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Syd Lexia
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PostPosted: Aug 11 2008 09:47 am Reply with quote Back to top

Fairly underwhelming. Super Monkey Ball was the most touted release for the phone, and arguably the only game that works on the phone at all, given the system's complete lack of buttons, but even that isn't that great. To move the monkey ball, you tilt the phone. This means that you're tilting the very screen that you're trying to navigate through, which is irritating. Classic games like solitaire and breakout are slowed down considerably using the touch-based system, making them far less enjoyable.
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PostPosted: Aug 11 2008 01:44 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Time recently ran this article and seems rather bullish on the iphone's potential as a gaming platform. John Carmack agrees. Marc Ecko is making an iphone only Dexter game that I'm sort of interested in, though I'm guessing it will be more like an interactive novel (ala Phoenix Wright). It'll be interesting to see what other "exclusives" they will get going forward. The lack of any buttons is severely limiting as you mentioned, but I could still see them carving a niche within the casual gamer crowd.
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PostPosted: Aug 11 2008 03:09 pm Reply with quote Back to top

One of my friends had a fairly cool homebrew application that let you play NES games. Of course, the bottom third of the screen was taken up by a controller interface. It would be neat to see a legal version of that.
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PostPosted: Aug 11 2008 03:18 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I believe I have seen that somewhere, a very good idea indeed. Still waiting to get an iphone....do you have one syd?


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PostPosted: Aug 11 2008 04:06 pm Reply with quote Back to top

yeah
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PostPosted: Aug 11 2008 04:24 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I've seen the NES and PSX emulator. The virtual control pad seems like it would be really awkward to use, especially on playstation with all those buttons.
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PostPosted: Aug 11 2008 04:24 pm Reply with quote Back to top

How big is the screen like Gameboy size? Playing NES games on that would be sweet. If they actually made that an application for the iphone I'd probably get one.


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PostPosted: Aug 11 2008 06:28 pm Reply with quote Back to top

That NES emulator looks pretty shitty to me.
You can't use 2-hands?
It doesn't look playable to me. Confused


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PostPosted: Aug 11 2008 06:35 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Actually, you can use both hands. Unlike the DS, the touchscreen can register multiple touch inputs at once. There's a free game called Tap Tap Revenge with is basically a fake Guitar Hero, where you tap the notes as they come across the fretboard. On the harder difficulties, the notes come two and three at time.
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PostPosted: Aug 11 2008 07:39 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I was watching a co worker play Castlevania on her phone, I kept telling her she was gonna get slaughtered by the flying Medusa heads due to the wonky keypad controls. Laughing



 
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PostPosted: Aug 11 2008 07:47 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Yah, the NES emulator looks like crap. interesting idea with the control as a touch screen feature but yah, horrable controls = irritating gaming experiance.

Maybe in the future, you can trade Iphone games for one of these:

http://www.cracked.com/article_16510_20-features-next-iphone-should-totally-have.html

I choose #3 Twisted Evil


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PostPosted: Aug 11 2008 11:47 pm Reply with quote Back to top

ReeperTheSeeker wrote:
Yah, the NES emulator looks like crap. interesting idea with the control as a touch screen feature but yah, horrable controls = irritating gaming experiance.

Maybe in the future, you can trade Iphone games for one of these:

http://www.cracked.com/article_16510_20-features-next-iphone-should-totally-have.html

I choose #3 Twisted Evil


The #1 did not deserve the spot, some of those should have been higher up. Like the space laser one!


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PostPosted: Aug 12 2008 12:06 am Reply with quote Back to top

Some features the next iPhone should have:

1. The ability to use ANY uploaded mp3 as a ringtone, instead of just stuff purchased from iTunes
2. Better speakers
3. The ability to import custom sounds for text alerts, or perhaps simply the ability to use ringones for text alerts
4. The ablity to set different text alert sounds for different contacts
5. The ability to forward texts
6. The ability to send a text message to multiple users at once
7. The ability to send images via text message
8. Smiley support in SMS

Please not that 1-7 are all features that my last phone, a crappy little Motorola, all had. The iPhone is a fun gadget, but its phone features are MASSIVELY lacking. MASSIVELY.
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PostPosted: Aug 12 2008 12:37 am Reply with quote Back to top

Holy shit, I had no idea that the Iphone was struggling that hard as an actual phone, wow.


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PostPosted: Aug 12 2008 12:43 am Reply with quote Back to top

wow, i cant believe that it doesnt allow you to do options 3 5 6 + 7.thats pretty ridiculous imo


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PostPosted: Aug 12 2008 02:40 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Andrew Man wrote:
Holy shit, I had no idea that the Iphone was struggling that hard as an actual phone, wow.


If you not being sarcastic, you are quite oblivious. Wouldn't you know, that a phone with a hundred features is nice, but the phone itself sucks.


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PostPosted: Aug 12 2008 04:15 pm Reply with quote Back to top

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

I'm gonna side with Maddox on this one.



 
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Laminated Sky
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PostPosted: Aug 12 2008 05:14 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Blackout wrote:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

I'm gonna side with Maddox on this one.

Same here.


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