I'm soooooo tired of just shooting things that run straight at you (or occasionally duck behind a box to yell something stupid), or clicking away at something.
I'm not talking strategy games here, mainly RPG or maybe FPS. And i don't care about age, really, as long as the game isn't text-based. That might be too old for me by now.
I remember Wizardry 8 had great tactical battles. For ex. - you would run across a group of highwaymen accompanied by a sorceress. You would have to battle the highwaymen while sorceress healed them, tossed spells at you and shifted around from cover to cover. All the while you had to manage your party's combat while moving weaker or wounded party members away from danger as well. I think every action you did cost AP, so sometimes you'd have to choose between making an attack or moving someone to cover. Maybe I seeing the past through rose-colored glasses, but I remember the battles in that game as epic. It was much of a blast to breathlessly escape an encounter you probably shouldn't have won as it was frustrating to lose a battle because of some dumb or careless move.
So what games out there have really good enemy AI that makes for fun, exciting combat? I'm really in the mood for something like that.
Maybe I should just re-install Wizardry 8. I wonder if it works in Windows 8 (and runs under crossfire).
I'm not talking strategy games here, mainly RPG or maybe FPS. And i don't care about age, really, as long as the game isn't text-based. That might be too old for me by now.
I remember Wizardry 8 had great tactical battles. For ex. - you would run across a group of highwaymen accompanied by a sorceress. You would have to battle the highwaymen while sorceress healed them, tossed spells at you and shifted around from cover to cover. All the while you had to manage your party's combat while moving weaker or wounded party members away from danger as well. I think every action you did cost AP, so sometimes you'd have to choose between making an attack or moving someone to cover. Maybe I seeing the past through rose-colored glasses, but I remember the battles in that game as epic. It was much of a blast to breathlessly escape an encounter you probably shouldn't have won as it was frustrating to lose a battle because of some dumb or careless move.
So what games out there have really good enemy AI that makes for fun, exciting combat? I'm really in the mood for something like that.
Maybe I should just re-install Wizardry 8. I wonder if it works in Windows 8 (and runs under crossfire).
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