{"id":1544,"date":"2008-06-30T14:14:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T14:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2008-06-30T14:14:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T14:14:22","slug":"why-the-current-n-gage-games-are-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/why-the-current-n-gage-games-are-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Current N-Gage Games Are Crap."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simpla answer, because it&#8217;s going to take the programmers and developers a lot longer to get up to speed with the system. All the signs are that this summer&#8217;s Reset Generation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutngage.com\/features\/item\/Previewing_Reset_Generation.php\">preview here<\/a>) will be the first &#8216;true&#8217; N-Gage game for the new gaming platform of S60 v3. Anyway, more indepth stuff on today&#8217;s editorial at All About Symbian.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In short order Krisse and I looked (electronically) at him and said that it\u2019s way too early to make that sort of comparison. After all, the games Steve is probably remembering from the N-Gage classic are titles like Pathway to Glory or System Rush, while the new N-Gage titles springing to mind are titles like Midnight Pool (AAN&#8217;s review) and Sims 2:Pets (AAN&#8217;s review). This isn\u2019t a fair comparison \u2013 not because they are different games, but because they are at different stages in the life cycle of their respective platforms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutngage.com\/features\/item\/The_Next_Gen_Gaming_Platform_Please_Hold_For_Continued_Service.php\">Read on, MacDuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simpla answer, because it&#8217;s going to take the programmers and developers a lot longer to get up to speed with the system. All the signs are that this summer&#8217;s Reset Generation (preview here) will be the first &#8216;true&#8217; N-Gage game for the new gaming platform of S60 v3. Anyway, more indepth stuff on today&#8217;s editorial at All About Symbian. In short order Krisse and I looked (electronically) at him and said that it\u2019s way too early to make that sort of comparison. After all, the games Steve is probably remembering from the N-Gage classic are titles like Pathway to Glory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[13],"tags":[339,116,159],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-my-articles","tag-crap","tag-games","tag-n-gage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-oU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}