Author Topic: Mobile Gaming [Android/iOS] Thread (Read 436134 times)

Rusty Shackleford · « **Reply #2700 on:** August 15, 2014, 07:22:11 PM »

Quote from: Queen of Ice on August 07, 2014, 02:51:34 PM

DQIV also has the GOAT DQ ost. The sail theme is so good even DQIX reuses it. yes, I know it's cuz Sugiyama is old

Okay, I'm going with IV as my favorite DQ. I always flip flop on this series.

I really liked the SNES DQV sailing theme better. Actually the only theme from DQ4 I remember is the one from the beginning where you're that soldier guy.

Rusty Shackleford · « **Reply #2701 on:** August 15, 2014, 07:25:32 PM »

So IV and VIII are the only ones released for mobile gaming? VII is too long to translate?

meeb · « **Reply #2702 on:** August 15, 2014, 07:29:32 PM »

Walking Dead season 2 seems to run a looooot worse than season 1.

Rusty Shackleford · « **Reply #2703 on:** August 15, 2014, 08:12:08 PM »

1 and 2 seem like they'd be perfect for the mobile platform: quick and finished within a few hours. (The remakes, anyway. Jesus the NES version of II was punishing.)

magus · « **Reply #2704 on:** August 15, 2014, 08:19:05 PM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on August 15, 2014, 07:13:56 PM

Magus I bought that Elder Signs iOS game. Played 2 games and it seems to be a lot about luck, but I havent read on it really. Kind of digging it

yeah i gave a try to elder signs, played some games and then quickly got bored

the only other board game app i tried that was on android was chainsaw warrior, but that too it's heavily reliant on luck and pretty frustating to paly

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2705 on:** August 16, 2014, 02:52:16 PM »

Im getting to understand Elder Signs a bit and hopefully this will translate into some wins. Think this type of game (board game) is best played with others.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2706 on:** August 19, 2014, 05:34:45 PM »

Epoch 2 is the app of the week, pretty funny shooter so far. You dont have to worry about movement, its all about swiping in to cover, locking on enemies, dodging attacks.

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #2707 on:** August 20, 2014, 08:30:42 AM »

Spellfall, another promising puzzle/rpg game ruined by harsh difficulty + IAP.

It's off-line though, so you can move the date/time around and collect all the freebies/rewards and play through the game. But ultimately not worth the hassle.

magus · « **Reply #2708 on:** August 20, 2014, 01:30:45 PM »

recently found this game which i tought was interessing enough to talk about it here, it's called radiohammer station, it's a pretty simple rhythm game, monster attack you at the rhythm of music and you defend yourself to the beat so it's kinda like karate man/samurai from rhythm tengoku if it was a whole game, the graphics are really colorfull and the game often dip in the absurd, like this bit where you have a battle against a gangsta buddha

the only problem i have is that this is a new F2P version of a previous 2$ game (which was just called radiohammer) and it shows, the IAP purchase feels really tacked on, there are powerup but to use them you need coins which adds a really grating grinding system, worse of all each stage has optional objective which you need to complete them all if you want to proceed, i found myself stuck because of one really hard objective and it was really frustating that i couldn't continue because of it! where i'm pretty sure the paid version gave you some leeway, at least most of the objective aren't hard so it's not a huge issue

Himu · « **Reply #2709 on:** August 20, 2014, 08:52:06 PM »

Ace attorney 5:

I just want to play as Athena. I wish she were the main character.

demi · « **Reply #2710 on:** August 21, 2014, 09:16:56 AM »

Playing Warhammer Quest on my poverty device at my desk. Having to tilt your device just to see info is dumb and doesnt make for good stealth gaming.

Himu · « **Reply #2711 on:** August 21, 2014, 09:36:21 AM »

For all of those?

Himu · « **Reply #2712 on:** August 21, 2014, 10:01:30 AM »

iirc you trashed Double Dragon trilogy, no? or am I just thinking of double dragon 3?

Himu · « **Reply #2713 on:** August 21, 2014, 10:05:17 AM »

Grabbed Double Dragon Trilogy, Last Express, Raiden Legacy.

Passed on Another World despite being an all time fave because I've played it a billion times and I'd rather buy it at full price to support.

Can't wait to play Raiden Legacy. It's been on my wishlist for a minute.

RAIDEN

We just need more Darius and some Thunder Force.

Himu · « **Reply #2714 on:** August 21, 2014, 10:35:36 AM »

Not sure why they went with a joystick control layout and not a d-pad. I mean, I know why (nostalgia for DD arcade) but I don't know WHY (because for a beat em up that control scheme is inferior to d-pad touch).

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2715 on:** August 21, 2014, 04:37:02 PM »

Bought Last Express which I always wanted to play and Another World so
i can give up again like for the past 20 years at those leeches

chronovore · « **Reply #2716 on:** August 21, 2014, 08:30:03 PM »

Interesting; Clash-of-Clans with a Star Wars re-skin?

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #2717 on:** August 21, 2014, 08:35:00 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on August 21, 2014, 08:30:03 PM

Interesting; Clash-of-Clans with a Star Wars re-skin?

Never played Clash of Clans but it sounds like that game is becoming a genre unto itself. The screenshot of this below looks exactly like the screenshots in this video.

http://toucharcade.com/2014/08/13/upcoming-call-of-duty-heroes-looks-a-lot-like-clash-of-clans-but-call-of-duty-ized/

chronovore · « **Reply #2718 on:** August 21, 2014, 08:37:39 PM »

It's basically Tower Defense, but inverted so you also have to be the aggressor against other people's layouts, plus a limiter based on one's implied abilities (collected Trophy points in CoC). Sadly, I am better at making a defensive layout than aggressing, so CoC's model seems to pit me against bases against which I cannot defeat.

deepest throat · « **Reply #2719 on:** August 21, 2014, 10:21:53 PM »

motorsport manager's out and it pretty much owns

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id776865453?mt=8

Himu · « **Reply #2720 on:** August 21, 2014, 10:24:48 PM »

is it easy to get into if you aren't a motorcross fan but like simulations

deepest throat · « **Reply #2721 on:** August 21, 2014, 10:45:37 PM »

Quote from: Queen of Ice on August 21, 2014, 10:24:48 PM

is it easy to get into if you aren't a motorcross fan but like simulations

Yeah it's pretty easy to pick up and tells you all you need to know over the first couple races.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2722 on:** August 21, 2014, 10:53:37 PM »

Quote from: Queen of Ice on August 21, 2014, 10:24:48 PM

is it easy to get into if you aren't a motorcross fan but like simulations

Himu · « **Reply #2723 on:** August 21, 2014, 10:55:34 PM »

Motorcross, motorsport, have no clue. It's just a bunch of engines and vroom vroom to me

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #2724 on:** August 22, 2014, 01:32:11 AM »

Quote from: deepest throat on August 21, 2014, 10:21:53 PM

motorsport manager's out and it pretty much owns

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id776865453?mt=8

This looks cool. I think I will buy it.

archnemesis · « **Reply #2725 on:** August 22, 2014, 07:05:35 AM »

Quote from: chronovore on August 21, 2014, 08:30:03 PM

Interesting; Clash-of-Clans with a Star Wars re-skin?

I gave it a try today and that's exactly what it is. It's almost an identical clone with a Star Wars theme. It's also incredibly boring to play unless you buy crystals to avoid all the waiting times.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2726 on:** August 22, 2014, 07:28:03 AM »

Anything with timers is just lame game design that I'm not going to play.

archnemesis · « **Reply #2727 on:** August 22, 2014, 07:31:27 AM »

Yep, same here. It seems like a neat game idea and if it was $10 to get the complete game without timers or IAP then I might have bought it.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2728 on:** August 22, 2014, 07:58:42 AM »

Pretty much.

I played one race in Real Racing 3 the other day and after that the game already told me my card needed repairs, this time for free, it would only take two minutes real time.

Unistalled

demi · « **Reply #2729 on:** August 22, 2014, 10:40:42 AM »

Chaos Rings 3 [VITA] gameplay

Himu · « **Reply #2730 on:** August 22, 2014, 10:42:55 AM »

Battle mode? Hmm

demi · « **Reply #2731 on:** August 22, 2014, 10:45:09 AM »

Also the "Prequel Trilogy" coming to Vita is 1, Omega, 2, and 3 in one package

Himu · « **Reply #2732 on:** August 22, 2014, 10:50:12 AM »

You can use coins to restore mp. Costs one coin. Didn't see signs that they've fucked the game with IAP via coins. Good sign.

ML is the game currency.

There's a battle mode and a story mode.

archnemesis · « **Reply #2733 on:** August 22, 2014, 11:00:33 AM »

Do any of the SNK Playmore games control well with touch controls?

archnemesis · « **Reply #2734 on:** August 22, 2014, 11:23:55 AM »

Thanks! I'll think I'll get them for a different platform then.

Himu · « **Reply #2735 on:** August 22, 2014, 11:30:48 AM »

Metal slug games control great.

Himu · « **Reply #2736 on:** August 22, 2014, 11:37:45 AM »

AA5 is....not impressing. I was going to buy the rest after the first case, but this is probably the worst first case in the series by a wide margin. It's convoluted, and the writing is fucking stupid. Phoenix doesn't immediately connect the dots that Apollo was attacked in the head like the trials victim. The entire leap of faith part where you try to establish the defendants innocence...even in the old games you never bluffed like this or tried to make a case out practically nothing. It feels less like a Turnabout and more like a magic hat trick and lacks any sense of elegance that was present in the original trilogy. The whole thing just feels canned.

That was a really, really bad first case and gives zero confidence in the rest of the games writing or potential. If this case was that bad, imagine case 4 or 5 which usually up the ante 10 times. The fact I'm more interested in playing as Athena makes it even worse. No buy. Will get the trilogy instead.

chronovore · « **Reply #2737 on:** August 22, 2014, 11:52:51 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on August 22, 2014, 07:28:03 AM

Anything with timers is just lame game design that I'm not going to play.

Quote from: archnemesis on August 22, 2014, 07:31:27 AM

Yep, same here. It seems like a neat game idea and if it was $10 to get the complete game without timers or IAP then I might have bought it.

Yeah, IRL currency to avoid waiting is a pet peeve. "Energy" so that players can only make a preset number of moves is also annoying AND outdated. I've been enjoying Plundernauts, but it has like five moves, and then says "Come back later or pay money now!" Pfeh.

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #2738 on:** August 22, 2014, 11:56:05 AM »

Honestly, most games that have timers are so shallow, I don't really want to play them more than 10-20 minutes. They're just exercises in progression, with very little variety in the path you are on.

Himu · « **Reply #2739 on:** August 22, 2014, 11:58:15 AM »

Wait, so Detective Arne lost all that blood from her HEAD, and went over to that spot to write the bomb case number with her head bleeding like a Gusher candy, and her body ended up allllll the way across the room from where she wrote the number?

This game.

Yeti · « **Reply #2740 on:** August 23, 2014, 01:09:27 AM »

Quote from: Queen of Ice on August 22, 2014, 11:58:15 AM

Wait, so Detective Arne lost all that blood from her HEAD, and went over to that spot to write the bomb case number with her head bleeding like a Gusher candy, and her body ended up allllll the way across the room from where she wrote the number?

This game.

Arne you glad you didn't buy the other cases?

Himu · « **Reply #2741 on:** August 23, 2014, 01:50:36 AM »

There's a story explanation for why she's across the room but the thing still posits that she wrote a detailed accurate message while her head is bleeding out.

Himu · « **Reply #2742 on:** August 23, 2014, 02:37:21 AM »

Wow. Just finished up case 1.

And that was fucking awful. It goes all over the damn place.

I don't have hope for the Meiji era Japan game now. After AA4 - which was really bad for my tastes - and this awful first case of AA5, it seems it's be best to forget about the series post-AA3 and hope and hope and pray for a new Ghost Trick despite not selling well.

Himu · « **Reply #2743 on:** August 23, 2014, 09:19:33 AM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on August 23, 2014, 04:25:03 AM

Shu Takumi is back to being hands-on with the series in the Meiji-era game for the first time since AA3. He was only a supervisor on AA4, and had nothing to do with AAI/AAI2/AA5. So I think there's *some* hope there, certainly more hope of him being allowed to do another Ghost Trick after its meteoric failure.

Oh wow. Good news.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #2744 on:** August 23, 2014, 01:14:03 PM »

how bad did ghost trick do? like I could see no one buying it (I didn't), but it didn't look like it cost much to make.

wait wtf am I saying? this is modern Capcom we're talking about, and they don't seem to wanna waste money on small titles unless they're mobile.

Himu · « **Reply #2745 on:** August 23, 2014, 01:17:32 PM »

Buy ghost trick

I bought it twice

Positive Touch · « **Reply #2746 on:** August 23, 2014, 01:48:14 PM »

not on android :/

benjipwns · « **Reply #2747 on:** August 23, 2014, 03:13:51 PM »

Battle Camp is like a crappy Puzzle and Dragons knock-off that has more in common with Pokemons with an overworld and masters and crap.

Farm Heroes Saga is ten billion times easier than Candy Crush but has way better music, sound effects, and art design. 9.75/16

Adventure Quest: Battle Gems is good enough I suppose, I have yet to die, but it's fun to play for ten minutes or so. The more subtle puns are funnier than the straight references that I saw hyped in the reviews.

Radiant Defense is tower defense and I love tower defense so this is quite fun. They have four DLCs for the rest of the towers for a buck each, but Amazon had one free and the rest with coins back so you wind up only paying $2 for all of them. So after I played it for a couple hours I splurged and spent the two dollars. It's a more straight forward Tower Defense like Defense Grid than some of the more recent hybrids.

Star Command is alright, somewhat like FTL I suppose only of lesser quality, a little wonky in terms of unit selection at times. I think that's a factor of the way the "ship" is setup.

Some of these might actually cost money, I don't know since pretty much everything I have except Kingdom Rush I got as the free Amazon app of the day.

magus · « **Reply #2748 on:** August 23, 2014, 06:20:37 PM »

Ascension has recently got an android release

this is a deckbuilding board game similiar to dominion, for people that have never played these sort of game, you basicaly start with around 10 cards which give you resource and you then use these resource to buy more cards and then hopefull use those card to score more point than the opponent, ascension is different from dominion in that instead of buying from pre-determined sets, the card you can buy are drawn which adds an element of randomness, anyway the base game is free so no reason to not give it a try, well unless you have an ios phone since the ios version of this is apparently like 3 years old!

magus · « **Reply #2749 on:** August 24, 2014, 05:46:01 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on August 23, 2014, 06:56:24 PM

Ascension is seriously good shit. Only card game I keep on my phone.

yeah i played a few games against the AI and had lots of fun, i seems to understand online multiplayer is asynchronous play only? that really sucks

Himu · « **Reply #2750 on:** August 25, 2014, 10:27:49 AM »

A certain TA reviewer and Chaos Rings 3 got me replaying 1. I forgot how much I enjoy this game. It's like the missing SE psx rpg we never got or something.

It's so good I rebought it at price. I don't like how the game doesn't fill the screen on my 5s though.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #2751 on:** August 25, 2014, 08:56:49 PM »

blegh shoulda got the prequel one instead

Himu · « **Reply #2752 on:** August 25, 2014, 08:58:20 PM »

I haven't played that one yet but I just wanted to replay 1. I'll get to it.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #2753 on:** August 25, 2014, 09:02:16 PM »

the prequel is the same content, but there's only one main story. it has more cutscenes than all of cr1, tells a better story, and the combat is much better balanced. it takes almost as long to go through omega as it does to go through 1 all for times to get to it's ending. omega also has a bonus story mode that has lots of in-jokes and seems pretty fun, tho I haven't got that far into it. all in all its a much better game than the ultra-repetitive cr1.

Himu · « **Reply #2754 on:** August 25, 2014, 10:34:43 PM »

I have already played Chaos Rings. I'm just preparing for 3 and want to replay it. I've never played 2. Is it much of an improvement?

I'm worried that 3 has taken away some of the things I like about chaos rings' story and tone.

demi · « **Reply #2755 on:** August 25, 2014, 10:38:23 PM »

Chaos Rings 2 is a gigantic step up. Go buy it and play it.

Himu · « **Reply #2756 on:** August 25, 2014, 10:39:01 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on August 25, 2014, 09:52:22 PM

I think they're all worth playing if you're interested in the stories. And if you're going to play them all, you might as well start with the first game, because then it's straight uphill from there.

Glad you read my article, Himu. I can't believe I'm writing a giant RPG-focused weekly column and you are literally the only one of my RPG-loving online best buds who has even looked at it.

Looking forward to part 3 of the column. The rest will turn around within two years when those portable RPGs they play start coming to mobile.

Himu · « **Reply #2757 on:** August 25, 2014, 10:39:29 PM »

Quote from: demi on August 25, 2014, 10:38:23 PM

Chaos Rings 2 is a gigantic step up. Go buy it and play it.

Thanks for the heads up. Will play after 1.

Himu · « **Reply #2758 on:** August 25, 2014, 10:39:44 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on August 25, 2014, 10:39:09 PM

Yeah, 2 is pretty legit. Makes 1/Omega look like amateur hour.

Don't get me excited.

demi · « **Reply #2759 on:** August 25, 2014, 10:41:28 PM »

The battle tune is so good

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