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Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by jeroenhd »

hbn wrote: post #62

Oh boy, millions of ad-ridden, pay-to-win, copy-pasted virtual casinos, right from the convenience of my PC. Gotta get me one of those beta invites!

Rollercoaster Tycoon has an excellent version of RC2 for tablets (and I suppose phones). There are also plenty of other games on the Play Store that are decent ports from desktop games or even purely mobile.

I've bought a copy of Super Hexagon for Android at some point, and that's still an excellent game. I don't see why you shouldn't be able to play that on desktop as well now that Windows has native Android support.

Then there are games like PUBG mobile that will easily run on cheap laptops with integrated graphics, unlike the full games. Those types of games even come with full controller support.

Sure, the Play Store home pages likes to peddle the stalkerware scamfest that is microtransaction based minigames, but there are actually decent games on the platform.

When it comes to Android apps and games, you get what you pay for. The situation isn't very different on iOS, except that people are more willing to pay for their apps. You don't see a lot of $10 Android games (which are perfectly fine games) featured on the front page because people WANT the free crapware.

If anything, Microsoft preinstalling Candy Crush on Windows should be a signal that the market wants these types of money wasters on their computers, no matter how much techies and "gamers" despise those types of predatory games.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by hospitalJail »

At first I thought this was pretty stupid since mobile games suck...

But I remembered I give my kids educational games on the phone, and this could be useful.

Anyway, if anyone wants to drop some Kids games that are educational, I'm all ears.

Re: Android Games on PC

#93

Post by rmilejczz »

hienyimba wrote: post #20

You can already do this on PC using the Windows Subsystem for Android. The major issue surrounding WSA was that it was too technical to setup for most PC users so we built an app for our non-technical users to solve this. Right now, Google building a standalone app for only Android games (people use Android apps fairly on par with games on PC) and then insisting on a slow rollout will most likely make the product go…

I agree, as someone who uses emulators to play mobile games often I don’t see any compelling reason to migrate from my current setup to use this. I’d probably just lose some functionality like the ability to record macros

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by kobalsky »

notum wrote: post #27
hienyimba wrote: post #20

You can already do this on PC using the Windows Subsystem for Android. The major issue surrounding WSA was that it was too technical to setup for most PC users so we built an app for our non-technical users to solve this. Right now, Google building a standalone app for only Android games (people use Android apps fairly on par with games on PC) and then insisting on a slow rollout will most likely make the product go…

I concur. May also suggest Google to work on their "retied projects" archives directly, rather than repeat this cycle of wasted energy. Waiting for Voice to die. I thought it would immediately follow gTalk.

well that's something I haven't considered.

I wonder if the number would be transferrable to a different service.

I'm using that instead of my own phone number for sites that only offer SMS verification.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by NegativeLatency »

jeroenhd wrote: post #91
hbn wrote: post #62

Oh boy, millions of ad-ridden, pay-to-win, copy-pasted virtual casinos, right from the convenience of my PC. Gotta get me one of those beta invites!

Rollercoaster Tycoon has an excellent version of RC2 for tablets (and I suppose phones). There are also plenty of other games on the Play Store that are decent ports from desktop games or even purely mobile. I've bought a copy of Super Hexagon for Android at some point, and that's still an excellent game. I don't see why you shouldn't be able to play that on desktop as well now that Windows has native Android support…

Open Rollercoaster Tycoon is free and cross platform https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2 (been having fun going back to play older simulation games)

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by lyu07282 »

You could of course already do that, and I vaguely remember with I think Fortnight where some would play on the PC with keyboard and mouse against players with the touch interface, of course dominating every match.

Re: Android Games on PC

#98

Post by grishka »

"Not available in your region".

It's an Android emulator. It runs locally. It uses Google Play which already works worldwide. So why the heck does it ever need to be made aware that the world is divided up into countries?!

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by kernal »

hbn wrote: post #62

Oh boy, millions of ad-ridden, pay-to-win, copy-pasted virtual casinos, right from the convenience of my PC. Gotta get me one of those beta invites!

Or, you know, you could just pay a dollar or more for an ad free version or even get a Play Pass. Of course, if you enjoy playing ad-ridden, pay-to-win, copy-pasted virtual casinos, right from the convenience of my PC then it's totally on you.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by maccard »

grishka wrote: post #98

"Not available in your region". It's an Android emulator. It runs locally. It uses Google Play which already works worldwide. So why the heck does it ever need to be made aware that the world is divided up into countries?!

It's a way to slow roll out to find issues that happen at scale.
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