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Well. Waking Mars was and amazing experience until I managed to lose all the plants in that water chamber that turned acidic land to fertile land and exasperated, went into the next chamber and dropped a stalactite on the only plant that makes floaty seed pods and so there's probably no way to get the full amount of biomass. Also I didn't learn any of the names of things. I didn't realise that until right then. Anyway, bought and downloaded The Room and have a 12 train journey tonight from the highlands of Sri Lanka to the capital Colombo so I know what I'll be doing. Which is playing it for twenty minutes and then eating all my snacks in a Cookie Monster style feeding frenzy that showers the world in ginger biscuit and maggi noodle crumbs and then stare out into the darkness for eleven and a half hours, haunted by my past.
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Well now. The Room kept surprising me with another box. And year walk was haunting, both the plots were a little hackneyed but maybe that's because I'm just straight up old to cutesy dark story dynamics. THIS SENTENCE PREVIOUSLY WAS A SPOILER. Well motherfucka, in butterfly effect he strangles himself in his womb with his umbilical cord Now I've just picked up Unmechanical, Badland which just came out and Incoboto. Also, like two years ago now I read The Magician King, some book, and it had like an eighty word paragraph on a horse the length of a school bus with thirty screaming kids that scares a lovely magician and when I saw that horse in Year Walk I instantly drew the comparison, over two years old, to that short bit in a long book. It was neat. Creepy loving horses. Unmechanical also has a 25% off sale if anyone cares. I don't know if its good yet but it's got a nice intro. Also the controls feel real intuitive. Helmacron fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Apr 4, 2013 |
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the magician king posted:“One morning Julia saw Failstaff at breakfast looking as grim as she’d ever seen him. Over espresso and muesli he swore to her that he’d seen a black horse with a back as long as a school bus, with thirty crying children mounted on it, match speeds with them last night as they drove home in the van. It paced them for two solid minutes, sometimes trotting on the ground, sometimes galloping along up on power lines or across the treetops. Then it leaped straight into a river, kids and all. They stopped and waited, but it never came back up. Real, or illusion? They searched the papers for stories about missing kids, but they never found anything.” I know creepy. I have a well honed sense of creepy. Sometimes I eat pieces of creep for breakfast.
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Electronic arts is having like a 90% off sale on everything. And my credit card just expired. And I'm stuck in New Delhi and my funds are getting low and it's concerning, you know, it's concerning, but I'm a little bit more sad that I can't jump in on this sale. You know? Because what's a little poverty in India next to not owning mirror's edge for 99c?
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I've just been violently ill for five days and like, fled a small third world country back to Australia. Of course, my first day back I feel okay, so, maybe I fled a little too quickly but I was set positive I had something encephalitisy but the point is I think I hate my ipad. It kinda revulses me. I can't hold it very long before starting to think about like, little hotel rooms with irrelevant fans, dabbing myself down with yellowy water and struggling not to rug up however much the chills told me I was cold. And then I have to put it down and go look out the window or have a lie down or something. I might have to sell it. But on that note, edge extended edition really got me through the rough times. That game is great.
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I'm waiting for something good to come out on this Fourth of July sale. So far it's the Warner Bros. and Telltale and I've got everything I want already from these guys, except I might get Poker Night 2. Puzzle Agent looks like it has great animation but I hate random puzzle games. I hope someone else does a sale, anyway. I'm pumped. USA. USA. I love your holidays. Sales! Telltale's adventure catalogue is 99c not including The Walking Dead, but all the episodes of Law and Order are, etcetera. Warner Bros catalogue is 99c including Bastion, and the Lego DC Batman and Harry Potter games. Ticket to Ride is now 2.99 Colin McRae Rally is 1.99 Chaotic Box's games are on sale too. I've never heard of them, though. Silverfish MAX and Nozoku are both 99c. Kill The Clowns is now free, for the fourth of July in what is like, I don't know. I always I feel this weight on my shoulders when I see small desperate developers. Like Miseria dropped to free just after release to get some reviews. What a horrible way to live. The number one thing I hate about IOS and indie gaming is how close you are to the creators themselves. I don't want to know anything about you, your family, your face. Every time I saw no to a game in this environment, I feel like I just said "sorry bud, no change". Helmacron fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Jul 4, 2013 |
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The hood of the cars light on fire on my iPad mini and you can see it. Also someone yells out "it's gonna blow!" or something. I can't think of seeing a truck or a van burning, though. What I do have trouble with is that the game has too much superfluous stuff. I don't want to watch the crappy unskippable cutscenes after my first playthrough. I guess what I'd like is more like a prettier original X-Com. And I'm waiting for the patch that means I can play more than one mission before the game crashes.
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XCOM's got one major flaw I just found out. In cutting down the graphics, they seem to have cut out the fire effect on cars. Cars that are about to explode. You've got no indication that a car is about to blow up and kill everyone taking cover behind it at all.
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Pretty much every IOS game works in Aeroplane Mode. I travelled for a couple months with my sole entertainment being a iPhone in aeroplane mode. I had books and essays on it, I had games on it, I had a short pornographic film converted to mp4 and loaded on with iTunes on it. EDIT: When I say pretty much, I mean all of them, I guess. I even moved the Message and Phone apps to the second page. It was a crazy time.
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BADLANDS Get Badlands. It's a one touch, side scrolling adventure ala Jetpack Joyride but with levels, a curious creature that flaps it's two limbs to fly and endless pick-ups, power-ups, game changing level designs that surprise you with their ingenuity and scotch you with their intensity and beautiful graphics and a violence towards you and yours that leaves you a little breathless and hurt the first hundred times a floating multitudinal bubble of little fuzzy guys get loving cosmically annihilated because you're just Idiot Exhibit A: moron who is incapable of putting your finger on the screen at the right time. It's also plundered the three achievements from Joyride, but they're level centric, frustrating yet achievable for a novice who works at it, investing time and love to learning a level and the replay ability is really there in spades, whatever that phrase means. There's no IAP and they're putting out new levels at rate. I like this game more than I'd probably like you if you gave me a warm beer without a heartfelt apology about how you haven't your poo poo together enough to keep beer refrigerated. Get it together. Get Badlands.
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Tiny Thief is nice but I'm going to finish it in no time flat, so I'm kind of not playing it to make it last longer and it's losing points because of it and, it's very much a little kid's game. I not only feel too old to play it, I feel too adult. Like, I can flick through a Chris Van Allsburg picture book and enjoy it as an adult, but I can't enjoy My Little Pony. I guess what I'm saying is playing Tiny Thief feels like watching My Little Pony. Tiny Wings, on the other feathery stunted growth, is loving amazing and I'm super glad I own it now. yaaaahoooo EDIT: Just played Tiny Thief again, not drunk and not at 3am and it's better for it. Sorry Tiny Thief. I'm probably still going to compare playing it to being a brony in my review on iTunes, though. Because reviews on iTunes are where I am true to myself and to my reader. EDIT2: NEW WALKING DEAD "400 DAYS" AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE Helmacron fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Jul 13, 2013 |
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SeANMcBAY posted:Everytime I download this and try to buy episodes, it says coming soon for each one. I've deleted and reinstalled the game 4 times and the same issue. Maybe it's because I'm jailbroken? Anyone else having this issue? I want to buy these. Yeah, the only time I ever got The Walking Dead to work while my iPad was connected to wifi was in Mumbai. Otherwise it just hangs on the connecting screen until the world grows cold and white walkers come and everyone's last breath just settles gently back down on their face and freezes there in little crystals.
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The problem with Tiny Wings are the three little missions you're supposed to do while you're playing the main game range too far into the completely not loving fun side of things. Jetpack Joyride makes you go 1750 metres without collecting a gold coin and it's challenging and hard and frustrating when you get a coin at 1740 metres, but you roll with it. Tiny Wings missions are like "play in an uncomfortable position!" and "play shittily until the fourth island!" and "just gently caress yourself until you die!". Yeah, I'm angry. I want another nest but to get it, I've basically got to go outside, grab a frisbee, and throw it like a person with a mental disability until I vomit into my hands and slick it in my hair and it's just not worth it. Not cool, Tiny Wings. Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold should go cheap soon and I'm waiting. Muahahaha. I just got a $50 giftcard for 20% off. It was so exciting. I'm going to buy Rymdkapsel, Sine Mora and whatever's cool.
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NESguerilla posted:Why is XCOM listed as 1.8 gigs in the app store when it is actually over 3 gigs? 1.8 is the compressed installation file, it's how much you have to download to get the game. 3.2 is how big the game is, once all the textures etcetera are uncompressed. Same as everything really. It is 3.2 on mine. Followed by walking dead, kotor, baldurs gate... None of which are the same size as the initial download.
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It's like, pretty impossible to see but an ad for crabitron has been playing for approx. five minutes on the big federation square tv in melbourne. I mostly regret purchasing it because it was expensive and I don't like it. Still, it's drawing a little crowd. Futuridium EP is amazing fun. It reminds me of Amiga block shooters, like some Star Wars game I played when I was a little kid. except so much better. It also makes me dream of Zeewolf for iPad. I would pay 9.99 for Zeewolf for iPad. Maybe more! That game even had this weird elitest tinge where if you were cool, you'd forgo the joystick and play the game with your old gunked up ball mouse, so you felt like you really didn't quite have the control you should, just like real life, on your Action Amiga magazine mousepad they gave out in celebration of the release of Cannon Fodder 2 and that curled up in the middle because the plastic was cheap and it slid around because the underfoam was crazy smooth. Hell, what did you expect, you got it on the back of a magazine. Helmacron fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Jul 20, 2013 |
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It's nice to know who came first but surely we're all aware at this point that its all about who is the most aggressive and proactive about pursuing their copyright/trademarks, yeah? Deus Ex is short short short and badly written and people keep telling my augmented freak self that I'm honest looking and a straight arrow which leads to civilian deaths, wherein I prove that I am, in fact, a deviant loose cannon.
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Just reiterating how good A Ride into the Mountains is and despite what I believe to be a rather odd little sham spruik on the toucharcades newly released games forum thread for it by who I suspect to be the author or a close friend, I still really like this game and think you should buy it. A Ride into the Mountains. I didn't like the controls but then I really liked them when I got them down, and I don't like how the horse is always galloping, give us a trot animation, or a canter for gently caress sakes, and I don't like the text font for the rather plain story. And those are my only nitpicks. 99c. Appstore. Spend it on A Ride into the Mountains before you put it into the crack piggy bank.
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Sky Tourist is really, really great, and realistic too. Despite the cutesy animations, crazy new control scheme that I've never seen before but really works and ADDS to not just the game but to, like, all games by its creativity, it's ingenuity, Sky Tourist really captures tourism at it's very best. In Sky Tourist, you get to douche with and break ancient artifacts, like when I stepped on this ledge in Angkor Wat and it crumbled under my weight and I landed on my rear end, and spent the next ten minutes guiltily looking over my should. It had been there for one thousand years and it just crumbled, and like when I snuck into a side tunnel in the great pyramid of Khufu and had a sly slash into a crack in the stone because I was aching to go and there's no privacy outside, you know, just blaring sun and touts as far as the eye can see. And in Sky Tourist, you can kill the wee native animals, just like how in northern Kalimantan, in a tiny Toyota that seats eight people and three or four suckling babies, slaloming through the mud trucks of the monsoon season with sheer drops either side of them to the northern port island of Tarakan, we just ran down these little yappy native dogs that look like pomeranians crossed with chihuahuas. I didn't join in the cheers at first, you know, but after a while, I "weeeeeyeed" with the rest of them. weeey. You can do that in Sky Tourist! I personally zap each and every animal on the way up through the level. Gotta catch 'em all! There's even an achievement! And the photos, each level you get to take photos, and they're real crap photos, badly framed, it's just so real, like when I took a photo of this family in the Mosque of Muhammad Ali in Cairo, they shoved this ancient camera in my hand, you know they were poor, this was it, this was pilgrimage, they very Sudanese, poor south Egyptian looking yokels in the big city and this was their trip of a lifetime, and they shoved this ancient plastic film camera in my hand that was advanced to 34 of 36 possible exposures and got me to take a photo of them, standing there, backs to the gloriously over decorated halls, and I'm pretty sure I cut off their heads in it. It still haunts me. Sky Tourist is so TRUE. Then there's the stealing of artifacts, looting coins and gems in Sky Tourist, and how foreign everything looks. Sky Tourist nails the foreign. It's a beautiful game. There's even touts where you can throw your cash away for cheap, lovely trinkets to give to your cheap and lousy friends who haven't left the country. The trinkets even LOOK like the sort of trinkets you gave to the natives originally, when your ancestors colonised the lands of their ancestors and bought them off with cheap horrible trinkets that you're paying tenfold more for. Buy Sky Tourist. It's 99c and fantastic. And TRUE
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Same thing is happening with Sky Tourist. Apparently it's getting demolished with bad reviews from people with iPad 1's or something. I said it before, it sucks being this close to the developer. The appstore is encrusted with their dried pathetic tears.
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Puddles is a piece of poo poo, from the first three levels. The water is nowhere near the quality of Liquid Sketch, it lags terribly on a memory cleared iPad Mini, the tilt feels like you can't quite get it hard enough, the options menu does some weird shaky poo poo like Open GL trying to find textures or something and all round feels like an utterly terrible product. Although, you know, it's cheap now, I guess, so maybe if they fix everything, you'll have it for when it's good. But something tells me they're not going to suddenly fix the liquid effects to be interesting to look at or control. Even Sandbox's pixelly water is more interesting to fool with. I would, hesitantly, compare the water from Puddles to the water from say, one of those big texture games, like Deus Ex, where you can see they've used one water texture repeatedly over a large area, a bullshit rolling gif multiplied by a hundred that says gently caress you, your face. In regards to it being something upsettingly awful that doesn't need to be. Hold on, I'm going to play it again because I feel like I'm being unnecessarily mean. *Game Playing* The controls are even LESS responsive now and I forgot that it chooses the portrait orientation for you and it won't rotate around to accommodate how you like to hold the iPad. Holy poo poo, I'm playing with the accelerometer and the screen just dimmed because I haven't touched the screen in a while. This is a terrible game. I laid it down, wrote this, and it turned itself off. mortons stork posted:Hello iOS games thread, I'm about to leave for vacation... Rymdkapsel is pretty fun so far, it just came out today, and Pirates! is 99c and I love that game. Tiny Thief is also 99c. None of these games have IAP (except Tiny Thief if you NEED a hint). Prince of Persia: The Shadow and the Flame is new and fun, but really easy but pretty glorious but full of IAP and I really recommend Sky Tourist, which is only 99c. You can get all of these for under $10. They'll last you for a while. Also X-Com is on sale, so if that changes your mind...
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With the update, everything is quicker on the iPad Mini, with cut scenes telling you when you can skip them and not leaving you aimlessly tapping the screen, there appears to be more textures, and it's all round sexier. No better time to get the game, as far as I can see. To be honest, Rymdkapsel has caught my interest so much that I've put it into my automated spellchecker so it stops having a fit with the word, but I just had a quickie play of X-Com to see and that's what's immediately spottable with the update. Also it needs over 3.2gb free to update for me. Jesus.
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I watched a kid playing Minecraft on a 4S and he was kicking rear end, blistering poo poo like a korean youtube speed run. I kind of just think the issues with controls are because we're old, we're poo poo, we're like grandpapa running his sticky ball mouse with fur all around the internal rollers on the CRT monitor that he keeps degaussing at a really frightening, gorge-agitating rate that you feel in your cortex. WASD's the high we can't come down from. I like Deus Ex and Kairo's controls, though. Which are essentially the same. I can often get moving headshots in Deus Ex too and that's my benchmark for good controls, anyway.
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I missed the 45 minute monolith research by approximately a minute while I waited in the cold for the local library to open and I'm fairly certain I'm never going to play Rymdkapsel again. I put the undeletable Newstand app on the third page of my iPad so I could put Rymdkapsel on the fourth. I don't want to delete it yet, but I hate it, I hate it with all of everything and I just can't see the icon right now.
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I tried to micromanage the little guys by shuffling them back and forth between active and inactive stations quickly, until the the weeny little white pixel man closest to, say, the monolith I wanted researched laid down, and then I would quickly shuffle the laying down figure in that particular department, engineering or whathaveyou, to research and it wouldn't work! Some other guy would pull out, come toddling over taking his sweet goddamn time while that guy would get up and toddle over and take the other guy's place on the blue square he just left and there I was, bugging my eyes out as the red line grew fuller, and fuller.
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Y'all discussing The World Ends With You because it's half price and relevant? Because it's half price, guys, if you didn't know and you were waiting for it to be cheaper. Although, it's like a buck more than half priced, which just is so typical of you, Square.
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Kepa posted:Death Road to Canada I like it. It made me laugh. I'd buy it. You're cool.
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I've got this bookmarked: http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Upcoming+iOS+games/feature.asp?c=52698 I'm interested in Gero Blaster, Stealth Bastard, Framed, Space Hulk, The Cave and the sequel to The Room. Those are all instabuys, pretty much. I played Space Hulk on the Amiga to death. The Room was an amazing experience too, I played it on my iPad Mini on a long night train from one side of Sri Lanka to the other with an old guy sleeping on my shoulder, drooling a little. And I love Ron Gilbert, so The Cave is just, you know, going to be mine. It looks like Maniac Mansion in another environment which, you know. Woo. Also, I didn't mention this one, Drifter looks interesting but only in the way I'd like to play a really good Frontier: Elite clone. But yeah, it's unlikely, I think. I never played Plants Vs. Zombies and I quite like this second free one. I guess I'm the lowest common denominator. But that's okay. Isn't it? ?
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DNK posted:It's like it had sex AND had a baby. Whoa. Because the two aren't mutually exclusive. I've completed The Room four times now, it's so much fun and whirry and geary and clicky. I haven't finished the Epilogue yet but I was just thinking about how much I'm going to purchase the gently caress out of the sequel no matter how much it costs immediately when it hits the appstore. Like, I might actually just sit and refresh until then.
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Hi corridor. When you turn the star key, exciting things happen on the right side of the box.
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Not only does Super Hexagon destroy your time sense, like fucks it with sheer brute loving vehemence with shattering music and a sultry chick who says Game Over so smoothly that I hear it in my head when I say something that means the new person I'm talking to is not going to be my friend and a spiralling down the rabbit hole gut suck vertigo effect that like, on occasion grabs you and churns you so bad that testicular torsion is just a Budweiser chug away from a mosquito bite on a bee sting. If you know what I'm saying. It destroys your understanding of a length of time, and what a length of time entails, cutting it down to 20 seconds and game over, and 30 seconds and game over and one second and game over and then five times ten second runs and so on and so on but then, finally, you blow past that 34.23 second run you did a week ago; when you cross that hump everything is perfect and it pulls you back in. Eternity in Super Hexagon can feel like 32.5 seconds, and a 40.1 run can flit by like the tock between ticks. And sometimes the game over is nothing, and then sometimes the death is worse than child birth, nailing your knee to a block of wood and cholecystitis. Plus, normally games evaporate your life. A good run in Tiny Wings and that blasted game tells you, basically in so many words, just how much less life you have to live now. Pivvot does too, it's like they hate you, like they're fun games but then this handsome guy pops out of the lightning charge slot and tells you, quietly, how many sperm in, you know, the billions, that could have had a home or like, your gynaecologist coughing and calling the nurse for some water to keep the dust down. Oh lord, and it's a judicious weeder. I can play this game facing backwards on a tuktuk that's winding down a mountain road, and sure I lose a couple seconds per run but what I lose is made up with what I'm winning by knowing I CAN DO IT, like triumphant fist pumping poo poo, and knowing that there are so many people who can't even look at the game in a field on a wam summer's day without ralphing gut acid through the back of their eyes. God, Super Hexagon is amazing. And you know what? It also somehow makes me forget I've already reviewed it on iTunes because this was the second time I wrote a review and couldn't post it. drat you, Super Hexagon. I'm going to buy you for another friend if I can make one.
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Sky Tourist is free! https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/sky-tourist/id647585833?mt=8 Now there's no reason not to own it!
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I cannot wait for Gabriel Knight. HELMACRON'S HOTLY ANTICIPATED GAMES LIST HE WILL BUY AS SOON AS THEY'RE RELEASED Space Hulk I loved this game on Amiga, way back when, when it was a four screen first person dungeon scroller, like Eye of the Beholder, but more complicated and I never won. But I loved it all the same, playing it late at night, the inverter humming as it pulled power from the old car battery, the corrugated tin roof ticking away as it cooled down. My dad bought it for me, or pirated it, I can't remember, because he thought I was a smart kid, and wise enough to play a strategy game set in an abandoned space hulk. He was wrong, bless him. Rayman Fiesta Run I played the poo poo out of the first game on my iPhone in a hostel in Melbourne, waiting for a call from a mining company. It just played great. It's one of those games where if you were backed into a corner and had to say something bad about it, you'd be all like "well, it's not as great as morning sex". But you wouldn't mean it. Assassin's Creed: Pirates It looks cool, 'kay? Like Pirates! Gold but with a plot and beautiful graphics and, like, swashbuckley. And just no lovely dancing parts. Why, Sid Meier, why the dancing game? I've never won it in any of it's iterations, I hate it. I hate the dancing game. It's like it was designed to tell me I'm going to die alone. Yay, I'm a pirate, then pow, I can't dance and I'm rejected by the governor's daughter. gently caress you, Sid, and why don't you remake Sword of the Samurai? Huh? You got too much money? gently caress you. The Room 2 Spooky problem solving. I played and finished the first one on an overnight mail train in Sri Lanka with an old man sleeping on me (god he was wrinkly, he was like those photos you see of old villagers where you're not certain you're looking at an aerial map at first. Like his face should have "©2013 DigitalGlobe when you zoom in so you can't screenshot it without it's copyright info) and I like to go back to it and give it another whirl every now and then. I wasn't worried, but I was like, concerned if they could keep it up, you know. What if they peaked?! But then they added that Epilogue Update and it was pretty drat masterful, so I've got really really high hopes for the next one. FTL I read an article about how it was the greatest rogue-like ever, and I was all piqued, you know, and told a kid that was hanging out in this hostel to get it. So he did. It was horrible. He kept giving me updates, constant updates, rushing to find me when something happened and sitting next to me, telling me all about it. Oh, these monsters, where did they come from? Oh, my guys are running out of air! And so on. He even woke me up, like here I am, top bunk, he wakes me up at 0400 or something crazy to tell me he got a new ship. Then he got this girlfriend, little chinese girl who I like to think didn't know any better, and he stopped bothering me, but he kept playing it when he was with her. He would sit in the common room with her and his laptop and just violently tongue snog her, slapping wet noises and just sheer moist teeth on teeth lip cracking ugliness and keep playing FTL inbetween bouts. So you know, I'll get it when it comes out. Paper's Please I played this briefly on my friend's computer. I am forever enraptured by the very scenario of this guy coming back every second day with a slightly better set of papers, like the first day he has nothing, then the third day he had a hand drawn passport, and he was really good natured about being turned away. I'm going to buy it just because I think of that whenever I see my passport now. Such a great story and it seemed like a total non-thing in the game. I didn't keep playing but I assume he turns up with a perfect set of papers and I get to let him in some day. Glee! Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers Played the first one, finished it, never played the rest but I loved the first one. Dark plot, horrible things happen, and it was a Sierra game. God, Sierra was great. Also there was a series of books published. Entirely forgettable but I really remember loving all of it. I'm not talking this up. This was on the top of the list, but I've moved it to the bottom because I'm not so sure anymore. EDIT: Maybe I won't buy this immediately. I'm going to move it a couple spaces further down, just to make it clear that I'm like, a little offshop on it. Helmacron fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Oct 9, 2013 |
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Gann Jerrod posted:FTL is unfortunately a "We're looking into it", but the rest are legit afaik. It's been revamped to "coming out for tablets unless there's a massive hiccup in the development process which there won't be but don't be too pumped, we don't want to ever be the names behind vapourware but it's coming out". Actually, I found the quote: "We are working on a tablet version and are pretty optimistic about it working out." Parkingtigers posted:...Device 6... And Device 6! I have to say, though, because I loved Beat Sneak Bandit and Year Walk so much, I went and bought their (Simogo's) back catalogue and yeah, not the biggest fan. They seem like good ideas, but nothing grabs me, a lot like Lucky Frame's entire catalogue. For me, anyway. However, Beat Sneak Bandit means I'll probably snap up everything they make from now on. Helmacron fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Oct 9, 2013 |
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Oct 9, 2013 10:31
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Also it's $9.99.
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xiw posted:I really like iOS games that take advantage of the touchscreen as opposed to ports and stuff that I could play on other devices. I like Slice, Crabitron, air hockey, Autumn, ridiculous fishing, etc - what else is there like that? So iOS only games, or games that have crazy good touchscreen controls? Because Badlands, Beat Sneak Bandit, Super Hexagon and Tiny Wings are great iOS-centric games I'm unaware of being ported to Android with simple and great touch controls; all are just touch one side of the screen or the other. Kosmo Spin (in a creative way) and Zen Bound (2) and The Room really take advantage of the touchscreen controls, I feel, and Tiger Style's Waking Mars and Spider Mansion games have nice swiping actions that don't feel stupid. Rayman Jungle Run and Joe Danger are both franchisey games that have stand-alone iterations on iOS, and are incredibly well done and fun, and Rayman Jungle Run has added on a crazy amount of levels through updates while I've owned it, forty or something silly. I also love Sky Tourist but I think I may be alone in this. It looks like you might like things that do tangible thing on the screen, like dragging stuff around, so you might like World of Goo or Bridgy Jones or Hundreds, or Bad Hotel but I don't like Bad Hotel.
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X-com runs fine on my ipad mini, crashing only very ocassionally, and slow down only when you pull back to let everything be in your fov at once, as long as its the only program running, bar notepad or something inconsequential. So y'all are drunk.
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Oct 15, 2013 21:03
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I've already got it installed on my iPad but I'm so excited about it I'm postponing playing it until I deserve to.
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Oct 17, 2013 08:17
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Indigo Lake is also pretty incredible, for a variety of reasons, first and foremost being amazingly small for what it seems to be, like, weirdly tech demoie small, and a genuinely good atmosphere, again, so far. Also, a glaringly misspelled word in the intro. Edit: oh and you can drive cars. Wasn't so impressed with that as everyone else. Seems like something you could do in games in the 90's, and we've got GTA on iOS, you know. Nice to see the effort made, though. Helmacron fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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I just played Space Team across iOS and Android devices and I had the kitty cat mode turned on because it's the best mode. Get off my poo poo, cat!
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