Your Best Tactical RPG (for real, the best ones )

[Great Deceiver]

Typical newfag makes a thread asking for the best tacticool RPGs, says didn't like JA2 because it 'looks bad'.

Why are people responding?

Go fucking play Jagged Alliance 2, you little bitch.

Also, since you mentioned you liked Fantasy General, there's a potato clone that came out some years ago that wasn't too bad called Fantasy Wars. There was even a sequel called Elven Legacy.

 

[Darth Canoli]

To be fair, i usually don't like war games, except those in a fantasy set-up, like i hated panzer general and loved fantasy general.
I hate most robots games and squad games unless they have an in-depth character development and very good tactical battle and a story not involving WWs, something original for once (UFO ... )

Swampy_Merkin
Disgaea > i agree, tried it, wanted to love it but it eventually made me sick, those infinite items levels, do they fucking think we're going to spend 2 lifes playing that shit ?
Fire Emblem, as i said in the OP, i like it but it lacks fantasy, original characters like a flying egg and a dragon in SF, a phoenix, a werewolf, a robot, a golem in SF2 ...

I enjoyed some warhammer back in the days, now, it's too heavy on 3D and they're too light on character development anyway.
Enjoyed shadow of the horned rat, for example https://af.gog.com/game/warhammer_shadow_of_the_horned_rat?as=1649904300
And played Final liberation quite a bit, destroying my friends in hot seat mode (imperial troops are best )

Never tried blood bowl, how is the character development ? some mods ?

wyes gull
Believe it or not, i played that (weren't there 2 of them ?) adaptation from lukianenko's book (my spelling is probably wrong, writting it from memory) and read the trilogy, liked the games even it they weren't very well made and buggy.

silent storm : sentinels, not sure if i played this version or the original, i'll keep it in mind, for the other one, if it's a mess, i think i'll pass ;-)

As for SF3, the 3D exploration part kills me, really, it's a pain, i tried but didn't get really far.
Found a "new" version of Shining Force on GBA thought, yesterday, might try it at some point.

 

[Swampy_Merkin]

Never tried blood bowl, how is the character development

lol..there is literally no character at all in Blood Bowl (just level ups with new abilities). It's a fantasy-sports game.

 

[moleman]

...Bacause in my memory, i could get past the terrible graphics ...

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[PorkBarrellGuy]

...Bacause in my memory, i could get past the terrible graphics ...

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>no Grunty
WHY IS THIS

 

[Darth Canoli]

It's a fantasy-sports game.

I knew that, heard about the game over years, even played a "browser cRPG" for years with blood bowl fans, just hoped there would be some interesting character dev so i would try it ;-)

 

[Citizen]

Jagged Alliance 2 [...] UI was terrible

What? I think it's one of the best UIs, really intuitive and easy to use.

UFO Extraterritorial ? not a single hit on my search engine, tried afterlight and aftershock

It's called UFO:Extraterrestrials, and it has nothing to do with After- series, it's a proper UFO:EU clone, just looks ugly. Had it on a pirate cd 10 years ago, but I think matrix games sells it now. Also the second game is in development now , but looks like it's going to be the grimoire of UFO clones.

Open X-COM [...] Is there some mods

X-PIRATEZ

AoW checked on gog, looks like Lords of Magic but turn based

It's much better. It's a simplistic 4x with a tactical turn-based combat and RPG elements. First game is more simple and the combat is not as good as in the second one (No AP system), but it's campaign is better RPG than most 'real' RPGs. For better gameplay play AoW:Shadow Magic, or Master of Magic.

 

[Ranarama]

Rebelstar and Laser Squad.

 

[Strange Fellow]

ToEE, i played it long ago, in my memory, is a BG 2 clone, probably good, to me, it's a RPG, not really a T-RPG where you have dozens of units, is there some good mods for this one ?

Temple+ is the mod you need.
It would be a bad Baldurs Gate clone if the Baldurs Gates used 3e and were turn-based, in which case I would be too busy playing the shit out of them to post here.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

OP try
Eternal Poison on ps2 emu.
very good tactical rpg with no grinding at all. so if u dont make balanced team from start you are screwed.

Other than that JA2, Silent Storm, Tactics Ogre, Fallout Tactics, Final Fantasy Tactics etc. all mentioned earlier.

 

[Strange Fellow]

[spoilers] Scream [/spoilers]

Also, i can't make spoilers tags to work (for the huge pic, sorry for that, any hint ? )

Get rid of the plural. It's spoiler tags, not spoilers tags. Alternatively, there's a button for inserting them up there with the text formatting options.

 

[Goromorg]

Try Voidspire Tactics and Alvora Tactics. Good dungeon crawlers with many class combos.

 

[Doktor Best]

I'd be glad to give you recommendations, but you gotta eat your vegetables first son.

Go fucking play Jagged Alliance 2, you little bitch.

 

[V_K]

Voidspire Tactics, Alvora Tactics.
Also, where's ERYFKRAD?

 

[Swampy_Merkin]

And the Expeditions games (Conquistador and Viking). Nice hex tb games with decent story-telling and character interactions. C&C-lite, but all around pretty good.

 

[Lahey]

I love the death anims in FO:T, they're immensely satisfying. I mean, that's a pretty minor reason to play it, but still.

It also had excellent portraits.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Voidspire Tactics, Alvora Tactics.
Also, where's ERYFKRAD?

At work men.
On topic, Realms of Arkania HD.

Hammer and Sickle is definitely worth a gander, Darth Canoli. Have a look at Stellar Tactics too.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Blackguards almost counts.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

OpenX-com has several mods; Piratez is one that I play regularly.

Chaos Gate: Late 90's game. Pure Space Marines vs chaos slugfest.

Low Magic Age: OGL licence. Generic openworld mode with level scaling. Still in Early Access.

Dungeon Rats: Build on Age of Decadence (without talky intrigue parts), mostly tactical combat with some exploration and crafting.

 

[Gregz]

Gregz Zed Duke of Banville Ninjerk (your nickname fits your perfectly ninj ) Jagged Alliance 2 : tried this one with all my heart thinking it could fill the gap left by Ennemy unknown (way later though), is there some mods drastically enhancing this thing ? Bacause in my memory, i could get past the terrible graphics (UFO wasn't particularly beautiful either) but the UI was terrible

1.13 mod from The Bear's Pit

 

[SausageInYourFace]

Jagged Alliance 2 has been my king of tactical games.

However, I have been playing some Silent Storm 2 Gold recently and after a couple of mods I am almost tempted to say I am having more fun with this. It makes excellent use of the third dimension, the destructible environment and the crunchy sound are just so much fun. I'll hold back on final judgment yet.

OpenXCom is a classic for the ages and is one of those games you should always have installed.

Templar Battleforce as is criminally underrated. I wish there were many more objective-based tactics games. The vast sprawling class system and the fun not-40k atmosphere is the cherry on top.

Blackguards is a shit RPG in my opinion but the combat was pretty fucking good. Maybe I had the wrong attitude when I went into it.

Dungeon Rats was also one of the best tactical games I recently (or ever) played. Fails in the story department but the combat is really good and the ressource management is challenging and probably the very best in the genre.

 

[Citizen]

Silent Storm 2

Do you mean H&S? Because Silent storm 2 never happened.

 

[SausageInYourFace]

Eh, my bad, I am playing SS Gold.

 

[Dodo1610]

Is H&S actually any good? I played it many years ago and it felt cheap.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

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