I know doodle games were innovative and fresh a looooong while ago. but do we still want any more?, i mean, it's an old idea, and it's ugly 90% of the time. I'm at the point where i don't even want to give them a chance past the name... if it has doodle on it, i'm not even clicking do we still look forward to doodle games?
No, The countless copies and imitations of the genre has ruined it for me, And many of the developers.
that's what i mean... i think people can still use the same graphic style but it's currently ruined by all the cheap imitations that are crowding and hiding all the great games of the category out there. some of them use this concept as a cheap excuse to avoid using a proper graphic artist for the game. I don't mind if the game is great, but it feels like 90% of the doodle games are nothing but poorly made copies of greater games, very few next to none offer anything interesting to the genre.
I agree with this. Nevertheless, I pretty much ignore all doodle games at this point. It's not that there's anything wrong with the style itself. The problem is that the endless torrent of Doodle XXX titles includes a lot of a) uninspired knock-off games from developers too lazy to come up with new ideas for games and/or presentation, and b) games by developers whose art and design skills leave much to be desired, and who use the "doodle" style to camouflage their deficiencies in this area. The bottom line is that if a game is a "doodle" game, the likelihood that it's crap is significantly higher than average.
Call me a graphics whore, but I do care. When I play a game, my enjoyment is dependent on the overall package (gameplay, graphics, plot, audio, etc). If one is lacking, then another better be making up for it. All of the doodle games I've played are generally simple, low-budget (I don't mean this to have the same negative connotation that it's usually given) games for which I could usually find a similar clone with better graphics (and often better gameplay as well). I happen to dislike graphics that are stylistically bad. Just because it's intentional doesn't really make it any better in my eyes. So if I'm going to play a doodle game, it better be damn amazing in some other aspect, but I've yet to see one that I couldn't find a preferable alternative elsewhere.
That's exactly my argument, developers should stop making doodle games unless there's a reason for it, apple should be the ones filtering this stuff... it's hindering the chances for a creative developer to launch a successful game on a sea of garbage.
At first, I friggin' loved the doodle games and bought most of them. Then as it started catching on, moron developers began to latch on to a once great idea and now we have apps that are complete junk. So no, no more doodle games. They ruined it for us all.
As a reviewer, I must argue that games are not just toys, we should evaluate from the perspective of artistic merit which is also the essence of a game.
To be frank, I'm kinda bored with it, though it's cool and awesome at first. Maybe just coz it's soooooooo.........popular that makes me think it's not unique.
As long there is some great gameplay and controls and something that makes it unique. The style is getting a little old though.
There is no way 10% of doodle games or even 10% of all App Store games are decent. The OP didn't mean the number to be literal.
Doodle Army 1+2 and Doodle Jump. Doodle Bomb was pretty good too. I do not get excited about any other doodle games.
