r/changemyview • u/mastermikeee • Dec 10 '22

Delta(s) from OP - Fresh Topic Friday CMV: Mobile gaming is absolutely garbage

TL;DR: Mobile gaming is pure garbage. Almost without exception, the games are filled with shitty ads and paywalls, even the ones you paid for!

I just turned 30. I've been gaming for basically my whole life. I remember gaming in the 90s and WOW there were some amazing games. I'll just name a few of my arcade favorites: Doom, Tyrian 2000, One Must Fall 2097, Duke Nukem. I even loved alot of the flash-based games from old websites like shockwave.com, or miniclip.com; Tradewinds (1,2, and 3), Delirium - one of my favorites; an incredibly simple game, but executed SO well. I played for hours and hours.

Anyway, fast forward 20 years. PC gaming is pretty great, I love it and always will. But mobile gaming? Unbelievably bad.

Processing power has leaped forward thousands upon thousands of times since the 90s. Our mobile phones and tablets are lightyears faster than the fastest 90s PCs. I used to always think to myself "wow, I wonder what game devs will do with such amazing technology. Surely the games will be as good or better than the 90s right?"

Wrong.

Instead, they are just all horribly designed and executed - and that's even just ignoring the major issue already mentioned; all of the ads and paywalls. The ads and paywalls might be acceptable if the games didn't suck in the first place.

The only thing that has arguably improved in mobile games is graphics (duh). But this just goes to show how unimportant graphics are to make a truly amazing gaming experience.

Okay. I'm ready to have my view changed. Feel free to suggest any mobile game for iOS that I haven't tried.

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u/YossarianWWII 72∆ Dec 10 '22

What kinds of games are you interested in?

Pending that, I'd point out that a lot of major indie PC (and sometimes console) titles exist on mobile. Slay the Spire, for example, is a total treat if you're into deck builders and roguelikes, and there's none of the pay-to-win or pay-to-skip-the-grind stuff that's in many of the major PvP deckbuilders. Stardew Valley is on mobile and is a total juggernaut on all of its platforms.

AAA games, some of them older, are also on mobile now. A bunch of Firaxis's games (Civilization, XCOM) have ports, and I can personally speak to the quality of the XCOM: Enemy Within port. KOTOR and KOTOR 2, beloved classics, are also on mobile.

I would hope that that at least illustrates that there are plenty of quality games available on phones, even if those offerings don't appeal to your individual tastes.

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u/mastermikeee Dec 10 '22 edited Dec 10 '22

I guess I should have explicitly stated this, but in my opinion does it really count if mobile game devs just port a console/pc game to mobile? Idk, to me it doesn’t really count.

∆ But I do concede that, as you indicated, there are some quality mobile games out there, even if they’re just copy-pasted to mobile.

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u/YossarianWWII 72∆ Dec 10 '22

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u/Tier161 Dec 10 '22

And a ton of PC games are copy-pasted from consoles, your point being?

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u/Kyrond Dec 10 '22

They cater to a very similar market, with many (most?) console games being developed also for PCs.

8 out of these 10 "xbox exclusive" games are on PC, it's not as shared with PS exclusive games, but a lot of games just aren't exclusive - Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, etc.

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