The iOS gaming thread

[toythatkills]

Yeah, I have -3 today, plus it keeps deleting eggs fom my counter at random

[Harsin]

I'm terrified to try Happy Street, it sounds like it turns you into a heroin addict.

[Davros sock drawer]

It does, but it's particularly delicious heroin.

[mercenarri]

Some new releases tonight, including:

Tiny Troopers 2

Final Fantasy V

Nimble Quest

Nimble Quest in particular looks very good.

[Dudley]

There is a massive sale of EA games - down to 69p Mirrors edge, Sims, loads more..

Of course there is, it's Thursday.

[Pistol]

Tiny Troopers 2? Nice one, will have a bit of that!

[Looper]

Nimble Quest is brilliant. RPG Snake essentially.

[Daley]

Haha. OK I broke the Happy Street eggs thing. Got all but 8 in a quick blast through half my friends list last night. Then this morning went around remaining towns to hoover the rest up. Now have "-12" as the amount left to find today as it gave me quite a lot.

I kept doing it just to see if it would continue to work...

[Harsin]

Nimble Quest is brilliant. RPG Snake essentially.

Yeah, I'm enjoying, looks like a return to form after Pocket Planes which I lost interest in quickly.

I've registered an Rllmuk clan. Just put RLLMUK in the box when you go to the arena to join.

[CrispinG]

I'm terrified to try Happy Street, it sounds like it turns you into a heroin addict.

i was interested until i saw the art. it looks like shit. i bought Super Hexagon, Ridiculous Fishing and Year Walk 90% because the graphics for all three are so pretty and distinctive.

[verbs]

Er, so Ms. Splosion Man is now on iOS because why not I guess?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ms.-splosion-man/id589642458?mt=8

[Qazimod]

Sonic Dash is free today... not expecting much but I'll have a look

[Harsin]

Bit rubbish that Nimble Quest doesn't sync between devices.

[toythatkills]

Bit rubbish that Nimble Quest doesn't sync between devices.

Nimble Quest is just a bit rubbish in general. I don't think I've ever played such a boring Snake game before, it's basically Snake with the challenge removed and replaced with total randomness.

[Davros sock drawer]

i was interested until i saw the art. it looks like shit. i bought Super Hexagon, Ridiculous Fishing and Year Walk 90% because the graphics for all three are so pretty and distinctive.

Each to their own, but the graphics and animation are a large part of why Happy Street is so fab. Tonnes of incidental detail, and the style is charming and witty.

That said I wouldn't have thought it would be up your, ahem, street anyway.

[toythatkills]

Sonic Dash is free today... not expecting much but I'll have a look

It's terrible

Does the same shit thing Temple Run 2 does: "Oh, you died? How about you give us some money and we'll revive you so you can get a higher score." Just a total waste of time.

[Qazimod]

Yeah, it's not great. For the first couple of goes it seems like it might be a fun distraction but it doesn't really do anything to hold your attention for long. Weirdly, I experienced slowdown in the game, slowdown in the menu transitions and some particularly long load times, although I am using a 4th-gen iPod Touch so maybe it's better on newer hardware.

[Harmunt]

Nimble Quest is just a bit rubbish in general. I don't think I've ever played such a boring Snake game before, it's basically Snake with the challenge removed and replaced with total randomness.

I couldn't disagree with you more...

[toythatkills]

I couldn't disagree with you more...

I just don't really see what's to like about it, it's so boring. In Snake, you've always got a goal, you've got to get to the next bit of food, but doing so makes the game harder. In Nimble Quest you never have any goal, you just go round and round in circles until you get to the next level, and if you ever do grow, the game gets easier instead of harder. The fact that its so horribly slow for at least six levels means that every game has lost it's interest long before it might start to get good.

I couldn't really find anything to like about it, or any reason to recommend it above Nokia Snake.

[Dudley]

Starting at level 1 every time is such an 80s way of doing a game. It's like they rebounded from the inability to lose in Tiny Tower and rebounded massively.

[joeplus]

Ridiculous Fishing is a great way to get back into phone gaming after getting my screen fixed. Fished the main story mode in one sitting, gonna start trying to find all the rare fishies now.

[CrispinG]

bored of that too. Super Hexagon is the only really good game i've played on my phone since fucking Angry Birds.

[rumblecat]

Big old EA sale for Easter, with some good bargains like Dead Space for iPad and NFS Most Wanted going at 69p. Spoilered for length...

Tetris for iPad — $2.99 → $0.99
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 — $2.99 → $0.99
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for iPad — $9.99 → $0.99
Battleship for iPad — $4.99 → $0.99
Bop It! for iPad — $2.99 → $0.99
Command & Conquer Red Alert for iPad — $4.99 → $0.99
Coconut Dodge for iPad — $1.99 → $0.99
Dead Space — $6.99 → $0.99
Dead Space for iPad — $9.99 → $0.99
Dragon’s Lair 2: Time Warp — $2.99 → $0.99
Draw Jump HD — $2.99 → $0.99
Fight Night Champion — $4.99 → $0.99
FIFA Soccer 13 — $4.99 → $0.99
Madden NFL 12 — $4.99 → $0.99
Madden NFL 12 for iPad — $6.99 → $0.99
Monopoly for iPad — $9.99 → $0.99
Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition for iPad — $9.99 → $0.99
Monopoly Millionaire — $2.99 → $0.99
Monopoly Millionaire for iPad — $4.99 → $0.99
Max and the Magic Marker for iPad — $2.99 → $0.99
Mirror’s Edge for iPad — $9.99 → $0.99
NBA Jam for iPad — $4.99 → $0.99
Need for Speed Undercover — $2.99 → $0.99
Need for Speed Most Wanted — $4.99 → $0.99
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit — $2.99 → $0.99
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit for iPad — $4.99 → $0.99
Pictureka for iPad — $4.99 → $0.99
RISK — $2.99 → $0.99
RISK for iPad — $6.99 → $0.99
Reckless Racing HD — $4.99 → $0.99
Scrabble HD for iPad — $9.99 → $0.99
Shift 2 Unleashed — $2.99 → $0.99
Shift 2 Unleashed for iPad — $4.99 → $0.99
Snood for iPad — $4.99 → $0.99
SimCity Deluxe for iPad — $8.99 → $0.99
The Game of Life for iPad — $6.99 → $0.99
The Sims 3 — $6.99 → $0.99
The Sims 3 Ambitions — $4.99 → $0.99
The Sims 3 World Adventures — $2.99 → $0.99
The Sims Medieval — $2.99 → $0.99
The Sims Medieval for iPad — $4.99 → $0.99
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 for iPad — $4.99 → $0.99
Trivial Pursuit Master Edition for iPad — $4.99 → $0.99
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for iPad — $4.99 → $0.99
World Series of Yahtzee — $2.99 → $0.99
Yahtzee HD — $4.99 → $0.99

[Ivanho]

Finally got round to getting the Wreak it Ralph paid app. 69p for 5 games and you get the Fix it Felix one, smash tv, Zaxxon and super sprint clones and a jumping tilt controlled one. Pretty good value for the price.

[toythatkills]

bored of that too. Super Hexagon is the only really good game i've played on my phone since fucking Angry Birds.

I think you might like ZONR, you should try that.

[ZOK]

While ZONR is great in its own way, it shares nothing with Super Hexagon.

[toythatkills]

While ZONR is great in its own way, it shares nothing with Super Hexagon.

It's a stylish score-attack game with awesome music.

[ZOK]

That doesn't mean they share anything by way of gameplay, which is all anyone who likes Super Hexagon is interested in. You'd be better off recommending Gauge, and Crispin would be similarly disappointed. Not because Gauge isn't also excellent, but because it shares nothing with SH.

[toythatkills]

That doesn't mean they share anything by way of gameplay, which is all anyone who likes Super Hexagon is interested in. You'd be better off recommending Gauge, and Crispin would be similarly disappointed. Not because Gauge isn't also excellent, but because it shares nothing with SH.

So because someone likes Super Hexagon, the only games they will like are games in which you have to rotate around a hexagon in order to pass through gates? I'm kind of struggling to see your point.

I'm obviously not recommending ZONR because it shares gameplay with SH, but it shares a lot of other elements that someone who likes SH will appreciate, like the focus on style, and the music, and the short nature of each game, and the one-more-go appeal, etc.

[CrispinG]

i looked it up on Metacritic and it only has 2 reviews and looks a bit gay. it's gotta be big enough to have an Edge and ideally Guardian write-up, but really simple, arcade gameplay, a unique and cool style, good music, brilliant interface, slick. that's all people care about. i should be an executive; i know what people want.