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Something to Sidetalk About

Posted by Zonk on from the adventures-in-poor-design dept.

nigelthezebra writes "The N-Gage is at it again, what with the news that the price is being dropped and that the redesigned handheld is going to be redesigned again. In "Something to Sidetalk About," AllRPG.com's Richard Goodness recounts his experiences with the N-Gage QD. To put a long story short, it's very obvious why the system is failing. When you can't even figure out how to turn something on, you know it's time to go back to the drawing board." From the article: "I've always been a big proponent of the axiom, when in doubt, see if Mr. Casual can do it. Games ought not to need big instruction booklets. They should be simple enough to figure out by picking up and fiddling for a moment or two. Turning a system on, that goes without saying."

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  1. WTF is "softech limited"... by pudding7 · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...and why are they trying to install a Free Browser Plugin when I visit that site.

    and WTF is up with Allrpg.com allowing them to do so?

    1. Re:WTF is "softech limited"... by lunarscape · · Score: 3, Informative

      They don't just "allow" it. They've been doing it forever. It's their main source of advertising revenue. And this article (submitted by the author, no less) is obviously just an attempt to garner some traffic.

  2. Re:getting better at least.... by Dehumanizer · · Score: 3, Informative

    N-Gage doesn't play just N-Gage games.

    It also plays all Series 60 games, and there are thousands. See Handango, for instance.

    There are also several emulators that run on it: MAME (old 8-bit games only), NES, GameBoy, GBC, ZX Spectrum, and others I don't know about.

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