Apple Gaming (Iphone / IPod Touch)

[JameO]

This thread was created regarding iphone and ipod touch gaming. Ever since it's been released there has been many developers creating games, similar to games you would find on xbox live marketplace or the PSN Store. Games range between Free - $9.99 usually, with a good amount of them being $4.99/$5.99. Many games go on sale for a day or two, so if you are able to catch it at the right time, you can get a ten dollar game for 3 dollars, or whatever the sale is, so looking at the Apple Store once is a good idea. There are many games from a lot of video game developers that program for consoles and pc games, it has become a platform that suprisingly has a well made interface, and easy to use development kit, which sadly can only be installed on Mac OS computers, but other than that developers have had a good time with this. I have had a pleasant experience with this platform, having better graphics than the DS, multi-touch feature, which I am not sure, but does the DSi deal with that? Not sure, but almost as good of graphics as the PSP. And while Apple is working towards an quad core based iphone, they will be in the gaming market, whether people like it or not. Its a very casual market in most cases, so these little cheap games become a hit among people.

Also Watchmen has sparked an iPhone MMO that from my experiences has been very weak seeing how I bought it first day for a dollar, and no one seems to be on the servers at all, or maybe it isn't working as promised, so I will wait for more information regarding this, but any information can be found at the developer site here:

http://watchmenjusticeiscoming.com/index.html

Graphics are nice, character design is decent, and you walk around fighting other people and solving cases and doing story missions, looks decent, will check it out once more people get the application.

Was just wondering if anyone on the forums has an iPhone or Ipod Touch as well and would share their experiences with it, and relating with video games.

Favourite Games on Iphone: Toy Bot Diaries 1-3, Payback (GTA Clone), Star Wars: Force Unleashed, Space Deadbeef (Free airplane shooter, very addicting), Platypus (Side scrolling airplane shooter, that art style is claymation, very nice looking game).

[Voltron]

JameO is still alive? Hot damn!

[Peanut]

If you want to call it living.

Either way, Iphone/I anything gaming is a waste of time. If I wanted to play a f*cking game, I'd play it on a handheld, especially considering the stores on the Iphone have absolutely zero screening process. It's library is full of terrible sh*t.

[ThirdMarioBro]

iPhone games are for people who don't know the difference between a good game and a bad game. Tetris? With no buttons? Bullsh*t. Don't even get me started on the other sh*t they have on that store. Dedicated Wii owners would probably find a good home there...which is why I feel the next Nintendo handheld is going to blow (http://www.kombo.com/article.php?artid=12492).

Apple and Nintendo are like leeches that feed off one another. Glad Sony is sticking around the handheld space.

[JameO]

Like Peanut said, living is not what you want to call it, but I will try post more here, I read but dont post very often, no time between two jobs and school, doing 14 hour days or more, mixed with school and work, been pretty dead.

On the topic:

Yeah I understand a lot of the games are very weak, and there are a lot of crap games on there, but like any handheld it has a crappy list of titles, while appealing to others, like any of the hand helds out there, appealing to the casual market has been great business it seems, but sad as well. But there are quite a few good games on the iphone that are cheap little games to play on the bus or subway, or just on break, sure its too much in one package, phone, gaming unit, mini netbook, web browser, all in one type of device.

One thing I enjoy about the device, is the idea of testing out a game, a lot of games available have a Lite version, which allows you to test out a game, a level or test, see the basics of the game, to warrant if its worth the 10 dollars to buy, its a great way of doing business, while sure the iphone might be trying to do too much, but it is a great portable entertainment unit.