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Author Topic: What makes a good Tactics game? Also, Jagged Alliance 2.  (Read 35992 times)

Zangi

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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #75 on: June 18, 2009, 03:41:55 pm »
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Anyone ever play SWAT 2?
It was ... kind of a tactical game...

I say "kind of" because it was a sucky tactical experience-
Regardless, I always wished that Swat 3 would have been a sequel to Swat 2.
I like the premise.

Anyone know of any other games that put you in control of some police/SWAT elements like that?
and/or in charge of the criminal side?

SWAT 2 did this- just poorly.

I've tried looking for alternatives to SWAT 2.  There was none.  And agreed.

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I've always wanted a good game that let me rob banks that incorporate the chance for 'things to go wrong' resulting in possible police standoffs - or to be the police on the other side.

You could try home of the underdogs.  There are 2 competing versions of it, last I checked.
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #76 on: June 18, 2009, 03:43:50 pm »
Uhh... Have you been under a rock? Hotu is dead.
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #77 on: June 18, 2009, 03:51:03 pm »
It got better...

http://www.hotud.org/
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #78 on: June 18, 2009, 03:53:23 pm »
Whoa, did it? I haven't checked since it started crumbling.
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #79 on: June 18, 2009, 04:01:46 pm »
Wow, I dident see that coming.
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #80 on: June 18, 2009, 04:02:05 pm »
Someone's probably mentioned it already, but Jagged Alliance and Jagged Alliance 2 are probably the best games in the whole tactical genre.
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #81 on: June 18, 2009, 04:11:11 pm »
Well fuck me, it's back. That would of made finding Waxworks easier.
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #82 on: June 18, 2009, 04:17:10 pm »
ah fuck. Theres now two home of the underdogs, this is going to be confusing. They could have atleast called the new one hotud2 or something.

Also it seems as though the original was being reconstructed as of march.

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Jagged Alliance and Jagged Alliance 2 are probably the best games in the whole tactical genre.
I've always wanted to play those but never got around to it...
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #83 on: June 18, 2009, 04:51:26 pm »
Quote from: cowofdoom78963 on June 18, 2009, 04:17:10 pm
ah fuck. Theres now two home of the underdogs, this is going to be confusing. They could have atleast called the new one hotud2 or something.

Also it seems as though the original was being reconstructed as of march.

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Jagged Alliance and Jagged Alliance 2 are probably the best games in the whole tactical genre.
I've always wanted to play those but never got around to it...
I will take the role of being the resident bay12 JA2 fanboi.
As such, I declare any self respecting person here to play JA2, specifically the 1.13 "mod" accessible here: http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #84 on: June 18, 2009, 05:38:17 pm »
You can get JA1, it's expansion, JA2 gold (which includes Unfinished business) and JA2: Wildfire from Good Old Games, which is available at www.gog.com

I believe JA2 gold is 10$. Direct to disk, no DRM, no muss, no fuss. It's a great site.

You can also get JA2 gold off Steam. Both work fine under XP and vista with no compatibility problems. (Well, JA1 requires Dosbox, but www.gog.com already has that included)
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #85 on: June 18, 2009, 05:54:18 pm »
Quote from: cowofdoom78963 on June 18, 2009, 04:17:10 pm
ah fuck. Theres now two home of the underdogs, this is going to be confusing. They could have atleast called the new one hotud2 or something.

Also it seems as though the original was being reconstructed as of march.

Different owners, with disagreement on direction to take hotu...  one wants to keep the original style and the other wants a 2.0 version of it...  that is the gist of it...  I think.

The original style, last I checked is more accessible with better search and layout... in my opinion.  Haven't looked at the other site since it first started in March... or whatever.
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #86 on: June 18, 2009, 05:56:30 pm »
Quote from: Zangi on June 18, 2009, 05:54:18 pm
The original style, last I checked is more accessible with better search and layout... in my opinion.  Haven't looked at the other site since it first started in March..
Yes, the original style is far superior. The new site has about 6 games that have been uploaded.
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #87 on: June 18, 2009, 06:22:39 pm »
Man, I miss the web before Web 2.0 became popular.  A lot of sites were up to, like, Web 1.9 or something and were awesome, and whenever sites get redesigned, they suck.
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #88 on: June 18, 2009, 07:49:01 pm »
New Underdogs would have been better off starting from the ground up with a new design, rather than the frankenstein page they've put together with parts of the old..at least they're trying, whereas the old site is completely dead.
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Re: What makes a good Tactics game?
« Reply #89 on: June 18, 2009, 08:26:36 pm »
Quote from: Tilla on June 18, 2009, 07:49:01 pm
New Underdogs would have been better off starting from the ground up with a new design, rather than the frankenstein page they've put together with parts of the old..at least they're trying, whereas the old site is completely dead.
Apperently not...
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