The strategy title Fantasy General gets a successor:
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Thanks henriquejr!Fantasy General II
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Thanks henriquejr!Fantasy General II
There's still an interest in that style of game? Seems like young players all want instant gratification now.
Fantasy General I was my favorite game for a long time, and helped me branch out into genres other than fantasy RPGs.
You used to only play fantasy RPGs to the exclusion of everything else & needed a game to set you free?
Man, that's hardcore. I've never heard of this before so I'm genuinely curious how this came to be? Sounds like a genuinely interesting story is hidden in your post that would make for very interesting reading.
Well it's not 1996 so it better be an improved version and not just a copy.
Link - https://www.pcgamer.com/fantasy-general-2-is-a-modern-sequel-to-the-classic-wargame/
At least they are going for better graphics.
Something like 10-15 years ago I think that there was a "spiritual successor" to FG but I don't remember the name of the game. I downloaded the demo and didn't enjoy it but I didn't really know why at the time (and I don't remember now). I don't think it sold well at all.
I am somewhat worried because one of the things I enjoyed about Fantasy General was the very clear graphics in which it was very easy to see what was going on even with a bunch of troops near each other. It was like moving chess pieces on a board, very easy.
These screenshots of FG2 seem a bit confused to me as apparently one hex has several tiny figurines in it to represent one unit in the hex, but I don't get much concerned about screenshots and I'm looking forward to seeing how good the game will be.
Thank you for being interested.
This was a long time ago when there weren't nearly as many PC games, plus I was very frugal in what I would purchase, but back in the mid-1990s I had only ever enjoyed fantasy RPGs (Wizardry, Might & Magic, Eye of the Beholder, etc.) and not other types of PC games. When Fallout 1 and 2 were released in the late 1990s I didn't even give them a first look because I had no interest in the setting since it wasn't Tolkien-like fantasy.
Something about the tactics of Fantasy General caught my eye so I downloaded a demo of I think it was Panzer General which was basically the same game except set in World War II. I disliked the Panzer General demo quite a bit and couldn't play for more than maybe 30 minutes because of the setting but felt that the gameplay could be enjoyable if you replace cannons with elven archers etc. As soon as I began playing Fantasy General I was hooked, and I even replayed its full long campaign several times including I think near 2010 at the latest. It's still one of my top 10 games, though I don't know if I would have the patience for another full campaign play through considering I have already played through it 4-6 times.
I think that experience of trying something out of bounds for me (a strategy game, not an RPG) helped me later venture out away from fantasy games into pretty much any other type of setting and other types of games including finally playing Fallout 1 and 2 sometime near 2005. Nowadays I have no specific pull towards a Tolkien-like fantasy setting, and there are plenty of not-really-RPGs that I enjoy.