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I can't remember for sure, but I don't think so. Missing the eternally interesting option from RTS games like Age of Empires? I can't imagine how many CPU skirmishes I played in AoE II.
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L0n3Gr3yW0lf
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After you finish the game there's a Veteran mode where you can do side missions ad-infinitum as much as you want.
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The only downside to RTS games (almost all of them, also the ones I played) is that in Skirmish once the AI peaks technology and economy wise they run out of steam to send armies after you and it's easy to beat after that. The only one that I remember being able to overcome that is StarCraft II.
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The biggest challenge is withstanding the first heavy push. Moderate AI on AoE II was always tough, until it wasn't, and then hard AI was nearly impossible. The key is quitting ignominiously once you can tell you're on the downhill slope
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Honestly, I've not played any of the Fallout video games either
I do 'open world' games in waves. I got burned out a bit after the more crunchy ones like Ghost Recon - Wildlands and Ghost Recon - Breakpoint.
I tend to switch to less serious FPS games like the Borderlands series and Wonderlands spin-off.
Or something totally different, like Hades or Slay the Spire
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https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/homeworld-remastered-collection
One of my favourite RTS games of all time (2nd best to the Command & Conquer series) is free, you can make a free account on Epic Store, no purchase required (compared to Steam).
One of my favourite RTS games of all time (2nd best to the Command & Conquer series) is free, you can make a free account on Epic Store, no purchase required (compared to Steam).
L0n3Gr3yW0lf
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That sounds ideal, something which Xcom has not been able to provide.
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Honestly, I've not played any of the Fallout video games either
I do 'open world' games in waves. I got burned out a bit after the more crunchy ones like Ghost Recon - Wildlands and Ghost Recon - Breakpoint.
I tend to switch to less serious FPS games like the Borderlands series and Wonderlands spin-off.
Or something totally different, like Hades or Slay the Spire
I can't tell you how much I loved the original Ghost Recon games on the xbox. I would play with a single soldier and wipe out the entire map.
I never had a chance to get into the subsequent Ghost Recons from around the xbox360 onwards, the games got more and more complex, I never really got a hang of all the functions of the extra multiple buttons on the newer controllers.
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By the way, is your forum name a reference to the old Joe Dever books?
L0n3Gr3yW0lf
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Unfortunately no. It's from an article I read back in early 2010s about the first Grey Wolf that migrated from Alaska to California and he was the first Grey Wolf in California in 200 years. The Lone Grey Wolf.
I swapped the o's and e's with 0 and 3 and it made for a unique identity that I have been able to claime almost everywhere for the last 10 years with no issue (especially on places where only one name/identify is allowed).
Oddly enough I am still L0n3Gr3yW0lf all those years later, you take the meaning literally.
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I feel you man.
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Wildlands is still very good despite its age. The game world feels more like a real place to me, with civilians going about their business. Unlike Breakpoint which just feels like a very empty island.
Story was way better in Wildlands as well.
I hear you about some of those controls, some, where games use a selector wheel to pick equipment/weapons are definitely annoying. They never let you pick the right thing in that moment of blind panic.
Yeah! I was playing the original game ALOT! Much with friends also in LAN. It was really awesome. Simple but yet very fun. Had also every extension they made for it, prefered Desert Siege. It was great!
Last time I tried was the "Future Soldier" new variant. It was terrible. Too advanced
I hope wildlands will have the old feeling.
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I really want to try Wildlands, and a whole bunch of other games too but the one thing that's always held me back is the controller settings. My first console was the original Xbox, I played Halo and Ghost Recon so much. The controller works in exactly the same way in these two games.
But other games configure the controller in different ways and I've never been able to get the hang of it. I don't know why games don't let players configure the controller in exactly the way they want. Instead, they provide a couple of options only and there's always something different with the way you strafe, look up and down, move forwards and backwards.
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Yeah! I was playing the original game ALOT! Much with friends also in LAN. It was really awesome. Simple but yet very fun. Had also every extension they made for it, prefered Desert Siege. It was great!
Last time I tried was the "Future Soldier" new variant. It was terrible. Too advanced
I had (and loved) all the Ghost Recon games right up to Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike. Then I got Advanced Warfighter which was the next one in the series and it was such a different game with wildly different controller configuration. I couldn't get the hang of the forced configuration and also never really learned what all the little extra buttons do.
I think I'm just getting old.
For me, Jagged Alliance 3 is currently scratching that itch. It's actually the first tactics game since Jagged Alliance 2 that really got its hooks into me, and I love it!
As for the Steam Deck, I find its main limitation the small screen. Many modern games are just so busy visually, which can make them hard to parse without a big monitor. But simpler or slower games work beautifully.
Retro games in particular often benefit from the small screen, as they lose that low-poly origami look. And emulators are extremely simple to manage with EmuDeck.
I also love playing on the Steam Deck with my daughter. We played Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro, A Hat In Time, and Super Mario Galaxy on the Deck together.
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The Deck screen is small but it's larger than a phone. Also, the 16:10 screen ratio, if the game supports it (there's ways to get almost all games to display in 16:10 on the device) is kind of a nice change from widescreen all the time. The little bit of extra real estate at top and bottom helps with things like HUDs and other info displays.
I read a lot of people criticizing the resolution and colors on the Deck screen too, but I don't know what the fuss is about. It seems plenty fine to me.
But there is, of course, no way to improve the visuals when small text or tiny details are presented.
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I looked up Jagged Alliance, it's not a game I'd heard of, although it sounds so familiar. I'm not exactly sure why it sounds so familiar, I wonder if I'm confusing it with a D&D module or something. Nevertheless, I've placed it in my Steam wishlist. If it's Xcom-adjacent, I'm interested for sure.
I would love a Steam deck but those things are not available in Australia and they're expensive as heck.
