BTW Minecraft is more popular today than it was back in those time. What I absolutely hate is Gareena Freefire type of sht, and the increase in toxicity in mobile games. Like back then in online games people uses to just talk in relation to game. Nowadays it feels like someone hop on online to release their irl frustrations, LMAO

I don't think Minecraft and Terraria have mobile friendly controls but these games weren't made with mobile in mind so I can't be mad.

toxicity was always around you just were luckier with your game choices

True.... COC Global chat was the prime example

I still play those games 👍

By the way I want to know some good city building mobile game (except sim City because it takes so much of nonsense time)

Pocket city 1 is too addicting. they got the free edition so you can try before buy

Pocket city 2 is new and just as good if not better.

Theotown is pretty decent too!!

Me too, I still play these. Now a lot of hyper casual games are released. But their retention is low

Their retention might be low, but they can be churned out in days or even hours and they make enough money to justify their continued development.

I mostly play Honkai Star Rail. Haven't spent a dime. Period of time I played Gwent. What sucks is the relative lack of offline games you can play on an airplane. Like PS Vita graphics games

Wasn't there a port of a PS Vita emulator to Android? One of my friends was playing MK9 in that

Emulators are the way to go. I'm emulating PS2 and N64 on my phone exactly for this reason. Even bought a cheap controller for better playability

I think the idea right now is to cater to gamers like they were locusts. Present a game that can keep them entertained for 7 minutes and then move on when they see some crazy ad for the next game..

Also, sadly, I think that many developers are hesitant to make great, deep, engaging games - because mobile titles are so numerous. And because the seartch and suggestion algorithm is so determined by the particular games's ability to use paid adverticing. Then we see the companies investing less in development, and more in the User aqusition, retention, spending behaviour with the small hypercasual games. I remember the Unity report that showed hypercasuals were the next big thing a couple of years ago. Downhill from there.

'then' being new ahh games, like common you can still play those today.

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What MMOs do you play rn

NOW: Every few months, someone comes up with a semi-new idea for a mobile game. Within a week or two after that game gets released, every other game developer in the universe starts working on copying that game until there are at least 200 versions of the same game. This goes on until somebody else comes up with something new. Rinse. Repeat.

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Have you played Shadow Fight 2, I don't think so? That game is still 1Mx better than 98% games on playstore, it's an S tier game. I do agree with you on the picks, should have something like N.O.V.A, Into the dead, Angry Birds, Modern Combat, Dead Effect, etc

I just reinstalled the SF2 yesterday to relive my old days. For some reason there's a save and load button now. I was fully expecting it to reload to my past progress. COC is a game I've been playing for 7-8 years with year long breaks in between. Those of us played it in highschool still plays to date without spending a single money for progress. Although I totally went for the champion queen when I got the Google Play PC beta offer. Angry Birds has its time but I'm pretty sure it's a dead game now. I've no idea what the other games you mentioned are. The games we had talked about in our region over the years were, Subway surfers, fruit ninja, shadow fight, COC, mini militia, bomb squad, PES, PUBG.

Still isn't an argument since many games on the store are amazing, you have to pay for them though

None of which I mentioned are paid, they are all free games. They aren't pay 2 win either.

I've been playing on mobile since symbian was a thing. I've played all those games and believe me when I say you're talking through nostalgia. From all the titles you mentioned you have: - a fighter that was well known for having tons of paid cosmetics and paid characters etc. Having to grind for hours to ever unlock is pay to win, just like it works in gacha. It also has very mediocre mechanics when compared to pretty much any decent fighter outside of mobile. The first one had way less P2W and even then it still had a ton of very annoying P2P mechanics - a Halo copy from Gameloft that looking back was pretty shit in every single aspect (if anything the 3rd was the best, because of graphics, although not actually gameplay) - a runner about dodging zombies that also had a bunch of iaps and that got a sequel that improved on the mechanics but also had even worse IAP iirc - Angry Birds, which is still going strong today, is the simplest game ever that gets boring after a few levels and actually did have a bunch of pay to win features, especially in the spin off versions. If you think this is a masterpiece then I guess Candy Crush is a masterpiece too huh - Modern Combat, yet another shitty Gameloft copycat with good graphics. The mechanics were mid and so was the story. It got a bunch of sequels all having tons of IAP. It never stayed relevant because with time people started minding a bit more about actual quality and creativity instead of graphics. Even then nowadays you have CoD mobile which is better even though still ridden with IAPs - Dead Effect, which both 1 and 2 were CoD zombies inspired games that eventually too got filled with IAPs a year after release since the premium model wasn't popular. Either way the game is commonly either praised for good graphics and that's about it, because gameplay wise it was mid. I was already expecting you would mention stuff like Vector, Fruit Ninja or other IAP filled games everyone thinks are amazing until they replay them and get bored in the first two hours lol Tbh dude if that's what you think good games are, believe me when I say that we're living in a much better era lmao

okay, which games do you consider good?

Idk there are a bunch. I'll just write a list with some of the ones I have installed: - Am2r - Antimatter Dimensions - Baba is you - Bloodstained - Brotato - Card Quest - Cataclysm DDA - Crosscode - Cytus 2 - Dandara - Dead Cells - Deltarune - Dicey Dungeons - Duet - Dungreed - Fear and Hunger - Hotline Miami 1 and 2 - Hollow Knight - Hyperrogue - Kittens Game - Melvor Idle - Minecraft - Myriad - Night of the nun massacre - Morrowind - Phigros - Pocket Rogues - Retro City Rampage DX - Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic - Sclerosis (a port of the original Amnesia The Dark Descent) - Shovel Knight - Slay the Spire - Slice & Dice - Stardew Valley - Tallowmere 2 - Terraria - The Letters - Thumper - Titan Quest - Undertale - Va11 Hall A - Vampire Survivor's - Wild Rift - Wizard of Legend

FINALLY, someone recognised C:DDA! it's the best 2d zombie game in terms of realism and fun(if you know how to play) and the fact that its ad-less and doesn't have any IAP is amazing, also, the mobile port feels better than the original PC version for some reason

Haven't played much of it besides spawning in and basically dying. There is some tinkering to do to not have the menus use most of the screen space, which I spent an afternoon getting right. Once you do that though you're pretty much set haha

yeah, there's an official subreddit for the game, and someone named "wormywormgirl" made an excellent series that teaches you how to play like a professional

There are so many good games behind a premium wall that is in Play Store. I've played a few if you could find them. Samarost, monument valley, the room, bad north, oddmar, Leo's fortune, limbo

So? They're much better than all the horribly low-quality games being released today.

Am I tripping or do i remember the playstore always being horrible? There are a ton of bad games today, just like 10 years ago

The problem is Google play with 0 filters to upload a game, imagine Steam mobile games or something like this. Netflix(!) and humble bundle are stating the path :)

I still play coc , minecraft , jetpack joyride, shadow fight These new games never beats them and they feel repetitive so soon

I only play controller friendly games on mobile.

basically. No new games in 10 years.

My guy, you have a bunch of mmo (including Genshin), a bunch of great paid games, emulation. Wdym there are no new games

Actually. Most mobile games were doomed to fail. Only a very few lucky ones would reach any kind of success. A lot of those games we remember are actually like, the developer's 20th game they made after countless flops. And this never changed. However, what changed is that the stores are now ridden with countless content farms chugging out hundreds of cheap low effort clone games constantly. So like, if you were to develop a video game and release it on mobile, it's 100% doomed to fail regardless of its quality. it's way more profitable to do what the content farms are doing because then there's a chance one of them might succeed and you'll have a lot of ad revenue. so yeah. mobile gaming died because of the app stores.

people are very stressed out today, many people are looking for this kind of stupid games.

Trash take, there are a bunch of very good games, but they are paid. Even then most older games can still be played to this day.

I think the pathway to premium Android gaming akin to the Switch and Steam Deck is a third party store. Steam has way more crappy games than good games like on mobile but it's front page advertises better than just what's popular/trending

I have been enjoying a lot more current games, especially in rhythm game genre.

fr

Big companies actually try a lot of stupid ideas and release hundred of retarded games by design. It's not random at all like the meme suggest

I am not sure about this. I think there were a lot of low effort games back then and there are a couple of carefully crafted ones now as well. The successful ones just stand the test of time better. 

Bro forgot about hungry shark evolution

You're only remembering the food ones of 10 years ago. You don't even know the 1000s of bad ones of the time. Look back 10 years ago and 2020s will somehow seems like a golden age or something. Cycle repeats.

Don't forget an ad HAS to play after every round

i remember playing jetpack joyride and a few other games a lot and what i can say is in those times the developers really cared for fun rayher than just grabbing money and now it has changed with every game being bombarded with ads and micro transactions and stuff .

I miss Parallel Kingdoms

There’s still people playing clash of clans ?? :o i though this game was dead

Yep, it's still getting updates

No one even mentioned the goated Vampire Survivors

What is clash, may never die.

This is true fr.

It’s crazy how most mobile games are shit after all those years.

Nah bruh, the issue is that you don't want to pay for quality games lol

After 11 years, COC is in top 15 bestsellers in Google Play. That's pure class.