iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

who's she? sounds sexy

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/16/mini-review-aurora-feint-for-iphoneipod-touch/

This is one of the best puzzle games I've played in a while. The best part is the tilting portion; SO FUCKING COOL.

They're adding all of these RPGish elements later on involving equipable power-ups that can be levelled as you play the game. so so so great

Can't believe this thing is still free!

But where's it leading to Dan? I'm playing it a lot too, but I don't really know why. I've maxed out a few of the skills or whatever, but they don't seem to make much difference to anything. I've tried adding friends, but it can't find any for me. And the game itself is cute, but not really challenging enough to hold my interest in itself. I think it's really just their promise that it's the first part of what will everntually be some big fancy MMO which is keeping me playing it.

Anyway. Monkey Ball is pretty ace, although the tilt thing is a bit touchy, sometimes it feels hypersensitive but others it needs to be tilted so far that I can't even see the screen. Liking it a lot despite that though.

Tap Tap Revenge is a nice little DDR clone, enjoy it when I'm playing it but definitely don't feel compelled to go back to it that often.

Just tried the Crash Bandicoot kart game on someone else's phone, framerate is shocking but the control feels nice enough to make up for that. Doubt I'll fork out for it though.

The freebie 3d mahjong is crud. As is the tiltable maze game.

Also, if you've ever played any Puzzle Quest, Aurora Feint starts to feel like a HUGE ripoff.

Never played Puzzle Quest.

I think the fact that you're still playing it even though you're kind of fed up with it says a lot for how well they've implemented the gameplay for this thing.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates that mah jongg game!

the fact that you're still playing it even though you're kind of fed up with it says a lot for how well they've implemented the gameplay

Yeah, definitely. It just feels right.

It could do with a bugfix too though. Some bits of text seem to hang off the side of my screen in some of the submenus, and given that those bits of text explain what the level ups actually do, I suspect they're probably pretty important.

no Peggle, no peace

Still as addicted to Bejeweled as I was on Nokia 6600 years ago

Aurora Feint is like Bejeweled + even more crack

ah that sounds like puzzle quest, exactly.

ok must play Puzzle Quest

aurora feint = pure crack.

it's just like bejeweled + leveling + competition anxiety of MMORPG

why is there no brain training for iphone

;_;

jesus christ

http://stuffetc.de/AF/46865.jpg

Just started playing Trism, seems like lots of fun.

lol Aurora Feint was removed from the Apple store over spyware concerns

:O

http://gizmodo.com/5026065/sega-says-the-iphone-is-as-powerful-as-the-dreamcast

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Aurora+Feint:+The+Beginning/news.asp?c=8000

Doesn't sound all that bad really.

Oh, hold on...

http://gizmodo.com/5028459/aurora-feint-iphone-app-delisted-for-lousy-security-practices

Yeah, if they're failing to encrypt it then maybe is does sound that bad.

yeah that's kind of a massive "oops"

Update dropped this morning, so the security thing is fixed now. Haven't tried it yet, but apparently there are gameplay updates too.

So Dan, if we want to clan up in this thing we need to have each other's details in our contact lists, right? We should exchange numbers!

The name of that game is ridiculously porn star-y.

yes to all these number exchanges

djperry at g mail dot com

So Dan, if we want to clan up in this thing we need to have each other's details in our contact lists, right? We should exchange numbers!

-- JimD, Friday, July 25, 2008 5:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

slick pick-up line dude.

how's the number list exchange work?

Kinda doesn't. I was sniffing round their forums the other day though, and got the impression it maybe hasn't been properly implemented yet.

Has anybody seen Frotz? http://code.google.com/p/iphonefrotz/

Hey Aurora Feint, you know that other game you shamelessly plagiarised? Well, it's coming.

Anyone played anything else decent of late? I like Imangi a lot, Ashpalt 4 is suprisingly diverting, (although frame rate issues kill it really), Spore Origins was pretty disappointing. And oh, I tried Billy Frontier. Utter shite.

Oh, er, it wasn't me, it was Dan.

Still, yeah, it exists already.

A friend of mine "plays" Aurora Feint by shaking his iPhone, then quickly swiping his finger back and forth across the screen. He scores considerably higher than I do. ;_;

<3 fieldrunners

<3 Trism

My friend showed me the ocarina app, which isn't a game, but I thought it was pretty cool.

So that mysterious "A NEW METAL GEAR IS...":

http://www.konami-digital-entertainment.co.jp/en/news/release/2008/1217/index.html

Er, "NEXT" rather.

My favourite iPhone/iTouch game is Virtual Pool, but I'm keen to see this Katamari conversion I saw on some website.

Rolando coming tomorrow

who's he?

is anybody not cool w/me changing the name of this thread to add /iPod Touch in between iPhone and Games

HOW DARE YOU SIR

Do it (do it now!).

anyone played the new one by the dude who did gran turismo, space deadbeef?

I wanted to until I found out it was a scrolling shooter.

THIS is Rolando

ipod Tooch!

that's nasty

Playing Rolando now. Not sure how long i'll stick with it, but it's a step forward in terms of design, music & presentation. LocoRoco with cartoon Florida oranges or not, it's still fun.

entire world seems to agree that iphone katamari is a sin against god and capitalism

i liked how one wired blog yesterday had a post that was all "THIS IS BROKEN GARBAGE" (the games one) and the gadget one was like "THIS IS SIMPLY WONDERFUL!"

12 hours and sobering up later, Rolando still fun

he sounds like a great guy!

rolando is ok but im finding it a bit frustrating control-wise.

FRENZIC on the other hand is pure awesome (and cheap as hell right now)

anyone bought fieldrunners?

fieldrunners is so-so... found it way too easy for a tower defense game, not enough towers and shit either...

Been having a blast with Dropship. It's a total insane shooter a la Geometry Wars - the controls take some getting used to but I got the hang of it pretty quickly. The best part of it is that the humans you rescue have names pulled from your contact database.

So far I've rescued Admiral Raggett, Wing Command Rosen, Sgt. Chaki.

thats funny

Anybody bought the full version of Touch Physics? I likes this game.

is there a hack/pirate network of iphone stuff floating around yet? I don't even have the machine, just curious.

iphone games pretty much suck except for frenzic. i think it's a shitty platform for games. for one, tilt games are terrible. for two, my fingers get in the way of the screen or aren't accurate enough (as opposed to the DS's stylus).

I think you can pirate pretty much any game with a certain application you load on a jailbroken phone; there's also lots of homebrew games, though I gather the market for them is lessening (except emulation) since the apps store opened.

Trism is pretty good but the free Solitaire app trumps pretty much everything (although I did impulse-buy Frenzic as a result of this thread so I may be modifying that stance soon)

So. Flight Control, anyone? I seem to have hit a wall round about the 64pts mark; annoyingly, Mrs Fiendish has whupped me with 74. But I hear of people getting 200+. How?

Bought that after being recommended it by MANY people, but find it really tedious. Drop7 is much much much better.

New update to Flight Control has autosaving, so I get past the first fifteen, save, then return later to actually play it.

Wonder too about some of these high scores: according to the new online ranking thing, I have the best score in the area and I still can't get past 90.

New update to Flight Control has autosaving

OH, DOES IT? How does that work, then? The only thing I spotted was the daft score-sharing shit, which I can't be arsed registering for (also: Mrs Fiendish's score, grumble, mutter, grah).

I second the Drop7 recommendation.

just press the home button, it'll save. xp

Is anyone else playing the stupid-yet-addictive iMafia game?

no!!

geo-defense is a pretty good one. like tower defense x geometry wars

all i play is The Office mini golf game. i need to find a real one because work cut out pretty much all internet except snopes.com

dan i started the mafia game but had noone to join my gang o thugs

peggle is up for $.99 right now

deal of the year imo

seriously, i bought it two weeks ago and have played it for like 283928392 hours so far

59p on the UK store too. Buying, thanks!

Christ. About an hour ago, I downloaded Peggle, just to see what all the fuss was about.

I'm only off it now because Mrs Fiendish has wrested it from my grip.

That's ace, that.

yup, it's great :)

I'd like plants vs zombies for iphone pls

Fucking hell, that looks topp. Yes, so would I.

Yeah, promised myself I wouldn't buy iphone peggle (having bought it on three different formats already) but couldn't resist 59p.

yup, it's great :)

I'd like plants vs zombies for iphone pls

― cozwn, Saturday, June 13, 2009 12:43 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

was just thinking that - wouldn't pay $20 for computer version but $5 for iphone i'd hit it

would advance wars work well? OMG

There's a game called EndWar that claims to be Advance Wars-ish but though I d/l'ed for cheap when it came out, I've yet to play it (still too consumed by Puzzle Quest holy shit is that a great game and yes I am three years behind the curve but w/e)

would advance wars work well? OMG

― cozwn, Monday, June 15, 2009 11:14 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

:O

just saw this

http://kotaku.com/5291048/iphone-gets-its-own-advance-warssort-of

ah shit yeah it's UniWar that I have, not EndWar; it comes up in the comments to that kotaku post.

not feeling the Peggle love yet - too much downtime for an iphone game

that's what i like about it. i can play it standing on the metro! also, games with a lot of controlling/touching just get my fingers in the way of hte screen.

Was totally addicted to Peggle for the six or seven hours it took me to finish all the levels, then instantly got bored. The challenges are OK for the first part, but then just get too hard to be interesting.

i'm almost finished all the challenges :D

Yeh, Mrs Fiendish is almost finished it (I'm not, but I've not played it nearly as much) so I guess it might be lacking in longevity somewhat. Was that true of the desktop versions as well? Only there's a big fucking difference between 59p (or even £2.99) for a lovely wee game that doesn't last long, and £14.95 for the same kind of thing.

(Actually: Mrs Fiendish is almost finished the main game, not the challenges. So fuck it, we've got a tonne of life left to squeeze out of it.)

i dig on peggle majorly but i only play it for my 20 minute subway commute

Most of the challenges in Peggle are pretty doable but that I've never been able to nail that 750K challenge.

picked up let's golf ON IPHONE on sale for £0.59

is it just me or doesn't it have a framerate? it's so juddery

have to say tho for 59p it's a great little game, and still playable through the stutters

maybe it's a 2G vs 3G iphone problem. the 3G has more processing power right?

eliss is nice

anyone played tht or edge?

Most of the challenges in Peggle are pretty doable but that I've never been able to nail that 750K challenge.

― Nhex, Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:54 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

last challenge 4 me :/

i got 741k arrghgh

GUYS I DID IT

what game(s) are u the best at amirite

should i go there and post about it

I posted abt street fighter and I have never got 750k at it so I thk u r entitled

okay tell me about g1 games
becuz all i am playing now is dope wars and desktop defense.

scratch my comments abt let's golf upthread: updated to the latest (os3.0-compatible) version and there is no frame stuttering

great little game

edge and eliss are fun but hard

okay tell me about g1 games
becuz all i am playing now is dope wars and desktop defense.

― Mindless Thugs Mixtape Volume One (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:51 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no one is going to tell u because no one has one of these things

s1ocki, what level did you manage to get 750k on? Working my way through the challenges now...

Anybody checked out the Mass Effect game yet?

http://toucharcade.com/2009/06/23/mass-effect-galaxy-first-impressions/

running emulators on 3GS:

http://www.destructoid.com/iphone-3gs-runs-game-boy-advance-at-over-150fps-also-ff7-137493.phtml

does anyone ever go non-zen on peggle challenges???

s1ocki, what level did you manage to get 750k on? Working my way through the challenges now...

― Suedey 2, Sunday, June 28, 2009 6:29 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the third or fourth one. with the u-shape. using multiball. if you can trick it so the thing at the bottom catches more than one ball on a turn u get massive bounces. also really finesse those purples, especially towards the end. if you can clear hte board completely you're much more likely to get 100k bonus too.

i never use zen

I'm saving the Mass Effect game until nearer the date of ME2. I've already forgotten most of the plot of the original, if I play the iphone game now I'll just have even more to catch up on before I start the proper sequel.

I never use zen either. I always use the pumpkin.

really? pumpkin is too random. I figure zen or fireball. I'm stuck on the last 350k challenge now ><

fireball is almost never worth it imo

Used Zen a lot, but it's weird nature actually seems to prevent getting those REALLY crazy shots. Spookyball was really good at times, too. Gave up on ever hitting 750k tho.

u can do it nhex

guys what about Flight Control

should i get that y/n

it's fun!

get it now

really addictive :(

ok

:(

sorry :(

maybe it isn't as fun as i thought

i havent tried it

It's more annoying than fun.

Thanks for the tip s1ocki! Gonna give that a go soon. Been trying to perfect my scoring abilities on the multi level score chasing levels etc, got about 600,000 or so on a few levels. I used to use zen a lot but then got wise to it, generally I go for a spooky ball and try to get a spooktacular on the go but I might try some more multiball action.

Kind of annoyed that if you clear levels and stuff in challenges it doesnt record it on the level select even though it gives you the big level clear thing.

quite liking iShift.

are there any 3GS-only games yet?

what is the point of zen anyway? even when it gets to "maximum zen" i find it doesn't lead to such incredible shots... is there a way u gotta use it?

Yeah it's weird, when you first use it, it seems like the bee's knees, but after a while you do realize it's not as good as you thought, especially once you figure out how to make 100k/200k/etc. shots yourself.

955,400! God, why did I stay up so late trying to do that. I ended up using Warren on the level you mentioned, s1ocki. Got a combo of magic hat and triple score that took me to around 500,000 then nearly cleared the rest of the level in one shot.

Yeesh. I think it might let me sleep now.

geebers what is your top flight control score

finally beat the 400k one -_-

and yeah, zen blows for those challenges.

I'm having a lot of fun with Drawrace. Although beyond a certain point I start to feel I'm handicapped by my fat fingeredness.

doing this zenovia free thing and it is def appealing to the old school top down rpg lover in me.

GBX WHAT IS YOUR TOP FLIGHT SCORE

oh hey assassins creed for iphone is pretty but SUPER ANNOYING

oh come on nobody else has tried zenovia? its cool!

oh i see maybe it is because i am an idiot and calling it zenovia when it is zenonia

zeno seems fun but really involving/interactive which kind of plays away from what i want in an ipod game.

Holy shit Monkey Island is out for the phone. Goosebumps

I LOVE TOOBZ

i love drop7. seriously ob sessed.

hey it's fun, thx

Toobz is Pipe Dreams ripoff, right? I never want to see a Pipe Dreams type game again after Bioshock

This is my first post using my new iPhone. Never before have I been so worried about having fat fingers.

They get skinnier, worry not.

OK, as I just mentioned, I have just obtained one eyephone. Of course I've read the thread, but there are plenty of newish games out there that haven't been mentioned. IGN has reviewed these games (and sorry I'm c+p'ing so the formatting will probably be nutty):

Rolando 2: The Quest for the Golden Orchid   	 Puzzle   	 9.0  	 Jun 30, 2009
Firemint Real Racing 	Racing  	9.0 	Jun 11, 2009
Space Invaders Infinity Gene 	Action  	8.7 	Jul 29, 2009
Wolfenstein RPG 	RPG  	8.5 	Aug 12, 2009
Reign of Swords 2 	Strategy  	8.5 	Aug 3, 2009
F.A.S.T. 	Flight Simulation 	8.5 	Jul 10, 2009
Knights Onrush 	Strategy  	8.5 	Jun 15, 2009
Moonlights 	Puzzle  	8.0 	Aug 4, 2009
Wild Wild Train 	Puzzle Action 	8.0 	Jul 31, 2009
Blimp: The Flying Adventures 	Flight Action 	8.0 	Jul 21, 2009
Baseball Slugger: Home Run Race 3D 	Sports  	8.0 	Jul 16, 2009
Starhogs 	Action  	8.0 	Jul 6, 2009
Doom Resurrection 	Shooter  	8.0 	Jun 29, 2009
Zooloretto 	Strategy  	8.0 	Jun 25, 2009
3D Rollercoaster Rush 	Puzzle  	8.0 	Jun 18, 2009
California Gold Rush 	Puzzle  	8.0 	Jun 16, 2009
Duke Nukem 3D 	Shooter  	7.9 	Aug 10, 2009
Crazy Penguin Catapult 2 	Puzzle Action 	7.9 	Jun 25, 2009
Jewel Quest Deluxe 	Puzzle  	7.8 	Jul 7, 2009
NFL 2010 	Sports  	7.5 	Aug 7, 2009
Pac-Man Remix 	Action  	7.5 	Aug 5, 2009
G-Force 	Action  	7.5 	Jul 28, 2009
Touch K.O. 	Sports  	7.5 	Jul 28, 2009
Puzzlings 	Puzzle  	7.5 	Jul 17, 2009
Jungle Bloxx 	Puzzle  	7.5 	Jul 10, 2009
Archon 	Strategy  	7.5 	Jun 26, 2009
Castle of Magic 	Action  	7.2 	Jun 24, 2009
Defender Chronicles: Legend of the Desert King 	Strategy  	7.2 	Jun 15, 2009
Crazy Monkey Spin 	Platformer  	7.1 	Jul 30, 2009
Minigore 	Action  	7.0 	Jul 30, 2009
Resident Evil 4: Mobile Edition 	Action  	7.0 	Jul 27, 2009
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution 	Strategy  	6.5 	Aug 11, 2009
Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, The 	Adventure  	6.5 	Jul 23, 2009
Worms 	Strategy  	5.5 	Jul 13, 2009
Power Pros Touch 	Sports  	5.0 	Jul 22, 2009
Mass Effect Galaxy 	Shooter  	5.0 	Jun 23, 2009
DJ Mix Tour 	Music  	5.0 	Jun 15, 2009
Ghostbusters 	Action  	4.5 	Jun 16, 2009
Streets of Rage 	Fighting  	4.0 	Jul 20, 2009
Golden Axe 	Action  	4.0 	Jun 19, 2009

Does anyone want to out themselves as an undeniable stan for any of these games? Are any games rated way too high, or too low? If you could only pick a few, which would they be? What's the best value?

F.A.S.T. is a good dumb arcade-style airplane shoot-em-down game. I'd pay a dollar for sure, and maybe 2 or 3, for it.

I just bought Zooloretto for a dollar in a sale that I think is ongoing, but I haven't played it yet. I mention it just b/c of the sale (from $5 I think).

I love Civ:Rev on DS and this is apparently a port of that version, but since I have a DS I won't be getting it for iPhone. It was $5 last week but I guess that was just a sale (from $10 normally). It's $15-$20 on DS last I checked.

The games I've played the most aren't on there. They're Azkend, which is a hex-match-n game with really cool touch control; and Bookworm, the classic PopCap word game. Peggle is an obv. must too, I think.

i will stan for:

FRENZIC
drop7
geodefense
peggle
flightcontrol

spider lost in the house or whatever it's called is pretty good

these are all puzzly/strategy/tower games, which reflects both my gaming interests but also waht i feel works best on iphone.

The makers of Zenonia put out a new game: Hybrid: Eternal Whisper

Another action-jrpg, only from the side view. Lots of bits straight out of the SNES, too. Quite talky so far.

how is it on the tooch?

Should be. Check the Store.

squareball is completely wonderful, but quite tricky. it's like breakout married an 8-bit platformer.

I'm really not sold on the ipod/Touch as a good gaming platform mainly due to the touch screen control quality, but anyone tried Hook Champ? It's this Umihara Kaiwase/Bionic Commando-type grappling hook platformer, works astonishingly well.

drop7

oregon trail on iphone is some bullshit how hard is it to code a really accurate version of the one we all remember playing in grade school, think of all the nostalgia bucks to be made guys

please just let me shoot bison on the go that's all I ask

drop7 what r yr scores? on hardcore, natch. i can't get above 250k.

also, ORBITAL. based on old lightweight pc freebie classic GIMME FRICTION.

drop7 what r yr scores? on hardcore, natch. i can't get above 250k.

― poster x (ledge), Wednesday, December 9, 2009 5:23 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

high score is 577k

367k *shame*

ok so ORBITAL is crack-like

ok so my orbital high score on gravity is 25 - someone come along and shame me plz

ok now its 36

yep going to get a whole lot of work done for the rest of the day, i can see that already

I dig it 2 is great.

the game gets more fun the more you fuck up, which sounds weird, but youll have to trust me on this

I stopped playing drop7 after realizing that no matter how well you play there's always going to be an element of randomness that controls how successful your combos are; not as satisfying as tetris imo

drop7 hardcore 493k

physics free is fun for a minute

current orbital highs: 41 on gravity, 20 on pure.

42 on gravity!

i think im too stupid for pure mode, my high score is like 4 or something

New mode! SUPERNOVA! With Aiming! Games last a lot longer!

awesome. love this game!

you guys Orbital is fucking owning my life atm

current high scores:

gravity: 53
pure: 5
supernova: 170

lol guess which mode I never play

btw ty supernova mode for making me remember circle geometry and how important the angle between your aim and the radius line made by the point of contact is

what's your best supernova shot? mine is 121 (11 orbs at once!!!!!)

until i had to delete all my fuckin' apps and lose my scores i had

gravity: 54
pure: 21
supernova: 240

can't remember best shot.

wat are good free games ON IPHONE

ORBITAL are you not paying attention to the latter part of the thread

also is there a good tetris / dr. mario version or something generic like that

nope i didn't read the thread

clock is pretty fun. also stocks

calendar when I'm in the mood

orbital is tight.

Orbital is eating my life

current high score in supernova: 358

Ooh, 355. Got a 15-in-one though, an uber combo, or in the delightful pronunciation of the robot, a 'yoober cumBO'.

I play a lot of doodle jump.

I shouldn't have decided to give Orbital 'a quick try' at midnight last night... Current high score on Gravity: 18! :(

Orbital Play Time: 06:07:44.

Since last Friday. I need help.

anyone else played Sword & Poker? it's like Puzzle Quest crossed with (wait for it) poker. it's really really really really really great, too.

Yeah that's pretty fun. Never played puzzle quest so can't compare, but certainly worth 59p.

Gravity high score 57! Woo. This makes the train a little more bearable.

Dark Nebula is free this weekend and worth a look. Labyrinth-style game but with guns, good fun but pretty short (I dl'd on Fri and finished today, but then I do have multiple assignments due so it's obviously the perfect time to be playing iphone games...)

how do you find out what's on sale?

I set up alerts with an app called BarginBin.

barginbin sounds like a good idea. i found out about dark nebula from www.gizmodo.com.

okay tell me about g1 games
becuz all i am playing now is dope wars and desktop defense.
― Mindless Thugs Mixtape Volume One (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:51 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no one is going to tell u because no one has one of these things
― gabb 'bag (s1ocki), Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:11 PM (6 months ago)

How about now?

Nobody excited about Chinatown Wars? I gave up after about an hour of the DS version, and can't see it being any better ON IPHONE.

i loved it on DS, but this is the third platform it's hitting. also it sounds like it'll be prone to the ridiculous touch screen control cramming, like so many other games

How about now?

― just ignore whatever forks is doing and you should be ok (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:51 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

still no

I put on my robe and wizard hat

http://chillze.com/2010/01/final-fantasy-i-ii-are-comint-to-the-iphone/

:o

The price they ask, I will pay

O_O

What stet said.

I r retard. High score in gravity mode is 23 (2:14:01 play time)

I can't get past 34. And most of my games end at like 4.

okay the FF games on iPhone would be fucking grand

btw anyone else discover Unblock Me? also mad addictive

gravity's too easy - i can only get like 10 on pure though

supernova is like pure, pure crack rock

still can't break 60 tho :(

broke 200 YES!!!!!!!!!!

it was my first taste of the "mega combo" - i will be back for more

do you guys have any kind of "stragegy"? i start each game by lofting them up into opposing corners, trying to get them as close to the edge as possible. then i fuck up, or the corners get to full. then i scramble to recover.

TOO full

i start off the same but i dunno if it helps, it always descends into anarchy and scrambling.

I try to engineer a little barrier that I can then pop them behind, sort of like this:

_______
| |
| |
|000 |
| |
| |

But it rarely works out.

oh piss.

jim what is that, you try to make a little barrier of them somehow??

honest to god this is the greatest video game ever created by man or beast. if it took quarters i would be fucking destitute.

My picture was meant to look like this

_________
|.......|
|.......|
|0000...|
|.......|
|.......|
|.......|
|.......|

Er no, that's not it either.

If you start at the right point, you can just keep the fire button held down and it will automatically build a wall of the things, you can get them angling out from the corner at 30 or 60 degrees depending where you start. But I'm not convinced it's a great strategy, you end up with a whole bunch of orbs which you can't get at and the screen just fills up.

(er that's in pure or gravity, not supernova)

I try and create big bubbles with large gravity fields. Then I can get rid of them by shooting around the periphery and it skirts along until it pops. This never gets me a high score though. However, it is very satisfying.

yeah the paradox of the big bubble - dangerous, irritating, but will take out everything else once you pop it

My supernova strategy: start with a bubble in the top center, put bubbles on the sides, pop the center one, then start winnowing down the sides until there are at least 3 in the 1 range and a few more in the 2 range clumped together, then pop one of the 1 bubbles for a chain reaction. Clear up stragglers as I can and repeat. If possible, I try to create little ricochet alcoves and fire into those to clear out things that might be in the way.

When this works, I can reliably score well into the 200s with this strategy, but mishits are BRUTAL.

which supernova game are you talking about, the bejeweled-styel one?

Supernova mode in Orbital

I tried the free version of Orbital and didn't get the appeal. The only games that I've played for more than a few days are Peggle, Bookworm, Scrabble and Canabalt.

i still play drop7 every day

what the hell is wrong with me

oh god i just DLd this

you will all be receiving a letter from my dean

getting REALLY into Mr.Aah! these days; it's like a deliberate version of Canabalt. also I picked up Puzzle Quest ON IPHONE and oh lord I had forgotten how addictive this shit is.

"ricochet alcoves" for the win

i still play drop7 every day

ditto. still can't get over 400,000 like hardly ever.

I've never played Broken Sword before, tempted by this iPhone port. Anyone playing that?

Where the hell is Plants vs Zombies on the iTunes store. I only can find Plants vs Zombies Cheats and Zombie Parade when I search.

didn't think u cd get PvsZ ON IPHONE yet?

I'm mixing up threads. ILX Brainmash fail.

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/08/plants-vs-zombies-coming-to-iphone-on-february-15th/

ABOUT GODDAMN TIME

YES COBO

ON IPAD next pls

I'd rather they just dropped the price for the Mac OS X version in half, like the way it's been on Steam since release day.

anyone played eliss or edge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fELPZ26QRk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_aB_ZkonGw

Edge isn't available because of some ridiculous copyright dispute.

oh, that guy

sorry to tell you it's really good :/

awesome write-up about Tim Langdell, the gigadouche who made it so you can't get Edge

also crossposting from C&P: Wolfenstein RPG is a ton of fun. the turn-based mechanic works way better than you would have ever guessed.

oh and Space Miner is supposed to be an incredible Asteroids/RPG mashup game with good production values and insane gameplay hooks. I'm buying it as soon as I get my next paycheck.

I have the lite version of Eliss, should really spring for the full thing. Geodefense is my new crackpipe tho.

I can re-download apps bought off itunes w/out having to repay right?

yup, unless they've been removed from the store

(in which case they're just gone forever)

OK, might try w/something cheap first in case itunes is being its usual cunty

Edge was the first iPhone game I got, based on rave reviews (when there were few other iPhone games); it's kinda fun but a year or year.5 later it still hasn't clicked as awesome. The puzzles are either no work or a pain to figure out, like "ok I will die figuring out this puzzle a few times and then by the end, have memorized all the potential pitfalls and win without dying". Obv. I need to play it more b/c it probably gets better...I hope?

broke 500 on orbital

BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

does everyone on here have Space Miner yet? it is fucking amazing.

also getting a lot of playtime out of Fritz Chess lately.

space miner is the first game I'm grabbing on ma new iphone I think; along w/PvZ

it is so so so so so dope. also surprisingly funny (as opposed to "video game funny").

oh and pick up Sword & Poker while you're buying stuff, it's only a buck and it ate my life for a couple of weeks.

have any of you tried The Quest?

http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2010/02/23/mimeo_and_the_kleptopus_king

whoa this looks sick

Mimeo (even the name) started as a Mario clone with a twist: instead of power-ups affecting the player, they affect the entire game world. A story and mythos quickly developed. The so-called Mimeoverse consists of two 16-bit demiverses sharing 32-bits between them. When the evil Kleptopus King, an 8-bit octopus with an inferiority complex, discovers a portal into Mimeo’s realm and begins to syphon off its bits, Mimeo is sucked in and down-sampled to 2-bit. So begins Mimeo’s quest to restore balance to the demiverses.

ergo power-ups upgrade not your character but the world itself

http://dealbreaker.com/images/thumbs/drudge_siren.gifhttp://dealbreaker.com/images/thumbs/drudge_siren.gifhttp://dealbreaker.com/images/thumbs/drudge_siren.gifhttp://dealbreaker.com/images/thumbs/drudge_siren.gifhttp://dealbreaker.com/images/thumbs/drudge_siren.gif

anyone who liked Pic Pic/hasn't ever heard of Pic Pic but likes puzzle games needs to drop two bucks on PathPix right now and prepare to lose a few days of their life.

Huh.
http://krispixton.com/MixAPix/index.htm

Just beat space miner. Good game but way too short.

broke 500 on orbital again - so so satisfying to get 10+ combos

i've noticed that having a "line of defense" helps a great deal. if you can get a few bubbles near you they'll block a lot of otherwise troublesome shots. of course you have to play it fine - one misplaced bubble and your line of defense becomes an impenetrable wall of death

Beat Final Fantasy I. Now starting on II. Such nostalgia.

orbital is pretty fun/frustrating. have made 500 my goal because of Tracer.

i i'd say about 50% of my games hover around 200, 45% i die almost immediately, and 5% are over 300

it needs slow-mo replay on death shots

yes!!

I play a lot of doodle jump.

I've gotten way more than my .99 cents out of it.

angry birds

anyone in this bitch playing We Rule? my username is trdn89 if'n you want a neighbor. same username for Words With Friends if anyone's doing that too.

finally hit 534 on Orbital btw

wondering if Tracer is still beating me

Have worded you, mr cobo.

587

max single shot - 144

the final fantasy ports are p fukken rad imo

wish the controls were better cuz im just loven the chibi looken sprite for my white mage

Addicted to strategery

Is that like risk?

Yeah but stripped right down

what's the poker game jamescobo reps?

after 5 hours, 9 minutes, and 55 seconds of playing orbital in supernova mode, my high score so far is... 108 :\

I'm at 168 after 3hr 45min.

I have Civ:Rev on 3 platforms: 360, DS, & Tooch, & the Tooch version is by far the best---totally fabulous interface, & well-suited to short-ish commutes.

Tooch = iPhone? If you say it's really worth getting I may consider it. Is it a huge battery drain tho?

haha yes, Tooch = iPod touch = iPhone (for the sake of this thread). It's a bit of a drain, yes: but I can get at least 3 hours of play I think? haven't timed it out. It's no worse wrt battery life than the other games I play a lot of (e.g. Catan, Peggle).

Bejeweled seems to suck my battery dry.

Carcassonne is out for the iPhone.

managed to sort out some kind of strategy for orbital, have hit 192, could probably go higher if I didn't have the patience of a 3 year old in setting up my shot. also begging for an option where you get to repeat shots along the same trajectory

what are some other good games? orbital & drop7 getting kind of dull tbh

still stanning for strategery

bunch of vuvuzeela apps on the appstore too

dyao you can basically set up the same trajectory by paying attention to the gridlines

hah I try but being even a little bit off can make your shot go all crazy, especially due to finger-drift when you lift off the screen

(btw think upgrading to RETINA SCREEN might be worth it for orbital fireworks alone)

strategery is OK but Carcassonne may be the best game on the app store.

also Sigma owns if you like match 3s

what's the poker game jamescobo reps?

Sword & Poker?

Which is actually based on poker squares, not poker. Sword and Poker II is out now, btw.

got 497 on orbital yesterday and came here to brag..but then I see tracer has 587 lol

SHIT WHAT I DONE BOUGHT RECENTLY

- 9 Innings 2011 (strong contender for my favorite game on my phone after 2 hours of playing. controls take some getting used to but once they click they're immaculate, and there's an unbelievably addictive baseball-card mechanic to extend the playtime. if you like baseball and don't get this game I impugn your sexual prowess.)

- Secret of Monkey Island 2 (haven't had much time to play it yet but the new controls [think a more refined Broken Sword] are a treat so far)

- Real Racing (got this the day I got my 4 and having only played it on that I have no problems calling it one of the 5 best motion-controlled games I've ever played on any platform)

- Gun Range (kind of fun but got old quickly)

- Espglauda (not really a shooter dude by nature but this is really fun! I can't say I'm playing it like a pro or anything [basically just blasting through the levels] but w/e, blowing shit up is awesome.)

- 100 Rogues (ok but nowhere near worthy of all the pre-release hype. Sword of Fargoal is a way better roguelike.)

- Civilization Revolution (whoever said this game sucks can sit on many dicks)

- Dungeon Scroll (still waiting for Popcap to put Bookworm Adventures on the app store but until then this will have to scratch my killing-things-by-finding-words itch)

- Soccer Superstars (eh)

also Qrank remains the best game on the app store; get it and add me (trdn89)

Civ Rev on this platform is fantastic---dragging units around feels great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJrKWmDtZnA

yeah that game is pretty great too. iPhone is maybe the best platform in gaming right now; I looked through my running best-of-2010 list and like half of them are iGames.

whoa! list please? I am pretty much all Civ Rev all the time b/c it is so perfect for commutes.

has anyone here tried Settlers? (not Settlers of Catan) I'm wondering how the interface works, & whether resource development games can work well on the platform.

you mean the Gameloft version of Settlers? I heard there's no free-play mode, just

btw my list as it stands right now (C&P 2010 SPOILERS I guess)

1. Bayonetta, PS3
2. 3D Dot Game Heroes, PS3
3. Yakuza 3, PS3
4. Qrank, iPhone
5. Plants Vs. Zombies, iPhone
6. Carcassonne, iPhone
7. Joe Danger, PSN
8. 9 Innings 2011, iPhone (will probably be much higher by the end of the year)
9. Dark Void Zero, DSiWare
10. Space Miner, iPhone

honorable (iPhone) mentions: Monkey Island 2, Sigma, Dizzypad, Espgaluda 2, Super Quick Hook, Tilt To Live

I keep meaning to start a thread for (proper JRPG by Square Enix) Chaos Rings, it's fantastic.

Audiosurf for iPhone? WANTWANTWANTWANTWANT

Dylan looked into when iPhone OS 3 came out, and it turned out it didn't grant enough access. Maybe it'll change now, assuming he doesn't have some kind of exclusivity thing going on with the Zune version. What I really want is a Mac OS X version, or sequel!

I cannot possibly recommend 9 Innings 2011 emphatically enough; even after a bug with the first update wiped all my progress, I still keep coming back to it. the controls are magnificent once you get used to them, the card-collecting mechanic is unbelievably well-implemented, and thanks to the segmented nature of baseball it's the perfect game to pick up & play for a few innings w/o losing the flow of the game. I'm actually going to use it to try to quit smoking by ducking out for a few innings instead of for a cigarette. A++++++++ would buy again.

Someone made that sweet basketball flash game into an iphone game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ZzekaA0EA&feature=player_embedded#!

Animal Color Cross

drop7 has taken over my entire life

i wake up and my brain is already playing it

i'm maxing out at like 250,000 now though.. perhaps it is for the best

so Angry Birds is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too addictive

also, Sword and Poker

I thought I figured out the perfect strategy for drop7 and the first time I tried it I got like a 330,000 and I was like "yes!" but subsequent tries have ended in dismal failure so maybe I got lucky

getting a chain x16 was probably the most exhilarating moment of my life

also these days i feel like i'm just trying to get rid of 6s and 1s

6's are so easy! my foolproof strategy was just to drop every token into columns less than the number but it doesn't work when you're 6 high and you're getting 2's and 1's all the time

i'll have to give 'strategy' a try. i've just been relying on intuition/randomness at this point

dont you just hate it when youve somehow gotten some blanks sectioned off by 1s and you realize that there's nothing you can do to get rid of em?

| 1 1 1
| x x 1
| x x 1

yeah that is pretty much impossible to get through and it happens all the time and it's the reason why I think the game is FLAWED and have devoted all my time to playing 9 innings 2011 (I will hunt you down and eat your children for recommending it, jamescobo)

btw jamescobo how do you work this card collecting system out, like I've won several cards of players from other teams am I just supposed to stick them in my lineup without regard for the rules of how major league baseball actually works?

Carcassonne's internet match thing is so cool.

hah I too have picked up the drop 7/9 innings addiction. I accidentally bought the first 9 innings game at first.. what a turd. =\

so glad you guys are "in deep" with drop7 as i am

imo i am the world's greatest drop7 player

yall play hardcore right?

http://grab.by/grabs/3bee72d9cc45fd883319462798f57d97.png

got a shitload of stuff lately:

- Babo Crash HD went free over the weekend so I said fuq it and grabbed it. if you can get past the branding, it's a pretty good ultra-casual match-3 clone; they included a shitton of powerups so that massive screen-clearing explosions happen all the time. also just think of all the "HOW IS BABBO FORMED" jokes you'll be able to make to yourself!

- TouchArcade flipped out over Fastar and it was only a buck so I gave it a shot. it's boring as hell.

- Pinball HD: a compilation of The Deep and those other 2 pinball games by the same developer w/ retina support & landscape mode. owns so far.

- Osu! - free Ouendan clone w/ a regularly-updated database of user-created tracks accessible from the app. I haven't gotten too into it yet since the lion's share of the songs available are shitty k-pop songs w/ tapping tracks for ultra-super-uber-mega pros, but to reiterate, FREE OUENDAN CLONE W/ A REGULARLY UPDATED DATABASE OF USER-CREATED TRACKS. for jailbreakers only, though.

- Osmos: fun but so very very overrated due to the slightness of the game. if you were one of those people who busted a massive nut over the Bit Generations games then you'll probably love this.

- TunesAttack: this was free and they've apparently already submitted an update to Apple to let them use the songs on your phone's hard drive so I'm waiting until all that happens to get into it. nothing special so far though.

yeah that is pretty much impossible to get through and it happens all the time and it's the reason why I think the game is FLAWED and have devoted all my time to playing 9 innings 2011 (I will hunt you down and eat your children for recommending it, jamescobo)

there is a very real chance that this game will finish in my top 3 for the year. I play it SO FUCKING MUCH.

btw jamescobo how do you work this card collecting system out, like I've won several cards of players from other teams am I just supposed to stick them in my lineup without regard for the rules of how major league baseball actually works?

basically yeah; I guess if you want to be a stickler you could just keep leveling up your original cards, but my Tampa Bay team has zero of their original starting players/2 or 3 original pitchers at this point and I am LOVING LIFE (especially since I somehow managed to draw Ryan Howard and Steven Strasburg). I would have preferred a trading mechanic but oh well, the game's close enough to crack as it is.

also make sure you get the newest update; not only is there a massive make-good effort if you lost your first team in the 1.0.1 update, but it adds LANDSCAPE MODE (!!!)

hardcore drop7 is fun.. also helps hone skillz for normal

funny my top score name is 'ass' because I am mature

wow 9 innings is a lot of fun.

always play hardcore drop7, there is no other way
root out 1s, never let un-blown-ups get above 4, cuz they could be 4s

damn slocki

work horizontally as much as possible

http://i34.tinypic.com/2drx40j.png

aw guys i went cold turkey on drop7, don't make me go back

work horizontally as much as possible

― a peach tree (156), Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:41 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

that's what she said

4 ares really the most deadly

4s are, that is

So re 9 innings, the card situation is really confusing. Are you able to put your cards on your team? How? Or only certain ones? What good are they if you can't put them on your roster?

you go to the 'my cardbox', go to your team, select a card the hit 'change'

I still dunno what all the percentage points do, or what they affect, or why my baseball team has cheerleaders

I thought it was really cute in the tutorial when they selected the teams for an exhibition game and the lady say "we will select the New York A and have them face Philadelphia just like in the 2009 finals"

Whew. Finally figured it out. It was driving me crazy. (Didn't realize you could flick up to see more players.)

wow the 2011 version looks incredible.. it's not available in the UK store though :(

i definitely get the feeling this game was produced in east asia, the english is a little wonky (it would also explain the cheerleaders)

yeah it's south korea i think? if you have a us based credit card you can open a us itunes account and buy it that way.

if you have itunes accounts in two different countries, can you put apps from each of those accounts on the same iPod/iPhone? or do you have to choose just one account at a time for synching?

You can put apps from both accounts on the phone. You can't switch between accounts on the phone though, so sometimes you have to update the apps via iTunes and in-app purchase can throw a mental

well i can wait if it'll come eventually, but i wonder if there's some kind of rights issue with the players association license and international sales

thanks stet!

When will this game be released in other app stores around the world. I'm a big fan of the original game and I'm looking forward to playing the new version.
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We don't have the exact ETA yet, but we hope to bring it ASAP. Thanks for waiting

fwiw I missed a flight a couple weeks ago b/c I was playing fieldrunners with the headphones on.

ohhhhhhhh shit

omg

i mean plants vs zombies i would understand

yeah it was an hour late so I got a little too comfortable chilling out. got the next on standby.

anyone want to recommend an RPG

right now i'm looking at The Quest over Chaos Rings, since I prefer Might & Magic to Final Fantasy

waht is game for iphone like zelda

Zenonia. Skipped the first, playing the second now, not super impressed so far.

thumbs down on zenonia. poor controls. poorly translated dialogue.

zenonia can eat many dicks

I cannot stop playing 9 innings.

TunesAttack: this was free and they've apparently already submitted an update to Apple to let them use the songs on your phone's hard drive so I'm waiting until all that happens to get into it. nothing special so far though.

this update went live. the game itself is kind of shitty and the song mapping seems really arbitrary but w/e, the price was right. totally worth it just to see how well the library integration works; whoever makes a good game out of this is going to be Doodle Jump dev rich.

also I want this rn plz (comes out next week but since when is the iphone about delaying gratification?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BR05AqU31k&feature=player_embedded

i can't stop playing 9 innings either, even though it's the old version

however i'm being driven crazy with not knowing how "smart" the game is, so i wonder if half the game is in my head or what.. for instance, i'll throw a changeup that catches the outside corner for a strike. naturally my next move is to throw another change that's a little farther outside, trying to get the guy to bite. but does the CPU psychology really work that way? another example - i try to mix up pitch and location for each batter, i.e. never throw a first-pitch fastball to three batters in a row - they'll figure it out. but will they? how smart are they, actually?

i'm having a tough time in season mode - all my guys basically suck. (and with old 9 innings there are no cards to trade up to). i tear up the league in exhibition mode though.

DoodleGods is my bitch. I've finished ep3 and now i want MOAR.

haha I think about that too xp. like i'll throw a fastball up and inside and then a change up in the exact same place and it'll "fool" the computer. so far I've managed 10 strikeouts in a game as my high (on hard) dunno if I could ever get to 15.

I do notice that there's like a 'streakiness' variable that gets activated, like sometimes I'll swing first on every pitch and everything will be a single or a double, and then other times my guys will miss like they're pissing into the toilet at night, it's weird

I completed doodle god and uninstalled not knowing that there would be more episodes. Now I don't want to have to redo every thing.

FYI n.o.v.a (ipad first person shooter) is on sale for a buck today.

wait you guys play on hard??? i just play on normal. is it more fun on hard? can you do better?

one thing i wish i could do is throw over to first.

I'm playing season mode so why not just go for it imo

you can throw to first by tapping the runner icon (also you can see if he's going to steal because the runner in the icon will start to run, so start tapping furiously where the 2B icon is when you see that) (still haven't thrown anybody out yet)

i too have been playing 9 innings a bunch, based off of this thread. Good recommendation!

is there a way to adjust the difficulty in season mode, once you've started? I think I'm on normal mode, but I'm 6-1 already and I don't really want to end up winning 138 games this season.

*dorky moment* I did 138 in my head, but I just took my current winning percentage (85.7%) and applied it to 162 games, and wound up with 138.8 projected wins for the season.

YES

(still haven't thrown anybody out yet)

ditto. haven't stolen a base either.

btw all of iD's games are on sale right now. Doom II RPG for a buck!

(still haven't thrown anybody out yet)

ditto. haven't stolen a base either.

I've stolen 2, been thrown out stealing maybe 10 times. With stolen bases, and close plays at any base, the AI is totally strict. You must be clearly, obviously, way safe. Anything else is frustrating. (glad I didn't choose the stolen base goal at the beginning of the season!)

The part I have the most trouble with is baserunning, especially in situations where you want one runner to advance and another to stay. I always end up missing the tiny icon repeatedly, and then by the time I manage to press it I'm basically just running into an out.

In other words, I have lots of games where I wind up with 10-15 hits and 3 runs or something because of all the baserunning mistakes.

me too! I just never try to stretch hits anymore (unless I'm using rollins, dude can run)

One thing I'm worried about, though, over the course of a season - do the other teams improve as well? I'm worried because if I'm already winning most of my games at the beginning of a season, with a bunch of low-level cards, won't I just be mowing people down halfway through with a bunch of rare and platinum card players?

One thing that bugs me about base advancing is that there isn't any nuance. If I want the 3rd base guy to advance to home, and there's a guy on 1st base, and hit the advance button, they both move -- which can lead to the inning ending early instead of the extra run I'm shooting for.

That's the thing, there's a way to do it - you can press the button corresponding to the baserunner you want to advance, and they'll advance by themselves and the other runner will stay. So it's possible. But unfortunately in practical terms it's very difficult to accomplish, it just never seems to work reliably.

Hmmm, I'll have to mess around with it. I only ever noticed the two buttons -- the red one and the green one.

Woo. 8-8 against the Mets until the 11th inning when Ryan Howard smacked a homerun out of the park and then Brad Lidge closed down the other side (after Madsen panicked and loaded up the bases). <3 u 9 Innings

bought & won 1st game 7-5 when luis castillo hit a 2 run hr in the bottom of the 8th (so realistic! lol)

i'm still playing the old version, can't wait to play with real players (though i sort of like how dinky the graphics are.. it reminds me of the great Micro League Baseball - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroLeague_Baseball )

im really dumb but i cant for the life of me figure out how to use the cards im getting..? is it cuz im in season mode i cant swap them in? do i really have to play 162 games to use my jeff suppan rare card!>?!?@

you exit league mode and go to my cardbox, then you can swap and level up your players and stuff

(have feeling you're gonna need to buy their 'assist' cards or w/e for 99 cents a pop because the failure rate oncey ou get past level 3 is pretty high and it costs thousands of points a try too)

i was in my cardbox for like 40(ok like 5) minutes last night! i managed to swap my cheerleader but couldnt figure out players

You go into your player box (leftmost tab), doubletap on the player you want to replace, then switch to your bench (the tabs in the middle) and doubletap on the player you want to substitute in. I agree, btw, it's not intuitive at all!

guys

can u stop talking about this dumb baseball game and talk more about drop7

no way man. 9 innings is incredible

ya but DROP 7

(ok maybe i'll try it)

Guys I just thought of an idea for a new game

Drop 7 9 innings baseball

woah u blew my mind

i am interested

s1ocki when you say 4s are truly evil i feel as though you've elevated to another plane of wizardry. i am still on the humble grasshopper plane of getting rid of 1s and 6s. 4s seems like a friend - so easy to dispose of! do you mean that 4s are evil in the end game? because yes, there i can agree.

kinda hate how the computer in 9 innings will let you pitch 5 perfect innings and then belt off 3 doubles in a row despite you pitching everything to them outside the strike zone

but the computer lets you do that sometimes too

I don't think I've played a game yet where the final combined score was less than 10 runs

i've had 1-0 games in the previous versh of 9 innings

9 innings won't let me listen to music while playing ://///

s1ocki when you say 4s are truly evil i feel as though you've elevated to another plane of wizardry. i am still on the humble grasshopper plane of getting rid of 1s and 6s. 4s seems like a friend - so easy to dispose of! do you mean that 4s are evil in the end game? because yes, there i can agree.

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, August 17, 2010 7:54 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

6s u definitely need to keep your eye on in the lower stages (they're major cock-blockers), but nothing is worse than seeing a 4 pop up at '5' row or above. i mean, the real worst is a 5 on 6 level or 6 on 7 level but at that point you're usually fucked anyway. 4s on level 5 and up are just deadly. 1s, you can usually dig out or work around no matter where they are. i mean, not always, especially when they're all in a cluster (worst is like, 1211), but on their own they're easy to dispatch.

god i've thought about this a lot.

so uh I got my first 'tie' in 9 innings 2011 today. went 12 innings and the game just ended and now I have a tie on my record. found out that ties are acceptable in japanese baseball so maybe this game is following japanese baseball rules?

also found out this neat fact

Other differences from MLB are that the general play is less aggressive, there are fewer home runs, the strike zone is larger near the batter but smaller away from the batter, and the ball is slightly smaller and wound more tightly.

I suck at 9 innings. Although I just realized you have to level up your cards. What determines if it fails or not?

Also, my pitchers wear out quick fast. Especially if a couple of runners get on. I'm lucky if I can get my starters to go 4 innings.

whether or not you buy those cards that increase the chance of it going through

all my players are at level 3, some at level 4 right now. was getting frustrated with too many failed level ups + level ups costing 1000-2000 points a pop after level 3, and I refuse to buy my way to success, although it seems that this system actually reflects pretty well how MLB works. my team seems to be doing alright though

xp the more hits/runs your pitcher gives up the faster his stamina goes down. I've pitched a few complete games so far with javier vasquez

Got a rare Joe Mauer card and he is srsly like 7/9 so far

I have some games where I use every one of my relief pitchers. So I'm fucked for the next game. Seriously, these guys need to keep their shit together if they give up one goddamn base hit. I've never cursed more at an iphone game in my life.

yeah, starters can barely reach 75 pitches. also I am pretty sure I got out for bunting fair (!) with two strikes

wish there was an stl team :(

whaaat? I'm using the stl team.

waht!

upgrade a dude to level 3 and next at bat I get the same dude but higher stats and only at level 1

lol i bought the wrong one. its pretty fun though!

Normally hang around ILB, but thought I'd post to say that a friend of my brother's just completed a game for the iphone. Not actually played it myself, but it sounds ok -

Review here.

wow that looks neat

Have started playing drop7, it's really elegant IMO

and wonderful

and perfect

damnit i am back on the drop7 crack. got my first >500k score this morning but not sure if it was skill or change.

or chance.

Drop7 is kind of blowing up my brain in that I keep looking at everyday objects and thinking, "If I drop a four on top of that, it will all disappear..."

damnit i am back on the drop7 crack. got my first >500k score this morning but not sure if it was skill or change.

― ledge, Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:17 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

good lad

fuckin 4s tho

Finally got a complete game in 9 innings. 40 games into the season, I'm finally starting to have a decent team.

my beloved Tampa Rays (GO YOU RAYS) is batting like .392 and has a team ERA of around 2 (both first in the league), yet we're still 4 games behind the Yankees for the division title.

is this the best game available for the iPhone? as much as I love Peggle & Drop7 & Canabalt & WWF I'm starting to think yes.

beat the yanks twice, now vazquez is pitching against vazquez

Time for a frickin' 9 innings thread on ILG, folks...

otm. i have exploits to share.

Hooked on Carcassonne. Anybody else playing?

it is an amazing game but everyone itt knows where all my iphone gaming time goes these days. in a perfect world the same team would be working on a Catan port right now.

I played the solitaire game on Carcassonne nonstop for about three weeks. I haven't played the multi-player version very much, though.

FYI, DoDonPachi Resurrection (the CAVE STG) has been released and is up on the store at a reduced price for the rest of the week, $4.99, £2.99 & €3.99 vs. $8.99, £5.49 & €6.99

http://itunes.apple.com/app/dodonpachi-resurrection/id387176580?mt=8

it sure makes me wish I had an iPod Touch or iPad :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7vlovbM448

I play the Internet game with friends. It's really fun. Had 3 tables going last night. Constant action, no waiting. Some things I hope they fix but overall it's a fun game.

Drop7 hardcore was murdering me all day yesterday while traveling that I was ready 2 throw my iPod across the 737

makes it v rewarding that ijust got a 440k score... Hadn't previously topped like 250k

good good

Yeah also I was having drop7 dreams while sitting up sleeping on the plane of 4s landing gently on my head and just staying there mocking me

Where I stand with my new iPhone w/r/t games:

• Trundle is fun but sometimes frustrating but the cute little "ouch!" sound when you die makes it all worth it
• drop7 is fucking crack. I basically just paid $2.99 to cease all actual IRL productivity
• I hear Angry Birds is good, and also that pachinko thing IGN is saying is the best thing of all time ever--comments?
• Are there any really solid FREE games? Tap Tap is fun and all but eh.

What pachinko thing?

I love Angry Birds, but can't stand Drop7. So, YMMV.

What pachinko thing?

Slingo?

I'm thinking Peggle, maybe... I love that game, but I'm all done with it.

Yes Peggle
C/d?

Classic. I love it and wish they would come out with Peggle 2 or something.

Succumbed to Osmos, helped soothe my hangover. Clever and fun.

I'm stuck on Osmoses.

who the fuck doesn't love Peggle? even dour communist types can enjoy that shit.

Peggle was my crack for many months. Great game.

Peggle is still probably the best iPhone game ever.

fuck drop7, been playing it for weeks and can't crack 250K. FUCK YOUR SHIT, DROP7!

New Angry Birds levels out today!

idg angry birds.

got all excited that there was actually a price is rite pachinko iphone game. >:O

THIS IS MY BOARD, TOOTCHES

shit I shoulda said iBoard

who the fuck doesn't love Peggle?

Mario was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me

fuck drop7, been playing it for weeks and can't crack 250K. FUCK YOUR SHIT, DROP7!

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, August 30, 2010 8:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

your anger is interfering with your flow, imho

my flow is fine, and then drop7 seven gives me like five million gray disks at once and there's 2s and 3s and 1s all along the top FUCK YOU FOREVER DROP7 DO YOU HEAR ME?

do u not play hardcore?

u must only play hardcore

Oh it's so easy to score higher on hardcore

Stayed up til 3 am playing Peggie last night...

it took me a while but I can now confidently get over 100K on normal and routinely hit 200K more than that is o_O

i have never played hardocre o_O

u must only play hardcore

otm. every so often i try a normal game, half an hour later i'm on like 20k. how long do games take?!

20-25 mins

ok maybe i exaggerated. still, that's too darn long.

Drop7 is evil addictive.
I've got a high of over 230K on normal, over 325K on hardcore and over 215K on sequence. What's scary is the global high scores with people with scores of over 1 million in hardcore and sequence.
I enjoy all three versions but hardcore is the best.

I tried the hardcore version yesterday. My average game lasts about one minute. ;_;

hardcore is just way more fun than regular imho

I always end up with an impenetrable border of 1s and 2s edging the unrevealed numbers. Is there a solution to this?

nip em in the bud

p impressed with anyone with a long enough attention span for regular drop7. do you pause yr games and come back to them or something?

No i just retreat from reality for a bit

Toners all the drop7 sound effects just disappeared so now it just plays music without any of the dropping noises. Modifying the settings does nothing

I meant yo WTF not toners

regular drop7 doesn't take very long if you suck at it

pro tip

nip em in the bud

Well, yes, but is there a strategy for doing so? I'll try to reduce the surrounding rows from below, but by the time I get anywhere close, it's over.

OK hardcore mode has rekindled the love. it's very intense.

broke 300,000 on my second try.

I got 500,000 or so last night and my average budged like 400 points.

netflix instant viewing ON IPHONE may crate a situation where i never play a tooch game again :(

haha, otm.

I locked myself out of the apartment this week and just sat on the sidewalk and watched the Fela Kuti doc on Netflix. Thankfully i could connect to my wifi from the sidewalk so it was nice and smooth, quick loading etc.

wait waht

when did that come out

Netflix for iphone came out last week.

zomg brb

I can't seem to break past 250k on drop7 hardcore. Dammit, how do you manage to get those huge scores?

i can't tell you exactly but here's a hint

http://www.dailybuddhism.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/headphone_meditation.jpg

Dude doesn't even have an iphone, how can he get high scores at drop7!!!!

exactly... you're so close to 'getting it'

brb gone to sit and stare at iphone

you got it :)

Time for a frickin' drop7 thread on ILG, folks...

wtf is this drop7, looks like fucking Tetris w/ numbers; guess I could d/l the demo but Tetris is just stressful whereas when I game I am generally looking for ~peace~

such as provided by Strategery, my newest love (still only playing the demo but I'll probably gonna buy the real deal)

Oh shit, this

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/epic-citadel/id388888815?mt=8

So last night I drank a four loko and played peggle til 7 am OOOPS

Had to google Four Loko but the results are hilarious.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/17/health/main6592444.shtml

HAHAHAHA. You crazy hipster kids.

i had four loko for the first time the other night. drank two and it was probably a bad idea on a work night /derail

Oh god I drink one over like an hour or two and I'm smashed. If I drank two I would black out. If I could even keep it down , it tastes like how I imagine a scented marker would

I thought the fed/state governments already groused enough about this to scare companies into taking caffeine/alcohol beverages off the market! At least Sparks got killed.

yea i learned the hard way that 1 is the correct dosage for that drink, definitely a bit of blackout. i can understand the govt's concern

blue raspberry was disgusting, grape was a little better but not by much. i had sips of lemonade and fruit punch which tasted muuch better

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/IMG_0001.png

4's: name your reasons why they are so bad & hated

that's it right there dawg

Oh shit, this

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/epic-citadel/id388888815?mt=8

"this app is incompatible with this iphone"

;_;

To be fair I'm amazed it's compatible with *this* iPhone.

Monkey Island 2 ON IPHONE is on sale for one dollhair, anyone who doesn't get it can fuck right off

fucking chinatown wars was released for IPAD! :||||

correction, both Monkey Island 1 & 2 ON IPHONE are currently on sale for one dollhair; MI2 has also been updated with Retina graphics (though the update is taking FORRRREVVVERRRRRRR to download)

Got 66 million on Slingo :)

Mirror's Edge is just wonderful.

Typing of the Dead clone for iPhone

owns much, buy it