Rock Paper Shotgun Top 50 Strategy Games

[Warduke]

Congrats Illwinter! #14

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/11/18/the-50-best-strategy-games-on-pc/38/

[DasaKamov]

İlk olarak CHOO CHOO tarafından gönderildi:

RPS considered Endless Legend their GOTY, so no.

Endless Legend is a great game, and everyone has their own opinion, etc. etc. ;)

But yes, congratulations are in order for Illwinter!

[Warduke]

İlk olarak meglobob1 tarafından gönderildi:

Its not a bad list but I have played most of the 1-13 they put ahead of Dom 4 and in my personal opinion Dom 4 is better then them all and CONSIDERABLY better then quite a few of them.

Anyway, personally, Dominions will always be my No.1 fav strategy game of all time by a wide margin.

My top 10

1. Dominions 3
2. Dominions 4
.....

I'm curious why you consider Dom 3 better than 4? I hadn't played 3 but I may have to now :)

[Twogun]

for my money dom4 is the better game by quite a bit. dom3 was awesome, but had some scaling issues particularly with magic research in my opionion. national flavor was largely dilluted becuase everyone was b lining for the same spells in every game.

admittedly there is some of that still in dom4, but i don't think it's as big of an issue.

i'll be interested in warduke's reason for liking dom3 more. probably stuff my old brain has long forgotten...

[Mormacil]

My guess he prefers the balance to swing to SuperCombatents over battlefield wide spells.

[meglobob1]

İlk olarak Warduke tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak meglobob1 tarafından gönderildi:

Its not a bad list but I have played most of the 1-13 they put ahead of Dom 4 and in my personal opinion Dom 4 is better then them all and CONSIDERABLY better then quite a few of them.

Anyway, personally, Dominions will always be my No.1 fav strategy game of all time by a wide margin.

My top 10

1. Dominions 3
2. Dominions 4
.....

I'm curious why you consider Dom 3 better than 4? I hadn't played 3 but I may have to now :)

Well its too late now to be honest, because you can't really play Dom3 MP anymore.

Endgame in Dom 3 MP, in my personal opinion, was better then the endgame in Dom 4.

You had alot more gems in Dom3, like 10+ times as much. So it was fairly common to have 2-4 players with half a dozen+ Tartarians wondering around, perhaps a Seraph or two, Arcane Nexus up and muliple wishes being cast turn after turn. It was truely epic, end of the world feel.

Dom 4 endgame on the other hand, is who has the biggest, best magically buffed armies and uses them best wins. So in my opinion alot less epic.

Alot of players disagree with me and I guess thats why it went the way it has development wise.

Less magic orientated and more army / troop orientated.

[Twogun]

well, i think that's fair. i never really made it to endgame in dom3, and don't much in dom4, so i defer.

[Maerlande]

İlk olarak meglobob1 tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Warduke tarafından gönderildi:

I'm curious why you consider Dom 3 better than 4? I hadn't played 3 but I may have to now :)

Well its too late now to be honest, because you can't really play Dom3 MP anymore.

Endgame in Dom 3 MP, in my personal opinion, was better then the endgame in Dom 4.

You had alot more gems in Dom3, like 10+ times as much. So it was fairly common to have 2-4 players with half a dozen+ Tartarians wondering around, perhaps a Seraph or two, Arcane Nexus up and muliple wishes being cast turn after turn. It was truely epic, end of the world feel.

Dom 4 endgame on the other hand, is who has the biggest, best magically buffed armies and uses them best wins. So in my opinion alot less epic.

Alot of players disagree with me and I guess thats why it went the way it has development wise.

Less magic orientated and more army / troop orientated.

I think that's a very good summation of the biggest differences. My taste leads towards Dominions 4 due to the similarity of end game for all nations and the rush to the same uber strategies in Dom 3 without mods. However, the weakening of supercombatants did lead to a very different game.

[Twogun]

hello maerland!

[berandro]

Glad to see Solium Infernum on that list as well, and I did miss Master of Orion and Chaos Overlords, two big favorites of mine. :)

[Warduke]

Yes I was happy to see Solium Infernum as well. Whatever happened to Cryptic Comet? Last I had heard Vic Davis had decided he was going to work on board games but the site and his blog haven't been updated in quite awhile. For any of you not familiar with Cryptic Comet you should check out Armageddon Empires as well, very cool turn-based strategy game.

[Major.Pain]

I thought it was a good list until i realised there was no Master of Magic, Total Annihilation or Warhammer Dark Omen. Shamefull.

[The Insane Dump]

İlk olarak Major.Pain tarafından gönderildi:

I thought it was a good list until i realised there was no Master of Magic, Total Annihilation or Warhammer Dark Omen. Shamefull.

Well in the descriptions of some of the sequels/remakes it does point to the original games and how mainly the newer games outshine the older ones. Supreme Commander + Forged Alliance is definitely an improvement over Total Annihilation + Core Contingency as one example.

[Major.Pain]

İlk olarak The Horrifically Insane Dump tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Major.Pain tarafından gönderildi:

I thought it was a good list until i realised there was no Master of Magic, Total Annihilation or Warhammer Dark Omen. Shamefull.

Well in the descriptions of some of the sequels/remakes it does point to the original games and how mainly the newer games outshine the older ones. Supreme Commander + Forged Alliance is definitely an improvement over Total Annihilation + Core Contingency as one example.

True>
SCFA with FAF is best RTS still imho.

But not puttin in MoM can't forgive that its heresy especially considering he has other old games in the list, it should be right up there with Alpha Centuri and UFO Enemy Unknown.
Can only assume he started on the Xmas Sherry a little early that day :)

[Fulgent]

İlk olarak Major.Pain tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak The Horrifically Insane Dump tarafından gönderildi:

Well in the descriptions of some of the sequels/remakes it does point to the original games and how mainly the newer games outshine the older ones. Supreme Commander + Forged Alliance is definitely an improvement over Total Annihilation + Core Contingency as one example.

True>
SCFA with FAF is best RTS still imho.

But not puttin in MoM can't forgive that its heresy especially considering he has other old games in the list, it should be right up there with Alpha Centuri and UFO Enemy Unknown.
Can only assume he started on the Xmas Sherry a little early that day :)

Or maybe we can actually assume people have different opinions to you. -.-

[Dr. G]

İlk olarak CHOO CHOO tarafından gönderildi:

RPS considered Endless Legend their GOTY, so no.

What's wrong with Endless Legend? Sure, it's no Dom, but it isn't trying to be. Endless Legend is an excellent example of what a Civ-type game can be: where all four X's of the eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate set are equally fun, engaging, and challenging. Also, it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ a ton of support since launch.