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The iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch Gaming |OT2| Part II
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Diablohead
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Oh nice 4.1 did give my touch game center, yay I am happy!
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wolfmat
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Diablohead said:Feel free to add "Diab" to your friends list, kept the name short and simple
Put your Game Center ID into the thread here instead Diablohead
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I have never owned flight control but I have seen so much if it and it's clones out there, plus I like Firemint so I really should buy it today now that it has game center support.Dynoro said:
Macho Madness
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Tomorrow, we'll be able to see if this moved FarmVille's user number at all. Should be interesting to see Game Center's pull.
Stumpokapow
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dark10x said:
Won't that wreck the business model of having retina versions as a free upgrade and selling HD versions as a separate app?
Diablohead
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I think it's a bit of a mistake from apple, they knew that they wanted a high res screen in the iphone 4, not having instant support for it on ipad is a bit weak, having seperate app's for ipad is also rather dumb for some games where they release two versions, yet the iphone version then get's retina support, wasted cash.Stumpokapow said:
Stumpokapow said:
The controls and interface would still be unoptimized for the larger screen.
More importantly, it might cause developers to stop releasing universal apps, which is what we should really want.
Diablohead said:
Blame the developers, not Apple. Any dev can make their app universal if they choose to.
VeryGooster
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Damn. Just got through the entire first chapter of Megaplex Madness and raked in about 12 achievements. I played Diner Dash maybe once at a computer at work but couldn't get into it, but the movie theater theme hooked me in somehow.
Looking at the GC iTunes page and seeing Pac-Man there, I'm hopeful Pac-Man CE gets a GC update. DLed Farmville, but I don't know how often I'll be playing that. I originally had the other farm-sim game (We Farm?), but I got annoyed/bored/impatient with it.
Looking at the GC iTunes page and seeing Pac-Man there, I'm hopeful Pac-Man CE gets a GC update. DLed Farmville, but I don't know how often I'll be playing that. I originally had the other farm-sim game (We Farm?), but I got annoyed/bored/impatient with it.
345triangle
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dark10x said:
i'm pretty sure that flick kick football's "universal" nature is just the retina display version stuck directly onto the ipad screen, given the aspect ratio. any developer could do this if they wanted, but evidently they don't...
The Chaos Rings update is terrible. As noted above, it's missing sound effects and it gets really, really slow during special attacks in battle. The graphics didn't even improve that much. For those of you who have the game but haven't downloaded the update yet, I suggest you hold off.
It's mostly the same (shitty), but it does actually seem to slow down a lot more when transparencies fill the screen.Minsc said:
Never could figure out why 1) the game ran so slowly and 2) they didn't use texture filtering of any sort.
It definitely looks much sharper, but it still lacks texture filtering and all of the backgrounds remain low resolution. Looks like a PSX game run through an emulator now.
brain_stew
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Has anyone seen Anad's review of the new iTouch?
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3903/apples-ipod-touch-2010-review-not-a-poor-mans-iphone-4
Pretty disappointing tbh, I was actually considering one and (perhaps wrongly) assumed that all I'd really be missing out on is the 3G modem, well that's definitely not the case.
Among the complaints are much lower quality build quality, terrible contrast ratio and viewing angles on the screen (this is the major downer for me), a really poor placement/quality speaker and mic which make Facetime without the $30 wired mic all but useless, 256MB of RAM, no GPS, and a really crappy camera (that can't capture native HD video despite Apple's claims).
A real shame, I'm not willing to accept that many downgrades from the Iphone 4, it looks like they really cheaped out in as many areas as possible this time.
The ball in the last shot should be yellow, um yeah.
:/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3903/apples-ipod-touch-2010-review-not-a-poor-mans-iphone-4
Pretty disappointing tbh, I was actually considering one and (perhaps wrongly) assumed that all I'd really be missing out on is the 3G modem, well that's definitely not the case.
Among the complaints are much lower quality build quality, terrible contrast ratio and viewing angles on the screen (this is the major downer for me), a really poor placement/quality speaker and mic which make Facetime without the $30 wired mic all but useless, 256MB of RAM, no GPS, and a really crappy camera (that can't capture native HD video despite Apple's claims).
A real shame, I'm not willing to accept that many downgrades from the Iphone 4, it looks like they really cheaped out in as many areas as possible this time.
The ball in the last shot should be yellow, um yeah.
:/
sixteen-bit
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well, i feel better about my iphone4 purchase
i'm sure the touch with gain parity within a revision though
i'm sure the touch with gain parity within a revision though
brain_stew said:
I just test drove several Touches and iPhones at my local Apple store, and maybe it's the store lighting or maybe my untrained eye, but the differences were not even close to that extreme. I did notice that the viewing angle on the Touch is worse (but still great), but other than that the screens looked very very similar.
I am definitely bugged by the 256MB Ram and the apparent lack of Gorilla glass (the Apple people had no clue) as well as the 0.7mp camera (yes it's pretty weak), but otherwise, the device seemed pretty sweet. Definitely not canceling my order.
Bought a new ipod touch. I don't care about the camera, probably won't ever use it. RAM is a bit odd, but I won't complain until/if games come out which demand more. The screen difference is only noticeable to me at sharper viewing angles. At regular angles the games/screen looked just as sharp as on the iphone 4.
brain_stew
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soldat7 said:
Well the numbers back it up, the black levels are dire, no two ways around that and the viewing angles are just something that don't jive well with a device that's going to be titled so much. Its killed any chance of me picking one up.
wmat said:
Reading that when remembering that the last iTouch was pretty much on par with the iPhone at its time leads to sadface.
Exactly, that's the issue I'm seeing, this isn't an Iphone 4 without a modem, its a completely different product which is inferior in pretty much every way. I don't mind them gimping the entry level model, but cheaping out on damn near every area possible on even the £330 model kills it for me.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
It's half the price of the iPhone 4. Of course they 'cheapened' out on it.brain_stew said:
Lack of IPS is an annoyance more than anything, did people really complain about the previous displays Apple used that didn't have IPS?
I have a dilemma, should I sell my PSP-1000 for a 4th gen touch? I never use my PSP as an MP3 player and I rarely play games on it. Do the games have PSP quality on the thouch? I thin it still seems great despite not being an IPS panel.
I use the PSP on trips as a games/movie/music device still but it is too big to carry around everyday, and I would feel like a waste to have a PSP and iPod Touch...
I use the PSP on trips as a games/movie/music device still but it is too big to carry around everyday, and I would feel like a waste to have a PSP and iPod Touch...
Minsc said:
The framerate is relatively fine, until you trigger a special attack. Divine Fist slows the game down dramatically, even after rebooting the device.
Tobor said:
Heh, sure. What I mean is, the graphics update is not noticeable enough, especially on a small screen, to be worth all the bugs. I fell in love with retina display the first time I saw it in action, but if Chaos Rings was the first game I saw it in, I would probably feel differently.
By the way, a quick Chaos Rings question. I've completed the game with three pairs so far, three times each, fighting all the super bosses. On my third playthrough as Ayuta and
Shea
Diablohead
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brain_stew said:
CrunchinJelly
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Burger
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Diablohead said:
Are you serious? The screen is a massive upgrade from the previous model, and now it's corner cutting? Who looks at their device from such extreme angles? How are people not impressed by the screen? Do you think these 10° shots are indicative of what it looks like front on?
Everything about the iPod Touch is better than the last model, for the same price, yet some how people manage to be completely underwhelmed, despite there not being a single product from a competing company to compare it to.
NIGHT- said:
i'm assuming he used this: http://artoftheiphone.com/2010/07/04/iphone-tip-label-your-folders-with-emoji/
another option is this: http://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2010/06/iphone-tip-create-an-apple-folder.html
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