iPhone/iPod Touch Games Thread

Cubit · 2010-02-15T11:28:43.000Z

LMN8R:

I love me some Plants vs. Zombies, but since I already beat it more than once on PC, I’m not jumping on this right away. Especially without the fantastic minigames, which I expect will be added as in-app purchases instead

Hopefully. I’d pay a few more bucks for them, especially the pot breaking game.

Wendelius · 2010-02-15T12:00:26.000Z

Adree:

Buy Angry Birds, they just added more levels and dropped it down to a buck.

Just did. Thanks for the recommendation. It’s a great game and the kids will love it as they were playing a Flash variant of the same idea (or the original flash game, who knows) a couple of weeks ago.

Wendelius

nixon66 · 2010-02-15T14:01:25.000Z

Ah, it’s great to be playing PvZ again. And for only $2.99?!?! Even better!

Fun little Easter egg: keep scrolling down on the achivements page. You’ll recognize a few things on your way down.

ceolstan · 2010-02-16T07:42:31.000Z

I was just thinking the other day that PvZ would make an awesome iPhone/iTouch game. And now it is here.

Yes, I just spent the $2.99. It is all I can do NOT to turn it on at work.

Cubit · 2010-02-16T11:51:50.000Z

So apparently the iPhone is getting a Street Fighter 4 port. I can’t even imagine how tough this is gonna be to control.

Slide to Play – 15 Feb 10

Street Fighter IV Coming to iPhone | Slide to Play

One of the best fighting games in recent memory is coming to the iPhone, continuing the onslaught of big-name console series we've seen announced for the i

whereiswaldo · 2010-02-16T13:09:29.000Z

Just to echo some of the other comments. PvZ is an excellent port. A day one buy for me

ARogan · 2010-02-16T14:42:23.000Z

I have now played more PvZ on the iphone in one night than I have on steam, and I preordered pvz on steam.

Rob_Merritt · 2010-02-17T05:05:44.000Z

I’m on level 1-8 of PvZ and I’m having massive frame rate issues on my iphone 3g. It doesn’t seem to be effecting my ability to play the game. At least not yet.

Eric_P · 2010-02-17T05:09:30.000Z

it loads slow as hell for me but i haven’t noticed any framerate issues on my 3gs

mike · 2010-02-17T05:31:15.000Z

Papageno:

I picked this iPhone version up for 7 bucks during this weekend’s sale, and like it, except I’m having a real hard time with the driving. I can’t decide whether analog or digital steering is better. Right now I’m on the early car theft mission and the best I can do is get two cars of the three back to the garage, mostly I think due to how badly my driving sucks. Does anyone know whether the little hacking minigame for one of the cars takes place in real time or whether the mission timer is paused during it? Because that one is killing me, and if it’s eating time off the mission timer, that’s messed up.

This one took me longer on the iphone than the DS for sure. I do think the hacking games are included in your overall time. My strategy was to start with the car that was the farthest away, and work my way back. I got it after a few tries, but I find I am all over the road with my cars, where on the DS, I was a little better.

Cubit · 2010-02-18T06:57:42.000Z

Has anyone tried out Noby Noby Boy yet?

sam_and_the_firefly · 2010-02-18T08:59:35.000Z

Yeah. It’s pretty awesome! It practically replaces the entire iPhone OS, except for making calls. I don’t think you can go wrong if you’re down with the concept of the PS3 game (i.e. not having one).

WhollySchmidt · 2010-02-18T10:22:26.000Z

Cubit:

Has anyone tried out Noby Noby Boy yet?

Crashes at launch every time for me. BOY is sad. Let me know if anyone hears of a solution.

PeterGinsberg · 2010-02-18T10:39:19.000Z

Wholly Schmidt:

Crashes at launch every time for me. BOY is sad. Let me know if anyone hears of a solution.

Anytime this happens with an iPhone app, it means you’re out of memory. Restart your phone (hold power button, slide to power off, wait, hit power again).

WhollySchmidt · 2010-02-18T10:41:35.000Z

malphigian:

Anytime this happens with an iPhone app, it means you’re out of memory. Restart your phone (hold power button, slide to power off, wait, hit power again).

That was the first thing I tried. Also tried deleting and redownloading, twice. No luck.

Cubit · 2010-02-18T12:42:26.000Z

That Space Miner: Space Ore Bust game is on sale for $1.99.

Editer · 2010-02-18T13:06:15.000Z

Cubit:

That Space Miner: Space Ore Bust game is on sale for $1.99.

Sweet. I was waiting for this moment! Off to the App Store.*

The pricing on the App Store has to be hell on developers. I’m now conditioned to think a good game should be 99 cents, a great game $2.99, and maybe something like Civ Rev justifies $4.99. The only reason I think this is because of how the other apps are priced, but that does set an expectation. I’d probably have been just as pleased with a $2.99 to $9.99 scale had the pricing landscape been different, but no going back now.

Citiznmatt · 2010-02-18T14:12:11.000Z

Cubit:

That Space Miner: Space Ore Bust game is on sale for $1.99.

Dammit! bought it last week at full price. Oh well, it is a pretty sweet little game.

Wasn’t Star Control 2 supposed to be out by now?

flyinj · 2010-02-18T14:16:41.000Z

Citiznmatt:

Wasn’t Star Control 2 supposed to be out by now?

What?

Gus_Smedstad1 · 2010-02-18T14:39:38.000Z

Lots of updates at CCI until late November, and then nothing. My guess is the iPhone port of Star Control 2 will never see the light of day.

Gus