3641

Man, I suck so bad at Battle for Wesnoth.

Come to think of it, I’m not so hot at UniWar either.

…

:(

Anyway, I can’t totally agree or disagree with Charles. I actually found some of Rimelands to be enjoyable, primarily the degree to which you can minmax, but for the most part the character building system is useless since once you start down a path there’s no reason to start down another and he’s absolutely right that the game is more linear than most recent Final Fantasy games. It’s not even that well written. I still liked it enough to play through to the end, despite the near lack of any real reason to explore dungeons or … fuck. Why did I play this game? Oh right, the dice rolling gimmick. It’s just a visceral thrill to see a bunch of skulls roll up and then you do five billion damage.

I actually don’t care for The Quest, but that’s just me. One day they’ll reduce it to .99 and I’ll go ahead and buy the core game.

“For $.99 you can’t go wrong” is a bullshit credo, as my experience with Puzzlevania has taught me, but with games like Angry Birds, Cut the Rope and Slice It, it’s true. I say this as someone who had fever nightmares about Slice It when sick with the flu over the past weekend and who kind of hates Cut the Rope. You owe it to yourself to at least try all three. Don’t make any plans.

There are plenty of board games that should be on anyone’s iPhone. Neuroshima Hex. Carcassonne. Kingsburg. The ones I haven’t thought of.

I’d never heard of Pistols at Dawn until spelk mentioned it upthread. I grabbed the free version, played for five minutes and then downloaded the pay version. Fun and fast.

Keep your eyes open for the new Chair/Epic game coming out, Infinity Blade. I have no idea if it’s good, but it looks like it’s going to be the next showpiece.

So did GAIA get rid of their free versions of Sword & Poker and Sword & Poker 2, cos while both are there, neither would download. I know everyone loves these games and I’d like to give them a try, but I’m crap at games and hate paying for stuff that makes me sad.

3642

Plants versus Zombies is a great pick, works really well on the platform. Osmos is also a really good port.

Here’s my 4 picks:

Fruit Ninja - simple game, great fun, controls that play to the strengths of the device. Also, cheap.

Angry Birds - there is a reason that this game has dominated the ap store for as long as anyone can remember.

Space Miner: Space or Bust - Great fun, some RPG-lite mechanics in there, the basic gameplay is simple and lots of fun. Ship customisation is just right, imo.

Ninjatown: Trees of Doom - same dev as Space Miner. Much simpler game, but it’s very well crafted. You climb 2 trees, jumping back and forth between them as needed, avoiding obstacles.

Edit: Forgot to mention, Driver is free today only. Gameloft are making one game free each day of December.

3643

Friendly reminder:

I wouldn’t buy much now since the Christmas sale is around the corner.
Granted I’m pretty new to iDevices apps but if it’s anywhere close the Thanksgiving one from last week it will be absolutely crazy!
No need to buy anything above $.99 right now imo.

Also: “Geared” went free today (as announced on various sites since a week). No idea why they did it but it’s a great physics puzzler in the spirit of “The Incredible Machine”.

3644

(Just adding a little post here because two bloody days in a row I’ve clicked on the link to page 122 and then didn’t notice that page 121 had just reloaded until I was half-way down it. Both times I assumed that the posts were familiar because I’d read them in the daily email digest I get for this thread :/ ).

3645

Yes, today’s totally sweet entry in the Gameloft advent calendar is… a link to a youtube video of their upcoming scifi RTS.

3646

…which clearly isn’t going to be anything like Starcraft. At all.

FYI - Dungeon Raid. Get it.

3647

hey forum, I recently spent some time with my game Quozzle Quest and it was kind of interesting. I forgot all rules and had to learn them again. There is nothing out there like QQ ;) I have 10 free codes for the game, if you are interested, then PM me…

here is a gameplay video

The secret sidegame starts at minute 2:08

3648

Re: Dungeon Raid. This sounds pretty cool, different enemy types.

Fireflame Games has already submitted an update to Apple and is awaiting review and approval for release. Version 1.1 will include an additional fifteen enemy types and ten new skills to keep players ever interested and excited.

3649

I hope there are new quests, like “gather 10 mushrooms” and “save the village’s goats”!

3650

Gameloft advent calendar’s deal of the day is Dungeon Hunter! For free!

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On Android!

Fuuuck.

Though it looks like EA has the backs of iPhone gamers today. Bunch of stuff for $.99, including Heroes Lore III (no idea what this is) and their new MMA game. FIFA 11 is $1.99.

3651

I just checked the Android market place and I don’t even see that game there.

3652

Fumes is free today. A remake of the classic Stunt Car Racer on the Amiga, running at 60fps.

Very cool.

3653

So I just saw Cut the Rope for the first time last night on a friend’s iPad. Good lord, I hate hate hate that game. I can see the appeal, but if I played Cut the Rope, I know I would end up despising all iPhone gaming forever and ever.

 -Tom
3654

That’s the little game where you feed the creature? I played that thing for a long time in the Apple store the other day. My kid loved it.

3655

How could you not like it???

3656

Yeah, I can understand not liking the genre, but as far as iPhone puzzle games go Cut the Rope is right at the top.

3657

Oh, it’s definitely a “me problem”. That sort of precision puzzle solving isn’t my bag. If I know the solution to something and I still have to finesse the timing like Cut the Rope expects, it drives me batty. I’m okay with that sort of finesse in, say, an action game. But in something supposedly cerebral like Cut the Rope, it just infuriates me.

Some of the guys watching it last night were absolutely sold. In fact, BDGE was immediately like, “Oh, man, I have to download this to my iPhone right now.” I think he bought it then and there.

 -Tom
3658

Never liked Incredible Machine either, Tom?

3659

Ride the bubble up the layers and blow the hospital, Tom.

3660

Yeah, Cut the Rope definitely asks for more finger-reflexes from you than I usually like in a puzzle game.

Despite my misgivings, I still managed to 300/300 the first four boxes. I stopped really liking the game very much by the time that 300/300 was over, but I did it and feel I got my $.99 worth. Which is why I can honestly say after playing the first half-dozen or so puzzles from the Cosmic Box, the game can just go fuck itself. Angry Birds has snow bricks now, frog, and Slice It has a candy cane pencil. So you get your own damn gravity-bubble-gravity-cut-gravity-pop-cut-gravity-bubble-balloon-balloon-gravity-pop candy.

What an incredibly bizarre comparison.