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Used to be PC wargamer myself - the traditional hexes and text feedback afer an engagement but the field it was changed when SSI released Panzer General - it wa
by tibbydudeza 3y ago
Used to be PC wargamer myself - the traditional hexes and text feedback afer an engagement but the field it was changed when SSI released Panzer General - it was pretty and playable by non wargaming folk that did not know how to read a rulebook.
Then we got Harpoon and it declined after that - the hardcore moved to smaller niche companies.
- livrem 3y agoHarpoon predated Panzer General by 5 years. I bought the latest version of Harpoon (that is over 10 years old) on a sale from Matrix Games a while ago and it included a collection of old versions of the game, going back to some pre-release versions. That is a pretty fun collection, even if I never was a huge fan of the game and barely played any. I wish more games could be sold with a historic collection of old versions like that, but I never saw any else that did? They even included a menu configured with Dosbox to easily launch the old versions, and a short text describing each version. But Panzer General was fantastic, yes. I still play it every now and then. It runs quite well even on my phone in Dosbox. It was just at the end of the era when wargames was one of the big computer game genres, and probably outsold all the other wargames, but then as you say the genre declined.
- tibbydudeza 3y agoAlso games like Dune and it's successors of the real time strategy genre changed up - it was faster to play and pretty looking and being mission based there was plot/story and battles were resolved in 20 minutes.
- beardedwizard 3y agoAny Tartarus players here? My favorite war game of all time.