>Splinter Cell used to be so relevant that you could play a unique version of it on a 2002 mobile potato
>Now stealth is dead and you can't even convince Ubisoft to make a faithful entry
>Splinter Cell used to be so relevant that you could play a unique version of it on a 2002 mobile potato
A game available on phone has nothing to do with relevance.
Except the N-Gage was its own failed console with its own library of games that happened to have cellular capabilities. You're thinking of the modern definition of a mobile game which isn't the same thing at all. Also SC absolutely peaked in relevance back in 2005, otherwise why else would they have ported this game to a failed handheld console with a non-existent market share.
Nokia was too far ahead for their own good
Yeah I still ny ngage sometimes. I was using it as a phone until they started shutting off the 2g/3g towers around me
You bought an N-Gage, didn't you?
No just amazed the port was possible. I had Chaos Theory on Xbox
I wanted one but I'm glad I never got one.
It would have almost been the game.com all over again. Still feel stupid thinking that Tiger Electronics could make a half-decent portable console.
>N-Gage
to be fair this thing was basically a GBA
the ct port on ngage runs better than the ds port, take that as you will
A GBA with 5x times the power processing.
This thing was even able to play PS1 games if you have the storage
Not even close. Tony hawk and tomb raider are just slightly gimped versions of their psx counterparts and they run pretty frickin good. Tony hawk is easily beatable on ngage I've done it quite a few times, less for tomb raider, but its stull very playable after getting used to the control scheme. Splinter cell runs ok, but it's quite clunky with all the buttons being on the number pad, call of duty is the real shit fest. Fricking horrible. Most games run well on ngage, shadowkey even runs at a playable frame rate, not to mention all the racing games that play similar to psx racers. You're a fool
I sure do love b***hing about the current state of a game franchise/dev/publisher on a retro game board
Is Splinter Cell the "you have to learn guards' patrol patterns and wait until they leave to move" or the "you can kill everyone ninja style without alerting anyone" kind of stealth?
Both.
What's a good one to play, I completely noped out of these at the time because I was so bothered about the iraq war I just wanted to tune out all armchair tough guy media
Maybe you should stick to your Dendy and 128 in 1 cart, comrade.
Tom Clancy's first wife simulator
Stealth is such a boring genre.
Half the game is spent waiting for guard rotations.
>Half the game is spent waiting for guard rotations.
Anons keep repeating this shit and it drives me mad. Because you don't have to do that at all. You can be proactive. The YouTube obsession with "true" "ghost" playthroughs have ruined your enjoyment of the games.
if anything, the sc game that popularized ghosting is the one that casualized things by loading you up on gear and offering a thousand solutions, whereas prior entries would arguably force ghosting on you more often
>the sc game that popularized ghosting is the one that casualized things by loading you up on gear and offering a thousand solutions
that's not what "true ghost" is. If you're using any of your tools to interact with enemies you're breaking ghost rules going by autistic definitions going back from the era of Thief playthroughs. Another thing is what modern stealth games call "ghosting" which is simply a non-lethal playthough.
we need a 2024 n-gage
>stealth is dead
Good riddance
>Stealth is still alive and kicking
As expected
Does anything else require battery removal to play a different g*me?
The N-Gage QD was based as frick and I don't care what anyone says about it.
Tony Hawk on your phone with physical controls was awesome and there were a few other OK games on it as well. The real draw was NES, Game Gear, Genesis, and somewhat serviceable SNES emulation. Even today you can't emulate games on your phone worth a shit unless you have some bulky tacked on controller.