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Simmura McCrea

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Looking for an RPG strategy game
« on: October 22, 2010, 04:36:06 pm »

As the title says, I'm looking for a turn based RPG strategy game, but on PC. I've had a look at that Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes game on Steam and I might give it a go, depending on what people thought of it, but I was wondering if there was anything else?
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Re: Looking for an RPG strategy game
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2010, 04:38:39 pm »

You may give Battle for Wesnoth a go.
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Re: Looking for an RPG strategy game
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2010, 04:41:14 pm »

Uh, Joint Task Force, Tom Clancy's End War, Mount & Blade, or god forbid, CnC 4?

Don't know, minds loopy today.
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Re: Looking for an RPG strategy game
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2010, 04:41:56 pm »

He said Turn-Based Phantom, so Mount & Blade is out.
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Re: Looking for an RPG strategy game
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2010, 04:43:03 pm »

Uh, Joint Task Force, Tom Clancy's End War, Mount & Blade, or god forbid, CnC 4?

Don't know, minds loopy today.
AFAIK, those are all Real-Time. I meant something like FF: Tactics.
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Re: Looking for an RPG strategy game
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2010, 04:43:20 pm »

As are End War and C&C 4 as far as I know.

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Re: Looking for an RPG strategy game
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2010, 04:46:58 pm »

Does it have to be modern? HoM&M 3 is good, you can get it on GOG for just 10$.
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Re: Looking for an RPG strategy game
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2010, 04:47:24 pm »

Aw carp.

SWAT 3?
I don't know much, oh right, Fallout 1 and 2 maybe?
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Re: Looking for an RPG strategy game
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2010, 04:52:42 pm »

Um, there's quite a number of the things, but pretty much all of 'em have kinda' flown under the radar. It also depends on how far back you want to go, and whether you'd consider emulation as a route. Anyway, I'm throwing names at you, not links. Little bit of googlefu will uncover everything I've mentioned, though. Translations can generally be found via romhacking.net, except battle moon wars. Quick google'll find it for yeh.

Anyway, I can throw Farland Symphony at you. Relatively recently translated (this year) SRPG. Decent, from what I played of it, but I didn't really get very far into it.

There's a Warsong (Aka Langrisser) PC port somewhere or another, might want to check that. The langrisser stuff in general is pretty solid, but most of it's console.

If you're willing to nab up a PC-98 emulator, there's the Farland Story series. They're not terribly impressive gameplay-wise (imo, of course), but it's decent enough and there's at least 6 games in series. They're kinda' in the same style as Shining Force, iirc. Been a while since I played any of 'em, though, so I may be misremembering.

Might want to check out Fallout Tactics, which I think's been discussed somewhere else on this forum.

Also Spellcross, which is freaking ace. No idea how to find it outside of abandonware circles, though, and probably going to have to run it through DosBox if you do find it. Still, highly recommended.

Battle Moon Wars. Another recently-ish translated. Multicross doujin-type thing in the vein of Super Robot Wars. Fairly solid if you can stand that type of game.

There's a lot more. Too lazy to spend the couple of hours it'd take to hunt most of 'em down, right now. Maybe more later if other folks don't list out all of 'em first :P Go check out gamefaqs and sort by strategy or RPG, check translation and freeware/indie sites, etc, as well. You do have to dig a titch, but it's pretty easy to basically throw a rock at the internet and hit some form of SRPG.
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Re: Looking for an RPG strategy game
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2010, 04:54:04 pm »

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Re: Looking for an RPG strategy game
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2010, 04:56:16 pm »

Or fantasy generals, which is older and a lot easier on the computer's hardware. Still awesome. Sword of Aragon from the same semi-general time frame (SoA's older still.) is also incredibly awesome, though more strategy than RPG. And viciously difficult.
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Re: Looking for an RPG strategy game
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2010, 05:05:54 pm »

Wesnoth and Fantasy Wars look good, actually. Might have a looksee.
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« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2010, 05:09:23 pm »

Um there is an RTS Rpg clash game, Dragonforge I think its called...
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Re: Looking for an RPG strategy game
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2010, 05:10:05 pm »

NO ONE HAS SAID IT YET!?! X-COM, X-COM, and X-COM! -One of the best games ever!
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Re: Looking for an RPG strategy game
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2010, 05:11:18 pm »

NO ONE HAS SAID IT YET!?! X-COM, X-COM, and X-COM! -One of the best games ever!
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