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Union Carbine
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Thanks for the tip. Downloading it now.McBacon said:
jessecuster
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protonion said:
Yeah I am really enjoying it. However, I understand why Layton succeeds and this one fails, you cannot look at the rules while making notes. When I got to the puzzle for which sister is in the middle, it makes it really difficult to not look at the rules at the same time as trying to number them.
I also could care less about the story, and just "click" through any text that is not a puzzle.
What does stand out as an improvement from Layton, is that the Eurekas can be seen in each screen so you are not just clicking everywhere per screen to find the hint pieces.
One thing I really hope Carc's success does is influence other board-game implementations to have online asynchronous play. Game wouldn't be 1/10th of what it is without that. Small World being 2p and local only is probably the biggest joke of all. But almost every other board-game implementation (Catan, Hive, Roll through the Ages) also lacks any sort of online play, much less the great system that Carc has.
drhankmccoyphd
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Do you guys prefer Final Fantasy I or II in terms of pure gameplay? Can't decide which if any I should get.
Ice Monkey
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Kafel said:
there aren't many free games that were worth mentioning that I can remember. The freeappaday stuff has a lot of good games though, follow that for good justice.
Off the top of my head, back in like 2008 I remember tapdefense and topple being two free games that I really enjoyed. I believe they're still free. stardefense might be free now, in fact ngmoco is know for doing freemium stuff so check that out if you really dont wanna part with a buck.
Hellsing's Fire is freaking brilliant... honestly has the opportunity to become the next Angry Birds. Will probably also be copied 5 million times over now. but really, the production value and gameplay are amazing. 99¢ is a freaking steal on this one.
hmm. thought it was already covered in this thread.
you have blocks laid out on the screen. you are given certain colored potions and a torch. You have to align the torch to illuminate the monsters of a specific color to use the potion of that color. The blocks blocks where the light illuminates, so you use that to your advantage as explained next, or to your frustration as you try and figure out how to get everyone adequately lit. You have to be careful because if you have monsters of another color illuminated, you make them stronger. You only have a limited numbers of charges in each potion.
It's a puzzle game, with an (as far as I know) original game mechanic that's one of those "simple to play, but becomes more difficult quickly" premises. The production values come into play in the wonderful between-game artwork and the excellent music score and audio. Wrap all of that up in a $.99 game and you have a real recipe for success.
you have blocks laid out on the screen. you are given certain colored potions and a torch. You have to align the torch to illuminate the monsters of a specific color to use the potion of that color. The blocks blocks where the light illuminates, so you use that to your advantage as explained next, or to your frustration as you try and figure out how to get everyone adequately lit. You have to be careful because if you have monsters of another color illuminated, you make them stronger. You only have a limited numbers of charges in each potion.
It's a puzzle game, with an (as far as I know) original game mechanic that's one of those "simple to play, but becomes more difficult quickly" premises. The production values come into play in the wonderful between-game artwork and the excellent music score and audio. Wrap all of that up in a $.99 game and you have a real recipe for success.
japtor said:
Yes, I grabbed this game on a whim, and I love it. Very simplistic, but addicting. I dig the online competitions and the ambience of the game. Would be great if they add more play modes.
Edit: For those saying Whizzball is only a flash game, you mean this Whizzball?
butzopower
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I'm all for more "PBEM" games, but I don't think Catan would work well due to trading.AstroLad said:
Blast Processing
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I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but I found a neat game today called Ultraviolet Dawn.
It's basically your typical space trader/privateer type of thing, but with 2D 'top down' combat, and it's pretty well done, once you get past wanting it to control like a twin stick shooter, which is how it appears it should. Instead, the right-side touch circle is just a fire button and you always fire forward, so you have to quickly face your ship this way and that during combat.
Not bad for $1.99, and it's just 10MB, so you can d/l it over 3G in the US.
It's basically your typical space trader/privateer type of thing, but with 2D 'top down' combat, and it's pretty well done, once you get past wanting it to control like a twin stick shooter, which is how it appears it should. Instead, the right-side touch circle is just a fire button and you always fire forward, so you have to quickly face your ship this way and that during combat.
Not bad for $1.99, and it's just 10MB, so you can d/l it over 3G in the US.
hyp said:
Just bought it. Seems cool.
One thing though, doesn't seem to have offline/local leaderboards. Fuck that and every game that does it (a lot recently).
I have an ipod and want to compete offline against my wife. I have deleted a bunch of games that don't have local leaderboards and it pisses me off when I buy a game that doesn't have them.
mjemirzian
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Just played a bit of Pix'n'Love Rush and I see what the problem is that some of you may be experiencing with the controls. I had a similar thing with Twin Blades in the beginning. Some of these games you just need to find the specific way they need to be controlled. With Pix, make sure you slide your finger from the left button to the right button instead of letting go and pushing them intermittently, the game handles that really badly. Been playing it now sliding between the buttons like an analog stick and the controls are pretty damn fluent like this, great stuff. Though I've still had the controls glitch on me on one or two occasions.
Uhhhh. did I miss a post somewhere the last couple weeks? How come i didn't know that Poker Smash was available for the iPhone till just now?
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/poker-smash/id373089877?ign-mpt=uo=2mt%3D8uo%3D2#
I'm grabbing this shit naow!
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/poker-smash/id373089877?ign-mpt=uo=2mt%3D8uo%3D2#
I'm grabbing this shit naow!
Reese-015 said:
My biggest problem with the controls in this game and others that mimic it is that there is no dead zone between the left and right movement buttons. You're either moving or your thumb is off the screen, and, like you said, the game handles going between the two rather poorly. Luckily, it's a game where you want to be moving almost all of the time anyways.
drhankmccoyphd
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Have there been any good Diablo clones on iPhone?
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
This, Fuck 3G and iTouch <2nd gen peasants. Latest and greatest devices deserve the latest and greatest games. Will definitely buy.Flib said:
Also great to see: Splinter Cell Conviction has been updated with Retina Display support.
This means the iPhone 4 version of SC: Conviction, now moves more pixels than the Xbox 360 version. :lol (614,400 vs 589,824)
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
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Man, really looking forward to do don pachi and Epicwin. That new game Cat Run looks pretty freakin' cool as well. I just got Flight Control, and while it's nice I can see Cat Run being a much more interesting spin on the line drawing genre. The artstyle looks really nice too.
http://toucharcade.com/2010/07/16/cat-run-review-go-cat-go/
http://toucharcade.com/2010/07/16/cat-run-review-go-cat-go/
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