I'm getting old boys. While I was at Disney the past few days I had several observations that made me sad. That made me feel like I'm going to miss what's about to come next.
1. For the last three years I've brought my 3DS and I've always managed to get a few streetpass meetings. This year, none. I didn't see any kids playing a 3DS for that matter. Just lots and lots of tablets and phones.
2. While at Disney we I spent some time in a couple different arcades across the properties. All of the new games, are basically giant mobile games and most of them used vertical screens with the same dimensions of an iPhone. They had a big Doodlejump game, a big Temple Run game, and a big Fruit Ninja game. They even had a new Pac-Man, but it was on a vertical layout screen.
3. Amazon was giving away $220 in apps on their digital app store. Most were uninteresting, but Terraria was available and I'd wanted that for a while so I grabbed it. After installing it, I couldn't figure out how to play it. The game didn't have a clearly marked controller set up. My son asked if he could given it a try, and within 30 seconds he was playing the game. I was reminded of Christmas 1987 when I got my NES. My dad hooked it up, but he wasn't able to figure out how to work the controller when I invited him to play Super Mario Bros with me.
And just like that I turned into my father. I'm now the old guy who can't figure out a controller. Damn...
EDIT: Both are free on Kindle. Downloading now.
Okay, I guess I'm not a video game dinosaur yet, because I was able to figure out how to play Terraria within 30 seconds. It basically uses NES-styled controls via a virtual joystick and button.
EDIT: So it's a side scrolling Minecraft-ish game. Interesting.
Well I can barely get through the menus on Smash Bros.
Touchscreen controls take some getting used to, but they work well enough for most moble games. I'll always prefer having real sticks and buttons, though.
Don't ever buy a GTA game on a tablet. I could never get used to touch screen controls for that. Year Walk is good, but short.
Amazon has the GTA Chinatown Wars for $3. It's an overhead game, so that might control okay on a tablet..
So cOLD in here.
Respect for your elders is a sign of characters.
Yeah after the boy showed me it clicked. Since I didn't see a virtual joystick, I just assumed it just had a set of touch controls more like Minecraft (touch the brick to destroy it). Damn invisible joysticks making me feel dumb.