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Another sale from Gameloft and some good titles too! Dungeon Hunter is a great game and a steal at $0.99. I’m grabbing Modern Combat, that looks pretty cool!

Modern Combat http://j.mp/cCtYBK
Dungeon Hunter http://j.mp/9bys2b
Skater Nation http://j.mp/cMjnrN

Let’s hope Let’s Golf 2 will appear in the App Store shortly.

After having the iPod Touch for some months now I’ve installed hundreds of apps so far. Some of them have been great, some of them have been pure crap. On the whole I’ve had way more successes than failures when it comes to purchases.

Quite frankly most of the apps I get are either $0.99 or Free. A few have been $1.99 and only a slight few have been in the $4.99 range. And there has only been one which was more than that, and at $9.99 (WritePad Pro) it’s the worst app I’ve bought.

What’s funny is that many of the apps I grabbed at $0.99 are now double or triple that price. Sometimes jumping in early is a good thing. Plus at $0.99 I really can’t complain if the app doesn’t have everything I need. Offering up that small token encourages development.

So far, here are the best games and apps I have. I use or play these on a regular basis.

- Lose It!
- Gas Tycoon/2
- Audiobooks Premium
- Texas HoldEm
- Bookworm
- Wordsworth
- Dungeon Scroll
- Let’s Golf
- ZombieVille
- Inkvaders
- Mahjongg Artifacts 2
- Ebay/Paypal
- Amazon
- Wordpress
- Dungeon Hunter
- Real Racing
- Swords & Poker
- Need for Speed – Undercover and Shift
- Classics2Go
- Card Shark Collection
- Worded
- Notes N More

Bu they’re not all gems. Here’s two apps I bought which I can’t stand to use. Shopper was only $0.99 but it used to be an excellent app. Now it’s bloated and greedy.

WritePad Pro was $9.99 and I can’t stand to use it.

- WritePad Pro – This app would be perfect if they would fix the editor. They added and extra bar which consumes nearly the entire screen in landscape mode. You only get one line of text and then the autocorrect covers up everything else.
- Shopper – Used to be such a great and easy to use app for making a quick list of items. Now it’s overly complicated and riddled with completely unnecessary extras. You pay for the app then have to pay again to turn off these great features.

So what great games or apps am I missing? Which titles do you keep coming back to over and over again?

I grabbed The Oregon Trail by Gameloft last week when it dropped to $0.99 during one of their sales. I’ve wanted this game for months, out of nostalgia more than anything else, but the $4.99 price tag seemed a little high to me for a game I more than likely would play once then let sit idle. At $0.99 I couldn’t resist.

Overall I’m very pleased with the game. The graphics are good and the gameplay is easy and fun. The minigames, give you something amusing to do to earn extra money and food along the journey, just don’t expect them to be very complicated. There are also the aspects of getting lost, disease, getting robbed, being attacked, breaking down and staying ahead of schedule, but there isn’t much decision making to be done. You pick a path from time to time, you can look for help when the kids get sick (better have money on hand though), you can pick the speed at which you move and you can stop to pan for gold, pick berries and hunt for food. It’s not a sim so don’t expect a lot of resource management.

All in all it’s quite enjoyable. And it’s something you can pick up and play for a few minutes or sit down and rack up some miles. It’s a great game at the $0.99 price point, but I don’t think I would have been happy had I paid $4.99. I paid that much for Dungeon Hunter which has much more gameplay and replay value. Even at the current $2.99 I can see some disappointment. It will bring back some memories of the old version, but don’t expect this to be a nail biting adventure. It’s fun for what it is, you just need to get it at a good price.