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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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| * [[Dominions]]
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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, such as Firestorm over <s>Kronus</s> ''Karuva'', the Closer to Codex mod, and so on
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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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| ** [[Call of Warhammer]]
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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. Except for Days of Ruin; that shit is [[Grimdark]] as fuck and thus quite [[Fist of the North Star|manly]].
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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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| **Fire Emblem TBS. Advance Wars' twin brother who likes swords and magic rather than guns and tanks. Makes the character development of most other games look like they were written by our [[Spiritual Liege]].
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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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| * [[Terraria]], for the same fucking 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 in beta, but it's the newest so it (obviously) must be the best
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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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| * [[Anarchy Reigns]], mostly due to its attempts to be a more-modern [[Fist of the North Star]] with Cyborgs, and the fact that /tg/ immediately [[/tg/ gets shit done|took it]] and [[Warhammer 40,000|did predictable shit with it]].
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| * [[Team Fortress 2]], for the same fucking reason. [[/tg/ gets shit done|A space marine mod already exists]], produced by an enterprising fa/tg/uy, and they've made custom maps for it as well. The fact that one can rename items and such, often in memory of /tg/'s [[meme]]s, only adds to this.
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| * Dark Souls due to its moody atmosphere, emphasis on exploration, and [[Dwarf Fortress|merciless learning curve]]. Compelling story and characters are a major plus.
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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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| *[[Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade]], for being the first 40K MMO to get off the ground. The fact that it's not out yet hasn't stopped anyone.
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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]]. Easily the most hated MMORPG by /tg/, and for good reason.
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| * Most other MMORPGs. Special hate is reserved for Eve Online, Runescape, and to a lesser degree, Ragnarok Online.
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| * Any of the modern Final Fantasy games, [[Games Workshop|which somehow keep getting sequels despite being financial failures]]. [[This Guy|Some fa/tg/uys]] have a fondness for the early ones, mostly because [[Troll|the first one rips off D&D pretty squarely]].
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| * [[Evony]]. Nothing needs be said about this one..
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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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