iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

3 questions for youse guys:

1) I'm looking for something like the HotShots Golf! series and have trialed Let's Golf 2, is this the closest it gets? Seems very easy to master (I double eagled and holed-in-1).

2) I noticed someone big-upping 9 Innings but I trialed that and thought it was not as good as the goofier Baseball Superstars (I like not only arcade mode but player dev mode and manager modes). What am I missing with 9 Innings?

3) Is Katamari worth it?

1. yes

2. the thing about 9 Innings is that it is perfectly designed to be playable at any moment in the day. baseball can be broken down into so many component parts which serve as gameplay milestones ("oh I'll just play one AB/inning/game/season/etc.") + brilliant virtual-d-pad-less portrait mode allowing for one-handed play (perfect for playing while standing on a bus/ducking out for a smoke/"oh man I just drew a platinum Albert Pujols" *frantic masturbation*) + controls streamlined to remove anything which isn't fun to control (fielding) while absolutely nailing everything else to within seven decimal places = a good excuse to play is never hard to find. then you get into building a team and then you get into card collecting and then all of a sudden it's seven AM three days later and you're still playing.

it is seriously my GOTY outright at this point. I must have played at least 20 hours of Baseball Superstars 2010 but 9 Innings is incomprehensibly great once you get into it.

3. no

thankin u jamescoburn

Angry Birds released a Halloween version - 45 new levels...

just wanted to post that 9 Innings Lite is very rudimentary compared to 9 Innings, really impressed so far... I'm a little perplexed on what you need to do to complete substitutions (pitching/pinch hitters) but somehow I'm getting it down with random double taps.

hit info to change players/pinch hit (you don't need to warm up pitchers in the pen)

i got that, but the actual selection and then confirmation of choice is kinda tricky (at least for me).

(like i can get to the menu and choices but actually pulling the trigger on a selection is kinda clumsy FOR ME and my big thumbs)

You know when a game just gets is right with its basic mechanics? The right mix of precision, challenge and visual feedback? That's Reckless Racing, and it's probably the most satisfying weaponless top-down racing game I've come across. The really bad part is that the ipad version has got three more tracks exclusively, for now at least. I need those.

Anyone playing Trainyard?

― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, October 16, 2010 10:42 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

YES

love this game. almost through all the puzzles, i only have a few to go. there are some solutions that are so complex/elegant i can just watch them over and over. amazing game, best game i have played on the iphone hands down

^^^thx for ruining my productivity

^^^thx for ruining my productivity

― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, November 1, 2010 11:32 PM (5 minutes ago)

is it gonna get hard ever? 50 stars in, feels like it's targetted at preschoolers atm.

lol 50 stars that's cute

Am so proud of this:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/5140793521_13a7f2f23a.jpg

I'm at 132 stars and it's *kind* of getting hard but not really

sometimes you can see immediately what they are going for and it's like duh

i'm stuck on ONE level at the very end that's driving me insane, and it looks like there are about 460-ish stars in the game, so y'all still got plenty to go

it does stay fairly simplistic until the very last few cities, but the harder puzzles do make up for that imo

should have mentioned that, like many people apparently, i got totally hooked on this game from the free express version (which has entirely different levels than the full game) and pretty much breezed through all the easy levels in the full game so it wasn't too long before i was up to the puzzles that were actually making me think

totally hooked. damn thing killed my battery

ok, i trust u guys enough at this point that i'll drop 99 cents for a game -- hoping it takes over my life!

btw ragdoll blaster 2 is A) free B) CRACK

352 stars iirc

Galaxy on Fire 2 well worth checking out (and the £3.99 price)

http://www.slidetoplay.com/story/galaxy-on-fire-2-review

http://wirelessmedia.ign.com/wireless/image/article/108/1083811/galaxy-on-fire-2-20100414021455442_640w.jpg

http://www.touchgen.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fishlabs-galaxy-on-fire-2-iphone4-screenshot-12.jpg

looks like that would be wicked on IPAD

kinda wish you could reskin games like trainyard. like the UI is ok, but it seems...off, just a little.

the touch algorithms suck supremely on trainyard imo

oh they are awful it's true

another feature request: a popup counter that shows how many squares youve traced out. would make longer union puzzles go a lot more quickly.

like how the gang is basically a visual programming language. it's like max/msp (I think?) or something

Trainyard is OK but I prefer PathPix (aka DRAWING from Pic Pic) for my drag-to-connect-stuff-centric puzzles.

love trainyard. got up to 143 stars before i got stuck. now i'm working on this Horhey level and trying to figure out how to synch these tracks up correctly

Woo! Solved it! How satisfying!

I have trouble dragging tracks in trainyard. Annoys me.

what's the gang?

i would maybe love this game on an ipad but my big dumb calloused geetar fingers cant make the grade on iphone

Carcassonne username: Pinktits.

i would maybe love this game on an ipad but my big dumb calloused geetar fingers cant make the grade on iphone

it's not just you---the game implements it poorly imo

finished the trainyard. relied on pure dumb luck for a couple of the harder ones, but would play again/keenly awaiting updates.

I have trouble dragging tracks in trainyard. Annoys me.

― Jeff, Thursday, November 4, 2010 3:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

me too. very irritating

think it's not very good at 'predicting' your movements i.e. you need to move your finger from one side to the other side to make the track

trainyard: complete

You guys are bad-ass. I'm up to around 200 points, I think.

i've actually got two bonus levels left to do. one of them (cayman) i can't be arsed with and one of them (rocky road) i'm ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN is LOGICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.

barrel roll was doing my fucking nut in this mornign

press z or r twice

haven't done any bonus rounds yet.

machine gun was a fun one

stuck on fireball island atm

nm got it

fireball island is where i am stuck! i did finish trainyard express though (except the bonus levels).

think small

yeah i worked it out just after posting - magic of ilx iirc

fruit ninja or whatever is fun