iPhone/iPod Touch Games Thread

Brakara · 2009-12-19T15:14:10.000Z

The major problem with Wesnoth isn’t the performance, but the clunky controls.

Adree · 2009-12-19T16:56:38.000Z

Robert Sharp:

How did Song Summoner turn out? It looks like a Monster Rancher game mixed with FFTactics. It’s mentioned earlier in the thread, but I don’t see a followup.

I only tried the lite but it’s another lazy Square port, pinch and zoom only reveals how fucking horrible the character models are pixelated.

T11 · 2009-12-19T17:07:26.000Z

flyinj:

It has the latest patch? I have the full version, and i just checked for a patch and found none. It hasn’t been patched since release.

It says version 1.2, faster framerate, smoother map scrolling and many bug fixes and improvements.

tomchick · 2009-12-19T18:13:24.000Z

That’s weird. It’s only for the free version of Battle of Wesnoth, which I presume is a demo. I wonder what the deal is for those of us who paid $5 for this absolutely wretched iPhone port? I’ve dropped a fair bit of change on games for the system in the last month, but the only time like I felt I got truly ripped off was buying that piece of utter half-baked junk.

 -Tom

Adree · 2009-12-19T18:32:44.000Z

TomChick:

That’s weird. It’s only for the free version of Battle of Wesnoth, which I presume is a demo. I wonder what the deal is for those of us who paid $5 for this absolutely wretched iPhone port? I’ve dropped a fair bit of change on games for the system in the last month, but the only time like I felt I got truly ripped off was buying that piece of utter half-baked junk.
 -Tom

Decided to take 10 seconds and find this, shame on you Respected Internet Blogger!

Kyle Poole:

The status for Episode 2 has been updated to “In Review”, so fingers crossed it will be out in a few days…

Kyle Poole:

The new FREE version of Wesnoth was approved today, which includes the tutorial and the full South Guard campaign. Yes, the free version has the memory warning message that the full version was rejected for!

Culled from various posts

Long story short, he submitted the update and the demo at the same time and the update was rejected because it displayed a memory warning. It was then approved after the demo version was published on the app store. So if anyone is to blame it’s Apple.

Gus_Smedstad1 · 2009-12-19T18:54:52.000Z

I have a love / hate relationship with Wesnoth, so I probably wouldn’t buy it even if it didn’t have a reputation for being slow and clunky on the iPhone. The “to hit” nature of defense makes a few bad die rolls too important, and it’s remarkably easy to screw yourself without knowing you’ve done so until a later scenario. Particularly in the “Legend of Wesmere” campaign, where you discover around scenario 21 that you should have built up a force of flying level 4 units, even though flight wasn’t critical in any earlier scenario.

Pity, that. You don’t see many wargames these days with features like hex maps and zones of control.

Gus

krayzkrok · 2009-12-19T19:01:54.000Z

Equis:

Add me so I can compare my geoSpark score with Krok and Chick.

KHAAAAN!

Equis · 2009-12-19T19:21:48.000Z

Buahahahahahaha!

tomchick · 2009-12-19T19:35:53.000Z

Hey, you guys tracking GeoSpark scores should friend my buddy Psycdude.

-Tom

OrfBC · 2009-12-19T19:48:38.000Z

I has free Uniwar! Is there a list of people’s Uniwargamertags anywhere? Mine is Orf BC.

sam_and_the_firefly · 2009-12-19T20:23:54.000Z

ARogan:

I finally sat down and tried Nova briefly.

It’s basically halo for you iphone down to a female AI construct and recharging shield. Controls are about as good as you can expect. Increasing the sensitivity helps quite a bit. The virtual left stick is a bit small but other than that it works as good or even better than modern combat: sandstorm. Weapons feel good and the graphics look great running at a very smooth framerate (3gs).

So far this is the closest feeling I’ve had playing a modern fps on a hand held.

Yeah. Technically the game is excellent, and it’s a shame the setting/story/plagiarism gives me absolutely no motivation to play it. As a proof of concept for what could happen if the world went mad and Microsoft made Halo for the iPhone (or Zune HD I guess), it’s pretty awesome.

Ephraim · 2009-12-19T20:24:08.000Z

DanielElliot:

I has free Uniwar! Is there a list of people’s Uniwargamertags anywhere? Mine is Orf BC.

Yep! I created a Social Group for us awhile back.

Adree · 2009-12-19T21:28:07.000Z

sam and the firefly:

Yeah. Technically the game is excellent, and it’s a shame the setting/story/plagiarism gives me absolutely no motivation to play it. As a proof of concept for what could happen if the world went mad and Microsoft made Halo for the iPhone (or Zune HD I guess), it’s pretty awesome.

Story of Gameloft’s life.

WhollySchmidt · 2009-12-19T21:40:12.000Z

Tracy Baker:

I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, but the video looks like they took every frustrating controller-throwing gameplay element from the 80s and built an entire game out of them.

Yeah, wow. That looks like the last kind of game I’d ever want to play with touch-screen buttons.

krayzkrok · 2009-12-20T04:06:25.000Z

TomChick:

Hey, you guys tracking GeoSpark scores should friend my buddy Psycdude.

I want my old leaderboard back.

[edit]I take it back, there’s nothing like a little inspiration.

Tracy_Baker · 2009-12-20T07:12:38.000Z

Wholly Schmidt:

Yeah, wow. That looks like the last kind of game I’d ever want to play with touch-screen buttons.

I tried the Free 50 Levels version and the controls have potential to be good as they are split so right/left are on the left-hand side and up/down are on the right-hand side. I didn’t play long enough for my brain to get used to it, but with practice it would likely work better than a virtual D-pad. I may never know, because the Pac-Man gameplay in the first fifteen or so levels I tried wasn’t exactly inspiring.

nixon66 · 2009-12-20T08:18:29.000Z

Defender Chronicles is back down to $.99 Finally picked it up last night after enjoying the demo a ton, and all of everyone’s recommendations.

Chris_Nahr · 2009-12-20T08:54:12.000Z

Touch Arcade has rounded up some free versions of good games. I didn’t know that The Settlers and Rogue Planet now have trial versions.

ARogan · 2009-12-20T12:12:54.000Z

Save your money and avoid ridge racer. Graphics look ps one, framerate is a bit choppy even on the 3gs, there is almost no sense of speed, bulk of the content is dlc, and worst of all are the controls. Tilt steering is the only method and it is horribly broken. It feels completly sluggish and unresponsive (even after cranking up the sensitivity). Starting and maintaining a proper power slide is almost impossible. I would much prefer they just implement the slider bar steering like in pole position.

Adree · 2009-12-20T12:18:26.000Z

ARogan:

Save your money and avoid ridge racer. Graphics look ps one, framerate is a bit choppy even on the 3gs, there is almost no sense of speed, bulk of the content is dlc, and worst of all are the controls. Tilt steering is the only method and it is horribly broken. It feels completly sluggish and unresponsive. Starting and maintaining a proper power slide is almost impossible. I would much prefer they just implement the slider bar steering like in pole position.

You’d be foolish to buy any Namco game since in-game charging for content was enabled, just like on the 360 they love to sell you a game and then sell you the rest of the game.