iPhone gaming, or any smartphone gaming, is boring.
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I have been an owner of iPod Touch since first generation up to the fourth of today, and it is exciting to try for the first time the touch screen gaming on a mobile. It feels like an innovative breakthrough to pinch, zoom and throw some angry birds. But after 5 years of iPhone gaming, its prevalence widespread, it became tiresome and uninteresting.
What’s the best games it offers? Infinity blade is a series of repetition. EA and gameloft games are sluggish. It’s a laughable move to bring games to the iPhone and earn extra bucks in their famous titles. It’s a disappointment. Even angry birds, where’s my water, or tiny wings, and most of physics and puzzle games that are mostly known and bought, are games of similar denominator – games of trial and error. It is mostly up to chance to get 3-stars in each angry birds stages. iPhone games are simplistic, repetitive, and not worthy of gaming time for avid players.
Nintendo is right in saying that iOS gaming is destroying the gaming industry openly because it lowers the expectations on gaming. It pushes developers to submit to the simplistic demands of iPhone gaming, but these games aren’t really worthwhile. Portable gaming is PSP and NDS. They are the ones with titles worthy of the playing for the sake of playing; unlike iPhone games that you play for the sake of burning time in queue.
I chose immense gameplay and richly made storylines of console gaming. They have the real games, worth of my money and time spent. Call me old fashioned but I always loved buttons on my gaming device.
Gamers, do you agree with what I’m saying?
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I have to agree with this. I enjoy the occasional game of Angry Birds as much as the next guy but they simply don’t compare to the great cinematic experiences that the PS3, 360, Wii and indeed the 3DS have to offer. Give me Uncharted, Skyward Sword and Resident Evil over Cut the Rope any day! 🙂
Indeed, they don’t compare. However, it’s sad that the public majority demands more of iPhone gaming than console gaming, so we better support our type of cinematic games!
I suppose its a convenience thing really. I know a lot of people who simply don’t have time to sit down and put an hour or so into a console game after work but do get chance to play 10minutes of cut the rope here and there when on the train, etc.
You’re right though, its depressing to see all these great developers having to close down due to poor sales, while a 79p game that probably took an afternoon to put together is selling millions of copies.
As someone who started gaming in the 90s, I was never interested in playing games on iOS devices to begin with. It just gets too tiring to play for long periods of time without the haptic feedback of buttons, so I don’t even bother.
I think kids born closer to the end of the millennium might have different expectations for touch device games.
Aside from it being tiring, I never played iPhone games for long period of time. I got bored easily; and just like what I’ve said, it’s not worthy of my playing time. I’d rather pick up my DualShock controller and play long hours with PS3.
Oh, but wait. Honey Badger just came out. Guess what? He don’t care. The whole game is based off of that one sentence. So, yeah, I agree.
Yeah, silly game. People spent time with that? I’m glad you agreed.
I have never been a fan of phone games… My girlfriend plays a ton of MMO’s on there..and they look fun however I can’t see myself really finding the time to play any of em.. Hell I own a DS from like the first gen and I still don’t see myself sitting around with it much.. I have a psp too..and I think the last game I played and finished on it was…twisted metal.. I mostly use it now for meh mp3’s which really its great for..
I don’t know if the development is all that great on those games…but I know that it has potential to pull people into it. I just think it hasn’t quite hit those notes yet…that it should be..
Perhaps you are not an avid fan of gaming? I own a DS and a PSP, and both has splendid collection of worthwhile games.
I just think that iPhone gaming is changing the gaming industry, and I don’t like it for the said reasons above.
I am not a game player and the only people playing games on my phone are little people and they seem completely satisfied! It is amazing how they can maneuver around! My 2-year-old grandson’s favorite is “Gamey Birds”!
However, children should not substitute playing with peers, with iPhone gaming. They may look satisfied with iPhone apps but it was solitary and less beneficial compared to real play with other children.
thank you double M.
i love to punch buttons and always will be until perhaps we can play within the console or platform with our neurons integrated in game play – and experience play within the virtual realm. such is the course of the arcade console player of the 80’s.
i enjoy the feel that i am involved when playing. not turning the console around as if i am juggling especially a handheld device. but without sounding cynical – i am still to experience the Wii console; perhaps i will have a different perspective afterwards.
At the moment i am playing several games on the Nokia E63 bought mostly from Gameloft (i.e. Wolverine) as well as a few others on PSP (i.e God of War, Chains of Olympus).
…by the way i find it deeply boring to complete a game in one seating.
Games without buttons is boring! And finishing a game in one sitting is almost nothing. I prefer indulging games that keeps you coming back. Thanks for contributing!
I have seen how the people I know all play iOS games and I will not submit! The quality is bad and it is not worth my time. Thanks for liking my posts! I bet you have a lot of interesting contents coming soon!
Hey, thanks Elvish! It really is not worthy of our time; these games are mediocre. It doesn’t give you the rich gaming experience that games used to deliver.
Glad someone brought up this issue.. For me a phone is still a device to call people or send them private messages. I never use them for gaming or surfing in the web. Will also never buy a touchscreen phone. It’s waste of time and money. I use two phones all the time and the second also goes as a mp3-player. Those two are all I need. If I want a gaming experience I use computer or play on friend’s Xbox. I want to be part of the game – and that doesn’t work with a tiny screen..
Thank you, you get my point! Cellphone is for call and text, not a gaming device.
I don’t really know about gaming on the iPhone as I will never buy an Apple product, but Console gaming is definately where it’s at. I can’t see how you can sit down and play something like Fruit Ninja or Angry Birds for any extended period of time. I have play Zombies on a friends iPhone and found it little more than an interesting way to kill time for a couple of minutes. Nothing like Black Ops Zombies with a Wiimote or zapper! Now that’s fun!
Yeah, it’s not really gaming for me. I tried to play games on a phone but I never saw myself spending hours in it. Let me play my PS3 and 5 hours is not enough
Agree 100%
My son has a PSP and it is way more interesting than anything on iOS. I take my XBOX over my iPad any day. The iOS devices are convenient, but they have failed to deliver. Leave gaming to gaming consoles/devices, leave it to the experts.
And all the in app purchases are just so unethical and annoying.
This is a good article why mobile games are not profitable.