~ Official GAMING ON ANDROID thread ~

[Tyler582]

I've gotta throw in a recommend for beach buggy blitz... never thought to try the game myself as it looked like it's for kids but it's actually rather decent and f'in addictive.

[RealyPssd]

There's a pretty good Humble Bundle right now for Android..

Nine dazzling games for your Android device. The Humble Mobile Bundle includes nine delightful Android-only games. Pay what you want for the top-down strategy game Anomaly Korea; the charming physics puzzler Contre Jour; the quirky tower defense action game Plants vs. Zombies; and third person action brawler Bladeslinger. If you pay more than the average, you’ll also get the mysterious and intriguing puzzler The Room; the side-scrolling shooter Metal Slug 3; the hip arcade game Funky Smugglers; the frenzied arcade shooter Raiden Legacy; and the cinematic action-adventure platformer Another World!

https://www.humblebundle.com/

[Mahjik]

Paper Monsters

Google Play link: http://tinyurl.com/c29hg2t


Not a new game, but I don't think it's been mentioned in this thread yet. It's your standard platformer but with the graphics looking like folded paper (origami) art. It's fun for kids and to be honest, I had some fun playing it with my daughter helping her out on some of the tougher jumping puzzles. It has a parallax environment which sometimes has you in the standard foreground as well as playing on a background parallax level. Works well with my Fling joystick.

[Hyrax]

Anyone play real racing 3?

I hate racing games on a touchscreen. I am always afraid of pushing too hard on the screen when braking. I am glad they have heavy braking assist. Don't even need to brake.

[jolle]

Saw that The Room came out on Android now.
GiantBomb did a quicklook on the ios version a while back:
http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quic...oom/2300-7024/


Also heard good things about 10000000
Not tried it though.

[Apocalypsee]

Originally Posted by Hyrax

Anyone play real racing 3?

I hate racing games on a touchscreen. I am always afraid of pushing too hard on the screen when braking. I am glad they have heavy braking assist. Don't even need to brake.

Agreed, having accustomed to buttons makes playing games on touchscreen a bit awkward because it's not pressure sensitive. One of few reason I no longer play serious games on phones, making me wanted to buy those bluetooth gamepad

The game looks awesome, graphics is simply amazing for phones. Only let down is the music.

[t0adp1p3]

Originally Posted by Apocalypsee

Agreed, having accustomed to buttons makes playing games on touchscreen a bit awkward because it's not pressure sensitive. One of few reason I no longer play serious games on phones, making me wanted to buy those bluetooth gamepad

The game looks awesome, graphics is simply amazing for phones. Only let down is the music.

There are serious games that are best played on the phone or tablet, unfortunately they are probably genres you dont liek.

[Hyrax]

Originally Posted by Apocalypsee

Agreed, having accustomed to buttons makes playing games on touchscreen a bit awkward because it's not pressure sensitive. One of few reason I no longer play serious games on phones, making me wanted to buy those bluetooth gamepad

The game looks awesome, graphics is simply amazing for phones. Only let down is the music.

I have the music off. I did not see an option in RR3 for a gamepad. I would whip out my wiimote and use it if i could.

[Apocalypsee]

Originally Posted by Hyrax

I have the music off. I did not see an option in RR3 for a gamepad. I would whip out my wiimote and use it if i could.

There isn't any natively, but you can use Sixaxis controller from Play store to emulate what you are touching on the screen when you press the button on the controller. It works rather well and I enjoyed playing using PS3 controller There is wiimote controller apps on Play store but I don't know whether that allows to do the same thing as sixaxis apps do.

Apaprt from that there is https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...stein, Quake 3 and Doom 3 apps that allows you to run those games natively from the phone! As long as you have the required game files from the PC games it will work. Itruns very smoothly, if you have USB OTG cable, USB keyboard + mouse you can use that too!

[Hyrax]

Time waster...

Fantastica

(Mobage game though )

Card art looks a lot like Final Fantasy Tactics. It's got that same crappy mobage interface. For a tower defense game it is interesting. Not many paygates unless you want better cards faster. Quests have a minute cooldown, but the cool down starts during the start of the run, 99% of the time the cooldown is completed before the quest is over.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...X0FuZHJvaWQiXQ..

Begin your quest in this card collecting, role-playing, tower defense adventure. From the artist behind the Final Fantasy series comes Fantasica, the ultimate social experience.
★★★★★With Over 16,000 five-star reviews and winner of Best Art Style on Mobage★★★★★
Join forces with your friends to defeat the evil threatening your world. All interested heroes are advised to keep their weapons sharp and their allies ready. The world of Fantasica is a beautiful, yet dangerous place!
⚔FEATURES⚔
➤ Collect beautifully illustrated cards drawn by Final Fantasy Art Director Hideo Minaba.
➤ Defeat enemies in strategic, real-time battles with your own personal army.
➤ Band and compete with friends to defend the world from darkness.
➤ Over 200 adventures and quests to test your mettle.
➤ Ongoing ranked events that offer rare cards, prizes, and of course, bragging rights.

+

[t0adp1p3]

Just wanted to say Arma Tactics from Bohemia interactive is a really fun squad level TBS. Picked it up yesterday for the nexus 7 and was surprised at how good it is. Usually most android games are crap, to be honest, so I stick to strategy games on ios, but this is ones a winner.

[Mahjik]

Activision Anthology

Market Link: http://tinyurl.com/afd4bwa


This isn't new, but I'm an old school gamer. I played pretty much all of these as a kid on the Atari 2600. Similar to the Atari Greatest Hit's, the initial download and one game is free. However, the one free game is the least favorite of the bunch. To purchase other games, it uses In App Purchasing. You can buy the entire bundle for about $7 USD. I bought the whole bundle to re-live my old River Raid and Keystone Kaper memories. Unfortunately, the controls are completely terrible. So bad that it makes playing any of the games almost impossible. The way the controls are designed, you cannot use something like a Fling controller.

I hope they update the control scheme, but as it is today, it's almost worthless.

Games available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Anthology

[Seyiji]

Not a game but I'll be damned if this didn't entertain me for a bit

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...wireframeworld

Textualized and postified via Tapatalk Deuce :3

[Mahjik]

Slydris

Market link: http://tinyurl.com/mlb9e8b

Older game, but I had grabbed it as the Amazon App Store free app of the day a while back. It's basically like a combination of Bejewelled and Tetris, in a good way. Very fun game if you haven't tried it yet.

[jolle]

Really enjoying 9th Dawn sofar, playing a mage, bit of a Ultima throwback feel to it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...inthdawn&hl=en

Initially I was a bit miffed at the controls, I was expecting a click to move type deal.
But enabling floating thumbsticks and some other tweaks in the options and it plays fine.

[mynakedrat2]

Its smooth as butter. I like the take on new level designs.
Played for about two hrs last night.
And you can be the Pork (dark) side!

[jolle]

New Humble Bundle up, not sure about all of the games, but Star Command looks pretty sweet.
https://www.humblebundle.com/

Also Time Surfer, Punch Quest, Bloons TD 5, Ravensword: Shadowlands and Carmageddon

[wangFu]

i played carmageddon on the nexus 7 when it came out, its pretty solid

[jolle]

I got it when it was free back then aswell, I just dont like touch controls for most types of games.
And plugging in a controller, then what´s the point of even using the tablet really?

Anyway, StarCommand is kinda nice, really not a fan of the damn minigames for firing the weapons though.
Was slightly disappointed that it wasnt a bit more X-Com like when you get boarded (turn based I guess), but I guess that was a unfair expectation on my part.
Still, pretty neat game sofar.

[CHIPS]

I am currently hooked to Ayakashi: Ghost Guild (AGG). Just got to level 43. Its a very simple time waster. Collect cards and level them up. Love the artwork. There are almost weekly events.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ayakashi&hl=en
http://ayakashi-ghost-guild.wikia.com/wiki/AGGWiki

If you do join, please use my invitation code of "CHIPS" so we both get some cool stuffs.

Maybe if we get enough Ragers to play this we can form our own guild.

[wangFu]

Been playing pocket trains, i liked pocket planes on ios and this is pretty much the same, after you get longer routes it gets a bit tedious though, the crates give very random parts and its hard to make bigger capacity engines so you're stuck waiting to refuel sooner

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

[jolle]

Played some Ascendancy via DosBox, works pretty well on a tablet, seemed to have been made to play well using only a mouse originally.
Moving ships on the "3d" systems map is a bit iffy though.

Also played through The Silent Age, a pretty nice point and click adventure game.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...d.thesilentage
Its episodic and so far I guess only part 1 is out, also it´s free.
There was some donation thing at the end of it to support EP2, but I couldnt figure out how to pledge.

[MangaSpawn64]

Can you export your save game from The Simpsons: Tapped out and Megapolis ? My gf's Nexus 7 has some heavy display yellowing and she doesn't want to lose data.

From what I've searched, doesn't seem like you can...

[wangFu]

i believed it's synced by the origin account, i used to play it on iphone and a couple of months ago i installed it on an android phone and signed in to origin to find my springfield there as i left it when i last played it

if you want to make sure just login to origin from the app on a different device and check your city, as for megapolis i have no idea as i haven't played that, but most of these games with a login system sync to the cloud

[Mahjik]

Naught - Market Link

I haven't seen this one mentioned, but it was offered as the Amazon Free App of the Day a few days ago. It's similar to And Yet It Moves on the PC. The animation is smooth and the gameplay is very good.

[Seyiji]

Dreamcast Emulator on my Android device it's more likely than you think
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...icast.emulator

60 FPS Soul Calibur on my Galaxy S3

[jolle]

Got a bit excited about this:
https://twitter.com/XCOM/status/4586...415808/photo/1

Already played it on PC but I might still pick it up.

[Mahjik]

Not really a new game, but new to me that I've been enjoying:

Shadow Fight 2

http://drippler.com/motorola/xoom#!1515222

[t0adp1p3]

If you want a great card game there are two on android worth buying the first is ascension which is probably the best CCG on mobile period and it is not a money sink, you get the base game for free and the only other purchases are the expansions. The other game is star realms which plays like ascension and it is free to try with a one time purchase to unlock for $5. These aren't like magic or the wow game you don't buy cards or deal with timers. These are mobile games done right.

[MangaSpawn64]

Can anyone install the Simpson's tapped out on their Android phones / tablets ? I just bought my gf a Galaxy Tab S and it crashes while downloading the update (gets to 12/212 (41.1 / 1028.1 MB)) and hangs, while on the Nexus 7 (2012) it also hangs at 12/212 (32.4 / 406.5 MB)...

I've reset my router, still have the same problem... can't check from my gf's phone (Moto G) cause she has no data plan.