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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.
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| 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.]]
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| 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.
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| If you are feeling kinda ronery, you could use the electronic heresy device known as a [[VASSAL Game Engine|virtual tabletop]] so you can play a tabletop game with your friends out of town.
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| <!-- to do: make a Virtual tabletop software article, talk about VASSAL and MapTool and FantasyGrounds there. -->
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| == Games that at least part of /tg/ enjoys ==
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| * [[Dwarf Fortress]]
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| ** We loved it so much, we made its retarded brother, [[Kobold Camp]]
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| * [[Roguelike|Roguelikes]]
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| ** Nethack
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| ** [[Dungeon Crawl]] Stone Soup
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| ** TEARDOWN, a Space-Hulk roguelike
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| * Anything Warhammer
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| ** [[Dawn of War|WH40K Dawn of War]] and its [[Dawn of War II|sequel]].
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| *** The "True-to-Tabletop" [[Dawn_of_War_Mods|mod]] for DoW that sprung up, Firestorm over <s>Kronus</s> ''Karuva''
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| ** WarpRogue, another WH40K roguelike
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| ** ... but ''not'' the Warhammer Online MMO. Not even Warhammer 40k Online.
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| ** And of course the old and glorious [[Warhammer Epic 40,000: Final Liberation]]
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| * Turn-based Strategy
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| ** The original [[X-Com|X-COM: UFO Defense]]
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| ** The new [[X-Com|X-COM: Enemy Unknown]]
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| ** [[Alpha Centauri|Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]] (mostly just for the role-playing setting)
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| ** Master of Magic
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| ** [[Advance_Wars| Advance Wars]] TBS on handheld devices. Wickedly addictive. Japanese too, so expect some atypical [[Anime]] heroes and [[Weeaboo]] fanboys.
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| ** [[Valkyria Chronicles]] series. JRPG fantasy world version of World War II. Quite a bit of depth and a HUGE supporting cast of characters.
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| * Plot-driven western RPG games
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| ** [[Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord]]
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| ** Fallout
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| ** The Ultima Series (but really only IV through VII)
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| ** [[Baldur's Gate]] I & II
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| ** [[Planescape: Torment]]
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| ** [[Neverwinter Nights]] (esp. the homebrews of classic D&D modules)
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| * [[EYE: Divine Cybermancy]], a really weird FPS/RPG due to its cyberpunk fantasy aesthetics.
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| * [[Minecraft]], for some odd reason.
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| * [[Touhou]], for a more [[anime|obvious]] reason.
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| * [[Mechwarrior]], because /tg/ loves [[Battletech]].
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| ** MechWarrior I is lauded as a classic, and thus the best
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| ** MechWarrior II is lauded as the best
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| ** MechWarrior III is lauded as the most engrossing storywise, and thus the best
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| ** MechWarrior IV is lauded as the latest and greatest, and thus the best
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| ** MechCommander II is lauded as most like the tabletop, and thus the best
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| ** MechWarrior Online MMO is not out yet, and thus only /v/ and /m/ know of it's existence
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| *** As you can see, the [[skub|fanbase is divided]]. Asking which Battletech game is the best is a classic troll move on [[/v/]].
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| * Jet Grind Radio seems to have enthused one orky [[drawfag]] to the highest of possible levels, make of that what you will.
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| * play Dark Souls if you want to lose your souls over and over again [[meme|IRL]]
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| * Punchquest is a very, very gar game app for iOS, for [[neckbeard]]ing on the go. It is a punchan-fighter dungeon-crawler side-scroller, with a 16-bit twist. And yes, Fist of the Gnome Star does exactly what it ''can't'' sound like it does, for copyright reasons.
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| For Video Games that someone felt were good enough for a full page on this wiki, see [[:Category:Video_Games|Video Games]]
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| == Games that can be used to troll /tg/ ==
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| * [[World of Warcraft]]
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| * Any other MMO, but a special level of Baator is reserved for World of Warcrap
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| * jRPGs like Final Fantasy XXXVI-2: "No Really This One's The Final One" Edition
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| If you have to ask, the answer is probably "we hate it."
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| == The Game List That People Copypasta ==
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| Every so often (like, once a week), someone posts on /tg/ "Wow, you guys are so smart and cool and hip; can you recommend some [[video games]] to play for those lonely, wretched hours when I'm not playing tabletop?" It happens so often that people have made [[copypasta]] for the occasion... even image copypasta.
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| 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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| [[Category:Software]][[Category:Approved Media]]
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