Do you like strategy games? [January] - 2 days remaining!

Personally I don't like strategy games, but in fact I loved Civilization 5 and HoMM 4

Thanks from another strategy enthusiast!

No love for the Total War series?

I played a ton of Rome Total War and Civ 4 & 5 when I was a kid, those were the main strategy games which I played. More recently I've played a bit of XCOM which I enjoyed

Total War! Rome TW is my favorite game and being an owner of the CD, I've dropped 6k+ hours on SP alone - not even with the expansion.I don't play on steam because it's a more buggy version. I should also like to play Grand Strategy like EUIV and CKII, and am just waiting for a good sale on the entire game+dlc collection.

I grow up on strategy games. Love them all :)

I remember getting a demo of HoMM 3, it was the first turn based game I really enjoyed, which prompted me to purchase it. Apparently that was about 18 years ago ... eek!

bump! :)

I have simple brain so I'm bad at the strategies, but I like them all the same.

Also, bump! :)

4x and turned based for me.

Thanks so much for this. The GA too, but more so the thread.

The HoMM series is such an incredible cornerstone. I played II, III and V to death. IV was weak and unfortunately VI is just a travesty. So I haven't even bothered to check VII.

Love Paradox games (my Steam account doesn't reflect that, as I played easily over 1000 hours before they entered Steam), starting with EU I.

The same goes for the Civ series. I was invited to Switzerland as a speaker on a political tour when Civ I came out. The guy I crashed at showed me this strange gem and went off to sleep. I played through the whole night and was totally wasted the other day when I had to speak in front of an audience. :)

Etc. etc. I feel the urge to go on about all the games mentioned above. But who cares, right?! :D

I'm 20 and I've enjoyed many, many hours of AoE II, still have the collector's edition disc, installed it on my current pc, but haven't played it since. In fact, I've never tried AoE 1, and I also still have AoE 3 almost unplayed. At some point my mentality changed, I guess, but I'll be sure to play them all soon

HoMM 3 is to this day one of the greatest games ever created and will forever be one of my fondest childhood games. :)

It may come from my chess love, I have always been a turn based strategy and tactics lover.

Promising news for the Intelligent Systems fans waiting for another Advance Wars or classic Fire Emblem, the Starbound developer works on it.
http://www.pcgamer.com/starbound-developer-shows-new-image-of-its-advance-wars-meets-fire-emblem-game/

Bump

Where's most or all of the above?

Wargame Red Dragon Master Race

Isn't Civ also a 4X game? I am not sure if I agree fully with the poll.
I played strategy games since the mid/late 90s (Warcraft, Starcraft, HoMM2, Settlers, AoE, C&C, Civ, ...)

I believe my pic speaks for itself

Yes, I do ;>. First game I've ever played on PC (besides Doom) actually was Dune 2.

I'm a bit older than you are, OP, and my early exposure to strategy games was all turn based. Mostly that's because computers didn't have the power to compete with a human in real time. In fact, I remember playing chess against a commodore and it taking half an hour or more to figure out the next move. I do recall the early days of the RTS games, such as Warcraft and Command & Conquer, but I have always preferred turn based, likely because that is what I got used to. The Jagged Alliance and X-Com series are my favorites... although I do love me some Total War.

Bump. One of my favourite genres for sure. Loved me some AoE2 in my early teens, played countless hours. First game I played competitive online aswell. Thanks for the GA, L4stM.

Never played HoMM, but I like turn-base strategy, so I probably should try it once

HoMM, Age of Wonders and Disciples took a huge part of my study years. Also as Starcraft, Warcraft and some others.

Bump!