Exactly. Open your minds, guys. 
Computers don’t have analog sticks or triggers, either. 
I want to destroy anyone and everyone who enforces that in their games. But yeah, touchscreen shooters work just fine, look at RE4 and BC2 on iPod/Phone/Pad.
About my previous post about wanting a Shield for HL2 and Portal: I’ve been looking (quite obsessively I might add) at the TegraZone shop for games. You can get all 5 episodes of The Walking Dead and 400 Days for 15 dollars, then HL2 and Portal are 10 dollars each. Then Dead on Arrival 2 and Dead Trigger 2, both free, look really good. DoA2 looks a lot like SAS 3, which I love on my iPod. If I could map that to the controls on Shield, that’d be amazing. I honestly need to get a summer job, because I don’t think I’d get one for Christmas, considering I don’t play my 3DS XL much and I got that Xmas 2012, haha. I also forgot, YOU CAN HAZ TEH SANIC GAEMZ!!!111111!!!1!oneoneone!!!11111
I’m considering purchasing the EVGA Tegra Note 7 which is currently the cheapest tegra 4 device that will run HL2/Portal and doesn’t require either game to be patched or modified in any way to run.
Pretty sure HL2 and Portal are Shield exclusives. Could be wrong though, but you would think it’d be talked about more if it was on all Tegra 4 devices.
I completely ignored the Shield and was largely referring to HL2’s release on Tegra smartphones, because lets be honest, no one gives a shit about the Shield. It’s a horrible form factor and should be a smartphone but isn’t. It’s a completely doomed device.
Serious smartphone gaming/FPS’s won’t be respectable until someone comes along with an ordinary smartphone that has an analog/triggers attachment that can be easily attached and detached as well as a solid first party lineup and/or enough weight to bring in a whole bunch of specifically designed 3rd party titles.
Basically it’s not happening until Apple does it, and once Apple does it’ll be huge. I personally think Nintendo would be the perfect fit (something like make an Android based Nintendo DS smartphone with a detachable bottom half and the DS games lineup), but we all know Nintendo has its head way too far up its ass to do anything smart and thinks the smartphone market is a rabid pitbull.
The definition of oxymoron.
Also:
I just think it’s too expensive for something that ONLY works with your android-devices, personally. It has to be cheap to take off in a smartphone market.
On the play store it’s only available for the Shield, but via “sideloading” it has been reported to run on any tegra 4 device with at least 1GB of RAM (2 recommended)
I was thinking more a long the lines of a case like thing that wraps around your phone and makes it look/feel like a Gameboy Advanced only with analog sticks and a couple extra buttons. That or a DS style clamshell. Anything controller shaped ruins the form factor. Serious smartphone gaming is only an oxymoron now because no one has figured out how to cash into the market because you need to simultaneously solve two problems:
- provide a clean, cheap and thin input system so you don’t need to use virtual buttons/sticks
- get enough first and/or third party launch titles to attract customers and developers
I have a general rule for consumer electronics that especially applies here: A smartphone can always do it better. There should be no such thing as a handheld electronic that isn’t your smartphone because your smartphone can do or at the very least has the potential to do anything. If your smartphone can’t do it better it’s a failure of implementation and someone somewhere will make a fortune off fixing the implementation.
First paragraph: “It’s a good day to be an NVIDIA SHIELD owner. Valve’s Android ports of PC shooter classics Portal and Half-Life 2 just dropped in the Play Store for $10 a pop. They’re only for the SHIELD (even other devices with the Tegra 4 chipset aren’t invited to the party), which is a bit of a mixed blessing - these games really require a full controller to play.”
When you think about it, HL2 and Portal wouldn’t work on touch devices. They need a controller.
EDIT: A comment by Cheeseball says: “I can confirm it works PERFECTLY on the Tegra Note 7, as long as you have a proper HID-supported/GameMapper-compatible gamepad. My Tegra Note 7 is not overclocked and is running on stock 4.4.2.” Never mind, your Tegra Note 7 should work.
you’re a maniac if you think portal wouldn’t be playable with touchscreen controls.
There’s minimal input outside of jump, move, primary portal secondary portal.
It could be done decently enough.
Well, Portal might be OK, but HL2? No way.
waits for someone to port SG
What is this SG you speak of?