Tablet Gaming

There is no denying there is a huge difference between someone who only plays words with friends and someone who grew up with a snes. Feeding these company's millions for a shit game about cutting fruit only convinces companies to create more games that we can play when we take a shit. Putting these games down only helps create a better product.

I had Sega \m/

Wait, so, if you've never got a chance to grow up with something like an snes, then that automatically makes you not a "true gamer"?

Nice logic.

Did you just compare pokemon to fruit ninja? because lemon is talking about mediocre apps not games like pokemon.

Faz your username is related to my comment, if we are speaking of real games..and I'm talking about like nintendo hard games here, Fez is an amazing newish arcade game. Its actually a challenge and requires you to think to solve the puzzles it throws at you.
Just wanted to share my opinion of it, that is all.

>Fez
>good game

choose one

why was this response so angry

Because it was a joke.

I thought your joke was funny bro. Too bad fj missed it and just jumped on the chance to defend pokemon

It seems like the kind of phrase used by people who enjoy the smell of their own assholes.

You mean like this guy?

You mean you don't?

Ditto, anyone who plays games in their free time, whether it's on a console, pc or phone is a gamer. There are no "true gamers", only more or less experienced ones.

the only time I see that used is when PC gamers declare "superiority" of everyone else

As a PC gamer I don't ever resort to the "true gamer" argument; moreso I choose instead to bring out the obvious hardware superiority. Yes, it does cost, but that's the magic of it. A computer can be built to a budget.

I only spent £500 on my computer. A modest sum, perhaps twice the cost of a console, but it's at least five times better. What's more is, statistically, computers can and WILL render the next gen of consoles (the ones yet to be released) obsolete within weeks, if not immediately.

As a PC gamer as well, I completely agree.
it's just that I always notice that when it comes to platform wars, PC gamers mostly stick with the whole "PC master race" thing

You're right

Oh god same, it's like saying,

"You only suck peoples dicks? you'e not a TRUE homosexual"

I don't see why something invented for the sole purpose of entertainment really matters all that much how it's distributed.

I also fail to see why people who waste more of their own time on gaming feels like they have to be superior in that aspect, it really doesn't matter either way.

i prefer the term "non casuals"

I think gamers should only be categorized into "Full time gamers" And "Half time gamers" and then there is just "Gamers".

There's such a thing as "casuals" and "Hardcore gamer".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamer

Well what I shouldve said was professional gamers and casual gamers. And by professional I mean those who make money off it.

full time gamers... or people without social skills

I have great social skills but prefer gaming to getting drunk/sitting around doing nothing, which is the only things people in my area do.

Some people just dont know how to have a good time

My area is a shit hole, there is nothing to do and usually the weather forces you inside...inside being sat in someones house doing nothing.

bullshit, i live the in middle of nowhere and i can still find shit to do.

Do you live in one of the worst town in England? In a place full of chavs, in a town which had MASSIVE budget cuts? In a place where chavs fill the streets and the community centers?

i live in the in the the south, in the half suburban half woodland area of knoxville.

Living simply in an area which has good weather you have a lot of chances for stuff to do, living in an area which is mostly cold and raining cuts all the possibilities for most of the year.

Rain never stopped me. Walked about a a mile to a tatto parlor got inked, walked another quarter mile to grab a bite to eat, walked a half mile to go to church, then walked another good quarter mile to hang out with friends, then 2 miles back home, in the rain, in low 40 degree weather

You got a tatto...and go to church? Meh im not even going to go into that one. Anyway i have done many things in the rain but one day is one day, when the rain lasts weeks you don't feel like going out every single day and getting wet and cold.

i see your point i suppose, i still think theres always something to do though if you are willing to try and find it. And i hear the tattoo thing alot, i actually have a few religious tattoos. There is a verse in revalations that hints that jesus himself might have been inked

wait, really? not religious but that's fucking interesting, any idea which verse it was?

Revalations 19 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. This verse was about the second coming, right before the great battle, when jesus was about to lead his men in war. It depends on the translation. Some believe the translation means King of kings lord of lords will be both tattooed on his thigh and stitched on his robe, while others say that the translation says on his robe on his thigh instead of on his robe AND on his thigh which would mean the the thigh area was were it was stichted on the robe. People often say it is wrong to get tattoos because of what it say in laviticus but what they dont take into account is why that passage was written, the passage what writen because of pegan culture because they would often cut and tattoo themselves to worship there pegan gods. In my opinion that verse was warnig against that as opposed saying no tattoos. Though im lucky in that my church worries more about how these things are supposed to be interpruted and the actuall word of god and not traditon or apprearances. We recently held a a christian deathmetel concert at the church. A website you should check out is www.religioustattoos.net/Bible_Support/index.php the tattoo pictures people upload there are complete crap, but it has alot of interesting stuff about tattoo history in religion

hm, that is interesting. really though, everything in Leviticus is rendered moot by Jesus anyway isn't it?

no, jesus's coming doesnt mean ignore the old testament, it just means that you dont have to fallow all the laws of the old or new testament to get into heaven, you just have to devote yourself to christ, you should still fallow them. Though leviticus is one of the most misquoted and misunderstood chapters in the bible, to really understand leviticus you cant just read it, you have to know who it was writen to, why it was writen, the traditions of the time, and how that relates to today.

I see you and raise 25 weathers.

Pic related it's where i live

Socialising.

Unless of course you dont have good social skills and so cant have a good time just being with people

With people i have already known for like 5 years? Once you've reached the point in which you know everything about your friends without an activity to do things are boring.

That makes no sense.

Talking to people isnt getting all their life information from them, thats some kind of interview... Its having conversations about random topics, making jokes, talking about random hypothetical shit. Stuff like that.

Again, its only boring if you dont have social skills. You think people go to the pub/bar with their friends and tell each other about themselves? No, they talk about random stuff and socialise and meet new people and have fun.

When people go to the pub they get drunk, getting drunk allows for people to find any random crap entertaining so thats a moot point. Anyway id far rather do what i do now which is talk to my friends on team speak while i and they can play video games/do other things.

Getting drunk makes normal stuff more fun, and the not very entertaining stuff still fun. Its win win.

But you dont have stuff to talk about with your friends because you dont do anything or socialise.

All you do is play the game so if someone asks what you were doing the other day all you can say is playing games. And you havent really done anything and it sure as hell isnt interesting.

No offence, but you just sound really boring

Like i said, my area has nothing to do and im not saying that as one of those people who do not enjoy anything, it rains a hell of a lot of the time so for autumn, winter and spring most likely its going to be raining plus even sometimes in the summer, youth centers are filled with chavs, skate parks are filled with chavs drinking beer and the town i live in had a lot of budget cuts which closed down pretty much all areas in which to have fun. My town however is full of takeaways and night clubs because its full of drunks here, we have those in abundance.

w.e, I cant bebothered with this conversation anymore.

Improve your social skills. Have SO much fun and improve your life, everyone can improve their social skills and life.

Or dont and play games with people you'll forget about when you stop playing the game.

I personally have to agree with Faz.... I hate going out and getting drunk for the sole purpose of getting drunk, I despise it with a passion actually, considering it's a large waste of money for only one night of so called "fun." What people call fun doesn't apply to me really. That's all people do around here is get drunk. Whenever I went out to parties, it was always the same thing, everyone gets drunk, the guys try to take home the girls, and people just act down right stupid. No, not for me. Plus the only thing entertaining about where I live in BFE is a Wal-Mart and that's 10 miles away...

What's crazy is how stigmatised you actually become when you dont share the general opinion of what "fun" is.

I went to parties for the sole purpose of getting drunk every friday/saturday, from when i was 15 until about 19.

I basically lost interest in drinking, and i thought to myself "what the fuck is the point of this?".

I dont consider myself boring, and i certainly do not have a problem with being around other people, but as soon as you tell people that you dont drink, their reactions are always like you're the most boring person on the planet for not drinking.

This is honestly the first time in a long time that someone's actually argued with me on it, but I share your opinion. Most of my friends and people I'm around understand my views pretty well but then again they're also social drinkers like I am and don't go out every other night and get wasted and wake up in someone else's bed all the time.

Fair enough.

Some people just don't know how to have a good time.

Use your games to substitute that if it makes you happy. Its your life and I wish you all the best with it.

I'm just saying you'll enjoy life more when you gain the social skills to be able to have a great time just in a room with some people and nothing else.

Oh I can and do have a good time, but everyone else in the room wants to add alcohol to the mix and I don't, so I don't go out. I still have roommates that share a similar view and we've stayed up to all hours of the night on any and all topics we can and do come across. It's not like I'm an anti-social introvert, I just don't care to know about everybody's business nor do I care to see them stumbling around in a stupor. Call that a good time if you will but I find it hard to call it the same. Also, saying I don't know how to have a good time is a very long stretch of a sentence, if I say so on behalf of people who just don't enjoy getting drunk, You don't need to drink to have a good time, but for some reason many people I know think you do.

They dont drink to have a good time.

They drink to make it a better time.

You shouldn't have to drink at all to make it a great time, if the people are really worth being around. My best times aren't with my friends when we were drunk, my best times were with my friends when we were just being ourselves and talking and laughing. Using alcohol as a means to make something "better" is just finding a reason to drink alcohol and feel better about it. Seriously, I'm so tired and bored of beer pong that I can't stand the game anymore. Like I said, you don't need to drink to have a good time but it's become such a staple in the young modern society somehow that it seems to be the most prominent idea of fun somehow when I see no point to it.

I'm a gamer, yes, but I also have great friends that don't need or want to get drunk to have a great time with and a girlfriend that shares the same ideas as me that going out and partying on a regular basis just really isn't that fun when you have people around you already that make life fun itself.

Exactly.

The best times i've had, were doing daytime stuff with my friends like going to the beach and jump from cliffs and stuff like that. Basically doing childish stuff.

I think you can have 10x more fun if you discover how much you can actually do that doesn't involve drinking.

Getting drunk is basically the most monotonous thing you can do.

I learned that very early on in my drinking career. Don't get me wrong, I still drink, socially, and even then it's not a lot, I despise the feeling of getting drunk with a passion, but my favorite memories of my friends are the late night conversations by the pond, the walking around town at late hours of the night, the driving around singing badly to music. All activities we did when we were sober. Granted, some funny things happen around the drunk people, but they're funny and not the memorable things that'll stay with you and make you see people in a different light.

Drinking with friends is like getting a car.

It opens all these potential possibilities but isnt much of a big deal if you dont know where to go and if you're stupid with it you can ruin your life.

You my friend cant even start the engine, you're just sitting in the car.

More like, i started the car. Drove around for 4 years straight, eventually realising there aren't any places left to visit.

it doesn't open any possibilities, besides decreased mental state and loss of cognitive ability. Everything I can do drunk I can do sober in a better way. As can my friends. There's no "possibilities" to open when drinking with friends since if they were your friends to begin with all the possibilities have already been opened.

I've been around drunk people enough to know that when you're around them you're not "hanging out," you're baby-sitting an adult that's too incoherent to even smile right.

When people start to drink, you don't even have to be the stupid one to get in trouble. The stupid ones will do it for you. I'd rather be a social gamer, and enjoy the time I have hanging out with my friends being my actual self over going out and "socializing" as some drunk and slobbering idiot, someone who I am not, any day. I don't need a crutch to be a loved and sociable person, I just am, and that's what makes me the better person for not having to rely on a retarding beverage to click with people.

Or to put it in a game analogy for you.

Its like an amazing game. All these potential hours await but if you dont know how to put the game in the console/PC its just a disc.

And you sir are complaining that the game sucks when all you are doing is holding the CD

But if you had good social skills you wouldnt enjoy it more, I mean sometimes its nice to stay in and chill and play a game or something. But being social is amazing unless you dont have very good skills

so is clicking buttons with two hands while watching a blinking screen that changes color.
a gamer is someone who plays games, whether its virtual or physical

gam·er
/ˈgāmər/
Noun
A person who plays a game or games, typically a participant in a computer or role-playing game.

yep, a computer. which pretty much includes every digital technology capable of computing data.

You're a special kind of stupid aren't you?

People like you lower the collective IQ of your entire country.

Say what?

i cant help it i own an xbox

>implying that's elite

Well... It *IS* the xbox elite....

haha no man i was implying it makes some people elitist assholes, going along with what samxdaxman was saying. a joke essentially

I see.

I love your avatar.

I love you.

I saw a comment on youtube "hey guys could you please help me out blahsubscribeblahblahpresonality - Im mostly a call of duty gamer but i would do some other games every now and again, like minecraft and blahblah"

then some arsehole comes along.
"You can't call yourself a gamer, true gamers don't play call of duty, true gamers play a variety of games, and not Just call of duty"

Mfw

I play pokemon, street fighter 3 and 4, bf3, cod zombies, mk1-3, daytona usa, burnout paradise and nfs shift 2. Am I accepted yet?

yes. what i meant was that the guy was an obvious bandwagon CoD hater and all he got out of the other guy's comment was CoD and Gamer.
when the guy did say he was going to be playing other games as well.
nevertheless, a gamer is simply someone who plays games, period.

Agreed.

Preposterous!

The games on iphones/tablets/whatever are games that require a video screen. In other words, A VIDEO GAME. Just because they don't go as in depth as some games on consoles doesnt mean they aren't games.

"As in depth" All they are is draging your finger across a screen. How can you say that that can be a game? Does that make texting a game? Or anything you do on them a game because your doing the same thing the whole time.

Did I say it takes skill? No, most of them are just dragging your finger on the screen. That still doesn't change the fact they are still games.

The new razor tablet can play WoW fine and most likely a lot of decent looking games, i don't understand why people are against tablet gaming if the tablet is designed for gaming and not just for social media, im a PC player and yeah making the games look as amazing as possible are what i strive for but put me on a 5 hour car journey and my PC is now useless, on the other hand having a tablet i could pull out and play triple A titles on would be amazing.

when people criticize tablet gaming it's because of the controls not the actual hardware. (The controls are shitty and usually simplistic if the game is to be good.)

The new razor tablet will have an option to be played with a pad or with an extension which kinda makes it like a bigger Wii U remote. www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-edge/#3

...brilliant

That Razer tablet is still a Windows platform and has incredibly good hardware to boot.

When people say tablet gaming, they think of Android or iOS, which isn't even at the quality of handheld gaming yet.

"Isn't even at the quality of handheld gaming yet"


I don't know about iPod touches/iPhones, considering I've never owned one, but with the android you can get handheld gaming roms/emulators (like Gameboy Advance games) and play them pretty well. It's even at the quality of console games too, with Call of Duty Black ops/ World at War Zombies.

Having to use the screen for buttons will never work, especially for smartphones because it covers up so much of the screen. I can't even play emulated games that way because of the lack of responsiveness and screen space.

Maybe you just have a small screen on your phone or huge hands or something, because I never have those problems when it comes to my phone (Samsung Stratosphere)

I dont like idea of handheld gaming in general. When I am traveling I like to be awere of my surroundings but gaming locks both your sight and hearing (using headphones is mandatory) . I prefere books (I can hear what is happening around me) or listening to music (I can see what is happening) in such situations.

Handheld gaming has its bright sides but I prefere leaving games at home

There are some good tablet RTS games. Like Eufloria. And Red Conquest. And Settlers. If you like RTS that is. Also Galcon Fusion, which is online.

I play jet set radio on mine :P

I cannot wait for the Oculus Rift. Sure it doesn't have the full control system, but we can deal with controllers/KB+M for a little longer.

Imagine if the Vita could run Android...
There's GBA, NDS, N64, PS and so much more on a kickass handheld experience.

Legend of Zelda: OOT. TAKE IT WHEREVER YOU FUCKING GO. I regret selling my 3DS soo much, man. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING.

but srysly guise only 360 ACOG scopers from C0D4 were t3h pr0s(fail.)

MFW this is more powerful than two year old pc

if your pc cost $400 maybe

<glorious 2k master race reporting in.

It's the Moore's law: every 1 year and a half, you have twice moore computer power.

Well, the controls are extra. like a Dock. The tablet itself actually looks like a tablet.

I've got an £89 9" tablet running Android Jelly bean that works fine. I've got an N64 emulator running on it. Plug in a USB controller and you're good to go, working on getting it running with a PS3 one over bluetooth. Shit's so cash.

"running full windows 8."
"full windows 8"
"windows 8"

FUCK WINDOWS 8. Just Windows phone OS stretched to the shitter.

Sounds good, but...
Isn't it like 2k$?

And it holds a couple of modified versions of these.

Better start saving up now.

Table=$999.95(US)
Controller adapter=$250(US)

Your picture=$1249.95

I really, really want one of those. Although I cant imagine the battery life being great_

Have fun with that battery life.

I saw sexy over there and I gravitated a little towards a screen, such a beauty

I wasn't saying that being portable is what makes a tablet great, I was saying it being convenient is. I was also mocking the idea of a "true gamer" by comparing it to the gameboy, because technically it isn't a console. In no way was that me saying a tablet is as good as a gameboy.

>Tablet gaming.

Those are pills, not tablets.

If it's a game... ill play it, buttons or not, digital/electronic or not. I play everything. Does that count? GIF unrelated.

You can like what you want. Just so long as you know the difference between garbage gaming and quality.

Oh? I'm sorry sir but i'm going to HAVE to ask you to elaborate on that please. PIC UNRELATED

Excuse me, but you are talking to a member of the glorious PC gaming gaming master race. If it is not abundantly clear through the eminence of dominance through my digital presence, I may have to ask you to leave and only come back when you have thoroughly evaluated your own undeveloped casual inferiority.

Um... If you are refering to steam, I wouldn't be saying things like "Glorious PC gaming master race." And i did say ALL foems of games did I not?

forms*

You don't know what I got.

Phoey.

I could be talking about WoW for all you know. Or Minecraft.

But I don't. Because I have friends.

A friend.

Who plays Minecraft with me.

My point is I play on the PC, sir, and if you do as well then I trust you understand the difference, especially if you're the ace of spades you say you are.

Damn right I know the diffrence. < I just wish I knew how to spell...

It's okay, we all accidentally sometimes.

Little known fact: Hitler used spellcheck.

...that I will be able to spell without spell check.

Until then you shall continue to kill every last incompetent who uses spellcheck to correct they're sentences.

Like so.

You completely missed an opportunity to strike.

You are no Grammar Nazi. Leave my presence.

Very well...




I had no gif for it.....

yea verily.