Love & Hate: The Mobile Games Edition

[GregRedd]

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Good evening My Gamers! And welcome to the very first episode of our fabulous new game show Love & Hate!

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I'm your host Greg Redd and now please give a warm welcome to my lovely assistant <insert lovely assistants' name here>!

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Thank you, thank you. Now, a little about our game... Love & Hate is the game show where you get to come clean about the thing you Love the most, and the thing you Hate the most, without fear of embarrassment. If we laugh, we'll be laughing with you. And our audience gets to decide if they Love or Hate your answer. If they Love it, you stand to win fame, fortune, and many varied valuable prizes from our generous sponsors!^*

We start our season this week with a Love & Hate question about the games and game apps on your mobile phone. We all have them, we all hide our obsession with them, we all feel a slight twinge of embarrassment when someone catches us playing them in public. Some of them drive us nuts. We cringe when people ask us if we know how to clear Level 42, and we automatically unfollow anyone who sends us one of those annoying invitations to play this weeks' fad game with them.

So that's the Love & Hate question for this week: What is the one mobile app game that you Love the most? The one you find yourself playing almost obsessively late into the night in bed, or automatically start up whenever you're in a queue waiting for the post office clerk to get back from lunch? The game you turn to when sitting on the john.

And just like Al Bundy's horse and carriage, you can't have one without the other! So, to balance the love, what's the one mobile game that you totally Hate? We're talking can't stand, despise, strongly dislike, instant turn-off if you find she plays it, no matter how hot she is levels of hate here.

If you want to justify, clarify, explain, or just plain excuse your choices feel free to do so. Our judge, the lovely <insert lovely assistants' name here> might be persuaded to side with you if you manage to hit her in the feels, as the kids say.

Right, so shall we welcome our first contestant then...?

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[DieGrootHammer]

Uh... Hi. My name is DieGrootHammer. And the game I love despite it bringing shame to my family name is Spider Solitaire <sobs quietly>.

I wake up, I make me some coffee, but the bitter reality from that cup of black goodness is that all I want to do is play some Spider Solitaire. I go to the loo because the coffee has worked it's black magic, and there I am, stacking packs of cards on my phone. I sit down to relax and enjoy some highly praised soapy series, all the while focusing on getting the cards in order. I close my eyes, and I see the Jack of Clubs, taunting my dreams... I may have a slight problem, but, with all my heart and all my soul, I love Spider Solitaire.

The game I hate with a burning sensation resonating from my lower abdomen is Clash Of Clans <gags involuntary>. Oh, how I loathe thy game. How much hatred my soul resonates at its mere mention. Every time I see someone playing it, it feels like they killed my only child, and the anger and resentment fills my mind with thoughts of death and destruction.

[Apollo]

Man, Clash of Clans is the best game in the history of games. Anyone who disagrees with me is a Star Wars hater.

On a serious note though, the only mobile games I can barely tolerate is Pocket Mortys and Puzzle Epic. Don't even know why i play the latter. I dont even like jigsaw puzzles.

[Solitude]

I don't play mobile games at all. Good thread though.