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Zotix posted:What are some top notch single player games that don't require an internet connection? Next weekend I'll be chillin w/ the family at an area with limited internet service. Buriedbornes is a neat old-school dungeon crawler type game if you'd be into something like that. It has some online features though (like running into other player's corpses in the dungeon), and I think you have to go into a menu somewhere and hit the 'pre-download everything' button before it'll work offline.
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kirbysuperstar posted:Yeah, it is fun. Kinda waiting for an emulator to support it thought because oh god my neck, especially if I'm playing with a pad. time to embrace the Loser Hat 
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Try this one I just searched for "voice recorder" on F-droid, which is pretty good for small utility stuff like that since it only has open source apps, which generally stay free from obnoxious ads and monetization.
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Game mechanics aren't protected by copyright, patent or trademark. You can make an exact replica of any game you like as long as you don't copy the writing, art, or level design. For example look at OpenMW, a 100% replication of the Morrowind engine, and it's 100% legal. But they don't distribute any game assets with it -- you have to grab those from an existing legally-obtained copy of morrowind to use them with OpenMW if you want to actually play the game.
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Jan 9, 2022 22:56
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That patent expired in the past few years
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The Sean posted:Are there any gatcha games that don't require money or effort? That seems counter-intuitive but something to scratch the itch of opening a bunch of poo poo. Your best bet is to kind of jump around between different games all the time. Lots of games are pretty generous and give tons of rolls early on for the "new player experience" before petering off. And then there are others that hand out daily rolls during holidays or anniversaries or whatever. So you can just play whatever has a promotion going on and don't get too committed to it, then jump ship to the next one. e: for example this Nier-themed gacha game that I've never heard of or played has an anniversary promo for 220 free pulls right now:  You can install it, do your beginner pulls, tool around for a few days in the gameplay, then if a week if you aren't in love just pitch it and try a new one out. RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Feb 15, 2022 |
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flatluigi posted:i have a few hundred hours in warframe and i have no idea what you're even calling a gacha mechanic. there's a store, but there's no lootboxes or anything remotely like that You can buy void relics with plat But like half the stuff in warframe's cash shop it's a terrible deal and not at all worth it for something you can easily farm ingame. (Or just use your platinum to trade for the prime parts directly from other players.)
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You can buy almost every ingame resource with the realmoney currency but you typically get pathetically low amounts such that it's absolutely not ever worth it. Warframe's cash shop economy is not tuned very well at all. There's basically 3 non-cosmetic things in the cash shop that are actually worth your platinum (inventory slots, reactors/catalysts, maybe forma), and then the only other thing you use cash shop currency for is inter-player trading, giving someone 20 platinum for their rare drop so THEY can go use that plat on buying more inventory space or potatoes. For example the warframe shop sells nearly every gun in the game pre-built for like $15-20 of premium currency, even though most of them you can trivially craft for free with like 15 minutes of work (and a 24 hour wait before it finishes building). It sells 175,000 credits for 90 platinum (about $5), but you can also play a minigame mode for free called The Index that gives 250,000 credits per ~5-7 minute round. You can pay 75 credits for an "essential cold/heat/electric/toxic mod bundle" that contains the basic weapon mods for each weapon type in that element, but most players will get dozens and dozens of these as random drops and you only ever need 1 of each, so if you're in a clan your buddies will probably just give you all that poo poo for free if you ask rather than spending 300 plat / 20-ish dollars on buying the set. RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Feb 16, 2022 |
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tildes posted:Can anyone recommend a good android emulator? I basically just want to listen to audio books on my computer, but the app I use only has a mobile app, so I figured I could just emulate android on my computer and run it from there. I'd rather do something simpler than using a virtual machine I make myself, but the ones out there like Nox and Bluestacks give big "will install bloatware on my computer" vibes. Bluestacks has big sleazy marketing-guy vibes but it doesn't do any malware stuff or touch the rest of your computer. It just makes money by advertising lots of predatory pay-to-win mobile games on your "phone's" home screen inside the emulator.
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Unperson_47 posted:There's a way to disable the auto-installation of apps but yeah Bluestacks and Nox are the shadiest feeling things I've ever willingly installed on a computer. It's never autoinstalled anything for me, it just has a bunch of ad icons on the home screen. If you click these it'll take you to the play store to download them the normal way:  e: speaking about Bluestacks, I haven't tried Nox Kheldarn posted:What about LDPlayer? Pretty sure all of the android emulators on pc are very corporate ad-riddled things. RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Oh my. I wasn't aware of this. well it has big buttons saying "5 free plays" and "Get Stars!" right there so I'm gonna say yes
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Siralim Ultimate is an rpg but it's the grindy dungeon-crawler mash-lots-of-numbers-together kind of rpg without much story. I can't speak to the quality of the mobile version but I enjoyed playing it on steam, and I know it has cross-save. It's mostly about coming up with weird overpowered interactions between all the different special abilities and building teams to abuse them.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Diablo Immortals is also totally not just a reskin of an existing mobile game made by this mobile studio Blizzard's working with and any similarities are a coincidence. Blizzard even said so and if you can't trust Blizzard who can you trust?? well they must be doing SOMETHING besides just copy-pasting assets it was literally announced 4 years ago and still hasn't released unless the studio are just the world's slowest asset flippers
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A lot of people seem to be talking about it in the gacha thread
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Idle kingdom clicker is pretty neat but I wish its microtransactions were a little more micro. I would probably pay like 1-5 bux for a permanent no-ads upgrade but for some reason they want a recurring weekly payment for it! It's sad that every mobile game nowadays wants to turn you into a permanent cashflow source, there's no more freemium "pay a couple of bucks to upgrade out of f2p mode" games.
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IDK what it is with android and controller support but a lot of devs seem to just give up and ignore it. Even Genshin Impact with its 9-digit development budget doesn't support controllers on android (but it does on iphone/ps4/pc).
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pissinthewind posted:Are there any spiderweb software/realmz style crpgs for Android? Play store is useless for actually finding anything. There was an Android port of Avadon: The Black Fortress, literally by Spiderweb. I got it in a humble bundle ages ago. But apparently the third party company that handled the port went out of business so the Spiderweb dude took it down from the store since it couldn't be updated to work with the latest Android versions. Might be able to find a download somewhere still. I never played it much so I can't say how good the port is.
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psychoJ posted:anybody have any recommendations for good games played in portrait orientation? looking for something to play and just kind of zone out on before bed Buriedbornes if you'd like a dungeon crawler RPG.
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Play into the breach on netflix.
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a game where you spend 40 hours grinding the same 5 click sequence to get 10% of a skill level up is maybe not the best option to play for 5 minutes while taking a dump osrs is fun at low levels but i wouldn't recommend playing it longterm / in endgame as the grindiness grows exponentially (unless you are playing it specifically for that flavor of mindless grinding.)
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as far as i know every brand of cellphone is still a featureless black rectangle with varying levels of cpu strength and varying amounts of annoying preinstalled crap from the manufacturer google cuts out the annoying preinstalled crap and as a 'flagship' phone it should be powerful enough hardware-specs-wise to do anything you would want to do with a phone so go for it imo for a more nuanced take from nerds who care about the difference between 12 megazots and 18 microzangles on a phone camera you can check one of these IYG threads Android Thread Recommend me a Phone from the android thread it sounds like the review embargo will end on the 12th so if you want a real answer wait till then
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field balm posted:I've got a handful of 8-12 hour flights coming up, looking for something to kill time with. Must work offline. If you enjoy the rpg grindan' in buriedbornes you could try SIralim ultimate? it's a $10 buy-to-play game. Also a port from the PC version so I don't really know how high quality the android version is but it's got good ratings on the playstore. Also has cross-save. This one's about building up a party of 6 custom-made pokemons instead of playing a single character.
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Speaking of which, what are goons' favorite portrait-mode android games for just opening it up and tooling around for 2-5 minutes while you wait in line or something? I usually just browse SA or read an article or something. Seems like all the most visible games want to do the big habit-building lifestyle thing with daily grinds and stamina systems and longer play sessions and etc etc
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I will never in my entire life respect a "competitive" 1v1 game that's full of pay-to-progress aka pay-to-win crap. IDK how people can stand to play games like this or clash royale or whatever
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You tried just connecting the switch to a phone hotspot? online multiplayer doesn't take much data as long as you're not like downloading game updates or something. For phone games the big crossplatform ones I know are mostly big cash-cow competitive games like Mobile Legends and Wild Rift (MOBAs), PUBG mobile, Apex Mobile, Cod Mobile etc (fpses). I haven't played any of these. Also Genshin Impact which is the only co-opish game I know of? You can't actually do the main story quests but you can run around and explore the breath-of-the-wild-clone-ish open world. e: minecraft! I forgot that had a mobile port RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Oct 21, 2022 |
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a lot less than 5gb usually multiplayer games are just sending lightweight stuff like positions or button inputs, nothing like audio/video/etc. it should be about as demanding as browsing SA (actually less since pokemans doesn't have embedded tweets) if your phone has a data usage monitor (android has this builtin, idk about ios), check it before and after a gameplay session and take screenshots each way and you'll be able to see how much data you go through RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Oct 21, 2022 |
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BoldFace posted:Even if you buy all the cosmetics in the shop, it won't let you acquire new cards any faster. The real bottleneck is credits which you can use real money to buy and speed things up. Even if you do this, you still need to grind thousands of matches to unlock the cards. You can't really circumvent this. that just makes it grindy and paytowin like if real money affects your account power or chance to win a match, it's absolutely 100% somewhere on the p2w spectrum. after that it's just a matter of degrees The Sean posted:No, they are not locked behind pay gates. I'm not sure what you're talking about. there were paygated cards in lootboxes in the "Nexus Event" thing they did in beta but the community outcry was so loud after the first one that they immediately removed the lootbox/nexus-event mechanic from the game and said they would just focus on cosmetics. which might be the first time in history a dev actually walked back lootbox poo poo? RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Osmosisch posted:Honkai Impact had a Evangelion crossover event recently if that's your bag. That was time limited and it's long over.
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There are three open-source blackjack games on f-droid so maybe try those. I can't speak for the quality but at least they are guaranteed to be free from the awful predatory monetization you'd expect in any casino-themed mobile game.
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Spermando posted:Are all controllers for mobile incredibly overpriced or am I just not looking in the right places? you dont need a controller specifically for mobile, afaik you can get any old bluetooth controller plus optionally $5 plastic clip to hold the phone on top of it i have an 8bitdo controller to use on my pc but it can connect to my android too
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Organic Lube User posted:Is the Gallo Tower level just buggy as hell for anyone else? I randomly walk through walls and float in space, sometimes getting stuck in the walls for a minute as I try to get back into the tower. Clipping through walls is buggy, i think it's tied to your movespeed or something? That mirror is working as intended though.
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hooah posted:Alright, so Pasqualina is the secret to the library. How about the dairy level? I haven't reached 10 minutes yet, and most runs are maybe 5. anything can work, default whip dude will slay any stage if you're having trouble surviving early on, try to avoid diluting your weapon pool too much. having one level 8 weapon is a lot better than three level 3 weapons due to the way weapon upgrades act as a force multiplier to each other, so picking too many new things early on means you will struggle a lot more. when given the choice between picking up a great new weapon or putting a level into a meh passive, sometimes it is better to just pick the meh upgrade, just to avoid diluting your level-up pool with too many things so you can't focus all the level-ups on one weapon. after all, you only see 3 choices each level up so the more items you're carrying the less likely you'll be able to upgrade the ones you want of course once you get one well upgraded weapon and survive the earlygame you can start branching out more, just don't try to fill all your slots with level 1 weapons 10 minutes in or you'll be toast
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That can happen if you 'banish' an item, which prevents it from showing up in level up menus for the rest of the run. If you banish an item in the level up menu and then later pick the same item up off the ground, or if you banish an item you're already carrying, the unfilled squares will turn red and it will be impossible to level up any further.
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Shwqa posted:Spoilers You don't need to go that far. Just the regular lancet + laurel are enough to stall the reaper for 1-3 minutes and earn the 31-minute run achievements, no ultra secret evolutions required.
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it used to be in this subforum but got moved to Video Games when it officially released out of beta and the thread got way more active
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google lets you print a set of 'backup codes' that can each be used for a one-time login to your account wiithout needing the authenticator i printed them out and stuck the thing in my wallet which now that i think about it is a pretty bad idea if i ever lose it, i should probably just forget them in a drawer at home somewhere note though that these are only specifically for logging into your google account. afaik there is no way to have a backup of the whole 2FA authenticator, since it only offers the option to transfer accounts and not to copy them. if you lose your phone you will need to recover each of those 2fa-protected accounts individiually. having access to your gmail account from the backup codes thing will help a ton though
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You can never get new items from chests, only upgrades to items you already have. (That's why it's called game killer  -- it's a huge downside if you don't already have all your item slots filled.)So assuming your existing stuff is all max level, those white squares are probably supposed to be the 25-coin pouches that normally replace items in chests once you're all maxed out.
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teethgrinder posted:Are there graphically impressive games on the Play store that actually take advantage of "a gaming phone". I remember Galaxy on Fire (2) being cool but that was years ago. Browsing nothing seems exceptional. i feel like the main audience for those gaming phones is people who are way too into stuff like pubg mobile or cod mobile. which are not visually impressive at all since they just have generic realism artstyles also mobile is just a really bad way to experience that genre so i have no idea why those games are so popular
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install Magic Research op the only mobile idle game I've seen that's not plagued with iap and p2w
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New Leaf posted:Is there a way to block mobile ads in games without going into airplane mode every time? Like an app that simulates airplane mode or something without cutting off communications? AdAway. It sets up a local pass-through "VPN" that network traffic on your phone has to go through and then just blocks all the network requests to known ad websites. Naturally it's banned from a certain ad company's Play Store. You can get the same effect on your home wifi by setting up a pihole like mentioned above.
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