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The Official iPhone/iPod Touch Gaming Thread
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Stoney Mason
Banned
Hope more devs incorporate this. One of my pet peeves is the lack of online multiplayer games on a device that is almost solely online based distribution wise. Although mentioning the online for GTA 4 as the proving ground isn't exactly awe inspiring.
http://www.slidetoplay.com/story/gdc-2009-gamespy-multiplayer-on-iphone
http://www.slidetoplay.com/story/gdc-2009-gamespy-multiplayer-on-iphone
Stoney Mason
Banned
zbarron said:
Some people quite like it but the major complaint is that it is short. That is probably more a factor though when it was at a higher price rather than being at 99 cents.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
I'm pissed.
I bought MGS and Mega Man II. Haven't tried MGS yet, but FUCK this version of Mega Man II. Do not buy it if you've got big thumbs.
Seriously, I can't hold in right and press the shoot button without accidentally changing direction or jumping. Also, the physics are way off... It's blasphemous. I mean, I understand what Capcom was trying to do, but this is not the way to do it.
Damn it.
I bought MGS and Mega Man II. Haven't tried MGS yet, but FUCK this version of Mega Man II. Do not buy it if you've got big thumbs.
Seriously, I can't hold in right and press the shoot button without accidentally changing direction or jumping. Also, the physics are way off... It's blasphemous. I mean, I understand what Capcom was trying to do, but this is not the way to do it.
Damn it.
Mr.Squirrel
Tom
Dacvak said:
i was just about to buy it and read the reviews. thats my biggest prob with traditional games on the phones, the controls suck
EDIT: Is there a r-type/gradius type game for the iphone that's actually good?
Mr.Squirrel
Tom
truth-lasers said:
i just bought calcon but how the hell do you change settings. i went into settings and see nothing for galcon there
truth-lasers
Member
bdizzle said:
You can change the settings for Galcon in the settings menu for the iPhone/iPod.
Mr.Squirrel
Tom
Masklinn said:
im not seeing it. i see a bunch of other apps but nothing for galcan. game aint that fun anyway :/
Stoney Mason
Banned
thetrin said:
I passed on it but I'm glad to see its getting good sales (#8 currently in the app store) and seems to well reviewed especially on the app store. I'll buy Doom though when that comes.
Stoney Mason
Banned
maxmars said:
For those that don't know ishoot got a pretty big update recently. If it only had online internet play it would be pretty much perfect imo.
Online support: Up to four iPhones / iPod Touches on the same WiFi network can now play iShoot together.
Music: iShoot now features professionally-composed background music.
Rule Editor: Edit the games rules, such as how much health the tanks have, how much money you receive per round, and which landscapes are enabled.
Weapon Editor: Part of the Rule Editor, the Weapon Editor allows you to create, edit, and delete weapons. You can simply remove weapons you dont like, tweak the damage and price of existing weapons, and create brand new weapons from scratch. How about a cluster bomb of Tactical Nukes, or a rapid-fire U238 Penetrator machine gun?
iShoot Remixed: A brand new ruleset with many new weapons, designed to show off the power of the Rule Editor and give you a sense of what is possible now.
Random Weapons: A new basic type of weapon for use in the Weapon Editor, Random selects one of a number of different weapons when fired. Random weapons are featured heavily in the iShoot Remixed ruleset, giving rise to weapons such as the Jackpot, which might just be a dud or it might pack the same punch as a World Annihilator. A tamer application of Random is the Disco Bomb, which creates many different colored explosions. Mayhem has never before been so pretty!
Skylance: The basic weapon type used to create the Great Wall you all know and loathe. Turn off the Create Dirt option, and you get a vertical bar of energy which slices through the landscape and leaves tanks at the bottom of a giant hole.
In other update news Crystal Defenders is getting an update where you can now play from landscape mode which was definitely sorely needed for that game.
And I'll also give Stitch'em words a plug since it is getting a nice update soon. Stitch'em is a relatively simple casual word puzzle game where you create words by combining letters with pictures. So the picture of a star combined with the letter E become Stare. A lot of content and a good deal for 99 cents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-vQilXwEOo&fmt=18
yoursisterspretty
Member
Stoney Mason said:In other update news Crystal Defenders is getting an update where you can now play from landscape mode which was definitely sorely needed for that game.
And I'll also give Stitch'em words a plug since it is getting a nice update soon. Stitch'em is a relatively simple casual word puzzle game where you create words by combining letters with pictures. So the picture of a star combined with the letter E become Stare. A lot of content and a good deal for 99 cents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-vQilXwEOo&fmt=18
Praise the lord. I absolutely suck at it, but I can't stop playing it, bad controls and all. Hopefully this will help.
On another note: holy crap Flight Control is #1 (in games). Totally deserving.
Stoney Mason
Banned
yoursisterspretty said:
#2 in America but it is funny how a game will occasionally suddenly catch fire and rise to be a big seller when you couldn't have predicted it. Which is a healthy sign.
Edit: Just noticed you said games and indeed it is #1 in the game section. #2 overall for the entire app store.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Pocket God is still #1? Does anyone else think that app just blows, or am I missing something? I played with it for like... 5 minutes, lost interest, and haven't turned it on again.
Oh, and GAF, when I make my iPhone app, you'll help me push it to #1, right? If so, I'm buying everyone in this thread a steak. :lol
Oh, and GAF, when I make my iPhone app, you'll help me push it to #1, right? If so, I'm buying everyone in this thread a steak. :lol
Stoney Mason
Banned
Dacvak said:
Pocket God like I've said before isn't really a game. It's essentially a cheap electronic toy that receives lots of updates to sort of screw around with.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Man, I broke down and bought Wolfenstein. I said I wasn't going to do it... I had stopped spending so much money on apps... But lo and behold, I've blown about $40 in the last 2 days.
God damn the iPhone.
God damn the iPhone.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
I have eight pages of purchased apps. I've deleted at least that amount, too.Husker86 said:
(To be fair, I get most of my apps for free from publishers, but when they don't send my codes, I have to buy it myself.)
Stoney Mason
Banned
krypt0nian
Banned
Apps that default to the wrong landscape are really starting to piss me off.
Home button to the damned right hand side!
On a positive note: Wolfenstein <3 <3 <3
Home button to the damned right hand side!
On a positive note: Wolfenstein <3 <3 <3
One of my out of town friends was raving about Pocket God so I blind bought it. I'm very thankful it was only $0.99. It's way overrated. But it got me thinking that if someone were to release Populous: The Beginning, I would pay large sums of money.
Also, how are the controls for Wolfenstein?
Also, how are the controls for Wolfenstein?
krypt0nian
Banned
AirBrian said:
Control method 3 is spot on for me.
left hand bottom on screed WASD, right hand bottom on screen left/right mouselook, upper right hand fire button. Doors/secrets open by walking into them.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Husker86 said:
I'm 90% sure that if you have the Categories app installed then you can fit a seemlingly endless number of apps on there. I base this off of the fact that at one point, I had every page filled but still had a number of apps that I took off my springboard (using BossPrefs). Same general idea.
Stoney Mason
Banned
Slacker said:
Mines in Space:Minesweeper looks pretty attractive and offers variation games although MineSweeper Gold looks pretty faithful to me so that may be a good choice indeed.
Solideliquid
Member
Stoney Mason said:
This looks great! Any impressions yet?
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Just got a chance to try out Wolfenstein 3D. It's phenomenal. Totally worth the money (if you like Wolf3D, that is.)
It remains true to the original and has great controls. Definitely worth it.
It remains true to the original and has great controls. Definitely worth it.
Stoney Mason
Banned
Solideliquid said:
There is a thread here.
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=8082
I tried to buy it funny enough after I posted that link and couldn't find it when I searched via the phone so decided to wait until this evening to pick it up.
EDIT: Found it. Only two missions in but pretty good so far. The accelerometer controls for flying work pretty well. I kind of thought they would awhile back after trying the lite version of Pharos 4. Much better than the virtual controller.
Feels like an actual game "game" if you know what I mean which is nice to see.
Gotta head out for dinner though so I can't give any more impressions until later tonight.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Flight Control has been the top selling App on he UK store for the last couple of days.
Yeah, it's only 59p, but damn, this game is awesome. Word of mouth FTW.
Yeah, it's only 59p, but damn, this game is awesome. Word of mouth FTW.
krypt0nian
Banned
Husker86 said:
Weird. When I play that way I kinda cup my hand a bit and it intensifies the sound.
Diablohead
Member
Iphone is best with the home button the left, Touch is better with the home button on the right as both have different locations for the earphone plug, stupid I know.krypt0nian said:
Stoney Mason
Banned
As far as Galaxy on Fire I haven't reached the mission yet but some people are saying Mission 9 is impossible to beat. May need to be fixed in an update. Unfortunate because it's a good game from what I've played so far so you may want to hold off on a purchase until this issue is resolved.
Also I broke down and bought fucking Wolfenstein 3-D because of all of the good reviews you fuckers. It is really good though. Slower than the normal Wolfenstein you may have played but the speed perfectly suits the iphone. Control layout #3 with a high sensitivity is a great option and how I play although there are some interesting controls options related to tilt control also which I played around with a little. I wish my fat thumbs were smaller.
Doom is really gonna rock on this thing.
This era of the fps game is really nearly perfectly suited for the iphone. I'm not really sure how games like Quake will work where you divorce the aim from the movement though. You will certainly have to slow them down but I still don't quite understand how you combine movement with shooting. You can emulate dual ananlog controls like a lot of games do like iDracula but how do you fire? Or jump for that matter? Oh well. Those are questions for later.
I can say that Wolfenstein works really well and the map option goes a long way towards making it a better experience than I had even on the PC. I'm sure there is probably a map mod for the PC but I never experienced it so having it for the first time in this version goes a long way towards breaking up the visual maze effect that can occur when play the game.
Also I broke down and bought fucking Wolfenstein 3-D because of all of the good reviews you fuckers. It is really good though. Slower than the normal Wolfenstein you may have played but the speed perfectly suits the iphone. Control layout #3 with a high sensitivity is a great option and how I play although there are some interesting controls options related to tilt control also which I played around with a little. I wish my fat thumbs were smaller.
Doom is really gonna rock on this thing.
This era of the fps game is really nearly perfectly suited for the iphone. I'm not really sure how games like Quake will work where you divorce the aim from the movement though. You will certainly have to slow them down but I still don't quite understand how you combine movement with shooting. You can emulate dual ananlog controls like a lot of games do like iDracula but how do you fire? Or jump for that matter? Oh well. Those are questions for later.
I can say that Wolfenstein works really well and the map option goes a long way towards making it a better experience than I had even on the PC. I'm sure there is probably a map mod for the PC but I never experienced it so having it for the first time in this version goes a long way towards breaking up the visual maze effect that can occur when play the game.
Buttonbasher
Member
Dexter looks awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfe3C-kBVPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfe3C-kBVPY
Dreamwriter
Member
Stoney Mason said:
Wow - that looks like Wing Commander! Now where can I find me some money....
As for mission 9 being "impossible", the same person says the previous missions were too hard as well, while this is a game that's been on other systems, so I'd take that with a grain of salt. It looks like you can buy weapons and stuff and take optional missions to earn more money, maybe the reviewer just didn't do any of that? The Wing Commander games could get damn hard too...
Stoney Mason
Banned
Dreamwriter said:
For what its worth a couple people have now gotten past that mission 9 so it isn't impossible. Just seemingly very difficult. I'll reach it tomorrow and let people know.
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