Turn Based Tactics games (gimme!)

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Necronic

Necronic

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I love me some turn based tactics games. Some of you may not know what a turn based tactics game is. Fallout 2. Jagged Alliance. XCOM. Get it?

Anyways, the genre is all but dead now, for reasons I can't entirely understand, but I want more more more. I've recently started playing XCOM, which is a decent game, but frankly the different actions of your troops is limited and pales in comparison to Jagged Alliance.

So I am looking for suggestions. I've heard good things about Silent Storm, but from what I understand it doesn't have the Strategy element that XCom or JA has.
 
figmentPez

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Dave said:
Civ 5 comes out in August or September. Until then, Civ 4.
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Different sub-genre there, Dave. Turn-based strategy is slightly different from Turn-based tactical.

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As for Necronic, have you checked out the Advance Wars series on the Nintendo DS?
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

Have you ever played Laser Squad Nemesis? I tried it out and it was a lot of fun. It's pure focus is the tactics though... there's next to no other elements like in the xcom and jagged alliance series.
 
Seraphyn

Seraphyn

I've been waiting for Jagged Alliance 3. No game really came close to 2, so I've been hoping 3 would be coming, but with all the drama surrounding it, it doesn't seem likely to come out any time soon. There is the unofficial JA3, Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge, but it didn't really impress me much.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Final Fantasy Tactics (PSX or PSP), Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 1&2 (Gameboy Advance/DS)

The PSP one easily has the best Final Fantasy story written, including the numbered sagas.

I also second the Shining Force recommendation, play the remake on Gameboy Advance though.
 
Math242

Math242

no game comes close to JA2 unfortunately.

I've been looking myself for years. i have been disappointed more than a few times

ah shining force 1 & 2, how i loved those games

I have gens installed on my computer just for the nostalgia induced yearly playthrough
 
Necronic

Necronic

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Played Shining Force and most of the others mentioned (I'll have to see Odium though). I guess I wasn't that far off my guess based on everyone saying that there is nothing out there as good as Jagged Alliance 2. I mean wtf, how hard would it be to make a game like that these days?
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

Companies aren't about good gameplay (for the most part)... they are about graphics, flash, glitz and profit... and usually gameplay and balance suffer for it.

*shakes fist at all the crappy computer games that have come out lately*
 
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Soliloquy

Azurephoenix said:
Have you ever played Laser Squad Nemesis? I tried it out and it was a lot of fun. It's pure focus is the tactics though... there's next to no other elements like in the xcom and jagged alliance series.
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Ah, LSN. If the multiplayer weren't subscription-based, I would have played the crap out of that game.

Alas...
 
GasBandit

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You know, it occurs to me, you might also like Zatikon, made by Chronic Logic (of Pontifex fame). It's free to play with pay expansion packs, and features turn based strategy with armies you build and organize beforehand, like some old tabletop games that used to be popular.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Shegokigo said:
Final Fantasy Tactics (PSX or PSP), Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 1&2 (Gameboy Advance/DS)

The PSP one easily has the best Final Fantasy story written, including the numbered sagas.
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Might want to mention the load times on the PSP one. I'm told they are pretty bad and mar an otherwise perfect game.
 
SpecialKO

SpecialKO

AshburnerX;412750][QUOTE=Shegokigo said:
Final Fantasy Tactics (PSX or PSP), Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 1&2 (Gameboy Advance/DS)

The PSP one easily has the best Final Fantasy story written, including the numbered sagas.
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Might want to mention the load times on the PSP one. I'm told they are pretty bad and mar an otherwise perfect game.[/QUOTE]

They're honestly not the worst load times I have seen on a PSP game, but they are noticeable.
 
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RealBigNuke

Disgaea is probably the deepest and most potentially time consuming tactics series I'm aware of.

For something more traditional, get civ iv and it's expansions.

Civ V is going to be either a wonderful game or the disappointment of the decade based entirely on whether or not Leonard Nemoy returns.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Nobunaga's Ambition
Shingen the Ruler

Master of Orion II's ship combat is pretty strategic, but I don't know if the rest of the game matches what you're looking for.

--Patrick
 
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wana10

the text rendering on the psp sucked too.

edit* on fftactics that is. they left the drop shadow on the text which on such a small screen just served to make it look blurry and annoying to read. i didn't actually finish the psp fftactics because of that.

i would recommend both psp disgaeas and jeanne d'arc though

edit2* i had a fun time with wild arms xf as well. some of the alternate mission objectives were well thought out.
 
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