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--- sb:recommended:windows [2017/07/20 00:38]
the_blueberry_hill _a little_ more info on controllers, link to vball thread, some minor fixing on systems, and moved some games to the MSDOS page (more to do there)
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swarm Recommendations by Swarm!
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   ***//Hyperspeed//**
     * Bennett: Like //[[hame:star_control_2|SC2]]//, only in 3D and better, and you get to go to the engine room and upgrade and repair your systems with rare and exotic components.
+  ***//Jagged Alliance 2//**
+    * Swarm: An awesome turn-based tactics game, one that you can easily sink hours into without realising. Has a fairly steep initial learning curve, but once you get over it you're treated to an incredibly satisfying gameplay loop: hiring mercenaries, taking over territory and mines, which gives you the money to train up militia, buy new weapons and gear, and hire more mercenaries to take on tougher territories. All the mercs are unique and each have a unique personality, I fell in love with all my lil' pixelated guys and girls. Flanking an enemy and having them run right into your line of fire then blowing them away is awesome and never gets old. Feels quite light-hearted in spite of the body count, like playing with toy soldiers in the yard as a kid. Stay away from the sequels/remakes.
   ***//Jetpack//** - [[http://www.adeptsoftware.com/jetpack/|download]] [[http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=35616|forum thread]]
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   ***//[[game:ace_patrol_series]]//** (also on: iOS)
     * The Blueberry Hill: The //Ace Patrol// games are compact little strategy games, based around aerial dog-fighting in scenarios  based around events on WWI and WWII (depending on the game). You can take the role of one of several different countries, and thankfully the pilots are split evenly between male and female. It works really well!, and each round is quite brief. Tactics pertain mostly around movement and position, which are made much more interesting because of the variety of ways there are to move your planes: loops, banks, rolls, and so on. Well worth a few dollars! I prefer the first to the second, though they're not so different.
+  ***//Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri//**
+    * Swarm: I can never get into the Civilisation games, but Alpha Centauri is something I can fuck with. Play as the hippie and build up a communist domain and send your captured mind-worms out to murder every polluting heathen on the planet, then transcend into a shared AI consciousness. The game has some real spirituality to it you hardly see in games, with some surprisingly touching quotes about our species' place in the universe that's way too pretty to be in a video game. A bunch of the cutscenes jack footage directly from //Koyaanisqatsi// and //Baraka// to give you an idea of the vibe this game is going for.
   ***//SimCity 2000//**
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   ***//Ultima VII//** (use [[wp>Exult]] emulator)
     * Bennett: Probably the best western RPG ever. Although it's true the combat is a weakness, this is true of all western RPGs, and it is completely made up for by the adventuring aspect. A world full of mystery and interactivity. This game stands so far above all the others of 1992, both then and now, that I'm not voting for anything else.
+  ***//[[game:Umbrella Corps]]//** (also on: PS4) - [[https://selectbutton.net/t/umbrella-corp-free-demo-july-22-23-ps4/2034|forum thread]]
+    * Drem: [[https://selectbutton.net/t/umbrella-corp-free-demo-july-22-23-ps4/2034|I wrote]] about //Umbrella Corps// last year when it came out and it really surprised me. It's definitely janky and low budget but it was one of the most fun I'd had with a shooter in a long time. It's got so many weird ideas, like the zombie repellent backpacks everyone wears that can be destroyed, to the emphasis on looking at noise on the radar to find enemies as opposed to seeing them clearly. You've got sickles with which to chop people's legs off but you can also do counters and instantly kill anyone who tries to melee you. You crawl at the speed of light. The maps are small but you zoom really fast so rounds typically last around 30 seconds at most. It's a fast paced shooter about teamwork, setplay, and reads. And no one plays it on PC.
   ***//Unreal//**
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   ***//Warhammer® 40,000® Space Marine//**
     * Ronnoc: //Space Marine// is awesome because it really looks like a [[genre:belt_scrollers|beat-em-up]] and everything about it keeps telling you it's a beat-em-up, but then you play it and you realize it's a twin-stick shooter with sections of panic melee.
+  ***//The Wheel Of Time//**
+    * Swarm: I don't know why I like this game so much. Maybe it's the fact that this is some real, genuine 90's fantasy before those Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones adaptations came along and fucked it all up forever. Or maybe it's because you play as a squishy, plain-jane looking sorceress who kicks ass through a bunch of Unreal Engine 1 maps while blasting magic missile like a thousand times. You get to use magic in some strategic ways like crowd control and buffing. So yeah, just think the Thief games, but if they took out the stealth and replaced it with magic.
   ***//Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom//** (also on: Mac; PlayStation)