/vr/ - Retro Games

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So many retro RPGs have awful, slow and tedious battle systems it's not even funny.

Not all of them are bad games of course, but it's hard to find a game where I wouldn't think that it would actually be improved if they removed all combat since 1 hour into the game or so.

Hey guys

I finally picked up Jagged Alliance 2, and even for its age, it's a fantastic game. However, one thing ruins it for me.
The movement costs in combat hinder the game for me. It will often take a merc upwards of ten turns to even leave a building when running, meaning that I have to clump my squad together if I want them to even have a chance of all of them participating in the fighting.

What do I do? Does the JA 1.13 patch have anything that could help me?

So, I've decided to run JA2 for the first time.

Does /vr/ recommend vanilla or 1.13 for the first run? The features it adds look absolutely fantastic, I want most of them, but it seems like the suppression fire addition could make the game much harder for a first go.

Also, is there anything I should absolutely know that google couldn't easily tell me before I roll a merc and dive in? Not looking for spoilers, just non-obvious character creation or game-start no-nos.

So I bought this on sale and just wanted to say it's absolutely fantastic and everything I wanted from a squad based strategy game. It saddens me this series is dead.

Hey, /vr/! What is your opinion on this game?

A friend urged me to play it and I'm loving it so far. Recruited Igor, Fox and Wolf an I just talked to the priest in the first town you need to travel to. Probably moving south to conquer the mine next.

I'd really encourage everyone who likes TBS/SRPG games to give this a shot, I don't know why I didn't play this earlier.

I'd agree that it was the PC's golden age of gaming.

Haven't seen a thread for the best TBT game ever.