Anyone know about this little device for tablet gaming?

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pontifex

pontifex

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mmntech said:
Any touch screen game that requires a virtual joystick is doing it wrong.
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which pretty much means every single game is doing it wrong. I haven't played a touch screen game that it worked nicely or smoothly on.

there's another device that's basically a gamepad that connects to your device. forget what's its called now though. think it starts with an "M"
 
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pontifex said:
which pretty much means every single game is doing it wrong. I haven't played a touch screen game that it worked nicely or smoothly on.

there's another device that's basically a gamepad that connects to your device. forget what's its called now though. think it starts with an "M"
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Craig234

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I do find that 'touch screen' games are inherently limited/not nearly as good as PC games that can use a keyboard and mouse. They have to try to find the few games where that limitation is not very harmful to the game - I was just thinking this morning about RTS for example on tablet versus PC, and how it's hard to come close.

I haven't seen this device yet but it makes sense to me to look for improvement.

(One other issue seems to be the pricing where tablet games seem mostly limited to $2).
 
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pontifex said:
which pretty much means every single game is doing it wrong. I haven't played a touch screen game that it worked nicely or smoothly on.
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Extra Credits did a whole video on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBHircZu5EI

It's a bit of a lazy way around things, since a lot of developers still don't realize the strengths and weaknesses of touch devices. They work best with one handed gameplay, mimicking natural actions.
 
TeknoBug

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o_O Oh my word, worst way to spend $25, well almost as bad as paying $60 for plastic paddles to add onto the Logitech GT wheel.
 
HumblePie

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I agree on the price of it. Maybe I'd give $5, but was wondering if anyone had actually tried them or not to see if they'd be worth even that.
 
gorcorps

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HumblePie said:
There is no forum really for this. There is no "tablet, small device gaming" forum. Soon as there is one, I'll post this there smart ass.
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While you (kind of) have a point, it's literally a "mobile device" which we DO have a forum for. People also post mobile games in the console section too. They've never been considered PC games though, so his point is still valid.
 
HumblePie

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gorcorps said:
While you (kind of) have a point, it's literally a "mobile device" which we DO have a forum for. People also post mobile games in the console section too. They've never been considered PC games though, so his point is still valid.
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I consider tablets closer to laptops, which at one point they were classified as, than consoles. I would consider this more for a tablet than a phone as the loss of screen space that would result from placing these on the screen would make any game on a phone unplayable. So these would be strictly for tablets as their advertisement shows. Hence the PC part. Tablets are basically portable personal computers like laptops. Even if there is a wider range of OS's for tablets than for most PCs.
 
gorcorps

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HumblePie said:
I consider tablets closer to laptops, which at one point they were classified as, than consoles. I would consider this more for a tablet than a phone as the loss of screen space that would result from placing these on the screen would make any game on a phone unplayable. So these would be strictly for tablets as their advertisement shows. Hence the PC part. Tablets are basically portable personal computers like laptops. Even if there is a wider range of OS's for tablets than for most PCs.
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I know what you mean, especially since we're having a resurgence of windows based tablets that are compared to their mobileOS competition often. It seems like iPhone/ipad related stuff goes to All Things Apple, Android tablets are discussed in MD&G, and windows tablets pretty much are laptops... and have been discussed in the Notebook forum.

We certainly don't make things easy here.
 
HumblePie

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gorcorps said:
I know what you mean, especially since we're having a resurgence of windows based tablets that are compared to their mobileOS competition often. It seems like iPhone/ipad related stuff goes to All Things Apple, Android tablets are discussed in MD&G, and windows tablets pretty much are laptops... and have been discussed in the Notebook forum.

We certainly don't make things easy here.
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Which, windows 8 tablets that aren't RT, can install any regular PC game on them for gaming. Hence why I put it here after thinking that through first.

For regular "tablet/phone" games like angry birds you wouldn't want this device. It wouldn't work. The reason you would want a device like this would be for tablet games that are designed for tablet interface. Of which there are a crap ton more of those for Windows based tablets than anything else.

So again, the most appropriate place for this thread would be here.
 
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I like the idea of tactile controls for some games. Most especially emulators that put an on-screen d-pad or joystick by necessity. However I've never been inclined to permanently adhere anything to my phone screen.

This thing looks nice but $25 is heinous. It had better last forever and have its own GPS so I can't lose it.
 
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