Son of iOS Games Megathread

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Zigmidge: May 12, 2002; Exsqueeze me, why the sour face? I'm here to lemon aid you. Let's juice it.

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I'm glad gaming has moved on from these systems.

# ? Nov 9, 2014 17:04

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# ? Jun 9, 2024 16:51

quiggy: Aug 7, 2010; [in Russian] Oof.

duckfarts posted:

It's not free anymore, but this RGB Express game is a really good puzzle game so far.

Yeah I've been enjoying it, only problem is that it takes a while for the difficulty to really ramp up. I didn't get stumped on any puzzles until the 5th group of cities.

# ? Nov 9, 2014 17:24

Feenix: Mar 14, 2003; Sorry, guy.

I like the Subterfuge game in theory, but holy poo poo is poo poo slow. Last night at 7pm I sent some subs to a super lose neighboring outpost and today (it's noon) it still says 14 hours more. What the poo poo.

# ? Nov 9, 2014 20:56

Shwqa: Feb 13, 2012

Hahaha bitcoin billionaire is amazing. A created a character with a monocle, fedora, and neck beard. Then started investing in lottery tickets. It is basically a silly cookie clicker but with graphics and even sillier concept.

I can't wait till I invent holographic dating :allears:

Edit: oh no the market crashed and my lottery tickets, comic books, and collectible action figures are worthless for the next 5 minutes

# ? Nov 9, 2014 21:26

Kheldarn: Feb 17, 2011

Ridge Racer Slipstream is IGN's Free Game Of The Month for November.

# ? Nov 9, 2014 21:29

MissMarple: Aug 26, 2008

Bitcoin Billionaire also has more ads than American Football. Sure they are all opt in, but after watching about 5 videos in the first half hour I was so done.

# ? Nov 9, 2014 21:31

mphill: Nov 14, 2004; ASK ME HOW FAR LEBRON'S DICK CAN FIT INSIDE MY MOUTH

MissMarple posted:

Bitcoin Billionaire also has more ads than American Football. Sure they are all opt in, but after watching about 5 videos in the first half hour I was so done.

So you watched five optional commercials instead of pushing decline and you're mad at the game for it?

# ? Nov 9, 2014 23:26

MissMarple: Aug 26, 2008

mphill posted:

So you watched five optional commercials instead of pushing decline and you're mad at the game for it?

"We're taking away a third of your money unless you watch an advert"

A thing the game literally does.

# ? Nov 10, 2014 00:08

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Congratulations, it looks like you've learned about Bitcoin.

# ? Nov 10, 2014 00:11

Scratch-O: Apr 27, 2009; My goodness!

MissMarple posted:

"We're taking away a third of your money unless you watch an advert"

A thing the game literally does.

I haven't found that to be much of an issue, personally. It's usually only a few minutes worth of clicking to get it back, especially if you take the multiply-your-tap-reward spam offers.

# ? Nov 10, 2014 00:14

Evil Fluffy: Jul 13, 2009; Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

gay skull posted:

Bioshock has ads in the newest update. So don't update.

I paid $15 for a game that pricedropped four days later and now has ads in the newest update, I'm gay I'm gay I'm gay

Everything about this is amazing. Mobile gaming. :allears:

# ? Nov 10, 2014 00:54

Roar: Jul 7, 2007; I got 30 points!

I GOT 30 POINTS!

How do you justify $11 for an iOS game and still have ads

how

# ? Nov 10, 2014 02:05

Apocron: Dec 5, 2005

Anyone got tips on subterfuge? I'm reaching a point in a game I am where I feel like the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. Any idea of a good time to consider mining?

# ? Nov 10, 2014 05:31

Baron Snow: Feb 8, 2007

MissMarple posted:

Bitcoin Billionaire also has more ads than American Football. Sure they are all opt in, but after watching about 5 videos in the first half hour I was so done.

How's the game on battery usage? I ask because the only way it could be better is if it's using your phone to mine for the dev on top of the lovely ads.

# ? Nov 10, 2014 06:48

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

What's the closest thing to Progress Quest for the iOS? These games all seem like they require too much interaction. :v:

# ? Nov 10, 2014 06:50

Feenix: Mar 14, 2003; Sorry, guy.

Baron Snow posted:

How's the game on battery usage? I ask because the only way it could be better is if it's using your phone to mine for the dev on top of the lovely ads.

Funny you ask that... I just powered on my 6+ and found I had under 20% battery, which JUST. DOESN'T. HAPPEN on the 6+ in a single day. Loaded up the usage and it says Bitcoin Billionaire has eaten 12% of my loving battery. Here's the kicker. I played 2 sessions each lasting no longer than 10 minutes.

What the gently caress. (I just deleted it.)

# ? Nov 10, 2014 07:30

bobfather: Sep 20, 2001; I will analyze your nervous system for beer money

Feenix posted:

Funny you ask that... I just powered on my 6+ and found I had under 20% battery, which JUST. DOESN'T. HAPPEN on the 6+ in a single day. Loaded up the usage and it says Bitcoin Billionaire has eaten 12% of my loving battery. Here's the kicker. I played 2 sessions each lasting no longer than 10 minutes.

What the gently caress. (I just deleted it.)

Please let it have an embedded mining client.

# ? Nov 10, 2014 12:39

Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

I've been playing R�publique lately in an effort to actually play through and finish some of the larger games on my 5S to clear up space. It got its 3rd episode fairly recently, so I gave it a go.

Full disclosure, I got it many months ago when the first episode was $5 but season pass was on sale for $1 due to a Kickstarter flub. At full price for the base game and IAP unlocks it could tip the scales to $25 ($20 if you bought season pass instead of each episode piecemeal).

At first instance of the third episode dropping, I updated the base game and then tried downloading the new ep via the season pass. It wasn't there post-update so I had to wait until another update came down the line... 2 weeks later :thatscamoflaj:

After finally getting the third episode (last week) I note the app size has swollen to 3.3 GB. The second and third episodes are north of a gig each to download. This is kind of bananas, really. I would also note that upon finishing the first episode, and starting the second, I was notified that the second episode was out of date and had to be re-downloaded.

As for the game itself:

It is nice-looking and pretty nice-sounding, overall. The voicework is competent but the writing/plotting is pretty mediocre. Jennifer Hale does her best with what she's given but the material is pretty weak.
The UI and central game mechanic of jumping to different security cameras and hacking things remotely is novel and effective, although I'm admittedly playing on easy/story mode. I wish they had made it more clear that double-tapping a location makes the girl run, might have sped things up a bit.
The unlockable abilities and "battery" mechanic for them are interesting ideas in principle, but suffer from being largely not that useful in practice. The concept where finding collectibles give you the currency to buy unlockables is a good one but frankly you will find so many without really trying that you'll get more than enough currency to unlock everything without really trying at all.
The developer commentaries (as a result of getting the season pass) are not particularly interesting or compelling. I'm not a fan of them being audio-only, non-subtitled and accompanied by a repeating slide show that sometimes vaguely relates to what is being said. The recordings are "candid" passive logs of meetings, etc., and are accordingly not really well-suited for their implemented purpose. I vastly prefer the type and style that Zeboyd and Wadjet Eye use in their games.
The first two episodes are about an hour long, and that's about the right length for them. Starting the third it seems like I missed an escape sequence or something which is either annoying or sloppy.
The map function is well-done and useful but I wish it would display previously-explored or previously-used camera locations and let you jump into them from the map itself. Back-tracking through deserted areas can be very tedious as it is. The game is basically just a less direct point-and-click adventure.
I guess the map was added in the second episode- I can't imagine playing the game without it.
I'm midway through the second episode and the puzzles so far have been pretty much basic bitch tier. I think the Walking Dead might have had more head-scratchers, and that is a hilarious easy game.
I'm hoping the story gets fleshed out more as it goes, but it's basically stock-standard dystopian future sci-fi inside a facility so far.

Edit: I've discovered that although you can delete individual episodes past the first, deleting the second episode's data locks out access to the third entirely :thatscamoflaj:

Kenny Logins fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Nov 10, 2014

# ? Nov 10, 2014 17:04

Scyther: Dec 29, 2010

Feenix posted:

I like the Subterfuge game in theory, but holy poo poo is poo poo slow. Last night at 7pm I sent some subs to a super lose neighboring outpost and today (it's noon) it still says 14 hours more. What the poo poo.

Without actually having played it, I feel like the game would work better as an asynchronous turn based game (with a turn time set by the host) like most ios board game ports do. More flexible, less opaque, same playability for people with cluttered schedules.

# ? Nov 10, 2014 17:41

Bummey: May 26, 2004; you are a filth wizard, friend only to the grumpig and the rattata

SynthOrange posted:

What's the closest thing to Progress Quest for the iOS? These games all seem like they require too much interaction.

Godville but it's lovely garbage. Don't even bother. It's full of the worst of the worst internet jokes and catchphrases.

# ? Nov 10, 2014 17:44

goferchan: Feb 8, 2004; It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.

Agh just had a soul-crushing end to a Dream Quest run as Warrior. I was one kill away from level 10 and was pretty confident in taking on the floor 3 boss and then putting some serious hurt on the Lord of the Dream but I got wiped out by the same basic warrior type enemy twice in a row

# ? Nov 10, 2014 17:48

marshmonkey: Dec 5, 2003; I was sick of looking
at your stupid avatar
so
have a cool cat instead.; Switchblade Switcharoo

As awesome as it would be if that BitCoin game had a miner stuffed inside, the battery usage is probably due to all the different ad networks they have in the game caching new ads all the time.

# ? Nov 10, 2014 18:45

Evil Fluffy: Jul 13, 2009; Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

bobfather posted:

Please let it have an embedded mining client.

If it doesn't i'd honestly be shocked. Ads in games eat a shitload of battery power though.

# ? Nov 10, 2014 18:47

Feenix: Mar 14, 2003; Sorry, guy.

Evil Fluffy posted:

If it doesn't i'd honestly be shocked. Ads in games eat a shitload of battery power though.

The reviews are hysterical. Tons of 5 stars reviews with generic paragraph texts. "This game teaches you how to manage money!"

# ? Nov 10, 2014 18:56

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

How does X-Com run on the iPhone 6?

# ? Nov 11, 2014 00:55

Bogart: Apr 12, 2010; by VideoGames

Yo, grab Puzzle Bandits. Best music I've heard in a free game for a while, and the match-3 mechanics are pretty dope.

# ? Nov 11, 2014 02:06

turn it up TURN ME ON: Mar 19, 2012; In the Grim Darkness of the Future, there is only war.

...and delicious ice cream.

Anyone played any good space trader type games out there? I've played the perennial suggestion Star Traders a ton, and I'm looking for something else that might scratch that itch.

# ? Nov 11, 2014 02:31

Zigmidge: May 12, 2002; Exsqueeze me, why the sour face? I'm here to lemon aid you. Let's juice it.

Galaxy On Fire is like a really lovely Privateer/Freelancer but yeah, Star Traders is it. You can add space traders to the pile of ruined or ignored genres on ios.

e: Space Rangers 2 works ok with splashtop so there's that, I guess.

# ? Nov 11, 2014 02:38

turn it up TURN ME ON: Mar 19, 2012; In the Grim Darkness of the Future, there is only war.

...and delicious ice cream.

Figured. That's really sad, too. You could do a lot with piloting the ship from an iPad. Trace your combat path around, set targets for turrets/fighters, tap to mine, tap with two fingers to mine really hard...

# ? Nov 11, 2014 02:42

Psion: Dec 13, 2002; eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

Having played GOF on ipad and on PC, no, the controls are pure poo poo on mobile. It's just not meant for touchscreens. What's vaguely annoying to me is the expansion campaigns are mobile only and the PC port was two or four times as expensive. I'd totally buy a bad $10 privateer clone but not $20 for half of one.

so far as the draw a line to set your course and tap for targeting and stuff, that's basically the controls for Strikefleet Omega, a good game ruined by bad IAP. (so therefore not a good game)

but that control scheme really did work well!

# ? Nov 11, 2014 03:19

Evil Fluffy: Jul 13, 2009; Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

Zigmidge posted:

Galaxy On Fire is like a really lovely Privateer/Freelancer but yeah, Star Traders is it. You can add space traders to the pile of ruined or ignored genres on ios.

e: Space Rangers 2 works ok with splashtop so there's that, I guess.

I really wanted to like Galaxy on Fire 2 but I just never could get in to it. I'm sure a mobile version of Star citizen will be announced eventually as part of Chris Roberts' vision for his MMOFPSFlightSimWorldBuilderRPGBrokenDream.

At least PC has a few smaller choices like Evochron Mercenary and maybe Darkstar One.

# ? Nov 11, 2014 09:04

Anime_Otaku: Dec 6, 2009

I wish that someone would release an iOS version of Elite 2: Frontier. Though I can see the control problems a mile off. I wonder if those keyboard covers an be used with games. I'd buy one to play Elite on my iPad.

# ? Nov 11, 2014 10:32

Soma Soma Soma: Mar 22, 2004; Richardson agrees

Apocron posted:

Anyone got tips on subterfuge? I'm reaching a point in a game I am where I feel like the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. Any idea of a good time to consider mining?

Ah, you are one of the three active players left in one of the games I'm in. I think you could consider mining at any time, and probably should have about 24 hours ago, if not longer.

# ? Nov 11, 2014 10:40

Lancelot: May 23, 2006; Fun Shoe

Bogart posted:

Yo, grab Puzzle Bandits. Best music I've heard in a free game for a while, and the match-3 mechanics are pretty dope.

For anyone considering this, it's a Puzzle and Dragons-like replete with different classes of heroes, levelling up, and the "match the right colour to get that hero to attack" mechanic. It's very slickly produced but unlikely to convince someone who wasn't already a fan of the genre.\

E: And an energy mechanic and the "get another one of the same dude to evolve" thing.

Lancelot fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Nov 11, 2014

# ? Nov 11, 2014 11:47

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Feenix posted:

I like the Subterfuge game in theory, but holy poo poo is poo poo slow. Last night at 7pm I sent some subs to a super lose neighboring outpost and today (it's noon) it still says 14 hours more. What the poo poo.

Maybe I'm an outlier but despite this I still find in incredibly tense. I'm spending ages staring at an essentially static map agonising over decisions I won't be able to change but won't show results for half a day or more. I love it!

# ? Nov 11, 2014 14:30

topiKal: Mar 11, 2006; Rock Solid.
Heart Touching.

TACD posted:

Maybe I'm an outlier but despite this I still find in incredibly tense. I'm spending ages staring at an essentially static map agonising over decisions I won't be able to change but won't show results for half a day or more. I love it!

I enjoy that the pace is slow, but I feel that it could easily be even twice the speed without losing anything.

I usually end up dropping most multiplayer games because I am busy and they are too demanding on time/attention. On the other hand, I literally just plain forgot about Subterfuge. Waiting half a day or more for most actions just feels like too much to me. In the end, I am just a baby who wants faster gratification.

# ? Nov 11, 2014 15:51

LeFishy: Jul 21, 2010

topiKal posted:

I enjoy that the pace is slow, but I feel that it could easily be even twice the speed without losing anything.

I usually end up dropping most multiplayer games because I am busy and they are too demanding on time/attention. On the other hand, I literally just plain forgot about Subterfuge. Waiting half a day or more for most actions just feels like too much to me. In the end, I am just a baby who wants faster gratification.

Yup this happened to me and Soma steamrolled me. It would've been nice to get some notifications as he was slowly and methodically destroying me while I slept but I guess you have to turn on notifications per location or something.

# ? Nov 11, 2014 15:57

k-spar: Sep 25, 2004

TACD posted:

Maybe I'm an outlier but despite this I still find in incredibly tense. I'm spending ages staring at an essentially static map agonising over decisions I won't be able to change but won't show results for half a day or more. I love it!

I agree actually, though I've noticed I tend to forget about it sometimes, which could just be a problem I could solve by setting my notifications correctly.

# ? Nov 11, 2014 16:46

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

I have a feeling the notifications may not be working properly yet (for me at least) - I've tapped the 'alerts' thing on a sub several times expecting a notification when it arrives but haven't seen anything. Would be nice if you got an alert when somebody launches an attack on you as well.

Yes, I intend to do my duty as a tester and post all this on their forums

# ? Nov 11, 2014 17:18

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# ? Jun 9, 2024 16:51

xian: Jan 21, 2001; Lipstick Apathy

I wouldn't mind more notifications for subterfuge either

# ? Nov 11, 2014 17:22

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