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How about motherfrickin Savage?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu1EE9pIers Natural Selection was so god damned good too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Zd5lcxpn4 Deakul fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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Savage was so good. I mainly played the healers and just loved seeing a giant wave of elephant men smashing tree trunks into everything
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That trailer made me realize how much of my affection for Battlezone was wrapped up in the Cold War aesthetic... since I totally forgot they made a second one.
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I've only ever played BZ2. Had some pretty sick mods back in the day.
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Infidelicious posted:That trailer made me realize how much of my affection for Battlezone was wrapped up in the Cold War aesthetic... since I totally forgot they made a second one. I think a big problem with BZ2 for me was it leant too far on the RTS side, which made it feel much more generic since you could get a satellite up in the first few minutes and then just play a fairly generic RTS from there, as opposed to in 1 where the satellite view was at the end of the tech tree. Also, since you didn't have the strict unit limits of BZ1, your personal combat power was a much smaller percentage of your total. How many properly FPRTS, like Battlezone, as opposed to FPS/RTS hybrids, like Natural Selection, are there? I feel the commander/FPS pairing is much more common. I guess Pikmin and Overlord type games are more the former than the latter, but they're also third person and don't exactly have a lot of base building.
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I've never played it, but I think Uprising: Join or Die was one of those. Otherwise there was also Hostile Waters and the various Carrier Command iterations.
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Dandywalken posted:def recommend Beyond All Reason for any Total Annihilation fans. Downloaded this earlier today and have already played a few games. Great fun, the 2nd multiplayer game I played was an 8v8 epic 3 hour marathon which we eventually won, really reminds me of multiplayer TA games of old.
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I enjoyed Natural Selection 2 for a few days until I ran into some guy with a clan tag who spent the entire post-game ranting in voice chat about it's all my fault we lost, even though I I had like 4 hours in the game and spent most of it just spectating because nobody ever streams it. So I uninstalled the game because gently caress that community. Game is cool though
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The Advance Wars remake is looking pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95dbXS1tPbI
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New Zero Hour-like came out with a playable demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1965470/Barkhan/
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Love Stole the Day posted:New Zero Hour-like came out with a playable demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1965470/Barkhan/ You say it's a Zero Hour-like when it's clearly trying to be a modernized Dune 2000.
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skaianDestiny posted:You say it's a Zero Hour-like when it's clearly trying to be a modernized Dune 2000. Yeah lol, that was an odd choice I almost didn't even click the link until you said Dune.
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Mordja posted:It's also not actually out... A demo is out, is what the OP was saying.
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Love Stole the Day posted:New Zero Hour-like came out with a playable demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1965470/Barkhan/ almost impressive that it's so much uglier than Emperor: Battle for Dune
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I wish they'd make a new Zero Hero.
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Closest seems to be this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/908770/Global_Conflagration/
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Love Stole the Day posted:New Zero Hour-like came out with a playable demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1965470/Barkhan/ Good to see the RTS engine from Space Rangers branching out into new places
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doctorfrog posted:Good to see the RTS engine from Space Rangers branching out into new places I’ve kind of blocked that part of Space Rangers from my memory just like I blocked those missions from generating, but I have an inexplicable feeling of impending doom and desolation.
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LordSloth posted:I’ve kind of blocked that part of Space Rangers from my memory just like I blocked those missions from generating, but I have an inexplicable feeling of impending doom and desolation. I played them once! Then I realized what a horrible mistake I'd made The text adventures were still fun
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Probably of interest to someone in this thread: https://www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes/board-game-vs-simulation-style-strategy-games A new episode of strategy game podcast Three Moves Ahead, this one on the topic of "the different design goals between a more "Board Gamey" strategy game like Civilization and the "Simulationist" breed exemplified by Europa Universalis". I'm posting it most because of its guest list: both Soren Johnson, lead designer of Civ 4, and Johan Andersson, who was for a very long time the head game dev guy at Paradox Interactive and designer on, at least the first and second iterations of Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron and Victoria.
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 D.O.R.F. RTS, that game being made in the OpenRA engine has a Steam page, not that I expect it to come out anytime soon. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388620/DORF_RealTime_Strategic_Conflict/ 
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The Mad Max faction gives me KKND vibes, despite not being so organic
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This seems pretty cool. https://twitter.com/AgeOfEmpires/status/1650926666506547201 quote:Welcome to Return of Rome, a completely new type of expansion pack which brings Age of Empires, the title that started it all, into Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition as a brand new self-contained experience. This new expansion will allow you to challenge friends with the original sixteen Age of Empires civilizations — plus one brand-new Return of Rome exclusive civilization, the Lac Viet— and relive the triumph and trials of antiquity. Battle your way across the ancient world with three new campaigns featuring conquerors, empire-builders, and gifted tacticians fighting desperately against fate! As an additional bonus, the Romans will no longer be bound by time as they become a new playable civilization within Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, ready to battle in the new Age.
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Mordja posted:
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Captain Beans posted:wowzer that looks dope Yeah every time I see screenshots from that project I get hype as gently caress. Especially the Unreal_One posted:KKND vibes KKND was one of those games I only got to play a demo of as a kid and vibed with super hard. Someone make a new RTS featuring those bastard plasma tanks from Dark Reign next.
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Anno posted:This seems pretty cool. Oh snap, this is really cool. Guess there's no real reason to get AoE1 any more? If there ever was?
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I can think of two, maybe three reasons: - You have to already own or commit to buying Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition, since this is not a standalone game. - They're being vague as to whether the game will come with the original campaigns or not. - Who knows how the multiplayer community divides itself? This one's more up in the air though. Apart from that, no. There's going to be a bunch of additional features and a new civilization that, as far as I know aren't even being added to Age of Empires I's Definitive Edition. Jossar fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Apr 26, 2023 |
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Also started playing Beyond All Reason and it ticks a lot of boxes coming from SC2. It sounds like they are eventually going to go to Steam and develop some type of monetization.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7oMaXKY8uY Neat
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That Dawn of War II: Eternal clip is really what I want when from game hype vids. Just show me the loving gameplay.
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Godsworn has a demo out Steam's Tacticon fest. I've only played part of a skirmish so far, but it's definitely midway between Age of Mythology and Warcraft 3 with some convenient, automated resourcing mechanics. 
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I can only click "download demo" so fast, please help me click it faster next time!
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Mordja posted:Godsworn has a demo out Steam's Tacticon fest. I've only played part of a skirmish so far, but it's definitely midway between Age of Mythology and Warcraft 3 with some convenient, automated resourcing mechanics. I'm getting Battlerealms vibes out of this.
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I played a skirmish against the ai, seems pretty good, has a lot of good ideas in there, just needs some more polish and it'll be great.
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Just picked this up today after seeing a beagulrush video about it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/669330/Mechabellum/ It's very solid as a competitive auto battler. Which I've found I really like as a genre lately, but this one ticks some boxes that your regular auto battlers don't for me. Building a formation of mechs and upgrading them at the right time is a solid feeling. And I've won games where I've been on the losing foot for most of it only to turn it around dramatically.
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