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The iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch Gaming |OT2| Part II

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MadraptorMan said:
How is the iPhone version of Guitar Hero?
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Ok, it's a timed tapping game, not overly difficult till you go to the harder settings. Visually it's pretty great, only music app to use real 3D graphics for the backdrop, and you see your avatar in the background of the songs. If the Game Center support ever works that may be interesting. There's a free version with a single song if you want to test it out.

Glass Joe said:
I'm a pretty new Touch owner so I may be missing some, but these are the most common/essential titles (from what I've discovered). They're not all free but some have free "lite" versions.
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Some stuff you missed:

Sword and Poker 2 (poker with an RPG twist, incredibly addicting)
Mahjong Artifacts 1 or 2 (Mahjong, don't really need to say more)
Carcassonne (Beautiful Retina supported, incredibly fun multiplayer boardgame that has a large following here)
Montezuma 1 or 2 (Long Match-3 game)
Dark Nebula 1 or 2 (Labyrinth roll the marble through the maze taken to the next level)
Helsing's Fire (Cute puzzle game where you must destroy undead monsters with torches by positioning them in certain locations)
Drop 7 (Turn-based tetris like addicting gameplay puzzler)
Flight Control (the original line drawing game, Game Center & retina support now!)
StarDunk (free fast-paced basketball shooting game in space, with Game Center support now)
Pinball HD (all the pinball games are nothing special, but this one gives you 4 retina supported tables to play)
Espgaluda 2 / DonDonPachi Revolution (incredible looking, action heavy SHUMPs famous for their bullet-hell like gameplay)
R-Type (the "original" hard as hell shump)
Chaos Rings (Squaresoft FF-like gameplay, retina support, best use of analog controls in any game)
Across Age / Zenonia 1 /2 (Zelda like puzzler/grinding RPGs)
Crimson Gem Saga (PSP game, very fun RPG with videos, VA, and the works... some slight control issues)
Final Fantasy I/II (old school FF games, like them or leave them)
Shining Force (Old school genesis RPG, very charming gameplay, fun despite its age)
Rimelands: Hammer of Thor (Turn-based RPG with pretty decent graphics, diablo-like skill system, and lots of stuff to kill and loot to find)
Caligo Chaser (interesting action RPG with not so great controls - but great underlying system)
Undercroft (Free old school Eye of the Beholder type RPG)
Song Summoner Encore (Final Fantasy Tactics like gameplay, Squaresoft sRPG with a nice style)
War of Eustrath (another nice looking sRPG)
Rogue Planet (another sRPG that got decent reviews, Wing Commander style intermission)
Mecho Wars (cute sRPG)
Transformers G1: The Awakening (another sRPG w/ pretty good reviews, but short)
Palm Heroes (Heroes of M&M on your idevice!)
Battle of Wesnoth (another sRPG, this one is free on the PC/Mac, but the iPhone looks to have some additional content)
Civ Revolution (fairly good Civ game for the iOS)
Sim City Deluxe (nice Sim City game)
Plants vs Zombies (the best TD game made)
Defender Chronicles (the biggest TD ever made, fantasy twist with grinding RPG style gameplay)
GeoDefense, Fieldrunners, Guns n' Glory, The Creeps, Tower Madness, Elemental Monster TD, Crystal Defenders... and on and on (more TD games)

That's not even scratching the surface. You can add another 100+ games all good to that list, and you still wouldn't really be giving a good picture of all the good games on the iPhone... makes recommending stuff nearly impossible, since there's so damned much.
 
Tiger Woods
Madden NFL
NBA
Skate It
Need for Speed
Dragons Lair

All are now 59p on the UK app store. Any of them worth purchasing?
 
So, I've had a few days with my iPod Touch and I'm now a complete fan. Some games that really stand out for me...

Zenonia 2 - Pretty solid action RPG with completely customizable d-pad and button. It's a feature that needs to be in every game that has, "traditional controls". You can move the d-pad and buttons around to where ever you like, along with other features like changing the opacity of the d-pad and buttons, to the size of the pad itself. The game has four character classes and four save slots so you can play as each one. Simple skill trees and point allocation systems really drive it home. This is probably my favorite of the bunch.

Rhythm Spirit - Kinda reminded me of Parappa with little animated segments running on the bottom 2/3rds of the screen. Your ninja will be fighting a boss while the button presses represent jumping, ducking, slashing, and shuriken throwing. Fun stuff.

Tappi Bear All in 1- I'm mentioning this for two reasons. I remember reading some guy saying he wanted a cute game for his girlfriend and this seems to be it. The other reason is that it completely rules. It's a collection of the five seperate minigames and it's really worth the $.99 they are asking. Great fun for high scores.

My honorable mentions are Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, Cobra Command, and Banjo. These types of games were some of the first I played in my much younger years at the arcades. I'll always be down with fully animated FMV games. Mirrors Edge is pretty amazing stuff, as is Chaos Rings, Puzzle Agent, Pizza Boy, Cube Runner(Free), Espgaluda, DoDonPachi, Flight Control, Fruit Ninja, and of course Sword & Poker 2. There are a few others that are pretty fun as well but I'll just leave it at that.
 
I played this game a while ago but forgot the name

Basically you have to drop blocks on this balancer and make sure they don't fall. Anyone know the game I'm talking about? Really wanna have that one!
 
dream said:
I saw this on TUAW just now...



Is that true?
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It's BS if you ask me. I played a ton of games last night when I downloaded it for free. This morning I started playing again, it crashed then when I relaunched it told me I was done playing online until I pay for the full version. Pretty crappy advertising yourself as the "free app of the day" then pulling this the next day.
 
pdk27 said:
It's BS if you ask me. I played a ton of games last night when I downloaded it for free. This morning I started playing again, it crashed then when I relaunched it told me I was done playing online until I pay for the full version. Pretty crappy advertising yourself as the "free app of the day" then pulling this the next day.
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Wow, that's pretty poor form. It seems like the sort of thing demos were made for but I guess the developer's worried about piracy and this was their solution.

Shit, I just realized the $3 IAP is more than the app used to cost to buy outright.

Woo, third edit:

But after reading your posts and your comments we decided to remove the limitation on the online contests. You can now play online as much as you want.

As a good news never comes alone, we also decided to drop the price of the premium from 2.99$ to 1.99$. The premium will only remove the ads.
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Does anyone here have Let's Golf 1 or 2?

I've played the Lite version of the first game and I've looked at gameplay videos of the second game, and it really seems like they've dumbed down the swing meter in the second game. It just appears to be so much easier than the first game since the swing meter moves so slowly. Is that actually the case?

I would've gotten the second game already due to the retina graphics, more courses, more golfers, etc., but the apparent difficulty level is starting to make me lean towards the first game instead.
 
You can earn more free Contests by clicking on an ad though. Not too bad for free. If you paid for it an are getting the short end of this however, you have my sympathy.
 
dream said:
I saw this on TUAW just now...


Is that true?
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It seems like the dev posted this at toucharcade a bit earlier today:

"The main reason for that limitation is to cover the cost of the servers. Stardunk has currently more than 786 online players and this has a significant cost.

But after reading your posts and your comments we decided to remove the limitation on the online contests. You can now play online as much as you want.

As a good news never comes alone, we also decided to drop the price of the premium from 2.99$ to 1.99$. The premium will only remove the ads.

As you can see we are listening to you and reacting quickly. So if you have any suggestion or comment, we would be happy to read it."

http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=1322066&postcount=335
 
I have to say, I'm pretty disappointed with iOS gaming so far. I guess I was expecting more DS/PSP-like experiences. Outside of Carcassonne and Undercroft, I haven't found anything to keep me interested beyond a few minutes or so.
 
RBH said:
Does anyone here have Let's Golf 1 or 2?

I've played the Lite version of the first game and I've looked at gameplay videos of the second game, and it really seems like they've dumbed down the swing meter in the second game. It just appears to be so much easier than the first game since the swing meter moves so slowly. Is that actually the case?

I would've gotten the second game already due to the retina graphics, more courses, more golfers, etc., but the apparent difficulty level is starting to make me lean towards the first game instead.
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You're correct. I ended up caving and bought LG 2 and there isn't much challenge. Graphics are great, but the slow swing meter speed greatly brings down the difficulty. To be honest, if they would have simply updated LG 1 with Retina Display, I would have preferred that.

I'll play it for a bit, but I'm really interested to see how Tiger Woods 11 turns out.
 
soldat7 said:
I have to say, I'm pretty disappointed with iOS gaming so far. I guess I was expecting more DS/PSP-like experiences. Outside of Carcassonne and Undercroft, I haven't found anything to keep me interested beyond a few minutes or so.
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Game-y games that I've played for hours:

Hook Champ/Super Quick Hook
Jet Car Stunts
Real Racing
Space Miner
EDGE
 
soldat7 said:
I have to say, I'm pretty disappointed with iOS gaming so far. I guess I was expecting more DS/PSP-like experiences. Outside of Carcassonne and Undercroft, I haven't found anything to keep me interested beyond a few minutes or so.
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Online Strategery or Words with Friends, dude. Those are unique, long-lasting experiences you're not going to get on the other systems.
 
Vyse The Legend said:
Should I play Sword & Poker 1? Or, is 2 significantly better?
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They're probably about 20-30 hours long each, and 2 has a lot more variation in it, I played 1 first, found it fun, but 2 has been more fun. They're really the same game, but 2 has a few extra twists and a little more polish.
 
Space Miner was amazing. The issue for Venan is it simply didn't sell that well.

Evidence here.

It's a real shame that it's difficult to sell A1 product at a fair price point. You can see when it goes to $1.99 and $0.99 they make the most money - but probably not enough to pay for a game such as this.

I'd love a sequel but it was telling that the next game they made was Trees Of Doom.
 
bigjimmystyle said:
Can anyone recommend a good SRPG? UniWar was an ok Advance Wars clone, but it got a bit stale after a while.
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Shining Force. An old Sega Genesis game in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics. REALLY good in-battle art.

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bigjimmystyle said:
UniWar was an ok Advance Wars clone, but it got a bit stale after a while.
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Not a genre I'm into, but I happen to have two such games on my phone for various reason.

One is Rogue Galaxy, made by the 1112 guys and published by Gameloft - great art but the plot starts out extremely generic. Maybe it gets better later on.

The other is Rebirth of Fortune, which to my untrained eye is a very faithful clone of the original Final Fantasy Tactics. Just be prepared for some Engrish.

Both have free versions available.
 
Stupid question perhaps but youll have to bare in mind ive never had a phone capable of mobile gaming before :o, im a bit of a technophobe, but is there any really deep and good rpgs for the Iphone? or is it not capable of such things?
 
Minsc said:
Some stuff you missed:
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Wow thanks for the effort of putting that together. I jumped and picked up StarDunk, Flight Control and Pinball HD, plus there's a lot more to keep on my radar. Pinball is jawdroppingly gorgeous. Each time I'm in the app store, I give a long look at Final Fantasy I but haven't pulled the trigger yet. The comments in the store claim that it crashes a lot... I'd love a good RPG but not sure it's worth the $. Also, I tried I demo of Sim City Deluxe and found it extremely frustrating. I had to hit the button to confirm moves several times to register even the simplest move in an empty tutorial. Either it's a problem with my ipod or a shoddy version. I'd love a portable Sim City if the hardware could handle it though. I've got plenty to keep me entertained now, but will keep referring to your list.
 
Mr Cola said:
Stupid question perhaps but youll have to bare in mind ive never had a phone capable of mobile gaming before :o, im a bit of a technophobe, but is there any really deep and good rpgs for the Iphone? or is it not capable of such things?
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Just some examples...

JRPG: Crimson Gem Saga, Chaos Rings
WRPG: Undercroft (free), The Quest.
 
Easy_D said:
Guess they never updated the demo then as it was sluggish and had horrible controls.
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Seriously, the demo hasn't been updated in a while and is horrible, I played that first before the full version as well and it gave me a bad impression, but then when it went on sale the first time it was a gamble/impulse buy for me and it turned out to be a decent to awesome port of MegaMan 2 for iPod/iPhone/iPad.
 
Question, is it possible to send an application/game that is strictly available to a iTunes store, for example the US store, to someone that's outside of that country?
 
tetrisgrammaton said:
my god can't these guys think of a new idea
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The games are actually great and very well done with tons of free post game content. If you actually read the FIRST fucking line of the link you would know it is their last racing game anyways as they already have something new in development.
 
Pandemic said:
Has anyone tried out Gangstar: Miami Vindication, the screenshots look pretty good,what are people's impressions on it?
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I don't know if it is low expectation or different standard, but these clones are the type of games that won't fly had it been on other systems. Imagine the hate it will get such as "copycat", "clone", "GTA wannabe" if it is on the other systems.

I would be less critical if it has more unique art style, but the game just scream 'uninspiring'.
 
The Pocket Frogs update is well worth getting It deals to the performance issues from the last version, adds the Froggydex, and makes some other small changes.
 
chiQ said:
The Pocket Frogs update is well worth getting It deals to the performance issues from the last version, adds the Froggydex, and makes some other small changes.
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I have to say it, I'm loving Pocket Frogs.
Simple, but very well done and addictive.
 
Splode is free today so pick it up! I just did. Great game. Check out Tap Tanks HD as well, it's also free today. It's an RTS style game with tanks.
 
Need more WRPG love...

Undercroft is an awesome fix for that brings me back to might and magic days.. And for free hell can't beat that.
 
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