Ahoy! This week we cover Strategy and Tactical RPGs. These roleplaying games have much in common with tabletop war games. Rather than bash the Attack or Item command, a player must first consider things like terrain, line of fire and fragging a team mate by accident before making a move.
The list of games is long: Final Fantasy Tactics, Rebelstar Tactical Command (from the makers of X-Com), Shining Force, Kartia, the free open source Battle of Wesnoth, Disgaea, even the controversial new team-based title Demigod, which I fully believe is the best RPG deathmatch since Nox.
- Zeus
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P.S. Sorry it’s a day late, next week we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled Thursday episode.
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There are a whole lot of games I could have rambled on about here at length, but we didn’t want to run too long. A couple of them though, it just so happens I already took the time to ramble on about elsewhere!
http://www.kekkai.org/google/devilsadvocate/vanguard-bandits.shtml
http://www.kekkai.org/google/devilsadvocate/dragon-force.shtml
And while I’m at it, as we didn’t spell it out and it isn’t the standard, here’s the game a listener mailed us about:
http://www.faerytaleonline.com/
Wow, 525 still. Yeah, this is going to be a while.