Strategy Video Games
I've been playing Hearts of Iron III lately. Man its complicated, addicting, and especially if you play one of the major powers such a complex endeavor (between theatres of war, research, production, etc). In any case I'm really enjoying it (as I have with most Paradox games despite their bugs).
Anyone have a strategy video game they are playing at the moment that they really like?
Anyone have a strategy video game they are playing at the moment that they really like?
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I would recommend trying out the various Fire Emblem titles around different systems and Super Robot Wars Original Generation 1 & 2 for the Gameboy Advance... Great turn based strategy RPGs.
(Found at GameStop for 3€ ;p)
I also really enjoy any of the age of empires games - more for the flavour than anything else.
From RTS I've probably played Dawn of War most. Nothing better than rolling a squad of Terminators into an enemy base.
Europa Universalis 3 is on my to-play list, along with Sins of a Solar Empire. EU 3 is quite complicated, judging from the basic tutorial I found on Youtube, lasting only six hours.
And someone mentioned HOMM 3. This is a game I never reinstall, as I never uninstall it.
Europe Universalis 3 is a cakewalk compared to HOI3
(same company makes both games)
Emperor/Caeser/Pharoh
Total War series
Lords of Magic: SE
Stronghold (most just 1 and Crusader...2 is lack luster, Legends is a POS dumbed down version of 2, Extreme is more frustrating then fun, and 3 is a literally unplayable, broken mess).
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Might and Magic Series
Age of Empires Series (especially 2)
Deadlock series
Homeworld series
Warcraft series
Starcraft 1
Command and Conquer series (except 4) (Generals especially had some fun moments....my cousin "Hey, why can't I click this dozerrroh $%#^!, YOU $%#^#^$!")
WH40k: Dawn of War (just the first game/xpacks, not that god awful sequel)
Rise of Nations (and to a lesser extent Rise of legends...not quite as fun IMO though)
Empire Earth (just first game and X-pack....2 was bleh, and the 3 was just plain stupid)
Might count Mount and Blade: Warband. there's some strategy involved (more or less depending on the mod), but it's more directly hands and action/rpg oriented then your typical strategy game.
I liked Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis (VERY similar to FF;Tactics), but I didn't like Cling together. Every class has the same level, and when you unlock new classes, they're pitifully weak and take forever to build up and tend to get massacred easily.
Romance of the three kindgoms is pretty good.
Kessen series
Dynasty Warriors Tactics series is also nice.
Fallout tactics is....ok....
also, Rollercoaster Tycoon
also like Allied General & Panzer General (old SSI games) for Windows 95
Heartily recommended, fun game, tacticly sound and does not fuck around with the difficulty.
http://www.wargame-ab.com/?rub=home#p1
Stupid name, great game.
I paly with large swaths of time inbetween do, it's been al long time since I really put a lot of time into it. Have yet to play the last two maps of the opening campaign.
I'm also playing Spellforce, an RPG/RTS crossover game, but it fails to really captivate me. Graphics are mediocre, early 3D-era, resulting in good looking buildings but ugly character models, with an attempt to replace lack of facial expression with gesticulating of hands, which looks really silly due to large unnecessary arm movements when in dialogue, with the one you're having a friendly conversation waiving his or her weapon two and fro in your face. Real silly. And there's no pause in dialogue or journal, so with my slower grasp of English due to being a foreigner, much of the info slips by me, so I'm doing quest without really knowing the where or why. There's a lot of talk of people and places, but I miss a book of lore, codex or other written in-game means to put things in their context.
*edit: build better-flowing sentences about waiving swords.
So it is like this:
HoMM3>HoMM4>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>HoMM5 and up
I didn't even buy HoMM 6, because I played the demo, and I thought it was unfinished, and had had too many critical elements removed from gameplay and art.
Did anybody else ever play Dark Wizard on the Sega Genesis CD? That was my very first fantasy game that got me into all the rest. I went from there to HoMM I, and MM6, then HoMM II and MM7, and from there to Baldur's Gate.
Dark Wizard was pretty awesome in its day, for anyone who liked hex based army deployment and strategy. It was kind of like a console version of Fantasy General.
So Strategy and RPG are my two main game genres. I don't seem to play as many games as some of u, but I do tend to get dedicated/addicted to those I do play.
I spent a lot of time with Hearts of Iron 2 a few years ago, played campaigns with the USSR, Germany and Nationalist China. And yes, it is an epic game. I loved the attention to detail, and despite its flaws, it is one of the most realistic simulator-type strategy games I've ever played.
For example without cheating, there was no way Nationalist China could successfully pull off a counter-invasion of Japan even if you drive Japanese ground forces out of mainland Asia, due to a total lack of naval technology, doctrine and expertise, my Chinese forces couldn't reach even the nearest Japanese-held islands (Taiwan).
Also despite my best efforts, my massive Soviet counter-attack against Nazi Germany, with which I hoped to reach Berlin in 1943, ground to a halt as supply lines became stretched and logistical problems prevented my advance as much as German resistance. In the end my path to victory was tortuously slow and bloody, just as the Soviet victory in reality was.
Playing as Germany was worse. I actually lost, and I really appreciated just how badly the odds were stacked against Germany in WW2 in terms of manpower and resources. I destroyed so many Soviet divisions in quick pincer strikes, but there were always more and more and more... eventually I ran out of oil. (My version of Stalingrad also resulted in a disastrous loss) lol
I also played a mod of HoI2 for Modern Warfare, set around the time of the 2003 Iraq War, but I couldn't win as China, where my game either ended with defeat by the USA/NATO Coalition, or global nuclear war, in which everybody loses. lol
I'm pretty excited about the release of Rome 2 Total War next month. But I don't think my computer will be good enough to play it properly, even though they say min requirements won't be any more than Shogun 2.
Although it is likely a case for the saying "you can't go home again," I would love to see DW:EE!!!!!
Risk computer game http://www.gamespot.com/risk-jewel-case/reviews/risk-review-2532816/ Good luck finding that.
I've played a fair bit of it and enjoyed it, but not as much as the original Rome, which sucked me in from the first minute. I've been trying to think of why this is but I can't put my finger on it. Maybe someone else has a similar experience and can open my eyes.