fastbilly1 wrote:
I tried playing the Red Alert 3 game made for touch screens and it was super painful. It would have been ok with a mouse or a some hard keys for commands, but the entire situation. I think Turn Based Strategy would be the perfect genre for touchscreens. A Civ game for your phone, now thats a scary thought.
My only problem with touch screen RTS is numerous, at least in its current state. They need to make touch screens more responsive and more accurate. There are an almost infinite number of times when I have touched the screen and had nothing happen, or have it press a completely different button.
They also would have to implement a multi-point system where I can touch and drag numerous spots on the screen simultaneously for multiple highlighting and command giving.
Even though I personally suck at the RTS genre, I know that responsiveness and multi-tasking are essential and with the current state of tablets and touch screens, that is just not as possible as with a PC, BUT it does have the potential to be better in the future with developing technologies.
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Valkyrie-Favor wrote:What do you guys think about the potential for new RTS games on touch screen, especially tablets? What about ports of PC games?
I've liked some that I've tried, like Plants versus Zombies (sorta counts I guess) - however, I think tournament level play is heavy on keyboard shortcuts to up actions per minute, which may not lend itself to touch.
In general I think it'd be one of the more promising genres to make touch control versions of though, at least for more casual play.
I tried playing the Red Alert 3 game made for touch screens and it was super painful. It would have been ok with a mouse or a some hard keys for commands, but the entire situation. I think Turn Based Strategy would be the perfect genre for touchscreens. A Civ game for your phone, now thats a scary thought.
Guess this might be a good place for a weird Steam question.
I dual monitor with my TV, so I've been using Steam's Big Picture mode over on that. Works really well, but whenever I exit out of Steam, all my desktop icons are over on my TV when they should be on my monitor. Anyone know what's up with this?
I don't have many icons on the desktop nowadays, but it's still a little annoying.
Nope. Should it be? I think I do remember I had to mess with some stuff to get Big Picture to be placed on it. Otherwise I want my desktop, toolbar, and everything else on my monitor.
