Re: OT) Best Turn Based Game: Fantasy or Space or War
 

Since you did not specify computers I'd have to say
Impact! A miniatures game covering 1938 to 1950. Time Per turn - 30 seconds
Ground scale 1 mm=1 meter
Author Jorge Chavier

Re: OT) Best Turn Based Game: Fantasy or Space or War
 

Age of Wonders II besides SEIV is my biggest time consumer. Still a lot to learn about magic and fantasy races in it, just the AI could be improved. I like to provide my heros and fantasy creatures with different combinations of spells and the large variety of different flying, creeping, swimming, elemental, undead etc. units to play with. It's just MAGIC http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

It can be setup as classical turn based or a kind of quasi simultaneous but still turn based mode, where the AI can process its turn whilst you are doing your turn, nice idea, I think.

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For me, Heroes of Might and Magic 1, 2, 3, and 4 are among my personal favorite turn-based games. NWC Has consistantly improved each Version. I remember the first edition being one of the first games to take advantage of nice crisp clear SVGA graphics. When it came out the industry standard was still VGA 320x200 256colors!

Although not turn based IMHO Starcraft is Blizzards best Game by far. I am really really really surprised that it has not been followed by any sequel. (The upcomming GHOST game doesn't count as a sequel, it's a first person shooter!)

What am I looking forward to playing? SE:V of course. I think it's going to 'look great' http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif and play even better! (I'm also interested in StarFury, Privateer was one of my fav games way back when!)

nuf said! Cheers. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Edit:...well maybe not enough!... Anyone remember Starflight 1 & 2 that was a great game, but it wasn't really turn based either! Ah well, I love to digress! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ March 19, 2003, 14:38: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

Re: OT) Best Turn Based Game: Fantasy or Space or War
 

I definitely will throw in my vote for Heroes of Might and Magic. A very nice combination game spawned from a rather ancient one, one they made themselves. The funny thing is, before Heroes of Might and Magic IV, the Last predecessor I played was Kings Bounty for the Commodore 64. Talk about a major skip. It's like going from the original Space invaders to Ikaruga or Radiant Silvergun (Treasure's latest top/down scrolling shooting games) in one quick leap.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sid had no relation to MoM. MoM and Moo have been made by Steve Barcia !

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"Sid had no relation to MoM. MoM and Moo have been made by Steve Barcia !"

Oh,you misunderstood me. I meant with SM does it again that he is developing a good game again. (after his civ series, colonization and pirates) Fact is that he announced MoM2 several weeks ago in an interview I read at "the wargamer".

klausD

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Argh... Sid Meier just re-does the same game over and over! MoM 2 will just be CIV with fantasy units if he's doing it. They already did that for Civ 2 'Test of Time' anyway...

We need Steve Barcia to come back for MoM 2 to be good.

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What's scary is that as of late, he has been doing Civ kind of games. I wonder what happened to the great leaps of gameplay divergence like he had going from Pirates to Civ. Kind of funny how Sid made Pirates so good and fleshed out, that he never went back and truly did a sequel to it. It's like he exhausted all of his ideas on the first one. Sure, we got updates, but those were simply graphical updates or updates so that it would run on newer machines.

Perhaps, Sid will notice that and realize he should stretch his bounds again and make MOM2 a true sequel to the first one, and take the series very differently.

[ March 19, 2003, 17:46: Message edited by: Foiden ]

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Before SE IV came along, my favorite computer game was Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire.

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wargaming: TOAW (if you like the strategic level IMO there is nothing better), the same is true for SPWaW on tactical level.
CRPG: Wizardry 6 and 7
Sci-fi: Ufo, SE IV.