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The iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch Gaming |Thread4| NOT Doomed
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chickdigger802
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so what's the take for the 'premium' apps this week?
Pizza zombies or the thief one?
Pizza zombies or the thief one?
chickdigger802
Banned
the thread on TA says the controls are dog shit.
Btw if u guys haven't seen Sentinel series is having a 3 day sale and the first game is currently free for today only.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sentinel-mars-defense/id305974985?mt=8
Heard the 3rd game is fun based on this thread so I hope its .99 or free.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sentinel-mars-defense/id305974985?mt=8
Heard the 3rd game is fun based on this thread so I hope its .99 or free.
So GTAIII is $0.99 right now and I have to ask again: how are the controls? I ask because I have always absolutely fucking hated the controls of the GTA games on consoles. It's the sole reason why I haven't really played much of any of them. I can barely play GTA IV, but that's about it.
Take a wild guess. If you didn't like the controls on a controller, you'll probably cut your thumbs if you play the touch screen version.
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Mirror's Edge is very cool, and a must for a buck. Mortal Kombat is glitchy as fuck and the visuals are laughably bad, but if you are a MK nut like myself, go ahead and get it just for novelty sake.
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Mirror's Edge is very cool, and a must for a buck. Mortal Kombat is glitchy as fuck and the visuals are laughably bad, but if you are a MK nut like myself, go ahead and get it just for novelty sake.
How's NBA Jam? Haven't played it since the SNES version.
It's a wonder why everything else is .99 while Chinatown Wars on iphone is still full price. Why don't u want my money Rockstar?!
I'm finally getting a hang of Caylus I think! Did not understand you needed to make residential buildings with the Lawyer first to upgrade them to prestige buildings 
One thing I don't get though: How can I return to the menu during a game / onc I'm done with the game? I see no "Menu" option within it oO. The only thing that's worked for me is completely close the app (even from the multitask bar) and then restart it, that brings me back to the menu... But I can't find the option to get there from within a game. Does anyone who owns it know? :/
One thing I don't get though: How can I return to the menu during a game / onc I'm done with the game? I see no "Menu" option within it oO. The only thing that's worked for me is completely close the app (even from the multitask bar) and then restart it, that brings me back to the menu... But I can't find the option to get there from within a game. Does anyone who owns it know? :/Pizza is on sale right now. Beat isn't. Just something to consider
chickdigger802
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They will be 99c sooner or later.
I have a pretty full list of games on my iPhone that don't have iCloud support...
Maybe i should take a break this week...
Franklinator
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I was pumped seeing GTA CW for .99 until I noticed it was the iPad version only. Now I'm sad
Jedeye Sniv
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Awesome, I'm still playing it after picking it up in the last sale and it really is a great little game. Some control niggles here and there but it runs beautifully on iPad and looks gorgeous.
Never gonna happen. It seems that Rockstar don't actually update games they release... iPad is the only decent platform for CW.
Jedeye Sniv
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I bought GTA III for full price about 2 weeks ago.
Oh no, I hope that extra couple of dollars doesn't push you over the edge into bankruptcy. However will you cope? Oh the humanity!
peppermints
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Ugh I am so bad at Kingdom Rush. I love the game, but I just can't get a grip on the strategy. Stuck on the third snow level.
Heavy's Sandvich
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Both excellent games, I'd recommend Chinatown Wars over 3.
BillyG_3001
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Hi Gaf
Can anyone recommend any games similar to Reckless Racing 1 & 2?
Also I'm suprised no one has made a Mario Kart type game in this view. It would be perfect for the iPhone as I can't get into all these tilt to steer racing games.
Can anyone recommend any games similar to Reckless Racing 1 & 2?
Also I'm suprised no one has made a Mario Kart type game in this view. It would be perfect for the iPhone as I can't get into all these tilt to steer racing games.
number1jagsfan
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Woah, just read on the TA forums about the WWE WrestleFest game coming next week. Was this known already? Certainly (awesome) news to me!
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=123009
Source: http://www.sescoops.com/wrestling-n...iphone-released-next-week/attachment/wwe_109/
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=123009
Source: http://www.sescoops.com/wrestling-n...iphone-released-next-week/attachment/wwe_109/
Dog Problems
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Rocketcat, the developers behind the Hook platformers and Mage Gauntlet, have a couple of other games in the works besides that Mage Gauntlet spinoff:
I... I have to own this.
Use your start cash to fully upgrade 1 Archery tower, then have dudes out to just stall everything while e archers kill them.
Bulletpoint is: Build compact and strong.
nephilimdj
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I feel like to many of my shots miss, so basically all I can do to win is jam.
Minsc
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By order of difficulty:
Sword of Fargoal
Cavern
Legends of Yore
100 Rogues
Rogue Touch
There's harder stuff than Rogue Touch, but the popularly generally varies greatly outside of these titles from what I've read. Sword of Fargoal is a very popular and an easier one to start with. Rogue Touch is probably the next most popular, but much harder.
Wish I didn't buy it full price now lol. I barely even touched it yet since I got it when it initially came out.
Who would have thought 10 years ago we could get GTA 3 for less than a dollar and play it on our phones. Insane.
number1jagsfan
Member
Yeah are Apple doing anything about this issue, it's getting ridiculous!
Played to chapter 2 and I'm loving Beat Sneak Bandit. It's satisfying enough just advancing through the stages but trying to get all clocks, although way harder, isn't frustrating at all. The punishment where the clock(s) in the same floor break when you miss a beat provides the right amount of challenge. The game registers everything nicely too, which is damn important in rhythm games (like in 2-1 where a series of lights will keep flicking in sync with the music and you have to go through them just at the right moment).
I've been trying to get all clocks before I move on but if a stage gets a little too problematic I just leave it for later. Again props to the polished presentation, Simogo nails it.
I've been trying to get all clocks before I move on but if a stage gets a little too problematic I just leave it for later. Again props to the polished presentation, Simogo nails it.
divisionbyzorro
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Thanks! I see a lot of love for 100 Rogues. I'll do a little more research and give some of these a try.
Random question: is it common to have sound issues when playing games for a while over headphones? I find sound channels randomly cutting out; League of Evil randomly stopped playing music, and Infinity Blade 2 starts putting some sounds in the left and other sounds in the right; it's weird.
Jedeye Sniv
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Yeah me too, I'm wondering what kind of pace they'll release them at? Probably at least 6 months apart, just so they can make as much money off each game as possible I'd think.
I'm also wondering what they'll do about aiming and targeting in future games. I remember that it got easier and more fluid to shoot by san andreas, but I'm not sure how this will be reflected in the piss poor aiming controls they have at the moment. Some kind of twin stick solution perhaps?
I think the biggest flaw with GTA3 was the damage model though. You die far far far too easily for a game that has very flawed movement and aiming mechanics as it is. It needed to be much more lenient with the damage to be fun in the long run.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Oh wow that was quick! Hyped already
hopefully I'll be able to ace the leaderboards on that game as well (and given how poorly his games sell, I'm sure it won't be too tricky...)FlashFlooder
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beware: framerate is dogshit on the iPhone 4S. They haven't bothered to fix it yet.
Hispanicguy
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After having my save erased in LoE2, I couldn't help myself and had to play again. Currently 14th on the leaderboards for chapter 1 normal. I want to continue to chapter 2, but getting better times on these levels is pretty damn addicting lol.
Ivan A Nguyen
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I have Wars for the iPhone, but I'll be picking up both GTAs for my iPad tonight.
Last Baron
Member
Hmm, I got hinted that we were supposed to get an update for Squids last week but still nothing.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Played some Awesome Land on my iPad and it's another of those godamn idiot games with the dpad and buttons are the very bottom of the screen. This shit is driving me insane! It's like the devs don't even play their games. And if they do, how the hell are they holding their iPads without getting wristache as its all top heavy and unwieldy? There have been some great platformers lately that do controls absolutely perfectly, but there are many more who completely botch it and leave their games virtually unplayable. Ugh, it makes me so mad!
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