Re: Favourite strategy game of all time
Not the old simulator from what... 1992? The one where you have four M1s and can be driver, gunner or commander of all all of them, have allied platoon or sections, while fighting increasingly strong Russian forces... But it is a simulator.Originally Posted by Azi Tohak
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Re: Favourite strategy game of all time
Hearts of Iron II. That's a real strategy game, not like many RTS's which are mostly resource management and very basic combat.
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Re: Favourite strategy game of all time
It was strategy when I was 9! But yup, that is the game.
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Re: Favourite strategy game of all time
"Of all times" - that would be... chess. It´s timeless.
Other favourites include Jagged Alliance 2, Master of Magic, Panzer General, Battle Isle II, UFO - Enemy Unknown, Close Combat Invasion Normandy, Z and a couple more that I don´t recall right now.
Re: Favourite strategy game of all time
My dear... I never thought I would meet another who played that game.
Azi
It was quite primitive, yet quite advanced. I loved getting into the rear of a regimental HQ. Just charge them and watch how BMPs, trucks and all kinds of thinskinned vehicles blew up around you.
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Re: Favourite strategy game of all time
Sacrifice was great. I got my dad addicted to it too. He was a bit put off when I mentioned "mana whores" I seem to remember.
1) Medieval: Total War
2) Rome: Total War (with EB, otherwise it's nothing special)
3) Dragonforce (Sega Saturn.. beautiful game).
4) Starcraft
5) Sacrifice
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Re: Favourite strategy game of all time
1. Shogun Total War
2. Rome Total War
3. Empire Earth
4. Medieval Total War
5. Age of Empires 2
6. Age of Empires 3
Shogun is the greatest game ever. It was an amazing game for its time. I still play it a lot. It is simple yet challenging.
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Re: Favourite strategy game of all time
wow, Simon Appleton, it's like I found a soulmate or something !
You're the first person I know (besides myself, that is) who likes PG1 more than the others, esp. the sequels.
All the other people who played them said that 'No way, the sequels are much better, there's the cool graphics, and the improved interface, and...'... but I dunno, for me, the feel just wasn't there anymore. I didn't really care about the pseudo-3D thingie, the isometric view, or the more detailed rivers/trees/whatever. The sequels felt more... plastic, artificial, not so fluid and deifnitely not so immersive.
I've also spent _years_ of my life on that game, and I've played it through and through, so many times - and I still pick it up again and again to play a few more scenarios and build my 5 star troops... :)
I tried Fantasy General for a while, didn't quite do it - went back straight to PG.
Seen Pacific General - quite nice, but ...
Wait - what was the topic ? Right, favourite strategy games...
Hard to rank them: Panzer General 1, HOMM 2/3 (4 to a lesser extent) (does this count ? it's not _military_ strategy exactly...but it's strategy), MTW, (RTW is a big nono for me, sorry to say - and even sorrier to pay), Master of Orion 1, and the first two X-COM (UFO) games...
As far as realtime combat/battles and/or scale operations are concerned, it's MTW hands-down - no doubt about it.
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Re: Favourite strategy game of all time
Hehe... I think PG1 has the huge advantage of the quite good voiceacting for both briefings and debriefings (even if you lost). It just felt so much better to hear a guy mock you when you lost, in a strongly accented German of course. Or when he praised you for capturing Moscow, but only to be crestfallen when he informed you that the Soviets recaptured it in the winter.
That felt good. And of course the little 'action movies' whenever a battle took place,so you could see little men get blasted to bits, or tanks get holed or even exploding to lumps of metal (PzIII and IVs looked particularly gruesome, as well as that Polish TP-7 I think).
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