I actually looked into that (SWKOTR on Android) a while back and read through quite a lot of reviews. Most people said it was quite good, and of course, the dated graphics aren’t going to be as noticeable on the smaller screen.
Many people complained that the on-screen controls were difficult to use, especially for the racing. And that it was an already buggy game (which I know since I played it on PC) with fewer fix options on Android. But that younger people, who had never played it on PC, were amazed at the quality of the story.
I figure at the price of free, I’ll get it for my 10" tablet, but I’ll probably use a BT controller if I actually ever try to play it, IF such features are workable.
It… worries me, after I clicked through the links to get more information. In a probable effort to avoid Google’s own fees, it doesn’t come from the Play Store, but from a direct installer from Epic. I’m not saying Epic is going to put shit on my phone, but I personally don’t trust them, and I’d have to turn on “allow apps from other sources” which is never a good idea if you leave that door open. Epic is probably not a problem, but if you leave that option selected it means lots of other absolutely more harmful things can be downloaded to your system if you’re less than careful or click on the wrong link.
Think mages of Mystralia is a repeat, already own it.
But talk on here got me playing Orcs Must Die 3, which was given away free at some point in the past, and I enjoyed it so much I’m going off to find 1 + 2 and pay for it. Pity Epic doesn’t do them, sadly, so it’s probably going to be steam.
This game may briefly be free some day soon early in the morning. The developers of A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build have coupled the price of the game to the temperature in London, celcius to USD.
BBC weather forecasts close to 0C in the early morning on march 11 and some days foreward.
I enjoyed Draknets similar looking A Monsters Expedition.
More “free” game from Amazon. You need an Amazon Prime subscription. IMMV, but personally I have found it ridiculously easy to get free months after free months of Prime. Now, it may be because I live in a country (Denmark) where there’s no free shipping for Prime subscribers, so Amazon don’t feel free trial subscriptions ar
New this week:
Saints Row: The Third Remastered
Mafia II: Definitive Edition
I have great memories of cruising around with my homey. Not looking for trouble, just cruising and listening to the radio. And then the characters started singing along to some Sublime song. So awesome!
New this week:
Saints Row: The Third Remastered
Mafia II: Definitive Edition
Crime Boss: Rockay City
Naheulbeuk’s Dungeon Master
So this is the week of the GTAlike, The original SR3 is a genuine classic, I’ve heard the remaster is a bit prettier but unstable. Mafia II should be a bit janky but servicable. Crime Boss is supposedly a Payday ripoff, but nowhere as good as the 13 year old original. Naheulbeuk’s Dungeon Master is a Dungeon manager a la the old Dungeon Keeper or the newer Dungeons series, but based on a french series of podcasts, and with worker strikes and HR offices and bureaucracy.
I just finished a re-play of Mafia II and it still holds up. Supposedly the GOG version has fewer technical issues than the Steam version does. It’s not really a GTA-Like, it’s a linear crime story that plays on an open map. But there’s basically nothing in terms of side missions, objectives, etc – the open map exists to give you flexibility in getting around and a place to buy some new suits and that’s about it. You’re not playing to push around prostitutes, do yoga, decorate your apartment or start a lemonade stand, you’re playing to experience a Mafia crime story.
Crime Boss is amusing. Yeah, it’s a co-op Payday style heist game but the main draw is in the setting, style and actors. If that doesn’t make you smile then there’s little reason to play it over other similar games. Aside from it being free, I guess.
Mafia II Remaster is just Classic with some enhanced textures and minor changes/fixes. Gameplay and story are identical. It should run less problematically than Classic.
Mafia I had a full remake that changed how the game handled and some story points. I didn’t try the original until after I had played the sequel and found Mafia I to be super janky. Later the remake came out and I quite enjoyed it.
They’re both unabashedly cinematic Mafia stories. If you enjoyed movies like The Godfather, Goodfellas, Casino, etc that’s what you get here albeit with more shooting sequences. If not then, well, that’s still what you’ll get but probably less enjoyably.
You haven’t asked but you can enjoy the second without playing the first – I picked up the remastered versions of all three on sale and have yet to play the first – but it can help. 2 has a direct tie-in to 1; 3, likewise, has ties to 2.
I went over to steam to see what the rating was on that game and, who knows how, I already own it on steam. I should probably give up on the silly fiction that I’m going to play even 5% of the games I own and stop buying anything that I’m not super into and going to play immediately.
