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New version of Retro Bowl is out. College football. Haven't played it yet but I loved the original
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Dec 26, 2023 19:13
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Extremely old games at this point, but if you like tower defense games the Kingdom Rush games are good on tablets.
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Dec 26, 2023 19:47
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Lowness 72 posted:New version of Retro Bowl is out. College football. Haven't played it yet but I loved the original Its great. It has the same mechanics as the original, but adds the complications of college sports. Your players are with you a maximum of 4 seasons, sometimes less if they get drafted, so you have to constantly cycle players. You can't trade and draft players either, you get pools of freshman that you have to pick from. Players also have GPA they have to maintain, so benching people so they can go to class is necessary sometimes. It basically takes the awesome gameplay and fixes alot of the issues the first one had wrt to building a godlike team and being unbeatable ever again. There's even some press events that ask you to identify players by name so you need to actually learn names and positions.
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Dec 26, 2023 20:27
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Circle Nine posted:Extremely old games at this point, but if you like tower defense games the Kingdom Rush games are good on tablets. Coincidentally I booted up Kingdom Rush: Frontiers to find they added a challenge mode since I last played. You can make your own challengea and share them with friends.
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Dec 27, 2023 06:31
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I picked up XCOM 2 on a lark and drat this is a really good port. Lots of great touchscreen changes to the UI to make it more palatable on a phone without changing a thing about the actual gameplay from the full version.
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Dec 27, 2023 07:04
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I'm a couple seasons into the College Retro Bowl and slung them a few bucks for unlimited mode, it's fun and a nice twist but a lot of the "money" plays from Retro Bowl are still here. Gunslinger QB plus speedy WR will dominate all defenses. Passing to non star WRs becomes pointless once the dynamic difficulty ramps up. I'm trying a run focused team but that also becomes difficult at the highest difficulties as well. Still fun but I'll probably bounce off soon.
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Dec 28, 2023 19:54
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Retro Bowl College - I haven't played the original, but I'm quite enjoying this. Though my major issue is it seems like my defence is always catastrophically bad - any time the opposition gets the ball they are like 90% to touchdown. Is that just a quirk of the games, or is there something I'm not building right in my team? I have been trying to buy star offence and defence players roughly evenly, and my defence star rating is usually within a half star of the opposition's offence.
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Dec 29, 2023 08:05
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Shapez had an update that fixed "save file corruption after level 17" which incidentally is where I had issues, so those in the thread with the same issue can try it again.
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Dec 29, 2023 23:34
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I hope they fixed the weird placement issue I kept having. Like there were quadrants of the screen that I just couldn't drag anything to without trying it a bunch of times. They said it was a known issue when I sent them a chat thing about it. Game's just got some weird controls in general but it looks like they're at least attempting to fix the big issues which is good to see. Edit: Oh, the latest update with the save fix was before I played last so i think my thing is still messed up 
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Dec 29, 2023 23:38
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So I've been playing Candy Crush for probably over 10 years now.... Not much has been taking up my time on my phone except for that and sometimes Solitaire. Any recommendations for recent Android games that are easy to pick up and play? I don't mind paying. I'm thinking about getting Monopoly because I was hooked on it when a recent plane I flew had it on their entertainment screen. I just downloaded Mahjong and Monopoly Go. Busy Bee fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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Dec 30, 2023 10:45
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Busy Bee posted:So I've been playing Candy Crush for probably over 10 years now.... Not much has been taking up my time on my phone except for that and sometimes Solitaire. Candy Crush is a game where probably a million dollars went into making it accessible for every 50 year old nurse I work with to play on their night shifts - you're not often going to see that kind of 'easy to pick up and play' in games that we may even consider better. With that said, here are the two games that make me wish I would get brain damage from a car accident so I could forget them and play them again: 1) You Must Build A Boat (maybe goon made?) 2) Slice and Dice (GOON MADE!)
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Dec 30, 2023 11:30
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Royal Match is pretty good. And it doesn't have ads, which is nice. The building mechanic is meh, but also optional.
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Dec 30, 2023 16:18
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We had a baby at the end of October and I installed Royal Match as a simple game to play during those long nights, rocking the baby to sleep. I'm on level 2225 and questioning my own sanity.
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Dec 30, 2023 16:51
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Renegret posted:We had a baby at the end of October and I installed Royal Match as a simple game to play during those long nights, rocking the baby to sleep. There really should be a subset of game genre that is specifically for new parents. The criteria would likely be that it has to be not stressful, and suffer literally no penalty from being quickly closed. If it's turn-based and easy on the battery, all the better. Into the Breach would be near the top of my list, if not #1, not just because it's a fantastic game, but because it fits that criteria as well. If only I had it when my kids were young. I had.... Egg Inc 
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Dec 30, 2023 17:11
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I had adventure communist, egg inc, and afk arena for my first. Honestly royal match is much worse for my sanity
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Dec 30, 2023 17:15
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:
Is there a way to play this without a Netflix subscription?
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Dec 30, 2023 19:24
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VelociBacon posted:
YMBAB is a sequel to 10000000, which you don't need to play first but I still recommend it.
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Dec 30, 2023 19:41
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Is there a way to play this without a Netflix subscription? on android it's apparently a netflix exclusive but it's on a bunch of other platforms
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Dec 30, 2023 21:42
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Vulpes posted:Retro Bowl College - I haven't played the original, but I'm quite enjoying this. Though my major issue is it seems like my defence is always catastrophically bad - any time the opposition gets the ball they are like 90% to touchdown. Is that just a quirk of the games, or is there something I'm not building right in my team? I have been trying to buy star offence and defence players roughly evenly, and my defence star rating is usually within a half star of the opposition's offence. Pay attention to the messages when the other team has possession. Things like "so and so missed the tackle/wasn't strong enough/wasn't fast enough". Level those stats up on those defenders and you'll see bug increases in effectiveness. That said, difficulty setting will throw all of that out the window generally if it's on harder settings. If it's on max, they're going to score every time they have the ball.
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Dec 30, 2023 23:00
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Busy Bee posted:So I've been playing Candy Crush for probably over 10 years now.... Not much has been taking up my time on my phone except for that and sometimes Solitaire.
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Dec 31, 2023 01:21
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teethgrinder posted:Slay the Spire is essentially Battle Solitaire. Night of the Full Moon is a pretty approachable and well made entry in this genre.
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Dec 31, 2023 02:08
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Busy Bee posted:So I've been playing Candy Crush for probably over 10 years now.... Not much has been taking up my time on my phone except for that and sometimes Solitaire. Merge Mayor is pretty simple and while it's a little more in your face with promos now it's still pretty decent and I've gotten through it without paying for anything.
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Dec 31, 2023 05:44
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teethgrinder posted:Slay the Spire is essentially Battle Solitaire. Solitairica is LITERALLY Battle Solitaire.
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Dec 31, 2023 06:22
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Solitairica is LITERALLY Battle Solitaire. But not as good as Slay The Spire
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Dec 31, 2023 19:00
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The android port of StS kinda sucks though
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Dec 31, 2023 19:07
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explosivo posted:The android port of StS kinda sucks though But some people do seem to have issues with specific models/OS updates.
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Dec 31, 2023 19:31
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explosivo posted:The android port of StS kinda sucks though I installed it again last night and it's very annoying trying to deselect and select another card.
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Dec 31, 2023 19:51
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teethgrinder posted:Have you tried it recently? After being neglected for over a year it got a bunch of updates that I think have got it in a good place finally. Blew my mind that even the cloud sync is fast now. CaptainBeefart posted:I installed it again last night and it's very annoying trying to deselect and select another card. It may have been 6 months or so since I've played but this is what always bothered me the most about it. The controls just never felt as precise as they should be and I'd accidentally play cards or skip cards or things like that because of it. I also find the UI too shrunken down to play on the phone, like cards were always kinda hard to read.
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Dec 31, 2023 20:07
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Slay the Spire was so annoying on Android because it's landscape only and I just wanna play the card game. Let me tap the cards, I don't need to see my guy on the left and the enemies on the right Dawncaster is the closest experience and some days I prefer StS, some days I'm sitting at Neow but staring at my phone desperately trying to get a Darkness Hunter deck to work in DC
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Jan 1, 2024 02:48
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CaptainBeefart posted:I installed it again last night and it's very annoying trying to deselect and select another card. YUP. I keep getting stuck with a card selected that I didn't even intend to, and it's likely I'll play it no matter how carefully I try to deselect it. Dawncaster is a good concept but horribly unbalanced in favor of the player to the amount where there's no point playing it. It's boring.
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Jan 1, 2024 03:26
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LifeLynx posted:YUP. I keep getting stuck with a card selected that I didn't even intend to, and it's likely I'll play it no matter how carefully I try to deselect it. Is there a secret for Hard or Impossible? I'm regularly getting my rear end kicked
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Jan 1, 2024 09:02
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I beat the new/harder version of Mindustry and now I am adrift without towers to defend and units to build. The old mode has more content but it is a lot more rudimentary and pretty annoying in some places. Sorry devs but if I build four items in a power zone them the node shouldn't link with the first and then leave the rest unpowered. I decided to give Kingdom Rish Frontiers a kick after playing a bit of it's predecessors back in the day. However, I'm having a bit of a problem keeping things going. For those who have played, is building tall or wide better when you're starting out? That is to say, is two level three towers worth more than one level four tower?
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Jan 2, 2024 05:25
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Better to concentrate your towers on a minimal number of choke points. I used to spread them out but when I watched a few level tutorials they always did the opposite, so I switched.
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Jan 2, 2024 06:21
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I'm going on a long flight and a long layover, and figured I might buy Final Fantasy VI. Does anyone know if it's a good port? And are there any stupid online requirements to boot it up or something like that? And lastly, any other good offline jrpgs I might consider instead?
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Jan 2, 2024 22:30
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Sjonkel posted:I'm going on a long flight and a long layover, and figured I might buy Final Fantasy VI. Does anyone know if it's a good port? And are there any stupid online requirements to boot it up or something like that? Is it the pixel remaster? Or the older one with weird graphics?
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Jan 2, 2024 22:40
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Looks like the pixel remaster: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...Brqmq2w-WzKzoAQ
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Jan 2, 2024 23:34
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I bought Chrono Trigger for Android and I do not suggest it. There's a common bug where it just won't load after android updates and their patching folks take forever to fix it.
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Jan 2, 2024 23:47
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Solitairica is LITERALLY Battle Solitaire. I'm pretty sure I beat all of this (years?) ago. Just reinstalled because it was fun.
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Jan 3, 2024 00:41
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CuddleCryptid posted:I decided to give Kingdom Rish Frontiers a kick after playing a bit of it's predecessors back in the day. However, I'm having a bit of a problem keeping things going. For those who have played, is building tall or wide better when you're starting out? That is to say, is two level three towers worth more than one level four tower? Definitely tall because Frontiers has some bonkers upgraded towers or whatever you call it when the tower changes to a different one. Like Archers can change to Crossbow which is a god tier tower in the series. Necromancer is also god tier. I can’t keep the rest straight if they are in that game or others but if I remember right those two are just crazy good.
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Jan 3, 2024 04:18
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Hand Row posted:Definitely tall because Frontiers has some bonkers upgraded towers or whatever you call it when the tower changes to a different one. Like Archers can change to Crossbow which is a god tier tower in the series. Necromancer is also god tier. I can’t keep the rest straight if they are in that game or others but if I remember right those two are just crazy good. Yeah the crossbow tower is great, especially with the barrage power. Necro is also great for having slowing bodies. The ones that I have found the most effective are Crossbow, Necro, and the AOE T4 artillery. It's just more of a thing in the midgame where it's "do I buy a lot of towers or just dump gold into a few and leave some spaces open". It sounds like the latter is the better choice.
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