices, Android certainly will allow some cool stuff when it comes to this.

Since the OP clearly is thinking of streaming his games to his iPad (which you just CANNOT do even on a N-wireless network) I guess that's where the topic now is.
There are always companies planning to offer game streaming services. It's all perfectly feasible with the right software-technology.
The Open Source community is sure o be able to has out something workable in time, probably for Linux and Mac first, then port it to windows, remote desktop and the likes on Windows just seems like a huge buttrape to get working probably.

I actually play PoE on my HP touchpad using a remote desktop application with the game running on my PC. It's not the most accurate or easy thing to use but it's good for logging on to do stash management or playing a lower lever toon.

I can log in wirelessly over my home network or from work.

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Dhrakken escreveu:

I actually play PoE on my HP touchpad using a remote desktop application with the game running on my PC. It's not the most accurate or easy thing to use but it's good for logging on to do stash management or playing a lower lever toon.

I can log in wirelessly over my home network or from work.

See it can be done and for all you IPad haters I'm a system admin for a popular retail company and I maintain Pc ,macs ,droids and yes iPad and I phones I will always hate that the apples iOS is merely locked done open source but this iPad kicks butt I never thought it would be so usefull I can even run RDC to my PC and load SC2 map editor for a little late afternoon map making I'm going to re post as soon as I can get all the UI working for POE ... Don't hate


posted from IPad ...

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xAntiHerox escreveu:

See it can be done

No. It can't. It can be streamed to the iPad which is not the same thing. Why would anyone want laggier performance on a substandard display? (aside from the me-so-clever-monkey stupidity that Apple markets to....)

You might be able to get an existing version to work working on an Android tablet, since Android runs ontop of a stripped down linux... but, that's really pushing it.