Volnus

I think boosting vision would be pretty difficult, considering a lot of people tend to stare at their screens all day and neglect the 20-20-20 rule for preventing eye strains. It’s so easy to get trapped in a game for hours.

Mobile retro gaming needs to reintroduce Mutant League Football ! Was originally on the sega genesis .. was gem indeed –

Find a Nokia brick and play snake.. load up DoS sandbox and enjoy Oregon trail , ski free and more .. such basic but memory inducing games !

It’s actually pretty easy to find an old device that can play retro games at a cheap price, but the experience isn’t the same as playing on newer hardware. For instance, I can find a 3rd generation iPod for a pretty cheap price and play games like Brick (Apple’s version of Arkanoid or Breakout) and Parachute, but the iPod’s click wheel is just weird to use.

But sometimes you don’t need older devices or refurbished hardware to experience retro games. Like on my spare time, sometimes I dual-boot Linux and play BSD Games (a collection of games available for the Linux terminal).

I agree , it was a different time then.. 8bit was the after school special and we had it in spades… decades later we still find games to paying homage to the pioneers of video entertainment!

Angry Birds, Temple Run, and Paper Toss are all games I’ve played in the early 2010s; it was really the emergence of free mobile games that allowed their popularity to grow, but I haven’t touched these games in years. Nowadays, there are just so many games on mobile devices these days (and quite frankly, a lot of them are plagued with ads). Even some Flappy Bird clones are filled with ads every time a game ends, and it’s really the ads that stop me from playing mobile games.

Mobile gaming has came a long way , and has gained a substantially large client base… though sometimes beautiful pieces of work , I find mobile games lacking in what I desire .. a good week or months play then it becomes stale –

I don’t think virtual or augmented reality will be the future of mobile gaming (it’s just hard to see that, especially augmented reality where Pokémon GO is declining in popularity and Minecraft Earth is ending), but rather newer hardware and innovation.

Like for instance, foldable phones are a thing, and I feel like there’s a lot of potential games that could take advantage of the screen space that foldable phones offer (like using the other half of the screen for controls as to not cover up the game itself, or offer more controls), but the reason why foldable phones haven’t change mobile gaming is that large mobile phone companies (such as Apple where around 45% of the world uses an iPhone) haven’t caught on to creating foldable phones yet, and so it would just be a niche market to cater people with foldable phones. But I hope to see foldable phones take off one day and become the norm; that would definitely transform mobile gaming.

Mobile gaming has advanced but I feel the whole VR setup could show some rapid progression .. though you have a smaller field of sales , this could ignite into a cross platform beast later on , can’t wait to find out !

My mobile and Pc gaming experience stays sorta mainstream , but digging up a nice fresh indie game helps from turned based to tactical , sometimes you never know what you have until you try it !

Untitled Goose Game’s probably the best indie game of 2020, just because of how creative it is (the goose being obnoxious in a comedic way) and the memes that have spawned out of it. And there’s some pretty good replay value out of the game as well.

People have always craved competition and social engagement in activities.. since the good old days of retro 8bit gaming and arcades.. Online gaming has created a solid foundation in culture and life , I see it only becoming more of a demiurge of social entertainment

I think bonuses are pretty good, but it does largely depend on implementation. But generally, I do kind of enjoy being able to log into a game everyday just to claim some kind of bonus, and I think it’s just a good strategy for game developers to adopt to retain their players. As long as there’s some kind of incentive, that’s usually a good sign of an active game, and I’m sure more online games will adopt the idea.

I think playing competitively while tilted creates poor performance in a game. Like when you lose a game and you grow frustrated, sometimes continuing the game just puts you in a terrible losing streak, since you’re so focused on the loss rather than the objective of the game. I find that taking a break after a loss is often better than continuing a game, since it gives you more time to reflect. Even the best players know how to control their mood when they mess up or lose.

High-quality titles is probably the biggest reason why I enjoy today’s games. You have a mixed bag of all kinds of games to choose from, from the familiar first-party titles that have been around for ages to the third-party titles. But probably what’s been exciting over the years is seeing the growth of Indie games.

This is a nice find , being a father and my daughters becoming addicted , it’s nice to know I can play from the comfort of my personal computer. It’s seems like cross platform is what’s starting to become a new thing !

I’ve enjoyed Spellforce 3 so far, but I haven’t picked up this expansion. My friend and I played half way through the original so far (purchased it this year as something to do together).

This has me excited to finish up and get the expansion!

I think any kind of online game can have pros or cons, but it’s only the matter of what games you decide to play that determines whether it affects you positively or negatively, and simply how you balance it. For instance, I find games with heavy RNG to be frustrating and stressful, but I find games like social simulations, puzzles, etc. to be more on the relaxing side. So the way I might deal with it would be to set a time limit on the frustrating games and spend other time playing games that I know would be better for my health.

If I ever go to a lake house, I would probably want to bring an underwater GoPro with me and just record stuff in the water. Seems like there would be a lot of fun things to do at a lake house, and fortunately the climate I’m in is suitable for it.