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My estimate is...
50% iPad
30% PC (bootcamp)
20% mac
Many years ago it was consoles but they bore me now. Then i was mostly mac but then had to have Planet Coaster which is Win only. Now its more iPad cause i can play in bed or wherever i want. As i get older i no longer care about frame rate or fast paced action. I just want to pick up where i left off. Sort of a continue that 'story' if you will.
The one big drawback of so much iPad gaming is battery life that i now have to keep tabs of. When i played console or mac more i didnt worry about that as they are always plugged in. A trade off i understand though. Now wheres that darn lightning cable...
Planet Coaster is a good game, there should be a iPad version.
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iPad has PUBG.
Fo what it does or is intended to do, PC (the game) is awesome. I love the sandbox, creative mode, but got side tracked with some survival games so have not played it in a bit.
Planet Coaster is a different beast. Its quite CPU intensive. All those NPCs are individual AIs, rather than bulk controlled. The more NPCs in the park, the slower the game gets. The iPad would have a hard time.
Yeah, I watched a YouTube game on a pc when the park was shown with all the people and rides it seemed the frame rate went down to 15fps, great game, perhaps there could be a enhanced or lower specification version for iPad?
As not a programmer, I’d imagine you’d get the most realistic crowd behavior with individual A.I. Although I have no real clue if bulk programming would produce similarly realistic results.
It has been said the new switch can do multithreading so perhaps it will be able to do planet coaster, why can’t iPad Pro not do it, the processing seems good enough?
I play on PC through my console, I’ve been using the GeForce Now service on my Nvidia Shield TV I got for Christmas, so far I’ve played through We Happy Few, and now I’m playing Mutant Year Zero: Road To Eden, I also have my Nintendo Switch.
I’ve put my PS4 Pro away and my Xbox One S as I wasn’t giving them any time.
I want to Play the new Metro game on my Shield but I need to get a keyboard and Mouse as the PC version the service uses doesn’t support game controllers.
I’ve put my PS4 Pro away and my Xbox One S as I wasn’t giving them any time.
I want to Play the new Metro game on my Shield but I need to get a keyboard and Mouse as the PC version the service uses doesn’t support game controllers.
Mainly PC.
I want to love mobile games, I really do...but the quality of mobile games is horrible. Basically most of the games look alike, and the focus seem to be not on quality of the gameplay and the experience as whole, but how much money developers can rake in by selling you items via microtransactions.
When developers shift their focus to quality, I will be there, waiting.
Which basically keeps me playing Bejeweled clones most of the time, I am playing something just to keep my mind occupied and relax when I have nothing smarter to do.
I want to love mobile games, I really do...but the quality of mobile games is horrible. Basically most of the games look alike, and the focus seem to be not on quality of the gameplay and the experience as whole, but how much money developers can rake in by selling you items via microtransactions.
When developers shift their focus to quality, I will be there, waiting.
Which basically keeps me playing Bejeweled clones most of the time, I am playing something just to keep my mind occupied and relax when I have nothing smarter to do.
They don’t seem to happy, what is in that cake they were eating?, I have not played it.
Haha it’s an interesting game, you play as the main character, then do stories for two of the characters the main one meets, and it integrates into the story so you see some scenes from the other persons perspective.
It was alright. But the last character is mad and just hurled abuse at everyone and some of it is pretty bad I have to say..
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I’m only playing Consol (Xbox 360) now when the Grandkids show up. I’m 98% PC, 2% iOS. Keyboard-mouse still rules.