Bay 12 Games Forum

Did you mean "Fantasy General"(singular) or "Fantasy Empires"?

General, yeah. Fantasy Wars is pretty much a more modern version of it, at least insofar as the demo went. Empires didn't have much in the way of that-which-is-normally-referred-to-as-RPG, as I remember it. Was a powerful fantasy-themed strategy game and it did have that hero-leveling thing going on, but the battles were real time, not turn based and the heros were pretty replaceable. That being said, it's been probably nearing a decade now since I played Empires. Definitely could be misremembering things.

General had pretty much everything capable of gaining XP, iirc, though not to the extent your average SRPG-style game did. FFT-style SRPGs are relatively rare in the english PC world. There's more in moonspeak, but only a few have been translated. Most of the english stuff is more strategy centered than RPG centered.

Anyway, might give Incubation and its sequel a shot. I vaguely remember them being decent. X-com style combat, though I always felt the graphics kept getting in the way of the gameplay

Um, there's quite a number of the things, but pretty much all of 'em have kinda' flown under the radar. It also depends on how far back you want to go, and whether you'd consider emulation as a route. Anyway, I'm throwing names at you, not links. Little bit of googlefu will uncover everything I've mentioned, though. Translations can generally be found via romhacking.net, except battle moon wars. Quick google'll find it for yeh.

Anyway, I can throw Farland Symphony at you. Relatively recently translated (this year) SRPG. Decent, from what I played of it, but I didn't really get very far into it.

There's a Warsong (Aka Langrisser) PC port somewhere or another, might want to check that. The langrisser stuff in general is pretty solid, but most of it's console.

If you're willing to nab up a PC-98 emulator, there's the Farland Story series. They're not terribly impressive gameplay-wise (imo, of course), but it's decent enough and there's at least 6 games in series. They're kinda' in the same style as Shining Force, iirc. Been a while since I played any of 'em, though, so I may be misremembering.

Might want to check out Fallout Tactics, which I think's been discussed somewhere else on this forum.

Also Spellcross, which is freaking ace. No idea how to find it outside of abandonware circles, though, and probably going to have to run it through DosBox if you do find it. Still, highly recommended.

Battle Moon Wars. Another recently-ish translated. Multicross doujin-type thing in the vein of Super Robot Wars. Fairly solid if you can stand that type of game.

There's a lot more. Too lazy to spend the couple of hours it'd take to hunt most of 'em down, right now. Maybe more later if other folks don't list out all of 'em first Go check out gamefaqs and sort by strategy or RPG, check translation and freeware/indie sites, etc, as well. You do have to dig a titch, but it's pretty easy to basically throw a rock at the internet and hit some form of SRPG.

Fellow dwarven fellows, I believe the real question is how to apply that magma to solve both the orc and human "issues".

Mind you, I'm not actually playing (BYOND doesn't play well with this computer, natch), but if it's possible to turn significant portions of the land into bubbling swaths of molten rock -- and bits of charred flesh, of course -- I might just have to bash my computer into functioning.

Can it be done?

Minecraft's about $14 US, innit? If you're getting 8 liters for that, I'm getting a helluva' better deal down here (Florida). 14 bucks'd get me... around 24 liters or so. 28 or more iffin' it's an off brand. S'about a buck twenty five for a 2 liter of main brand (coke, pepsi.). Amusingly, so's a 20 oz from a vending machine, but that's a different story.

Plan on forking over the cash for MC in about a week (along with a book that costs about twice as much ), so maybe start doing something besides singleplayer again. Should be fun.

Already mentioned, heh. Go for supersonic instead of fast to get even greater speed. You can make anything <speed adjective> flying <clothing article> to save on space, or go for a particular style. I've a fondness for supersonic flying kilts or heels. Shades, if I'm going for style points

No idea if red ones go faster, though.

There a demo? Game's website is half in not-english even when english is selected as the language, and I'm too tired to bugger around with that right now. Couldn't find one in the twenty seconds or so I browsed the site Wait, nevermind, it was nested in some menu.

Demo download button should be on front page.

EDIT: Nevermind. Demo is over 700 megs. Don't feel like making room for that right now.

Someone try it out and give us a heads up, maybe? Screenshots make it look way too pretty for me to be even remotely interested...

Um, it specifically crosses out anything it doesn't understand. Adamantine anything makes the object out of adamantine, which is apparently at-least on par with diamond, which I still can't figure out how to get anything non-apocalyptic to kill.

To give an example, a diamond colossus cannot kill an adamantine colossus, and vice versa. Either of the two can beat a bronze colossus to death with their bare hands.