Oh and on the subject of naming game characters, I haven't returned to the Sims 3 despite loving it because the Sims named after my girlfriend and I reached old age and I couldn't bear to have them die.

I finally got this and i'm sort of miffed about some design decisions and how difficulty works in general.

I was playing a normal difficulty ironman game and it was being a cakewalk until the first alien base mission. Maybe i went to early, but my squad was wiped out. After that i tried to build another experienced roster before i tackle this mission and when i tried again, not only was the level layout completely different as was the aliens in it. There was no chance for soldiers against those red muttons.

Even though i agree that the difficulty should be increasing throughout the game, it makes no sense that a level 2 difficulty abduction mission in the mid game is harder than a level 2 abduction mission in the early games. It makes mission failures almost unrecoverable.

It's also annoying that there's no free shot and there's no way to hit more than one enemy with regular weapons or hitting another enemy after missing the one we're aiming at.

The game also doesn't have much flexibility. I suppose that in classic mode there's only one way to do base progression things if we want to win the game.

All the old Xcom bugs are fixed, there's loads of new tweaks and things (for example, when you're placing a base, you get a nifty overlay on the Geoscape that shows you how far each type of radar will scan from the location you're pointing at.)

It's Xcom, but better. The only negative is that it's unlikely that they've replicated the AI exactly as it was in the original, but to be fair the AI in the original wasn't brilliant anyway.

Fack me. 2 dead.

These lucky git kills are massively frustrating.

is he ios version release by now?

nice, but 18 euros.. on the appshopper it goes

By all accounts it's the full-fat game though with just a couple of small compromises, against that backdrop it doesn't seem overly expensive to me TBH.

i guess, but i'm not really sure i'm going to play 18euros worth of it.. since i played it before... i wasn't saying i can't appreciate its value, justni was kinda surprised

I can't imagine there's much future in developing (or even porting) AAA titles for mobile platforms if folks never get past the 'I'm not paying more than a pound' mental block.

Good.



I agree with those guys.

Are they saying that 40 shitty games are better than one good one?

If I had an iPad that could run it (I haven't checked, but I'm assuming it won't work on the original iPad)

No, they're that 40 $1 games are likely to provide more fun than one $40 one. And I quite agree.

No, they're that 40 $1 games are likely to provide more fun than one $40 one. And I quite agree.

Also, the argument of guy #2 ("a lot of these games are garbage") only works under the assumption that no $40 games are garbage.

They are talking specifically about the 3DS, though. Which as I understand it has it's share of shovelware shite

If I had a Vita though I'd probably use that a bit.

I have a Vita and I really like it, but so far I've played sub-£10 indie games, which I really think is where it shines.

I need to free up room on my (paltry) 8 GB card for Gravity Rush. I think I'll bin off LittleBigPlanet.