Best strategy game ever

[mouschi]

Total Annihilation. Most innovative RTS since Dune 2, and that game started the genre.

 

[tydon]

Axis and Allies always ends up with a brawl between friends though.........risk just ends up with one friend throwing the board at the other

Now magic the gathering is the worst for playing friends in, arguing for hours over rules.......

 

[SelfBaisResistor]

master of orion
xcom
steel panthers (wargame)

xcom kept me up for days. especially on the first play. i stole my mon's laptop and locked myself in my room for days. mom had to ask my sister what i was up to.

I remember pulling some really late nights playing XCOM as well. Thanks for the memories.

 

[cougar]

damn, I forgot all about X-Com. Such a great game. I remember when my best dood died. I think his name was Claus Unger... he was such an animal. I think i was sad for like two days after that happened.

 

[TheGreatStickels]

risk all the way

risk > chess

 

[jimmyboy]

damn, I forgot all about X-Com. Such a great game. I remember when my best dood died. I think his name was Claus Unger... he was such an animal. I think i was sad for like two days after that happened.

OMG, I can't believe that you remembered that name - Claus Unger. He was a stud.

 

[Module88]

Total Annihilation. Most innovative RTS since Dune 2, and that game started the genre.

Exactly. Core Contingency I might add. If you've never played TA: CC, can't claim any strategy game better. It's most graceful aspect is that you can design units, and download them. With a possibility of over 20,000 different units, well... Coupled with amazing realism (yes, that tank shell actually CAN miss) and land, air, and sea warfare, it's hard to beat. The use of radar and radar jamming makes the game all the more realistic.

 

[Gabber359]

StarCraft ofc

Honourable mention to the XCOM series though, I too pulled some late nighters on that. I enjoyed 1 and 3, not the rest tho, they all sux0red pretty badly IMO (2 was just a rehash of 1, cept underwater) I actually liked Interceptor for a while, cause I'm a fan of games like Xwing, but it got too repetetive after a few dozen mission. Same old same old.

C&C deserves a mention too, especially Red Alert (music rocked), Red Alert 2 was a nice distraction and Generals is a goddamned resource hog, lol.

Homeworld, cant believe no one has mentioned that yet, what a bloody awesome 3D RTS game. Nothing like the sight of 20 Ion Cannon Frigates in a wall formation to ruin your day

 

[Ringworm125]

Starcraft and Civilization III are the best. I don't know why everyone likes Warcraft 3 so much... When I played it for the first time, I was bored. Even though it's got better graphics, it still can't compare to the greatness of Starcraft. Plus the Bnet on it sucks.

 

[Deathwing]

Civilization 2, Master of Orion or maybe X-Com: Enemy Unknown for turn based, StarCraft for RT, no contest at all but Dark Reign wasn't bad.

The best thing (well, one of the best) about X-com: EN was the super commandos you could make that made Rambo look like a traffic warden, mine was called something like Commander Peter Coon or Koon (I suppose I should check up on him) but he was 115% accurate with a Heavy Plasma... on autofire :drool:

 

[jimmyboy]

Civilization 2, Master of Orion or maybe X-Com: Enemy Unknown for turn based, StarCraft for RT, no contest at all but Dark Reign wasn't bad.

The best thing (well, one of the best) about X-com: EN was the super commandos you could make that made Rambo look like a traffic warden, mine was called something like Commander Peter Coon or Koon (I suppose I should check up on him) but he was 115% accurate with a Heavy Plasma... on autofire :drool:

My supercomando was Claus Unger as noted above. He was my favorite until the day the platoon first encountered the mind controllers. Claus went bezerk, fired the auto cannon while in plane and killed off all but one of his buddies.

 

[Technetium]

Civ 3
Scorched Earth
Alpha Centauri

I wanted to mention one of the Simcity games, but unfortunately I can't. Simcity 4 revealed to me just how flawed the previous incarnations all were, yet it is also terribly flawed. Thus, the entire series so far has been ruined for me.

 

[Ferrous]

I used to be a big fan of Maxis games....simtower, simant, simearth...Simcity 2000 (never 3000, :grrr: ), but we did get the SIMS....always wanted to try a few of the other ones...but now I'm pretty much just into strategy and DII

 

[chewie837]

My supercomando was Claus Unger as noted above. He was my favorite until the day the platoon first encountered the mind controllers. Claus went bezerk, fired the auto cannon while in plane and killed off all but one of his buddies.

I remember my supercommando, Maria Martin! With her stereotype Mexican attitude and automatic plasma cannon, no one could match her power! Except those mind control people. Damn them! Glad to see I'm not the only one who lost good men to those freaks of nature.

My massive legions avenged her death in the end. RIP.

 

[Johnny]

Alpha Centauri

I have that game and it makes no sense to me.

I have no idea how to play it.

 

[Criku]

Best are Heores of Might and Magic 1-4

also Red Alert 1-2

and well.. best game for LAN fun is Age of Empires 1 (expansion ofc)

 

[chewie837]

I have that game and it makes no sense to me.

I have no idea how to play it.

You build things and kill people with them. :thumbsup:

But seriousl, that game doen't have a two hundred page manual for nothing.

 

[Johnny]

You build things and kill people with them. :thumbsup:

But seriousl, that game doen't have a two hundred page manual for nothing.

I dont have the manual :/