Shadowcat on 30/4/2011 at 13:24
Quote Posted by henke
So it's sorta like Civ, except more streamlined and fastpaced?
I'm really hesitant to compare Oasis with Civ in any way (although numerous other people have done so), simply because of
how stripped down Oasis is. That's not a criticism -- Oasis is a beautifully formed and balanced game -- but I do worry that anyone expecting Civ Lite will be going in with the wrong expectations.
I don't want to assume that everyone would love it, but if there's no demo for the iPad, the PC version has a demo. Give it a try. If you enjoy it, then the main thing I'd stress is that the full game has a completely unexpected degree of variety and replay value, and it gets more and more entrancing as you increase the difficulty -- I found it was well worth the $20, so $5 on the iPad seems like a crazy good deal to me. I've spent more hours playing Oasis than a great many big-budget games.
henke on 30/4/2011 at 14:15
Big thanks addink! :D appshopper looks like a great site to track down the best of the free/cheap stuff.
@Shadowcat, ok. I played quite a bit of Civ 2 back in the day, but one of the main things that has turned me off the Civ games lately is that they're quite complex and would be hard to get back into. So that Oasis is a much more barebones game is only a good thing. It's not on the top of my shopping list but I might get it some day.
Renzatic on 3/5/2011 at 17:19
I dunno what it is, but Turbo Duck will be the first game I get when my iPhone arrives in a couple of hours (if the damn police let the FedEx truck in anyway).
...oh, and (
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gears/id399409305?mt=8) Gears. I dunno why, but there's something about games that have you tilting marbles/balls/blobs of mercury around obstacles and traps that really appeal to me. Maybe I'm just some casual fucker or something. I don't care. I love em.
henke on 3/5/2011 at 19:03
I HAVE IPAD
No wireless modem yet but I have had the thing hooked up to my computer and downloaded some apps. Here is WOT I THINK
GTA Chinatown Wars - The controls were a lot harder than I anticipated so I dispaired a bit at first but after only half an hour with it I hardly notice the controlls anymore. The steering is fiddly but no more so that GTA 1 was. And the story and the characters are unexpectedly funny. It looks good. Two of my favourite rappers(Ghostface & Metalface) team up on the themesong. I'm gonna have a lot of fun with this one. :cool:
GarageBand - At just 4 euros this thing is a steal. Crazy amount of customization and options available. Lots of different guitars, drums, drummachines, pianos, organs and vocal-modifiers. The timeline editing tool is very easy to use. I just put together two small tracks. One of them is very Tom Waits inspired. I mean it has an organ with the distotion turned all the way up and I'm screaming things through the bullhorn-modifier so it can't help but sound like a Tom Waits song.
Gears - Really popular in the appstore, only 79 cents and it looked like fun so I got it. It's fun. It has both a gyroscope-controlmode and a point-at-the-screen-controlmode. The pointy one is standard but I switched to the other one which is a bit trickier but I'm still oohing and aahing at the gyroscope so I like to play it this way.
Real Racing - the free Volkswagen edition - makes very good use of the gyroscope. Controls feel very precise.
Finger Sketch - easy to use painting tool. Has this built in feature which kinda fills in the blanks between the lines and makes any piece-of-shit-doodle look like a masterpiece. I like. :D
Fruit Ninja & Angry Birds Lite editions - hey these are pretty fun.
@Matthew, thanks for the link but that thing is for iPhone apps mainly, not iPad. I might still get it though as iPhone games run just fine on the iPad.
gunsmoke on 3/5/2011 at 20:27
Dude, I just KNEW you got it today...I didn't see you on Xbox Live! and I figured you were happily iPadding away. Enjoy, brotha.
Matthew on 3/5/2011 at 20:48
Quote Posted by henke
@Matthew, thanks for the link but that thing is for iPhone apps mainly, not iPad. I might still get it though as iPhone games run just fine on the iPad.
Yep, I recommended it with those 'universal' apps in mind. Should've made that clearer, sorry.
Aja on 3/5/2011 at 21:55
As far as iOS gaming goes, I've spent maybe $50 on games (that's a lot), and I never play any of them. I haven't found a single game that'll hold my attention for more than a half hour or so. I finished ones like Spider out of a sense of obligation (and maybe because of its nice aesthetics) but I'm not convinced that touchscreen gaming is more than just a time-waster.
I would like to use that Garageband app, though. I think the ipad is more suited for that sort of thing, anyway. I have no idea why they gave the new ones a faster graphics card when nothing comes close to needing it (nor does the app store audience seem to even want it to).
Shadowcat on 4/5/2011 at 10:35
Surely there are some half-decent strategy games for the iPad? That seems like the only genre that is well-suited to the interface. It would be pretty weird if no one was making any.
