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I do not understand why iPhone gaming is a plausible platform and alleged contender to other traditional mobile consoles. I have huge beef with the iOS game design, mainly, with the utmost blind faith in the limit of touch screen interfacing.
Too many games cannot and will not ever work better or as well as physical buttons on iOS devices. I currently am playing Final Fantasy III and Secret of Mana on the iPhone 3G and simple movement is difficult enough to warrant it a complete curb stomp of a game. I dont understand why Apple refuses to put a simple D PAD and a couple buttons, on a device that has ample room for it. Perhaps to preserve its elegance? Gaming on a touch screen is limited to turn based strategy games like chess, or RISK. Games no more enjoyable than a java browser game on a computer. You wont find games like first person shooters, platformers, shoot em ups, beat em ups, or any other live action game playable let alone enjoyable without buttons.
Effectively, the platform's navigability and effectiveness is as dampered, console as to iOS, as PCs are to consoles. The lack of physical buttons makes games as simple as tetris a challenge. I have not found a single game for the iPhone that is enjoyable because of either the constant need to zoom in and out with the unnatural pinch maneuver or the lack of buttons making anything more complicated than tapping something or navigating a main menu a pain and a frustration. Bejeweled might work, you know, just games where you tap. Point and click adveture games might work. Monopoly maybe. These are games that are at their core just run of the mile flash games youd play on your laptop, or on facebook. This is no contender for the gameboy or psp, unless the iphone gets a couple of buttons and a dpad, no more complicated than a NES controller.
I hate that no one seems to realize this and developers keep turning any and every game and genre of game into an iOS app. Its retarded. Only certain game genres actually work. Apple spends all of this time increasing the graphic capabilities of the iPad 2 and epic has a heartattack with unreal engine for iOS. What a joke.
Iphone is great for web browsing and checking your email, but gaming on it is a joke.
Edit: Aug 03, 11 10:44pm
