There is a long history of video games cash grabbing any IP they get their hands on. Pokemon and the sort are few and far between. Do we need to talk about ET?

My biggest gripe right now is game designers have an incredible platform with mobile devices, that I would havre murdered for when I was kid, and the best they can do is slot machines. There are some great titles for mobile but it's way overshadowed by the dopamine harvesters. I'll be dead before they get this shit sorted.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

It's virtually impossible to make money selling mobile games because your average player expects the game itself to be free, and then expect some kind of premium currency.

If you try to charge an actual reasonable price for a game like $15 no one would buy it. But they'll happily spend $170 on premium currency over the course of a year.

Against those kinds of economic metrics originality and high quality gameplay stands no chance of survival.

[–] yamanii 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't buy it either because mobile devs have a terrible track record of not bothering to update their games to the newest version of the OS, the older the game, the less likely it is they will update it, I lost considerable money many years ago when CAVE shooters weren't updated to the current (at the time) android version.

Even big ones like square enix had to be almost harassed to update The World Ends With You Solo Remix for newer versions and I think in 2021 capcom just gave up in updating monster hunter freedom unite.

[–] Radicaldog 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Windows' relentless backwards compatibility is underrated, but it's so damn nice I can still play games from 2005 effortlessly. Android has been a shitshow in comparison, as even when mobile gaming wasn't so shit (Doodle Jump, Angry Birds etc), the whole era has been almost wiped from existence.

[–] yamanii 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, even if an old game doesn't work out of the box, there are several tools that you can use to try to make it work like dosbox, dgvoodoo, fan patches; on mobile there's nothing you can do, only downloading an older android version on your PC through bluestacks or something, not very mobile now is it?

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