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 ===== Recommended =====
   * Dark Age Iron Savior: An afternoon dedicated to browsing through the categories of your favorite [[genre:titlescreen|genres]] as represented in pre-2003 years on [[http://mobygames.com/|Mobygames]]. This is a totally serious response because there is some shit in there that is amazing that you will have never heard of via this topic or most any other.\\ Bring something to eat and drink, because when you take this ride, you're on it for a while.
+  ***//20XX//**
+    * index-j: MMX the roguelike flexes such a shift's format strengths with strong ever-present choices / scaling / variation, while keeping the inspiration's tactile satisfaction and reinvigorating it by throwing out instakills. Little else could get away with "Start as if half-way through the game" for a difficulty mode as well as this does.
   ***//8Bit Killer//** - [[http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_8bit_killer.php|download]]
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     * notbov: Double Break Mode is the hypest shit conceived and placed in a vidcon and now I have to find a place to flip a display on it's side
     * The Blueberry Hill: A top-class, [[company:Cave]]-style [[genre:shooters|shooter]].
+  ***//Crypt of the Necrodancer//** (also on: PS4, XBone, Vita, Switch)
+    * index-j: That this didn't revolutionize roguelikes is one of the most tragic parts of that damned genre. Reliable behaviours / properties and simple execution pressure constantly combined in nasty ways seriously strengthens a turn-based format ever-weighed-down by spoilers and luck. Probably go beat the main three characters before installing the DLC, though.
   ***//Crysis//** (also on: PSN, XBLA)
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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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   ***//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)