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Re: Video game recommendations

Postby MichaelReilly » Sat Nov 15, 2014 3:01 pm

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Re: Video game recommendations

Postby LukasV » Thu Nov 20, 2014 4:22 pm

Paradox games suck. Especially EU4 and CK2.
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Re: Video game recommendations

Postby Hrafn » Thu Nov 20, 2014 4:30 pm

LukasV wrote:Paradox games suck. Especially EU4 and CK2.

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Postby Captain-Socialist » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:31 pm

Crusader Kings II - Needs no introduction.

EUIV - Yeah nothing unique 'bout this opinion.

Victoria II - The third sister of the Paradox franchise trio, Victoria II is fantastic but direly awaiting a sequel. Probably the best balanced of Paradox games.

Distant Worlds - Not a Paradox game but close. Procedurally generated empire building in space, with great potential for modding.

Dawn of War (Soulstorm with mods) - Still the best 40k game there's ever been, with mind blowingly good modding community. Soulstorm is generally regarded as the worst expansion but you need it for the fantastic mods.

War of the Human Tanks - Quirky turn based game where your tiny Moe-Moe "Human Tanks" (who have no human rights) squeak "It doesn't hurt at all!" in Japanese as they carrying out suicide bombing missions against the enemies Moe-Moe "Human Tanks". The plot involves a war between the Empire and the Kingdom of "Japon", and many, many anime cliches.

Long Live the Queen - CK2, the magical girl anime! Well, not exactly. You will be assassinated a lot though - as that's the whole point of the game it seems. You play a pink haired innocent looking (to begin with) Princess and try to survive till coronation. You will die, a lot. You have to choice between various types of skill sets to overcome certain challenges, either turning the pink princess into a angry pink warlord, miserable pink magic using nun or two prim and proper... errrm, actual traditional pink princess who knows how to use courtesy and reject marriages properly and shit (you'll probably lose the war though).

Touhou - Cult Japanese game series made by one lone alcoholic man who does all the music, character design, story, art and programming himself. The music, through primitively instrumentalized on tinny computerised trumpets, is probably good enough that in a another era he would have been a successful composer. Fan-made Touhou music comes in all genres and levels of quality, from J-Pop, rap, eurobeats and punk to Classical, Jazz and the motherfucking Charleston. The games are fiendishly difficult, with relatively endearing characters (who the fandom gleefully flesh out in all manner of ways). The one thing that sucks is ZUN's art, but given the size of the fandom every rubbish character he draws is replicated in amazing quality by fan artists a million times over. Probably as famous in Japanese geek culture as, I dunno, DnD or Firefly is for Western Geeks.

Analogue a Hate Story & Hate Plus - Two visual novels about a derelict Korean space ship that was drifting in empty space for far too long. You encounter no living creatures, only anthropomorphic AI constructs who offer to help you sort through the private emails of the dead, but who are not quite what they seem. Trigger warning: Feminism.

Command and Conquer: Red Alert - Any of them, 1 2 or 3. It was Red Alert that got me into strategy games in the first place. Amazing series with a great sense of humour and terrific gameplay.

Emperor Battle for Dune - Sadly, the last of a series of groundbreaking RTS games that practically invented RTS, Emperor Battle For Dune is a treat both for Dune fans and RTS fans. Similar gameplay to Command and Conquer, only 10 times as hard. Totally unfaithful to the original books in a way that's more funny than annoying and obviously borrowing it's aesthetics from the David Lynch film, its sort of like a Dune fan-fiction plot wise.

Republic the Revolution - A rather unique game whose sequel was sadly cancelled in pre-production, Republic the Revolution puts you not at the head of a nation, army or dynasty but as the leader of a revolutionary political party in Ukrain- I mean, Novistrana. Republic the Revolution had a very innovative and original gameplay style, and the world portrayed in it felt real and authentic despite the fact that the people in were speaking the Eastern European equivalent of Simlish. Republic the Revolution also had a pretty solid moral dilemma system for it's time, one based not on a arbitrary spilt between good and evil but between the competing forces of influence (traditional party politics), force (violence) and wealth (big money politics). Recommended for the politically inclined gamer.

Total War series - rapidly degenerating franchise that once was fun for me... before the Paradox nation attacked. Now I can barely play two turns without get bored with the ridiculously shallow campaign map mode. Unfortunately, all the best real time battles happen in campaigns, so I've uninstalled them all and relegated them to memory.

Starcraft - Fucking Starcraft man.

Warcraft III - Best map editor there's ever been, bar none. Starcraft II map editor is faaar too hard to use in comparison, however powerful it is. Nice base game too.
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Postby JuliaAJA » Fri Nov 21, 2014 1:11 am

Captain-Socialist wrote:Command and Conquer: Red Alert - Any of them, 1 2 or 3. It was Red Alert that got me into strategy games in the first place. Amazing series with a great sense of humour and terrific gameplay.

I have been playing Red Alert 2 since it came out. Red Alert 1 was a bit old for me. I still have not played Red Alert 3. Red Alert 2 is so excellent.
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Re: Video game recommendations

Postby soysauce » Fri Nov 21, 2014 11:27 pm

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/483/details/Command:.Modern.Air.Naval.Operations
Command - Alternating between the most laggy piece of shit I've ever seen and the most intense and exciting game I've ever played. You can't go out and hand fly the jets or anything but hunts for submarines around the Falklands and shadowing battle groups in the Persian Gulf is fucking intense. Plus when you're pissed off ripping apart fleets of Israeli missile boats is quite satisfying. Protip: If you pay what they want for it then you are a cretin.
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Re: Video game recommendations

Postby Reddy » Mon Jan 05, 2015 2:46 pm

Masters of the World http://www.masters-of-the-world.com/news.php

Tends to be buggy but highly recommended for the micromanaging strategy game fan.
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Re: Video game recommendations

Postby Hrafn » Wed Feb 17, 2016 7:06 pm

Anyone else who is excited about the upcoming Paradox game Stellaris?
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Re: Video game recommendations

Postby MichaelReilly » Thu Feb 18, 2016 9:14 am

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Re: Video game recommendations

Postby Doc » Thu Feb 18, 2016 1:54 pm

I endorse CK2, of course. Started in Ethiopia as a coptic, used that as an excuse to holy war the entire Middle East.

Also, an older one, but super fun if you have someone to play against PBEM: AGEOD's American Civil War. There is no hot-seat mode in the game- it really is like an old school board game that you have to send moves files to a host via email, and then they resolved on the same computer everyturn, but the game is grand strategy (no tactics) at its finest.

I also, of course, recommend Minecraft

And as for more casual games, Papers Please is a blast- you play a bureaucrat in a late stage communist government, who is made to man a border crossing. I am also playing the new PC version of the classic Nobunaga's Ambition. But I could just as easily recommend any of the total war games.
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