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usually don’t like the touchscreen interface for controller optimized games. (at least to this point) You get this virtual controller on screen that simply does not work as well as the real thing. Obviously I haven’t seen how Chapters will work….

ALL the adventure games I have on the ipad mini - (72 so far) use the touch screen interface - NO VIRTUAL CONTROLLER. You touch the screen anywhere and the character goes there or an action happens - it is wonderful and why I play these games.

Now - the Shield gaming tablet uses an actual gamepad hooked up as the controller. If you must use a physical controller and want a tablet for gaming - get this.

Lastly - consoles can and do amazing things in games with spartan hardware specs because they don’t have to write the game for 12 different graphics cards, or 10 different CPUs and have to use the computer’s operating system and supporting software. They can optimize the code for the ipad/iphone’s hardware.

ALL the PC ports I’ve played on the ipad have been great games. I am sure DC will be another one.

Considering mobile devices have very limited amount of graphics memory, the current texture sizes Chapters use would be a huge hit on the games performance in any mobile platform. Graphically speaking there is no way they could port the current version to a mobile device as it is. And they need to compress it quite a bit in any case, thanks to relatively small storage spaces in mobile devices.

My ipad has 128 GB of storage. I own several games that on consoles were wonderful and on the PC not so and reviews reflected this. In 1994, Wing Commander 3 was an amazing game on the 3DO - but the PC version didn’t hold a candle to it. And in 2011, LA Noire was stunning on the PS3, on the PC this game was not so great. And these consoles specs looked pretty spartan on paper.

So, I’ve learned to be open minded on PC ports to dedicated hardware systems. 

The latest ipad is getting some pretty rave reviews also:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/192628-the-ipad-air-2-with-a-tri-core-cpu-is-almost-as-fast-as-a-modern-pc

So, needless to say, Dreamfall Chapters is a day one buy on the ipad for me and I’m sure it’s performance will be on par with the rest of the games I own on the system.

The issue is not as much the CPU. Mobile CPU’s have been pretty damn good for a good while now. The main bottleneck in any mobile platform is the amount of dedicated memory you have at your disposal, as that limits how much you can load stuff before hand and how much you need to juggle with textures etc. in order to make the game run smoother.

DC as it is now is quite a resource hog. It has severe difficulties in running in machines with less than 4 gigs of memory. It also still has some issues in machines with pretty damn good GPU’s. The main issue behind that is the Unity engine itself, which while flixible, has never been an engine with superior performance.

Now, the things may change with Unity 5 though and I assume that RT games will do the mobile ports with that after they get DC fully out.

And maybe it won`t be needing three patches to run decently…

I’d suspect they’ll get them out in speedier manner now. They had to spent a lot of extra effor in optimizing the first book, so now that they know the loops they need to jump through with the upcoming chapters that’s bound to shed some time off the development time.

As far as I know, they are also still planning of finishing the whole thing before November this year.

Trailer for Ep 2

It looks like this book will have more action, which should please those who thought nothing happened in the first book.