How are there no good mobile games anymore. The platform should be full of them and yet there's nothing.

What am I missing. What gems are sitting in my blind spot. Yes I'm a gamer unlimited genocide on me but first help me find a treat. I deserve little a mobile game, as a treat.

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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    10 months ago

    Unless you have something against anime content I think all Hoyo games are pretty much the best of what you can call AAA mobile games. Of course I wouldn't recommend it without a disclaimer that you should know the danger of gacha gambling, but otherwise their games all fill different niches;

    HSR is turn based combat, less open world but 2.0 update will add a pretty big new region. There is some rogue like modes that offer some challenge and short term replayability and the tendency is they'll keep adding more stuff to do.

    Genshin is the AAA open world anime MMO only its not actualy an MMO it is extremely casual almost to its detriment. But the world is stunning imo and the Main story/Archon quests are pretty much 1-2 anime seasons worth of story each version and pretty good the past 3.x and 4.x versions.

    ZZZ is looking like a persona vibe rogue like with action RPG combat it is not out yet but it should be one of the next "big" thing, the reception in China was very good last beta.

    They're all live service games which reward long term commitment which is good and bad, it means you can get some stuff over time being F2P but also it is predatory towards people that want short term rewards and progression.

    They're also all casual, you can play as much as you want or 5-10 minutes a day at most. I'd recommend GI the most because just going F2p and exploring the world and the story is a fenomenal experience, I believe even if you did 3-6h a day it would take like 2-3 months to go through the entire world, all the quests etc. It is also very cool to see how they progressed from 1.0 world building to 3.x and 4.x, the early regions don't do justice these days.

    It is not like it is meaningless Bethesda fluff either, like we saw with Starfield a huge world completely empty and pointless, there is a lot of lore and world building you can even go to YT to keep track.

    If you want to talk about reputation and community, porn stuff, yes it all exists but the games themselves are pretty mild IMO. If you ignore the EN communities on reddit like you should by default.