All Android games suck

ardoreal · 12:31 AM

I just say that because my wife is playing "Spider" for the iPhone sitting there on the couch.

There's all this great artwork and beautiful audio, and then I sit here with my Droid and I feel like a chump. I got no game.
:o

To elaborate, check these out...

Bet you can tell which version is the iPhone, and which version is the Android version. I'm starting to get really sick of Android, Google's crap, and this crappy touchscreen on the Droid. I should have never traded out. The apps, games, and movies suck on this device and I'm quite frankly sick of it. I'm thinking of ditching Droid and replacing it with some cheap crappy Pearl for my company phone, and going back to iPhone.

In a world of DOES, DROID DOESN'T!!!!!

the rick · 02-14-2010, 12:52 AM

they had 1 phone on the smallest of the big carriers (tmobile) for about a year. They have had many phones available for about 3 months now and the app market has more then doubled in that time frame
its not going to be perfect over night

Ripjames · 02-14-2010, 01:44 AM

what game is that

cmorty72 · 02-14-2010, 02:07 AM

Give it a little time amigo.
I'm sure in the very near future (especially when Flash 10.1 rears it's head), we'll be seeing more than our share of kick-ass games coming out for android.
The market is already growing bigger with every day (now weather or not most of these apps are worth a damn and useful is a matter of opinion).

bbrosen · 02-14-2010, 02:16 AM

Android platform is built in such a way that it will limit apps to work in a very small footprint of the phones internal memory, apps will be stunted in size, graphics, etc. Also with Android, programs just run in the background, taking up valuable memory from things you do want to run. I am not sure why this is used as a mobile phone platform, it does not seem very efficient.

I have the HTC Hero, former Iphone user here so i know your pain. My hero is slow, laggy and the games are awful. The graphics all look like they are from 10 years ago.

Android has potential but no direction. I was very frustrated to learn with android you just cannot go to Google and update to the latest OS level either.

I realize Android is new, but it has such a long way to go to catch up to what is already out there. If you are a geek, and you like to fiddle with your phone all the time to manage it and it's performance, then it's for you. You have limitless possibilities for customization. But they are high maint phones.

I don't see it getting much better anytime soon, but I am stuck with my carrier for now and this phone. It is not a very well thought out OS nor is it very intuitive or natural to use.

If things do not improve dramatically to what I am used to having, then I will switch back when the time comes.

If anyone knows how to fix the HTC Hero issues, ie lagginess, freezes, slow loading, quirky screen pop ups etc etc, I could use some help.

Many times after listening to music, I will get a call, or make a call about an hour later, and when i hang up, the music will start back up again...very annoying.

Sometimes when i hang up a call, the search screen pops up, or the calander will pop up, very weird.

If I am talking on the phone, the screen goes blank, and then later, the lock screen activates. To hang up i have to 1: push the volume key to bring my screen back 2: swipe the lock screen off 3: then hang up, other wise calls do not hang up

Not sure why hanging up is a 3 step process but it is.

my dial pad keeps closeing itself out and if i have to work my way thru an automated voicemail, system, as I often do for my job, i have to constantly bring back the keypad, it won't just stay there.

I cannot do more than 1 app at a time, phone freezes, crashes, locks up or force closes one or both apps.

Any help to a frustrated new android user would help. i use a task killer but hate it because i hate to micromanage my phone all the time. I try without it but it becomes impossible to use very fast without it.

I do battery pulls, and hard resets as well as swap the phone out...any help will be much appreciated, thanks!

Andrew Ruffolo · 03:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bbrosen

Android platform is built in such a way that it will limit apps to work in a very small footprint of the phones internal memory, apps will be stunted in size, graphics, etc. Also with Android, programs just run in the background, taking up valuable memory from things you do want to run. I am not sure why this is used as a mobile phone platform, it does not seem very efficient.

I have the HTC Hero, former Iphone user here so i know your pain. My hero is slow, laggy and the games are awful. The graphics all look like they are from 10 years ago.

Android has potential but no direction. I was very frustrated to learn with android you just cannot go to Google and update to the latest OS level either.

I realize Android is new, but it has such a long way to go to catch up to what is already out there. If you are a geek, and you like to fiddle with your phone all the time to manage it and it's performance, then it's for you. You have limitless possibilities for customization. But they are high maint phones.

I don't see it getting much better anytime soon, but I am stuck with my carrier for now and this phone. It is not a very well thought out OS nor is it very intuitive or natural to use.

If things do not improve dramatically to what I am used to having, then I will switch back when the time comes.

If anyone knows how to fix the HTC Hero issues, ie lagginess, freezes, slow loading, quirky screen pop ups etc etc, I could use some help.

Many times after listening to music, I will get a call, or make a call about an hour later, and when i hang up, the music will start back up again...very annoying.

Sometimes when i hang up a call, the search screen pops up, or the calander will pop up, very weird.

If I am talking on the phone, the screen goes blank, and then later, the lock screen activates. To hang up i have to 1: push the volume key to bring my screen back 2: swipe the lock screen off 3: then hang up, other wise calls do not hang up

Not sure why hanging up is a 3 step process but it is.

my dial pad keeps closeing itself out and if i have to work my way thru an automated voicemail, system, as I often do for my job, i have to constantly bring back the keypad, it won't just stay there.

I cannot do more than 1 app at a time, phone freezes, crashes, locks up or force closes one or both apps.

Any help to a frustrated new android user would help. i use a task killer but hate it because i hate to micromanage my phone all the time. I try without it but it becomes impossible to use very fast without it.

I do battery pulls, and hard resets as well as swap the phone out...any help will be much appreciated, thanks!

Your problem is that you use a task killer and don't close programs properly. Ever since I ditches the task killer and started using the back button to close programs, everything has been snappy, responsive and conservative on the battery. Also, I restart my phone once a day. Been extremely content since. Battery pulls are not necessary unless phone freezes. If it freezes, its probably an app that's the problem, not the phones fault. Root/rom generally produces better performance. I'm waiting until I get 2.1 to see if I'm going to root as its supposed to be more efficient. Also, download an app called proximity sensor. It's made just for hers and will fix your in call issues.

ardoreal · 02-14-2010, 09:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rufflez

Your problem is that you use a task killer and don't close programs properly. Ever since I ditches the task killer and started using the back button to close programs, everything has been snappy, responsive and conservative on the battery. Also, I restart my phone once a day. Been extremely content since. Battery pulls are not necessary unless phone freezes. If it freezes, its probably an app that's the problem, not the phones fault. Root/rom generally produces better performance. I'm waiting until I get 2.1 to see if I'm going to root as its supposed to be more efficient. Also, download an app called proximity sensor. It's made just for hers and will fix your in call issues.

You shouldn't have to think about using a task killer. Nor should you have to reboot your phone, ever.

With an iPhone an app very seldom, if ever, causes a complete freeze. I don't ever remember a time when I had to hard reset my iPhone, everything just always worked. I could run a game, then run an app, then listen to some music. I could do a hundred things with it going from one activity to another. I was able to run a good IM program that didn't drain my battery either.

I agree with BGR too, that if an app as intuitive and thoughtful as Tweetie ever hit the Android Market it would crash, burn, and die from the demand. The apps suck, the games suck, the crashes and battery pulls suck.

I have had to pull my Droid's battery many times because of a hard freeze. I would customize the heck out of it but it was all always hollow, because all I did was give a makeover to something that still ultimately didn't do what I wanted it to. I'm realizing that the "open-ness" and "customizability" of Android is all just a veil. It's all hollow because you still can't do many things with a Droid that you can with an iPhone, or Pre for that matter.

I don't care about maturity and potential, I care about what it has to offer me right now. It doesn't matter that "soon I can browse my photos in a 3D gallery" because ultimately, the Droid takes sh1t pictures that look like ass compared to the Pre or iPhone. I can't thoughtfully trim video either.

I don't see EA showing an interest in Android because of the fragmented landscape and platform instability. There's no unified SDK and Google is perhaps more rigid than Apple in what their platform can do. We don't have a multitouch keyboard because some bozo sits there and thinks we should "just use it one handed". We can't enjoy apps rich in audio and graphics because some @sshole thinks we'll all pirate apps if they make it to the SD card, yet the marketing people still call it a 16GB phone. In reality it's just a 256mb phone that we pay hundreds for.

I'm sick of Android and all its garbage, I'm sick of battery pulls and the idea I should have to run a task killer. I'd dare say that's on par with Windows 95. If you have an OS that can't manage memory on its own you should go back to the drawing board because that puts you in the old Win95 days when stuff would just break for some extraneous reason.

I am generally pretty well to do, so biting the bullet really isn't all that hard for me. It's just money, I want what I want and I'm going to get a jailbroken iPhone and just deal with a 2.5G local carrier. This Droid's done for, I hate it.

Ripjames · 02-14-2010, 12:39 PM

not to dog on iPhone, because I did love my iPhone, but I had to reboot it every day or I would have trouble, and than still times I would have to reboot the phone because it was sluggish. I don't think my hero is any better or worse in this respect. Once android lets us run apps, (officially) from the SD card we'll start seeing apps on the market of the same quality as those on the iphone app store

Jeremy Sikora · 02-14-2010, 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ardoreal

You shouldn't have to think about using a task killer. Nor should you have to reboot your phone, ever.

With an iPhone an app very seldom, if ever, causes a complete freeze. I don't ever remember a time when I had to hard reset my iPhone, everything just always worked. I could run a game, then run an app, then listen to some music. I could do a hundred things with it going from one activity to another. I was able to run a good IM program that didn't drain my battery either.

I agree with BGR too, that if an app as intuitive and thoughtful as Tweetie ever hit the Android Market it would crash, burn, and die from the demand. The apps suck, the games suck, the crashes and battery pulls suck.

I have had to pull my Droid's battery many times because of a hard freeze. I would customize the heck out of it but it was all always hollow, because all I did was give a makeover to something that still ultimately didn't do what I wanted it to. I'm realizing that the "open-ness" and "customizability" of Android is all just a veil. It's all hollow because you still can't do many things with a Droid that you can with an iPhone, or Pre for that matter.

I don't care about maturity and potential, I care about what it has to offer me right now. It doesn't matter that "soon I can browse my photos in a 3D gallery" because ultimately, the Droid takes sh1t pictures that look like ass compared to the Pre or iPhone. I can't thoughtfully trim video either.

I don't see EA showing an interest in Android because of the fragmented landscape and platform instability. There's no unified SDK and Google is perhaps more rigid than Apple in what their platform can do. We don't have a multitouch keyboard because some bozo sits there and thinks we should "just use it one handed". We can't enjoy apps rich in audio and graphics because some @sshole thinks we'll all pirate apps if they make it to the SD card, yet the marketing people still call it a 16GB phone. In reality it's just a 256mb phone that we pay hundreds for.

I'm sick of Android and all its garbage, I'm sick of battery pulls and the idea I should have to run a task killer. I'd dare say that's on par with Windows 95. If you have an OS that can't manage memory on its own you should go back to the drawing board because that puts you in the old Win95 days when stuff would just break for some extraneous reason.

I am generally pretty well to do, so biting the bullet really isn't all that hard for me. It's just money, I want what I want and I'm going to get a jailbroken iPhone and just deal with a 2.5G local carrier. This Droid's done for, I hate it.

If I was as angry as you... I'd go back to iPhone. While I agree with *some* things you say, you have to understand each platform has their own unique pros and cons. Nobody claimed Android to be a gaming machine nor will it ever be. At least not in the near future.

As for all of your lockups and battery pulls and task killer talk, I have no issues with any of that on my Nexus One or my iPhone 3GS.

Jared DiPane · 02-14-2010, 02:18 PM

I would have to say that since owning an Android, I have yet to be forced to pull the battery out of the device due to it freezing. Now on my BlackBerry, yes I had to do that, and sometimes frequently.

I agree with Jeremy in that I have never seen the Android described to be a gaming interface or brag about any of the gaming capabilities. I think the developers are concentrating where the market share is, and honestly thats still in the iPhone and Blackberry markets, as the Android appears to just be on the up and up.

I use Task Killer, and I have never had an issue with it, works like a charm since day one. Set it to not kill the apps I want to run and it works like a champion for the rest of the apps running.