The iOS gaming thread

[Cheeko]

Yes, assuming you like grinding the same track for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours.

And hours.

Try driving the track staying on the left hand side of it as much as possible.

[Paulando]

Great shout with Bike Baron, it's bloody awesome

[The Bag]

I think there might be more to the Supermono team now that when Minisquadron was released,

Yup, they were two then and are four now.

[Rev. Stuart Campbell]

If only they gave you a checklist of objectives to complete while you race.

Are any of them "Try to stay awake"?

[Massive Invisible Dog]

"Try to crash the car 500m into the race!"

[Davros sock drawer]

Yes, assuming you like grinding the same track for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours.

And hours.

I really don't get it. That wasn't my experience of the game at all.

[sir stiff_one]

I still hang my head with shame to think I bought that horse armour, I was just so keen to be a in game purchase pioneer I didnt really care at the time it was purely cosmetic. What a tool.

There are people on the forum telling people to go and buy the Sega Saturn T Shirt for their 360 avatar.

The idea that something needs to do something for it to be worth money is really strange.

[sir stiff_one]

Giving as many people as possible a shit experience and preaching that they owe you a living is just about the worst possible way to go about it.

Amen to that.

[Distinct muttering]

There are people on the forum telling people to go and buy the Sega Saturn T Shirt for their 360 avatar.

The idea that something needs to do something for it to be worth money is really strange.

True, but it should at least give you some pleasure, even if that is to show off your style to others. Which the horse armour may have done if Oblivion was even online.

[Distinct muttering]

Im sitting here chilling in the living room, listening to some music, while playing Tiger Woods on the iphone, thinking this might be my favourite golf game ever. And it was free!

I don't give that accolade lightly either as I sunk hours into Everybpdy Golf, but certainly for depth of single player this has it licked.

[Davros sock drawer]

Doing the same right now. Bliss.

I tell you what though, that Predator course can fuck right off.

[Distinct muttering]

The Tiger challenges are fucking rock hard too. Im just putting in a nice showing just now on the PGA tour on pebble beach. First round and I am on the back 9 tied for 5th

[Davros sock drawer]

You had a hole in one yet Syntax? I came this close the other day.

[little che]

I was playing Tiger Woods in work at about 5am the day before yesterday, walking down the hospital corridor to see a sick patient, when I sunk a totally beautiful Eagle. I did the uppercut punch with a "yeeeeeess" spontaneously, then realised the hospital security guard was walking about twenty metres behind me. Bit embarrassing.

[Massive Invisible Dog]

Is Bike Baron really as flagrant and unimaginitive a Trials rip off as it appears to be? There's no way I'm supporting that, what a bunch of cunts.

[The Mighty Ash]

At least they have given it there own style-there are far worse rip offs of trials on the app store. I quite like the coin collecting that they have added, although they probably took that from joe danger.

[Rev. Stuart Campbell]

I really don't get it. That wasn't my experience of the game at all.

Then I can only surmise you have some sort of illness causing frequent episodes of short-term memory loss, because it's not possible to imagine how anyone could perceive RR2 to be anything but a massive grindfest. Some people ENJOY massive grindfests, and good luck to them, but disputing that it IS one is like denying that FIFA 12 is largely about football.

I'd go back and play it again to support that assertion by writing down the unlock structure, but I don't have 756 hours to spare right now.

[Rudderless]

Is Bike Baron really as flagrant and unimaginitive a Trials rip off as it appears to be? There's no way I'm supporting that, what a bunch of cunts.

It's not quite that bad, but it is essentially a poor man's Trials, with ridiculously exaggerated crashes and inconsistent physics.

Anyway, it's more fun than the (fairly similar) Flip Riders, which has a stupid difficulty spike on its first level.

[ZOK]

Davros, please get it into your thick head that it is a fact that Real Racing 2 is boring, and also that you have a mental illness - then we can all move on.

Or at least Stu can.

[Dudley]

Although it does interest me that someone can consider Jetpack Joyride NOT a grind and somehow think Real Racing is.

They're both grinds. Real Racing has more tracks. Like more than 1.

[K]

I don’t remember there being much grinding at all in RR2, either. IIRC, the only time I had to do a race more than once was if I lost.

[ZOK]

One hesitates to point out that it's horses for courses.

[Dudley]

One hesitates to point out that it's horses for courses.

Actually I think you'll find it's race wins for courses.

[ZOK]

Damn that grind!

[toythatkills]

The quite highly regarded Continuity 2 is FREE for today. It's a puzzle-platformer, see how it works here:

Also, Game Dev Story is 69p if you're that person that hasn't bought it yet.

[Zero]

Games free for the day (I haven't played them yet, so can't comment on the quality):

Word Triangle

Rocket Claw

Infect Them All

[mingmong]

So I have Scribblenauts for the ipad, and love it. Sunk quite a few hours into it. I just downloaded it for my iphone

If I have it set to sync scribblenauts to the cloud, and it's set to sync on my iphone as well, does that store my save games on the cloud? So I can continue my game from either device?

[Don Rosco]

It's not quite that bad, but it is essentially a poor man's Trials, with ridiculously exaggerated crashes and inconsistent physics.

Anyway, it's more fun than the (fairly similar) Flip Riders, which has a stupid difficulty spike on its first level.

Yeah, there's far worse Trials rip-offs, and it's not like Trials was the first side scrolling trials bike game. Bike Baron at least has a bit of identity, and by the standards of the genre, it's pretty solid.

[Rudderless]

I just don't like that you can barely brush into something and your bike explodes sending your rider flying all over the place. It actually feels more exacting than Trials on some of the later levels.

But yeah, it's got a bit of personality, and it's good that there's a variety of challenges to accomplish on each level rather than just getting to the end within a certain time.

[Davros sock drawer]

Davros, please get it into your thick head that it is a fact that Real Racing 2 is boring, and also that you have a mental illness - then we can all move on.

Or at least Stu can.

He's right, I remember now. All those times I was playing it and thinking "This is ace!" were just some of my "episodes".