Topic: Name some good stratergy games - page 5. (Read 5446 times)

Holy crap... I looked through the features. There's a LOT of themm. I might actually go back to Civ for a bit.

+1 on CK2, and add Victoria 2 (Vic2 has the typical spammy popup problem with Paradox, and has a tendency toward realism in hegemony, which makes it difficult to do anything unless you're the UK, or able to defeat the UK. CK2 is fairly good about keeping the spam down.).

Civ5's latest Brave New World expansion makes it much more playable (diplomacy AI appears better, but it's still pretty random-seeming), but it's still full of snore-inducing micromanagement, and now there're more pointless popups like "Hey, I heard you like Germany. I like Germany, too." or "Hey, I heard you didn't want to ban clams. I am scripted to also currently dislike having clams banned. I don't like citrus, though. Fuck citrus."

Rome:Total War 2 is coming out this year, but I always get excited, then disappointed by CA. They still haven't figured out combat AI, especially in fort battles (it's better in STW2 than previous attempts, though, so maybe on the right track). If you do a Total War, the farther back they go, the better the mods tend to be at correcting problems in vanilla. SC2, SC, and WC3 all still hold up very well, and C&C & AoE II. If you're into WC3, the DotA map ended up being its own standalone game, and I think there's even a DotA 2, now.

Oh -- you might want to try Sins of a Solar Empire if you haven't. Quirky Stardock product... Strategy's a broad category, though... covers tons of genres, given most games are multi-genre. If you're into a more casual sim kind of strategy, you have Tropico 4 (don't recall if it has MP support, though). There's the new XCOM. You might want to try something like Capitalism II (there's a new Capitalism Labs, which is basically an updated Capitalism II with more features and bugs). There's Wall Street Raider (mostly non-graphical corporation sim with an unreasonable level of depth and complexity on the scale of Dwarf Fortress).

Civ 4 is awesome. I was so disappointed from Civ 5.

If you want to bring Civ 4 to the top I recommend the Rise of Mankind Mod http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=269

but beware it makes it so complex that one game can take weeks. But this mod makes it certainly the best strategy game ever!

Sounds weird. I have Civ 4  and the AI is great (even the critics agree on this one) while my friend recently bought the 5th during the Steam Summer sale. I think there is a 75% off discount now on Steam. Since he bought it recently, he doesn't have any complaints about the AI yet.

Civ 5 AI is crazy.... had a game where people were my allies for a long time, then just randomly decided to attack me.  Wouldn't really recommend Civ 5 unless you can get it on sale.

Civ series are pretty good. Civ 4 is pretty new and has better AI than the latest (at least that's what the critics say since I haven't tried out the latest one). Tropico 4 is also good; it's really enjoyable to run a little totalitarist country in the Caribbean or, if you want, actually bother with democracy. 

You know something, I wish someone would make more turn based/RTS games that weren't just based off bloody history or just terrible parodies of it, where did all the imagination in the games industry go? I'm also getting sick of being constantly reminded about World War 2 every fucking year, get over it already people!

Try Europa Universalis 3 or Hearts of Iron 3 if you want real strategy.

The problem with LoL is it's basically a multiplayer only game and there are a serious number of control freak douchebags on that game that I encountered lol.

I'd suggest DOTA 2 over LOL, better meta-game strategy in my opinion.

Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 (expansion not really required, the base game still awesome and I believe its free)
     ""              ""     3: Tiberium Wars (And Kane's Wrath expansion)
Starcraft 2
Warcraft 3
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War I and II

Took me a while but I finally beat Civilization III Conquest on difficulty level "Sid". Give that a try, it will keep you busy for a few days!

Haha when I saw the thread title I wondered if LOL would be brought up - first post I am impressed!

One of my housemates plays LOL nonstop and loves it. I'm more of a Final Fantasy guy myself, but I suppose that's more RPG.

All Total War games are good

Heroes of might and magic 3 playing it right now

New King's bounty is a great remake made recently.

+1

Total Annihilation
Supreme Commander
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Planetary Annihilation (currently in alpha/beta, but looks like it will be good)

(I like chris taylor/gas powered games, and the development team)

And of course: Chess.

My all time favourite is starcraft 2. The only game I still play.

Chess


Best strategy game ever.


ya.ya.yo!

I just bought Crusader Kings 2 the other day. I believe the genre this game belongs to is called "grand strategy." Most complex strategy game I've ever played. Crusader Kings 2 itself is kind of like a mix between strategy and RPG, where you have to shape your dynasty. There's also a Game of Thrones mod for it set in Westeros that looks pretty good, but I haven't played it yet.