Video games

Video games are games played with an electronic device, instead of paper, pens, dice, boards, anything traditional, and most of the time omitting your imagination too. It is also true that they do contain amusing game mechanics, can be easily played alone, provide visual and auditory representation, and don't cost hundreds of dollars for a few inferior, miniature visual representations; however, this does come at the cost of freedom and imagination.

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 everything that we all wished had remained as it was.

Electronic games played by strange, electronic fa/tg/uys have been accepted by /tg/, so that any game can be traditional, and this media fits right in with the old board games and Tabletop Wargames we all know and love. Some video games are accepted and enjoyed by /tg/. Many, however, are not. Generally, video game threads, especially games with no corresponding /tg/ version/interest, belong on /v/ instead.

Strategy Games

• Simulation/Sandbox Games
  • Dwarf Fortress
  • Mount and Blade, it's expandalone Warband, and the new Bannerlord 2. A sandbox medieval setting, you go around either being a bandit or uniting the scattered kingdoms into a grand empire or whatever. Enormous modding community means finding something thematically different if you want, including Warhammer and historical mods.
  • Kerbal Space Program
  • Space Station 13
  • Medieval Engineers
  • Space Engineers
  • Minecraft, for some odd reason.
  • Terraria, for the same odd reason.

• 4X Strategy: These are games that reward our propensity for diabolical plotting and making our own narratives.
  • Civilization I-V - Civilization actually was based on a board game and in a case of coming full circle, ended up creating it's own board game.
  • Sins of a Solar Empire
  • Total War series: Rome Total War, Medieval Total War, Empire Total War, Shogun Total War
    • Rome 1 mods: Call to Arms: Warhammer and Fourth Age Total War and Medieval 2 mods: Call of Warhammer, Third Age Total War
  • Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Victoria or Hearts of Iron
    • Warhammer: Geheimnisnacht, a Warhammer Fantasy conversion for Crusader Kings II. Setting predates Winds of Chaos & End Times.
  • Masters of Orion
  • King of Dragon Pass

• Real-time Strategy
  • Total Annihilation
  • Supreme Commander
  • Rise of Nations
  • Dungeon Keeper
  • Dominions
  • Age of Empires series
  • Company of Heroes and Men of War Assault Squad 2
  • Homeworld series
  • Starcraft and Warcraft: 40K and Fantasy rip-offs respectively
  • Command and Conquer, a franchise with more then four different series running at the time where you control varied forces trying to beat the crap out of each other.

• Turn-based Strategy
  • The original X-COM: UFO Defense
  • The new X-COM: Enemy Unknown
  • Age of Wonders
  • Jagged Alliance, A PMC is you!
  • Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
  • Master of Magic
  • Advance Wars, Japanese so expect some typical Anime heroes and Weeaboo fanboys. Except for Days of Ruin; that is Grimdark and thus manly.
  • Valkyria Chronicles series - JRPG fantasy world version of World War II. Quite a bit of depth and supporting cast of characters.
  • Fire Emblem TBS - Advance Wars' twin brother who likes swords and magic rather than guns and tanks.
  • Disciples (series) - Heroes of Might and Magic madeGrimdark
  • Heroes of Might and Magic - Turn based strategy of over six main games and expansions where you control a fantasy hero and their legion of men/elves/dwarves/creatures/etc.

Role Playing Games

• cRPGs
  • Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
  • Wasteland series
  • Deus Ex series
  • Ultima series
  • Betrayal at Krondor
  • Fallout series
  • Baldur's Gate I & II
  • Planescape: Torment
  • System Shock series
  • Neverwinter Nights
  • Icewind Dale
  • Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

• Modern RPGs
  • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, both games are very good.
  • Dragon Age: Origins, much better than later games.
  • Dark Souls, due to its moody atmosphere, emphasis on exploration, and merciless learning curve. Compelling story and characters are a major plus, also contains large amounts of death and RAGE. The tagline isn't 'Prepare to Die' for no reason.
  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  • The Elder Scrolls series
  • Fallout: New Vegas
  • Witcher series
  • Legend of Grimrock
  • Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Warhammer Games

• Strategy
  • The old and glorious Warhammer Epic 40,000: Final Liberation, Shadow of the Horned Rat, and Dark Omen
  • WH40K Dawn of War and its sequel.
    • The "True-to-Tabletop" mods for DoW that sprung up, such as Firestorm over Kronus/Kaurava, the Closer to Codex mod. As well as the Ultimate Apocalypse and "'Armageddon Steel Legion mod which are MANLY.
  • Chapter Master (game)
  • Mordheim: City Of The Damned
  • Battlefleet Gothic: Armada
  • Total War: WARHAMMER

• Other
  • Blood Bowl and its sequel
  • Warhammer Age of Reckoning
  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
  • Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade
  • The End Times:Vermintide
  • Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade

Miscellaneous

• Roguelikes
  • Nethack
  • Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
  • TEARDOWN, a Space-Hulk roguelike
  • Darkest Dungeon the newest love-craftian dungeon crawler with grimdark setting and overall edginess.
  • WarpRogue, a 40K-inspired roguelike

• Good FPS games
  • EYE: Divine Cybermancy, a really weird FPS/RPG due to its cyberpunk fantasy aesthetics, almost an RPG.
  • DOOM, Hexen, and Heretic: With a vibrant community because the games are easy to mod and has produced no shortage of mods (or wads as they're called in the community.) Interestingly, Doom was inspired by a D&D game run with Carmack as the DM. Romero's character recklessly gave a dark tome to a demon in exchange for the magic Daikatana which caused demons to overrun the material plane and the world to end. Visually, parts of the games(Hexen and Heretic especially) are reminiscent of a gothic dungeon.
  • Crysis, Tree games provide a very moddable engine with a very versatile set of physics combined with a pretty absurdly large modding community that has among other things, created a perfectly workable Mech Warrior game out of Crysis Warhead. Even if you don't care for nanosuit action, the mods alone are worth checking out.
  • Guns of Icarus, a steampunk flying team deathmatch with set roles.

• Mechwarrior, because /tg/ loves Battletech.
  • MechWarrior I is lauded as a classic, and thus the best
  • MechWarrior II is lauded as the best
  • MechWarrior III is lauded as the most engrossing storywise, and thus the best
  • MechWarrior IV is lauded as the latest and greatest, and thus the best
  • MechCommander II is lauded as most like the tabletop, and thus the best
  • MechWarrior Online is in beta, but it's the newest and shiniest so it (obviously) must be the best

• Classic console games
  • Jet Set/Grind Radio seems to have enthused one orky drawfag to the highest of possible levels, make of that what you will.
  • Conker's Bad Fur Day
  • Metroid, Legend of Zelda, Kid Icarus, and Castlevania (the four games series share so much in common they deserve to be discussed together). Why? The exploration-heavy nature of the games, the feeling of growing more powerful as you collect enough gear and relics to make an adventuring party jealous, the incredibly memorable boss battles, interesting backstories (Metroid immerses you in backstory at your pace, via scans and lore pickups, leaving much up to your imagination), and providing many ideas for scifi or fantasy RPG session.

Games that can be used to troll /tg/

• Most other MMORPGs. World of Warcraft, as the most successful to date, is especially effective. Special points to Star Wars: The Old Republic for being a massive disappointment for a popular franchise.
• JRPGs, for often recycling the same plots over and over and having identical structure. Along with of course cringingly bad character designs in some cases.
• Any of the modern Final Fantasy games, which somehow keep getting sequels despite being financial failures. Some fa/tg/uys have a fondness for the early ones, mostly because the first one rips off D&D pretty squarely.
• Evony
• Skyrim, although it is good as a pregenerated fantasy world simulator you can dive into, it isn't an RPG. Reasons include having no choice to complete quests how you want, horrible dialogue, and uninspired combat and enemies.
• As a note to the above, you can say the same for Oblivion. Heavily uninspired landscapes, dungeons, and monsters, along with wonky gameplay and terrible dialogue. That's not to mention drastically changing the setting fron jungle to generic Europe to be more appealing to the mainstream.
• Some have thrown this accusation at Fallout 4, although many anons will defend it due to not being as bad as the above.
• Mentioning the attention Warhammer 40k games have gotten compared to Warhammer Fantasy is a sore spot for Fantasy fans.
• Reminding Shadowrun fans of the terrible Shadowrun FPS is not going to earn you any goodwill.
• Sonic The Hedgehog. The fans are everywhere, and the butthurt is unfathomable.
• Nintendo games have ultra-dedicated fanbases, and also hardcore haters. Mentioning Pokemon in a positive light or stating the controller of "the best" console they released is a sex toy may cause an internet fight.
• Games with bad random number generators. Even highly approved of games like Mordheim: City Of The Damned will cause a shitstorm when someone is reminded that a supposed 95% chance to hit can result in four consecutive misses.

The Game List That People Copypasta

Every so often, someone posts on /tg/: "Wow, you guys are so smart and cool; can you recommend some video games to play for those hours when I'm not playing tabletop?". It happens so often that people have made copypasta for the occasion, even image copypasta.

You will find a lot of those games on Good Old Games, DRM free, for 6 or 9 bucks.

For any video game that someone felt was good enough for a full page on this wiki, see Video Games