I've picked up a Nexus 7 Android tablet for holidays and using around the house and I was wondering if anyone from RPS has any game recommendations? I'm looking for something meaty, RPGs and the like (not Cut the Rope From the Angry Birds stuff) - things like Avernum the Pit (which I may pick up). I've already put both DOSBox Turbo and an interactive fiction parser onto it but some native games with good controls would be more welcome.
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Knights of Pen and Paper sounds right up your alley.
But I'm pretty sure there was alread a thread about this...
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Have a look at the Android reboot of A Bards Tale, I bought it from Google Play store last week but haven't tried it yet, it's still on 50% discount I think. It has Carey Elwes (Westley / Dread Pirate Roberts from Princess Bride) doing voice which was enough for me. Be aware: 1.7GB download.
Also Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land. Turn-based tactical combat. It took me over for a couple of evenings then I left it after frustration over too many retries at a too-tough level that seemed to want you to work out exactly the right tactics to beat it (see the RPS WIT of the PC version which talks about this). Good little game though I should go back to it.
I think Mode 7 said the Android version of Frozen Synapse would be 'late May'. Still not released, so any day soon then.
Waking Mars worked splendidly on my Nexus 7. if you've not already played that on PC.
Humble Bundle must be about due an Android bundle soonish (number 5?) so you will be able to pick up some good stuff from that in the near future. They usually throw in one of the earlier bundles as a BTA bonus too.
Motivated by the thread I dug up my Humble Bundle stash.
Sword and Swordcery is rather fun, pretty too, but the star is the sound, wear some nice headphones.
Crayon physics was chugging on level 1 so I binned that. It was only going to get worse. (1ghz dual core fyi)
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Yeah, I'm annoyed I didn't get the HBs at the time. Will try Knights of Pen and Paper. Already have A Bards Tale & Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land on iPhone - agree about difficulty of latter. Got Waking Mars on PC - lovely game, finished it.
Cheers,
P.
Not an RPG, but get Super Hexagon.
Get DosBOX.
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Any games in the past Humble Bundle Android.
Final Fantasy III/IV is on there, but at $16.
Super NES and GBA emulators.
Zen pinball tables.
A spin-off Magicka game came out for Tablets recently, and it's preeeetty good.
I have these on both PC and iPad, and honestly, the PC versions are easily better. The controls always get between me and the game when I try them on iPad.
iPad games that are genuinely sink-a-dozen-hours-into-them good and are also on Android:
Super Stickman Golf 2 - I adore the iPad version, and it's the only game I ever play on my Android workphone. It's fun, challenging, and works flawlessly on a touch-interface. The Multiplayer Race mode is also a ton of fun. GET THIS ONE!
The Little Crane That Could - I believe this is on Android now as well. If you're the kind of person who reads The Flare Path, you might love this. Don't be fooled by the children's storybook-like name, this right here is a hardcore crane simulator with gameplay based on nothing but pure physics.
Real Racing 3 - I've played a ton of RR2HD on the pad. One of the few racing games that work wonderfully on a touch-interface. RR3 is the first in the series to make it to Android, and even though it has a lot of annoying InApp-bullshit constantly pushed at you, the core gameplay is as solid as ever. Turn off all (or most of) the driving aids for the best, most realistic, experience. :)
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I think the Talisman ipad version is being ported across. Not sure when though...
There's a decent Nintendo DS emulator on android called NDS4droid, it's kind of rubbish at real-time stuff, but Advance Wars (& Days of Ruin) and the Fire Emblem games work well (particularly the one not released in English with fan translation). Sadly Chrono Trigger doesn't run well at all for me - but as mentioned above, there's a Snes emulator too.
New android humble bundle just came out too -
http://www.humblebundle.com
Ugh, emulating NDS is blasphemy. It's very cheap now (I've got mine for ~$60) and you have game catalogue for solid 2 years of playing. Then you can move on to 3DS for more goodies.
I have a 3DS, but I really wanted that fire emblem game and it's unreleased outside of Japan!
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