How many people do you know IRL, who likes TBS games?

[Cruddy]

Truth is, I know a couple of hard core TBS folks, and maybe 3 or 4 who stick their toe in the water sometimes.

[Inverse Icarus]

i know 27. i have civlans with 6 people here @ home, and every wednesday is civday @ uni.

i r lusah!

[Victor Galis]

I go to a tech school where there's 3 guys for every girl. I think I can safely claim to know many people who play TBS games.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Victor Galis
I go to a tech school where there's 3 guys for every girl. I think I can safely claim to know many people who play TBS games.

same here. in my class it's 3:1, in the junior class is 5:1!

[Dis]

I had a chief in the navy who liked Civ2 alot.

Also my brother likes them as well- just not as much as rpg's.

[Sikander]

I know about 20 people who like them. I bet some of my gaming friends who I've lost track of over the years like them too, but I haven't seem some of those people since wargaming became viable on the personal computer.

[aneeshm]

None . Most of my friends cannot play ANY game , even something like those pathetic action thingies , without cheats . RTS and TBS goes waaaaaaaaaaay above their heads . The format of their typical AOE 2 game is this .


Hey, look at the little people . I'll (do something totally irrelevant , or futile , or simply stupid ) with them .

(AI sends its first rush)

What ? Who's killing my nive little village ?

(Cheats)

Take that , and that .

(Jumping up in jubiliation over victory )

Yeah , I won , I won !

It's thse same people who are extremely frustrated that there is no cheat mode in Civ3 .
(Them: Can't you stop that enemy from crushing me , somehow ?
Me: What difficulty are you palying on ?
Them: Chief something , you know . . . .
Me: (Launch into overview of the basics of the game)
Them: That's all fine , but how can I stop them taking my villages ?
All this , after an extensive overview of defensive strategy . I tell them so .
Them: Aw, this game sucks . I'll go play xyz .

Thank god I've trained my younger brother tho be a real player of AOE 2 . All his friends don't even know the names of the buildings .

I , and my friends , are approx 15 yrs of age . That says a LOT about the way people percieve games here in India .

There are a few notable exceptions , though .

[Al B. Sure!]

my sister showed an interest in the original Age of Empires (she was 12 at the time) and tried her hand one time playing a random map. she built a few clubmen and sent them exploring but was attacked by an army of chariots and cavalry and then never played a strategy game again.

[mrmitchell]

It helps weed out the "OMGWTF OMG TIS DUD ATAKED ME I HAD 3 WARRORS BT HE HAD LIK 600BILLION IMMORTAL" people.

[Jon Miller]

3 of my siblings play strategy games and rpgs to varying degrees

actually, my younger brother no longer plays, but that is just because he is too into doing outdoors stuff and finds that playing lufia or civ2 is not as good a use of his time

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

I admit, my older brother and younger sister just like killing games (they usually play on cheiftan)

my older brother can beat games at tougher difficulties (of the two of us, he beat the original civ on emperor first), but enjoys playing on the lower levels

Jon Miller

[Eli]

1.

[Al B. Sure!]

my problem with Civ 2 and CtP 2 is that you can never seem to have peace. i guess the designers wanted to make it more fun or something by having there be a lot of wars and having the AI never want to have peace with you but frankly, wars in those games are annoying as ****. battles are very abstract and are a hassle... nothing fun about them... i would have much more fun colonizing the world and researching all the technologies but i can never seem to get past 1000 AD before getting frustrated with the constant wars

another thing is that those games operate on the opposite of what history shows us advances civilization. playing on the world map, european and middle eastern civs never advance because they have so much contact with other groups and end up devoting all their resources to building armies and are further harmed by having half their cities razed. the Zulu on the other hand, got all of Africa to theyselves and never have to compete for resources on an entire continent.


thanks

[geeslaka]

I thnk the Freeciv people are in the process of implementing tech leakage, which means that if neighboring civ has a tech it requires less research for you to get it. I'm not sure though. Even without tech leakage Freeciv is better than civ2, partly because of the pathfinding algorithm.

[Sir Og]

Over 15 people, including my brother. I know a lot of people who play games but most of them play the popular FPS and RTS games.