I understand why this is difficult, but have found a repeatable (easy-ish) fix.
On the iPhone (and this sucks, because it's for the people trying to send you a SMS [not you on your new Android device]):
1) Turn off iMessage (from the Settings)
2) Go and send a SMS to the phone number of the Android device.
3) Turn back on iMessage
-Note: If this doesn't work, before #1; delete the number from the contact and add it back after #1.
Games will eventually start being more and more similar to movies or to real-life. Better AI, better graphics, interesting ways of presentation and good stories. But the genres will remain the same, with rarely any innovation - if any at all.
This is what I think should happen, but I think that the story should not be linear cut and dry. I like multiple endings, I like being able to change the character/story as time progresses/the mood I'm in.
Game developers I feel should be less story tellers, and more of environment builders allowing us to progress with the tools they allow us under our own intellect and capabilities. Let us create the story in the world that they give us.
It's because people are stuck in these linear games with absolutely minimal amounts of ability to change the outcome or environment. Game devlopers have lost their ability to let the imagination of the gamer come through. It's sad that people haven't pushed enough to cause some changes. I don't blame the developers, they're giving what the majority of the consumers want...MINDLESS GAMES.
If we all pushed a little we could get games that are bleeding edge and innovative, but the number of these titles will be limited as long as every joe schome dishes out his 50$USD for some mindless point and click linearly story driven boxed pile of horse *!@#!
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I understand why this is difficult, but have found a repeatable (easy-ish) fix.
On the iPhone (and this sucks, because it's for the people trying to send you a SMS [not you on your new Android device]):
1) Turn off iMessage (from the Settings)
2) Go and send a SMS to the phone number of the Android device.
3) Turn back on iMessage
-Note: If this doesn't work, before #1; delete the number from the contact and add it back after #1.
Why not go the way of the market and just go with ADS?
It's because people are stuck in these linear games with absolutely minimal amounts of ability to change the outcome or environment. Game devlopers have lost their ability to let the imagination of the gamer come through. It's sad that people haven't pushed enough to cause some changes. I don't blame the developers, they're giving what the majority of the consumers want...MINDLESS GAMES.
If we all pushed a little we could get games that are bleeding edge and innovative, but the number of these titles will be limited as long as every joe schome dishes out his 50$USD for some mindless point and click linearly story driven boxed pile of horse *!@#!
Just my thoughts