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Android Gaming Thread: News & Recommendations
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/...d&utm_medium=WidgetWeb&utm_campaign=Playboard
brandnew boy, seems interesting enough, and google play page says it's compatible even to my s2
brandnew boy, seems interesting enough, and google play page says it's compatible even to my s2
newdayrocks
Member
Can anyone recommend a good Game Boy/GBA emulator?
For GBA games I use GameBoid (not on google play)
If you just want GB color games, Gameboy Color A.D. (which is on google play) is pretty good.
ihearthawthats
Banned
I like GBA.emu.
KojiKnight
Member
What's the consensus on Agarest War? I've always been kind of curious, but $15 is a fairly steep price... especially at 2GB install.
jim-jam bongs
Member
I've only played it for a couple of hours, but I enjoyed it. Quite an interesting battle system, but the story seems a little trite at this stage.
I have to admit, and this may be a bit off topic, but I don't know if I could spend 15 bucks on a mobile game unless it was straight, into my veins, sort of crack.
In other news, I've put about 25 hours into Brave frontier. So many facets to this game that I'm just getting in. I don't understand the need to have "energy" in the game, but I guess that is the bucking trend.
In other news, I've put about 25 hours into Brave frontier. So many facets to this game that I'm just getting in. I don't understand the need to have "energy" in the game, but I guess that is the bucking trend.
jim-jam bongs
Member
I have a Shield, so I'm much more inclined to buy a $15 game which supports controllers on a whim. I have no idea why Square are so averse to adding support for physical controls to their games, I'd even blow cash on those if they did.
DualShadow
Member
Brave Frontier is like crack, I think I'm addicted. Haven't spent any money on and haven't come across any walls yet. But would definitely be nice to have no energy, luckily you get more as you level up though.
So, it doesn't work. At all, in anything.
Rodney McKay
Member
Most recent Rayman Jungle Run update broke the game on my Note 2.
It loads the first splash screen and then crashes. This game has seriously had some of the WORST updates in memory. It was the first game I've played where an update erased all of my save data (a 100% completion I think), and now it's not even working because of an update those only purpose was to get the game running on a few newer phones, ugh.
And what's even worse is that I didn't even have auto update on, I manually chose to update the game for whatever insane reason!
It loads the first splash screen and then crashes. This game has seriously had some of the WORST updates in memory. It was the first game I've played where an update erased all of my save data (a 100% completion I think), and now it's not even working because of an update those only purpose was to get the game running on a few newer phones, ugh.
And what's even worse is that I didn't even have auto update on, I manually chose to update the game for whatever insane reason!
It works in Robert Brobiglia's .emu emulators.
Not since Android 4.2 launched a year and a half ago. :-(
I was thinking of double dipping sonic on Android after I bought it on ios. This is the exact reason I didn't after reading all the horrid reviews about game breaking updates on Google Play.
Joe Dever's Lone Wolf is on sale: play store
It's a choose your own adventure game.
It has a lot of text, which is to be expected for these kind of games. And the battle is fully 3d with some QTEs.
It's a choose your own adventure game.
It has a lot of text, which is to be expected for these kind of games. And the battle is fully 3d with some QTEs.
Rodney McKay
Member
In defense of Android in general, Rayman is the only game I've ever had this happen with. The Play Store does make it easy to turn off autoupdates and looking at the most up-to-date reviews will usually tell you if it breaks the game or not (you can even search for app reviews by people who have the same device you have).
But then again I don't do too much gaming on Android, so it may be problem with other games that I haven't owned yet.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Not sure if it has already been posted, but Shardlands is a pretty cool 3rd person puzzler. It looks great and runs very smoothly on my Nexus 5, and one thing I really appreciate is that it uses the new "immersive mode", which makes the game truly full-screen by removing both the status bar and the navigation bar. Wish more/all games did this.
It's a bit aggressive with the ads in the free version though. Unskippable video ads in-between levels, not fun.
EDIT: Ok, beaten. But still!
It's a bit aggressive with the ads in the free version though. Unskippable video ads in-between levels, not fun.
EDIT: Ok, beaten. But still!
Taco_Human
Member
You can still get a refund past the 15 minute window. Go to the main google play website, click the settings icon, My Orders, and then click on the three dot drop down menu and click on Report a Problem. From there you can ask for a refund and they usually give it to you.
That's nice to know. The 15 mins window for refund is bull crap. It should be at least a day.
iOS game Tilt to Live 2, now on Android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onemanleft.tilttolive2
I didn't see this one mentioned either, another favorite from iOS. Legendary Wars on Android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.livgames.legendary_wars
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onemanleft.tilttolive2
I didn't see this one mentioned either, another favorite from iOS. Legendary Wars on Android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.livgames.legendary_wars
DiscoJer
Member
G5's free game this week is Totem Tribes Gold, seems like a Time Management game
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.g5e.totemtribegold.giveaway.full
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.g5e.totemtribegold.giveaway.full
I totally just did a ton of recommendations in another thread, I'll drop em here too.
Hoplite is faaaantastic! It takes a couple tries to really understand the mechanics but once you do it's surprisingly deep/strategic and enjoyable!
Have you heard of Threes on iOS? Well check out Fives on Android! Same basic principal, combine the numbers to get as high as you can. Stupid addictive.
Cook, Serve, Delicious! This game is more involved than the others, you've gotta dedicate about ~8 minutes to one game but it's SOOOO fun. It's wicked engaging and surprisingly demanding of you. You run a restaurant (it's not like those other lame restaraunt sims) and it's almost WarioWare esque in what it asks of you. I linked to the demo, but they have a full paid version as well which is mega worth it.
Ridiculous Fishing is a real fun game too.
rymdkapsel is a slick little strategy game with a sweet art style. When I first played I thought it was sort of dumb but as you get more involved it's got a great little RTS vibe to it. Build more!
Hundreds is a cool game (though I think the difficulty curve is a bit steep.) You basically just have to press the circles until you fill up to 100 points. Then you unlock the next level where you do the same thing. It's basically a puzzle game with a bit of strategy to it. It's worth trying for sure.
Oh DUDE! Jelly No Puzzle! This was first described to me as "The Dark Souls of puzzle games" which got a laugh outta me but the games really fab! All you gotta do is connect the like colored jellies but what's best about this game is that it's actually challenging from the start and requires some real thinking to complete. You know how most puzzle games have about 30 puzzles which are just mindlessly easy? This game front loads with the ones that already take effort to solve and then only gets tougher from there. It's INCREDIBLY satisfying to complete a puzzle.
People probably already said Super Hexagon and rightfull so, it's one of the best.
If you enjoy multiplayer Worms games, Worms 2: Armageddon is a really great version on Android.
The Rayman games are really well made.
The last game I'd recommend is Bad Piggies but since it's Rovio some people may just not care instantly. It totally has a Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts/Kerbal Space Program vibe to it and it was my absolute favorite android game for a while. So much fun even just dicking around in.
If I think of any more I'll drop em in here!
Hoplite is faaaantastic! It takes a couple tries to really understand the mechanics but once you do it's surprisingly deep/strategic and enjoyable!
Have you heard of Threes on iOS? Well check out Fives on Android! Same basic principal, combine the numbers to get as high as you can. Stupid addictive.
Cook, Serve, Delicious! This game is more involved than the others, you've gotta dedicate about ~8 minutes to one game but it's SOOOO fun. It's wicked engaging and surprisingly demanding of you. You run a restaurant (it's not like those other lame restaraunt sims) and it's almost WarioWare esque in what it asks of you. I linked to the demo, but they have a full paid version as well which is mega worth it.
Ridiculous Fishing is a real fun game too.
rymdkapsel is a slick little strategy game with a sweet art style. When I first played I thought it was sort of dumb but as you get more involved it's got a great little RTS vibe to it. Build more!
Hundreds is a cool game (though I think the difficulty curve is a bit steep.) You basically just have to press the circles until you fill up to 100 points. Then you unlock the next level where you do the same thing. It's basically a puzzle game with a bit of strategy to it. It's worth trying for sure.
Oh DUDE! Jelly No Puzzle! This was first described to me as "The Dark Souls of puzzle games" which got a laugh outta me but the games really fab! All you gotta do is connect the like colored jellies but what's best about this game is that it's actually challenging from the start and requires some real thinking to complete. You know how most puzzle games have about 30 puzzles which are just mindlessly easy? This game front loads with the ones that already take effort to solve and then only gets tougher from there. It's INCREDIBLY satisfying to complete a puzzle.
People probably already said Super Hexagon and rightfull so, it's one of the best.
If you enjoy multiplayer Worms games, Worms 2: Armageddon is a really great version on Android.
The Rayman games are really well made.
The last game I'd recommend is Bad Piggies but since it's Rovio some people may just not care instantly. It totally has a Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts/Kerbal Space Program vibe to it and it was my absolute favorite android game for a while. So much fun even just dicking around in.
If I think of any more I'll drop em in here!
I played it on the PC. It's a great game but hard to put it into a single genre. The description of RTS and adventure is rather accurate, with a bit of puzzle solving and hidden object.
This is how the game played on the PC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxQCLBKnrcI
Guise, give Shadow Blade a try, it finally made it to Android! It's a ninja platformer, kind of like Super Meat Boy meets Shinobi (though the focus is definitely on the platforming, not so much on the combat). On Android it's free, with one full-game purchase, so basically it's a "premium" game with no IAPs. It's pretty fun on iPhone, seems to be the exact same experience on my Xperia SP (unlike Ridge Racer which got ruined during the transition to Android).
Halcyon
Member
How does it control? I kind of hate using a directional pad for touch games.
card wars - adventure time
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.turner.cardwars&hl=en
out there
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miclos.google.games.outthere&hl=en
will try them out, impressions later
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.turner.cardwars&hl=en
out there
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miclos.google.games.outthere&hl=en
will try them out, impressions later
ThatCrazyGuy
Member
That shadowblade game up above is pretty fun. Wish normal slashes felt better though.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Cross-posting from the Shield thread:
So you can now hook a controller up to your tablet and stream games from your PC without needing to buy a new GPU and a Shield
So you can now hook a controller up to your tablet and stream games from your PC without needing to buy a new GPU and a Shield
TouchMyBox
Member
Cross-posting from the Shield thread:
So you can now hook a controller up to your tablet and stream games from your PC without needing to buy a new GPU and a Shield
Have you tried out Limelight?
How does this compare?
jim-jam bongs
Member
I can't use Limelight right now because it needs Nvidia hardware, but I'd assume it wouldn't perform as well as Limelight because it needs to capture frames and compress them in RAM. Anything which uses the GPU streaming on GTX > 600 cards will perform better.
Glad to share! They're all games I've sunk a lot of time into and I think they're all worth trying out so I felt it worthwhile to post about em!
5 stars review of out there from pocket tactics
http://www.pockettactics.com/reviews/review-out-there/
http://www.pockettactics.com/reviews/review-out-there/
Either side load (download the apk and install it using a file manager), or download a Chrome extension called APK Downloader, which I use to get all regionally locked F2P games.
Once you downloaded the APK with this extension, you don't even need to sideload it. You can install the game on Google play from now on.