Nick (xbl: andsoitgoes42)

THIS GAME IS AMAZING.

The dialogue alone is worth the dollar. Wow. Wow. Wow.

I'll be following tough guy from here on.

@Shift Breaker Ah, I was never free. But the price dropped to a dollar. BUYBUYBUYBUY

@Shift Breaker HOLY CRAP. A homage to Dr Strangelove for a game about time controlling animals??? I regret not getting this when it was free, but honesty now I'm glad I can give the devs money. SERIOUSLY amazing.

I would give this to my girls, who would love this thing like crazy.

Sigh. Dude, it's not that the developers were lazy, apple doesn't allow third party apps of anyone to access DRM tracks. If you want to get on anyone's case, go tell Ale, don't make this app suffer for something they had no control of.

SERIOUSLY. Has the app been updated to work with iOS 5??? You're still using an unreleased product. God I hope you aren't the kind of person who leaves a review saying it crashes... iOS 5 isn't out yet, give the debs some time. Understand that you're running beta, GM or not.

I get so tired of the physical controls are the only way to play argument.

That's the case for some games, but many games... MANY games work just as well, if not better, having a touch screen.

I mentioned quite a few other games, but I'll quote a few more... Plants Vs. Zombies, Tower Defense games, games like Missle Command, Physic based puzzle games, card games, endless runners... All of these things honestly work better on a touch screen. I got PvZ on Xbox when it went on sale and honestly, I missed being able to just tap where I wanted things to go. It was an arduous process to have to plod along using a directional pad. And that's just one example... there are many more.

Touch based gaming is a fantastic way to go for a lot of games, but physical controls trump others in certain types of games - That goes without saying and I think most iOS/Android/WP7 gamers would agree.

@Gooblechev For you, maybe, but for MILLIONS of others it works just fine, and is actually better for some games. Loads better.

Carcassonne. Any other board game. Match 3 games. Endless runners. Physics games (Angry Birds, Sieger, Coin Drop, Peggle), Racing games, Card games, Word games, Music games... All work MUCH better on a touch screen.

Games with a d-pad, well I don't like them and I generally don't buy them. Other people find they work just fine, or purchase (which I did) Fling controllers for their iPad/iPhone/whatever which in turn simulate having physical controls.

But if you're not interested in any of the games I've mentioned - then no, not having physical buttons will be far less intuitive and responsive on a touch screen.

However, think of this argument - do you remember how many people complained that using a dual analog controler (Xbox, PS2, et al) for FPS or TPS games was terrible, and that a mouse was the ONLY way to roll? How many people are playing these games on the PS3/Xbox? Millions and millions. It's completely dwarfed the mouse-based gaming. So who knows what the future brings in the coming hardware/advances in touch screen tech.

Anyway, my point, to summarize, is that touch screen gaming isn't the best for everything, but for some things it blows physical controls out of the water.

@Anticrawl

I don't understand mobile phone "gaming."

- A lot of people do. A LOT. I am one of them, and have virtually eliminated all other forms of gaming. And if the games are coded properly, which most of the top shelf games are, you do still get decent battery life out of them. And add-on batteries are so cheap that if you really want to commit to gaming, you will have no problem doing so while keeping your battery charged. Maybe you need to try it.

If you have a smart phone didn't you buy it for productivity and making calls? Playing any game for any length of time will rape your battery.

- See above regarding the battery. And no. If I wanted that, I'd get a basic, boring, non-iOS/Android phone. I have a phone to keep me busy while on the bus, waiting for... well, anything. Bathroom breaks. Break breaks. Music. Video. It's for everything, it works for everything and is downright fantastic. I never thought I'd game much on any sort of device like a phone/etc until I got my iPad, then an iPhone. My primary use is fun, gaming, mail, texting. I occasionally make a phone call, and when I need to it works just fine. If I need to schedule an appointment or manage my calendar, it also does that just fine. Actually far better than my old Windows Mobile phone that was about as useless for anything other than texting and making calls.

I never enjoyed a phone until I got my iPhone. It's been a dream.

Wait, why is this tagged under Mobile?

That said, lots of good stuff here. If you haven't played Borderlands, you owe it to yourself now, now now to pick it up. You won't be sorry.