iOS Games Thread

Mini-Cyn · 2013-06-21T13:51:56.000Z

LeeAbe:

The controls seem off on Puzzle Pirates, I cant put my finger on why, maybe not responsive enough?

I haven’t had any problems to be honest. Well, besides the size of the interface for my fat sausage fingers.

Tyjenks · 2013-06-21T14:07:58.000Z

Does your info transfer from old, PC accounts?

nKoan · 2013-06-21T14:35:41.000Z

There is an option to login with an existing account, but I didn’t try it so I don’t know what transfers.

slantz · 2013-06-21T14:38:53.000Z

I logged in w/ my old account. There I was, with my raggy clothes and my old pet rat Scabbers. I also had badges with a few days left on them. So that was a pleasant surprise. Those are years old, but only tick down on days you log in.

This does not appear to be a port, but rather an iOS-native full-fledged gateway into the game.

slantz · 2013-06-21T15:15:27.000Z

I believe next Thursday is Duels of the Plainswalkers 2014 (the Magic CCG adapatation for iOS). There is a pretty awesome-looking new Sealed Deck Campaign for those looking for a more open-ended deckbuilding experience than the series has offered in the past. Not entirely sure how constrained that is, but I have seen gameplay videos that seem to indicate you get to build limited decks from opened boosters.

Profanicus · 2013-06-21T15:40:40.000Z

Ninyu:

I picked it up last night. It plays really well with the touchscreen. One thing I noticed was I couldn’t change the color of the armor like I could on the PC version. Makes telling the specialties of my soldiers at a glance a little more difficult. Not a huge problem though.

That’s because customizing colours was DLC on other platforms - the so-called “Elite Soldier Pack”. It came free as a preorder bonus but costs about $8 on Steam now.

opkopk · 2013-06-21T15:51:30.000Z

Cold Blooded:

(Seemed more appropriate for here rather than bargains thread. Apologies to any detractors of much-hated green mermaid, and to any for whom this is old news.)

Starbucks Coffee’s ongoing “pick of the week” program offers one free app per week via company’s own mobile app in tandem with in-store wifi. In other words, physically setting foot inside one of Starbucks’ many fine establishments required, apparently.

According to review site SlideToPlay.com, this week’s free app: the usually 99-cent game Bike Baron.

Have not participated in program and likely will not do so personally, but figured it might be of interest to any secret Starbucks regulars on lookout for freebies.

Be been picking up the cards in the stores for years. Now you get an additional one per week via the app. It’s quick and easy. If you don’t like the app (they’re not all games) just delete and via the miracle of iTunes accounts its there forever if you want it.

JeffL · 2013-06-23T07:45:07.000Z

rezaf:

If XCOM was more replayable, more people would be picking it up on the new platform, I’d guess. But even LESS maps and otherwise the same old canned campaign experience?
Maybe I’d still be tempted, the “steamlined” gameplay suits my mobile gaming habits better (as far as I even have them), but I only own an iPod 4, which is not supported - even if it were, I’d have to be able to get it for like 75% off.

rezaf

Wait - this is not a port of the original XCom, but rather the recent remake??

nKoan · 2013-06-23T08:23:38.000Z

Yes this is a port of Enemy Unknown, the recent remake.

JeffL · 2013-06-23T12:00:28.000Z

nKoan:

Yes this is a port of Enemy Unknown, the recent remake.

Well, crap. I was really excited thinking the original was going to be on the iPad. phhhtttttt.

Dejin · 2013-06-23T12:02:03.000Z

Rob O'Boston:

How does the Warhammer iOS game gets its own thread and XCOM iOS gets squat?

On a snarky-level it’s really very straightforward. Someone (say for example you) needs to take advantage of that big button in the top-left corner of the webpage labelled “+Post New Thread”. Then XCOM iOS will have its own thread. Don’t complain about it, do something about it if you really think XCOM iOS should have it’s own thread.

On a non-snarky-level, I created the Warhammer iOS thread because I’d never heard of the game and it sounded like great fun (which it was). I figured others would want to hear about it and maybe discuss it – 249 posts in the Warhammer Quest thread suggests it was a reasonable decision. At this point, I think we’ve all heard of XCOM and in fact most of us have played it. I really enjoyed it and played for many hours although I didn’t finish it (because I’ve got the globe covered with Satellites and that seems to just leave large-UFO-cleanup-mission after large-UFO-cleanup-mission to do, which I find the least enjoyable type of mission). But while the new XCOM is a great game, it’s already been discussed pretty heavily (according to the bboard I myself have got 66 posts in the PC/XBox XCOM thread).

On a meta level, my preference is that any time there’s going to be more than say a dozen or so posts on a game, I’d just as soon it gets its own thread instead of them all going into the general iOS thread. So if you think there’s going to be a dozen or two dozen posts discussing iOS XCOM, please create a new thread! Although iOS XCOM posts could probably go into the general XCOM thread instead of a new thread.

Spoit · 2013-06-23T15:15:33.000Z

Charlatan:

AppShopper is what I use, but I think they had to change it to comply with some sort of iTunes store rule. Their website (which is… www.appshopper.com … appears to let you do the same thing on a website, though).

Any of those track sales on IAP too?

lostcawz · 2013-06-23T16:56:22.000Z

JeffL:

Well, crap. I was really excited thinking the original was going to be on the iPad. phhhtttttt.

I think its been mentioned earlier in this thread but Aliens vs Humans is a good remake of the original that just got an update a week or so ago. And its priced at about 2 bucks I believe.

Jeremy_Johnsen · 2013-06-23T18:00:27.000Z

PWN just dropped to free in the App store. I think it’s been mentioned a few times upthread.

sclpls · 2013-06-23T21:10:01.000Z

JeffL:

Well, crap. I was really excited thinking the original was going to be on the iPad. phhhtttttt.

Sounds like you are looking for the Aliens vs. Humans app, which is a very faithful clone of the original.

Mini-Cyn · 2013-06-24T07:21:12.000Z

Jeremy Johnsen:

PWN just dropped to free in the App store. I think it’s been mentioned a few times upthread.

Not only this, but they recently added online multiplayer.

tomchick · 2013-06-24T07:55:21.000Z

And a bitchin’ skill system.

-Tom

Chaplin · 2013-06-24T09:23:15.000Z

Tom Chick:

And a bitchin’ skill system.

-Tom

Oh yeah. I remember when I first learned the Trojan skill. Good, but awkward times. Wait, what are we talking about?

JeffL · 2013-06-24T16:00:05.000Z

sclpls:

Sounds like you are looking for the Aliens vs. Humans app, which is a very faithful clone of the original.

I just looked on my iPad - I have that game! One of those I bought on an impulse after reading about it, then never played, lol.

WhollySchmidt · 2013-06-24T16:38:36.000Z

Well I’ve never played XCOM on another platform (or X-Com, or xCom, or X-whatever, any of them), and the iPad version allows for a clever loophole in my “Don’t buy more console games until you finish the ones you own” rule. So I’m loving XCOM on the iPad. Hooray!