/vr/ - Retro Games

In a distant future when all Deus Ex memes finally die and the game itself is nearly forgotten, people still will be playing the pic. Trust me.

Also I bet Slavs will still be obsessed with HOMM3 even after The Second Coming.

I suppose, "forever" would be a wrong word. I would say, supposedly I could enjoy playing Jagged Alliance 2 and HoMM3 with hiatuses for the rest of my life.

Playing this game on my vacation for the first time. Can anyone give me some tips it looks complicated but I want to get into it
Thanks

>mogs xcom relentlessly

easily in the top 5 pc games of all time

>>8142581
I really don't know any 2D shooters with realistic weapons. But since you're a gun nut you probably would enjoy Jagged Alliance 2.

Why is it so impossible to recreate this game?

Getting ready to replay it after not having touched it in ages, anyone got any general expert tips / which guns are best and stuff like that?

General Jagged Alliance 2 appreciation thread.

never played this but I want to. Should I use the 1.13 patch from the get go? I hear it's the only way to get modern resolutions but also changes a lot of stuff.

Why is it that every time someone tries to remake this game, it goes to shit

ITT: good games ruined by fan/community updates

This is my favourite game, /vr/. Whats yours?

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Jagged Alliance 2

It's the perfect sequel that improved upon everything the first did, and then went 200% beyond. Incredible depth and variety, and imho the pinnacle of turned based strategy games. Fantastic setting and tone, very easy to immerse yourself in. Lots of custom options, and a n overwhelmingly awesome modding community that made an already great game legendary. And oh my God the gun porn...

I'm probably going to reinstall before the end of the week now.

>>4616190
My man! Though I'm on the fence wether the first one was better or not

Why is this game so hard? Did I make a mistake in having my main merc 85 marksmanship, 70 wisdom (for faster lvling I've heard) and normal everything else?

It seems like every single time I get into a battle I can only take 2 steps a turn and the enemy has no limit to the effective range of their pistols?

Yo i got this game a little while ago and i really dont understand the display cover function, I moved one of my mercs. Into an area that was green (it was kind of out in the open but I assumed it was ok because it's green) and she got smack by a 12 gauge.
Also whats some similar games to this? I love it. Is xcom similar? I was thinking of trying it based just on that assumption.

>>3661696
Pic related is the most diverse game ever. There is nobody in the cast I look at and think "Fucking token" because everyone is useful in a way. It's also 80% off on Steam right now.

>>3661725
In BG's new expansion, there's a character that's a walking token you can kill without consequences because of bad coding (she was pretty much carbon copied from an enemy apparently). Also they're a tranny or something.

Also by the same writer; some characters who are gay in a d20 sourcebook. That's it, they're just gay. Barely anything else about them. Personalities and goals? Nah, they're just gay. Did I mention they were gay? The problem people have is obvious shoehorned tokens who are there as background characters because it's the writing equivalent of "I'm not racist, I have black friends". And don't forget Crypt of the Necrodancer who has a purple-haired "genderqueer" with zero personality beyond that (which made a trans friend of mine leave a bad review and refund the game within a minute of finding out). Amber E. Scott is not a liked person among LGBTs because she treats them like collectible tokens when it's convenient to have them.

That's what people hate. I mean, nobody considers John Munch and Fin in Law & Order to be tokens. Munch is a Jew, Fin is black, their religious/ethnic identity is a significant part of their character, and any episode with them at the center is a great episode because they're both pretty awesome (By L&O standards anyway). People who write these tokens more often than not are just blacking a white guy, bending a straight guy, or mitzvahing a christian.

Remember Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime? Kid's autistic, and the author admitted to not knowing jack shit about autism, resulting me, a genuine autist, branding the book as "Autistic equivalent of blackface".

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Just decided to get into this game and running into difficulties both technical and gameplay related. Trying to complete vanilla before moving on to 1.13, like someone recommended in an earlier thread.

Technical problems involve slowass animations and screen scrolling, this happens in both gog and pirated gold version and is quite frustrating. Would welcome a fix if anyone has any.

I also don't get gameplay. Like my expert stealth merc can't sneak up on a hostile within shooting range even when it's pitch black, the guy is facing away, my merc has night goggles and is prone the whole time. What gives? How to generally succeed in both combat and money management?

Also, all things Jagged Alliance thread.

What does /vr/ think of the Jagged Alliance series ?

What are some useful keyboard shortcuts for this game? Finding it quite difficult to navigate with such a stripped down UI compared to XCOM, which is the TBS I am most familiar with.

Also, any way of changing the setting where the camera moves to where the bullet eventually hits? Because of low accuracy this invariably moves the camera over to the other side of the map every time I shoot, which is fucking annoying.

Any tips on starting mercs too? I just bought a handful of cheap ones for 2 weeks. Is that good or bad?

How the fuck do you run this on windows 8?

>>1801889
>Possibly the best squad-based strategy game ever released
>Very open-ended and in the best way possible

The Bad
>Has major stability and balance issues but these can be resolved by the fanpatch
>Mercs are prone to rampant whining and quitting if paired up with people they don't like

Would Jagged Alliance 2 be considered /vr/?

I started a new JA 2 1.13 campaign after a couple of years and tweaked the amount of major and minor traits my mercs can have and decided to make a crew from the members of the Hitman: Codename 47 forums from 2000.

Anyone got a campaign going on? Let's talk Jagged Alliance 2.

Just started Jagged Alliance 2 1.13.

Is it just me or are machineguns useless unless you're really close?
Even assault rifles in burst mode go all over the place.

I'm pretty much killing everyone with mustard gas and scoped rifles
and cleared the first SAM base with a single character that way.

Anyone got some general advice?