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Tempy

Perm, you've got an iPad. Suggestion for me dad?

Vastik

Tempy wrote:

Ok guys, i'm visiting my Dad and he's treated himself to an iPad3 fr his birthday. Games/Apps he should get? Free ones or cheap ones are best, I reckon he's skint now!

What're his tastes?

Sasukekun

Vastik wrote:

Tempy wrote:

Ok guys, i'm visiting my Dad and he's treated himself to an iPad3 fr his birthday. Games/Apps he should get? Free ones or cheap ones are best, I reckon he's skint now!

What're his tastes?

I was going to ask the same thing.
It's all well and good recommending stuff we'd like, but it might not be for him.

Tempy, can you get him to go for a couple of board games and play him at those?

Moto70

Tempy wrote:

Perm, you've got an iPad. Suggestion for me dad?

I probably the same age!

It depends, my most used are Weather HD, Living Earth, Wonders of the Universe, The Night Sky, My Measure PRO. What are his interests, this may help us come up with some good pointers...

Vastik

adkm1979 wrote:

I've been playing Plague Inc. Â [...] Â Infecting Greenland and Iceland is tough

Just got this too. Nice little game, i'm liking the gleefully dark premise. I'm normally all about saving the world.
I got around the Greenland/Iceland problem by starting my disease there. A mild, highly infectious cough spread the globe then mutated into a killer. Bye bye humanity.

Moto70

Another thumbs up for Plague Inc, I've not tried the other one yet, Pandemic 2.5...

Tempy

He likes strategy stuff, historical games, doubt he'll be bothered by boardgames. I gifted him that Total War game, he nearly didn't sleep!

Plague Inc is awesome, just brought the world to its knees on Normal

hylian_elf

I've got Living Earth, it's great. I've got Distant Suns instead of the Night Sky. Gonna check out WotU.

Games wise, I love my Cave shmups and the HD ones look gorgeous. The only iPad-only games I have are Fractal and another rhythm action game by the same guys.

hylian_elf

Check out the Top 25 on the App Store, Tempy. There are two worth checking out... A Camelot game and a desert island game.

Scout

Tempy, there's a new Total War game for the iPad called Total War Battles: Shogun. I haven't played it but it's been very well reviewed.

Edit: Just released I think you've already got him that.

The Daddy

I know it's generally considered to be a bit gash around here, but you can't go wrong with angry birds for casual types.

If he's into strategy then maybe civ rev (quite regularly on sale, so may be worth waiting), and maybe a tower defense type thing like geo defense.

Vastik

Tempy wrote:

He likes strategy stuff, historical games, doubt he'll be bothered by boardgames. I gifted him that Total War game, he nearly didn't sleep! Plague Inc is awesome, just brought the world to its knees on Normal

Try Autumn Dynasty!

Vastik

Tempy wrote:

He likes strategy stuff, historical games, doubt he'll be bothered by boardgames. I gifted him that Total War game, he nearly didn't sleep! Plague Inc is awesome, just brought the world to its knees on Normal

Another great iPad RTS is Eufloria. Lovely game.

hylian_elf

Yeh, forgot about Eufloria. I've got it, not played it much though.

fullspectrum

If you had to pick one game for iphone right now Som, would it be this plague jobby?

mk64

downloading plague thing

hylian_elf

Nick wrote:

If you had to pick one game for iphone right now Som, would it be this plague jobby?

Erm... Plague is good, and it's new and a "game of the week" type thing, but if we are talking about "the one game you must have on your iPhone", there are far better games out there. Beat Sneak Bandit is awesome, if you like rhythm action puzzle games (not that there are many around!).

Tempy

Yeah, Plauge Inc is a bit one not. Looks like some of the later infections mix things up a little. Can't complain for 69p though.

FranticPea

Beat Sneak Bandit is awesome.

The Daddy

My first attempt at the fungal infection, named Rooney, proved somewhat disappointing. Rooney failed to infect at least three countries and was eventually eradicated.

Tempy

Start in Madagascar, don't let it mutate any symptoms.

adkm1979

Certainly, removing symptoms that self-mutate help infection rate and help you build up your anti-cure abilities before anyone even starts work on a cure, but buying back those symptoms later can be pricey.

The Daddy

Hehe:

Wor lass has mutated and developed the rash symptom

Tempy

adkm1979 wrote:

Certainly, removing symptoms that self-mutate help infection rate and help you build up your anti-cure abilities before anyone even starts work on a cure, but buying back those symptoms later can be pricey.

I generally just go straight to coma via the respitory path when I've infected the whole world. Not working for the parasite though.

WorKid

@Tempy - SpellTower. Wife's mam loves it.

FranticPea

Just got a neat little Metal Gear clone called VR Mission. It's free. Quite a fun little distraction.

mk64

This ague game is fucking hard

Sasukekun

Currently playing Chaos Rings 2, yeah, I stupidly got it for that ridiculous Â£13.99.
It's a bog standard RPG-lite fare.
The thing is, Chaos Rings and Chaos Rings Omega were bog standard RPG-lites, but you could forgive them because they weren't really all that expensive. Chaos Rings 2 doesn't have that luxury.
The graphics are nice, PS2 style but a little smoother thanks to the resolution. Chaos Rings and Omega both had oodles of content, I haven't got far enough into 2 yet to see how much content there is, but I wont be happy if there isn't more to be found.

EDIT: In other news

Atari's Greatest Hits app is free today to celebrate their 40th birthday.
Thats 100 classic games for free.

Moto70

Sasukekun wrote:

EDIT: In other news Atari's Greatest Hits app is free today to celebrate their 40th birthday. Thats 100 classic games for free.

SAS stop it, it's not 100 free games it's 1!!!

AJ

No, that's just Missile Command for free.Â Others are 69p.

EDIT: Too slow.

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