RPG Codex Top 10 Strategy Games

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Firaxis really dominated.

Good job, Grunker!

Pretty shocked at HOMAM3's position at four, I mean the game is ok but nothing special.

Well, I did the math and the user who most closely represents the codex strategy hivemind is our very own perverted old man....



Yeesh! With 7/10 of his top 10 picks for best strategy game ever finding their way into the codex top 10 list. Several users had 6, and many had 5, but Yeesh was the only one with 7.

His list:

Jagged Alliance 2
Dominions 3
Master of Magic
X-Com
Master of Orion 2
Birthright
Civ 2
Civ 4
Alpha Centauri
Hearts of Iron 2

The long extended list really goes to show what variety we have and have had in the strategy section of gaming. I am sure many users could have made a top20 list instead of a top10. Unlike RPG games were you have to really think to come up with 10 great ones.

Thank you for the effort this was an interesting exercise.

A fairly good list of titles to catch up.

Well done.

I find it amusing the only title in the top10 I have not played is #1, Jagged Alliance 2.

Well get playing then. I've played them all

Also, thanks Grunker for polling us and compiling the results!

I am the voice of the people. Except the ones who don't like Birthright.

Very good list with lots of great titles.

I'd also like to raise my cup to my comrades, who voted for Majesty. It managed to get into the middle of the runner-up section. I thought I will be the only one, who voted for that.

I'm not a big fan of strategy games and certainly not an expert, so I didn't vote so as not to pollute the results with my non monocle tastes. But I'm very surprised by that list. I played all of those games and enjoyed most of them.

What does that mean? Do I belong to the elite of strategy game players? Or do the results of the vote show how mainstream Codexers are?

You have some marvellous games to catch up on, but play MoM and Moo before you play EU(3?) because you can finish a playthrough of those games in a few hours with practice, but EU3 will almost certainly take you a month or more of solid daily playing to complete a single 400 year run. Not to mention the many hours it will take you to fully grasp all the systems.

The various lets plays (especially those of furious flaming faggot) in the playground are a great place to start to give you a good grip on how they play. His LPs inspired many people to start playing the game.

The list is incline over the rpg list.

You don't have to be an expert to vote. You played some great strategy games, you should have voted.

Yeesh just voted for the obvious mass market titles for the most part. Civ series are the COD of strategy.

Most of the good strategy games never made the list.

I'm embarrassed that I didn't take more time in deciding on my list. I'd forgotten a shedload of titles that would have made me more 'monocled' and also counted commercial crap.

My list was still better than most, not having any Meier crap on it, though Alpha Centauri came close, I guessed it would win anyway, so didn't put it down.

The list ended up being pretty decent. Rather mainstream (in the historical sense), sure, but still decent. I personally expected Dungeon Keeper 1/2 to end up a bit higher though. Here's a screenshot comparison of the top 10 (link leads to the full size image):

I am fairly butthurt that Dark Omen and Panzer General didn't make it to the top.
And genuinely butthurt over Starcraft in top10.

No DK in top10

Puts a pretty conclusive end to the Civ4 vs Galciv2 topic, Civ4 gaining 4x the votes.

What's up with Civilization 2 being on the list!? It's a broken, flashy "next-gen" game of its day that has aged horribly, when you get past nostalgia. And EUIII instead of HOI2!?!

Besides those two woofers, the rest of the list is surprisingly rock solid. Not too much decline at all.