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Into the Unkown Once More (A survey of some tactical computer games)
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I was playing the recent Wildermyth, and wanting to write something up about it, when I realized that I would need to refer to other games to really discuss it, so I figured I’d do a little survey of turn based tactical games computer games that have caught my affection over the last ten years. Unless otherwise stated, assume that all of these games involve grids and a typical “move and attack with your guys, then the enemy goes,” kind of structure.
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I was playing Shining Force, Ogre Battle and other pure JRPGs back in the XCOM original days.
Front Mission III and Final Fantasy Tactics were big for me too. Kinda took a Halo and WoW break in between that and board games.
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I've tried to play it ironman, but at some point about a third of the way in I usually get wrecked, and can't recover with newbies. Maybe I'll break it out again sometime soon.
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The psionic troopers in XCOM 2 are nuts, and you can potentially get them sooner.
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Ah, they're they are. The other Front Mission 3 fan lolJexik wrote: There's a similar arc in the new XCOM's.
I was playing Shining Force, Ogre Battle and other pure JRPGs back in the XCOM original days.
Front Mission III and Final Fantasy Tactics were big for me too. Kinda took a Halo and WoW break in between that and board games.
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There's an indie remake called Xenonauts which I'm very fond of. It does away with some of the repetition and it's a nicer, more well-balanced game. Only thing I do not like about it is the unfairness of the endgame bosses, which can take control of your units, forcing you to cheese and the need to grind easy missions to get spacecraft materials. Otherwise, I recommend it.
Also, while the newer Fire Emblems have gone deep into waifu territory, the older games are very good and worth checking out. Beating Genealogy of the Holy War was a fantastic experience and I still need to try Thracia 776 again because I got swept when I played it.
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