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Posted by metlslime on 2013/05/03 01:34:47 |
There's a Console Thread, a PC Thread, but where does the lowly browser gamer get a fix? This is where. Also, mobile games.
Discuss iPhone, Android, Flash, HTML5, Unity, etc. games here. |
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 So, I Did Some Investigating...
#177 posted by Shambler on 2016/03/03 17:59:32
#178 posted by Kinn on 2016/03/03 18:31:51
Lol Shambler buys a mobile and is surprised 100% of the games available are shovelware garbage made in eastern european or asian sweatshops, and all clones of each other.
Mobile gaming is the festering, cancerous arse-polyp of the games industry, with no exceptions that I am aware of?
 I'm Playing One At The Minute
#179 posted by ijed on 2016/03/03 18:48:35
Which is quite nice: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/super-tribes/id1006393168?mt=8
And not a Clash of Clones, or free to play in any particularly manipulative way.
Only one game mode, and the tribes are identical apart from different starting scenery and technology.
But pretty fun, undemanding stuff.
 Kinn, Almost, But Nowhere Near.
#180 posted by Shambler on 2016/03/03 19:36:57
Lol Shambler buys a Chromebook and is surprised when a small indie start-up like GOOGLE (who run the Android Apps store) somehow haven't managed to get any remotely interesting games or apps working in their little device
Talking about stuff like...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tt2kgames.xcomew
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ChilledMouse.WQ
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/warhammer-40-000-armageddon/id935248214?mt=8
Incidentally I've just started dicking around with mobile apps and some of the - admittedly simple - ones of those are far better than 99% of the dross available for ChromeOS (Monunment Valley, Zen Koi, etc)
#181 posted by Spirit on 2016/03/03 21:32:22
#182 posted by ijed on 2016/03/04 02:11:30
XCOM enemy within was great.
Warhammer Quest was just as tedious and expensive (relatively) as the board game.
Didn't play the third one.
There are good games companies doing stuff on mobile, but they're rarely the supposed big dogs (ie. ones earning the most cash and cannabalising each other).
But for genuine hardcore gaming I think you're going to be disappointed. Not that the platform(s) can't support that type of game, just that the economy / ecology of developers isn't suited to it.
But I keep on playing stuff, hoping that a solid game will somehow appear. XCOM was one such case in my opinion, even if it did cause laptop sydrome (ie. phone hot enough to fry an egg on).
 Ijed.
#183 posted by Shambler on 2016/03/04 10:45:24
THat's the thing. I don't want genuine hardcore gaming. I'm as PC Master Race as anyone. I want genuine good stylised, simple, well themed casual games - I've only just started dabbling in them and, well, okay, it's really a Chromebook / ChromeOS problem. I can't even play fucking neko atsume on it ;)
I wouldn't mind WHQ being tedious and expensive, I'd give it a try for the style, Warhammer is part of my geeking heritage.
About cost, I would happily have more games where you pay fucking upfront and get a decent game. XCom is �9 or something?? Fucking great, I'm sure you're getting a proper game for that!!
 Incidentally.
#184 posted by Shambler on 2016/03/04 10:47:19
I *CAN* play the WebQuake port, albeit shareware only and mouse look doesn't work...
 Well
#185 posted by ijed on 2016/03/04 13:26:00
WHQ is just a cynical cash grab though. I only played through it out of spite. Although I think I then also bought one of the expansions when drunk :P
XCOM is the best one I've played to be honest.
I do remember Frozen Synapse on tablet: http://www.frozensynapse.com/
Which was another Nueromancer styled game - violent and incredibly nerdy. There was a massive difficulty spike in the middle of the campaign mode though.
I see now that the original is $1USD on iOS and the new version prime is at $5.00.
Tempting...
 Aren;t They All Cynical Cash Grabs Though??
#186 posted by Shambler on 2016/03/04 14:16:04
Freemium / pay to win / pay to advance bullshit.
Straight up dishonesty, marketting shite to fucking morons under the guise of it being "free"...
 But
#187 posted by ijed on 2016/03/04 15:28:41
WHQ wasn't free to play, just incredibly shallow for the price tag.
Neither was XCOM, but that was basically the full game ported to mobile, which was deep as the mines of moria.
 Deep As Czg's Anus.,
#188 posted by Shambler on 2016/03/04 16:13:36
Raging I can't get that one. Why the fuck did I get a chromebook again? Oh yeah cos it was small, chic and cute. Bit like being a fashion-following apple slag, except at 1/4 the price.
Tbh I have a decent phone but most games aren't worth the time. I would rather browse Facebook or Twitter
#190 posted by Joel B on 2016/03/04 19:28:08
I don't spend a lot of time phone-gaming on my Android doohickey, but I've found some quality stuff. Hitman GO, Lara Croft GO, Hoplite, Spider 2, Super Hexagon, The Sequence, 80 Days, Monument Valley, A Good Snowman... off the top of my head. I even think that games like PvZ2 and Alphabear are quality despite their F2P trappings.
#191 posted by Joel B on 2016/03/04 19:30:06
Dunno about ChromeOS though.
Didn't Bastion and Don't Starve get shipped for that? Or am I thinking of something else?
(does a quick Google) hmm it looks like that version of Bastion no longer works.
 Mobile Games
#192 posted by mjb on 2016/03/04 19:32:27
I also don't really play much on my android phone but the ones I did were entertaining.
Hitman GO, Lara Croft GO, My Kingdom for a Princess, LYNE, and Just Colors to name a few. I think all have some sort of in-app purchasing but I never found intrusive or anything of the like.
 There Are Also Games
#193 posted by ijed on 2016/03/04 20:16:51
 Ocus Puzzle
#194 posted by Primal (nli) on 2016/03/09 09:04:39
http://ocuspuzzle.com/
A kind of a jigsaw puzzle with no piece rotation. Starts off easy enough.
#195 posted by khreathor on 2016/03/09 13:41:48
 Both Of Those Things Are Awesome
#196 posted by ijed on 2016/03/09 15:33:47
 #177
#197 posted by mankrip on 2016/03/09 15:55:47
This is the kind of review the mobile gaming scene needs.
 But Is It The One It Deserves?
#198 posted by ijed on 2016/03/09 15:57:08
#199 posted by mankrip on 2016/03/11 00:50:03
On Android, definitely. There's far too many crap making the good games hard to find.
Anyway, this is just one of the many problems with Android gaming.
 Small Retro FPS In Browser
#200 posted by khreathor on 2016/03/16 03:07:47
http://phoboslab.org/xibalba/
"Fight your way through the Mayan Underworld in this retro First Person Shooter. The path leads you through lush jungles, eerie catacombs and high tech bases filled with dangerous creatures, traps, vital powerups and weapons."
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