/v/ - Video Games

Phone games are simple quick easy to get into things that you play while waiting in line, on a bus, etc. Mindless timewasters, what you're asking for is the complete polar opposite of what they excel at.

>>16159767

Actually a turned based game like that seems very appealing since you could do a turn in a couple minutes while killing time.

Phone games are largely for idiots to dick around with while they wait for their McSoy meal with a large butter (no ice). I criticize people repeatedly for bragging about having a "gaming laptop", and mercilessly for people who say that their only Internet device is A FUCKING PHONE. For fuck's sake, a desktop capable of running everything made before the collapse of computer gaming would cost less than a mid-grade tardcard (smartphone). If you want a toaster for emulation fun, you can get a complete refurbished Dell system with Windows 7 for about $120 shipped from TX Micro, and get the monitor and other bullshit from Goodwill for less than $30.

But no, they always make fucking excuses so they can languish in idiocy. My phone is only used to respond to the rare SMS I get, to check my bank balance and receive deposit notifications, and to read this site when I'm on the road.

>>16159783

I'm a security guard and I have huge swathes of time where I have nothing but my phone for entertainment. If I'm caught with a laptop I am fired on the spot, if I'm caught doing nothing for hours on my phone I may get told to stop.

With the increase in makework likely to happen as automation increases I think my situation will become less rare as time goes on.

>>16159794

>There are 4X games but they have the usual mobage hooks.

No, there are waiting games where you can pay to make a bar fill faster.

>>16159791

I would spend my mental downtime at the shitty call center at which I was a manager/IT worker thinking up shit to do when I got home. Then be too burned out to do any of it when I got home. Do you really want to be playing a game that is going to take 80% of your concentration while you're supposed to be keeping an eye on monitors and surveying property while not getting goodified in the kidneys due to staring into a phone while doing laps around the building?

If you must play video games while working, I'd say stick with emulation.

Selecting things with any degree of accuracy on a phone without a stylus is suffering.

>>16159791

You're a worthless faggot, subhuman trash. Some young girl was just murdered in a parking garage and she could have been saved if the security guards were actually watching the camera. Lazy fucking nigger.

>>16159851

There are several positions that everyone is assigned to on a per shift basis. When I'm actually watching cameras I do pay attention because there's shit to do to keep me occupied, and I'm usually not alone so I can talk.

When I'm on patrol however, who gives a fuck? I'm just there to direct police if something happens, and to report to them if someone comes to me with an issue. Oh, and to make sure doors work.

>>16159762

because phone "gamers" are mostly soccer moms, small children and braindead normalfags that get confused and don't like it when games have too much depth

No demand. People who play phone games don't want depth. People who want deep games don't use their phones to game.

I have recently jailbroken my goyphone and am tested out all the apps I would never play. So far the Kingdom Rush games have been fun, haven't found any others yet. It turns out tower defense translates well to the touch screen with no buttons playstyle.

It really does come down to the lack of buttons I think. There are some actual "serious" releases for ios. KOTOR, FFT, and Monster Hunter Stories all supposedly have pretty accurate ports for example. The former 2 are definitely complex, and the latter is a full 3DS release from within the last two years, so I guess it can supposedly be done?

I know some games like TWEWY had their gameplay radically changed to accomadate for no buttons, though.

phones are not for gaming

>>16159762

Because nobody buys phone games. They can only survive on a shitty gacha model.

>>16159851

nobody here cares about future roasties nor­mie

>>16159762

Anon, lemme explain as candidly as posssible

Phone games cater only to three target demographics, little kids with no or little spendable income (unless their pops gives some more for the gachashit), whales and the average Instagram user.

In order for someone to make a phone game, it needs to be profitable so that at least one of the aforementioned three groups are covered. Because of that, most phone games are one or more of the following:

>Flash games rehashed with modern day graphics

>gachashit card games

>daily bonus skinner boxes

>tie-in to more renown franchises

>single player experiences

>freemium (not fun enough to be deep but fun enough to keep someone entertained)

>flashy

>always online with connectivity applications

>with minimal input that everyone can understand

Now you can think of a shitton of cool ways to make a good phone game. You could make a gimped 4x game with emphasis on large maps that you can scroll over with your touchpad. You can make augmented reality games in the vein of pokèmon go. You can even make addictive and fast paced Papa's Burgeria ripoffs.

They won't fucking sell.

So why the hell do you expect anything good to come out of phoneshit that isn't portable gaming consoles emus? If there's no hobbyist or autist that develops such a game, you can't expect a soulless corporation to do so.

Why the fuck would I want to sit down for hours and play a game on my phone? Phone games exist for entertaining you during your 30 minute shit on company time.

Because anyone who wants to play real games on their phones will just emulate them.

>>16163802

>2.4 billion people own a gaming console yet haven't bought a game for it.

Puzzles and slot machine don't count? That's the only games you'll expect any buyers for.

>>16163802

>100% of the population who would spend $60 on a good game

Except nobody is going to pay $60 for a phone game.

>>16159783

>he runs Windows on his emulator machine