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130 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 22 Jun \ on: What do you think about mobile gaming? gaming
I haven't fallen in love with a smartphone game in the same way I have with games on dedicated gaming devices. The only game I've seriously played on a smartphone was a free Glypha port to iOS that is no longer available last I checked.
In part, I think smartphones are noisy - it's hard to lose yourself in a game when notifications keep popping up. Also the interconnectedness of online multiplayer games and payment expansions, etc, dilute my favorite part of games - an expanding, branching, artistic, experience that takes me away from everything.
This reminds me of why I never got into computer games. I think without knowing it, I preferred a dedicated console so as not to mix computer usage purposes and gaming. I liked computers for chatting with friends, web browsing, etc, and gaming on consoles. I know PC gaming is “superior”, but I had fun on consoles anyway.
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i was never a pc gamer, per se, but played the usual rts games and shooters, doom and duke nukem etc
i always liked console gaming though, because you could do it in front of the tv and with friends irl.
my friend is now a pc gamer and he; 's just on his own in his basement playing lol, bit antisocial!
still, these days with things like steam deck and hybred consoles, i think it's easy to have the best of everything. that being said, i still dont have a steam deck either
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I totally agree. The ergonomics and battery life don't help, and worse still, the most common games have evolved within the same boring freemium formulas.
I see that the only one that was competent in making games viable on mobile devices was Nintendo with the Switch. Before that, Nintendo itself had games on emulators on smartphones, the latter without its help and connivance.
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They've really got the gatcha forumla down to a science. worst are the endless ads for the same types of games as well
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