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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #440 on: Wednesday, March 07, 2012, 02:53:00 PM »
Not to mention that actually running modern looking games (or even not so modern) at that resolution can push even some newer computers.

Really though, how fancy does an Angry Birds machine need to be?

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #441 on: Wednesday, March 07, 2012, 03:34:24 PM »


Hey, a new Infinity Blade I might be interested in. No more simon says, looks like a Diablo-style action game.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #442 on: Wednesday, March 07, 2012, 09:56:09 PM »
Adventure Bar Story is 99 cents for launch. Not Kairosoft, but a port of a Japanese PSP game.

Assassins Creed Recollections dropped to free again and will be receiving a Universal update any day now to make it playable on iPhone/iPods.
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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #443 on: Thursday, March 08, 2012, 12:01:01 PM »
Poker Pals is free. A competitive turn based puzzle-ish game where you make the best poker hands you can. Has async multiplayer!

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #444 on: Thursday, March 08, 2012, 01:25:56 PM »
AC Recollections is an interesting game.  Quite complicated though so you need to play through the tutorial to learn the basics. 

Poker Pals is like Words with Friends but with playing cards.  Not sure if I really like it or not though.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #445 on: Thursday, March 08, 2012, 01:50:54 PM »
Do we really live in an era where people compare something to Words with Friends instead of Scrabble?

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #446 on: Thursday, March 08, 2012, 02:28:55 PM »
Do we really live in an era where people take issue in enunciating a difference between Words with Friends and Scrabble?

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #447 on: Thursday, March 08, 2012, 02:34:40 PM »
All I am getting from this is that you people are confused if we live in an era or not.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #448 on: Monday, March 19, 2012, 06:48:16 PM »
The Assassin's Creed Recollection game is a lot of fun if you like card-based games.   You can build a fairly decent deck without paying any money (will require 'grinding' though to gain credits to buy packs).  You get a fair amount of credits by playing the story mode and the challenge mode.  If you play online you can get up to 500 Animus credits per day (enough for 5 'Templar' packs or 1 mixed pack; the best pack, the Assassin's deck, is 900 credits).  Obviously if you want to build a powerful deck quickly then you can spend money and buy booster packs.

There are a couple imbalances with the game, but for the most part it's quite even.  

The game's tutorial is quite inadequate to tell you about the nuances of the cards though; it will only tell you how to play.  There are various keywords that one must play in order to know what happens.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #449 on: Friday, March 23, 2012, 07:09:18 PM »
Big update for Elder Sign: Omens coming.

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The free v1.1 update brings:
    An exciting Yig campaign
    Five new Yig monsters and four Yig adventures
    An unlockable investigator (after defeating Azathoth)
    Performance improvements and other technical fixes

The in-app purchase offers:
    "The Call of Cthulhu," a new campaign
    30 brand new adventures, four new Investigators, and 12 new monsters
    New inventory items, a new map, and new game mechanics
    An unlockable investigator (after defeating Cthulhu)
Sounds pretty epic.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #450 on: Saturday, March 24, 2012, 12:12:07 AM »
Wow. That's pretty amazing. Wasn't expecting that.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #451 on: Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 08:47:18 AM »
Little freebie: ElectroTrains

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #452 on: Wednesday, April 04, 2012, 03:36:43 PM »
Well the iPad retina updates are starting to roll in and...yup, filesizes are going up. For example, Carcassonne updated today:

Before: 161MB
After: 307MB

It nearly doubled, and everyone with an older iPad, iPhone, or iPod just has to deal with it for no benefit. Thanks, Apple!

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #453 on: Thursday, April 05, 2012, 08:09:30 AM »
How dare you question Apple's choices, you inferior human scum. Clearly they have done you a favor since you now get to spend more time downloading things you can't use. It's generosity, pure and simple!

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #454 on: Thursday, April 05, 2012, 11:40:59 AM »
Elder Sign: Omens update is out. In-app purchase for that extra thing is $3.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #455 on: Thursday, April 05, 2012, 03:25:18 PM »
Food Fight is one sale for $1.99
Nightfall just released for $4.99

Both are deckbuilding games kind of like Ascension...and oh hey look at that, both of them are by Playdek, the guys that made Ascension iOS.

A quote from someone explaining Nightfall a bit:
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Nightfall and Ascension are similar in scope. In the hobby boardgame market, "deck building" refers to any game the borrows its inspiration from Dominion in that you are creating your deck on the fly during game play, rather than pre-constructing your own deck prior to the beginning of the game. Nightfall comes closer to Magic: the Gathering than Ascension did in that you have card effects where you get to choose specific targets and you have to choose a target opponent when your minions attack.
Sounds cool to me.

I grabbed Food Fight since it was on sale and gave it a quick spin, and it seems neat. Its like a spiced up version of War. The deck building comes at the start of each round through a drafting process. Each player gets 9 random cards, takes 1, and passed the rest to the left. Again, pick 1 and pass until all the cards are chosen. Then out of your hand you choose 5 cards to take into battle. Battles are breakfast, lunch, or dinner and there can be multiple battlefields on the table to choose from. Once the battle starts your 5 cards are shuffled and then drawn and put up against the opponents drawn card. Cards can have special effects and you can have extra "instants" to play to give you the edge. You win, you earn a "mint", and then the next cards are drawn and fight. When all the cards are used up whoever has the most mints wins and you earn the battlefield card. Those battlefield cards can be worth 1-3 points and first player to 10 wins the game.

Its pretty simple to figure out, still has some randomness involved, but its pretty cool. The art is really nice, it has async multiplayer, and I think some kind of singleplayer campaign that Ill try tomorrow. I'd say worth the $2.
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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #456 on: Thursday, April 05, 2012, 10:24:49 PM »
Zombies, Run!, the helpful running app where you are being chased by zombies, has dropped in price to $3.99. Thats half off! I'm tempted...wonder how well it works on just an ipod with no GPS.

Ok, looks like without GPS you'll miss out on the zombie chases. But you'll apparently get all the other gamey stuff. Seems they are working on non-GPS zombie chases using the accelerometer, but its hard to tell if you've actually sped up with that and it changes depending on if your ipod is in your pocket or on an armband. Hopefully they work something out.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #457 on: Thursday, April 05, 2012, 11:15:08 PM »
Raid Leader is free. Looks like they took MMO raid-style boss fights and turned it into an RTS.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #458 on: Friday, April 06, 2012, 08:19:11 AM »
Epic Astro Story is out now, $3.99. New game from Kairosoft...or old game since its been on Android for a while now. Looks like one of their town building games, but this time on alien worlds! Plus alien fighting or something.

ZDAY Survival Simulator is free. Text-based zombie survival adventure? Yeah I'll play that.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #459 on: Friday, April 06, 2012, 12:05:05 PM »
Greed Corp dropped to 99 cents. iPad version dropped to the same price.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #460 on: Sunday, April 08, 2012, 08:16:48 AM »
Battleloot Adventure is free for Easter. Looks like a Final Fantasy battle-style game where you earn gold and buy a bunch of loot. Nice art.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #461 on: Sunday, April 08, 2012, 10:38:40 PM »
Pix'n Love Rush is the latest freebie.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #462 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 12:02:26 PM »
so anyone having trouble adding me on Gamecenter...I figured out why. I mistyped my nickname. I had it set as "idominds".

Luckily you can change your nickname! Unluckily, someone else is using "idolminds". So for now I changed it to "idolsmind" and I'm still not terribly happy with that so who knows what I'll use. "idolsminds"? (like demons souls)

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #463 on: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 08:24:23 PM »
The Hacker is free. Cool hacking sim type game.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #464 on: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 08:52:44 PM »


Best trailer ever or worst trailer ever?

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #465 on: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 10:23:33 PM »
Or how about this?


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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #466 on: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 11:35:23 PM »
Wow, that looks completely awesome.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #467 on: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 11:40:22 PM »
Haha, what the fuck is with that trailer? But it does look awesome.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #468 on: Saturday, April 14, 2012, 12:32:20 PM »
Assassin's Creed Recollection got a huge update -- there is now a 'market' to buy and sell cards with other players.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #469 on: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 07:55:11 PM »


Scheduled to come out this week. Will swipe for boobies.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #470 on: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 03:15:50 PM »

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #471 on: Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 12:36:04 AM »
Witcher 2 interactive comic is out. Free!
And unfortunately only available in certain stores. God damn this region crap.

Luckily on GOG.com The Witcher 2 extras include the comic as a PDF.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #472 on: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 08:00:04 AM »
Don't feel too bad, I just ran through it and I think the PDF would be a better way to view that story.

So, something cool. Splash Damage (Quake Wars, Q3F) are making a turn based async multiplayer iOS game!


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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #473 on: Friday, April 20, 2012, 09:42:33 AM »
All the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks are 99 cents right now. They say its for the 30th anniversary, but thats not the whole picture. Epic recently acquired the rights to the FF series so the guys that put together the iOS games are going to lose their ability to sell these. They will be pulled from the store so if you buy them be sure to back up your files.

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
Deathtrap Dungeon
Citadel of Chaos
City of Thieves
Creature of Havoc

Also on sale for 99 cents this weekend is Dungeon Raid!

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #474 on: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 07:54:27 PM »
Hope's Quest is free. Remember Intelligent Qube? Its that, for iOS. Also an iPad version is available thats also free right now.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #475 on: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 08:32:58 PM »
Woah, heres a great one!

Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer is 99 cents! Buy this right now! Que and I have been playing matches online and its a really great game.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #476 on: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 09:30:40 PM »
Oh shit. Yeah, definitely grab that. Probably the most-played game on my iPod. Fun with or without real people, and doesn't require the expansion for a good time (though the expansion is awesome too).

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #477 on: Monday, April 30, 2012, 08:18:46 PM »
Waking Mars dropped to $2.99, and Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor dropped to 99 cents. Same dev, cool games.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #478 on: Monday, April 30, 2012, 09:34:15 PM »
Waking Mars is really cool. Highly recommended. I think I'll jump on the Spider game. I wanted to try it.

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Re: iOS Gaming Thread
« Reply #479 on: Wednesday, May 02, 2012, 02:37:23 PM »
Pandemic 2.5 released at 99 cents. A port of the flash game with improvements. Instead of playing scientists trying to save the world from a killer virus, you play the virus that must mutate and spread and try to wipe out humanity.