Post games that got into history. Hard mode: no Paradox games
*got you
It turned me into the Late Roman Empire fanatic I am today
Total War games
GUN - kickass old west game
Sid Mier's Pirates!
Civs, Age of Empires
>>1182358
Good choice, OP.
I remember playing that Cold War campaign several times.
That fukin menu music tho, still gives me chills to this day
Toaw 3
With me it was more the other way around
Silent hunter series
>All these youngfags
this and Age of Empires. They didn't so much get me into history as shape the era I was interested it
Also, there was this Mist style image based U-boat commander game I played in 3rd grade or so that was badass
AOE II
Civ 2.
I'd play scenario after scenario.
>>1182539
And the AoE series, ugh.
Are there any good american civil war games?
>>1182481
muh nigga
nothing more satisfying than stalking a convoy for days, then launch your attack sinking ships, getting nice tonnage and surviving hours of real time depth-charging.
First game I played where I realized it was based off real events. Made me go balls deep into WWII.
>>1182358
>them dynamic borders
good taste OP
>>1182553
Darkest of Days lets you play during a Civil War for a bit
Also Victoria 2
>>1182686
Playing that recently. Goat oat, nifty idea to have veteran interviews as unlock able.
>>1182358
I'm not a faggot nor did my parents let video games raise me so none.
My father would read to me before bed when I was a kid and read stuff like Beowulf and The Iliad.
>>1182872
What a shitty childhood lmao
>>1182510
>Don't like samurai much?
>>1182872
>My father would read to me before bed when I was a kid and read stuff like Beowulf and The Iliad.
>>1182954
In the pre source version, the fact they included Fallschirmjäger and British forces was awesome.
Brothers in Arms, the first two.
Another great game, but can be difficult.
Came out in 1997 before 'Saving Private Ryan' and the deluge of WW2 pop history games that followed.
Check out this let's play, I still think its one of the better top down WW2 strategy games ever made, despite its age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb5Km8LqkLs
>>1183001
Oh shit, I remember this game. I felt so much rage when 2 of my mates got killed in the story.
>>1182459
You're one hardcore motherfucker
>>1182885
honestly didn't stick with me as much but I did play it first
>>1182872
did he also fuck you in the ass
>>1182392
>playing Total War after Napoleon TW
shiggy diggy pleb. TW is garbage.
>>1183825
>playing Total War after [my favourite setting]
reeeee get out CAbabby retards
>>1182954
I miss the original Day of Defeat so much. I played that game from day 1 when it was just a mod.
>>1183031
I loved the Close Combat series. Particularly this one.
>>1183851
It's not about the setting, but about the quality of the games. The combat got shittier, the AI stayed shitty, the multiplayer got shittier with DLCs pay to win.
It's a disgusting franchise and they took the approach of "churn out as many games and let the retarded armchair generals pay" instead of "produce quality games".
That's why TW after Napoleon is for plebs.
>>1182358
>ywn watch the Dacians unite all of Northern Europe under their own unique brand of civilization
why live, /his/?
>>1182860
DELET THIS
I never realized how much I loved the 1700/1800's musket and riflery until I played Empire and arranged those lines, heard the roar of the cannons, and watched my enemies be cut down with precisely ordered volleys of fire.
>>1184187
While Napoleon was great, the objectively best Total War is Shogun 2. The gameplay was perfected, it had all the best features of all the Total War games, and the setting and atmosphere was great. I agree that everything after that was garbage, but Shogun 2 was absolutely the pinnacle of the Total War formula.
>>1183825
Shogun 2 is perfect, but I guess managing all of the agents and the economy was too hard for you.
>>1182539
Civ2 has one of the most satisfying WW2 scenarios I have ever played.
> I heard there are jobs here, I want to be a lion tamer!
>>1184268
I really liked Shogun 2 but the gameplay still had major flaws.
I remember getting invaded by sea every 5 turns, making me fight in 2 fronts all the fucking campaign.
>>1184283
I remember that game, it's what got me liking the romans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3K0tI-EyGY
So excited for the Vietnam sequel this year
>>1182954
>tfw stalking Omaha beach with your shovel
>>1182872
>>1183862
>I miss the original Day of Defeat so much. I played that game from day 1 when it was just a mod.
Were you active on the forums? A bunch of us are on themesshall.net
>>1183031
Aw fuck you, I was going to post CC.
Nice taste, though.
>>1184275
>All unit rosters are almost identical
>Perfect
>>1183031
A BIB A TOOT
EU:Rome would be better if it didn't devolve into 4 blobs in 100 years.
this + the united offensive expansion are the two games that first got me into history
now I'm here, shitposting about the eternal anglo and the
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>>1184347
RO2 came out in late 2011
where have you been mayn? all the dank history you've missed
>>1185054
and another game in the franchise is coming out tihs year
>>1182358
>>1182860
>JUSTE
Where's your basil now, greekbois?
I started playing this at a friends house. Got the ol' Encyclopaedia Britannica out to read about the Cold War. Didn't understand it so Dad got me some age appropriate history books. Kept going from there.
>>1185429
affykherymachtiff
>>1182872
>his parents played an active role in the rearing of their child.
Haha what a faggot.
>>1185470
>the earth is round
>15th century
8/10 replied
>>1182358
Same as OP. The Civ series too.
>>1185429
man, I just got the itch
>>1185470
Posts like these are the reason why people laugh at you
This shit right here.
>>1184283
I still play that and Caesar IV
>>1182358
>>1182358
>>1182954
What servers do you play on?
>>1182399
CoH, such a great game. I hated the panthers and tigers in it
Some cool upcoming WW2 shooters;
Day of Infamy (Insurgency Mod)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saURJakcUNA
Battalion 1944
http://www.battaliongame.com/
Days of War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnSJ4cTxsSo
best game
>>1185831
Fuck the pope though.
>>1185864
Since RTW up to Shogun II, all Total War games have had a mitigating factor to check your conquests
Rome
>Senate: Duuuuude, you can't conquer your fellow Romans. Focus on conquesting niggas.
Medieval
>Pope: Duuuude, you can't fight Catholics all the time. Here, have a crusade. Chill.
Empire.
>System of Alliances: Duuude, feel free to go to war. Just know that we're backing this guy up if you want to.
Shogun II
>Ashikaga Shogunate: Duuuude, you're getting really powerful. Why not stop conquering for the meantime least I sicc all these houses on you? Good boy.
>>1182358
>that game
The micromanaging in this game was so difficult. If you weren't micromanaging almost perfectly, you'd get blown the fuck out.
>>1185806
>Day of Infamy
>It's just a DoD:S port to Insurgency
Why not play an actually good mod for an actually good game like Heroes of the West for RO2?
>>1185705
Yep. Now watching 1 v 1s on youtube. Red Alert 2 though
>>1182686
I played it too, can't remember the graphics being so atrocious though.
>>1185048
It's a shame at how quickly CoD went downhill after 2. I know people like to meme that 4 was the best, but these are generally the same people that didn't play the first two titles and 4 was their first.
>>1185831
One thing that was off was the power balance. In real life the population of France was ten times that of medieval England yet this is barely reflected in game.
>>1185988
Well they would have to make some kind of alliance/protective treaty system for France or HRE not to buttfuck everyone around then, and general diplomacy in that game was utter shit
>>1185831
Is it though? Playing it again recently the retard-tier diplomacy shat me to tears. It went beyond artificial difficulty, it just stopped being fun. Long term allies declare war on you for no reason, everybody declares war on you for no fucking reason. It strips the late game of all RP aspects: there's no chasing after the Milanese for burning one of your cities for example, because now two other big European empires have betrayed you. You sort of keep moving around managing threats and just eventually fall into the campaign victory conditions without realising.
>>1185994
In real life the French king had to deal with the fact that he only ruled 10% of his realm directly. By extension the 100 years war was also a war between a king and his vassal in a way.
>>1186005
Thats how i justified that most of the territories are rebel, French had the unruly vassals, England didn't really have full control over britain, HRE was HRE, Poland didn't have jagellonians etc.
Paradox games maybe babby tier nowadays but they Victoria for instance literally taught me the world map.
I remember our class playing that online game where you have to click where a location is on the world map and on my go blowing everyone out the water, including the actual smart well adjusted nerds. It was glorious.
>>1182358
RoN is fantastic
Thrones and patriots also manages to make it better
Cold War campaign was amazing
>>1186023
Crusader Kings reflects this slightly better. Younger sons of kings and such also caused a lot of headache. England, France and Spain didn't squash the last resistance to centralization until the tail end of the 15th century.
>>1186032
>>1186032
I thought it was more like half of 16th.
Even though i never played them, from watching lets plays i consider CK to be most historically accurate game, gameplay-wise. I should start playing it, damn.
Civilization IV.
I found reading the Civilopedia in-between games fascinating, despite its many many flaws.
>>1186040
felt stale as shit and the feudal relations are still to neat. Real life was even more of a clusterfuck in terms of alliances.
Pic related is how France looked during the latter part of the 15th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_War
>>1186047
This.
>>1182686
I remember the third mission on a japanese island, that fucking mission took me a long ass time to finish it because I had no idea where to go
game was fun as fuck
>>1186183
The one where you had to go over a rubble barricade or the jungle at night one?
>>1184299
> I remember getting invaded by sea every 5 turns, making me fight in 2 fronts all the fucking campaign.
Git gud
>>1184268
>literally every faction has the exact same units
>tw perfection
I mean dude, I really enjoyed the game but it was a far cry from "perfect"
>>1185705
OpenRA is good but the AI is mad fucking hard
>>1185982
I liked CoD 4, but I see what you mean. Everything past WaW (with the possible exception of the original Black Ops) is complete shit.
>>1184171
One of my favorite games of all time. The first Blitzkrieg wasn't too bad, but it was no CCIII
Rome Total War 1 really helped though i was into history to a degree before it. It really got me interested in the Ancient world.
Call of Duty 2 got me into WW2, made me learn all the weapons and much of the history.
Age of Empires 3 got me interested in the early modern period too.
this desu
>be 5
>dad is really into combat flight simulation
>he lets me play this
>start passion of history with ww2 planes
the game came out in '98, and it was way ahead of its time. 3D cockpits, detailed damage models, you name it.
Then I got a Gamecube and Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
>>1185864
>wanting some lebensraum for my people to leave in peace
>omgzz stop killing christians!!! we are all the same people under my banner!
>eventually stop after getting excumungated from church
>the pope dies
>my excommunication gets revoked and i'm part of the cool guys club once again
>my cardinal happens to be the preferatti and after some schmoozing and bribe he gets to be the pope
>"nice... now, as a for of payment i request a carte blanche to do as i wish abou-"
>"sorry but i don't talk to heathens... and by the way you've been excommunicated once again and we're going to launch a crusade against your capital - where i was born"
from that point on i had a complete army at the gates of the vatican to kill the pope every time i got excomunicated because sure as hell i won't be stopping fighting with my fellow christian folks.
>No "Pharaoh" and "Zeus: Master of Olympus.
Plebs.
Anyone?
Fucking Men of War Assault Squad 2 <3
>>1187589
Yup. Civilization 1 and 2, Age of Empires, and RotTK were all great.
Colonization was also awesome. It's a Civ clone based on the New World.
There was also Liberty or Death, a SNES revolutionary war strat game.
>>1188814
Looks good m8, too bad its not free
>>1188878
>"ambulance ready"
>"quick !"
>"erhm hm"
>So, you have come to hear the tale of Frederick Barbarossa
>>1188986
Fuck the Lombard League.
Ohey, rebuild your town on either of these small peninsulas, and I hope you don't mind but you're facing 3 (4) armies and they've all got cannons that can wreck any kind of defenses you want to build. Good luck handling this invasion of paladins while you're just trying to get some walls.
For scenarios: Conquerors > WeWuz > Kings > Forgotten
I hated most of the Forgotten. You know what RTS doesn’t need? Stealth missions, and scenarios where your only strategy is just to spam until your reach max pop, charge through a 2 foot wide pass, have all your men die as the enemy has a number of castles and you're in the castle age, all repeat 4 or 5 times, as that's not repetitive.
>>1189389
The Attila campaign ending was my favorite.
>>1182358
Didn't really get me into history by itself (it's not even about my favourite period), but it planted in my subconscious a certain sympathy towards revolutionary France and imperial Russia.
I fucking loved playing as Russia and camp like a motherfucker in my corner while I ignore Moldova and boost my relations with the Ottomans to pacifically annex them. After that Russia was unstopable.
>>1189405
>That level where the entire Roman army comes streaming out of nowhere
There are few better moments in video games
>>1188691
Caesar III was already posted and it's a superior game
that or Emperor rise of middle kingdom
>>1182686
fucking loved the first mission in the Philippines
>>1188835
There are countless sales, though.
Last one dropped the price to 5 smackaroos.
>>1185994
Play it again with the stainless steel mod. That mod makes it the best game of the series by a long way imo
>>1182358
What about board games?
Avalon Hill boardgames are interesting.
>>1185864
>Playing as Hungary
>Get one of my Cardinals elected Pope
>Papacy loves me, despises my HRE ally
>HRE sends a massive army across my border and sieges one of my cities, betraying our alliance
>Send my valiant Magyars forth, cowardly Germans flee before I even reach them
>Catch them just across their border and defeat them so they can't just turn around and attack again
>Pope is appalled at my despicable aggressive behavior and demands that I cease my horrific attacks on good Christians or face excommunication
I love the game, but the diplomacy and Papal systems are fucked.
>>1182358
>Post games that got into history. Hard mode: the games have to be shit
leddit thread
>>1191024
>paradox games
>not shit
the only one that comes close to being not shit is victoria 2
>>1191024
Paradox Games are better than a lot of games but they're still pretty shit at what they try to do.
>>1185741
I like EE games but the gameplay gets stale.
>>1185741
Muh nigga. For the longest time I thought this game didn't exist because I could only fine age of empires (which I never played as a kid)
>>1185040
Is this game any good? I've seen it a couple times in steam and have wondered about picking it up.
>>1188776
janefag here
ma nigga
>>1190928
This game was great. Got tired of it fast though.
>>1185407
possibly the last good game in the series before it went full retard
>>1191769
Bullshit. It's 5. Then the weird shit started happening.
Part and parcel of that was Koei absorbing Tecmo. You know, the guys who made Dead or Alive?
You can see it in the games: Post-Tecmo merger, the rack sizes blew up.
>>1182860
DELETE THIS RETARD!
>>1182553
Ultimate general: Gettysberg
>>1191790
I don't see the issue
games which got me to read up a bit more on shit:
romance of the three kingdoms series
nobunaga's ambition series
civilization series
rise of nations
age of empires series
europa universalis series
empire earth
total war series
I have 386 hours on Nobunaga's Ambition Sphere of Influence and 328 on Civilization V.
>>1183740
Still play MTW 1 to this day, you should try the BKB mod for it for extra autism.
>>1191332
All paradox games are terrible and so are the people that like them
iL-2: 1946 desu
>>1184171
I always used to see that game on demo discs as a kid, always looked cool but never had a demo was always just a video :(
>>1182553
Stratego
>>1185295
>Shoot the driver as they're turning to come towards the book depository
>Shoot LBJ in the follow up car
>Shoot Zapruder
Good times.
>>1185831
Yes
>>1185831
I liked playing Lleweyn in the expansion British Isles scenario. That guy was pretty much a God.
Asterix comics are what initialy sparked my interest in history and RTW cemented it.
>>1182358
God this game was so great, are there any decent youtubers or streamers playing it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_XyJF-J1Dk
>>1182459
That game was fun as fuck.
Literally nothing made today can compete with it.
