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    "Quality is Largely Irrelevant For iPhone Games"

    Galcon - The First Must-Have iPhone Game?
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    Image of ThursdayNext ThursdayNext
    03/24/09

    In reply to "Quality is Largely Irrelevant For iPhone Games"
    Galcon's easy to describe in five seconds..."It's like Dyson." ;)
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    03/24/09

    @ThursdayNext: Dyson as in vacuum cleaner?


    It sucks? o_O

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    Image of ThursdayNext ThursdayNext
    03/24/09

    @ZeroJutsu has a PS3, loves it.: Erm...close...
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    Image of Esper mind tricks Esper mind tricks
    03/24/09

    @ThursdayNext:


    Now explain Dyson in 5 seconds.


    And "It's like Galcon..." doesn't count

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    03/24/09

    @Esper_tricks: Hahaha...you got me. :)


    Erm... "A simple, addictive, RTS wherein you use superior numbers to conquer nearby planets."

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    03/24/09

    @ThursdayNext: You're good at this. Now explain Noby Noby Boy in 5 seconds.
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    03/25/09

    @Cue2: No one can explain Noby Noby Boy. I've played it and I still don't really understand what's going on. I mean, I stretch till I break, I take people for a ride, I eat my own arse, but still...I can't...It's like...It's...No...I can't.
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    Image of Sekai Sekai
    03/24/09

    In reply to "Quality is Largely Irrelevant For iPhone Games"
    For a second there I thought this was another article about the Nintendo Wii.
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    03/24/09

    @Sekai: I believe that this would be moment at which Garnett Lee says "Hey-yo!".
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    03/24/09

    @BritBloke916: Which would be the moment where I would have to take a shot.
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    03/24/09

    @SixDemonBag: Since I tend to listen to podcasts whilst driving, it's probably for the best if I don't play the drinking game :)
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    Image of grantanamo grantanamo
    03/24/09

    In reply to "Quality is Largely Irrelevant For iPhone Games"
    Anyone with half a brain could tell that all iPhone developers are doing is going to addictinggames and porting flash games to the iPhone. Field runners is a complete carbon copy of about fifty tower defense flash games. God I hate casual.
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    03/24/09

    @grantanamo: Just to clarify, by casual I mean no effort shovelware which has personified the casual market.
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    03/24/09

    @grantanamo: Fieldrunners may just be a "skin" for Desktop Tower Defense, but it's no less charming for that. I'd imagine that a fair amount of effort went its audio and visuals, and play mechanics such as being able to pinch the screen to control the zoom level.
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    Image of Twik63 Twik63
    03/24/09

    @BritBloke916: im pretty sure its a carbon copy of flash games.....
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    03/24/09

    @Twik63: Oh, I'm not going to argue that it isn't. My point was that even if a game is utterly lacking in originality, that doesn't make it necessarily "effortless" to develop.
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    03/24/09

    In reply to "Quality is Largely Irrelevant For iPhone Games"
    Didn't we learn this with the Wii already?
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    Image of Gossy... Fortune and Glory Gossy... Fortune and Glory
    03/24/09

    @KsprayDad (Wishes SuperBat Good Luck): ha ha ha ha, bwah hahahahahahaaaaaa, ha ha...ha...haa, wait a second, wait a second I just need to get my breath ba-haaaha haahahahahahahaa haaaaa!!!
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    03/24/09

    @Gossy loves yo' mamma's flapjacks: disregard that comment. My apologies.
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    Image of orionburcham orionburcham
    03/24/09

    In reply to "Quality is Largely Irrelevant For iPhone Games"
    This sucks. Still, you can't describe Braid in 5 seconds. There are ways to sell quality.
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    03/24/09

    @orionburcham: Of course you can. "It's a platform puzzler in which you manipulate time."
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    03/24/09

    @orionburcham: "Still, you can't describe Braid in 5 seconds."


    Pretentious platformer? That was less than three seconds...


    OK, I kid, I kid! :)

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    Image of johnnywashngo johnnywashngo
    03/24/09

    In reply to "Quality is Largely Irrelevant For iPhone Games"
    "A fool and his money are easily parted."


    Whenever I think of the iPhone and its app store, that phrase springs to mind.


    Actually, thinking about it, it applies pretty well to any Apple product.

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    03/24/09

    @johnnywashngo: "Actually, thinking about it, it applies pretty well to any Apple product."


    Wow, the entire iPod line and everything else too, eh? You're a harsh man.

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    03/24/09

    @johnnywashngo: agreed
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    Image of H8ff0000 H8ff0000
    03/24/09

    @BritBloke916: Well... if you were trying to say that the iPod is a good line... it's not. Why would I buy something that is more expensive, has less features, and is lower quality, when compared to something like a Cowon?
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    Image of BritBloke916 BritBloke916
    03/24/09

    @H8ff0000: Cowon? Ah, yes. That's like an iPod Touch for poor people, isn't it? Presumably you can get a coupon for one of those at the soup kitchen.
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    03/24/09

    @BritBloke916: Actually, I take that back. That was unnecessarily mean.
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    03/24/09

    In reply to "Quality is Largely Irrelevant For iPhone Games"
    "Galcon didn't even break into the top 100 (that Saltsman knew of)."


    The caveat is wise; Galcon was one of the earliest games for the platform and I'm SURE I've seen it on the lists (at least in the UK store). Great game, BTW.

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    Image of polezo polezo
    03/24/09

    In reply to "Quality is Largely Irrelevant For iPhone Games"
    It's true. Other descriptions for grossly successful apps include "crappy fart Simulator," "crappy mustache simulator," and "crappy beer simulator."
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    03/24/09

    @polezo: How do you simulate beer on an iPhone? Shock the user until they lose enough brain cells?
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    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    03/24/09

    @magictroll:


    It makes your screen look like a mug of beer and when you tip the iphone the liquid pours out.

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