What Chinese games have you played and favored most?

Each time I tried a video game designed by a China Team and at level of indie, the gameplay was always strange to me, either very tedious, or too much a too close copy of something I already knew, either just not really fun.

It's very rude to write that and I apologize, but it's really a feeling I had very often. Obviously China people aren't less smart than other and know work or create. So I really don't know. Perhaps too many try imagine what some Occidental player would prefer instead of trying to make something fun or anything. Perhaps it's different taste coming from a very different culture. Perhaps it's a very different video game culture. No idea but it's also just a feeling I got and I probably played some good one and didn't even noticed it was from China.

If it's about traditional Chinese game, well I suppose Go would be my answer. And also Gomoku but myself I don't consider it as a Chinese game because I played that a lot many many years ago at school with pen and paper.

 

If you say that it means you haven't figure out how to really play Mahjong.

 

@plantstorm:
oops, i didn't mean to stifle the discussion!

All i meant was that i hope this thread ends up highlighting some cool out-of-China games, that have been developed by Chinese devs, and might have some fresh ideas or a cool style, rather than, for example, becoming a thread of speculation over whether or not the stupid foreigners can understand Mahjong.

 

Sure the A games are most about making money than trying be a bit original. And sure 90% of anything is anything and so are ios games. But if you look only at indie some put some effort to bring a bit of originality. The point is they don't have much to sell but that sort of stuff plus the gameplay.

True originality isn't really the point, probably only a handful of game per year achieve that more or less. But it's important for any game to bring something a bit different. And in fact even some A games are putting strong effort to achieve that.

Even if only a small percentage of Chinese have access to a computer (or idevice) for playing games, that sum plus all those that left for foreign countries but still with a focus on their native country, should setup a base strong enough for having at least an indie market that develop. That would help develop games that perhaps suit better some culture or spirit differences. That said, it's a good start to make games for other companies, and some will certainly learn a lot through that, and would contribute setup a base of resources skilled and interested in designing and developing games themselves.

So I wonder where are today the truly interesting computer/video games designed by Chinese people, but tomorrow that could change.

 

Does anyone know of a good Mahjong game for the iPad that uses traditional rules, rather than tile matching? SG Mahjong, suggested earlier, looks decent, but it doesn't take advantage of the larger iPad screen, just the tiny iPhone one.

Also, the rules for Mahjong aren't really that complicated. It is just the scoring that tends to be complex. And that can be handled by printing out a chart while learning the game. Rules for many kinds of Mahjong can be found pretty easily with a little bit of searching.

(And this is from a non-Chinese player that had no trouble understanding Mahjong and many other games which are much more complex.)

 

i have played a Chinese version of pokemon diamond