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Gem Keeper is a fun iPhone tower defense game I have been

Gem Keeper is a fun iPhone tower defense game I have been enjoying lately. I picked it up for free on special as I don't tend to buy many iPhone games. The game starts simple and then adds more towers gradually in the first single player set of levels.

Ive enjoyed the tower that slows enemies down and the bomb tower. I am playing the game on easy and find that sufficent diffculty to be interesting. Ive just unlocked endless mode which is pretty diffcult on any level because you are going to lose, its just a matter of how long you hold out.

As per @Chowda s recommend I downloaded the Dungeon

As per @Chowda 's recommend I downloaded the Dungeon Defenders demo off Steam. Rolled a Mage and went with all the defaults. Tried single player as I didn't want to be eviscerated as a noob.

The intro didnt say a ton about how things worked and over the first few waves I figured things out. Basically it's a first person tower defense game. Graphics are good and the play control in confused me a couple of times.

Survived well into the last wave when an Ogre spawned. I focused on the Ogre way too late and he killed the eternia crystal, which is what you are protecting so game over. Spawned in a tavern and the game explained what that was all about.

I like the art of the game and the tavern feels nice to hang out in. From the tavern you can meet with your group and head out to defend eternia crystals from bad guys. Saw no limit to the demo save one mode. I checked to see if anyone was online and didn't see anyone. I imagine the demo is on its own server.

It's a fun game. Knowing what I know now I believe I would focus on the Ogre sooner :)

By now everyone who loves Borderlands may have seen the

By now everyone who loves Borderlands may have seen the Borderlands 2 gameplay footage that someone took with a shaky cam. If not, check it out! I am now even more excited about Borderlands 2.

Dual wielding? Epic.

Been recently spending time playing another iPhone runner

Been recently spending time playing another iPhone runner game called "Don't Run With a Plasma Sword." I like the game because you can play in a story mode or a endless running mode where you try and get further each time. You can upgrade your abilities as you collect experience as with other freemium iPhone titles you can pay to upgrade immediately.

The game has a really fun style in that its styled after a old sci-fi B Movie. Before each level you are bestowed wisdom on how to handle your plasma sword such as "Don't stir your coffee with a plasma sword," "Don't shovel with a plasma sword" and "Don't duck and cover with a plasma sword."

Its fun and its also free so no reason not to check it out if you have an iPhone. I am only playing the endless mode right now, when I get to the story mode ill talk more about that.

Magical Games That Never Leave You

If I had a list of games that impacted how I think about art and life, The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening would be on my list. I come back and play this game every three years or so simply because the story is absolutely stunning. I plan on writing more during my next playthrough on Cheerful Ghost, so expect more at some point.

I was never moved more by any video game ending than this one. Plenty of games brought me to thinking about life in certain ways, like Final Fantasy III and how frail humans really are. But this game sticks with me as a game that really made me feel invested in the world and I cared what happened to it. Being that the game was on the Gameboy thats saying something, then again Gameboy had some great games.

Magical.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 02/10/2012 at 08:52am

Watching that video took me back! It's been forever since I played it. But it was so rad.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/10/2012 at 04:54pm

I know, it is!

GregoPeck Member wrote on 01/24/2014 at 02:12am

From someone who grew up with a Gameboy (yes the very original), and one who got this game when it was released, I greatly appreciate this post! =) I'm not sure I have it anymore, but in recent years as I was playing through the Zelda series, I played this game again on the emulator.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 01/24/2014 at 02:22am

This game is on my list of games to play again this year. I think I am going to play it after Pokemon Blue.

GregoPeck Member wrote on 01/24/2014 at 02:31am

That's awesome, Jon! I remember my college years, I set out to play Final Fantasy VIII at least once each year. Well, that lasted a few years. The last time I played that game was pretty interesting because I now have a 50" Plasma and played the game on my PS3, although I didn't finish it. It is awesome that there are certain games that we truly cherish, that mean so much to us. You're making me think of the days when I lived in Texas and was playing this Zelda game, I really enjoyed it and I really enjoyed having a Gameboy. I wasn't fortunate enough to have a NES or SNES until I got older, the Gameboy was my system. I think my old Gameboy (along with my sister's Gameboy) may still be around here. It was such an amazing thing when it came out. I believe this Zelda game did get a remake for the Gameboy Color, maybe that's the version I played in recent years in an emulator.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 01/24/2014 at 04:48am

Yeah, this was one of those games that really stuck with me. Still does.

Have me thinking that the next time I play this one, I should play the color version. I've only played it black and white, but I heard the color version comes with an extra dungeon that has some color based puzzles.

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Earthbound: Awesome Game, List of Shame.

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This game is on my list of shame for games I have not beaten but really should have. The game is basically from Square's SNES "golden age." Its the story of a kid from the burbs that wakes up because a metorite crashed close to his house. I am not going to spoil any of the story but things get interesting fast.

The game is unique because the main character is a regular kid from a regular town. The enemies in the first areas are skate punks, birds and other normal things. The art style is very unique but the game doesn't hide that you are going from town to town in suburbia. Until you go into the city and other later areas.

The game has a great story and the way it hops around was pretty unique for the time. This game has one of the biggest rabid fanbases on the net as seen through the used SNES price of well over $150 for the cart itself. Square danced around Earthbound 64 but it was later canned for whatever reason.

At some point I will come back and finish this amazing game. When I do expect many more posts full of my experiences and TONS of spoilerrific material. If you are so inclined, check it out, its a great game.

I try out many iPhone games because often times they are

I try out many iPhone games because often times they are free and are a great way to spend a few minutes when your waiting for something or before bed. Fruit Ninja is a popular game I downloaded for free to test out.

Basically you swipe your finger across fruit to cut it like a Ninja. You get points for doing that. It gets harder or something and then you slice more fruit with your finger. You get ranked for your fruit Ninja fu.

Its no longer on my iPhone.

Civilization Revolution is the best turn based strategy ive

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Civilization Revolution is the best turn based strategy ive played on a console. The game is stripped down compared to Civilization 4 on PC but that doesn't mean its less fun. In fact, I believe the game is stronger because it does less.

All you have is the PS3 or XBOX controller so they had to reduce the complexity for the game to work very well on those systems. For instance, your tech tree isn't as deep. You have less military unit options. Your diplomacy options are not as advanced. You have less details to manage. There is less world real estate too. All that said, its as much fun as I remember the original DOS version was.

There are a few kinds of victories: domination, culture, economic and technological. The easiest one is domination, which I often stumble to even if I mean to do another. One bad element the game does present with any kind of victory is that it has a hard end if a certain amount of time has elapsed. Which basically stops you from spending an eternity toying with the opposition. The fixed time ending is my only real gripe with the game. Id prefer to take my time and do whatever taking as long as I care to. Oh wait, no, time has stopped sorry. You win?

I have Civilization 3 and can't seem to ever win. Civilization Revolution allows me to start out doing well and I can scale the difficulty to match my growing ability. They even have online play if you are interested in going head to head with other players. Its one of those games I purchased when I first got my PS3 and still play it because its a lot of fun.

Beat My Distance in JetPack Joyride

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Just started playing this game the other day after hearing about it on Weekend Confirmed. Its free, so if you have an iPhone you should check it out.

The premise is you have a jetpack and you are running and need to avoid getting hit by rockets and traps. Its basically another runner game similar to Robot Unicorn Attack. You collect coins in the game and can spend them on you player customization and upgraded jetpacks and the like. Like many freemium games on the iPhone you can pay money to get coins so you can outright buy the items instead of collecting coins by playing it.

So far ive collected about 4.5k coins and my best distance is 2,678m.

Like @Adym, I too remember this game. I pretty much always

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Like @Adym, I too remember this game.

I pretty much always played as the Banker from Boston so I could buy a ton of bullets and shoot squirrels. One time a classmate and I shot a squirrel hunderds of times to see if the amount of squirrel meat in pounds would increase.

Sadly it did not. It was still only 2 pounds.

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Gem Keeper is a fun iPhone tower defense game I have been

As per @Chowda s recommend I downloaded the Dungeon

By now everyone who loves Borderlands may have seen the

Been recently spending time playing another iPhone runner

Magical Games That Never Leave You

Earthbound: Awesome Game, List of Shame.

I try out many iPhone games because often times they are

Civilization Revolution is the best turn based strategy ive

Beat My Distance in JetPack Joyride

Like @Adym, I too remember this game. I pretty much always

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