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Shae_Trielle
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posted April 23, 2001 11:48 AM |
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All Time Best Strategy Games....
Hey, I was just wondering how many of you guys have played other computer strategy games? I have a few crazy favourites.
Anyone ever play Lords of Midnight or Doomdark's Revenge on the old C64? They were absolutely awesome games for their time and I reckon they blew the socks off anything around. The Lords of Midnight 3 which made it onto pc a few years ago completely sucked.
And did anyone ever play Vikings: Kingdoms of England 2?
Those three games were my favourites and it is so sad because I don't have a C64 anymore and my Amiga has just about bitten the dust. What other games are classics? I'd like to hear!
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TheDragon
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posted April 23, 2001 01:42 PM |
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some classics....
from the good old time of C-64 i remember playing hotseats with a cpouple of friends. we played things like:
Kaiser
Hanse
Fugger
Vermeer
all of theese employ strategy and combat in build-economy games.....
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Zud
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posted April 24, 2001 02:36 PM |
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Fav. Games
I started gaming on the ole Apple IIE, Ultima, Wizardry, Bards Tale and The Might and Magic series were my staples for staying up all night playin  I still remeber running the library to take over an apple for the day and game my heart out
I am still looking forward to the new Wizardry release rumored to come out this year (mebe next year)
If I dissapear from the zone for a while you will know the new wizardy was released hehe (or shae came to visit atlanta)
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Shae_Trielle
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posted April 24, 2001 11:57 PM |
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1 way ticket to Atlanta!
Cool, is that an invitation Zud? Will you let me sleep in your bed? LOL!
I noticed that the Warlords series is mentioned quite a few times in many posts, but it is only Part 2 or 3. Hey, you guys want to hear something funny? LOL, I never got the chance to play Warlords 2 or 3! I still have part one! LOL!
Anyway, enough of the chinese smoke  but the original warlords was very good for a simplistic strategy game. The map was gigantic, there were about 80 cities placed on the map, you could set each computer player to different AI levels (and I mean pretty sneaky levels too, lol). I enjoyed Warlords. I played hotseat once with one of my ex-boyfriends and we ended up playing that one game for MONTHS! I lost in the end, but that was one of the better epics I have played and surprisingly, it was on something as simple as Warlords 1.
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rychenroller
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posted April 25, 2001 02:13 PM |
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Might and magic2...where you take on the 3 Cuisinarts in the mountains, and get a +31 Sun Naginata or somethin. I would do that battle over and over again But in modern times Baldurs Gate is the best game I have played by far. The only reason I'm not playing it at the moment is that it has zero replayability. Thats what makes H3 so awesome
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istanbul
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posted April 25, 2001 05:04 PM |
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my favorutes
other than homm2 and homm3 of course, my favorutes were;
master of orion 1-2. (psilon & silicoid as the race)
ufo. (was a wonderful experience)
warcraft 1-2. (no need to mention)
dune II. (breakthrough- first ever)
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pluvious
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posted April 25, 2001 06:49 PM |
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warlords II was a great game...better tactically in some ways to homm but they flubbed it for warlords III big time.
Masters of Magic and Fantasy General were great games. Fantasy General had a pretty tough computer ai...not much in the way of graphic affects though...purely thinking game.
Oh and I played this one game on I think playstation...some fanatasy style game where you had units that upgraded like from hydras to sea serpents. Japanese style animation/themes, plus one main hero that had some kick ass spells and powers. Anyone know the name of this one?
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arachnid
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posted April 25, 2001 08:21 PM |
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hmm my order of top 6 fav games is
1 Aoe(Rise of Rome)
2 Eye of the Beholder1/2/3
3 Heroes3
4 Fallout2
5 Baldurs1/2
6 Shogun
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Jex
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posted April 25, 2001 11:08 PM |
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heroes needs to take a lesson from Warlords
I remember Warlords One 
Running around with 20 bats and stealing unguarded towns and burning them to the ground...
RAZE RAZE RAZE
some many good mermories
Who thinks the heroes seires should allow the option of burning your towns to the ground???
I know many times I have wanted to burn mine down right b4 my opponent takes it. and uses it to tp home and back with more troops....
Jex
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pluvious
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posted April 25, 2001 11:43 PM |
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Well warlords was based on taking and controlling many, many, many towns. A little different than heroes which is based on your main hero and upgrading towns using resources. Some gameplay elements would of course need to be changed if you wanted to allow raising...or make it easy to rebuild or something.
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malkia
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posted April 26, 2001 01:22 AM |
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Battle Isle
Battle Isles or Battle Isle is also one of my favourites. The other games are already listed in this thread.
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Shae_Trielle
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posted April 26, 2001 09:54 AM |
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Eye!
Eye of the Beholder was easily one of my most memorable 'pre-Wolfenstein' games ever. It was frightening (to hear those giant Spiders scuttling around on the 4th/5th level of the Dwarven tunnels scared me bloodless). It was a clickfest of a game though, but still, I loved it to death and have replayed the whole game many times.
Eye 2 promised to be something far better, but on my old Amiga system, the disk-swapping utterly destroyed the game (and any sense of sanity I had). I have thought very hard about buying all three on PC.
Hey, did anyone like Tycoon? LOL, that game almost destroyed my Year 9 grades as I stayed up all night at friends places countless times to build mammoth Terminals!
Another one of my favourite games on the Amiga and PC was Syndicate. But that's not really a strategy game is it?
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TeremitteneK...
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posted April 26, 2001 11:54 AM |
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Hi, I have never been as addicted as with Homm 2/3. I believe homm 2 was the addictive. Even if I now never play it just homm3.
Civ was also a great game that made me loose lots of sleep. And Tetris in several versions has been wery time consuming.
For C64, I agree with Pirates (and impossible Mission, but this isn`t really strategy)
Take care
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hurragutten
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posted April 26, 2001 06:14 PM |
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Yep
Yep, still gor my C64. Pirates was lots of fun!!!
Now of course Heroes is great!
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arachnid
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posted April 26, 2001 08:26 PM |
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(my face when they attacked)
Eye of the Beholder was easily one of my most memorable 'pre-Wolfenstein' games ever. It was frightening (to hear those giant Spiders walking around on the 4th/5th level of the Dwarven tunnels scared me bloodless). It was a clickfest of a game though, but still, I loved it to death and have replayed the whole game many times.
Shae you are so right!!!
These things terrified me i mean i hated doing that area i ALWAYS JUMPED when i heard them! They were the scariest things in any game bar none!!!!!! They looked evil too and the scuttle noise and when they attacked it was like straight out of aliens! They always sneaked up on me and scared the sh*t out of me! Beholders were just as bad! This game was really superb i loved the second one the best it had everything.
Ah Syndicate on the amiga nothing like persuading everyone to join you then running them all over in a car! ahahahahahhahahahahah
Pity syndicate2 sucked. I also liked Cannon Fodder on the amiga and Sensible soccer they were great games.
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ironmlh
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posted April 26, 2001 08:35 PM |
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Games
Great thread! Some of my all time favorites, not necessarily strategy games but RPG related are:
from the Commodore 64: Ultima 2,3, and especially 4. Did anyone ever play a C64 game by Electronic Arts called the Standing Stones, one of the first dungeon crawls i ever played, by far the most fun. The Bards tale series.
Apple games: Wizardry series and Might and Magic, i remember playing the M&M series in the mid to late eighties on the APple on the ugly all green screen, and also on the C64.
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Zud
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posted April 26, 2001 08:40 PM |
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you sound like me ironmkl
I enjoyed first 2-3 bards tales also, very fun stuff, I still have all the maps i made for early wizardry, MM, Ultima, Bards tale ect.
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Shae_Trielle
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posted September 07, 2001 11:35 AM |
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One of the less memorable...
I was just thinking of all the good strategy games I played and I remember Defender of the Crown 2. It was a typical medieval Arthurian kinda game, where you played the king who had to take over all of England. The graphics were dismal (apart from the lovemaking scene, which I found really... ummm, warm) and the scope of gameplay was very limited. You had one army with which to conquer about 10 different territories on the map (LOL, how awesome! Ten little coloured pieces of land!).
I remember finishing the entire game in about 30 minutes, the second or third time I loaded it up. It had negative replayability (i.e. you threw it in the bin after that) and you could chew your arm off for being so stupid to fork out $40 bucks for the game. Hey! Forty dollars is big bikkies to those of us who got 5 bucks a week pocket money! And five bucks a week back in 1994 was HUGE!
Anyways, Defender of the Crown had to be probably the WORST strategy game I ever played. Do any of you have bad memories of particular strategies?
*smile*
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Sha_Men
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posted September 07, 2001 12:08 PM |
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Those were the days...
Remember playing Eye of the beholder one and two. Good games in those days both. Still I never liked really those dungeon games really even Dungeon Master didn't hit me.
Pirates was good but I played Pirates Gold even more. Too bad nobody didn't do sequel with more all something to do than in original. I think the replayability quality was great but then it started just lacking.
Syndicate is one of those games I remember forever. Too bad the sequel again was so bad. Why they cannot do good sequels to those old games. Also I thought Syndicate was also too linear. I would like to see little bit game like that one but more open chance to choose mission and what happens into them.
Too many great games behind, too many bad games ahead.
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Thunder
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posted September 07, 2001 12:12 PM |
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Hmm, what I remember of Battle Isle series is good AI and that Ai`s turns took forever.
Fantasy General was(is) great game and it had good AI, but campaigns wasn`t impossible to complete even with hardest difficulty settings. What bothered me was that AI got taxes from villages but player didnt.
Warlords II: Deluxe was my favourite Warlord. Warlords 3 was disappointment.
Jagged Alliance was good strategy game with a bit of roleplaying elements in it.
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