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Offline deathspeed

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What Android games do you play?
I'm new to mobile gaming - I don't have a smartphone, but got a Nexus 7 for Christmas.  I've been playing a lot of Real Racing 3 and Asphalt 8.  I also have installed N.O.V.A. 3, Galaxy on Fire 2, and R-Type, but I have not played them much. 

What do you all play?  What do you recommend?  What hidden gems am I missing out on?
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I'd recommend against anything that requires you to place your thumbs over screen space where things will be trying to kill you. I played R-Type on my phone today, and every death was in the lower-left corner where my thumb was. Games designed for a touch-screen are almost always better than ports, especially twitch-game ports. Avoid Metal Slug and Raiden Legacy.

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Re: What Android games do you play?
I have N.O.V.A 3, The Dark Knight Rises (Batman game), Modern combet 3, Scrabble, Words with Friends, Zynga Poker, Brothers in Arms 2, Candy Crush and Gangstar Rio. I have also played Galaxy on Fire right up to the point of buying the Space Station but after that I found it a bit of a grind. For some reason it won't reinstall on my phone. I think it's a storage realted issue.
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I've gotten strangely addicted to Despicable Me : Minion Rush.
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Offline Mpez

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Re: What Android games do you play?
My list (all games free):

Lazors and Dots are games with simple design but really fun.

Badlands is a great game, with a LIMBOesque graphic style.

Traffic Racer is a nice time waster.

Strikefleet Omega seems to be a really nice sci-fi game. You have a fleet of ships (carriers, destroyers, mining ships) and you point where your fighters should fly, which asteroids should be mined, where the destroyers should shoot etc. It's a similar mechanic to Air Control. I'm really digging it.

You could also try Frozen Synapse. It's not free, but from what I've been reading it's really amazing (there is a pc demo available). It's a turn-based tactical shooter with a cyberpunk style and great music.
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Re: What Android games do you play?
Chess.
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Re: What Android games do you play?
Ingress. Well not that much anymore, but a bit every now and then, if there are bigger operations going on.
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Re: What Android games do you play?
Ingress. Well not that much anymore, but a bit every now and then, if there are bigger operations going on.

I'm an ingress player. It motivates me to run a mile and a half to the nearest landmark and back a few times a week. Good with phones, not practical for tablets. I am an ardent plague Inc player. Also sketchbook pro and flappy bird (still free on android)
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Re: What Android games do you play?
I played my own Android game (the one that only made 3 sales  :(), and I played Angry Birds on PC if that counts.  :blah:

 

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Re: What Android games do you play?
Anyone have Flappy Bird?  Ridiculously hard (to get any significant score anyways), simple, and addicting.

 
Re: What Android games do you play?
Anyone have Flappy Bird?  Ridiculously hard (to get any significant score anyways), simple, and addicting.

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Re: What Android games do you play?
The thing that gets me about Flappy Bird is that I was playing a helicopter game on Addicting Games a decade ago that was the same exact concept.  Same goes for Angry Birds too.  In short, people are dumb.

 

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Re: What Android games do you play?
Smash Hit

Free to play, then $USD 1.99 if you want checkpoints to work.  Read the reviews, this game is awesome.

 

Offline deathspeed

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Re: What Android games do you play?
Thanks for the responses!  I'll definitely check a few of these out.
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Re: What Android games do you play?
Definitely get Sonic Dash. I'd highly recommend getting "MyBoy" and playing some GBA Metriod or Zelda games, or Mother 3. You should also get SAS: Zombie Assault 3.

 

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Re: What Android games do you play?
here's one from the WP8 side, Hill Climb Racing. Fun little time sink.

but strolling through the store just makes me want to kill myself...
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Re: What Android games do you play?
None anymore...   had the "Android bug" for a while, then at some point asked myself, why I was not playing a proper game instead. ;)

Too much work, not enough freetime I guess heh.

 

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Re: What Android games do you play?
Get Sega's Crazy Taxi port. You could download it for free until the 19th (yesterday).

 
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a friend of mine made this, it seemed quite good (not being a particular fan of puzzle games in general myself)
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