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Posted by: Big Black Bear
What are we supposed to be discussing here?


"Nothing in the 'Verse can stop me."

The mobile platform is one of the most successful platforms for casual gaming. The games are cheap and the technology is readily available to quite a few people.

While I don't agree on using iPad iOS exclusively for this game I will say that it is, in fact, a popular gaming device (among those who own them).

  • 08.31.2011 11:57 PM PDT

I who walk alone in this world wrapped in the arms of the past not knowing what lies ahead of me. What am I? A soulless being to be beaten by the rage of those who hate me? Cutting my way past hopes and dreams. Sit in the window sill as I do every day and night resignations on my slate of who I am and what is left behind. Concealed in the words that chases my every thought. I who walk alone in this world…I am broken


Posted by: urk


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Film at eleven.


posted by : urk

I played it and I can confirm that it is, in fact, a game. A game that you can play on the iPad.
In other news.....is this game any good?

  • 09.01.2011 12:06 AM PDT

I wonder if this guy knows they are not ONLY supporting iPad.

They are supporting other things too, this game was just ipad only though because the developer wanted it that way. Bungie only published the game so I see no harm at all.

  • 09.01.2011 5:08 AM PDT

The iPad is a gaming platform. But for me, I think it's for minigames. Causal games. Not hardcore, long games for experienced gamers.

  • 09.01.2011 5:10 AM PDT

Lurking like a baws. Totally. It's like totally important if I post because I barely post.

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WHO EVEN LOOKS AT SIGNATURES ON BUNGIE.NET ANYWAY???

Yeah it's good, but it's kinda short if you don't shell out the money for the 2nd Chapter.
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Posted by: urk


Furthermore, I'm not wearing pants.
Film at eleven.


posted by : urk

I played it and I can confirm that it is, in fact, a game. A game that you can play on the iPad.
In other news.....is this game any good?

  • 09.01.2011 5:15 AM PDT

Hey there!

It is.Like the ipod/Iphone.
If you don´t think so,than its your opinion,but not the truth.

  • 09.01.2011 5:24 AM PDT

In my opinion you would put something on an Apple device (iPad, iTouch, iPhone) either to test the ideas behind the game, or to have it sate the hunger for an up incoming game like Mass Effect: Galaxy to Mass Effect 2. I'm hoping that they'll later re-release it for Xbox Live arcade.

  • 09.01.2011 5:32 AM PDT

Fast internet ftw

Posted by: WalllessTerror
Off topic, I just downloaded Crimson. Time to see what it's made of.

Later, forum peeps.

Scratch that. I just STARTED the download for Crimson. Load time is gonna be hell.

  • 09.01.2011 6:53 AM PDT

It's for casuals. It's imprecise, the games lack depth or storyline, the method of controlling the "games" is just weird. I mean, only kids and soccer moms would get any enjoyment out of this overpriced game-platform-wannabe. Seriously, this is what's wrong with gaming, the Golden Age is over.

What am I talking about? Consoles, of course.

Those of us who've been around long enough to remember the first wave of popular consoles are getting one hell of a lot of deja vu every time we read you guys complain about motion controls or iOS devices.

Like it or not, iOS devices are game consoles. And, to take it a step further, they will by far have the most influence on the next generation of consoles. You need to learn to stop being so elitist about video games, as most of my generation did, and just learn to appreciate good games. No matter what platform they're on.

  • 09.01.2011 7:31 AM PDT

By the way, what's with Harebrained Schemes' aversion to using the words "cannons" or "a"? It's just weird to read "more than a dozen cannon" or "where once sea-going fleets carried cannon to defend themselves" lol :P

  • 09.01.2011 7:51 AM PDT

I have an iPad, I'm using it to post this...the game is really fun and should expand to the other I things, it is a good gaming platform like Urk said.

  • 09.01.2011 8:26 AM PDT
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The iPad is, by all technicalities, a gaming system. However, it couldn't possibly hold the qualities an Xbox or PS3 has, along with their graphics, length, and more.

And from what I know of Crimson, it's mostly just a level based game of "Battleship."

  • 09.01.2011 8:29 AM PDT

We were somewhere around Barstow...

As long as devs don't continue to claim they are "pushing the boundaries" by developing for iPad, I don't mind. Just don't try and make us think one of these games will be the new Halo.

  • 09.01.2011 8:32 AM PDT
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Posted by: urk
Furthermore, I'm not wearing pants.
I'd be worried if you were.

  • 09.01.2011 8:36 AM PDT

They call me The Raptor due to my extreme interest in dinosaurs specifically velociraptor.

Like I said before, a computer is technically not a gaming platform but it can be used as one, that said, why can't an ipad be used as a gaming device?

  • 09.01.2011 9:15 AM PDT

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Posted by: AGDTinMan
I have an iPad, and I spend more time playing games on it then I do playing games on my Netflix machine, wait, no, I mean my Xbox 360.

  • 09.01.2011 9:38 AM PDT

Key


Why is it being endorsed as one?

Oh... I must have missed Bungie's official statement that they are going to be publishing a new game for the gaming platform: the iPad.

Shouldn't Bungie be supporting independent PC or XBLA developers, something like that?

Pretty sure that decision isn't up to you and considering the fact that Crimson is going to be on the PC as well, they kind of are?

Furthermore, who here has actually played this game? Who here actually has an iPad?

Lots of people I'm sure are playing it right now due to the fact that it's released today and even on the day of your OP, it was released in New Zealand so there were one or two kiwis playing it.

Researching the game you're going to insult before insulting it ftw!

  • 09.01.2011 9:49 AM PDT

Hello.

Is good day, yes?

Technically this, technically that.

Stop avoiding the OP.

  • 09.01.2011 9:52 AM PDT

If I had a Rocket Launcher, I'd make somebody pay.

Crimson does look like a game to me.

  • 09.01.2011 9:55 AM PDT
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Trying something once will increace your chances of success, because you tried it. Try someting twice, and your chances increase yet again - seeing as you've done it. Try something a few thousand times, and your chances of success is exponentially increased; this increase would likely provide success every time

While I agree, it's not meant to be a game platform, it's being used like one. Just like phones, computers (Business is serious stuff, which is what it was originally meant for).

Really, I'm shocked at the ignorance todays gaming world offers.

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Posted by: Jonse
Shouldn't Bungie be supporting independent PC or XBLA developers, something like that?


Just elaborate on that point, with evidence.

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  • 09.01.2011 10:04 AM PDT

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Posted by: urk
I played it and I can confirm that it is, in fact, a game. A game that you can play on the iPad.

Furthermore, I'm not wearing pants.



You can also play a game on a watch sometimes. That's beside the point.


You can play games on a table. A table is not a game.

YOUR MOVE

yea but to be fair, the table is a platform that you can play games on, can't really say the same about the ipad

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Posted by: Hoggs Bison
Seriously, this is what's wrong with gaming, the Golden Age is over.

Wait wait wait...are you trying to create a paradox? You lampoon a new advent in the medium and then go on for two paragraphs about how people should be more tolerant. Am confused.

  • 09.01.2011 11:47 AM PDT

"At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box"

Line i think should be in firefight: Go blarg yourself!!!

any device that can play a game will have games made for it, and give a valid reason its not a "gaming platform" and define "gaming platform" if you will.


Posted by: Halo 2 K1ng
The iPad is a gaming platform. But for me, I think it's for minigames. Causal games. Not hardcore, long games for experienced gamers.
i agree with this, i DL games to my ipod touch that are fun little games, none of them are hardcore full on games im gonna play for hours and hours, i play them when im not at home to kill time when im bored

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  • 09.01.2011 12:10 PM PDT