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You've just answered your own question. Games made specifically with the control interface (touch screen) in mind are indeed fantastic. Which confuses me as to why you felt the need to question the validity of an iDevice as a games machine. If you've been downloading games that require tactile controls, then I'm very sorry to say it, but you're doing it wrong.nakamura wrote:Really? I don't see how. I do appreciate the prices and downloadable delivery but for the majority of games they are just useless devices. They are almost unworkable without buttons. Games built around them are certainly fantastic of course.
You really love throwing around sweeping statements don't you?The Laird wrote:Until they add proper controls to a phone it can never replicate a dedicated handheld console. No matter what some people say touch screen controls are no substitute for a proper joypad and buttons.
I didn't question it as a viable device, merely that it isn't a very good one. When the majority of video game styles cannot be adopted to a format in a quality fashion, the device is just as limited as the aforementioned GBA.pforson wrote:You've just answered your own question. Games made specifically with the control interface (touch screen) in mind are indeed fantastic. Which confuses me as to why you felt the need to question the validity of an iDevice as a games machine. If you've been downloading games that require tactile controls, then I'm very sorry to say it, but you're doing it wrong.nakamura wrote:Really? I don't see how. I do appreciate the prices and downloadable delivery but for the majority of games they are just useless devices. They are almost unworkable without buttons. Games built around them are certainly fantastic of course.
Antiriad2097 wrote:I have a general rule of thumb that if Nakamura likes something, it's not for me
I own an ipad and there's no way a touch screen esp one that uses finger touch can get anywhere near laser or even optical mouse accuracy, especially games like Lemmings and certain point and click adventures where u need to be pixel perfect, I would say maybe work well enough but certainly not brilliantly.pforson wrote:You really love throwing around sweeping statements don't you?The Laird wrote:Until they add proper controls to a phone it can never replicate a dedicated handheld console. No matter what some people say touch screen controls are no substitute for a proper joypad and buttons.
Is it really too difficult to understand that certain genres of games actually benefit from being played on a touch screen?
In fact, most anything that would traditionally have been played with a mouse works brilliantly on a touch screen. Turn based strategy, management games like football manager, point and click adventures and RPG's - all work better on a touch screen compared to a joypad. They may not be your cup of Tea, but it doesn't mean that other people don't enjoy them.
I've played Dodonpachi Resurrection on an iPhone and it was damned impressive and easy to control. It's hard to see where you're coming from when you're saying the platform is as limited as a GBA. If you're talking about a majority of video game styles that can't be decently done on the platform maybe you should list them. I've played all sorts of platformers and shooters and a fair few turn based rpgs and strategy games using touchscreen controls and they've all been playable, some very playable indeed and some that could have been better (which isn't a problem exclusive to touchscreen games really).nakamura wrote:I didn't question it as a viable device, merely that it isn't a very good one. When the majority of video game styles cannot be adopted to a format in a quality fashion, the device is just as limited as the aforementioned GBA.
Antiriad2097 wrote:I have a general rule of thumb that if Nakamura likes something, it's not for me
Ah, just prejudice then, with nothing to back it up. Nice one.nakamura wrote:I don't need to list them because most people that aren't looking to disagree for the sake of it know what I am talking about.
C=Style wrote:It's always refreshing and nice to see someone such as TwoHeadedBoy who is a SNES hating bastard at the best of times rate a SNES game so highly.
Nope, I totally agree mate.TwoHeadedBoy wrote:Never been able to get on with shooters on a touchscreen, mostly because if I move my ship/plane/whatever up the screen, then my hand's covering everything else up and I can't see where I'm going if I want to move back down the screen. Or am I "doing it wrong"?
A friend of mine showed me Sonic on her iPod as well, and that was another one I just couldn't get used to. Something to do with covering up parts of the screen just doesn't seem right - surely I can't be the only one who thinks that?
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