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Dexter – App Review & New Episode!!!

hirtme — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:52:32 +0000

Dexter The Game, Marc Ecko Entertainment $5.99, is out just in time for the start of the fourth season of Showtime’s hit show Dexter. Season 4 starts Sunday night September 27th, but you can download the first episode here right now for free! The game follows the storyline of the first season (the ice truck killer) with the object being similar to that of the show. Serve justice by only killing the guilty (thereby satisfying your need to kill - aka your dark passenger), don’t let anyone know your identity and above all don’t get caught. The Game features over 1100 lines of dialog and the storyline was written by series producer Tim Schlattmann.As a big fan of the show I felt the 3D environments looked great and I’ve included a number of screen shots below. The game play is pretty intuitive. In the photo above, the button on the bottom left moves Dexter forward while the one the right moves him back. You swipe your finger to move him left or right. Up at the top you’ll notice GPS and Journal buttons which you will use often. The GPS moves Dexter from one location to another while the Journal tells you what task you should be trying to complete. Objects you can interact with glow when you approach them and a new button pops up on the right when you are in front of them. The first task involves killing Mike Donovan and the game begins with Dexter digging up the graves of where Mike Donovan buried his victims. Once you have the proof that he is guilty you stalk and then kill him. Sneaking up behind him took me about a dozen tries, but I’m not the best at 3D gaming. After getting behind him the game reloads and takes you to the kill room where Mr. Donovan is already wrapped under the plastic as seen here on the right. See the three dead bodies on the floor? These were the people Donovan killed that you just dug up as evidence. You get to pick a weapon of choice and talk for a moment to try and get a confession out of him. The actual killing isn’t gory at all as you just swipe your finger across the screen in the patterns displayed. The bulk of Dexter’s gameplay involves stalking suspected criminals and investigating crime scenes. Once you confirm that yes, the criminal in question does indeed deserve killing, you kill them. There are multiple storylines running at the same time as you go from location to location. The journal, seen here on the left, tells you what you do next and provides little hints as well. When you tap one of the missions it tells you something like talk to Deb, find evidence on Jaworski at his home or go check out blood reports at the station. There are many locations from Dexter’s apartment: Rita’s house, the police stations, various crime scenes and places where you gather evidence and stalk your victims. Again, I’m not a big gamer, but I’ve found most tasks fairly easy to complete at this point. So far, nothing has taken longer than an hour. One scene has you use a trashcan to jump a fence, pick a lock to get a crowbar and then use the crowbar to open the trunk of a car to gather proof of your upcoming victim’s guilt. Another scene has you sneak up to check out a car while the owner talks on the front porch. Seen here on the right, I think this one took me about a dozen tries. Some scenes are timed and you must complete the task before the clock strikes zero or start again. The dialogue in the game is nice as you have brief conversations with a multitude of characters. After each line, you have three options to respond to carry on the conversation. It’s a little hard to know what exactly the responses will say, but I really don’t think it’s a big deal. As you can see here on the left, each of my three potential responses to Deb is only a few words so its a little hard to know exactly what Dexter will say. What’s nice is hearing Doakes or Deb say something that makes you laugh. They are by far the two best characters on the show. As I mentioned earlier, the storyline follows that of the first season. There is even the scene where Dexter follows the ice truck and is blinded by high beams while the ice truck killer throws a decapitated head off his car. This is a very indepth game and I’m sure I’ve left out numerous details and tips. Luckily the help menu is quite extensive. I’ve included some additional screen shots at the end of the article.

On the downside, there are two problems with the game. First, the load time is quite long. Not just when you start up, but even when you move between locations. This isn’t too surprising as the game has so many scenes. Given the size and quality of the game this really doesn’t bother me. The bigger problem is the that the game has dropped me on many occasions. More so than any other app I’ve ever used. I don’t know if it’s because something went wrong with the install or because the game is just too intense in size and scene changes. Luckily, there is an auto save so when the game does drop and force you to restart the app, you don’t lose where you were. I’d say it drops once every 45 minutes.

Despite this issue, if you are a fan Dexter then you probably will like Dexter The Game. Also, by playing the game you have a chance to win a walk on role to Season 5. I haven’t read the rules since you’d have to purchase it through iTunes, but I’m sure its not too difficult.

Lastly, Season 4 starts this Sunday Night – Sept. 27th. But guess what? The first episode is already up on the Dexter TV show page. Lundy is back and Angel has a new woman! Tell me what you think in the Forum.

New Poll

hirtme — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:35:53 +0000

OK, from the last poll I learned that Family Guy was way more popular than I realized. Final results for favorite TV shows on iPhone4idiots.com – True Blood (46 votes), Family Guy (37 votes), Dexter (28 votes), Weeds (22 votes) and South Park (16 votes). So now that I have a little better understanding of what you are watching I’m curious to know where you are watching your downloads? For me, I watch over 90% on TV with the rest on my iPhone. I’m sure many of you watch exclusively on your mp4 player. I doubt many watch on there computer, but I’ve been surprised before. Also, if you watch somewhere that I didn’t list, please comment and I’ll add it to the poll.

Movie Monday & Contest Winners

hirtme — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:59:48 +0000

Added cam quality of very recent District 9 and Inglorius Bastards. Also, Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married for asoto, The Hangover for velez and Man on Wire for pankay. Finished Season 1 of the The Secret Life of American Teenager as well. As always, True Blood, Entourage and Hung will be up by tomorrow. Season finale for all these HBO shows in two weeks, but don’t worry Dexter and Curb start up in September! Please put all requests, comments or suggestions in the Forum and add to your profile.

The free iPhone skin plus $10 cash giveaway is over. See if you won here. Thanks again to all who entered.

New TV shows & Movies – all mp4

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:10:09 +0000

New mp4 movies for your iPod, iPhone or iTouch were only 4 this week as a lot was added to TV Section and we did some jailbreakin videos too. I will categorize the TV show section soon – I promise. Just My Luck for queen101, Medea Goes to Jail (Tyler Perry) for metalgearx (Thelma you like this one?), Next Day Air for 62GAY3BK (what kind of a username is that?) and White Chicks for tt1903. Let me know if you like them. New TV Shows were Deadliest Warrior for owenbas (like the show names on this one), 10 Things I Hate About You for queen101 (give Dexter or Weeds a try?), Warehouse 13 for AbhiSingh and lots of Scooby Doo Where Are You for cw75158. Thanks for making the point about lack of kid friendly TV. I swear I’ve seen all 25 episodes and most many, many times. A Tiki Scare is No Fair is classic! I will get to building out the Kids section more at some point. Please comment on any of our videos from the previous week. Contest coming within a week

Don’t forget we also have all the good HBO and Showtime up in good quality for those wanting to see keep up with True Blood, Weeds, Entourage and Hung (final episode is this Sunday I believe). Almost all files are mp4 for your convenience.

TV show Tuesday – Free mp4 files

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:52:47 +0000

Hey all, I added some episodes of Season 2 Gossip Girl for hanson, the first six episodes of Sons of Anarchy for cody15951, Entourage Seasons 1,5 and both episodes from Season 6 (including Sundays) for casale2a. I also have last Sunday’s episode of Weeds up and True Blood will be up within hours if not already!

About three more weeks before I hopefully add content more often. So making sure the links are idiot proof I only add mp4. No zip, rar, avi etc. that you would have to download and convert to put on your iPhone or iTouch. mp4 you just download, drag and drop, sync and watch!! These links are harder to find so help keep this site running by dropping a little donation. Click on the beer or just paypal to hirtme@comcast.net. If each member would give a dollar I can run a cool contest to give something much better away. One day soon I hope.

If you can’t donate, at least post quality ratings on the mp4 files you get here and comment on this post about our poll results so far. I’m shocked Family Guy is in the lead. I would have voted, Weeds – Dexter – True Blood – South Park – Family Guy. Let me know how you voted and why? Want more Family Guy? Let me know which season.

New Movie Monday & TV Show Tuesday

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:22:11 +0000

So I just added to this post for TV Tuesday since I also added Year One because I got over 3 request for it this week. My guess is the quality is terrible. Someone please post in the Ratings – TV & Movie thread after you see it. I’m sure there will be better quality link available in a month or two, but I guess some people want to see it soon even if the quality is poor.

Now for TV Tuesday I’ve added Law & Order SVU for misslindanguyen, the last episode of Dexter and part of Season 2 for PlaidBuford, Samurai Champloo for havoc08 and Twilight Zone for blazinpimp. I will slowly finish out the seasons I have posted for these shows. cody15951, hanson and Chris check back next week as your requests are next on the TV list. Lastly, you would have know the TV shows were up hours ago if you follow me on Twitter.

Hope all you idiots had a great weekend. What do you think of the new logo?? I put it up just for fun. A site redesign is underway and will hopefully go live in less than 3 weeks. Remember, if you like the site take ownership of it. Tell me where you want it to go. What should be added? You can support the site through donation, signing up to swagbucks through us here (I promise I’ll do a contest and give away the next item I get), and posting in the Forum. What would be really helpful is letting me know the quality of the mp4 files. Tell me what you are watching and how it looks. This is important especially for newer movies that are most likely camera quality (my guess is Transformers 2 falls under here, but I haven’t seen it so let me know).

Now for New Movie Monday – as always we try and insure your request are met.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – for wayneh
Transformers 2 – for queen101 and metalgearx
Devil’s Reject – for deejaymike91
Ice Age 3 Dawn of Dinosaurs- – for wildthing9872
Taking of Pelham 123 – for teeman44
Blackhawk Down – for scape
Blow – for lovehate

TV Show Tuesday – Blood!!!!!

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:22:34 +0000

Hey, I wasn’t able to add any full seasons this week, but I went with a theme I think you’re gonna like . . . BLOOD!! I have added the first 3 episodes from the first season of True Blood (hey they just started season 2) and the first three from the third season of Dexter. Both these shows I highly recommend – espeically Dexter. However, if you want to wait, I should be getting the first seaon of Dexter and you can start from there which will make more sense. Anyway, leave some comments here on whether you want me to focus on finishing True Blood, Season 3 of Dexter, Season 1 of Dexter or something else entirely.

I had the full 6th Season of South Park as requested and them my computer crashed and I lost almost all of it – I put up a few of the episodes from that season and I hope to fill in the rest soon. Lastly, check back in a day or two and I will have added a couple espisodes of Lincoln Heights.

Again, I plan on finishing all theses seasons, but it will take more than a week so let me know where you want me to start. Don’t forget to support this website in any way you can – donation, sign up thru swagbucks, telling your friends. I’ll be tweeting at you idiots soon.