What's the best Wars game?
>>12045390picrel and it isn't close. The worst criticism anyone can muster is "b-b-but muh colorful armies". It completely demolishes the previous three games in mechanics, music, and pvp.> but it has less COsoh no, the guy who gets a 10% attack bonus on roads was so interesting, what a loss. how can I enjoy the game without three separate luck-based COs, none of which are even playable in the campaign.> but less contentgood content is better than bloat. this isn't smash bros> b-b-but the colorsactual manchild pathology
>>12045390I only played the first one but found it really underwhelming>bland artstyle and OST>boring, unmemorable mission design>tons of missions just involve one stupid, straightforward, simple gimmick with zero other skill expression>tons of missions you are massively outnumber and require you to do specifics methods to force the stupid AI act a certain way to succeed>tons of missions where you know you are going to win but have to just go through the motions, slowly winning the war of attrition over 10+ turns>tons of missions where losing a single unit spells auto-defeat but you won't know this until 10+ turns later>everything in the game seems designed just to be as annoying as possible. Extremely slow unit movement, constant micromanagement, can't move enemies the turn they spawn, the endless wars of attrition with base spamming, the horrendous fog of war system, can't move either unit when you combine them, your own units cockblock more useful units and you have to play magical chairs shuffling them around>you never feel satisfaction over outsmarting an enemy or beating a mission, you just want to roll your eyes>in order to see what enemy unit destroyed your unit, you must enable animations, which make the already long, boring missions take 4x longer. Worse yet, there is an option for just player animation but that is completely worthless as only enemy animations provide critical information, so you must enable all battle animations>disabling animations make enemy movements so fast you blink and miss it, while the alternative is enemy turns taking over a minute with long drawn out animations; no happy medium>absolute dogshit fog of war system where the enemy cheats and doesn't play by the rules and you must literally memorize every enemy spawnHonestly I think it's the complete lack of RNG that makes it so boring. Every good strategy game should have some element of randomness to keep things interesting and make you have to adjust your strategy.
>>12045390Days of Ruin was the opportunity for this series to evolve back from being a toy to a real substantial game again. The 2000s Japanese YA stylings and premise that was typical for DS stuff is still super charming and was a nice balance of weight and levity for a "war" game that was still meant to be for a young audience. This is still an open niche now. Super polished and stylish daisenryakuvaniabornelike.
Advance wars deserve some love, fuck Fire Emblem
>>12045446Recommend some better strategy games
>>12045451Considering one out of the last four games got a timely release in japan, it's amazing it survived as long as it did. I wonder what internal politics there were at Nintendo that kept suppressing this series in Japan.
>>12045440I hate battle graphics in Days of Ruin. The units look like cardboard cutouts
>>12045520as opposed to what, this 3D visual?
>>12045531Yeah, classic pixel art looks cool as fuck and Metal Slugesque
>>12045520It's the black outline and blurred out details that make it look like a cheap flash game.
>>12045543> Metal Slugesquewhat advance wars game are you playing?
>>12045579All of them
>>12045390The SFC game is the one with the best enemy AI
>>12045615Elaborate
>>12045608I guess all the pretty pictures look the same to a brownoid
>>12045643Wtf bro, I didn't insult you
>>12045390AW2 imo
>>12045623You can't just bait the AI with an APC like you can in AW1 and 2 (yes I know in 2 it has to be full but it's still a low cost to pay) and they do slightly more complicated tacticsThat's on top of generals being unbalanced, on purpose, so that you can make the game as hard as you want based on that choice
>thread starts with off topic 7th gen stuff>immediately devolves into racism name callingAlmost. Every. Single. Time.That's a reminder for our next janitor: allowing 7th gen will only make your job harder.
>>12045643lol
>>12045734SFC Wars is cool except the simultaneous attacking
>>12045390Your picrel is
As much as I like the other COs better, Days of Ruin is just my favorite. It just plays better than any other AW game. I don't hate the story or the COs either, even if I prefer the more lighthearted take of the other games.
>>12045742tell us honestly, which specific race did you wrongthink of when you read that?
>>12045446>in order to see what enemy unit destroyed your unit, you must enable animationsThat's not true. The enemy units darken after they attack one of yours.
>>12047432Not if they're in fog of war.
