nicked on 20/7/2012 at 05:42
I have been spending far too much time in morbid-but-addictive disease simulator (
http://www.ndemiccreations.com/) Plague Inc. recently. It's a strategy game where you evolve a disease and attempt to spread it to everyone on the planet, and then kill them. I guess it's like a simplified, nihilistic version of the X-COM geoscape , but well worth 69p for the sole reason that you can name your disease anything you like, resulting in messages like "Nutella has doomed the planet. The last remaining humans know they are watching the end of history."
scumble on 25/7/2012 at 09:23
My kids are usually nagging me to get new games on the iPad, and I often relent when we're only talking about 69p.
I had a bit of fun with Bike Baron, which is a simple stunt bike game but quite entertaining.
Contre Jour is quite interesting but my interest didn't hold for long.
There's this duck and cover type shooter called EPOCH that is good for a quick blast. I'm still surprised what developers can get out of the original iPad. Limited resources seem to really focus effort on the essentials.
Also Minecraft Pocket Edition runs quite well although it's not as pretty or complete as the PC/Mac version. More of a demo at the moment mind you as it's an alpha...
At one point I wasted a fair bit of time on Pinball HD, which I think is the best pinball game I came across on the iPad with the least frustrating tables. Some of the other pinball efforts seem to keep dumping balls between the flippers too often.
henke on 25/7/2012 at 10:28
Bike Baron is indeed good. Probably the best Trials-esque game on the pad. Agree about Contre Jour, I got bored of it quickly too.
I rarely play games on the pad any more though, usualy just some boardgames when friends are visiting. Ticket to Ride is pretty good. So is Trivial Pursuit.
edit: looks like the iPad verson of my favourite game of last year is coming along nicely though.
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Looks like it might be a nice fit for a touchscreen actually, even though it'll no doubt be a bit more fiddly than the PC version.
Thirith on 25/7/2012 at 10:46
I could imagine they might have to rebalance it a bit, exactly because it'll be more fiddly. Still, I imagine it'll make a good fit for iPad otherwise, especially iPad 3.
Malf on 25/7/2012 at 13:47
I recently picked up the Nexus 7. Does that count?
I've been playing a lot of (
http://pinballarcade.com/) Pinball Arcade on it, and it's reeeeally good.
I also picked up Shadowgun with some of the free Google money they gave me, and while I've not played a lot of it, it's ridiculously pretty considering what it's running on.
scumble on 25/7/2012 at 14:02
It does mean we have to rename the thread to "tablet gaming"...
twisty on 26/7/2012 at 07:35
Has anyone tried out the Cthulhu turn-based adventure, Wasted Land?
I haven't got an iPad but might be getting one soon so am making a mental note of games to buy once I get it.
Renzatic on 26/7/2012 at 07:55
Quote Posted by twisty
Has anyone tried out the Cthulhu turn-based adventure, Wasted Land?
I got it, though I haven't played too far into it yet. From what I've seen, it's pretty fun, though not exactly what I'd call the deepest game around. It's good for scratching the TBS itch, but there are better games out for the iPad.
Malf on 26/7/2012 at 16:37
Yeah, I picked up Wasted Land, the Cthulhu game yesterday, but haven't played it much at all. What I did play seemed devoid of any useful tutorial content whatsoever, but I'll keep at it.
