Mobile Games, Gacha, Android/IOS games

[Val the Moofia Boss]

If this capture of a Chinese revenue chart is to be believed, Phainon, the Lucilius clone and main character of Honkai Star Rail's current running Amphoreus arc, is now the best selling Mihoyo character across all of their games (Genshin Impact, HSR, and ZZZ), and is now the best selling gacha game character ever. I am rushing through HSR's story ASAP to reach Amphoreus before his banner ends, but the incredible animation quality - dropping moons on enemies, swinging a colossal sword around that splits the earth, ending reality - in his trial run has me tempted to splurge on him. I am on the fence as to whether to grab him, or to continue saving for the eventual Castorice rerun and the upcoming March 7th and Dan Heng forms that have pets.

[Oyster Sauce]

If this capture of a Chinese revenue chart is to be believed, Phainon, the Lucilius clone and main character of Honkai Star Rail's current running Amphoreus arc, is now the best selling Mihoyo character across all of their games (Genshin Impact, HSR, and ZZZ), and is now the best selling gacha game character ever. I am rushing through HSR's story ASAP to reach Amphoreus before his banner ends, but the incredible animation quality - dropping moons on enemies, swinging a colossal sword around that splits the earth, ending reality - in his trial run has me tempted to splurge on him. I am on the fence as to whether to grab him, or to continue saving for the eventual Castorice rerun and the upcoming March 7th and Dan Heng forms that have pets.

Homie hopper

[Valter]

If this capture of a Chinese revenue chart is to be believed, Phainon, the Lucilius clone and main character of Honkai Star Rail's current running Amphoreus arc, is now the best selling Mihoyo character across all of their games (Genshin Impact, HSR, and ZZZ), and is now the best selling gacha game character ever. I am rushing through HSR's story ASAP to reach Amphoreus before his banner ends, but the incredible animation quality - dropping moons on enemies, swinging a colossal sword around that splits the earth, ending reality - in his trial run has me tempted to splurge on him. I am on the fence as to whether to grab him, or to continue saving for the eventual Castorice rerun and the upcoming March 7th and Dan Heng forms that have pets.

Has HSR finally overtaken Genshin? Well I'll be, to live to see this day...

[methoxetamine]

If this capture of a Chinese revenue chart is to be believed, Phainon, the Lucilius clone and main character of Honkai Star Rail's current running Amphoreus arc, is now the best selling Mihoyo character across all of their games (Genshin Impact, HSR, and ZZZ), and is now the best selling gacha game character ever. I am rushing through HSR's story ASAP to reach Amphoreus before his banner ends, but the incredible animation quality - dropping moons on enemies, swinging a colossal sword around that splits the earth, ending reality - in his trial run has me tempted to splurge on him. I am on the fence as to whether to grab him, or to continue saving for the eventual Castorice rerun and the upcoming March 7th and Dan Heng forms that have pets.

Who the **** plays gacha for the males?

[rusty_shackleford]

If this capture of a Chinese revenue chart is to be believed, Phainon, the Lucilius clone and main character of Honkai Star Rail's current running Amphoreus arc, is now the best selling Mihoyo character across all of their games (Genshin Impact, HSR, and ZZZ), and is now the best selling gacha game character ever. I am rushing through HSR's story ASAP to reach Amphoreus before his banner ends, but the incredible animation quality - dropping moons on enemies, swinging a colossal sword around that splits the earth, ending reality - in his trial run has me tempted to splurge on him. I am on the fence as to whether to grab him, or to continue saving for the eventual Castorice rerun and the upcoming March 7th and Dan Heng forms that have pets.

Who the **** plays gacha for the males?

There's multiple people on this site that do this

[Val the Moofia Boss]

If this capture of a Chinese revenue chart is to be believed, Phainon, the Lucilius clone and main character of Honkai Star Rail's current running Amphoreus arc, is now the best selling Mihoyo character across all of their games (Genshin Impact, HSR, and ZZZ), and is now the best selling gacha game character ever. I am rushing through HSR's story ASAP to reach Amphoreus before his banner ends, but the incredible animation quality - dropping moons on enemies, swinging a colossal sword around that splits the earth, ending reality - in his trial run has me tempted to splurge on him. I am on the fence as to whether to grab him, or to continue saving for the eventual Castorice rerun and the upcoming March 7th and Dan Heng forms that have pets.

Has HSR finally overtaken Genshin? Well I'll be, to live to see this day...

I can't find the link atm but I remember seeing a video a few months back that showed gacha game revenue over time. When HSR launched it briefly overtook Genshin, then Genshin took first place back again, and then HSR overtook Genshin and held the top spot until WuWa's release, which was only top spot for a couple months, and then it was HSR at the top until the end of the video.

Who the **** plays gacha for the males?

I do. I just want cool party members, and a coherent team of characters who are related to each other in the story, not a bunch of different randos smooshed together. My main party in Granblue Fantasy is the Dragon Knights. Siegfried, Percival, Lancelot, Vane, and Percival's brother Aglovale. Just waiting for a fire release of Arthur or Percival's and Aglovale's other brother Lamorak, and then I will have a completely full team of characters who are together in universe.




Main reason why I am torn on Phainon is because if I buy him, then I would like to get two other Amphoreus characters to go with him and Hyacine (who I already own). Or I can save for the upcoming Remembrance forms/pet class releases of March 7th and Dan Heng, so I can have the main characters together in one party.

[Valter]

If this capture of a Chinese revenue chart is to be believed, Phainon, the Lucilius clone and main character of Honkai Star Rail's current running Amphoreus arc, is now the best selling Mihoyo character across all of their games (Genshin Impact, HSR, and ZZZ), and is now the best selling gacha game character ever. I am rushing through HSR's story ASAP to reach Amphoreus before his banner ends, but the incredible animation quality - dropping moons on enemies, swinging a colossal sword around that splits the earth, ending reality - in his trial run has me tempted to splurge on him. I am on the fence as to whether to grab him, or to continue saving for the eventual Castorice rerun and the upcoming March 7th and Dan Heng forms that have pets.

Has HSR finally overtaken Genshin? Well I'll be, to live to see this day...

I can't find the link atm but I remember seeing a video a few months back that showed gacha game revenue over time. When HSR launched it briefly overtook Genshin, then Genshin took first place back again, and then HSR overtook Genshin and held the top spot until WuWa's release, which was only top spot for a couple months, and then it was HSR at the top until the end of the video.

I played up to the immortality-obsessed chinese airships planet and completely gave up on the story. Does it get any better?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Has HSR finally overtaken Genshin? Well I'll be, to live to see this day...

I can't find the link atm but I remember seeing a video a few months back that showed gacha game revenue over time. When HSR launched it briefly overtook Genshin, then Genshin took first place back again, and then HSR overtook Genshin and held the top spot until WuWa's release, which was only top spot for a couple months, and then it was HSR at the top until the end of the video.

I played up to the immortality-obsessed chinese airships planet and completely gave up on the story. Does it get any better?

I just posted about it in the "what are you playing" thread. Eh. I am currently on the space Las Vegas/Inception dream third world of Penacony. I am at the part where you run around with Firefly. The story is not quite as dry as Xianzhou, but it is still fundamentally a lot of running to the next cutscene where people stand around and do canned animations, and there is not any urgency in the story so far. There has been an improvement on a technical level with the main town district, which is bigger. There are a couple neat minigames. I was going to do another HSR writeup about it in the playing thread soon. It's feeling like another FF14 situation where yes, the story gets slightly better after a large time commitment, but the formula remains fundamentally the same so if you can't stand the formula then the story is DOA anyway.

[Valter]

I can't find the link atm but I remember seeing a video a few months back that showed gacha game revenue over time. When HSR launched it briefly overtook Genshin, then Genshin took first place back again, and then HSR overtook Genshin and held the top spot until WuWa's release, which was only top spot for a couple months, and then it was HSR at the top until the end of the video.

I played up to the immortality-obsessed chinese airships planet and completely gave up on the story. Does it get any better?

I just posted about it in the "what are you playing" thread. Eh. I am currently on the space Las Vegas/Inception dream third world of Penacony. I am at the part where you run around with Firefly. The story is not quite as dry as Xianzhou, but it is still fundamentally a lot of running to the next cutscene where people stand around and do canned animations, and there is not any urgency in the story so far. There has been an improvement on a technical level with the main town district, which is bigger. There are a couple neat minigames. I was going to do another HSR writeup about it in the playing thread soon. It's feeling like another FF14 situation where yes, the story gets slightly better after a large time commitment, but the formula remains fundamentally the same so if you can't stand the formula then the story is DOA anyway.

Yeah that's about what I expected to hear, but thanks for sharing. Shame because it's my kinda gameplay and I really liked Honkai Impact 3rd's story, so this might be one of the most disappointing games I've come across, in the sense that my expectations were sky high Do hope you enjoy yourself though

[WhiteShark]

@Val the Moofia Boss, do you know about Grasscutter?

"Grasscutter is an experimental game server that aims to emulate the experience of playing a certain anime game."

Apparently you can self-host a Genshin Impact server and customize all the variables to reduce grind and so on. It claims it also 'partially' supports co-op.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

@Val the Moofia Boss, do you know about Grasscutter?

"Grasscutter is an experimental game server that aims to emulate the experience of playing a certain anime game."

Apparently you can self-host a Genshin Impact server and customize all the variables to reduce grind and so on. It claims it also 'partially' supports co-op.

That is a little impressive. They managed to reverse engineer or replicate Genshin? All of it? While Genshin is made in Unity which people have access to, that is still a lot of content and mechanics to replicate. I wonder if this would be a way to be able revisit event content that has since been removed from the live game, like the Golden Apple Archipelago.

[WhiteShark]

They managed to reverse engineer or replicate Genshin? All of it? While Genshin is made in Unity which people have access to, that is still a lot of content and mechanics to replicate.

This page has a list of implemented features: https://grasscutter.io/wiki/Home
It seems some stuff is still missing in Quests and Abilities, but it doesn't give a detailed breakdown of what.

I wonder if this would be a way to be able revisit event content that has since been removed from the live game, like the Golden Apple Archipelago.

I found a random Reddit comment suggesting that such is indeed possible, but he didn't go into detail. I don't know if it requires any special setup or not.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

They managed to reverse engineer or replicate Genshin? All of it? While Genshin is made in Unity which people have access to, that is still a lot of content and mechanics to replicate.

This page has a list of implemented features: https://grasscutter.io/wiki/Home
It seems some stuff is still missing in Quests and Abilities, but it doesn't give a detailed breakdown of what.

I wonder if this would be a way to be able revisit event content that has since been removed from the live game, like the Golden Apple Archipelago.

I found a random Reddit comment suggesting that such is indeed possible, but he didn't go into detail. I don't know if it requires any special setup or not.

I looked through the 4chan archives. There is surprisingly not that much talk about it. From what I can gather, it seems that it might only be content complete up through the Inazuma expac, after that it might be buggy or incomplete but I have heard some people talking about it having the story as far as Fontaine. Also someone saying that you shouldn't run it on the same machine as the one you play official Genshin on for fear of getting your account banned. Sounds like maybe it would require quite some technical finagling doing code compilations and plugging in databases and running virtual machines. Several years back I got invited to work on a WoW private server, and as soon I started having to open ports and download Navicat and so on to connect to this other guy's computer to open his server database to make custom spells, I quickly realized I was way in over my head and politely backed out. So seeing some familiar terminology here makes me hesitant.

While I think all of these gacha games would be better off as box purchase games where you get all of the characters, in Genshin's case I'd think you would still be left with the lackluster gameplay that is slowly running and climbing across the open world, and the flaccid combat that revolves around instantaneous character swapping. I guess kinda like playing a singleplayer MMO without the benefit of incredible character customization with a humongous library of armor pieces and mounts and races. It'd probably be a lot more enjoyable to play with other people, but IIRC it is impractical to go through Genshin's story while doing co-op do the sheer number of cutscenes and talking. You would have entire play sessions where the group wouldn't get to fight anything, and I am not sure if other players can come with you to certain story battles.

The artificial scarcity and "hype" for acquiring an individual character that other people don't have I think helps try to mask these issues and get people paying more attention to a game that doesn't have that much actual gameplay substance to it.

[WhiteShark]

you would still be left with the lackluster gameplay that is slowly running and climbing across the open world, and the flaccid combat that revolves around instantaneous character swapping.

I imagine movement speed could be modified in the server config, but I don't have any illusions that it could be molded into a genuinely good game. I was mostly thinking about how I could give it a shot without having to endure actual gacha mechanics and signing over my soul data to the CCP.

It'd probably be a lot more enjoyable to play with other people, but IIRC it is impractical to go through Genshin's story while doing co-op do the sheer number of cutscenes and talking.

Yeah, I was getting that impression while investigating how co-op works. It probably works better when there is a large player base who can easily and briefly drop in/drop out for co-op stuff before everyone returns to solo story stuff.

Don't know if I will pursue this, but I will let you know if I do.

[gerey]

Who the **** plays gacha for the males?

Female paypigs mostly, to the point a female-aimed gacha with exclusively (?) male characters makes more money than the three next most profitable gacha games combined IIRC.

No matter what women try to say, they are far bigger degenerates than the men.

[Valter]

This guy's probably just farming reactions, but still, I'm surprised this level of *** dunking gets a pass on Steam



https://steamcommunity.com/app/3557620/ ... 73/?ctp=22

[Finarfin]

OMAIGOTO

[Trickster]

Blue Archive has gotten a Steam release.

Is this good? Grindy? How is Gameplay? Plot?

[Trickster]

Persona 5 X on Steam. Western version is DISASTER!

[Kalarion]

Labyrinth of Aetheria, fun little Wiz-like: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... ko.dungeon

[Valter]

Blue Archive has gotten a Steam release.

Is this good? Grindy? How is Gameplay? Plot?

I like it a lot. Its qualities lie in the writing, visuals and music.
The story is not gatekept behind progress, aside from 1 battle which should be clearable around lv45 (90 is the max lvl). Should be a fast level to reach if you just keep up with dailies and ****.
F2P friendly
Gameplay's whatever honestly but it doesn't require you to grind. You can minmax your team and units and get sweaty for extra rewards in PVP and Raid Bosses.

[Finarfin]

UGHHHH, I hate it. I wanna play Blue Archive but I don't wanna continue on my phone.

[rusty_shackleford]

Blue Archive has gotten a Steam release.

Blue Archive has gotten a Steam release.

It's been ten thousand years...

Blue Archive has gotten a Steam release.

The client actually runs so well I'm impressed, silky smooth And some Keyboard shortcuts QoL. I've seen way worse ports

God, I hate Germany sometimes. Blue Archive is not available here.

******* ****** off that I can't get Blue Archive on Steam. I don't want to play it on my phone. Don't they offer a non-steam PC version?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Blue Archive has gotten a Steam release.

Blue Archive has gotten a Steam release.

It's been ten thousand years...

The client actually runs so well I'm impressed, silky smooth And some Keyboard shortcuts QoL. I've seen way worse ports

God, I hate Germany sometimes. Blue Archive is not available here.

******* ****** off that I can't get Blue Archive on Steam. I don't want to play it on my phone. Don't they offer a non-steam PC version?

I don't play BA. I listed it because it is a high profile gacha release. I play GBF and HSR, and to a lesser extent, Genshin. BA looks like it only has cute girls doing fluffy stuff, but I want cool characters and a serious plot. Same issue with Azur Promilia where although it looks neat that you can pick big Pokemon to fight alongside you in battle, it seems almost all of the characters are just cute girls with no cool people and nothing exciting going on story wise, which is a turnoff.

[rusty_shackleford]

[Gastrick]

Played Brave Frontier a bunch and reached a bit past level 100 and beat the first 3 super-bosses, but haven't played any of it for around 10 years now.

Played a bit of FGO after hearing it was a complex game to the point of later sections being uncompletable without reading the wikia, but had to quit because of it being too addictive and time-sucking, the only dull parts being the story VN sections. The balancing is also quite bad, where after a couple days you can already beat level 80 sections with ease thanks to helper characters and giving you more than enough resources at first to heavily level up two 5 stars. With the story-mode reaching that difficulty only 6 to 8 worlds in.

[Finarfin]

Downloaded
GIRLS' FRONTLINE 2: EXILIUM
BLACK STIGMA
Reverse: 1999
ZZZ

going to check how these are, zzz was pretty fun from the little bit I played.

[Lord of Riva]

I played Sennen Sensou Aigis on their Japanese version, because it was a fun game, has been a few years now though.

[Valter]

Blue Archive has gotten a Steam release.

It's been ten thousand years...

God, I hate Germany sometimes. Blue Archive is not available here.

******* ****** off that I can't get Blue Archive on Steam. I don't want to play it on my phone. Don't they offer a non-steam PC version?

I don't play BA. I listed it because it is a high profile gacha release. I play GBF and HSR, and to a lesser extent, Genshin. BA looks like it only has cute girls doing fluffy stuff, but I want cool characters and a serious plot. Same issue with Azur Promilia where although it looks neat that you can pick big Pokemon to fight alongside you in battle, it seems almost all of the characters are just cute girls with no cool people and nothing exciting going on story wise, which is a turnoff.

BA has both serious and lighthearted plot, both well done. Main story is more serious than side stories.
Though it is true that most characters fall under the cute category rather than cool, with notable exceptions particularly regarding the villains.

[Valter]

Blue Archive has gotten a Steam release.

Blue Archive has gotten a Steam release.

It's been ten thousand years...

The client actually runs so well I'm impressed, silky smooth And some Keyboard shortcuts QoL. I've seen way worse ports

God, I hate Germany sometimes. Blue Archive is not available here.

******* ****** off that I can't get Blue Archive on Steam. I don't want to play it on my phone. Don't they offer a non-steam PC version?

Yeah? Enlighten me