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Anyone else out there not play games on their iPhone?

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there is a lot of crap not worth buying on the app store, but there are a few great ones. granted most games you will play for a while and then delete when done with, but i've had a few keepers. I think apple wants the iphone to be a gaming device, but honestly the games just aren't there. Some games have great, creative control schemes, but many are lousy and seem like they dont care that you are playing on such a small screen. retina display helps, but it doesnt make the actual screen any bigger. I got the iphone as a portable gamer, but honestly there are basically no standards for features on the app store, and only the AAA titles on iphone even support things like gyro, retina display, and multitasking. It is very disappointing. But then there are games like infinity blade which are pretty much built exclusively for iphone, and take advantage of all the great features.
 
Games aren't really fun but when you are hella bored and got nothing to do, eg. stuck on plane/train/bus/subway, some games would help kill time.

Anyway you should try out Game Dev Story, pretty addicting game for the first few hours.
 
I personally do not consider the iOS devices a gaming console at all. None of the games are really fun unfortunately. For me, iOS games are simply mini-games that you play when you have five minutes to beat your friends at something, or set a high score. Because of that, I only play a handful of games on my iPhone.
 
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Savor said:
I agree that many games from the App Store get boring really fast. I use my iPhone mostly for internet and as an iPod. For my next phone, I would much rather get a phone with a slide-out gaming pad just like the XPERIA Play.

Back when I had a jailbroken iPod touch, I had hundreds of ROMs. I had a NES, SNES, Genesis, and GBA emulator. The prob was it sucked playing with touchscreen controls and I only played NBA Jam or Deal Or No Deal.

I had over 24+ games on my iPhone 4 but filtered it down to just 12 now which includes mostly puzzle, tower defense, and racing games. It is a solid dozen of games that I can always go back and finish. I basically picked up a bunch of $.99 games when they were on sale last Holiday season which would normally cost $2.99 or more. I even had Madden but hated the controls and deleted it. My fav game playing on an iPhone is sill Plants vs Zombies. I can still play that from time to time but it can be very easy. And Field Runners was the first game I ever liked from the App Store and I still keep it on my phone for sentimental reasons.

My current fav is ChuChu Rocket which I got last November and the game started from the Sega Dreamcast. I will play that for 30-45 min sometimes about 2-3x per week. After I finish ChuChu Rocket, I will probably get into finishing Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, and Pee Monkey Plant Bloom. If I am not playing ChuChu Rocket, I sometimes play Monopoly (which cheats) and a free Chess which is timed. But ChuChu Rocket keeps my mind sharp. Hundreds of levels. Thanks to Sega on how to make a real game that I can spend hours and feel I accomplished something meaningful. I don't feel that with Angry Birds which can so difficult and becoming too commercialized or a game like Doodle Jump which feels less rewarding.
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Cool story bro!
 
haha wow nobody here plays any games :p

I used to go on Touch Arcade a lot. (anyone else here?) where everyone so game crazy :p I once had between 200 and 300 games on my old 2nd gen iPod touch. when I got my iPhone I almost immediately stopped almost completely. guess because college started and I lost interest in iPhone games, almost everything is gone now, I have maybe 10 left. so glad I got rid of them
 
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