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Other Projects => Curses => Topic started by: Famma on February 22, 2013, 02:22:53 pm
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I'm looking for something that is not fantasy based and shares similar mechanics too LCS. Any thoughts?
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Evil Genius, its on steam, its not a game that looks like LCS but its a game like LCS.
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Uh...EG doesn't have direct control of (the vast majority of) your troops at home, and the site-raid mechanic is almost completely abstracted. It's much more similar to Dungeon Keeper than LCS.
All three are good games IMO, but the differences aren't trivial.
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I found a game thats kind of like a mixture between LCS, DF, and that one Zombie game Fox is working on, I forget the name, it is Catclysm, dark days ahead. Now, if you follow Jef you'll see hes LPing the game, and he gives a few good hints and tips, and there is also a tutorial under "Special..."
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From the point of view of mechanics, I remember playing a pretty good Flash game a long time ago which allowed you to go out every day and do a limited amount of stuff and you had to sort of balance what you did to succeed. I'll be damned if I can remember what its name was, or any other detail for that matter. :'(
Wait, I think I know what you're talking about. Are you talking about Pet Protector or something among those lines?
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Fort Zombie is the best suggestion I can make. It's the most similar game I've seen mechanically, since it has some recruitment, base management, character advancement, sending out a raiding party, assigning tasks day by day. The term "raiding party", which I appropriated in my own zombie game inspired by LCS, is a nod to Fort Zombie. I often wondered, when playing Fort Zombie, if the developers had played LCS and taken inspiration from it.
Red Faction: Guerrilla also comes to mind. It's in a completely different genre; it's a third-person open-world action game, and is very very light on its strategy and RPG elements. I'm not entirely sure why my intuition says it fits here, given how distant it looks on paper. But I know when I played it I was very impressed by the game, thought its shrewd design was underrated, and also wondered if any of the designers had taken any inspiration from LCS.
For a more real-world setting, the old Gangsters: Organized Crime is pretty similar, and I've seen a couple comparisons between it and LCS. It's set in prohibition era, you play as a mafia family, and it's more on the strategy end. Lots of emphasis on business fronts, safehouses, bribing police, rivalries between crime families.
Finally, if you're most interested in the RPG side of the game, Liberal Crime Squad is based on Oubliette, which is one of the foundational games among computer RPGs. I believe the early Wizardry games, which were also inspired greatly by Oubliette, are pretty similar to the RPG and dungeon crawling side of Liberal Crime Squad. They're both fantasy games, though.
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swat 2 lets you play as the terrorists, so it is kind of like lcs with recruitment, kidnaping and shoot outs with the cops.
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swat 2 lets you play as the terrorists, so it is kind of like lcs with recruitment, kidnaping and shoot outs with the cops.
Much more of the shootouts/kidnapping & not so much the friendly recruitment.
That said, Terrorist Kills Officer: +20 points. Problem is, if you get them all in a given mission, Basho'll expect that of you next mission (where extermination may/not be feasible). The $20K funding increase tends to go away if you don't end up killing more SWAT than actually exist in the LAPD.
As for Gangsters, I've never been able to keep a gang going long enough to run an illegal business. LCS is much more user-friendly.