What was the first strategic game you played?
#31 Posted 15 May 2009 - 01:51 AM
And to respond to gt1750, are you using OpenTTD nowadays like moi? Much fun even now...
Regards,
Yickle!
#33 Posted 15 May 2009 - 08:09 AM
msleeper, on May 15 2009, 10:11 PM, said:
I wouldn't classify that game as a strategic one myself.
This post has been edited by The Commander: 15 May 2009 - 08:09 AM
#34 Posted 15 May 2009 - 08:14 AM
YicklePigeon, on May 15 2009, 11:51 AM, said:
And to respond to gt1750, are you using OpenTTD nowadays like moi? Much fun even now...
Regards,
Yickle!
Yep, OTTD. TTDPatch is pretty much obsolete now IMHO.
#35 Posted 15 May 2009 - 10:00 AM
#37 Posted 16 May 2009 - 09:02 AM
Spiker, on May 9 2009, 09:10 AM, said:
There's two separate projects out there trying to recreate Total Annihilation with an open source engine and 'free' graphics. One is called Spring, the other, I think is called TA3d or something. Not sure if you could count them as 'nowadays' games, but it is all that I could think of.
#38 Posted 16 May 2009 - 10:07 AM
#39 Posted 17 May 2009 - 02:59 AM
EDIT: actually I'm pretty sure I played command and conquer before that.. but I'm not sure if it was a demo or not.
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#40 Posted 17 May 2009 - 03:44 AM
The Commander, on May 12 2009, 10:07 AM, said:
Because it's about the FIRST strategy game you ever played. If that's really your first then wow.
#41 Posted 17 May 2009 - 04:36 AM
Sangman, on May 17 2009, 11:44 PM, said:
I posted that because people started going on about "other" strategy games thank you very much Mr Sang troll.
#42 Posted 17 May 2009 - 10:35 AM
The Commander, on May 17 2009, 02:36 PM, said:
Ah yes indeed, I missed that. That does not make me a troll, just someone who didn't read through the thread properly. Kindof funny considering I responded to the post in question myself as well.
#43 Posted 17 May 2009 - 01:54 PM
#44 Posted 19 May 2009 - 09:41 PM
Thanks to modern emulators I was able to come up with a screenshot...
After that was "The Perfect General", I think I played this on my Amiga and later on my PC. It was turn based, but a lot of fun against other players.
I think on the PC, aside from The Perfect General, I played Command and Conquer, the first version as well as Warcraft 1 and later 2. I never did play Dune, wish I had, it turned out to be a kewl game, played Dune 2 and Dune 2000 later on as well ad Age of Empires 1 and 2. I loved the screens from Age of Empires 1, I had forgotten about that one, where the men in it were the same size as the buildings.
I don't know what it is, but the latest versions of Command and Conquer and Age of Empires are all lacking something... I think the 3D is ruining strategy games to be honest. I would love to see a new version without the 3D. I think older 2D strategy games concentrated more on the game play than graphics (due to limited graphics at the time) and that made them more fun. C&C: Red Alert 2 was probably the best, where you could combine units to make new ones, the 2D graphics were really nice, map editors were easy to use etc....
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#45 Posted 19 May 2009 - 11:59 PM
#46 Posted 21 May 2009 - 12:24 AM
#47 Posted 21 May 2009 - 12:56 AM
Daedolon, on May 21 2009, 08:24 PM, said:
The open source port of it is rather new, but the game it's self was released on April 10, 1999
http://en.wikipedia....ki/Warzone_2100
http://wz2100.net/
I always give the game a blast every year or so.
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#49 Posted 21 May 2009 - 10:58 PM
smithy1185, on May 21 2009, 11:01 PM, said:
haha probably this was the first strategy ever? wasn't it?
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#50 Posted 01 June 2009 - 05:28 AM
I played the pc version shortly after that. And after that, I played the original Age of Empires and later the Rise of Rome expansion, and Age of Empires II.
I also played: Commandos II, Men of Courage, which I've been replaying yesterday. Excelent game, hard as heck on very hard skill though. I'm about halfway through now .
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No, Stonkers was. But Dune 2 pobably was the first to have base building, fog of war, mining resources and upgrading/researching technologies.
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#52 Posted 20 June 2009 - 04:46 AM
#54 Posted 20 June 2009 - 10:51 AM
As to Modern Strategy games there are a load of them like Empire Total War, Dawn of War Series,World in Conflict though that was more of an RTT.
#55 Posted 08 August 2009 - 05:31 AM
Soon afterwards I borrowed Red Alert from my cousin and played it to death. Built levels and all that.
#58 Posted 21 August 2009 - 10:22 AM
Age of Empires 1 - Amazing and very polished, even for the time.
Warcraft 1 - Decided to try it out after playing 2 to death.
Age of Empires 2 - Stepped it up to another level. I still play this now. The balance and the units were just perfect. Nothing compares!
Age of Empires 3 - Took a while to take to this one. Nice graphics, but I think I prefer 2's gameplay.
Long before I played any of these, my wife was playing a game called Populus on the Amiga.
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#60 Posted 21 August 2009 - 02:04 PM
Tea Monster, on Aug 21 2009, 02:22 PM, said:
I still play this one too. It's one of the first strategic games I played and still my favorite.