Remember when an N64-ass port of Bioshock to phones was groundbreaking and newsworthy?
What’s changed since then isn’t any shortcoming of phone hardware, interface, or infrastructure. It’s no-cover-charge casinos disguised as video games. We went from Flash games being as omnipresent and made-for-fun as any drawing or story people share online, to being expected to pay a dollar for foreign knockoffs of those dinky little games, to console-quality graphics atop Skinner boxes that will take a thousand goddamn dollars if you let their hooks slide in.
Remember when an N64-ass port of Bioshock to phones was groundbreaking and newsworthy?
What’s changed since then isn’t any shortcoming of phone hardware, interface, or infrastructure. It’s no-cover-charge casinos disguised as video games. We went from Flash games being as omnipresent and made-for-fun as any drawing or story people share online, to being expected to pay a dollar for foreign knockoffs of those dinky little games, to console-quality graphics atop Skinner boxes that will take a thousand goddamn dollars if you let their hooks slide in.