Best Strategy game?

cherryghost

Just wondering what everyones opinion on their favourite strategy game? please dont post a strategy game thats on a console, everyone knows that 98% of them suck(the other 2% goes to advance wars :P)

Auvers

In no particular order

X-COM Enemy Unknown

Civ 1-2-3

Medieval Total War (the first one)

Maximilian

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055251883

Lafortezza

Civ 4: BTS

Malice

How come the thread title says "Best Strategy Game" but your post says "Favourite Strategy Game"? They're not necessarily the same thing. My favourite strategy game is probably Warcraft III since it's one of the few games in that genre I play on a regular basis. I also have a soft spot for Battle for Wesnoth.

As for best strategy game, that's probably one of the Total War games. I could never get into them though so they are far from my favourites .

silvine

Command and Conquer, Warcraft III and Dune 2.

mcgovern

cherryghost wrote: »

Just wondering what everyones opinion on their favourite strategy game? please dont post a strategy game thats on a console, everyone knows that 98% of them suck(the other 2% goes to advance wars :P)

I guess thats hlaf of the recent RTSs out, since they've had console releases. :rolleyes:

Auvers

mcgovern wrote: »

I guess thats hlaf of the recent RTSs out, since they've had console releases. :rolleyes:

I dunno playing an RTS with a control pad is just not right

Maximilian

malice_ wrote: »

How come the thread title says "Best Strategy Game" but your post says "Favourite Strategy Game"? They're not necessarily the same thing. My favourite strategy game is probably Warcraft III since it's one of the few games in that genre I play on a regular basis. I also have a soft spot for Battle for Wesnoth.

As for best strategy game, that's probably one of the Total War games. I could never get into them though so they are far from my favourites .

Seems an odd way to put it. For me, the best is my favorite, not everybody else's.

The new Total War game due out at the end of the year could well be both favorite and best though, from the looks of things

Malice

Maximilian wrote: »

Seems an odd way to put it. For me, the best is my favorite, not everybody else's.

The new Total War game due out at the end of the year could well be both favorite and best though, from the looks of things

Well, I don't think it's odd at all but I'm not going to argue over semantics . I doubt my seriously under-powered PC will be capable of running the new Total War game but I can look at the pretty screenshots or something.

Kiith

How come no one ever wants to argue over semantics? I want to argue over semantics god damn it!!

4Xcut

An argument in favour of the semantics of the op's post and title::D

Best being the superlative of good must in this case be taken as a subjective property. If it had been a statement about best preformence, compatibality regards, older hardware, or some other measureabble quality it could be objective.

Seeing as it is a subjective look at the "goodness" of the game it is likely that soneone would like the game they thought to be the most good more than any other game, thus it would be their favourite. In this case because of the vaguesness of the original statement, this caused a subjective question, and because of this "best" and "favourite" can be effectively synonomus.

there ya go kiith

Smegball

I've never really played many strategy games but did really enjoy Rome Total War

Sephiroth_dude

company of mother ****ing heros :cool:

whiskeyman

Only really played two - the original Sim City and Railroad Tycoon 1.
Spent hours and hours on both... and just never liked the sequels!

The Queen

C&C Red Alert 95, Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, and Civilization II.

BlitzKrieg

Kiith wrote: »

How come no one ever wants to argue over semantics? I want to argue over semantics god damn it!!

ok I will.

One could debate that as a genre strategy does not exist as it it can be found in far too numerous other genres (from football manager to tactical first person shooters)

But if you were to select the genres where strategy was the primacy of the game's appeal you would find it would still require a further subdivide

as there are

Real Time Strategy (Dune 2)

Turn Based Strategy (Civilization)

Hybrid real time/turn based stategy (Total War)

Competitive Real Time Strategy (Starcraft, Command & Conquer 3)

Real Time Tactical (Company of heroes, World in Conflict)

Role playing strategy game (Warcraft 3, Kingdom under Fire)


One could also debate due to how more so then any other genre setting has a far greater effect on how a strategy game plays you might need to further subdivide down by setting

fantasy (warcraft)

science fiction (Command & Conquer)

reality (Act of War)

progressive (ala Civilization)



To decide the best you would probably have to decide which one has the best interface model,

worker unit vs construction yard

era's vs tech buildings

so on and so on.


Is that enough for you

btw: http://www.gamereplays.org/portals.php?show=page&name=the_history_of_real_time_strategy_pt1

Keith C

carrier command (atari ST)

Ross_Mahon

Red Alert 2 :cool:

Maximilian

Keith C wrote: »

carrier command (atari ST)

fond memories...

thelordofcheese

Starcraft.

That is the *only* answer.

mayordenis

warcraft III - or Command and Conquer: Generals - both exceptional especially on LAN.

cherryghost

i may have been quick to judge the consoles, civilization revolutions is a job well done

eggplantman

age of empires2 and empire earth

Sephiroth_dude

supreme commander deserves a mention too.