Haha, well many iOS gamers actually don't like games with too much depth. I actually don't like casual games too much, which make up over 50% of the top 200. I don't consider puzzles casual games though. Haha, wow what a wait. Hope you have tons of fun with it once you get it though. Don't really call myself a TOFTTer since I rarely post impressions before there's already plenty since I live in the US. I generally just answer questions on games that aren't completely new anymore that I've spent some time with. Lol, I use to post ending impressions on every game I finished or deleted in their main threads, but I've grown much too lazy for that. Yeah, if you didn't like the first one, I really doubt Omega will be your thing. Definitely excited for FFT as well. The iOS is lacking SRPGs more than anything. LOOOOL, thanks PF. I actually didn't get it until I saw that sentence.
hmm, i loved game dev story, but i dont know if i will like hot spring because...you know...im into video games and not building a hot spring. is it good regardless of the fact that i have know knowledge of hot springs?
I try to like games with depth, but somehow only manage short play sessions with my iPod. I can't even explain why, I've just never been able to sit down with it for more than 30 minutes at a time, even though I find myself picking it up again 60 seconds after I put it down. In reality I like both casual and deep/strategical/hardcore/whatever games, it's just this platform that sways me towards the former. Strange phenomenon. Thanks for the uh... card, phatty
The 5 days have been unbearable so far, but yeah sure, another 23 shouldn't be bad. Just glad I can stop playing half my games on other people's devices. And its a 32 gig (a significant step up from the 8gb first gen), which means I can finally have all my apps on my device at once. Believe it or not, I only have 20 gb of apps right now, feels like a lot more with all the purchases, but I have deleted a lot of games I got for free and did not like (i never delete ones I paid for no matter what i think about it, not sure why).
It's an improvement feature-wise by far over GDS, but yeah, the premise was a pretty big turn-off for me as well. It plays really well though. If you like the genre, you're not going to find anything better than HSS on the iOS. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. It's so much easier to just play a few levels on Angry Birds or make a few moves on Words with Friends than it is to play games with more depth, even awesome titles like GTA: CW and World of Goo. Hard to just sit down and play these games that take more investment in time and just play them for hours on. You're right. It's hard/impossible to explain. It's not just at home, but other places as well. Now that high school is literally over..we're just sitting there for two weeks and playing cards and stuff since I'm a senior and APs are over, I'm either on TA or playing some casual games when I use my iPod at school. It's always been like this. Strange stuff xP.
Yeah, I hear you. I use to buy apps, not at the rate I do now, every week on my old 8GB 2nd gen, and man was it something to have 4x the memory. Definitely a good feeling. I also never deleted paid games back then, and just left them on iTunes, but after 2011 began, I started clearing out everything I knew I'd never come back to. I always try to keep my iTunes under 450 apps and my iPod under 200 apps. Once summer hits, I'll probably try to keep it under 400 on iTunes. Yeah, I often have to make room by deleting games. Lol, I don't think I've ever had the memory to hold all of my games. It's hard keeping my free space over 500MB now when I have everything I haven't played/want to play synced. Edit: Welcome to retina indeed. Made a post at the end of the last page to you Midian btw in case you miss it.
No, thank you (two)! It was an honor giving cards to such hardened iOS veterans. believe me, it will really fill up. You get a bit lax since you're like, I have much more space now! and then bam! your last ten gigs goes bye bye and it's a hell of a time just trying to clear 1. I had like 17 total FREE gigs only a couple months ago...
Indeed i am. All of a sudden retina becomes kind of important to me. Lack of support definitely is not a turn off for a good game, but it certainly will give it more lasting value after finishing it. I was surprised how much clarity difference there is in text and games with more "modern visuals", by which i mean who cares about pixel (and artsy) games getting retina (almost defeats the purpose don't you think). @backtothis I think I might have to start deleting some paid apps I never play also (NFL by gameloft is priority, haha never got past the tutorial after getting Madden 11 the day after). Not sure I could keep it below a number though as there are at least a hundred now that I think I could never delete. And I actually go back and replay campaigns I enjoyed (mc1, novas 3x each now). Excited about folders to keep my ipod below 8 home screen pages (wish apple would lets us give an icon image for em though). For future reference: how do I quote 2 separate posts in one of mine.
Im prepared for this. Thanks to a little trick from K?(backup extractor/iphone explorer) in another thread, I can keep any backups important to me.
Use multi-quote button, which is right next to quote. Yeah, I actually used to replay campaigns I liked as well. It's been quite a while since I have though..beat Zenonia 6 times, beat Nova 3 times, etc. Haha, yeah folders are great. Keep all my games on two pages and my default apps on the first page. Madden 11 was indeed far superior to NFL 11. Hm, I think I have a few games I'd never delete as well, but there's not that many. I'd say around 50. I delete a prequel almost as soon as I buy the sequel also.
Yeah I'm the same, especially games with a lot of text. There is one problem with pixel art games though; when games get upscaled for retina they have a filter applied to them, and for pixel art games it can actually make them appear blurrier than they would on a device without retina. Commander Data (a developer) pointed it out a while ago, apparently it's something Apple should change but I don't know if they ever did... there is a workaround developers can do to fix it but I don't like to keep nagging them for it
Yeah I did it, thanks. In this case we diverge. If I have a good series, i simply have to keep them all. I even redownload a few games if I get a sequel just to have em all (bounce on one off the top of my head which I hate I got for free but It made me buy the second right away). To be honest, its really only the fps campaigns that keep me coming back. They are kind of linear, but they still are just so much fun (usually start on easy and play through all difficulty modes). besides those, played through assassins creed altairs a few times (i really liked it and found the controls worked nicely), soozis, world of goo (could replay a million times), and real racing. I already think I know how im gonna keep my folders . First page has none, mostly my favorite games, and a few of the most used defaults. Dock will be a document editor, document reader, facetime, and favorite game (had one spot on dock for game in my last device too, and SFIV held it simply forever and still will on backup restore). Then the next few pages will all be folders by category, company, and favoritism.
Oh do they really. yeah I never quite understood why non retina games should not look the same on a 4g then they look an other devices (no need to explain, not quite in the mood to figure it out yet ). Sometimes I feel like retina for the menus is more important than for the game itself, but devs always seem to be updating them the other way around . May just be the opinion of a minority.
Randomly throwing this game into the conversation because it deserves a bit more attention: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=93456
