Techinasia: Started in 2008, Korean mobile RPG game Zenonia has a total of 40 million downloads globally. The latest in the series is Zenonia 5. Zenonia Online, its web-based version should be out soon. At one of the ChinaJoy conference talks, Yonghee Jung, CTO of Zenonia Series and vice president of Gamevil, shared some views as to why Zenonia has been a success. Despite praising his own games, Jung also revealed some of its weaknesses and how Gamevil plans to tackle them. We have summarized Zenonia’s greatness in eight points for your easy reading, including some its flaws and plans moving forward:
At this year's GDC 2014, GAMEVIL known for publishing the ZENONIA series and Baseball Superstars, have announced five upcoming games set to launch in 2014. This year's line-up appears to be packed with strategy/RPG games which caters to their existing audience from previous titles.
The RPG, or role-playing game, is one of gaming’s foundation genres. A broad category of playing experience, it approaches other genres with open arms, welcoming them in and sharing its addictive gameplay loops liberally. Most modern game experiences pay respect to the mechanics of the RPG in some capacity, while the entire gamification movement has seen life imitate art, bringing RPG staples to the real-world. Some might say this diffusion of the RPG across the industry has diluted its roots, but traditional RPGs still exist with all their flavour and fun intact.
The JRPG genre fits so well with mobile gaming that there’s no shortage of games out there for download, many of which are middling to awful, some featuring paywalls and other lame freemium tactics. So make sure you sink your time and cash into JRPGs that don’t suck with this list of the best ever JRPGs on Android.
*insert a generic comment on how mobile gaming sucks*
i don't know why this new generation of *gamers* hates almost everything,
one should be happy that even phones now have some good games.
no one is exactly forcing you to throw your consoles out in favor of android.consoles/pc are still mainstream, there is no dispute on that but still if android gets new games,
a gamer should only be happy and not pissed off.
It's more about those 'analysts' who say consoles and handhelds are dying when the most popular games for mobiles are casual cash-in Facebook kind of games.
That is a big problem for mobile gaming. I'd like to think some of these bigger titles are turning it into a more legit form of gaming though.
It's not that we hate mobile.
It's that if it was on handheld or console, it would control that much better.
Imagine playing Madden or COD/BF3 at home on your 50 inch tv, but you have to swipe the screen to make anything happen.
1.)It would get old quick
2.) it BLOCKS THE SCREEN!
There are some definite problems with mobile gaming. I think it still needs to figure out its strengths. The Chrono Trigger port came out surprisingly decent all things considered, but I'd be fooling myself if I tried to claim it controlled better than using a controller.
But other games that have been made specifically for mobile platforms have been phenomenal, like Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. That's a game that you can tell was originally developed for handheld devices and I think it controls and is a more immersive experience that way than it is on a PC or Mac.
