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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 10:16:26 No.269794 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>270204 >>270500 >>271004

Is this game worth playing in 2020?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 10:45:11 No.269810 Report

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Yes, it's a classic and still very enjoyable. Personally I prefer 2

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 11:05:26 No.269836 Report

Quoted By: >>269855

Play Open General

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 11:15:23 No.269855 Report

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>>269836
>You must install Open General using the All-in-One installer

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 11:51:47 No.269915 Report

Quoted By: >>269936

Panzer General 2 is great, played it for the first time in 2019 and had a lot of fun. Haven't tried the first one though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 12:03:08 No.269936 Report

Quoted By: >>270326

>>269915
Did you play panzer corps?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 12:50:27 No.270082 Report

Quoted By: >>270156

I played it as a kid and enjoyed it. I played 40k Armageddon and I forgot how much I enjoyed these kind of games. I'm playing Panzer Corps: Soviet Corps now with custom difficulty (AI on lvl 2) with everything else on equal with the AI and I'm barely able to win missions. I'm enjoying it.

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 13:19:50 No.270156 Report

Quoted By: >>270202

>>270082
Do you think i should just ignore panzer general and play Panzer corps first?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 13:45:17 No.270202 Report

Quoted By: >>270365

>>270156
Yes
Panzer General is just outdated and has plenty of bs as units spawning right in front of you

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 13:47:46 No.270204 Report

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>>269794
It was good then and it's good now, it's a timeless classic

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 14:15:24 No.270269 Report

Quoted By: >>270370

How does Order of Battle 2 compare to Panzer Corps?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 14:26:30 No.270326 Report

Quoted By: >>271372

>>269936
It feels soulless and the one mission I tried was really plain and forgettable compared to any PG2 mission

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 14:47:13 No.270365 Report

Quoted By: >>270528

>>270202
>can place freshly bought units on map
>AI can do the same
>same mechanic in PG1, PG2, Panzer Corps

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 14:48:04 No.270370 Report

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>>270269
order of battle has artillery with more range, and tanks with more movement.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 16:01:07 No.270500 Report

Quoted By: >>270635 >>270739

>>269794
Turn base strategy game's age very well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 16:12:18 No.270528 Report

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>>270365
Well the scenario can spawn units on a specified turn, but it never felt an issue for me.

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 16:54:21 No.270635 Report

Quoted By: >>270739 >>272544

>>270500
Yeah but this game aged like shit tho

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 17:38:10 No.270739 Report

Quoted By: >>271304

>>270500
>>270635
2D done with a good artstyle is timeless, early 3D is just shit. Compare the looks of Baldur's Gate 2 and Neverwinter Nights 1.

I remember buying NWN 1 and not being able to run it, then I got better hardware and when the game launched I just thought... for this shit? Some of the effects were impressive for the time, granted, but it looked worse when you take the whole game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 19:11:24 No.271004 Report

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>>269794
I prefer Fantasy, not those terribad slavshit "remakes" though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 21:08:35 No.271304 Report

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>>270739
3D scales really badly if not run with the same resolution and settings and sometimes original graphics card, it's worse than early consoles in some ways.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 21:53:06 No.271372 Report

Quoted By: >>271458

>>270326
>soulless
When are people going to realize that this "soul vs soulless" shit just means "I was once young and happy but now I am old and bitter"?

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 22:28:02 No.271458 Report

Quoted By: >>272548 >>277150 >>278423

>>271372
I played both games for the first time in the same year.

Panzer Corps's presentation just feels cheap (forgettable music, forgettable mission briefings, generic assets and fonts used in menus) and the map artwork is quite poor, the angles of the objects look inconsistent. Also, the maps just have a lot more copy paste assets than PG2's maps. PG2's maps look more like paintings like maps in Commandos whereas in Panzer Corps it's more like a jigsaw of assets copied and pasted.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2020 12:34:45 No.272544 Report

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>>270635
units having multiple move options per turn also made game less enjoyable fro me, you just have to plan for so much

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2020 12:36:19 No.272548 Report

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>>271458
Yeah the PG2 maps are painted, but that makes it harder to do custom scenarios.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2020 15:39:10 No.272766 Report

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Which should i try first anons. Panzer corp or Panzer gen?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Nov 2020 13:15:42 No.274150 Report

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bumnp

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Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 08:03:44 No.277150 Report

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>>271458
I appreciate the clarity with panzer corps although it does look a bit cheap. It's nice to easily tell exactly what everything is at a glance without having to mouse over and double check what exact model the blurry tank blob is supposed to be.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 01:05:08 No.278423 Report

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>>271458
The PC Grand Campaign is very good; a lot better than the vanilla campaign. It does tank spam a lot, though - I play with a 'divisional' model of organisation which I find more enjoyable but it is punishing in some maps. At least they give you Rudel to cheese T-34s away.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 14:18:18 No.280657 Report

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PzC vanilla campaign is basically PG1 campaign with PG2 rules. It's not a good mix imho.
Plus the patches added the crappy xp cap which makes blitz pointless. Even in PG1 i lengthened the campaign by getting minor in moscow 41-42 to gather a bigger core + exp before US, now in PzC i feel like this cheese is mandatory to circumvent the xp cap.
I do like the PG2-ike separate attack + move phase but on the other hand i HATE HATE HATE the heroes (feels unrealistic, not to mention entirely random) and not a fan of the SE unit mechanism.
Grand Campaign is nice but the pre-set reinforcement waves are a nightmare. The AI gets units from nowhere AND able to use them immediately AND you have 0 indication where/when/what will come. Oh you thought you destroyed the entire enemy air force 4 turns ago and no need to escort your bombers anymore? Wave them goodbye...
The AI is dead-set on destroying your weakened units even if this means abandoning perfect defensive positions in a defense scenario. Not to mention unfair as the AI has no issues sacrificing 3-4 units for a single one of the player's.
The AI doesnt like to attack if the odds aren't in it's favor. This can be exploited as it gets totally passive (even in a supposedly offensive scenario) when it faces your overstrength / heavily entrenched units even if you're grossly outnumbered.
Grand campaign has a zillion of russian mobile AA units to 'balance' out the superior quality of the player's air power. The AI has no problem sending them to their death (0 backup, right in front of your advancing army) if this means it can inflict losses on an air units. Also the sheer amount of mobile AA units kinda destroy the historical immersion.
Ah yes, GC has special hero units. Again, not my cup of tea. Also you become increasingly dependent on SE units as on many maps you start with a reduced core and SE units don't count into that.
All in all i had great fun but the 44-45 campaign had 0 immersion apart from the scenario names.

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