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Best pc Strategy Games of all times:

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pebble444
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Italy2497 Posts
January 07 2016 04:58 GMT
#1
Best pc Strategy Games of all times:


Number 4:

The copper or “wood” medal goes to the sierra entertainment game of Pharaoh. This city management game, based on the previous experiences of the Ceaser series, has the least amount of bugs I ever encounted in a game. This can be considered the fifth game of its kind, from the same publishers, and eliminates all of the problems of the previous ones. Ambientated in Ancient Egypt, You start with a ripe land and build up your city from scratch, starting from roads leading to late game high commerce, food management, and massive monument buildings. Options for war are limited. The focus is heavily on Urban planning and micro management; Employment, anything from extracting, producing or importing raw materials and re-exporting over 20 varieties of finished goods to other cities, or giving access of them recources to citizens that can grow from tents to grand manors. Watch as your province transforms into the most powerful city of ancient Egypt. Don' t watch for too long, however, or you will face serious problems that will undermine the stability and lead you to ruin. For those who prefer, build great pyramids and gateways to the after-life.
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Very difficult to get board, easy enough to understand and variance in every game thanks to the event manager. A fairly good editor, and epic sounding campaigns to learn the game, learn your history of how the Egyptians lived, and become Pharaoh of Egypt.

Number 3:

The Bronze metal goes to Age of Empires II. This game has the most accurate history re-enactment I have ever seen. The cyclopedia can integrate your learning of history books university level. You start with a town center and a bunch of villagers, to progress to fully medieval towns and grand massive armies, land or sea your choice. The campaign embarks you on historical journeys of the medieval past, Ghengis Khan, Saladin, Barbarossa and the Holy Roman Empire to name a few. You will be sad once you hit the last level and finish the tale of your choosen Leader. This game is based on war.
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Battle is on the center of the stage, and economy is solely based on making your population grow and funding research for the war machine. Truly yours, every civilization has unique native speaking people, little tunes that carry you into the loading screen, and some of the most carrying in game music, making you use the in game music at least 10 times before deciding you have had enough (for now anyway). Online multiplayer too.

Number 2:
The Silver medal goes to Civilization II. In Omnia Paratis. This means, ready for anything. Don' t be fooled by its common place appearance. The most complete and covering all ages of recent humanity, Since the times our ancesters made farming a stable enterprise. You start in the Bronze age, 4000 BC, and lead your civilization into modern problems such as global warming (or not a modern problem you decide) and sending a spaceship to colonize other solar systems, possibly faster than other civs. The most all round comprehensive planned game. From online interest and support by fellow “civ fanatics” , to economy planning, war, research, diplomacy, you name it.
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The balance of your success is on the tip of a spear, and you may be profiting from an unseen choice or hitting disaster from a badly planned action of a few turns ago. Everything is accounted for. This game lets you find out what kind of a commander you want to be. Be conservative, or risk-taking, and dominate in the way you choose to dominate. The cyclopedia is a preconcept of wikipedia, and lets you find out more about wonders, units, and in game concepts. The scenario builder is high tech and relies on actual coding.

Numer 1:
The Golden medal goes to Starcraft Broodwar. Just so we are clear, I am not giving Starcraft number 1 because I am a Broodwar Elitist or I' m afraid the Spanish Inquisition might question my soundness of mind. Its because I actually consider it to be the best strategy game ever released up to date. The balance, or triangular perfection, is a concept not lightly made into something tangible. With high hopes for the year 2018, when it will become public domain, and this should affect other game making, as the code will be released, and the professional scene.
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But what is all the fuss about if you don' t know the game? You start with a command center and a bunch of workers. And watch as your race turns into mining precious minerals and gas to become a future colony of the Galaxy. A fast pace game. Ambientated in deep space, far from Earth, where 3 different unique races with unique everything, including alien language, you fight to maintain control over the planets or space station of choice. Micro and Macro management are required alike. Be your master of your destiny, and overpower your opponent, with war. But what kind of war? frontal assaults, economy bombing, side attacks and double sided attacks to name a few. Establish your position and lure you opponent into a deadly trap. Online multiplayer strategies have developed beyond the original game, more than any game I have ever played. Theorycraft at its best. And yet gut instinct, personality and emotion control have determined many games I have played or many games I have seen played by pros and semi pros alike. It has a great playability wheter you are a newbee, or an all time specialist. Just face an opponent that is in your same category of skill, and see how emotional, in either way, this game will leave you once you are done playing.

Other Notable games:

Worms classic
Warzone Tower defence
Rise of Nations
Chess (Board game)
Poker (Card game)
Go (Board game)
Avernum Classic Series (RPG)
Warcraft III

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FFGenerations
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
7088 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-07 08:00:09
January 07 2016 07:52 GMT
#2
you're missing dota, try it. nothing quite like the realtime positional awareness and soundness of mind needed to play a blink lina or puck or rubick. the strategy is in being able to predict your opponents' (and teammates') decision-making and toolset on a second-to-second basis and counter with your own. and that's just the "micro" aspect of dota; you also need to figure out how to "win the game"
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Mistakes
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1102 Posts
January 07 2016 07:59 GMT
#3
On January 07 2016 16:52 FFGenerations wrote:
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you're missing dota, try it. nothing quite like the realtime positional awareness and soundness of mind needed to play a blink lina or puck or rubick. the strategy is in being able to predict your opponents' (and teammates') decision-making and toolset on a second-to-second basis and counter with your own.

I think the OPs post is good how it is.
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LemOn
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United Kingdom8629 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-07 11:59:58
January 07 2016 11:59 GMT
#4
Where's Dota? Dota with it's branched out competitors/copycats is the most successful pro-gaming games of all time, arguably next to CS. So how can it miss from strategy games
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Alur
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Denmark3900 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-07 13:05:04
January 07 2016 12:40 GMT
#5
On January 07 2016 13:58 pebble444 wrote:
With high hopes for the year 2018, when it will become public domain, and this should affect other game making, as the code will be released, and the professional scene.


That is only the case for any patents that Blizzard might have filed along with the release of SC1 (patents last 20 years), and I don't actually know that they have any. The source code, and any art assets, story, etc. will most likely still be protected by copyright by the time we're dead (for pretty much all countries in the world the protection is atleast 50 years after the (last surviving) authors death).

Obviously Blizzard could decide to open source some of their older games, which they very well might do if the games no longer sell. But if they don't SC1 isn't gonna be public domain for a long, long time.
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FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
January 07 2016 12:55 GMT
#6
Civilation is not real time. It's turn base no ?
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Big J
Profile Joined March 2011
Austria16289 Posts
January 07 2016 13:24 GMT
#7
i would like to see a bit of a philosphical explanation behind how you rank. You seem to give an edge to classic games.
FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10213 Posts
January 07 2016 15:30 GMT
#8
On January 07 2016 21:55 FFW_Rude wrote:
Civilation is not real time. It's turn base no ?

just strategy games, not real time. so they could be real time or turn based. notice chess and go as notable mentions which are both turn based.
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FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
January 07 2016 15:54 GMT
#9
On January 08 2016 00:30 FlaShFTW wrote:
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On January 07 2016 21:55 FFW_Rude wrote:
Civilation is not real time. It's turn base no ?

just strategy games, not real time. so they could be real time or turn based. notice chess and go as notable mentions which are both turn based.


I'm a dumbass. I read "RTS" and not Strategy games.
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blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
January 07 2016 18:51 GMT
#10
I would put age of empires as #1 personally .
When I think of something else, something will go here
Skynx
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
Turkey7150 Posts
January 07 2016 19:11 GMT
#11
Man threads like these remind me of how op some stuff were, like Spain in age2 or Blademaster in wc3...
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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada16859 Posts
January 07 2016 20:17 GMT
#12
M.U.L.E. is a great PC strategy game.
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Endymion
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States3701 Posts
January 07 2016 21:09 GMT
#13
scbw will definitely not be open source in 2018, as much as that sucks <3<3 bwbw
Have you considered the MMO-Champion forum? You are just as irrational and delusional with the right portion of nostalgic populism. By the way: The old Brood War was absolutely unplayable
Jerubaal
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States7684 Posts
January 07 2016 23:09 GMT
#14
SETTLERS!
I'm not stupid, a marauder just shot my brain.
Big J
Profile Joined March 2011
Austria16289 Posts
January 07 2016 23:25 GMT
#15
On January 08 2016 08:09 Jerubaal wrote:
SETTLERS!

:O How could I forget. Yeah, that list is missing its actual number one.
Alur
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Denmark3900 Posts
January 08 2016 00:38 GMT
#16
On January 08 2016 06:09 Endymion wrote:
scbw will definitely not be open source in 2018, as much as that sucks <3<3 bwbw

I've heard rumors about blizzard considering releasing some of their older games with open source licences, so I don't think we can rule it out. I mean if they aren't selling much, they might as well do it for publicity. But I do agree with you that it probably won't happen.
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Jerubaal
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States7684 Posts
January 08 2016 01:57 GMT
#17
On January 08 2016 08:25 Big J wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 08 2016 08:09 Jerubaal wrote:
SETTLERS!

:O How could I forget. Yeah, that list is missing its actual number one.


I think that's in the "So bad it's good" catergory. ;D
I'm not stupid, a marauder just shot my brain.
aRyuujin
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States5049 Posts
January 08 2016 02:28 GMT
#18
age of mythology was a pretty good underrated strategy game
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evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8731 Posts
January 08 2016 03:07 GMT
#19
yeah id put dota on this list as well.
of every single game i have every played none have been as strategically demanding as dota.
games like civ are very complex as well, but the game doesnt reward quick thinking etc, whereas dota you need not just strategic understanding of the game, but the fingers and mind to apply it in milliseconds.
TheOneAboveU
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Germany3367 Posts
January 08 2016 10:44 GMT
#20
On January 08 2016 08:25 Big J wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 08 2016 08:09 Jerubaal wrote:
SETTLERS!

:O How could I forget. Yeah, that list is missing its actual number one.

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