When I first bought a smartphone, I made up all sorts of reasons why I wanted one, but the real reason was that I wanted to experience this new gaming form-fact

When I first bought a smartphone, I made up all sorts of reasons why I wanted one, but the real reason was that I wanted to experience this new gaming form-factor. Surely there would be new, innovative, and exciting games to be played with swipes and taps and a little gyro. I haven't opened a mobile game in years. I'm sure there are good ones out there but: 1) you have to wade through so much crap. 2) every game I've tried has just sucked down battery, and I need power to do phone stuff. 3) I never found a game that had the sort of progression I enjoy from console and PC games. Everything is designed to be played in 5-minute bursts. Sometimes I really want to just sink my teeth into a game, and it seems the only way to do that is play ports or emulated versions of console games. 4) I had trouble finding games that really took advantage of the form factor. So many games are in the style of console or PC games, but in some way compromised to fit on a phone, be it an on-screen controller, watered-down gameplay, etc. I know there will be rebuttals to points 2-4, but to that I say, see point 1. At some point it wasn't worth wading through the games I didn't enjoy to find one that I might.