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The Official iPhone/iPod Touch Gaming Thread
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farnham said:
Seconded. I played it on PS2 and then later on Wii and I can easily say that the experience was much-enhanced by the Wii controls.
Back on topic, I'm verrrry tempted to pick up RE4 for the iPhone, but I've heard that it's not even the full game. I could see past that if the controls are actually decent.
You need to get a new weapon. Replay level where you need to rescue 1 survival, think missions 2 or 3. It could be done in about 30 sec with reward of $5K each time. You can quickly get all 80K weapons this way.kaizoku said:
Weapons I use the most are Assault Rifle for rescue missions, just let cripple guy die and wait for next survival to appear, and Sniper Rifle for damage / boss missions. Others aren't that good.
Gain experience by finishing missions > leveling up > increase ability points. You can replay missions for experience. You unlock equipments by completing the mission challenge.
Psy-Phi
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kaizoku said:
As the person above said, just let the cripple die. It will cost you some of your monetary reward but it's not worth the hassle of saving him solo. If you got a friend playing with you then you shouldn't have a problem saving the crippled guy as you'd receive cover fire.
Instead of gaming the system though, I'd just suggest replaying the mission until you don't get a crippled survivor. They're pretty rare, but sometimes I get 2 or 3 in a row. Most of the time I don't see them when I replay.
As for the weapons, I haven't even begun to toy with the Sniper Rifle. I use the shotgun and Desert Eagle most of the time. But I enjoy the M16 as well. The Grenade Luancher I used on the first boss. It worked okay but the Shotgun works better since it can actually hit things close to you (and when you get 3 or 4 dogs trying to bite your ass...that's what you need is a shotgun).
My friends that have iPhones didn't want to buy the game because they're cheap...even though it's only 99c for a limited time. So I'm left solo too and feel your pain.
Psy-Phi said:
the co-op missions are abit weird cos it seems to open up a seperate strand of missions and only the host makes any progress.
so even if you finish them with someone else as host, when you come to host yourself the missions are still locked. Sucks.
Also means I can't recruit a friend to help with mission 9!
and I've tried it 4 or 5 times and had a cripple each time!
radiantdreamer
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Dang... our app got rejected due to "irrelevant keywords".
And now, since I've updated from 2.2.1 firmware to 3.0.1, I can't run anything on my phone. Broken!!!
And now, since I've updated from 2.2.1 firmware to 3.0.1, I can't run anything on my phone. Broken!!!
RedNumberFive
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My wallet hates this thread.
RE4 bought!
RE4 bought!
. Do want
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.
RedNumberFive said:
RE4 on the iPhone is SO good. I played through and beat it 5 times already. It's mad short, but the controls are fantastic
for an iPhone game.
Also, seppo, I am so pissed at you right now. I stayed up until 5:30am playing motherfucking Word Ace, got sick (from the lack of sleep) and missed two of my classes today. You asshole.
I LOVE your game. =D
It's there in Account I think, you can use it at any time but only once a year (or month?) I think. Or you can just contact the support through the web, I got a live chat guy to do it when I needed it a few months ago.hygraed said:
farnham said:
Do you always post like this?farnham said:
RelentlessRolento
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dungeon hunter looks great... sold.
looks alot like Darkstone though :lol
looks alot like Darkstone though :lol
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
^
What?
Fucking Juniomemberanese...
Speak English.
What?
Fucking Juniomemberanese...
Speak English.
badrockjones
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Just want to contribute to the "Word Ace is awesome!" chorus.
Love Texas Hold'em, but didn't really enjoy Word Ace. Game is just to random. For example, when 3 letters appears (Flop), you can make a word. Next, the 4th letter (Turn), you can make a totally different word. Finally, with 5th letter (River), another word can be made. Imagine what would happen if in every turn playing Texas Hold'em, your hand could be totally different.
Plus, add in the increasing extra bonus points for words longer > 5, it only increases the random natural of the game.
Most games I played are everyone hanging on until the "River," to make their "best" word.
Plus, add in the increasing extra bonus points for words longer > 5, it only increases the random natural of the game.
Most games I played are everyone hanging on until the "River," to make their "best" word.
Stumpokapow
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knitoe said:
... your hand COULD be completely different, but anticipating those possibilities is the main gameplay. If your hand is RI and the flop is VEO, you might be going for RIVER, but then the turn drops "G", and you go for "GIVER", but then maybe the river drops "T" and you can do "TIGER" or "RIVET". Or if the turn dropped "L", you've got "LIVER". Of course, if DO dropped as the turn/river, you have RODEO.
You've got, whatever, ten seconds to lock in at the beginning, so you obviously can't process every possibility, but you can at least stake out a few claims, and the broader vocabulary you have the better you'll be able to do this.
Put it another way--if the game is really all that random, no one should be winning all the time. And yet, like Poker, you'll see certain people dominate.
Stumpokapow said:
Exactly. If anything, the game is quite deep because it combines poker strategy with size of vocabulary. These are such major variables that it is pretty shortsighted to think the game is purely 'random.' Unless you are an expert poker strategist with a genius level vocabulary, there is more than enough strategy to utilize throughout each hand. Plus, regardless of being able to make new words with additional letters, that quite often doesn't make better words, just like the final cards dealt in a hold-em hand more often than not don't dramatically give you a winning hand.
You just prove my point. Doesn't really matter what words you made or plan to make during FLOP and TURN. It's only RIVER that really matters and that's why everyone hangs around until then. While, your hand matters almost every turn in Texas Hold'em.Stumpokapow said:
And, people whom usually wins are the ones with large vocabulary + quick thinking after last the letter appears. Game is "random" until then. Take Hold'em, if you are holding pocket AAs, most of the time you are going to win even before the FLOP.
Dacvak
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knitoe said:
I think the major flaw in your argument is that you're directly comparing this game to Texas Hold 'Em, when really, it's far more comparable to Scrabble. You're definitely right in thinking that, most of the time, the person with the large vocabulary and quick thinking skills will win, or at least have a better shot at it, but that's the skill involved in the game. And I wholeheartedly disagree with the idea that the flop or turn don't matter; I've won plenty of times by using just those letters and ignoring the river, or even the turn.
There's definitely a huge element of luck in the river, because it could make or break your hand. But then again, isn't it the same way in Hold'Em?
Regardless, this game is far more Scrabble than poker. Really, it's just scrabble with shared letters and betting, which adds a really nice twist.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
Word Ace is good, very good!
A few more RC Heli impressions.
Love the game so far, but price would be a condition on whether I recommend it. It has a race mode, tutorial and free fly mode. You can go to two levels of the house which is nicely modeled and the controls work very well it feels very similar to flying an RC Helicopter.
Overall I really like it but there isn't a ton of content so price should be a factor IMO.
EDIT: The pricing info I got from the developer is a .99cent launch sale and then between $1.99 and 2.99, I recommend it especially at the 99cent price.
Love the game so far, but price would be a condition on whether I recommend it. It has a race mode, tutorial and free fly mode. You can go to two levels of the house which is nicely modeled and the controls work very well it feels very similar to flying an RC Helicopter.
Overall I really like it but there isn't a ton of content so price should be a factor IMO.
EDIT: The pricing info I got from the developer is a .99cent launch sale and then between $1.99 and 2.99, I recommend it especially at the 99cent price.
knitoe said:
I see what you mean. You say The hand doesn't change with each round in TH, but it does - the game turns with each card - the difference is, you re calculating probabilities with each card turned. That is, what are the likelihoods of my hand getting better vs the chances of opponents hands getting better?
It's the same in Word ace, except the probabilities are different. In this sense it IS more random. It's hard (perhaps better to just say different) to calculate the caches of an 'E' coming up, for example. But that's not really a deal breaker. The game introduces slightly different elements, and thus have to be adjusted for. For example, in Texas Hold'em, the final real is totally dependent on the absolute best hand each player has - in Word Ace, you have to submit your 'hand', so a worse hand can be played if you are not skilled. I kind of like this, because it leads to amusing moments where others have spotted a better choice.
So basically, it is slightly more random, but only because there are more tiles than there are more cards. It works better for mainstream, because anyone can make words, and you kind of have a fighting chance beyond just bluffing. There IS still a bit of skill during bidding in early rounds. For example, in one hand last night I was dealt a "J" and "T". The way I figured, the J is areal power card - winning hands are typically around 11-13 (depending on number of players and skill levels of course). Anything over is pretty high chance of winning, so a "J", even in a 3 letter word is pretty good. With a "T", most vowels (E, O, U) will then make me JET, JOT, or JUT. Although I've forgotten all my probability calculations from high school, there's 21/98 chances the first card will be one of those letters. With that times three (conditional probability aside), that's pretty good chance that I will get that , and nearly certainly after 5 cards.
That said, I bid fairly high on my first round. There are also other cards that you find are good to work with, with more experience. For the record, in the example above, I bid high for several rounds, and won a pretty large pot, even though I ended up with "JACKS" as my word.
It's definitely different from TH, but that's kinda neat. The probabilities are more random, but then the skill of word forming comes into it as well. It real is a great meld of the two games.
Not alot of buzz for Modern Combat here. I expected more in here after Toucharcade said that it "raises the bar for iPhone gaming".
http://toucharcade.com/2009/09/03/gamelofts-modern-combat-sandstorm-raises-the-bar-of-iphone-gaming/
http://toucharcade.com/2009/09/03/gamelofts-modern-combat-sandstorm-raises-the-bar-of-iphone-gaming/
Xater said:
The Touch Arcade forums are full of many more easily excited people. Furthermore, as a dedicated iPhone/iPod touch gaming site, even a clone of a popular game is interesting. I'm sure as a reflection of both these factors, the writers will also write it out as a much bigger deal.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
On Word Ace I tried to use Quran.
NOT A WORD
NOT A WORD
Most tournament word lists do not allow proper nouns. Judging by you ruse of Qur'an, I'm guessing it's a proper noun. Also, many tournament word lists do not allow foreign words unless they are so common as to become an English word (such as "sushi"). Furthermore, the tournament word lists do not allow hyphenated, or contracted words that require punctuation (e.g., "Don't", or X-ray).dskillzhtown said:
I'm guessing it's mostly the proper noun thing.
Stumpokapow
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dskillzhtown said:
proper noun
jonnybryce
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Xater said:
People are generally more interested in casual games here, which is a little ironic.
Tempy said:
Yay.
re: Word Ace strategy, will post thoughts in the Official Thread, just to keep the clutter here to a minimum. 
seppo
seppo
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Oh and as for Dirt Moto, I love it, is it by the same people who made Jet moto gp? That was a game I passed at first because it lacked any feeling on the waves but now i'm playing through it for a second time because it's a great little racer, Dirt Moto feels like a huge update to that racing feeling and is awesome. Buy it.
A shame I only gave the devs 59p
A shame I only gave the devs 59p
Big titted woman with white hair and a whip-like weapon, check.Diablohead said:
Obviously evil demonic knight, check.
Was half expecting someone to at least say the word "Souls!"
This morning I was determined to come into this thread and write a fairly big post about Modern Combat. I was going to say how great the graphics were and how it was the first FPS game on the iPhone to control without any problems. I was going to say how the production values are top notch (for a game that only costs 4 quid) with music, cutscenes and VA that are actually pretty decent and more importantly it is actually fun to play. But then I thought to myself: "Only nerds write big posts on the internet". Basically, I'll condense a post that never existed into "It owns".Diablohead said:
Everyone refers to you as 'Chief'
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