Editing Video games

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[[Video games|Vidya gaems]] are games played with an electronic device, instead of paper, pens, dice, boards, anything traditional, and most of the time omitting your imagination too.

Many traditional or tabletop games (like WH40K and D&D) can now be played as using electronic devices to substitute for their tactile components like maps or minis, proving once again that technology continues to screw up [[Old School Roleplaying|everything that we all wished had remained as it was.]]

In the dark of the night, when the mods are asleep and the only lights to glisten off a [[neckbeard]] are the moon and the monitor, threads of strange, electronic games played by strange, [[what|electronic fa/tg/uys]] may sometimes sprout and grow.  While vidya gaem-related gubbins are usually discussed on /v/, /tg/ has accepted that any game can be traditional, and so this media fits right in with the old [[Board Game|board games]] and Tabletop [[Wargame]]s we all know and love.  Some video games are tolerated and even enjoyed by /tg/.  Many, however, are not.  Video game threads in general, especially games with no corresponding /tg/ version, belong on /v/ instead.

If you are feeling kinda ronery, you could use the electronic heresy device as a [[VASSAL Game Engine|virtual tabletop]] so you can play a tabletop game with your friends out of town.
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== Games that at least part of /tg/ enjoys ==
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* [[Dwarf Fortress]]
** We loved it so much, we made its retarded brother, [[Kobold Camp]]

* [[Roguelike|Roguelikes]] 
** Nethack
** [[Dungeon Crawl]] Stone Soup
** TEARDOWN, a Space-Hulk roguelike

* Anything Warhammer 
** [[Dawn of War|WH40K Dawn of War]] and its [[Dawn of War II|sequel]].
** WarpRogue, another WH40K roguelike
** ... but ''not'' the Warhammer Online MMO. Not even Warhammer 40k Online.
** The old and glorious [[Warhammer Epic 40,000: Final Liberation]]

* Turn-based Strategy
** The original [[X-Com|X-COM: UFO Defense]]
** [[Alpha Centauri|Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]] (mostly just for the role-playing setting)
** Master of Magic

* Plot-driven western RPG games
** [[Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord]]
** Fallout
** The Ultima Series (but really only IV through VII)
** [[Baldur's Gate]] I & II
** [[Planescape: Torment]]
** [[Neverwinter Nights]] (esp. the homebrews of classic D&D modules)

* [[Minecraft]], for some odd reason.

* [[Touhou]], for a more [[anime|obvious]] reason.

* For Video games that someone felt were good enough for this wiki, see [[:Category:Video_Games]]

== Games that can be used to troll /tg/ ==
* [[World of Warcraft]]
* Any other MMO, but a special level of Baator is reserved for World of Warcrap
* jRPGs like Final Fantasy XXXVI-2: "No Really This One's The Final One" Edition

If you have to ask, the answer is probably "we hate it."


== The Game List That People Copypasta ==
You will find a lot of those games on [http://www.gog.com/ Good Old Games], DRM free, for 6 or 9 bucks.
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