OT - Favorite games

Gregstrom · #1 June 18th, 2009, 04:34 PM

I'm currently enjoying the new King's Bounty game. It's got a lot of what HOMMV should have had.

GrudgeBringer · #2 June 18th, 2009, 11:35 PM

Ahhhhhhhhhhh, I also forgot an obsure game that started a huge movement...

It was called Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat (around 94)

And the second one Warhammer

ark-Omen (around 97)

I took my online name Grudgebringer from that series From the GrudgeBringer Cavelry.

I also took my Pretender name on D3 from the same title Dark-Omen

Now Warhammer is a staple

the Vanishag · #3 June 19th, 2009, 12:46 AM

Here's a game I'm surprised no-one's mentioned: Fantasy General. It was in SSI's Panzer General series, and the only one in that series I ever really got into (but I admit that I'm not generally big on historical wargames).

Top 5
1. MoM
2. Fantasy General
3. Laser Squad Nemesis (anyone who likes Dom 3 and liked X-Com should check this one out)
4. The Perfect General (the QQP game, no connection to the Panzer General series)
5. Warlords II

I didn't list X-Com because LSN kind-of includes it, and I didn't list MOO 2 because it was always second in my heart to MoM. I also really liked the feel of the Disciples games, but I have my gripes with them as well (which I'll hold my tongue on). Ditto for Final Fantasy Tactics, the only console game I ever truly loved.

I'm pretty disenchanted with the productions of the big players in the games industry: EA, Maxis, Sony, Microsoft, and even Nintendo and Blizzard, but part of that is because almost anything describable with the acronym FPS, RTS or MMORPG gives me hives.

If you ask me, a lot of good games are being made, but they're indie or even freeware/open source. Battle for Wesnoth doesn't get me quite the way Fantasy General did, but it provides my hexmap TBS fix, and Endgame: Singularity is like X-Com without the squad combat - and yes, it works. But I suppose I should take these thoughts over to the favorite indie games thread.

sector24 · #4 June 19th, 2009, 11:40 AM

I love LSN, it's just a little too time intensive for me these days. I loved Warlords II as well, we have similar taste in games.

Burnsaber, I have not played the Gamecube Fire Emblem but I've heard it's very good. Both of the GBA Fire Emblem games are excellent. I think all the games have some junk characyers though.