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Tiny Chalupa: Feb 14, 2012

Coldbird posted:

Downtown Showdown is sort of like this - think 2/3s Sim City, 1/3 Clash of Clans.

I'm really enjoying the game myself. Wish there was a point to unions as the game is basically all solo all the time. No point in friending anyone that I can tell
But at least I get to build my city

# ? May 5, 2016 20:01

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# ? May 15, 2024 13:05

Niton: Oct 21, 2010; Your Lord and Savior has finally arrived!

..got any kibble?

Wintermutant posted:

I haven't played the sequel yet, but Knights of Pen & Paper would seem to match your criteria, and I had a lot of fun with it back in the day.

KoPP2 is not very good. It's shorter, more expensive, and (at least on launch) ended VERY abruptly. It's not even made by the same devs - KoPP was made by Behold Studios, whereas KoPP2 is made by a company called "Kyy Games".

Behold Studios went on to make the fantastic Chroma Squad, and all of the charm went with them.

Niton fucked around with this message at 20:19 on May 5, 2016

# ? May 5, 2016 20:15

mrkillboy: May 13, 2003; "Something witty."

All the GTA games are on sale for $3 ($4 for San Andreas). Punch Club is also on sale for 99 cents.

Niton posted:

Behold Studios went on to make the fantastic Chroma Squad, and all of the charm went with them.

I was going to lament why this isn't on Android yet but according to their Facebook page it turns out they're almost done with it :woop:

mrkillboy fucked around with this message at 23:30 on May 5, 2016

# ? May 5, 2016 23:25

Wintermutant: Oct 2, 2009; Dinosaur Gum

Niton posted:

KoPP2 is not very good. It's shorter, more expensive, and (at least on launch) ended VERY abruptly. It's not even made by the same devs - KoPP was made by Behold Studios, whereas KoPP2 is made by a company called "Kyy Games".

Behold Studios went on to make the fantastic Chroma Squad, and all of the charm went with them.

I had no idea Chroma Squad was made by the same people; time to get it off of my wishlist and into my library.

# ? May 5, 2016 23:27

Shbobdb: Dec 16, 2010; by Reene

My only gaming mmachine is my HTCOne. I've replayed KOTOR and got to play Xcom: the next generation. What other games are there that are good on a phone? Willing to pay.

# ? May 6, 2016 07:45

Arbitrary Number: Nov 10, 2012

Potsticker posted:

Wow, after Psycard I am done with Ludosity games for now. No matter how charming the art and writing is. (And it is really charming) Card City Nights had issuss with how the card types were balanced that I made a huge effort post about before, but since Psycard was based on Minesweeper, how bad could it be?

Turns out, really bad.

The idea itself is pretty solid, there's a field of cards with two different colored backs and a certain number of them are Skulls, which you can see how many cards of each color are skulls. Cards can also be stars, fruit, or have symbols that tell you info about what cards are around it. Stars can be banked up to three times and fuel the special psychic powers and if you flip three fruit over you win the round. If you find three fruit you score 3 points and your opponent flips over a skull you score 4 points. You also score 2 points for every star you flipped, except under one of the special rules where star cards are worth more points. As each round starts one card is marked as a safe card and you get one star pre-banked. Finally there's a score threshold and whoever reaches that first wins the match.

Cards that aren't a skull, fruit or star are marked to show what they are adjacent to. The top of the card will have a + if it's next to exactly one fruit, ++ if it's adjacent to more than 1. The middle of the card will have a ★ if it's adjacent to any stars, and the bottom of the card will have a 💀 if it's next to any skulls. All 8 cards surrounding a card are considered adjacent.

Now this ruleset is pretty easy to understand, especially once you start playing, unfortunately there's a big monkey wrench that screws everything up and makes the game an exercise in frustration. First off, you have no idea how many stars and fruits a given gameboard has. This is a little rough, but you don't know what cards your opponent is getting when they flip cards, nor do you know how many stars they have. Since you're both drawing from the same board of cards, if they're picking cards near the ones you are you have no idea if they found the fruit or star you're fishing for, nor do you know if they are close to a victory. And even at the start of the game the computer AI is really good at finding three fruit in five moves-- basically you'd have to be actually psychic to be able to pick that many correct fruit cards in less moves. Combined with being able to unknowingly swipe what you're already fishing for with no information in return, you're almost better off picking randomly.

The psychic powers you get should help, but with the cost of powers, not knowing how many stars are available, or if your opponent plucked them already, or if you even have time to hunt for more stars because you have no idea how close your opponent is fo victory, I'm not sure how exaclty you're supposed to formulate any sort of strategy. Also because the Ai has an array of powers, usually that involve locking the player out of using their own powers, you may not even have all your tools that they do give you. Oh, and some of them hamper you further by doing things like removing your ability to see the different colors. It is possible for the AI to draw skulls, but it is a really rare occurance.

There's also the issue that if you draw a skull, your opponent gets 4 points, regardless of what you've uncovered. Which is more than if you manage to find three fruit quickly. When the points threshold is 30, that can be some long games, espeially if it's a larger tournament. Honestly the only thing that really makes this bad is all the hidden information from the player. There is an alternate rule where you can see if your opponent flips a star, and them stars are worth more points, but even then you still have no idea how close your opponent is to winning.

Finally, I lost many games due to the first safe card being next to both a skull and fruit and immediate drawing it on my next turn. If I had no stars to use a psychic power I was basically up poo poo creek. Draw an adjacent card which had usually around a 1 in 5 chance of being a skull (more if there were multiple skulls, but you can't tell how many skulls are surrounding it) and because usually those cards contained both color backs, unless one color had zero stars then it was probably better just randomly picking a card in the board that had the least chance of also containing a skull. I was shocked at how badly my random picks went. Or I am just reeeeally lucky at drawing skulls from a mostly unnown board state.

tl;dr the player is not given enough information in the game to be able to make meaningful choices in the amount of time before the computer AI wins.

Lastly as a pet peeve of mine, the hardware back button does nothing if you're in a game. No menu to save or exit or look at the other game modes or to check out if there's a more detailed help screen other than the very basic one when you tap the ? button.

I found the campaign to be pretty good in terms of difficulty. On my first run through I barely missed getting enough points to get 8th place to enter the final tourney. It felt like I was improving as I went on. Player skill feels like it matters. At least, when I get bored of calculating the odds and tracking skulls and I pick randomly it feels like I get skulls way more often than if I go slowly.

I had a few times where the AI found 3 fruit in very few moves but they were very rare. Most games ended with over half the board taken iirc. I also had a few times where I won in very few moves so I figure fair's fair. Like you said, maybe you were very unlucky (and I was lucky).

There were quite a few times where I had no guaranteed safe card unless I used a star power. In the situation you mentioned, the general location of a skull is pretty valuable information, so starting with that knowledge might not be so bad. That part of the RNG didn't bother me as much as the times when the AI decides to steal a fruit I was going for. It feels bad, especially when there's only 1 fruit left.

Which character did you pick? I chose the girl who could find 2 safe tiles next to skulls for 1 star and find 2 skulls for 2 stars. Both of these powers seemed really useful, making big areas safe (especially since the default mode only has 3 skulls across the 2 colors). I tried a little with the guy who could find cards near borders and he didn't seem as good. 1 star for a safe card on the border and 3 for all of them on the border seems overpriced comparatively.

# ? May 6, 2016 10:12

Haystack: Jan 23, 2005

Shbobdb posted:

My only gaming mmachine is my HTCOne. I've replayed KOTOR and got to play Xcom: the next generation. What other games are there that are good on a phone? Willing to pay.

King of Dragon Pass

# ? May 6, 2016 10:26

Artelier: Jan 23, 2015

Arbitrary Number posted:

I found the campaign to be pretty good in terms of difficulty. On my first run through I barely missed getting enough points to get 8th place to enter the final tourney. It felt like I was improving as I went on. Player skill feels like it matters. At least, when I get bored of calculating the odds and tracking skulls and I pick randomly it feels like I get skulls way more often than if I go slowly.

I had a few times where the AI found 3 fruit in very few moves but they were very rare. Most games ended with over half the board taken iirc. I also had a few times where I won in very few moves so I figure fair's fair. Like you said, maybe you were very unlucky (and I was lucky).

There were quite a few times where I had no guaranteed safe card unless I used a star power. In the situation you mentioned, the general location of a skull is pretty valuable information, so starting with that knowledge might not be so bad. That part of the RNG didn't bother me as much as the times when the AI decides to steal a fruit I was going for. It feels bad, especially when there's only 1 fruit left.

Which character did you pick? I chose the girl who could find 2 safe tiles next to skulls for 1 star and find 2 skulls for 2 stars. Both of these powers seemed really useful, making big areas safe (especially since the default mode only has 3 skulls across the 2 colors). I tried a little with the guy who could find cards near borders and he didn't seem as good. 1 star for a safe card on the border and 3 for all of them on the border seems overpriced comparatively.

Yeah, this is my impression too after my initial run through the campaign. First run was the evil looking guy who could see the opponent's cards but second round I'm using the skull finding powers and having a much easier time with it.

Also, as I played, my Minesweepering got better, and I deduced possible fruit locations and safe spots MUCH faster. Woohoo.

Sometimes it's roll of the dice though. Especially in the colourless tournament.

DEFAULT RULESET:
3 skulls
2 colours of cards - the top of the screen shows how many skulls per colour
5 fruit
2 stars

Once I deduced this information (which I believe the game never gives you in its entirety), I started having a lot more success. Also, opponents only do their special card picking animation if they're one fruit away from victory or "have" to risk picking a skull.

I'm fourth place in the second half of the game, with maybe 6 tournaments to go.

# ? May 6, 2016 11:59

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Shbobdb posted:

My only gaming mmachine is my HTCOne. I've replayed KOTOR and got to play Xcom: the next generation. What other games are there that are good on a phone? Willing to pay.

Galaxy Trucker, GTA:Chinatown Wars. Minecraft, if you're into that. I also really enjoy Noir Syndrome. I have it both on PC and Android, and it's just as good on either platform.

# ? May 6, 2016 13:34

MikeRabsitch: Aug 23, 2004; Show us what you got, what you got

Shbobdb posted:

My only gaming mmachine is my HTCOne. I've replayed KOTOR and got to play Xcom: the next generation. What other games are there that are good on a phone? Willing to pay.

Minecraft came out on the Gear VR which has been pretty cool so far. If you're willing to pay for a Gear VR. And a compatible phone. And a controller.

# ? May 6, 2016 16:48

Onean: Feb 11, 2010; Maiden in white...
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Artelier posted:

Yeah, this is my impression too after my initial run through the campaign. First run was the evil looking guy who could see the opponent's cards but second round I'm using the skull finding powers and having a much easier time with it.

Also, as I played, my Minesweepering got better, and I deduced possible fruit locations and safe spots MUCH faster. Woohoo.

Sometimes it's roll of the dice though. Especially in the colourless tournament.

DEFAULT RULESET:
3 skulls
2 colours of cards - the top of the screen shows how many skulls per colour
5 fruit
2 stars

Once I deduced this information (which I believe the game never gives you in its entirety), I started having a lot more success. Also, opponents only do their special card picking animation if they're one fruit away from victory or "have" to risk picking a skull.

I'm fourth place in the second half of the game, with maybe 6 tournaments to go.

Something else to be aware of is to watch is how your opponent is picking. If they're making two or three picks in a general area, you should too since there's obviously something there.

# ? May 7, 2016 05:28

Dodoman: Feb 26, 2009; A moment of laxity
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Coin Drop got updated recently to work on new versions of android. This is a really good peggle clone from 2012 and has a ton of charm. First two worlds are free and the remaining three are unlocked by a single 99c iap.

# ? May 7, 2016 07:34

mrkillboy: May 13, 2003; "Something witty."

Huh, there's actually an Ancient Aliens game out? Wouldn't it be funny if the aliens meme guy was in the g

# ? May 8, 2016 04:24

gimme the GOD DAMN candy: Jul 1, 2007

sold

# ? May 8, 2016 04:27

mrkillboy: May 13, 2003; "Something witty."

I can't decide what's better; the Bandicam watermark on the trailer, the visible Windows taskbar in one of the screenshots, or the fact that probing is a key gameplay mechanic.

# ? May 8, 2016 04:45

Paladinus: Jan 11, 2014; heyHEYYYY!!!

It's an official game, too. Wow.

# ? May 8, 2016 12:36

Konstantin: Jun 20, 2005; And the Lord said, "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

Are there any good traditional MMORPGs out there for Android? The closest I can find are crappy freemium games with no overworld and little social interaction. Surely I can't be the only one willing to pay for something like old school EverQuest/WoW on my tablet?

# ? May 8, 2016 16:41

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mrkillboy posted:

Huh, there's actually an Ancient Aliens game out? Wouldn't it be funny if the aliens meme guy was in the g

NEXT EVOLUTION LEVEL: MINOTAUR

Thanks History Channel

# ? May 8, 2016 16:49

tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

Konstantin posted:

Are there any good traditional MMORPGs out there for Android? The closest I can find are crappy freemium games with no overworld and little social interaction. Surely I can't be the only one willing to pay for something like old school EverQuest/WoW on my tablet?

I think order & chaos is the good one, it's 10bux a month.

# ? May 8, 2016 17:13

ModeSix: Mar 14, 2009

tater_salad posted:

I think order & chaos is the good one, it's 10bux a month.

Pretty sure it's free now. As far as I know they dropped the subscription fee quite a while ago.

# ? May 8, 2016 17:16

explosivo: May 23, 2004; Fueled by Satan

mrkillboy posted:

All the GTA games are on sale for $3 ($4 for San Andreas).

I picked up San Andreas and it constantly crashes on my S7 Edge :smith:

# ? May 8, 2016 20:22

Artelier: Jan 23, 2015

Final boss in Psycard has insane powers:
- reveal all the cards you've unveiled
- reveal all cards with fruits

This means that if he uses the second power and you don't have any clues, you're boned and have to YOLO guess before he gets his next turn or two. drat.

EDIT: That might not have been the final boss, I looked into the quick game characters and there's still one silhouette left..

Artelier fucked around with this message at 10:15 on May 9, 2016

# ? May 9, 2016 10:12

Newfie: Oct 8, 2013; 10 years of oil boom and 20 billion dollars cash, all I got was a case of beer, a pack of smokes, and 14% unemployment.
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ovaries posted:

I looked back over the past ten pages but didn't see anyone mention Pathfinder Adventures, Obsidian's (!!) port of some sort of CCG based on the Pathfinder tabletop RPG. It says it's tablet only but I just managed to install and run it on my Nexus 6P so ymmv.

Got this to install to my HTCOne M8, pretty excited for both an Obsidian product and the Pathfinder CCG. How is the IAP?

# ? May 9, 2016 13:42

wall monitor: Jan 1, 2007

Newfie posted:

Got this to install to my HTCOne M8, pretty excited for both an Obsidian product and the Pathfinder CCG. How is the IAP?

Not really a CCG, it's more like just a CG.

# ? May 9, 2016 14:52

Lutha Mahtin: Oct 10, 2010; Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

Dodoman posted:

Coin Drop got updated recently to work on new versions of android. This is a really good peggle clone from 2012 and has a ton of charm. First two worlds are free and the remaining three are unlocked by a single 99c iap.

I had never heard of this before, it's really good! To me it doesn't feel like a clone of Peggle, but more like somebody took Peggle, pinball, and some arcade coin-machine games and shoved them all in a blender.

# ? May 9, 2016 23:46

tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

Ia there a way to get a downtown showdown apk without getting 200 viri? It works on a note 4 (wife) but I own a note edge and I wanna play.

# ? May 10, 2016 01:55

Len: Jan 21, 2008; Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!

My Egyptian pyramid now has three minotaurs working on it. I'm learning so much history.

# ? May 10, 2016 02:01

mrkillboy: May 13, 2003; "Something witty."

tater_salad posted:

Ia there a way to get a downtown showdown apk without getting 200 viri? It works on a note 4 (wife) but I own a note edge and I wanna play.

You could probably use Apk Extractor to get the apk from your wife's phone and sideload it onto yours.

# ? May 10, 2016 02:01

tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

Sweet. Thanks for that

# ? May 10, 2016 02:04

Rapner: May 7, 2013

I'm going to have to eat crow about all the poo poo I talked about PuzzleCraft 2.

They patched it to remove the super heavy IAP pushing. Best of all, it works offline. I've been playing the poo poo out of it on the plane and on buses as I am overseas and without cheap internet.

I'll write more about it when I'm not on mobile.

# ? May 10, 2016 03:09

coyo7e: Aug 23, 2007; by zen death robot

Paladinus posted:

It's an official game, too. Wow.

This makes me wonder if Action Bronson's Ancient Aliens show is also official.

# ? May 10, 2016 16:16

overseer07: Mar 30, 2003; Pillbug

Newfie posted:

Got this to install to my HTCOne M8, pretty excited for both an Obsidian product and the Pathfinder CCG. How is the IAP?

Not bad, unless there's an IAP wall later on that I don't know about. Otherwise, you can earn gold to buy anything. It's a bit grind-ey to do so, though.

overseer07 fucked around with this message at 20:43 on May 10, 2016

# ? May 10, 2016 20:41

Xile77: Sep 18, 2003; <img alt="" border="0" src="https://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/customtitles/title-xile77.jpg" /><br />I love my fellow semen

Are there any fun games that use Google cardboard? I have a Nexus 6p, and am curious to try poor man's oculus rift.

# ? May 10, 2016 23:07

Kheldarn: Feb 17, 2011

Has anyone played Bejeweled Stars yet?

# ? May 10, 2016 23:36

48 Hour Boner: May 26, 2005; I think something's wrong with this thing

Xile77 posted:

Are there any fun games that use Google cardboard? I have a Nexus 6p, and am curious to try poor man's oculus rift.

There are quite a few!

End Space VR, endless space shooter
Gravity Pull VR, Portal-like physics puzzles
QVR, an open-source port of Quake specifically for Cardboard (bluetooth controller required, original Quake files required)
Trinus, play PC games on your android phone in 3D
VRidge, Play VR games off your PC. Limited SteamVR support

The last three require using some velcro to strap the thing to your head, if you're into that sort of thing.

# ? May 10, 2016 23:44

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Xile77 posted:

Are there any fun games that use Google cardboard? I have a Nexus 6p, and am curious to try poor man's oculus rift.

The cardboard version of Aaaaaaaaa! is pretty fun.

# ? May 11, 2016 04:00

Light Gun Man: Oct 17, 2009; toEjaM iS oN
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How powerful of a phone do you need to do cardboard stuff? Is it less for the "stream from pc" stuff? I've got an LG Sunset.

# ? May 11, 2016 04:07

O__O: Jan 26, 2011; by Cowcaster

48 Hour Boner posted:

Trinus, play PC games on your android phone in 3D

how well does this work??

# ? May 11, 2016 05:39

Shine: Feb 26, 2007; No Muscles For The Majority

O__O posted:

how well does this work??

I tried it with Elite Dangerous some time back, and it worked well as a proof of concept to give a taste of what the game would be like in VR (loving incredible), but the framerate and input lag made it impractical for regular use.

# ? May 11, 2016 08:58

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# ? May 15, 2024 13:05

Tunga: May 7, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Light Gun Man posted:

How powerful of a phone do you need to do cardboard stuff? Is it less for the "stream from pc" stuff? I've got an LG Sunset.

Pretty much just as good as is needed to run that game/app normally on the phone since it's exactly the same total resolution. Certainly stuff like Street View will work fine on almost anything, and 3D games/rides will come down to how well your phone normally handles 3D games.

# ? May 11, 2016 09:49

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