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[Wario64]

Yeah, it's a bummer. I forgot to post a pic, but I was greeted with this after a death

 

[Frostburn]

Yeah, it's a bummer. I forgot to post a pic, but I was greeted with this after a death

It has been that way for a few months now, I only saw it a few times though sucks because they treat users that paid the same.

 

[Yoshichan]

Solstice (Moba) is absolute trash. Pay to win and horribly balanced. I regret that I spent like 15 hours on this.

 

[Jopie]

Yeah, it's a bummer. I forgot to post a pic, but I was greeted with this after a death

Could not care less about timed in app purchases, but I hate when this happens.
Having said that, I put over 20 hours into the game, so not sure i have any room to complain. Whatever it takes to keep a great dev making money, and making content is worth it I guess.

 

[Yoshichan]

Heads up Infinity Blade 2 is on sale for $1 until June 30th, I'm new to iOS games so I'm grabbing it now

Thanks man. Bought it on my mini - hopefully it can run it properly.

 

[ladyluthien]

Bought Kingdom Rush Frontiers.
I've only played for a few minutes now but I know this game is going to take my life over.
It's been a while since a game has made me actually clench my fists and growl! Haha!
Love the music and the graphics in this game.
Thanks for all the positive feedback here GAF, I wouldn't have given it a try if I didn't see all the positivness here

 

[Snuggles]

I'm at that same point, but reversed. I love the Ace Attorney series so much, it's crazy that I've put off Ghost Trick as long as I have.

You gotta move that shit up your queue. It has that saturday morning cartoon style with a touch of violence like AA but with awesome animation and some very clever, rube goldberg-esque puzzles. Plus it has Missile, the best videogame character ever. I need to rebuy it on iOS since don't have DS anymore.

 

[Wario64]

It has been that way for a few months now, I only saw it a few times though sucks because they treat users that paid the same.

Wow, it's been a long time since I've played it then...hah

 

[Yanksfan]

Yea, I haven't played it in a while, guess I have the ads to look forward to as well.

Picked up Ghost Trick and Phoenix Wright Trilogy tonight, gonna (re)play them soon. This is the perfect platform for these type of games and I hope to see them migrate over from the DS to the iOS as the first stop eventually.

 

[Snuggles]

Ace Attorney 5 is their newest release, right? I'd buy that and/or ports of the Edgeworth and that other spin-off with the dorky kid.

 

[deim0s]

Any one played the New expansion for Ascension yet?

Thanks man. Bought it on my mini - hopefully it can run it properly.

It will run fine.

 

[Mike Works]

Inserting ads into a paid version of a game is bullshit. Keep that shit separate or don't do it.

 

[mrkgoo]

Any one played the New expansion for Ascension yet?



It will run fine.

I gave the expansion a go. It seemed cool. Getting new cards is fun! Is it the next expansion after Storm of Souls, or is it a newer one?

 

[MoGamesXNA]

Inserting ads into a paid version of a game is bullshit. Keep that shit separate or don't do it.

I agree. That kind of behaviour is abhorrent. After having that happen once, I no longer trust developers on the platform and don't update 'clean' games.

It's a shame that Apple doesn't have a policy that protects the consumer in this regard on the platform.

 

[RustyO]

Inserting ads into a paid version of a game is bullshit. Keep that shit separate or don't do it.

x2

 

[yogloo]

Yeah, it's a bummer. I forgot to post a pic, but I was greeted with this after a death

Now that's unethical especially for a paid version.

 

[Heel]

Inserting ads into a paid version of a game is bullshit. Keep that shit separate or don't do it.

Unethical, just like Lipton Brisk Iced Tea.

 

[Snuggles]

If you're gonna put ads in your game, at least let us disable them for a couple bucks. That's fair, especially with F2P titles. Otherwise I just won't play your game at all. There are plenty of great games on iOS that don't force you to look at ads.

 

[Ninja Dom]

Speaking of Halfbrick, they just released a brand new free Fruit Ninja game.

Fruit Ninja vs Skittles. So now you get one big advert for Skittles during the entire game.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/fruit-ninja-vs-skittles/id657263967?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D2

 

[One Foul Note]

If you're gonna put ads in your game, at least let us disable them for a couple bucks. That's fair, especially with F2P titles.

I would say that is only fair with F2P games. If the app costs any kind of money I would expect no advertising at all except if it was mentioned clearly in the app description (which it would never be).

 

[SteveWD40]

I don't mind any IAP (baring timers) as long as it's optional, but ads rub me the wrong way. I think all freemium games should have an IAP do disable them, they don't belong anywhere near paid apps (which JPJR was, I paid for it for example, and have bought IAP).

 

[Anilones]

I really recommend Nihilumbra which is currently free. It's a really great puzzle platformer.

 

[FerranMG]

Damn it's gonna take me forever to save up 300k coins in jetpack for the random clothes and jetpack.

What are these random clothes and jetpack supposed to be?

 

[deim0s]

I gave the expansion a go. It seemed cool. Getting new cards is fun! Is it the next expansion after Storm of Souls, or is it a newer one?

Immortal Heroes, an expansion after SoS. Yeah.

IOSBoardgameGAF let's get some games goin.

What are these random clothes and jetpack supposed to be?

Purely aesthetic.

 

[Anilones]

Immortal Heroes, an expansion after SoS. Yeah.

IOSBoardgameGAF let's get some games goin.

Feel free to invite me (Anilones) for any combination of Ascension games.

 

[FlashFlooder]

I really recommend Nihilumbra which is currently free. It's a really great puzzle platformer.

Seconded. Just started playing yesterday and was very pleasantly surprised.

 

[jufonuk]

Ok I am torn between xcom for the iphone or the war of Zombie Game, what say gaf?

I have Xcom on the 360, just really want a portable version,

I loved ghost recon on the 3ds, shall I dl war of zombie and just play xcom on the 360 then?

 

[FerranMG]

Purely aesthetic.

Oh!, I know that!
I meant what kind of aesthetic changes carry a "random" suit or jetpack.

 

[chickdigger802]

Ok I am torn between xcom for the iphone or the war of Zombie Game, what say gaf?

I have Xcom on the 360, just really want a portable version,

I loved ghost recon on the 3ds, shall I dl war of zombie and just play xcom on the 360 then?

war of zombie is $3. why not just get both for 23?

 

[heringer]

Nobody else playing Layton Brothers? My impressions:

Finished 5 cases. It's fun, has a nice presentation. Also, Alfendi Layton turns out to be an... interesting character. Not as boring as I thought he would be. All in all, it's worth $5.

Do not expect Ace Attorney though. Nowhere near as clever or content rich. The solutions are pretty much spelled out for you, and the cases play out the same as the first two (no new mechanic so far), though that were a couple of moments that made me feel smart. I'm yet to tackle the most difficult cases though.

So yeah, not the caliber of Ace Attorney, Ghost Trick or Professor Layton, but for five bucks you shouldn't expect it to be.

 

[RaySpencer]

Does war of the zombie have any turn based stuff? Or it's it all real time?

 

[Rekwest]

Does war of the zombie have any turn based stuff? Or it's it all real time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luWxnjvTF8E

 

[RaySpencer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luWxnjvTF8E

Yeah, I just watched that. It looks like its all real time, but when people bring it up while talking about xcom I expect some turn based stuff.

 

[Kinyou]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luWxnjvTF8E

Has anyone played it on iPhone? The units look a bit tiny and I guess it will only get worse on a smaller screen.

 

[PittaGAF]

I'm late but having completed the backlog, I finally bought XCOM.

So far, I'm really impressed, it's waaaaaay better than I thought it would have been (on 4S, I'll try later on iPad 3).

 

[OmegaTreeFish]

I'm late but having completed the backlog, I finally bought XCOM.

So far, I'm really impressed, it's waaaaaay better than I thought it would have been (on 4S, I'll try later on iPad 3).

Yeah im still playing it (on 4s as well). Game runs well enough for the most part. Had the odd map that chuggs a big (large crash sites for example). However being turn based makes it mostly a non issue. Just great to have such a decent game on phones and tablets.

Hopefully a sign of things to come. Depends how well it sells I guess.

 

[Dash Kappei]

It's finally up!
Will do a better post with the new page, but for now...

GAF'S iOS WEEKLY CHALLENGE 8: SUPER HEXAGON

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=66913991&posted=1#post66913991

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

Finally got hold of xcom today and damn, this shit is significantly uglier than I expected (iPad 2 here). I'm sure it'll be fine once I get used to it and the gameplay seems intact, but I'd rather that they'd tried something a little different with the artstyle (maybe slightly toonier?) than just down down down rezzing everything. It looks like when I tried to run Doom 3 back in the day without lighting.

 

[Tokubetsu]

How does XCOM perform on 4s? And is the the Phoenix Wright pack still poor performance wise or have they patched it?

 

[Clunker]

XCom runs pretty well on my 4S too -- it chugs during reaction fire/over watch chains, and if someone is using suppression, but otherwise the controls are great and it runs very nicely. Only major complaint I had was a save bug that ruined my ironman run so I'm playing a self-imposed ironman game now.

How does XCom fare on a mini? I don't have one but am dying to get one at some point, and I definitely feel like XCom could benefit from the larger screen.

 

[chickdigger802]

How does XCOM perform on 4s? And is the the Phoenix Wright pack still poor performance wise or have they patched it?

PW runs like ass on all hardware... but thats mostly animation transitions for menus. It's perfectly playable and the visuals look better than screenshots on a low res pc monitor for sure.

 

[FrankCaron]

I'm torn between War of Zombies and X COM. I haven't dug into X COM yet on any platform, so there's that, but War of Zombies looks mighty interesting. My problem is that I don't have an iPad, so WoZ seems like a game better suited to playing on the iPhone (4S).

Anyone wanna push me one way or the other?

 

[AstroLad]

xcom question:

what happens if you don't build the alien interrogation stuff until late? i have a super crew and am pretty late in terms of being up against big enemies. i just captured one with the arc but it didn't let me interrogate him after the mission. does it only work on the little guys? do they even show up lategame? or is my game world stuck in a state where panic is low, aliens and humans live together relatively peacefully with only occasional firefights?

 

[RustyO]

xcom question:

what happens if you don't build the alien interrogation stuff until late? i have a super crew and am pretty late in terms of being up against big enemies. i just captured one with the arc but it didn't let me interrogate him after the mission. does it only work on the little guys? do they even show up lategame? or is my game world stuck in a state where panic is low, aliens and humans live together relatively peacefully with only occasional firefights?

Spoiler

- Works on most aliens; with a couple of notable exceptions.
- You only interogate each breed once; capturing more grants weapons / research.
- Depends on if your sci guys are working on something else?

 

[More_Badass]

I really recommend Nihilumbra which is currently free. It's a really great puzzle platformer.

+1

I love puzzle platformers and this game is so good

And the best part? Void Mode...beat the game as you unlock remixed versions of every level a la Super Meat Boy's Dark levels

 

[PFD]

As a fan of league of evil 2, I'm really enjoying LoE 3. Gorgeous graphics, super tight controls, and tough as nails platforming.

 

[Buttonbasher]

Bar Oasis is free.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id433902000?mt=8
Visual Novel + Cooking Mama with booze. I enjoyed it.

 

[Vire]

As a fan of league of evil 2, I'm really enjoying LoE 3. Gorgeous graphics, super tight controls, and tough as nails platforming.

I'd love to play considering I bought the damn thing, but it's unplayable on iOS 7.

Anyone figure out a work around? Or is it simply borked?

 

[AstroLad]

awwwwww man. was plowing through an ironman game of xcom, probably 15+ hours. had updated my squad so went into mission then hit save and quit so i could pick up right where i left off. come back and the file is corrupted. clicking icloud also does nothing, just totally gone.

guess i'll start a new game on pc and hope it works out better :/

 

[One Foul Note]

As a fan of league of evil 2, I'm really enjoying LoE 3. Gorgeous graphics, super tight controls, and tough as nails platforming.

Yeah, I'm really enjoying it too. Glad they ramp up the difficulty really early on, means you can go straight from playing the last world in League 2 without having to go through easy tutorial stages again.