The TCF Game List (Suggestion Thread)

[Kasrkin Seath]

Hello everyone, I'm making this thread because I believe that we, the community of TCF, should establish our own list of games which we have played and would reccommend to others. Due to the diversity of game players on the site, many of us have experienced great games which others may not have even heard of. This thread will help reveal some of those 'hidden gems' to the rest of the community, while also serving as a rating and review board.

To organize such a list, I propose a combination of different categories based on genre and generation, the latter referring to the games age and by extension its appearance (for those who accept only the best of graphics), as well as how easy it would be to obtain a copy of it and play.

So, before putting anything together, I would like to ask the community what their thoughts are about genre and generation categories. While it is easy to seperate games into groups like Shooters and Strategy, you could further break down something like Strategy into Realtime Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Turn Based Strategy, 4X games, etc. How precise should these categories be?


Alphabetical List


A-10 Tank Killer 2: Silent Thunder
Arcade Military Flight Sim
1996; PC

Arkham Asylum
Action-Adventure Stealth
2009; PC, Xbox 360, PS3

ArmA2
Combat Sim/Tactical Shooter
2009; PC

Battle for Wesnoth
Turn Based Strategy
2005; PC

Civilization II
4X
1996; PC, PS1

*****Laziness set in, no more black titles*****

Company of Heroes
Real Time Strategy
2006; PC

Dawn of War
Real Time Strategy
2004; PC

Expansions:
Dawn of War: Winter Assault

Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
Real Time Strategy
2006; PC

Mods
Firestorm over Kronus

Dawn of War: Soulstorm
Real Time Strategy
2008; PC

Dawn of War 2
Real Time Tactics/Real Time Strategy
2009; PC

Expansions:
Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising
Dawn of War 2: Retribution

Galactic Civilizations
Sci-Fi 4x
2003; PC

Galactic Civilizations 2
Sci-Fi 4x
2006; PC

Garry's Mod
Sandbox Physics Game
2004; PC

Half-Life
First Person Shooter
1998; PC, PS2

Half-Life 2
First Person Shooter
2004; PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, PS3

IL-2 Sturmovik
WWII Flight Simulator
2001; PC

Master of Orion II
Sci-Fi 4x/Turn Based Strategy
1996; PC

Medieval II: Total War
Real Time Tactics/Turn Based Strategy
2006; PC

Men of War
Real Time Tactics
2009; PC

Men of War: Assault Squad
Real Time Tactics
2011; PC

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis
Combat Sim/Tactical Shooter
2001; PC, Xbox
**Xbox version is bad

Expansions:
Operation Flashpoint: Red Hammer
Operation Flashpoint: Resistance

Panzer General
Turn Based Strategy
1994; PC, PS1

Portal
First Person Puzzle Game
2010; PC, Xbox 360, PS3

Portal 2
First Person Puzzle Game
2011; PC, Xbox 360, PS3

Return to Castle Wolfenstein
First Person Shooter
2001; PC, Xbox, PS2

Sins of a Solar Empire
Real Time Strategy/Sci-Fi 4X
2008; PC

StarCraft 2
Real Time Strategy
2010; PC

Stronghold
Real Time Strategy/Castle Sim
2001; PC

Stronghold Crusader
Real Time Strategy/Castle Sim
2002; PC

World in Conflict
Real Time Tactics
2007; PC

Yosuga no Sora
Visual Novel
2008, PC
**Looked at plot. Somewhat disturbing, and this is coming from a furry.

[dragoon9105]

4x Games are drastically diffrent then RTS games, Breaking them down into subtypes is most likely the best direction. Problem being a game like Portal is a FPS but is also a puzzle game, Where that would go is a little more confusing.

[Lord Pheonix]

Portal gets its own category called


"So great it can be called Portal"

[Kasrkin Seath]

I think Portal would be under puzzle games.

[Lord Pheonix]

I think Portal would be under puzzle games.

Agree to disagree then.

[A_Bearded_Swede]

subcategories work best.

if a game fits in two we put them in both like this...

Puzzle:
Portal [Also Shooter]

Shooter:
Portal [Also Puzzle]

or something...

OR

we can make it like a Venn Diagram

but it'll be pretty big...

[Divine Virus]

You could do Portal the same they did say Metroid Prime. Where it's a first person shooter but also an adventure game. They called it a, First Person Adventure. So in Portals case it could be something like, First Person Puzzle. Just a thought...

Anyways, I love the idea behind this thread so props Seath for gettin' it started.

[Gauz]

portal the shooter?

[Vtrooper]

should throw mods in here to.

Sins of a Solar Empire
Company of Heroes
World in Conflict
Garry's Mod
StarCraft 2

[Onyxknight]

should throw mods in here to.

Sins of a Solar Empire
Company of Heroes
World in Conflict
Garry's Mod
StarCraft 2

that shouldnt be listed like that how about

Gamename:
-DLC: DLC1, DLC 2
-Mods: Mod1

[BBJynne]

TOUHOU PROJECT
Series of bullet curtain games with artsy bullet patterns, and is difficult. Notable for having small, player-sized bosses (rather than huge death machines), and a ridiculous amount of fan-made stuff related to it.
Also includes series of fighting games using characters from the mainline bullet curtain.

[KristallNacht]

i kind of feel the best way is to start making lists and adapt the categories as issues arise, since no matter how we make the categories, something is going to end up not fitting into it.

[Rasq'uire'laskar]

FPS:
Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Strategy:
Company of Heroes (RTS, natch!)
Stronghold Crusader (RTS)
Civilization II (Until this very minute, I thought it was a Turn-Based Strategy)

[BBJynne]

TurnBased:
Panzer General

FlightSim?
A-10 Tank Killer 2: Silent Thunder

[Lord Pheonix]

Arkham Asylum : Batman Simulator

[tiny tim]

Flight Sim:
IL-2 Sturmovik.

Most realistic video game I have ever played.

[Angatar]

Turn Based Strategy
-Medieval II: Total War (also an RTS)
-Battle for Wesnoth (most of you have probably tried this though)

[Kasrkin Seath]

I think that the Total War is a mix between 4X and RTT. A game with a similar bit of a problem is Master of Orion II(one of my reccomendations) which is a 4X and a TBT.

Does it seem better to create a subgroup for all mixes, new categories as needed, or to just put the games under what best defines them?

[BBJynne]

Visual Novel: Yosuga no Sora

[KristallNacht]

Total war has never struck me as an 4x.

4xs are games like Civ and Sins of a Solar Empire.



ArmA2: Babykiller Simulator

[RX]

RTS:
Dawn of War
Dawn of War: Winter Assault
Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
Dawn of War: Soulstorm(warning: subpar quality compared to three previous. recommend pirating)

Dawn of War 2
Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising
Dawn of War 2: Retribution

[CivBase]

The interwebz. Any game that needs it usually automatically instals it for you.

[Vtrooper]

for got to say Men of War and Men of War: Assault Squad.

[BBJynne]

FPS
Marathon, Dunderal, Infinity
Features the most interesting AI character ever , in my opinion, although a lot of others come close and are still awesome. Also has fun gameplay, though the text-based storytelling is somewhat difficult to follow if you don't find the terminals, and some of the maps are difficult to navigate (you get lost sometimes) first time around. I like it because of Dunderal though.

RTS
Empires: Dawn of the Modern World
Fun, with many varied ways to effectively win, not being nailed down to one or two strategies. Campaign sucks horribly, but multiplayer and skirmish are cool. Has some issues with late game unit spam and clusterfucks of thousands of units fighting and stuff, but that's mostly because we kept playing on high resources/high population settings on oversized maps.

[tiny tim]

It also has the problem of level 10 AI RAPING EVERYTHINGYOU HAVE EVER KNOWN. IT IS FUCKING TERRIFYING. Seriously though, we went like 5v1 against it, and we all lost terribly.

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