Re: Premium Games On Mobile Don't Work

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 09:28:18 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

You can get a controller for mobile.  My wife has one and plays some
games on her phone or tablet.

Controllers on mobile devices suffer from the same problem as did mice
on consoles or steering wheel controllers on PCs. Sure, they can make
the games more fun, but almost nobody has them, so no game takes
advantage of them.

Personally I don't really see the use of a tablet. If I'm at home I'm
playing on my PC, if I'm out, I'm not dragging my tablet with me.

I like my tablet, just because it's smaller than a laptop, yet is
still large enough that I can do a minimum of content-creation (e.g.,
responding to an email, or writing some of the next D&D adventure)
without being too inconvenient. It's not something I use for that a
lot, but it's very welcome when it's there.

(It's also quite convenient for reading PDFs of reference material.
The bigger screen handles multi-column text quite well).

But it's not a preferred gaming platform. While out-and-about, I'm
just not that interested in getting involved in any game much more
complex than a quick hand of Solitaire or five minutes of Bejeweled.
I've things to do! If I do have a bit of downtime, then I'll play
something that can be easily interrupted... and those sorts of games
work just as well on a phone, which is much more convenient to pull
out 'on the fly'. Either way, the tablet is just the worst form-factor
for the sort of gaming I do.

I've ran across some premium games I really like on Apple Arcade (which
my wife has the sub for.) Like the one Teenage Mutant Ninja game that's
a semi-clone of Hades.  Unfortunately yes, it feels like a controller
would be much better than the touch joystick, I'm not carrying one
around to where I'd be playing my phone though, so that invalidates
that.  And I'm not going to be playing on my phone much if at all when
I'm home and have access to my PC.
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I thought about emulating on my PC to play it, but it's iphone only and
couldn't find any good emulation.

It's only recently that Apple has /allowed/ emulation on their
platform. And even so, it's extremely restricted (and slow). They
wouldn't even have allowed that much if not for recent lawsuits.