Can it be played on a touch screen tablet?

[Freedomshot]

How are controls in this game? Is it essential to have a keyboard and mouse or would it work with a stylus?

I can play most top down games with a stylus, Civ 5 for example is perfect.

[✠ sleepnaught ✠]

Curious how well this might work/run on a 10" Windows tablet. I'd imagine the stylus functionality would have to be really accurate to choose abilities and targets , but surely PoE and other crpgs like Shadowrun and Wasteland 2 would run well on an atom tablet?

[Ranfle]

The keyboard isn't necessary for anything, but if it would be comfortable to play that way is another matter

[Kyutaru]

You can play Dark Souls 2 on a Microsoft Surface so it's possible.

But that's not what why you shouldn't play it on a tablet.

I'm now on my fifth Surface 3 Pro, the strongest of the available tablets, because I play Steam games often. While running the game is something the tablet can do, and do for any length of time, the strain it puts on the hardware is horrible. You'll get hundreds of hours out of it but so long as you're a regular gamer you'll be forced to pick up a new tablet in a few months. These games are not designed for tablets at all and greatly shorten the lifespan of one if you attempt to run them.

[Freedomshot]

Originally posted by Kyutaru:

You can play Dark Souls 2 on a Microsoft Surface so it's possible.

But that's not what why you shouldn't play it on a tablet.

I'm now on my fifth Surface 3 Pro, the strongest of the available tablets, because I play Steam games often. While running the game is something the tablet can do, and do for any length of time, the strain it puts on the hardware is horrible. You'll get hundreds of hours out of it but so long as you're a regular gamer you'll be forced to pick up a new tablet in a few months. These games are not designed for tablets at all and greatly shorten the lifespan of one if you attempt to run them.

I have been playing games on my old Samsung i5 11.3inch tablet since I got it 2 years ago and it is still working like a dream. I was planning on upgrading to a Surface at some point but if what you say is true then I might give it a miss.

Anyway - yes the game works with a stylus or finger, it runs very well on an 3rd gen i5 with integrated graphics. Scrolling the screen upwards is a bit awkward but apart from that it works well.

I did however use my bluetooth mouse after an hour or so as it just makes it easier.

[tenkday]

Originally posted by Kyutaru:

You can play Dark Souls 2 on a Microsoft Surface so it's possible.

But that's not what why you shouldn't play it on a tablet.

I'm now on my fifth Surface 3 Pro, the strongest of the available tablets, because I play Steam games often. While running the game is something the tablet can do, and do for any length of time, the strain it puts on the hardware is horrible. You'll get hundreds of hours out of it but so long as you're a regular gamer you'll be forced to pick up a new tablet in a few months. These games are not designed for tablets at all and greatly shorten the lifespan of one if you attempt to run them.

this is such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ statement haha

[bean]

the microsoft surface lineup is terrible, if you get REALLY lucky you'll get a decent one but for the most part they are terrible products, as admitted by panos panay.

I tried to get an sb2 at the beginning of the year and ended up having to return 4 different units to a MS store that is nearly 4 hours away.

The first one overheated like crazy, 70c idle 90c while in browser.
The second one they tried to give me was a full $1200 cheaper and they tried just putting in a box and being like ok here is your replacement, have a good day.
The third one had a broken mag-lock.
The fourth one REFUSED to recognize the GPU, even at the root level, despite the fact that the gpu worked when i rigged it to my PC.

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get a real laptop, get a real tablet or get a real PC (or for the price of sb2, get all 3)
don't get a surface
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