Civ3....no Starcraft...ummm...Empire earth...!!!!!!!!

[The Templar]

Originally posted by Fried-Psitalon
MoO2 (I can't go back to MoO 1 after MoO 2, too clunky.)

Blasphemy! Upgrade MoO1's graphics and you still have the perfect TBS-in-space game. Gimmie sliders anyday!

Best Strategy Games of all time? The holy trinity:
MoO1
Civ3 (replacing Civ2)
X-Com 1

Honorable mention:
Space Empires 3
MoO2
SMAC/SMAC-X

All-time letdowns: great ideas/poor execution
SE4
CTP2

Still to be decided:
GalCiv
MoO3 (fading fast in my opinion- but lets see the patch before uninstalling)

[Sava]

This is kind of a biased poll considering the nature of this site . If you're going to lump Civ in with Starcraft (despite their being in two different categories TBS and RTS), I'm afraid I'm going to have to vote for Starcraft. Playing multiplayer on Battle.net was infinitely superior to anything the Civ games could have ever hoped to acheive. IMO, if Civ 3 didn't suck so bad, I might have voted for the Civ series. Civ2:ToT is king of TBS.

Honorable mentions: The next best TBS game ever has to be "Military Madness" aka "Nectaris". First appearing on the Turbo-Grafx 16, Nectaris has the most advanced strategy engine. Instead of just moving units on to tiles, this game has taken into account so many other factors, it's sick (in a good way).

Civ 3 has been out for a while, and in addition to the many patches and even an add-on (PTW), the game is still buggy. I'm not surprised at the results. This is in fact a Civ-fan-boy site.

[dworkin]

I still like SMAC best. Civ 3 might be a contender if they had wonder movies. SMAC is the only game where I don't cancel the wonder movies.

[Phatphal]

you have masters of magic ..... i love that game !!! can i get it off you ??

[Enriquillo]

What sort of infidels consider real time click skill tests to be strategy? Ban them!

*prepares to get banned*

I vote Rise of Rome the best RTS as well as best strategy

Civ2 as the best TBS

PS: just because a game is slower and has a larger techtree, doesn't mean it's more strategic.
Strategy becomes infinitely more challenging when it's in realtime.
Even chess is better with a clock

[Sava]

Strategy becomes infinitely more challenging when it's in realtime.
Even chess is better with a clock

Yup... a lot of RTS bashers are usually people that suck at them

[Reinhard-Baer]

It's CivII
The hundreds of scens are giving this game the edge it needs to be listed before CivIII. The scens are great and you can replay any area of history (industrial, medieval,...)
But HoI follows shortly. A really great game you need to give it a try
And sometime I even play MoM.

[Spec]

:Hmmm: How come nobody voted for Empire Earth?! I was really wondering between that and Starcraft.....probably that people just dont know about that awsome game. Pitty.


Spec.

[Sava]

Empire Earth is not as good as Starcraft... not by far. It's good, but not great.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Sava
Empire Earth is not as good as Starcraft... not by far. It's good, but not great.

I know, all Empire earth needs is more difference between races....which would make the battles even more complicated than they are now....but I could live with that!


Spec.

[Sava]

Empire Earth would be great if the scale of the maps was larger, and units had realistic ranges and such. You can be almost invincible if you can organize a large effective force of every type of unit and keep them together. Empire Earth is more of a clicker's game, IMO... although I'm not one of those... "blah blah RTS is all about clicking fast."

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Enriquillo
Even chess is better with a clock

Agree...

...when you play with a clock, the other player, plays his/her turn faster, so you sooner gets done with that boring game

[Fosse]

X-Com: UFO Defense. Best game of its time... if I could get it to run on my machine, I'd be playing it now.

[Sava]

I never played X-COM... I heard it was quite awesome.

[Fried-Psitalon]

Yeah, my Win-XP machine eats all three X-Coms when I try to run them, and Interceptor was just too buggy anyhow.

Anyone know of a way to get these to run at a reasonable speed on XP machines? I'd *LOVE* to play these again.