I decided to ditch gaming on iPhone and stick with the iPad ( wish I had done it sooner ) far better gaming experience in my opinion As for Twin Swords I didn't mean to bash the game or anything I haven't even tried it yet, I'm just saying it's a little weird
MidianGTX "Twin Swords looks awful." Clearly you did not played the game, it is pretty nice actually. Its very cool to see a classic games like this made in 2013. Dont get me wrong, i'm currently playing both twin swords and Ridiculous Fishing, and my vote will probably go with Ridiculous Fishing for this week, but I enjoy them both greatly.
You're right, I didn't play it. Before you play a game, you see the screenshots... and it looks awful.
I'll be curious to see how EchoSeven will handle the Twin Swords fiasco; it's entirely possible suspect votes could get voided out consistent with the rules of the GOTW poll. There is some protection from shill voting; if the votes are not valid. Interestingly here Twin Swords seems to be getting a lot of votes from developers who normally don't participate in GOTW but are otherwise active in the TA community. However, I'll probably avoid Twin Swords for now due to my perception that something is amiss that taints my view of the game as one that needs to resort to underhanded methods for advertising.
I guess its just a matter of taste, looking at the screenshots of ridiculous fishing, you see some pixelated fish and a boat, nothing much appealing.. yet I find it very appealing! guess I just have a weakness to retro looks.
There's actually a LOT going on in the RF screens... retro graphics loads of fish a hook full of many different types of fish fish scattered throughout the air with the fisherman holding a shotgun a screen showing the original radical fishing graphics compared to the updated ridiculous fishing graphics... in short - it looks like a hectic high-score chasing retro arcade game... there's a lot going on, especially when compared to the mass of crap in the appstore.... which, unfortunately, Twin Swords screens look like... When you've scanned the AppStore for years, you can pretty much look at a decent screen shot of a game, and get a general idea of what the gameplay is like... There have been a couple of games that didn't really capture their gameplay decently - but it's rare... I'd write more detailing good screens vs bad screens - but I've gotta go to work, and don't have 20 minutes to explain it all...
Me too, which is why I prefer RF's faux-pixel aesthetics to Twin Swords' vector graphics. Vector is anything but retro if you ask me (ignoring Vectrex for a moment), if anything it's the perfect example of modern day, relatively cheap web games.
I have no problem with pixel games or RF, but how dare you say vector graphics are not retro! Some of my favorite games growing up in the '80s used vector - Tempest, Star Wars Arcade, Battlezone... Anyway, also wanted to mention that I may pick up Le Vamp. Was getting burnt out on runners but this looks like fun even if it isn't getting any votes. Also, it didn't support the 3GS at release but now appears to.
"Vector is anything but retro if you ask me" Lol have you been drinking? if 2D vector is not retro I don't know what is, sure many games today have vector style graphics so the new generation of gamers might think its the "new" style, but believe me when I say (and I have many years on my back... unfortunately) Vector IS Retro, I don't know.. this game (twin swords) brings me back to the old days of gaming, and thats what I like about it, try look behind the screenshots maybe, you might find it surprisingly enjoyable. We are a bit off topic here (sorry about that).. Cheers
Loved Ridiculous Fishing if even just for the look of the thing, really nice, but my vote has to go to Twin Swords, just brilliant, takes me back !!!!
Haven't gotten it yet, but probably will. Glad to see someone finally voting for it since it seemed to have a lot of nominations and some good impressions in the main thread.
I voted for danger boat since no one else did. Actually it is the only game I played too. Normally would have voted for Ridiculous fishing. Been playing too much with my icade core. Bought 3 icade core games this week. Strange contraversy about Twinswords this week. Almost all of them by developers. Seems like they maybe indeed be voting for Twin Swords to mock this process as some if you are suggesting. Guess the mods would know if that was indeed going on in the private developers forum though, so I dunno... My icade core with Blazing Star. So much fun!
I dunno, that would be genuinely pathetic. People who make games trying to stop gamers from discussing games on a gaming forum sounds ridiculous.
