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[Crazy Cow]

After getting a Gameboy Advance emulator so I could play my favorite Pokemon games a while back, I started searching for other games for the GBA. I found the masterpieces that are Tactics Ogre: the Knight of Lodis and Final Fantasy: Tactics Advanced, as well as a sci-fi game called Rebelstar: Tactical Command, a game inspired by the X-Com series. Having beaten all three, I now hunger for more tactical RPG games. Does anyone know of any good ones that are available? I care not if they are PC games, random flash games, for the Xbox or any other platform. Keep in mind, however, that I only own a Wii and a small netbook, so any intense (processing-wise) games are out of my ability to play.

What I am looking for, gameplay-wise:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Knight of Lodis and FF Tactics Advance offer some amazing customizability in the structure of your party. Want some ranged support? Stick a bow in that soldier's hands. Want a mage? Switch his class and hand him a wand. FF Tactics took this even further, allowing any character to learn practically any move in the game. This kind of customizability makes forming my own strategies easy and is why normal RPG's tend not to appeal to me, as they lack the ability to tailor your tactics so finely.

Another thing I'm looking for is movement. Movement adds a large amount of the strategy in these games. As well as the standard attack/magic/item commands, you have a whole range of strategy open to you with movement, allowing you to try maneuvers such as cutting off and killing individual units, assassinating healers and squishy mages, and the like. Movement is a big part of tactical RPGs, and I want to see it in them.

Games I know about:

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X-Com series
Tactics Arena Online
Fire Emblem Series

Any help in finding good games would be greatly appreciated.

[Dakk]

How about the actual Final Fantasy Tactics for the PS one? Its far superior to the game boy one and the plot is actualy enjoyable.

Alternatively, vantage master could sorta help. Also, Dofus Arena, Dofus and Wakfu are like that, but Online, altough Dofus and Wakfu are both MMORPGs in which you control only one character.

[Untouchable]

I'd suggest the many games from Nippon Ichi. They developed games such as Disgaea and Soul Nomad which seem like the types that you'd like.

[Denzi]

Might want to check out Disgaea. Has a similar system to FFT's 'anyone can learn anything' system where your characters can take on pupils that can teach their master the powers from that class (not to mention you can reincarnate your character so that you have higher base stats, or change the character's class when you reincarnate (I believe you can change class atleast) assuming it's not a main character)

It also has the whole 'movement' deal covered with the whole 'throw your party members system'. You can literally make a tower of twenty of your characters and have them all throw eachother across the map to get amazing distance at the cost of not being able to attack. It's also pretty in depth with each item having it's own little (Randomly generated) world inside of it that you can conquer to make the item more powerful (and unlock souls in the item that you can then move to other items)

Believe the games are on PS2, PS3, DS, and PSP...

Edit: Friggin 'someone has posted, please review your post' x2 combo ninja D:

[Ricky]

I'm not sure if this counts, but there is a game i found in a box of Gameboy games that I thought i'd lost forever, it's called
Heroes of Might and Magic.

Here's the link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_(Game_Boy_Color)

[Untouchable]

I'm not sure if this counts, but there is a game i found in a box of Gameboy games that I thought i'd lost forever, it's called
Heroes of Might and Magic.

Here's the link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_(Game_Boy_Color)

Ah yes. Number 3 on the PC is brilliant and the 5th one is pretty good once you have the expansion packs (original release was a bit of a mess but thankfully you can buy the bundle fairly cheap)

[jnecros]

Silent Storm Series may run on a netbook


I love this game

http://www.silentstorm-online.de/main.php?lang=en

[Denzi]

In the vein of Silent storm there is always 'Jagged Alliance'. You can pick up a copy of one or two on good old games, $10 each. There are also two stand-alone expansion packs to JA2 that are $5 each (I believe Wildfire is a reworking of the original plot of JA2, while Unfinished Business is a follow up of some sort. Don't really know too much about them but they're on GOG as well)

[Crazy Cow]

The HoMM series is epic. I have played both three and five, and loved both. I actually have a physical copy of the original game and play it sometimes for fun. If there are any similar games you know of, I would love to hear of them.
Silent Storm looks a bit too much for my laptop, but thanks for the suggestion.
Disgaea looks like exactly what I'm looking for. I'll look into it and see what the PS3 game is like. Thanks a lot!

[Zangi]

Tactics Ogre: 'Let us Cling Together'

[kg333]

I'm not sure if they quite fit the bill, but the first two Fallout games were somewhat tactical.  World In Conflict is also a tactical simulator, despite being viewed as an RTS.

KG

[Flying Carcass]

Some tactical rpgs I can think of are:

Disgaea series
Final Fantasy Tactics
the tactics ogre series
Shining Force series
UFO alien invasion (a freeware game very similar to Xcom)

[Dakorma]

Jagged Alliance 2
Silent Storm 1 & 2
Hammer and Sickle
Incubation
Temple of Elemental Evil(More RPGy than Tacticaly, but has a strong tactical engine)
Combat Mission Series
Laser Squad Nemesis

Done, with the good ones I know of at least.

Also, post your laptops specs this will help us. For silent storm at least I highly doubt you've got less than a 600 mhz processor in that thing. And I know even an On board Intel GFX card can run it.

[Taricus]

JA2 with 1.13, damned better then vanilla.

[IronyOwl]

As mentioned, the original FFT is awesome and Nippon Ichi is a treasure trove of tactical RPGs and variants.

The Warlords series, Age of Wonders games, and Lords of Magic are vaguely similar to HoMM in that they're TBS games with overland/combat modes, light city management, and the concept of heroes leading minions. Interestingly, all allow your goons to level up in some capacity, but don't have upgraded forms like HoMM.

Spoiler: Lords of Magic (click to show/hide)

Lords of Magic is pretty ancient, and it kind of shows. It's fairly interesting for having eight different elementally/conceptually-aligned factions, and your Lord is a slightly more powerful hero. You lose if he dies, unless you save a friendly lord's great temple when they're still weak, in which case you take over their faction and gain their Lord as your heir. Artifacts function pretty similarly to HoMM. Your city consists of a main city, where you can trade resources and assign followers, and a thieves, warriors, and mages guild very close but separate from it, from where you recruit appropriate heroes and troops (ranged units and scouts at a thieves guild, for instance).

Battles are realtime. Unfortunately, hit reactions tend to make ranged troops, or at least good ranged troops, fairly overpowered, except that they'll continue firing when a small hill in front of them is blocking their LoS. Kind of neat to see the little javelins disintegrating on it, at least.

Also, I like the unit sound sets. They're quite well done.

Warlords and AoW are pretty well known, and I'm suddenly too lazy to go into detail on them.