flameboy Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Sure we already have the app store thread in tech talk but I think we are now way past the stage where the iPod Touch/iPhone can now be classed as a viable gaming platform, it is end of and it deserves its own thread. Despite what some people may have said rather dismissively when I started I started this thread back in 2007: http://www.n-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18536 I asked: Does the Itouch's abilities lend well to it being a competitor for DS? to which we had replies like: I can't see the iPhone/iPod Touch becoming a real gaming platform With games so affordable on it as well I thought why not have a gaming club of sorts where we all latch on to a game and play through it. So yeah watcha been playing whats new and what do you recommend? Also might serve as a good thread for people's gamecenter ID's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Hell yeah. Ever since I left my 360 back at home for this academic year, all I've had is my iPhone to play games on, and recently I've been completely hooked on: Osmos: A game of fantastic ideas, seemingly based around Spore's cell stage gameplay, where you control a small cell like organism that has the capacity to absorb other organisms smaller than it. Tapping the screen on one side of the screen propels your cell or "mote" in the opposite direction in what becomes game of inertial control as well as having to be aware of environmental factors. That's just the basic concept though, and they play around with it giving you various gameplay scenarios. Can't see it being done on anything other than the iPhone. Super Quickhook: You have a grappling hook which is your main means of traversal, with which you navigate levels of increasing difficulty by swinging. A load of fun. Super Mega Wyrm: Defies description. There are a buttload more that I got, but these are eating my mornings on the shitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happenstance Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 I need to get around to playing the Monkey Island and Final Fantasy games I bought for my iPod, at the moment I just use the quick play ones. Still love them though. Just bought Scrabble, Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit as I noticed they were on sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted November 18, 2010 Author Share Posted November 18, 2010 Hell yeah. Ever since I left my 360 back at home for this academic year, all I've had is my iPhone to play games on, and recently I've been completely hooked on: Osmos: A game of fantastic ideas, seemingly based around Spore's cell stage gameplay, where you control a small cell like organism that has the capacity to absorb other organisms smaller than it. Tapping the screen on one side of the screen propels your cell or "mote" in the opposite direction in what becomes game of inertial control as well as having to be aware of environmental factors. That's just the basic concept though, and they play around with it giving you various gameplay scenarios. Can't see it being done on anything other than the iPhone. Super Quickhook: You have a grappling hook which is your main means of traversal, with which you navigate levels of increasing difficulty by swinging. A load of fun. Super Mega Wyrm: Defies description. There are a buttload more that I got, but these are eating my mornings on the shitter. YES YES YES! I heard about this on the Weekend Confirmed podcast and they loved it. I've played the Lite version and fully intend to buy the full version. Yeah there are a buttload of these cheap throwaway titles that end up being real timesuckers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintendohnut Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Angry Birds is obviously high in the list at the moment. I watched someone playing it and wasn't too interested, but I got the lite version and was hooked. The real game is huge, and great value for money. Cut the rope is also surprisingly good, although short. Minigore is fun, little isometric shooter game where you have to stave off zombies for as long as possible. Free at the moment too. Wordfu and Charadium are not too bad, and if you like risk, Lux Touch is a great little game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 YES YES YES! I heard about this on the Weekend Confirmed podcast and they loved it. I've played the Lite version and fully intend to buy the full version. Yeah there are a buttload of these cheap throwaway titles that end up being real timesuckers! One of the most ingenious little games. It's so interesting to see how much can be done when game designers go back to basics with an interface as basic as a touch screen, and create these little byte size portions of perfect gameplay. Game design on a microscopic level. Also, shout outs go to Mirrors Edge which really is a great version of the game, albeit far far too short, and I've yet to see what it looks like on my new iPhone 4, apparently its supposed to be gorgeous on the retina display. Action Buggy is also a great trajectory based on rails shooting game. In terms of puzzles, I shudder to think about the amount of time I must have spent on Drop 7 and Geared thus far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegoMan1031 Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Ive never really played many games on my iphone but more so resontly. A free game called 'Falldown' had me addicted for a bit, very simple yet ace! I downloaded chess the other day on it, pitty there is no single player but i did connect to 2 random ppl online to play against, won 1 and lost 1. If there is any chess players who have it downloaded (i downloaded it through the game centre one) then let me know and i shall play you! I used to love chess but its been years since ive played it properly!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathjam Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Hell yeah. Ever since I left my 360 back at home for this academic year, all I've had is my iPhone to play games on, and recently I've been completely hooked on: Osmos: A game of fantastic ideas, seemingly based around Spore's cell stage gameplay, where you control a small cell like organism that has the capacity to absorb other organisms smaller than it. Tapping the screen on one side of the screen propels your cell or "mote" in the opposite direction in what becomes game of inertial control as well as having to be aware of environmental factors. That's just the basic concept though, and they play around with it giving you various gameplay scenarios. Can't see it being done on anything other than the iPhone. Super Quickhook: You have a grappling hook which is your main means of traversal, with which you navigate levels of increasing difficulty by swinging. A load of fun. Super Mega Wyrm: Defies description. There are a buttload more that I got, but these are eating my mornings on the shitter. To mimic flameboy: YES! YES! YES! Although I have the predecessor instead and my god is it hardcore. Only just started it but I can see it becoming so damn hard, yet retaining that '1 more go'. Also playing Zenonia 2. Much better RPG than the first game in the mold zelda or secret of mana, and very addictive although it can be a little buggy. Sudoku Magic. I like my sudoku, what can I say. I also play my games on the shitter. Make things fly by...or out :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 charliedouglas89 - add me, people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted November 19, 2010 Author Share Posted November 19, 2010 Anyone played Baseball Superstars? Just saw theres a free version of it thats new and fully featured just its ad supported. I love how already I have 20 games ready to go and for next to nothing, so many cool free to play games and/or cheap games... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 I love Cut the Rope. Whilst I found Angry Birds to be nothing more than a rather long version of many free flash games I've been playing for years, Cut the Rope was refreshingly unique, if a little easy and short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted November 19, 2010 Author Share Posted November 19, 2010 Only played the lite version of cut the rope, does it really not get any harder? I'm unsure whether to get angry birds used to have it on my nokia n900 and enjoyed not sure if there is much long term. Seen vids on kotaku today of rage for iphone looks awesome! Posted from my BlackBerry using BerryBlab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 Angry Birds is great for a 10 minute blast. I don't think I've touched it since then (but I never have any motivation to play mobile games for long anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 Change the title to iOS Gaming Thread please. Rage HD is out now, it doesn't look that far off a 360 game. Gameplay is a little simple but it's an amazing tech demo of what the hardware can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 Only played the lite version of cut the rope, does it really not get any harder? It gets a little bit harder and a fair bit more complicated, but it's still over all too quickly. New levels coming soon though apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted November 19, 2010 Author Share Posted November 19, 2010 It gets a little bit harder and a fair bit more complicated, but it's still over all too quickly. New levels coming soon though apparently. Yeah I saw there was apparently an update coming. I'm proper pissed my shiny new iPod won't be arriving until on week tomorrow now because they mucked up my order and I won't be in any time during the day in the next week so that means no iPod fun for me this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintendohnut Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 I'll be getting an iPhone very soon so I'll be able to enjoy them in all their retina-display glory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted November 19, 2010 Author Share Posted November 19, 2010 I wonder is there cause for this thread to become stickied and become iOS Gaming General Discussion? Seems a lot of interest in just a short space of time I reckon the convo will be flowing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 I agree...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted November 19, 2010 Author Share Posted November 19, 2010 I agree...... Good! I mean how many machines are there out there millions upon millions...it deserves to be up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted November 22, 2010 Author Share Posted November 22, 2010 couple of bargains doing the rounds: Cheap chinatown wars: http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Various/Grand+Theft+Auto%3A+Chinatown+Wars+(iPhone)/news.asp?c=24982 Gamevil drops a few prices: http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Black+Friday+sales+2010/news.asp?c=25331 I picked up Zenonia for just 50p looks like it is well worth it. Finally and perhaps the best Namco reducing ton of games to 99c so what 59p from 25th november to 1 December Priced down to 99c Avatwee BIT.TRIP BEAT BIT.TRIP BEAT HD Dug Dug Remix Galaga Remix Garters & Ghouls Gator Panic Inspector Gadget Isaac Newton's Gravity Lt. Fly Rise of the Arachnids Mr. Driller Ms. PAC-MAN Noby Noby Boy PAC-Attack PAC-Chain PAC-Chain Compact PAC-MAN PAC-MAN for iPad PAC-MAN Championship Edition PAC-Match Party PAC-Match Party HD PAC-MAN Remix Pole Position: Remix Pool Pro Online 3 Pool Pro Online 3 for iPad Star Trigon Tamagotchi: Round the World Time Crisis Strike Tinseltown Dreams: The 50s Priced down to $2.99 Ace Combat Xi i Love Katamari Ridge Racer Accelerated Priced down to $4.99 Time Crisis 2nd Strike I will defintely pick up a version of pacman at that price. Any suggestion as to which is best? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegoMan1031 Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I will prob get Pac-Man as well at some point... as to which version.... no idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted November 23, 2010 Author Share Posted November 23, 2010 I will prob get Pac-Man as well at some point... as to which version.... no idea! yeah....same I was leaning towards Championship Edition just because its newest and mixes things up abit.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog-amoto Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Championship Edition is absolutely awesome, especially now all the extras are unlocked (they used to charge for extra levels!) Just hope they bring the DX edition out soon as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted November 23, 2010 Author Share Posted November 23, 2010 Championship Edition is absolutely awesome, especially now all the extras are unlocked (they used to charge for extra levels!) Just hope they bring the DX edition out soon as well Cool sounds good! I will probably pick up on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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