I don’t want to start an IAP debate, and I recognize my opinion probably doesn’t count for a hill of beans in a world where you’re trying to get your business model to make ends meet, but I will say that I’m not paying for an app that obviously has in-game currency as an IAP without a lot of feedback saying that the IAP isn’t necessary. You’re charging me the one currency I value most highly, time. Namely, the time to figure whether or not you’re trying to nickle and dime me into frustration.
I remember hearing about this game a couple a little while ago, went to check it out, and as soon as I saw a price and in-game currency IAPs, I went back to my regularly scheduled browsing, never gave your game a second thought.
Manresa
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Dark Meadow is super grindy, unless you buy in-game gold. Since the combat is less engaging than Infinity Blade, I’d recommend skipping it, FTP or not.
Eh, I guess, though it depends on what you’re trying to do. I got it for, um, I think a buck or something, can’t remember, and never spent a dime on gold. Finished at least one run-through with little difficulty, and got my money’s worth. If you insist on repeating the essentially identical “campaign” a bajillion times trying to get every weapon and item, I suppose it would indeed be horribly grindy, but why do that? There doesn’t seem to be any real payoff, or anything new, after the first dozen hours or so. Unless I missed something by not grinding more! Still, for free, why not?
This may just be personal preference, but I never found the game to grindy. At least not anymore grindy than Infinity Blade, which was just the same exact thing over and over. No real story. Just battle after battle linked together by pretty scenes. When I died in dark meadow it meant I got to go back, and find snippets of story, listen to the old man’s tale, and find out why I’m there which in the end drew me more to dark meadow than infinity blade drew me in. I guess it all depends on your preference. Flashy sequences connected together by a pretty railroad, or a story with an amusing, semi psychotic old man.
Jag
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Samurai vs Zombies free today by Glu Games. Has an Army of Darkness feel, but not nearly as fun. Tons of micro purchase opportunities, but so far it seems like you can play it fine without buying anything.
So Draw Something is barely a game. It’s pictionary, but it’s not competitive, there’s no time limit, there are no enforced rules of any kind really. Guess wrong all you want, just write out the word for someone to guess if you’re a jerk, whatever. So it’s probably just the fact that it’s fundamentally amusing to draw stupid things and see stupid things drawn that accounts for its popularity.
You pick one of three words, draw it, and send it to your friend, where they watch a replay of you drawing it and try to guess it from a subset of the alphabet.
For my part, I took about ten minutes painstakingly drawing the nyan cat before erasing the whole thing and drawing the real word, just to annoy my friend. It’s kind of sad/awesome how easily I can amuse myself.
Draw Something crashes constantly on my 4th gen iPod. I think it gets worse the more turns you put in, but I’ve got a 10 turn game going on right now and it’s crashing pretty much every time I load it. It’s not enjoyable.
When it actually works, it is an amusing diversion. I can’t draw worth a shit in ideal circumstances, so trying to draw on here is humiliating. I’m left handed but since I always hold my iPod with my left I instinctively draw with my right. It honestly makes no difference.
This thread might be relevant to readers here: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=125904
I’m not going to hold my breath. Vincere Totalus Astrum (sp) was okay, but the updates they kept promising were average at best, or never appeared.
It’s kind of funny that Draw Something is getting so much attention when iSketch (basically competitive Pictionary and hugely fun) has been around for about a decade. There must be something similar for iOS. I suppose Draw Something has the whole asynchronous thing going for it.
Fireball SE is excellent. It’s basically Pacifism mode from Geometry Wars 2 but with some subtle but important differences. You trigger bombs by either flying into them for instant boom, or by flying close to them for a delayed boom, taking out nearby enemies. You also have a “meltdown” state which slows the game down considerably, enabling some dramatic squeezing between groups of enemies, but you only have a few seconds at most and you need to kill enemies to recharge it. Overall it’s a tightly tuned game of brinkmanship, you never seem more than a second or two from death. There’s just enough innovation from its inspiration to be great.
Swordigo is awesome. It’s like a Zelda II/Metroid hybrid. It’s receiving some of the highest praise I’ve ever seen on the TA forums, and well deserved.
nixon66
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I was hoping to hear anything about this game on here. I think I’ll pick up Swordigo after all.
On screen “button” controls, or whatever we call them? I’ve gotten burned so many times before…
JeffL
5694
My excitement was tempered when I saw no fog of war and only one map.
ioticus
5695
I enjoyed Warlords 3 on the PC years ago so I got Warlords IS for the iPad. Glad I only payed a buck for it because I think it’s terrible. It’s slow with crap UI and graphics, and game play options are very limited. Very limited strategic options compared with Warlords 3. Not fun at all.
JeffL
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I haven’t made it through the entire thread yet, but I highly recommend Fairway Solitaire by Big Fish Games. It was addictive on the PC, and just as addictive on the iPhone. You can play some for free, then pay for more if you like it (only 0.99) Great game.
KevinM
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100 rogues is free till wednesday. its a great dungeon crawler.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/100-rogues/id354011870?mt=8
Bought Fairway Solitaire based on this post and it’s a great little addictive game. Thanks!
Seconded! It’s helping fill the time till Nightfall comes out.
Is there any difference between the non- and HD versions aside from graphics and price?
