Taking the edge off.
Missing a 95% chance shot in Xcom and subsequently having your whole party wiped out by aliens
Pick one
Ayyyyy, if a missed 95% shot fucks things over that bad then you probably weren't handling the situation that well in the first place!
He says, as his entire squad gets eggs laid in them
Hah, you can try to stay on top of it. But no matter how hard you try, there's always a chance of that one little mistake that turns into a cock-up cascade and leaves most of your squad dead and one remaining soldier trying to crawl to evac.
I love that game, but I'm probably a masochist.
Doesn't exactly match up but I use Factorio for this. Or more accurately it uses me.
I mean, factorio has a map, and it's definitely a strategy game.
It's also isometric and you can move units around the map to attack enemies.
Factorio is so good.
Look the factory must grow and all, but it's all about control. Whether it's mapped based war games or factory on a map, the principle is the same, we dah boss dis time
Mindustry addict here. Check it out, it's FOSS and very multiplatform! I recommend starting on Erekir.
I've noticed you've recently settled a statement close to my psyche, I request that you refrain from settling too close in the future to avoid any ill feelings!
Hey, I just got word that that settlement needs your help. I'll mark it on your map.
Fellas, is it gay to not play StarCraft?
The "Fellas, is it gay...?" meme is one of my favorites.
I say it to my wife all the time. Was watching Friends with her last night and Chandler gets mad at Joey for telling Rachel he owns lotion. I looked at her and said, “Fellas, is it gay to moisturize?” It’s just so silly how many things aren’t MANLY™
The map needs to slowly change to the color of my faction for my life to have any meaning.
That's the good shit
That's silly, you don't know what you're talking about.
Looks at physical copies of original C&C, all three Red Alerts, Civ4, Warcraft, Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2, and a steam library with Mindustry, Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, Captain of Industry, Desynced
A life well lived.
Civ 5 here. I'll be 39 this year and play the least out of my friends group (probably 1 or 2 sessions a month where I quit 3 or 4 hours in, and once a month or less playing for 6 or more hours to almost actually finish a game). The friends I play with are all mid 40s and do a full game at least weekly. We all have wives and kids and stuff but are huge nerds i guess.
I have launched Civ 6 once, launched a quick game with bots, blinked and realized 2.5 hours have passed. I'm scared to reopen the game. Next time I might wake up with a gray head and wrinkles on my face
Most of us use drugs or alcohol.
Hell yeah, drugs and alcohol enhance map games so much. Great combination, would recommend.
Played Civ 5 drunk with a friend once and it was amazing. At some point I ended up at war and realized a good few turns in that I forgot to make military units
How do I make the wololo dude en passant
Is this like a personal attack or something?
You would know if you played map-based strategy games
If my units have action points it also makes me feel like I'm in total control of my life which makes me happy.
Learning curves and time management don’t mix
After your 30s, you move on to sim or survival games.
I know I already replied once, but on a serious note: I would love a new IP that was like Tiberium Sun. That was my first love with RTS and nothing since has been quite as awesome. Not even StarCraft.
Red Alert 2 is cozy gaming
Red Alert 2 is one of my all time favorites! I think it was my first online gaming experience too.
I always liked C&C 3. JK Simmon, George Takei, and Tim Curry as the faction leaders. What more could you want?
Live-acted cutscenes with actual actors was so unnecessary, but they rocked and really made the games stand out back then.
I will always have fond memories of cheesing the hell out of the original C&C. My friend had it for DOS. I later got C&C Gold and could run it in Windows at 640x480! IIRC none of the cheeky bugs were fixed in the Windows port. You are a Command and Conquer veteran if you remember:
Late game, deciding the hell with it and just swarming the enemy with ~500 bazooka dudes, because money was technically infinite on most maps, limited only by your patience. Every time the Tiberium tree "puffed" it would generate a little more green stuff you could harvest for cash.
Penning the computer enemy into their base with walls, because their pathfinding was not smart enough to destroy objects in their way and they would never attack a wall (although sandbags would be crushed by tanks).
Cherry-tapping your opponent by running over his last infantry dudes with your harvester, just to be an ass.
Running a line of sandbags up to the enemy base, hovering the "sell" cursor one pixel off the edge of your own sandbags, but selling their building and keeping the cash. And preferably then parking a queued up defense tower at the end of the sandbag chain immediately afterwards.
Baiting the computer into perpetually wasting their nukes or ion cannons by positioning one machine gun guy closer to their base than your own base or main forces, whereupon it would pathologically blow up just that one soldier because he was the "closest threat."
"Yeah?" "Okay." "Yeah?" "Okay." "Yeah?" "Okay."
Smuggling an engineer into the enemy's base under cover of some crazy diversion or another, inevitably aiming to nick his construction yard, undeploy it into an MCV, and bugger off with it. Or building MCV's with your friends in multiplayer and deliberately deploying them in each other's bases so you can build stuff from both sides and gang up on the computer with Obelisks and missile towers.
Leaving the computer opponent with one useless building like a power plant left, so you don't technically "win" and can go on forever uncontested to see how many units you can build before your computer crashes.
I think those people are the kinds of jerks who watch football. I'm not sure it helps them relax in the slightest. That would explain a few things actually...
Does the original Rome:Total War count? It's the only strategy game I return to. It's just that good.
I generally prefer something more action filled like a dungeon crawler or a bullet hell
I'd rather be on the ground shooting the zombies/vampires/aliens/libertarians(thanks Bioshock series).
Once every few years I have the itch to play Dune 2. It's so simple. It's the perfect RTS. Although the Harkonen Devastator is useless and the Death Hand is overpowered simply by you being lucky.
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