What IOS games have you been playing?

I've played one round of Nightfall with my girlfriend so far. We skipped the tutorial so parts of the interface were a mystery, but overall I like it and will probably come to love it with more play. I hope the AI puts up a good fight since I think it will be essential; I don't think Nightfall is overly exciting with 2 players.

I've only played Nightfall (never played before) several times vs one level 3 AI so far, but I'm finding it pretty easy to beat by just picking 2 good cards that chain well together and spamming those. Hopefully they'll continue to improve the AI.

Utterly, completely, thoroughly, and terminally lost with Nightfall.

The tutorial is pretty to look at, but provides zero context for what is happening. The rules are mostly an exercising in practicing my swiping skills.

Giving up and deleting. Back to Elder Sign.

This morning I "S-ranked" Jetpack Joyride when I finally got the oh-so-elusive Germaphobe achievement. Man did that feel good.

I've also been messing around with the new Hero Academy army, The Tribe. At first glance you think, "Orcs? What's the big deal?", but they play really differently than the other 3 armies. This is a great game to play while you're waiting for the Summoner Wars app to get published.

Picked up Nightfall but haven't played it yet. Gotta get my false confidence up with the tutorial and low-level AI before I let you F:ATties make me your prison bitch.

The in game help and tutorial for Nightfall are inadequate for learning the game. I think the best way to learn it is to download and read the complete rules for the physical card game.

benny lava wrote: I've also been messing around with the new Hero Academy army, The Tribe. At first glance you think, "Orcs? What's the big deal?", but they play really differently than the other 3 armies. This is a great game to play while you're waiting for the Summoner Wars app to get published.

I've punted on HA, too.

It's well-designed and fun to look at, no doubt. But it suffers from the same problem that many Igo-Hugo games do: smart players are simply memorizing the total range (movement plus actual range) of their forces and the other guys' forces, then just hanging back and waiting for a mistake. There's rarely any incentive to move too far forward; it's far simpler to hope that the other guy gets too close to the net.

It's the same reason I'll probably be passing on the new $500 version of Ogre. I memorized those total ranges when I was 16 ... and found that I rarely played it after that.

And now to add something positive ...

I'm blown away by some of the games that are adding retina support for the iPad(3). Carcassonne, for instance. You know how it uses the whole "embroidery" theme as part of its look-and-feel? Well, after the update, you can pick out individual stitches in the pattern. It's insane, in a good way.

Ticket to Ride HD looks fantastic, too. Now we just need Playdek to update Ascension. Once they do that, you'll be able to clearly read every word on every card with no squinting.

Nightfall is awesome. I can't speak for the tutorial because I didn't do it and I also didn't read the rulebook. Coming into it and knowing how to play already, that didn't really matter.

But everything about is AAA-class, all the way. AI puts up a fight on 2, is actually pretty tough on 3.

Michael Barnes wrote: Coming into it and knowing how to play already, that didn't really matter.

And there's the dividing line, just like with Titan HD. If you've played before, you're golden; if you haven't, it's pretty hopeless. The tutorial is, frankly, almost an anti-teaching tool.

Everything I'm seeing at BGG, Touch Arcade, etc., is bearing this out. There's a very clear line between veterans and newcomers. And most of the newcomers think they've wasted $5.

Not so much a what iOS game have you been playing post, but rather a what iOS game is on your radar post. WotC just announced that the 2013 Duel of the Planeswalkers game will be available on iPad. I played the 2012 version on steam and enjoyed the hell out of it. I hope this leads to more MtG on the iOS. Maybe even MtG:Online. Here's a link to the official announcement.

www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.a...mtg/daily/arcana/945

-Will