What are some forgotten strategy games hat only you remember?Pic related might not be too unpopular, but I find it quite surprising that it's still not on GOG or anywhere else and why there are no "retrospectives" using it to farm clicks. In fact, it's completely overshadowed by some shitty tabletop game.Maybe this game was a flop outside of France and Southern and Eastern Europe.
sure it looks like a generic warcraft 2: scifi or c&c clone, but it's actually quite intelligent
Abomination
>>2481061gruntz is a puzzle game, not strategy
It's better off forgotten, honestly.
>>2483072A common misunderstanding; while it is primarily described as a puzzle game to make it look like a fun logical game for kids so the parents buy it for their offspring, it is 90% RTS in the second half, and 100% RTS in the skirmish/multiplayer mode. The last level in particular requires more micro than almost every other big RTS campaign from the 90s.
Got published by Paradox and has a steam verison. Most people will still think its a game from the UFO Aftermath series.
Find me a player of this one
>>2481061If tactics games are acceptable, there are loads of games I've played which are obscure (except for something like a couple of countries) and unavailable for online purchase: - Jurassic War (apprently its relatively known in Poland, despite being a Korean game; one of the first RTS-es to implement unit experience and health regen) - Magic & Mayhem (painfully underrated, one of Julian Gollop's best games; had a mediocre sequel made by a completely different developer) - Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy (one of the last games published by Old Microprose, also IIRC the first ST game where they had powered armors in some missions) - Soldiers of Anarchy (post-apoc tactics with some base management; got released in somewhat rough state, patch fixed most of everything, but interest had dropped by that time) - WW2: Frontline Command (Bitmap Brothers game using the Z: Steel Soldiers engine, not to be confused with the similarly-named autobattler released this year) - Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps (story based WW2 tactics game, you have several "main characters" and the campaigns tend to revolve around them; there's a points system to fine-tune your pre-mission roster, and captured enemy vehicles remain available if you don't get them blown up in a mission)>>2481937I remember the sequel being a completely different genre.>>2486207I have both it and its expansion (Emperor's Testament) in my GOG library. Admittedly, I've played very little of it.
>>2481061Gruntz was reasonably popular in Australia because it was included in various educational game catalogs. I never got very far in the story mode as a kid but I played tons of skirmish.>>2481937Played that too. I think it was the first game I ever played that came with a map editor, so I used to make maps that were flat planes with massive armies to watch fight.>>2486207Played this too. I think it was more popular in slav countries though.>>2483199That's the case with most actually obscure games, especially from the era where you'd pick games off the shelf or from bargain bins instead of sorting through a million digital games. Anything good had huge word of mouth, unlike this piece of shit.
>>2481061kingdom under fire
I'm the only one who played this game.
>>2487857This game doesn't seem actually forgotten, I see people talking about it because of the elf ass all the time
>>2490048Hilarious, I never played the game and I checked his webm and paused it @0:05/0:13 to keep looking at the dark elf asses. I've had it pause there since Sunday.
>>2481937I havd this, it was a shame that everything was a damage sponge.
Holy shit.>look up "that one real time strategy game" that our country produced, one of the 2-3 games our country ever produced>only to find out it was a "massive cult hit in China"Like they even put it in the title on Steam, retroactively>State of War : Warmonger / čč˛čŚć (Classic 2000)And the Chinese title is "Blue Alert" because the Chinamen wanted to capitalize on Red Alert's popularity. Wacky shit. I can see why they could be fooled by the box art but I have no clue how they could find this entertaining enough based on the gameplay, easily one of the worst RTS games I played and I only played it because it was a free game / covermount in a gaming magazine.
>>2493351Ah but of course being a huge hit in China in the early 2000s meant fuck all sales anyway. Thought so.
Strategy games peaked here and I refuse to listen to anyone who says otherwise.
>>2489915Could never get a pirated version of that to work 2bh, always crashed after a few minutes
>>2481061this shit could have been great, on par with Warcraft in both art and quality, but it fell short of its potential and a the awful sequel didn't help. Main problem is its enemy AI (either retarded or hyper lethal) and its heavy dependancy on deep micromanagement with too many hot keys
>>2493394Wasn't obscure back in the day. Also the AI cheats so blatantly in all of them i wouldn't call it 'peak' even tho i had countless hrs of fun with the series.
I really wish this had a follow up or something. The gimmick works great, but all the basic strategy game stuff is miserable.
>>2487857Mediocre franchise. Crusaders/Heroes was lightening in a bottle and the rest is trash.
knight lords rule!
>>2497411Kinda sad how the Warlords franchise got overshadowed by its own spinoff (which is now also dead).
Tzar, Burden of the crown. It was Europeans (More Western than Eastern European as I recall), Arabs, and Far East with I think some sauron monster enemy as unplayable.Original War was an RTS where each of your soldiers had a real distinct I think RPG like ability to level up. US vs Soviets like 5 million years in the past over some rare mineral that they sent people back in time to collect. Arabs come in as a later enemy. It's on steam, I dont think tzar is.
>>2497517Original War is reasonably popular on /vst/.
>>2497411This is well known in the warlords threads. Battlecry gets more attention but even the earliest threads on this board talked about it. Major nitpick with it is how they handicapped the editor from w2. >>2497517Tzar is known and Original War is very well known considering this board is at least 50% slav and it has had threads.If you niggers want lesser known strategy games that don't get mentioned every "rare games" thread then look at old flash strategy games. Arachnid Wars 1.5? Great War of Prefectures? Battle Gear? Shadez: Black Operations? Never seen them on here.
>>2497411>>2497492Battlecry was just a WC3 wannabe though.
>>2481061i do not understand why this forgotten game is remembered>>2486207this one was cool otoh
>>2481061like Z?Nectaris for PSX.MTJ, for the PC98 and DOS.ROT3K IV.Knight Shift or some other original european name i forgot. made for Win98.King's Bounty for Genesis.KKND.
>>2498025>look at old flash strategy games.ok. im starting to forget all the names since i stopped playing them after Wuhan Flu years.... and Newgrounds got worse with its age-checking crypto-login.does Transformice count?Rebulid 1, 2 and 3.some of the "Nerdook" games were fun. forgot the names. Deadly Neighbours? made by some malaysian SEAman. he made lots of games. but the most popular one wasn't /vst/> https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/nerdookah. yes. Rogue AI Sim was another one.
>>2487857nice butts. wished i was there.
>>2498085Heaven and Hell.Themepark.Theme Hospital.Cyber Judas.Shadow President.ZOTE: Fist of Mars/Testament.>inb5 that's just super robot wars but ZOTE.
>>2498078>namefag is retardedBattlecry 1 and 2 released before wc3
>>2493820I played the sequel as a kid but could never figure out how to gather resources in that game.
>>2498248the sequel not only left some of the original's problem unsolved, but added some more for assurance and retconned the original lore to include two humans factions. And yes, both resource gathering and unit recruitment were unnecessary fucking stupid and convolutedI hope someone buys the IP and remakes it in the future
