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hayseman

iPhone games are basically hit or miss. Its hard to determine for us to determine which games are worth our money and which games are a complete rip off. The good but also the bad aspect of having it be so easy to post up and sell games for this device you are bound to get everything from both ends of the spectrum. I have three games now and I am pretty satisfied with them but if I find a game that looks interesting but I am uncertain about it I would look it up on youtube. I found that there are a lot of people reviewing games and applications on that site. So its a great resource to tap into if you want to do some research.

This reminds me a lot of Newgrounds.com (a user created flash web community) and they have a place where people can post flash games. Now this site has everything in terms of quality. You get the unimaginable worst to the mind blowing best. But the thing is about that site is that everything is free and I think that is how the iphone games should be set up. Honestly I thought when I first heard about the ability to add on applications easily, I though that this could become the next Linux/Unix movement but, I was wrong.

I laughed when you talked about the game covers of the Ateri games. I remember as a kid I used to look at these covers and just allow my imagination run wild about how the game would play. And of course when I actually played the game I was very disappointed to find that the game was not even remotely close to representing the artwork on the box. lol. Remember when they would send those big holiday catalogs to your house during the holidays (I think they were 500 pages) and you would turn to the video game page and all that was there to advertise the game was one screen shot and a title? I remember looking at those screen shots for hours just dreaming what this game was like and how cool it is going to be to see it in action. Its funny now with the media being the way it is I hardly even look at the screen shots anymore and I just focus on the trailers but back in those days those screen shots were the best thing in the world!

But back to the iPhone. I think Apple should do one of these two things: make the user created content free for everyone or develop a sophisticated filtration system so no more games like 'Shake the Baby' can get posted and distributed.

Other then that. Its all good. :-)

P.S. I am glad that I am not the only one that can't figure out XNA. :-)