Where did it all go wrong?

porn addiction, social isolation from covid onwards

phone games have never been good

>>714286335 (OP)
>Where did it all go wrong?

>>714286476
This, people were mocking that casual shit from the get go.

Microtransactions.
When we accepted them as a regular part of gaming we took the first step on the road to hell. The moment we started accepting resource packs for 2,99 it was all lost

>>714286519
I hope this demonic kike burns in hell forever

All mobile games are garbage

Openly plagiarizing manga.

>>714286335 (OP)
Gaming died

>>714286335 (OP)
Porn and gambling is the perfect combination causing addiction in people.

>>714286519
this
/thread

>>714286519
Phones wouldn't have been the same shit every year if he was still alive

>>714286335 (OP)
So is s3 shit or nah

Shes me

>>714287603
It's literally a setup for Squid Game: USA.

I wish I was kidding.

>>714286476
spbp

>>714286335 (OP)
>>714286519
>>714286476
This. Mobile market was always seen as sub-par gaymen compared to the real deal on PC, console or arcade. However, I think it's fucking wild that the casual shit we used to make fun of (Angry Birds, Cut The Rope, Fruit Ninja, PvZ, etc.) turned out to be a genuinely better market than the shit that's peddled to you nowadays on the front page. Almost everything is MTX-riddled auto-playing dogslop that's EVEN MORE casual and EVEN MORE fake and gay than even Flappy Bird

holy shit things have gotten so much worse in such a cosmically short period of time

>>714286335 (OP)

praising god every day cause i wasnt born a gachafag

>>714286335 (OP)
phone games were shit back then, most of them were literal demos or javafied flash games, other that that, the only good thing back then were emulators available at the playstore

>>714286476
SPBP
Phone games have always been dogshit churned out to make a few bucks. How invasive the monetization is varies per title, but the cash store is always the end game.
Compare any phone "game" to a GBA/SNES game.
You're much better off having a Fire Emblem (not Heroes) than some sort of auto-battler gacha.

I guess Angry Birds or Jelly Car were cute, but how long can one play those games for? I've got a Bubble Shooter I play on my phone while I wait for transit. Game is seriously boring, but so is waiting for the bus.

>>714286993
How so? Braun didn't have endless designs to copy.

>>714286335 (OP)
People only wanted to play free shit instead of paying around 1 to 5 dollars for a game, primarily because nobody has enough respect for phone games to give them a one time payment. Likewise mobile devs just adopted gacha and other slimy systems which shaped the market into what it is today.

>>714289240
Oh shit, I forgot, Old School Runescape on the phone is pretty solid. Logged a shitload of hours while I was at work.

>mobile games cost $1
>general public refuses to pay for them
>mobile games are free with in-game purchases
>billions in revenue
?????????

>>714289380
>>714289418
Said games weren't worth paying for.

>>714288101
You just know she looks up BWC/Blesched porn

>>714286335 (OP)
Mobile games were always shit. Kill yourself

1% of mobile games actually took advantage of the hardware like infinity blade, we should have stuck to ports of snake and minesweeper

>>714286639
We were already on the road to hell with multiplats, multiplayer lobbies, matchmaking, DLC packs etc.
A multiplayer game simply isn't feature-complete without a server browser, self-hosted servers, a map editor and mod support and we shouldn't accept it as being a viable product in that state.

>>714288101
>take plane to visit another country
>flight lands, everyone checks phone as expected
>check woman's seated in front of me phone
>she has around 20 unread conversations, mostly from group chats
>doesn't even check half of them
Why do they be like this?

>>714289618
I've never played the mobile Cave ports since I'm not an iToddler but they're pretty good from what I've heard, Deathsmiles even has content that's not in any other version.

>>714286335 (OP)
retards and their money are easily farmed, you have to be a complete and total nincompoop goofball blockhead to install a gacha game and sign up for your life to be full of daily quests, grinds and hoops to jump through to collect 5 different types of currency to have a fraction of a percent of a chance to unlock generic anime bimbo # 324906, you're a joke even to the very same people making these games for you, sad stuff

shitters just are delusional the quality of gacha games
most gacha are more funded and better produced higher quality games than most 60 dollar AAA games
ironic when the same shitters go on to proclaim tainted grail, unfinished broken buggy mess with trash tier open world is better than skyrim when its clearly pure dog shit , just retards with retarded shit takes

>>714286335 (OP)
Draining gambling addicts was just more profitable.

>>714290164
sounds like a good time

>>714286335 (OP)
WHERES HONKAI IMPACT

>>714286476
but they were a funnovelty at one time

>>714286476
ENTER

>>714286476
>>714289240
There's the occasional gem, but largely correct.

The worst thing is that when a gem does appear, it will inevitably vanish from whatever App store it was on within a few years. Mobile games are even more ephemeral than other kinds of video games. You can still play a PS2 game you've only just heard of with a little tenacity, but that pleasant phone game that tided you over during your waging? Gone forever.

>>714286335 (OP)
Zoomers are the most retarded generation that has ever existed, and all of those games are aimed at them

>>714286335 (OP)
Infinity Blade was the shit and it’s not even in your pic, neither is Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja or Temple Run. MOTHERFUCKING TEMPLE RUN

>>714290146
Mobile ports of games that weren't originally mobile only don't count.
Like, if Nintendo ported all their GBA/SNES games we wouldn't be having this thread.

>>714288704
Ultimate Slam Piggy

>>714286335 (OP)
When i develop a porn addiction and i fill it with gachas though...

>>714286335 (OP)
Fgo is almost 10 years old
Kancolle is 12

>>714290676
Soul

>phone games have never been g-AAAAAAAAIIIIIEEEEE

One of the first mobile games I ever got addicted to was this very barebones fishing game, except you're also a fish or something. You just gradually upgraded to get better rods so you could catch better fish to get more money to get more bait to catch better fish and so on. What I found interesting was that after finally tracking down the game after like a decade of it having exited from memory, I saw a blogpost from the developer talking about how that entire pre-MTX era of mobile gaming was so humble and free of stress for both the player and the creator. Then once things shifted to favor monetization and retention models the entire industry flipped on its head and you had to make a moral choice whether or not you wanted to support this sort of thing. I like to imagine that the controversy with the Flappy Bird guy was a mirror image of this incident, lots of mobile devs want to just make silly little diversions but it's an inherently cynical environment.

For me it's Temple Run 2