Serious_Business
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What are the best historical strategy games out there?
A lot of appeal of strategy games to me is their historical aspects. If the game is about a specific era I have a particular interest in, I'll definitively be interested. I played a lot of Rome : Total War with the Europa Barbarorum mod, even if the game is basically tedious masturbation and you can't possibly loose at it. Since the era really interests me and it is quite well depicted I almost don't mind the gameplay at all.
Almost, because of course I'm not playing that game anymore, it's a waste of time. There's Europa Universalis : Rome which will come out and that will be awesome.
Speaking of, the Paradox games are the most deep historical games I know of, but the eras they depict don't really get to me for now. The Civ games do what they're good at but their very concept goes against historical coherency so they obviously can't fit the bill (not to say I don't enjoy them).
Anyhow, I was wondering if anyone had any input on this.
A lot of appeal of strategy games to me is their historical aspects. If the game is about a specific era I have a particular interest in, I'll definitively be interested. I played a lot of Rome : Total War with the Europa Barbarorum mod, even if the game is basically tedious masturbation and you can't possibly loose at it. Since the era really interests me and it is quite well depicted I almost don't mind the gameplay at all.
Almost, because of course I'm not playing that game anymore, it's a waste of time. There's Europa Universalis : Rome which will come out and that will be awesome.
Speaking of, the Paradox games are the most deep historical games I know of, but the eras they depict don't really get to me for now. The Civ games do what they're good at but their very concept goes against historical coherency so they obviously can't fit the bill (not to say I don't enjoy them).
Anyhow, I was wondering if anyone had any input on this.