Grats for winning whatever you've won ;P and thank you for the train!
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Act of Aggression! The reviews are not stellar, but they re-worked the game and that should hopefully have fixed a lot of the issues.
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Oh wow, congrats indeed :>. Its predecessors were quite nice, kinda like a C&C Generals, only with the beloved FMV's which played a huge role in making that franchise unforgettable ;D.
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Yeah, they were fun. And I preferred the Act of War series to C&C Generals. Actually, I never cared much for C&C generals, and for a long time, it was the only C&C game that I did not like (until C&C 4 was released).
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Tiberian Sun was the first game I ever bought.
...I don't like thinking about CnC4. 3 and KW were great, and then EA had to go and take a dump over the entire series with 4.
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That's not a bad first game to have bought, Tiberian Sun was really good.
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My favorite strategy game is the first old ufo-xcom.
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I think my fav will be Football Manager, I think it counts as strategy game :) Other than that I really liked EUIV, Theme Park World, Tzar, Gorky 17, SimCity 4. Not really sure where to draw a line between managment game and strategy game...
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Might not be up there with C&C and AoE, but I always had a soft spot for the Sudden Strike series. Love the 2D graphics.
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Anyone ever play Battlezone II?
It's not a pure strat game, it's a strat/fps cross.
It's a great game, but between launch issues, other RTS's that launched around the same time, and a lot of the BZ1 fanbase crapping on the game it never really caught widespread attention.
Despite it not doing to well commercially, it quickly became a cult classic (I guess this would be the right term?) that ended up with a crapload of mods and a couple of the original developers releasing unofficial patches for the past decade and a half.
The first game was eventually revived as Battlezone 98 Redux, though afaik II isn't going to be revived anytime soon.
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I played the first one, but sadly never got the second one. My young self found the game awkward to play, but I plan to get the re-release at some point, and hopefully they'll re-release part 2 as well.
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It's more of a CRPG, but Pillars of Eternity is my favorite strategy style game.
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Strategy is large scale resource command, while tactics is small scale command. As far as games, that's the difference between commanding cities and nations, against taking control over a specific squad of combatants. Think of strategy as the overall preparatory, long-term plans of a faction, and tactics as the smaller [typically battle-responsive] plans designed to allow that overall strategy to complete successfully. [>>]
Thus, as far as games go, games like Pillars of Eternity would fall under tactical representation, rather than strategic. (Though, games like PoE don't actually meet the expectations of the TRPG Genre [>>], as the difference between a TRPG and a CRPG tends to not only refer to the inclusion of party dynamics, but also of an emphasis on combat [over exploration]. As exploration and questing is part of PoE, it wouldn't normally be associated with the TRPG genre.)
Further, it's worth noting that SRPGs (Strategy RPGs) do exist- they're an extremely niche genre, but they have some offerings. (More casually, the X-Com games and similar games are at times also considered as part of the genre, as they compliment their TRPG combat with strategic gameplay components [eg, base-building, tech research, etc].) As a final note, SRPG (Simulation RPG) is Japan's term for TRPG, which has caused a lot of westerners to confuse the two western terms of TRPG and SRPG as also being synonymous.
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bump.
Final fantasy tactics, cannot find another game better than that after almost 20 years.
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Thanks for the train ride. (As for the question, probably Age of Empires.)
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can't pick one,xcom series,warcraft,starcraft,command & conquer,heroes of might & magic at the top of my head :P
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If you feel like bumping with anything special, please tell me what your favourite strategy game is
Medieval II:Total War.
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My favourite strategy game of all times is definitely Age of Empires II (the original), one of my first games on PC... an awful lot of years ago. Am I really this old?
Not even Civilization V managed to hook me as hard - yes, I know that one is real-time while the other is turn-based, but they're both strategy games at the core.
I remember having many sleepless nights during weekends and holidays in my middle school years, I must have clocked a few thousands hours or so.
I used to start playing shortly after dinner, then: 11pm: just another skirmish - 2am: okay, this is really the last one - 5am: oh, it's morning already?
I was kinda relieved to see it getting an HD remaster on Steam, since I had long lost my old CD - I can even officially play as the Italians now (actual Italians, not the Roman Empire) thanks to the Forgotten DLC (based on an old mod).
Shameless self-advertisement of my review for the HD version (one of my best reviews overall).
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Currently it would be Europa Universalis IV. With nostalgia doing its part, it probably would be Master of Orion II, followed by StarCraft I.
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That would be Warcraft 3 and Red Alert 2, despite them being different from each other I can't really decide which I like more. And congrats on Act of Aggression, that's the one I would to try one day, the act of war was pretty good (But IMO C&C Generals was better :P)
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It's probably Final Fantasy Tactics or Advance Wars
Bump
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When I hear about a train with only strategy games
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Sadly nothing spectacular in this one, just games that have been bundled a lot of times already. But some of them are still nice.
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Europa Universalis 4:) Still try to get somewhere:)
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X-COM: UFO Defense and C&C: Red Alert were what got me into strategy games back in the day, X-CoM for it's creepy atmosphere and C&C because it was multiplayer (by calling my uncles computer and listening to the screams of initial connectivity...oh s**t am I old already?)
Plus the original Fallout. The Master still haunts my dreams!
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Bump and meow. My favorite strategy game is Rise of Nations.
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bump.
strategy: "Imperialism" i loved that. http://imperialism.wikia.com/wiki/Imperialism_Game_Wiki
tactics: "OpenXcom Extended" & "jagged alliance 2 1.13 MOD"
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Cheesy acting from RA2 still gets me
But really enjoyable, Yuri is the best villain!
I miss live action cutscenes from games :(
I'm wishing for RA4, but apparently EA killed it
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FF Tactics by far, I have a PSP still just for that game and can't help but love it. Tactics Ogre is along with it as well though.
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My favourite strategy game is Dominions 4
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Oh, the Dominions series is great, in particular in multiplayer.
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And as I was putting together the train, I won a strategy game I really wanted! Yay!
Board the train to the front here
If you feel like bumping with anything special, please tell me what your favourite strategy game is
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