I'm not even talking about popularity. They're normal, desktop/laptop games. Mobile games are something totally different, no matter how much money they shove into it because of the medium it's on. I'm also not mentioning if the game in question is actually good or not.
I've seen those, I have an ipod touch but jesus, who pays $20 for a 3d remake they ported over from the DS for a game that's been out 20 years?
Maybe the pro-tablet people (pro-anything really) could actually articulate their reasons for being excited for ports of games instead of just attention-posting. Posts saying that "<Game X> is a perfect fit for <platform Y>" without any justification or thought are just as worthless as the hate-posts.
This topic should be evidence that there is a dearth of games of similar style and depth on iOS, given the excitement. On the plus side maybe once this comes out people will stop recommending mediocrity like Undercroft.
They're released often? You have actual sales numbers? They're anything other than lowered standards? Is this where people say "well it's better than FFXIII" as if that's something to be proud of?
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Oh I'm not ragging on the premise of BG or a TD game or whatever on touch screens, that just works awesome.
That's a bit much. Over half of a full msrp for a game that's been out forever simply because it's on the ipad and has some enhanced features and touch screen capabilities.
Exactly.
Diablo is entirely mouse driven. World of Warcraft is entirely mouse driven (except for chat). Sid Meier's Gettysburg is entirely mouse driven. One of those three could probably be made for iPad without having control issues, while the other two would be a mess (the answer is Gettysburg, which shies away from precision actions in favor of long-term planning). Maybe you could explain how going from a device with a minimum of two buttons and a way of constantly indicating position is the same as using fingers whose intentions have to be interpreted each time.
He can play WoW entirely with his mouse actually yeah. He's going to have substandard performance, but you can.
$20 is probably my upper end. I'd be happier with $10-15.
Aside from chat what can't I do in WoW without a keyboard? I haven't played since BC so maybe there's some new thing but everything else could be done with a 3-button (R/L/Wheel) mouse.
Diablo is a fast paced action game that plays completely differently from this.
Now you're making things up.
So? It's entirely mouse-driven. I'd even say it's more mouse-only friendly than BG, because at no point in Diablo did I ever need to select two things on the screen with a third thing that I didn't want selected in-between them (a common action in BG).
Nope.
Unsurprising. I originally thought to use Shogun but the game really wants the player to use the keyboard for the camera and unit grouping.
Yes? To take it a step further, I consider edge-scrolling to be less ideal than modern methods of using the MMB to activate multi-dimensional camera controls.
This introduces touch-sensitivity issues that simply don't exist with a mouse. It also does not answer how to deal with selection-avoidance/deselection.
Well, you're just going to have to be Mr. Positive again, because I routinely disagree with the threshold at which you've set "good" in the GoG/iOS threads.
Look at that picture and tell me it doesn't make you giddy as a school girl! No offense to any school girls who might be in this thread. Unless of course they diserve it....
I'm looking and it doesn't make me "giddy" in the least. I know they are still working on it, but using that UI with my fingers seems like an awful prospect.