Comments for I Suck at Video Games

Comment on I’m Actually Pretty Good at These by Darren Mc Master-Smith

Darren Mc Master-Smith — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:09:54 +0000

I suck at all games even Tetris I’m hopeless at.

Platformers are my worst.

Can’t play em at all.
Braid was like taking a big depression pill because I felt awful playing that game.

The only games I’m remotely good at are Racing games and MMO’s because they can be fun without knocking you around.

Comment on Touching on iPhone Gaming by DJKuulA

DJKuulA — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:04:15 +0000

I tried Derek Jeter Baseball on my enV Touch. It’s supposed to be the best phone baseball game. It is inferior to All-Star Baseball 2003 on my Game Boy Advance in every conceivable way (except perhaps screen resolution, but it’s not as though the graphics are so wonderful anyway). Interestingly, ASB 2003 also features Derek Jeter as its cover boy.

Comment on Prince of Persia and I both suck by Devon

Devon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:22:52 +0000

Would you rather have a character rezz you, or click to load a saved game?

Comment on Why I’m Becoming a DS Pirate by Devon

Devon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:19:36 +0000

I’m a little surprised you even got a response to the first message. However, I’m not at all surprised at the *contents* of their response.

It pretty much matches the majority of responses I’ve ever received for any hardware or software issue for PC.

“It’s not our fault.”
“We don’t support it anymore.”
“You can do A, B, and C to workaround a flaw, when it shouldn’t exist in the first place.”

Comment on Scribblenauts: An Exercise in Frustrating Genius by Ben

Ben — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:58:51 +0000

Is this anything like Professor Layton? Nate gets to use a DS breifly once per week in his afterschool program but I’m loathe to get him yet another gaming platform with zero educational value. (He loved his Leapster 2 for about3 months and now rarely picks it up.)

Comment on Touching on iPhone Gaming by selfawaregames

selfawaregames — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:45:08 +0000

Hey! Thanks for the nice mention of Word Ace!

I think one of the things that jumped out at me from the article was the distinction between “gambling games” and “games.”

To me, the biggest hurdle to making something that works or doesn’t work on the iPhone is whether the design of the game, literally from the ground up, was designed with the platform in mind.

For us, the biggest concerns were a control scheme that made sense for the platform, something that took advantage of the platform’s persistent connectivity, and something that people really expressed an interest in playing, but also something new.

So, in terms of “what works on the iPhone,” in my view, it’s not “games” or “gambling games,” it’s whether the game was built *for* the platform or not. Madden, for better or worse, is a console game on a platform with no buttons. Word Ace was built from the ground up for the iPhone and Pre.

Good post! Thanks!
seppo
(lead designer at Self Aware Games)

Comment on Touching on iPhone Gaming by Ben

Ben — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:46:11 +0000

I’ll just wait for the second gen Palm Pre. Maybe that will have good games….

Comment on Living Arcade Mania! by DJKuulA

DJKuulA — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:53:32 +0000

Payton loves his little edamame man. Doomo arigatoo gozaimasu!

Comment on Prince of Persia and I both suck by DJKuulA

DJKuulA — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:52:12 +0000

I recently finished Genji: Days of the Blade, also a button-masher with a funky camera. But you get used to the camera because you also have a little radar thingie that shows all the nearby enemies and one of the triggers causes your guy to spin to face the closest enemy.

Also, you can die but there are a lot of checkpoints so you don’t get sent back too far when you do. This is a good thing.

It was pretty simplistic but I enjoyed it.

Comment on Gordon’s Best Music of 2008 by DJKuulA

DJKuulA — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:19:14 +0000

Leslie is a movie star who attends Miley’s school. They dated for a while and remained friends afterward. He’s played by the actor who was on the most recent season of Dancing With The Stars.

No, I shouldn’t know these things. But I do.