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murmelade, do games w What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?

Wildermyth was very enjoyable, it’s not as deep and well written as some of the others mentioned but still held my attention long enough to finish it.

Pretty unique art style and it felt relatively challenging throughout.

UNY0N,

I second that opinion. It seemed shallow and easy at the beginning, but turned out to be a really entertaining and challenging game. I also love how the characters age, develop, and eventually retire.

who,

I also love how the characters age, develop, and eventually retire.

They can also turn up again in later campaigns. This lends well to both the story and team-building aspects of the game, and is one of the things that sets Wildermyth apart from superficially similar games.

zipzoopaboop, do games w What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?

Most people don’t see it as a tactical rpg but: Baldur’s Gate 3

ch00f, do games w A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?

Super Mario Sunshine. I thought it was just hard as a kid. Come to learn it’s fucking broken.

OutOfMemory,

Wait, people hate it? I still do nostalgia playthroughs occasionally, one of my favs for GC.

ch00f,

There were so many issues

  • Final boss was lame and level leading to it was slow and tedious completely killing the momentum
  • Camera system was wonky
  • Rocket nozzle barely got any play
  • Jet nozzle was too difficult to control to be useful outside of specific racing segments
  • Pachinko machine physics were fucked
  • The lily pad level was unfairly difficult
  • There was no way to track which blue coins you found. Like even a grey coin marker for already collected coins would have been super helpful.
  • The reward for getting blue coins was pathetic
  • Yoshi was criminally underutilized. The whole juice mechanic was used like twice.

The whole thing just felt rushed. Like there was another third of the game that they didn’t get to make.

Paranomaly,
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If I remember right, both Legend of Zelda Windwaker and Mario Sunshine were either rushed to an end or released early, leading both to come out unfinished. I the details on why are hazy, but I think they were pushed to try and make up for poor sales of the Gamecube at large or to make up for other gaps in the schedule.

ShawiniganHandshake,

Windwaker had a ton of content cut. The ice island and fire island were both supposed to be full dungeons. Both of those incomplete dungeons later ended up being used in Twilight Princess.

Tap for spoilerHyrule Castle was supposed to be a full dungeon.

The tower of the gods was supposed to be longer.

ILikeTraaaains,

I’ve just learned about it right now. I loved it but I thought that it was a skill issue, I’m not a great player overall.

jacksilver,

Personally the movement mechanics and the tropical overworld were amazing in this game.

While the water jetpack may seem like a gimmick, I thought it really changed the platforming in a good way.

Additionally, I’m a sucker for a good overworld and the amount of things you can unlock or discover in delphino plaza turns it into its own sort of level.

There is definitely some jank and padding (blue coins) in the game, but it holds up better than Mario 64 in my opinion (just due to the camera issues IN Mario 64).

DoucheBagMcSwag,

Camera issues in Mario 64 are fixed by playing the decomp / homebrew versions that have free camera control. It’s how I first played and 100%d it.

Metostopholes, do games w What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?
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I’m a weirdo, so Massive Chalice.

It has a strange high-concept premise where you are an immortal ruler defending against a monstrous army that only attacks every decade or so. Any surviving individual squad member will only be able to go on a handful of missions before aging out, so you are also managing familial bloodlines to birth new soldiers, while controlling for genetic and social traits that get passed down. I love the uniqueness and big ideas. It’s far from perfect, but you asked for favorite not the best.

Atherel, do gaming w It's a problem

I never understood why my wife has so many shoes but some of them are in the closet and will never be worn. Then I looked at my steam library and it clicked…

capt_wolf, do games w What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?

X-Com - UFO Defense and TFTD are definitely my favorite. Fallout 1&2 are a close second and I’ve been meaning to play through them again. Ogre Battle is a distant third, with Front Mission right behind it.

Jesus_666,

There’s a reason why oldschool X-Com players kept coming back to the games despite technical issues like the Groundhog Day bug. (Thank all applicable deities for OpenXcom solving those issues, though.)

capt_wolf,

Absolutely loved both of them! I think UFO Defense was the first pc game I played on our first 486. It was one of the first games I ever successfully hacked.

Not sure how many people know, but there’s another game from Gollop, Rebelstar Tactical Command for Gameboy Advance. It’s part of the Rebelstar series dating back to the ZX Spectrum. It plays pretty much the same as the original XCom games.

altima_neo, do games w What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?
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I was a big final fantasy tactics guy back in the day. I it was my first into to tactical. RPGs, and I was already in love with final fantasy III and VII by then, so it made sense. My buddy also had Vandal Hearts and that was awesome too! Can’t say I played much more beyond that.

zurchpet, do gaming w It's a problem
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Hello fellow hoarder 👋😊

wirelesswire, do games w What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?

My favorite is the original Final Fantasy Tactics, hands down. I also liked XCOM 1, Advance Wars, Ogre Battle 64, Unicorn Overlord, Fire Emblem 3 Houses, and probably a few others I can’t think of right now.

Yermaw, do games w What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?

Vandal Hearts on PS1. I think its probably not as good as I remember, but I was a small child and it said the word “Bastard” and that was the most adult media I’d been (unknowingly) allowed to consume. I played that game hard.

Lembot_0003, do games w What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?

Commandos was super cool. But I suppose it is too difficult by modern standards. Not a RPG though…

codexarcanum,

Commandos to me is the start of a different lineage of real-time tactical stealth games, which goes on to include Desperados, Shadow Tactics, and Shadow Gambit (yes, most of those were made by the same team).

Outside of the OGRE-alikes (FO Tactics, FF Tactics, Disgea, and so on) some other options for tactical games that are a little different:

  • Nexus: The Jupiter Incident - sort of a 4X game mixed with tactics, or like Homeworld with a lot fewer units
  • Myth: The Fallen Lords (and sequels) - classic pre-Halo Bungie titles that mix RPG and strategy. Somewhat defining for the RTS genre too.
  • UFO: Aftershock and sequels - a series that tried to revive XCom before Firaxis rebooted it. Not as good, but pretty interesting and fun, a little easier than old school xcom but not as polished as the newer ones.
  • Cannon Fodder - a UK classic, very arcadey but very fun and lighter than all these other “serious” games
Lembot_0003,

Yeah, I remember Cannon Fodder. It was rather difficult as I remember. Nice game… Do we have a remake?

tal,
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Cannon Fodder - a UK classic, very arcadey but very fun and lighter than all these other “serious” games

It has that iconic theme music:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASTLGt_9vbU

capuccino, (edited ) do games w What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?
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The only game that I’ve ever played like this is SNES’ game Ball Bullet Gun, it was like 12 yeas ago. It doesn’t have a story. You make your team, and play against another player. Playing it alone is kinda boring.

njm1314, do games w What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?

Just can’t beat The Shining Force games. Can’t.

Tikiporch, do games w What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality

This is probably more subjective than best/worst. So…

Vanilla Skyrim.

FenrirIII,
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

It was a fun game, but the main quest was so railroading.

Donjuanme, do games w What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?

My favorite series is disgaea, but I wouldn’t recommend it to most people, it’s over the top game breaking silliness.

Chroma-squad is often overlooked, but captures a lot of what name 90s trpg’s great and improves on the formula quite a bit.

The absolute best trpg imo is “bionic dues”, I feel like it you enjoyed into the breach you should definitely give bionic dues a shot, it’s such a different style of game,

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