Android gaming - the best of the best - name 'em!
I'm looking for opinions and titles of what you consider to be among the best (and most popular) Android titles as well as the underground and unappreciated ones. I'm going to play the hell out of my Android for the next week and I need content ideas!
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Originally Posted by Daltone
There are good games on the Android platform? I haven't found any yet....
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Cut the Rope
Don't ruin my hopes here
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Grab an emulator for Android.
Yeah that's kinda where I'm leaning.
Bluetooth Wiimote ftw!
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I'm not sure if all of Yongzh's emulators have been nuked from the marketplace, but if they have I'm sure you can easily find them on the web and manually install them.
Classic gaming emulation on Andriod is tops. NES, SNES, Genesis, GameBoy, Game Gear, SMS, etc.
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For the longest time there weren't, especially for the Motorola CLIQ that I owned about a year ago (stupid Android 1.6)! If you have a newer phone (something from the Samsung Galaxy S series or any of the newer dual core devices), then your options open up. Gameloft has actually ported over 20 of their games to the newer Android devices -- both of the Dungeon Hunter games, Sacred Odyssey, Eternal Legacy HD, and so on. They've also done a port of their MMO, Order & Chaos. Most of these are decent once you get used to the touchscreen controls, but I wish that Gameloft would use the Android Market instead of making you buy all the games directly from them.
Of course, you can also get Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Words with Friends (good if you like Scrabble), Fieldrunners HD (a great tower defense game), Zenonia I/II/III, and many others. Gaming on Android is in much better shape than it was even six months ago, especially if you own one of the newer devices. Admittedly, Android has a long way to go before it even begins to catch up to iOS...
That was the Android phone that got me out of Android ownership and opened my eyes to just how segmented the market is in terms of Android build variations, hardware iterations and favoritism from hardware developers between carriers.
Motorola can go suck a fat one for the way that they treated their userbase on that model. iOS is a much much better fit for me in terms of my phone and gaming needs. (1 or 2 phone models at any given time and near universal functionality between them for all apps.)
Still, on topic, there are some good games out there on Android, you just need to poke around for them.
Off the top of my head I recall that Abduction was a decent Doodle Jump clone.
"And the book says: 'We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.'"
You can also get Doodle Jump itself now (not my kind of game, but it's there).
Motorola really dropped the ball with the CLIQ, and since my Android experience was limited to that one device, I was convinced that things weren't ever going to get better. Fragmentation is still a problem, but a relatively small number of similar devices make up the majority of the market, and so Android devs at least have a core group of devices that collectively cover the majority of users.
I'm going to be switching providers to Verizon later this year, and I hope that they'll eventually carry some version of the Galaxy S II. I'm a big fan of the Galaxy S -- it's the first phone I've owned that I didn't want to throw across the room in frustration after owning it for a few weeks. I could go with the iPhone (I used a first gen one on T-Mobile for a while), but Android has some advantages (including Flash!) that make iOS a non-starter for me.
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Highly recommend Wordfeud over WWF. WWF is buggy and bloated. WF is very streamlined and fast. It can also connect to players using it on iOS as well.
I have been enjoying Star Dunk and Words with friends as of late. I also payed for Zenonia 2 which is a pretty great game.
I have the droid X, and the emulation for the classics on it are great. If you go the way of emulation make sure to check out the settings to move the buttons around and resize them. I have the lite versions of the emulators that are free. The only difference with the free versions are that you can't use save states.
A few others I have enjoyed are:
Drag Racing by Creative Mobile.
Reckless Racing
Moto X Mayhem
Back Breaker (if you like football)
Alchemy is a great free game.
So true, so true...
The emulators are also great, but the multitouch is iffy. You can set the "keys" to keys on your slideout keyboard (depending on what phone you have), but that still is a little difficult to get used to on SNES games on your phone.
The Impossible Game is a fun, timing/memorization type game that's only about $0.99. Or so it was when I purchased it.
PewPew is spectacular. I love it.
There's a BladeQuest Demo. It's supposedly a retro-style RPG. I have not played it yet, but it looks promising enough.
There's Death Worm Free, which is... well, the name speaks for itself. It's free with a "demo version" but you can unlock the full version by downloading apps, then uninstalling them whenever you have the full version.
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I just got a cheap xperia play and my god... The emulation is fantastic.
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