Where to start...? At the beginning, I guess. I was a huge mobile phone gaming fan since I could play snake on that two-color nokia screen. Then I bought a phone, which had colors and more than 3 games! Then I got an old Sony Ericsson which already supported 3D j2me games, and I played and beat preety much all of 3D games that existed back then (and a ton of 2D games too, of course). I had a blast playing these, especially the games from Fishlabs. Then, the PSP got released (I was never a huge fan of portable console games, except mobile phone games, but PSP seemed like a real breaktrough). I was at the brink of buying the PSP, when I stumbled upon the Ravensword trailer on youtube, to be more precise, this video: I am planning to buy a new iOS device in a year or two and I bet, that I will be able to play and beat all the noteworthy games that I missed out on in just a month or two. Please, tell me I'm wrong...
It is true that freemiums and early adopter blues is really hurting the market, but there's still some great games out there if you hunt and pick.
Goodluck out there. I did this a few months and found myself coming back to mobile gaming from console/pc. Hope you enjoy the greener grass
I did "hunt and pick" for the last 4 years... As said, there are only a handful of games, which would fit my criteria...
I was actually deciding between the classic and the QD, the classic is better because you can over-clock it to 130 MHz, but then some games don't run... It also has MP3 player and radio etc. but I don't need that. I went with the QD because its more compact, has a better d-pad and a brighter screen. And you don't have to take the phone apart when inserting another MMC in.
I've never seen or played on QD.I fell in love with N-gage after reading a long review in some magazine, still remember bits of text even today.They had a few screens from Pandemonium , Tomb Raider and some Japan exclusive online game that looked like first Dragon Quest ( very impressive at that time !).Didn't own many games as they were expensive for me back then. Picture from a game promotion cover I got with N-gage ( irony is that N-gage Rayman 3 was a full Rayman game, not a sacked , endless runner Rayman game we get served today ):
I'm just wondering what the IAPs are like, how good the coin drops are, whether or not he's seeing a lot of timers, how bad the pay-walls are, how many consumable IAPs he's seeing, if any of the games he's bought are essentially Betas that he's paying to test, whether or not any of the games he's bought have ended up cracked to insert IAPs and pay-walls after he paid for the game... you know, standard iOS gaming stuff. DBC
idk, I think you're selling IOS gaming short. Ok, maybe there's nothing on the level of Morrowind but there are many games that I've played, that I've felt would feel right at home on PSN, XBLA, Steam Games like Penumbear, Incoboto, Meltdown, Asphalt 8, anything by Foursaken, and others While freemium aspects are definitely a part of IOS gaming that I've not proud of, I feel that for every dev that tries to nickle-and-dime us with timers and paywalls, we have developers who respect us and release quality premium games
I just think that iOS gaming in general has a future full of F2P hipster games, with only very, very few exceptions each year. I played all the games on the iOS that I wanted to play, so I'm really bored. I don't know how, but the N-gage popped into my head, and I remembered all the great games I used to play and I need to satisfy my nostalgia Also, Elder scrolls: Shadowkey was the best mobile game before Ravensword and I'm ashamed that I haven't played it. There are hundreds of games that can run on the N-gage, so it'll keep me busy for quite while.
Well I'll be honest I think its crazy! You don't see many other people ditching iOS/android to go this old skool when it comes to hardware. I don't like freemium or runners, angry bird clones which come out weekly There's such a wide range of games I don't know why you're doing this. Plenty of retro titles and games. if you don't want current modern games which you don't seem ok with just stick to some of the retro classics.
Say what u want about mobile gaming nowadays but there's plenty of great games, and comparing to an old system like Ngage is silly.
I know it seems crazy, but there were tons of great mobile games before iPhones even existed. Since when are you a mobile gamer, psj? I went with the n-gage because there are tons of great games that it can run; symbian, java and of course the N-gage exclusives. FYI, I'm really looking forward to get some emulators for the N-gage (NES, SNES, gameboy etc.) There's a wide range of games on iOS indeed, however there is only a limited number of western non-turn based RPGs, and unfortunately that's my favorite kind of a game...
U can get all those emulators on ios. I played FInal fantasy 6 and 7 on my ipad in the last few months.
Well I gave 50$ for the N-gage, that equals one month of purchasing games (IAPs) on iOS. So even if it turn out to be a mistake, it won't cost me more than it would if I wouldn't try it, right? I think the N-gage can keep me busy for way more than just one month though. Also, I always wanted an N-gage, but it costed like 300$ back then and I was 10 years old... If nothing else, atleast I'll satisfy that now.
I have a jailbreak, so naturally I tried many emulators. The experience is pretty awful imho and I think it's the controls' fault (i.e. no physical buttons).