Ya'll fuck with mobile(phone) gaming?

[StealthFan]

I've mainly been playing Unkilled and Eternium. Anyone else fuck with phone gaming?

[Positive Touch]

i play a bunch of square enix games. final fantasy brave exvius and mobius are alright. also chaos rings 3 rules

[Joe Molotov]

I've been playing Battlejack on the turlet. It's an okay gacha game, I guess.

[ModernBoxes]

I play FF Brave Exvius, but gacha games should not be encouraged. It's like DLC on steroids price wise with a tenth of the content.

[Joe Molotov]

I'm trying to go as deep as I can in Battlejack without spending a cent. So far I'm doing alright, I've got a full party of 5* characters and I've beaten the main campaign on Normal.

[ModernBoxes]

I'm trying to go as deep as I can in Battlejack without spending a cent. So far I'm doing alright, I've got a full party of 5* characters and I've beaten the main campaign on Normal.

Battlejack. What is the hook here?

[jacob.armitage]

I've tried to play quite a few mobile games but never really been able to get into anyway.

[demi]

We have a mobile thread here but its pretty old - I think mobile gaming has fallen on the wayside personally, and with iOS11 killing 32bit apps my iPad is forever stuck on iOS9.

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=32098.0

[Sho Nuff]

I'm a filthy piece of shit

I got that Gameloft CoD clone and connected my Xbone controller to my Samsung Galaxy S8, suckers be playing with their fingers and I just tear their asses up

[Positive Touch]

I got that game and it made my phone so hot it hurt to play

[StealthFan]

I'm a filthy piece of shit

I got that Gameloft CoD clone and connected my Xbone controller to my Samsung Galaxy S8, suckers be playing with their fingers and I just tear their asses up

I have that installed but never played it. Modern Combat 5 I think. Graphics look really good.

[desert punk]

The Rayman Run games are quit good.

And last year I played that Mr Robot game from the guys who made Oxenfree. That was really good. Some excellent writing there. Anyone know similar text adventure games like that on mobile?

[Ketch]

I like playing games on my iPad and talking about iPad games on internet message boards.

Warhammer quest 2 is pretty alright. I’m also playing theough The Witness which is a decent port on iOS.

[Joe Molotov]

I'm trying to go as deep as I can in Battlejack without spending a cent. So far I'm doing alright, I've got a full party of 5* characters and I've beaten the main campaign on Normal.

Battlejack. What is the hook here?

Every attack phase is a hand of blackjack, so there's a risk/reward balance where you can try to go harder to hit 21 and do more damage but you risk busting and doing nothing. It's a nice chemical rush when you hit that 21, especially when you're a turn away from losing and you need a 21 to win.

Other than that, the art is nice and there's a upgrade system so you can hang on to your favorite characters instead of dumping them whenever you get a better one. I've been using one of my starter characters for the entire game (Adela). There's PVP and guild stuff that's kinda fun. I don't really know how it compares to other gachas though because I don't really play them. Just picked this one up to kill time and I kinda got hooked on it.

[Tasty]

- Pokémon GO
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
- Pocket Morties

Probably doesn't count but I like TinyCards too.

[Helen Keller the Musical]

Besides emulators for SNES, GBA, PSP, and DS I like basic ones such as Bubble Witch 3.

[Tasty]

Got a bunch of games for my Daydream View headset too. Need for Speed VR is pretty awesome.

[chronovore]

I've been enjoying the shit out of Titanfall Assault, which is largely the mechanics of Clash Royale but with clearer classes and varied maps. It's good, and I've played a couple dozen satisfying hours, haven't purchased a thing.

Dominations is also good, by Big Huge Games, though they're frequently rebalancing their monetization model. For a while, getting the Stronghold Troops was a premium currency thing. Those can be really strong, to the point of feeling like pay-to-win. Recently those started coming in as a gift for one's Alliance daily, so I currently have a backlog of those armies. Anyway, good stuff from a Civ/Rise of Nations dev.

Both of these have time-based login bonuses which are very conducive to higher level play, but annoying in that my OCD-ish brain feels like I'm falling behind if I don't login and grab them.

[thisismyusername]

I've been enjoying the shit out of Titanfall Assault, which is largely the mechanics of Clash Royale but with clearer classes and varied maps. It's good, and I've played a couple dozen satisfying hours, haven't purchased a thing.

I really couldn't get into it. Gatcha P2W bullshit and no ability to command units to hold a hardpoint killed it for me.

I've been dicking around with The Walking Dead: No Man's Land and Fire Emblem Heroes with Magikarp Jump and Pokemon Duels as side games.

[chronovore]

I've been enjoying the shit out of Titanfall Assault, which is largely the mechanics of Clash Royale but with clearer classes and varied maps. It's good, and I've played a couple dozen satisfying hours, haven't purchased a thing.

I really couldn't get into it. Gatcha P2W bullshit and no ability to command units to hold a hardpoint killed it for me.

I've been dicking around with The Walking Dead: No Man's Land and Fire Emblem Heroes with Magikarp Jump and Pokemon Duels as side games.

That's silly; it doesn't even fit with the game's fiction: Pilots are the agile-est-est motherfuckers ever seen. Titans are their hard shells.

If you want to hold a control point, use Infantry/Grunts/Shielded Grunts and any number of turrets. Shielded Grunts are super good at it.

[davepoobond]

I've been enjoying the shit out of Titanfall Assault, which is largely the mechanics of Clash Royale but with clearer classes and varied maps. It's good, and I've played a couple dozen satisfying hours, haven't purchased a thing.

i tried playing this, but i found it kind of annoying.  more like a MOBA, which is fine, but i was expecting something a little more tactical than what i saw.

the monetization scheme was interesting, at least

[Para-Medic]

I've wanted to play Girls Frontline for a while now, but new Chinese laws make it such a hassle to even sign up.

I don't speak a lick of Chinese either, and the chances of it getting an English release are 0% because the copyright infringements ohhhhh boy.

[hampster]

The only mobile games I played this year were Red's Kingdom and Hidden Folks, both are fantastic. Red's Kingdom is a neat Zelda-like as one big sliding block puzzle and Hidden Folks is a cool where's waldo clone. I also have a few game books I've been meaning to get to.

[archnemesis]

The screen of my phone is too small to play other games than Threes!. I generally play iOS games on an iPad instead. The last two games that I picked up were Framed 2 and Monument Valley 2, and they are both great.

[Svejk]

Most emulators, other then that, Puzzle Droid.  Still waiting on KOTOR 2 to come...if ever.

[demi]

Dink Smallwood HD is free, updated to iOS11

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dink-smallwood-hd/id391690243?mt=8

[MMaRsu]

Dink Smallwood HD is free, updated to iOS11

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dink-smallwood-hd/id391690243?mt=8

Omg I saw you say Dink Smallwood and I jumped outta my chair. Fucking sucks I dont have IOS because I have been wanting to replay Dink for a long ass time. I only ever played it on PC but I was only 11 when it came out.

Ontopic I play Lumines through a PSP emulator, also SOTN and Hearthstone.

WOWW DINK IS ALSO ON ANDROID FUCK YES

Demi you are the man, thank you for notifying me on this amazing shit. 

[benjipwns]

Actually haven't been in a while.

2K screwed up their NBA card game so much this year that I use an emulator on my PC to play it as it crashes endlessly on both my phone and Kindle. Even tried my mom's older Android phone.

Long story short, the mobile app gives you (though 1/10th as much as years past) in game currency to use in the actual game, just for checking in each day and playing a few hands you don't even have to win so I just click madly. I probably wouldn't even futz with it other wise.

MEmu was the emulator I randomly chose for those who might want to play with such a thing. (Andy?)

[ToxicAdam]

Been hooked on Battle Bay (Rovio) for a few months now. It's the closest thing to an FPS I've found on mobile. Has aim-assist, but also has manual shot to pull off some tricky (and satisfying) shots. So, there is a significant degree of skill involved.

The top-end of the ladder is all P2W though, so that kind of sucks once you start butting up to it.

[thisismyusername]

I've been enjoying the shit out of Titanfall Assault, which is largely the mechanics of Clash Royale but with clearer classes and varied maps. It's good, and I've played a couple dozen satisfying hours, haven't purchased a thing.

I really couldn't get into it. Gatcha P2W bullshit and no ability to command units to hold a hardpoint killed it for me.

I've been dicking around with The Walking Dead: No Man's Land and Fire Emblem Heroes with Magikarp Jump and Pokemon Duels as side games.

That's silly; it doesn't even fit with the game's fiction: Pilots are the agile-est-est motherfuckers ever seen. Titans are their hard shells.

If you want to hold a control point, use Infantry/Grunts/Shielded Grunts and any number of turrets. Shielded Grunts are super good at it.

Amped Hardpoint. The entire point of the mode is to camp.

[kingv]

Dink Smallwood HD is free, updated to iOS11

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dink-smallwood-hd/id391690243?mt=8

Don’t even know what this shit it. But I downloaded it.

Also, I would recommend Iron Marines if you like the Kingdom Rush games.

[demi]

Its an old PC game

[Cravis]

I was hopelessly addicted to Simpsons Tapped Out till I snapped out of it and realized what I was doing. Thankfully I didn’t spend more than $50 on it.

Ive been meaning to try the Stranger Things game. It looks very Zelda-esque

[demi]

Here's a couple pics of my iPad games:

https://i.imgur.com/Za3aptP.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/gr65JNL.jpg

[Cravis]

How is Stranger Things?

[NickFire]

Thanks to having to spectate for most xp in F13, I have been playing clash on a regular basis again.

[nampad]

Playing Clash Royale every day, it's fucking crack.
Really need a new Iphone though to play Talos Principle and The Witness with my MFI controller.

Hope we will get more console ports like this.

[desert punk]

Sounds kinda interesting:

http://toucharcade.com/2017/10/23/the-sun-origin-now-available/

[Prinny_Dood]

I just play Puzzles & Dragons. I can't seem to get into anything else.

[Yeti]

I play:

-Clash Royale really only play 2v2 now, ladder frustrates me too much
-Simpsons Tapped Out mindless way to kill some time
-Disney Emoji Blitz competent enough bejeweled clone, but the grind is awful. I want to unlock those Disney emojis to use on my phone though 

[CrazyDiamond]

Can anyone recommend me a decent dungeon crawler I can kill time on the bus? Been looking for ages but never found a good one 

[CHOW CHOW]

Stranger Things game looks good. It’s also 100% free with no IAP.  I downloaded it a while ago and it’s just sitting there rotting on my iPhone — that seems to happen pretty often with mobile games for me. 



Does look good

[howDidIGetHere?]

Can anyone recommend me a decent dungeon crawler I can kill time on the bus? Been looking for ages but never found a good one

I've been playing Sproggiwood. It's a top down dungeon crawler with a well fleshed out campaign. It's got a cute aesthetic but pretty good gameplay with a variety of classes and weapons to unlock. I got it in some humble bundle forever ago. Has a kind of Rogue Legacy vibe in it's unlock system. You upgrade a village to access character upgrades. No IAP that I know of. It's paid.

Other than that I was addicted to Pixel Dungeon. It's also got a ton of different versions on the Play store which tweak the experience to your liking and add additional content. I believe it's free or very cheap.

Shit now I wanna play Pixel Dungeon.

[demi]

Can anyone recommend me a decent dungeon crawler I can kill time on the bus? Been looking for ages but never found a good one

Legend of Grimrock?

[CrazyDiamond]

It's not on Android 

[chronovore]

I've been enjoying the shit out of Titanfall Assault, which is largely the mechanics of Clash Royale but with clearer classes and varied maps. It's good, and I've played a couple dozen satisfying hours, haven't purchased a thing.

I really couldn't get into it. Gatcha P2W bullshit and no ability to command units to hold a hardpoint killed it for me.

I've been dicking around with The Walking Dead: No Man's Land and Fire Emblem Heroes with Magikarp Jump and Pokemon Duels as side games.

That's silly; it doesn't even fit with the game's fiction: Pilots are the agile-est-est motherfuckers ever seen. Titans are their hard shells.

If you want to hold a control point, use Infantry/Grunts/Shielded Grunts and any number of turrets. Shielded Grunts are super good at it.

Amped Hardpoint. The entire point of the mode is to camp.

Ah, I'm talking about the Titanfall Assault game, not the FPS.

Been hooked on Battle Bay (Rovio) for a few months now. It's the closest thing to an FPS I've found on mobile. Has aim-assist, but also has manual shot to pull off some tricky (and satisfying) shots. So, there is a significant degree of skill involved.

The top-end of the ladder is all P2W though, so that kind of sucks once you start butting up to it.

I tried Battle Bay, and found it to have a hodgepodge of currencies that were largely random and meaningless. I wanted to like it, but the basic gameplay wasn't enough to inspire me to figure out the upgrades and currencies.

[bluemax]

I used to play FFBE and FFRK and feel bad about it. Now that my dog has passed away I don't touch them as I mostly played them while walking him.

Also having worked on mobile f2p stuff, I feel dirty touching it.

I will say the DQ 1-3 remakes were dope on phone.

[thisismyusername]

Ah, I'm talking about the Titanfall Assault game, not the FPS.

As am I. If you "Defend" the points, you get an "amp" going, which speeds up your process to 100. There was no reason (last I played) to assault the base turrets (which was an optional win condition). Just spam your units and cap flags and spam units to "defend"/replace the fallen ones. If you were able to command them to hold lanes better, I'd enjoy it.

[Positive Touch]

I will say the DQ 1-3 remakes were dope on phone.

true, and 4-6 are even better. hi-rez and better framerate than the ds, plus the same great controls

[StealthFan]

DQ 5 is the greatest JRPG ever made.

[thisismyusername]

Went back to Magikarp Jump. It's not too bad. But the fact that "diamond mining drill" is locked behind a paywall to where you can't get a free 100 diamonds is kinda 

Final Fantasy Type-0/Agito: Online/Awakening (FF Awakening, otherwise) is pretty solid, IMO. Not a bad little MMO hack and slash on phones, but it has a bunch of gacha bullshit and a VIP system, so YMMV if you can't stomach that.

I've tried Yugioh Duel Links, but I don't think that card game is for me.

Fire Emblem Heroes is still solid, despite the Gacha bullshit.

[Tasty]

Duel Links is kinda weird. I usually appreciate the Speed Duel format and auto-duel but there's like, some times when I just want the full version.

I like that they stripped it back to no Synchro, etc., but again, sometimes I find myself pining for it. Ah well. It's not supposed to be a full sim of the card game I guess, and it is fun.

[chronovore]

Ah, I'm talking about the Titanfall Assault game, not the FPS.

As am I. If you "Defend" the points, you get an "amp" going, which speeds up your process to 100. There was no reason (last I played) to assault the base turrets (which was an optional win condition). Just spam your units and cap flags and spam units to "defend"/replace the fallen ones. If you were able to command them to hold lanes better, I'd enjoy it.

Ah, thanks for explaining. I hadn’t realized it had that built into the design. I basically Zerg rush, and take the control points. I almost never go for turrets or base. Didn’t realize my game play style is the de facto win mode.

[thisismyusername]

Andy: I can't get into it at all. I think I'm spoiled by Magic's mechanics and ability to mitigate damage as an ability/tactic more than anything. Even Hearthstone pissed me off with the lack of being able to defend myself with everything I summon'd.

Chrono: Yeah. I'm not even sure why the base win-condition is there at this point since the primary game-mode (cap and hold) seems to be more effective.

[The Legend of Sunblade]

 

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[chronovore]

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Chrono: Yeah. I'm not even sure why the base win-condition is there at this point since the primary game-mode (cap and hold) seems to be more effective.

I think I have one, maybe two main-base wins. That's all. Hell, they even had a "get the main base" event, and I couldn't manage a single one; I'd hit 100 victory points before even getting through half its shield.

[thisismyusername]

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Not Animu-with-tits-Heathstone/Shadowverse? Huh, that's new.

I log in daily on it since it's linked to my Steam account for the gold and boosters.

[bluemax]

Square released a sequel to Final Fantasy Dimensions, but instead of being a story based JRPG like the first, it is yet another gacha game.

[H.I.V.E.]

Exploding kittens in great and fun. Works perfect with friends and no f2p bullshit.

[Corporal]

Puzzle and Dragons.
The age-old classic. Mindless match three gameplay with a very, very fragile RPG/Stats/Gacha layer on top.
Battery drain, hardware/software requirements and bandwidth usage are pretty much nonexistent after the initial install, and an intermittent and slow connection is good enough. The baiting for the premium currency is somewhat subdued, and it's good fun even without spending real life monies.

This is how these kind of games should be.


Also, currently fighting vanilla FTL. Dear god, I had so many mods and such installed the last time I played this on PC, it's practically a new game experience again. Getting really, and I mean, REALLY tired of the OST though, despite it being excellent.


Last but not least, just got fed up with Deck de Dungeon again. I have a love/hate relationship with these games. Card/Deck-based dungeon crawling is serious fun, but the localisation is turrible and the flaws are eating into my motivation.
Then, three months later,  I discover the icon somewhere and am sucked back in. Sigh.