Seems like it's been forever since they made a good TBS game that doesn't have the name "sid meiner' on it...who I'm not as big a fan of as any TBS fan would assume.
Advance wars aside, any relatively new TBS games people might suggest to me? I've tried galciv, but for some reason I just can't get into it. Just feels like a crappier version of master of orion to me, I keep saying I'll give it another go but generally when I do that I'm dissapointed (to this day I've never liked a game after slogging thru it despite not liking it for more than a day or two initially).
My favorites include:
age of wonders... al 3
Master of orion 1 and 2.. 3..umm.. 3 is kinda I don't know lol. I sorta enjoy it kinda.. but I still can't figure out the combat (it never works like it says its supposed to for me), and sometimes I think I'm doing something right, when many turns later it slaps me right in the face saying I'm doing it wrong.. sigh. gamespot says that game has a 1-2 hour learning curve *BULL*.. seriously, hardest game to figure out *EVER*.
homm 1-4.. yeah 4 is different, it's terrible in some ways (especially the graphics imo), but if you pretend it wasn't titled "homm", you can appreciate it for a good game imo... 5 is.. well. They tried to make it in between homm 3 and 4, and managed to capture the worse elements of both. Let's take homm 3, ok, now lets add less races, less units, less spells, less EVERYTHING, like homm 4. great. Ok now let's refuse to add simultanious turns like of age of wonders, and settle for some stupid ghost phase that is for multiplayer only which takes a total of 5 seconds of your time and still results in you sitting around with your thumbs twiddling the whole time it's not your turn. Brilliant. Now people complained bout how heroes work in homm 4, so let's go back to old style heroes, only nerf them so hard that you almost as well just get rid of them altogether, all right.
yeah.. very dissapointed with homm5 >=P.
Warlords (warlords battlecry is a very cool rts too btw.. 3 was as big a letdown to 2 as homm 5 was imo though).
pleaaase, I'm desperate for a good tbs game.