Google Nexus 7

[Mildly Diverting]

The new version of broken sword 1 is particularly good on both.

It's great. Has anyone finished it without recourse to a walkthrough? I desperately didn't want to, but would never have finished it otherwise.

[biggytitbo]

It's great. Has anyone finished it without recourse to a walkthrough? I desperately didn't want to, but would never have finished it otherwise.

I finished it, apart from the bit at the beginning which is new its largely the same as the original. Never did get in that safe though.

[biggytitbo]

Can anyone  recommend any similar games on either android or ios?

[Ignatius_S]

Broken Sword 2?

Are you more interested in new games or 'remastered' ones?

[biggytitbo]

Broken Sword 2?

Are you more interested in new games or 'remastered' ones?

Either I guess. I've played Broken Sword 2 many times and it's not a patch on 1 so I'm giving that one a miss.

[biggytitbo]

Ohh I forget the Last Express is out for Ipad, I'll have to get that - http://www.metacritic.com/game/ios/the-last-express

[Steven]

That Letter By Letter is infuriating, I've only had two games but from what I can make of it the only tactic is to play one letter each round and try and incorporate as many of your opponents letters into the word as possible. I lost my first game by very little but managed to win the second, with words like divergent and theremin vs a bloke called melsmith, twas it the Morons From Outerspace bloke? Or some bloke called Melbert Smith from like Clacton-On-Sea or something.

[biggytitbo]

...try and incorporate as many of your opponents letters into the word as possible...

That is essentially the game yes. It's good! There's a similar one called letterpress which is pretty nice too, but thats ios only.

[KLG-7B]

That Letter By Letter is infuriating, I've only had two games but from what I can make of it the only tactic is to play one letter each round and try and incorporate as many of your opponents letters into the word as possible.

That's more the premise than a tactic. The tactics will revolve around somehow blocking your opponent, e.g. by carefully choosing words so that it's very difficult to incorporate the letters you've won into new words (especially easy around corners). Playing words that you can just add S to is a bad idea. Playing a word with the letters xyz in them (if such a word exists) would probably require three turns from the opponent to get rid of (unless they amazingly find another word with xyz in them).

[Steven]

That's more the premise than a tactic. The tactics will revolve around somehow blocking your opponent, e.g. by carefully choosing words so that it's very difficult to incorporate the letters you've won into new words (especially easy around corners). Playing words that you can just add S to is a bad idea. Playing a word with the letters xyz in them (if such a word exists) would probably require three turns from the opponent to get rid of (unless they amazingly find another word with xyz in them).

Yes, that seems to be the obvious tactic. But each new letter you plonk down opens a new space above it, so technically you can do just as well trying to use all your own letters in these spaces. But stealing opponents spaces seem like the easiest option. I did desperately want to use the word 'Flange' though, but the opportunity just didn't arrive.

[biggytitbo]

Stealing your opponents letters is more fun aswell because it annoys them.

[KLG-7B]

Yes, that seems to be the obvious tactic. But each new letter you plonk down opens a new space above it, so technically you can do just as well trying to use all your own letters in these spaces. But stealing opponents spaces seem like the easiest option. I did desperately want to use the word 'Flange' though, but the opportunity just didn't arrive.

I find the game pretty boring until endgame, when there is limited space. There's just too much freedom early on.

[biggytitbo]

'Word On' is another good one, another scrabble variation but you get to build up a score through the game without getting it stolen from you.

[Jerzy Bondov]

Jerzy, I'm pretty hot on that game so those are dangerous words.

I play better if I set myself up for a fall - and what a fall! One fucking point.

[biggytitbo]

Yes its pretty sweet to beat the opponent by one single point, far better than winning easily.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

The very remote possibility that I may shortly get a job requiring a two hour commute has got me thinking about getting one of these to keep me occupied on the journey. I see they now make a 3G version, so which data plan is best? Also does iPlayer work on it?

[Paaaaul]

IPlayer works on it,but it isn't supported,so you'll need to find the apk files for Flash and iplayer and install it manually.

[MojoJojo]

Uhhh, pretty sure iplayer works officially now. Although the quality was a bit shit last time I checked.

[biggytitbo]

Tteres an iplayer app now, but it is indeed shit.

[Lee Van Cleef]

Got my N7 today, quick fiddle around before I have tea and go out, seems like a really nice bit of kit. 

[Old Thrashbarg]

As did I. Not had much of a play around with it yet, but I already know I like Android, particularly 4.*, and the hardware seems a bargain for the price. Good build quality, great screen and responsiveness, and exactly the right shape and size for a portable tablet to browse websites or stream media.

[biggytitbo]

As did I. Not had much of a play around with it yet, but I already know I like Android, particularly 4.*, and the hardware seems a bargain for the price. Good build quality, great screen and responsiveness, and exactly the right shape and size for a portable tablet to browse websites or stream media.

I mostly agree, but I think its actually a really bad size and shape for web browsing. It's too narrow in portrait, effectively a mobile, and too shallow and not wide enough in landscape.


Loathe as I am to say it but Apple have totally nailed the form factor with the ipad mini, it's just the perfect size and shape. If they put a retina screen on one then it'd blow the small android tablets out of the water.

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Loathe as I am to say it but Apple have totally nailed the form factor with the ipad mini, it's just the perfect size and shape. If they put a retina screen on one then it'd blow the small android tablets out of the water.

Might not last.  My unfounded guess is that they ultimately intend to make their devices become "widescreen" like the iPhone 5.