Sins of a Solar Empire is one of my all time favorites.
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troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Don’t get me wrong, I also like TotK and BG3 and just replayed Outer Worlds (Fallout in spaaaace) and love me some “mainstream” games. But I think people unfairly exclude many genres when making these sorts of lists. E.g.: The Sims, Civ5, Minecraft, Pokemon, and many others that sold like hotcakes and have been extremely good games.
Personally, I’m always biased towards 4X, RTS, and similar, and find it strange they’re always overlooked. Europa Universalis 4 is ten years old and still getting DLC and updates – how many people must have played that game over ten years for the studio to justify that continued investment?
SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 10 months ago
navi@lemmy.tespia.org 10 months ago
It’s hard to understate the effect Minecraft has had on me.
It got me into programming and modding games. It is such a treasure to me.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Strategy games are never featured outside maybe a grudging nod to StarCraft or Warcraft 3. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a list that mentions a 4X, a sim, or an RTS. The closest you’ll usually see is someone listing Black & White.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 10 months ago
I think the actual reason is that they only have a limited presence on consoles, which is what the majority of the English-speaking discourse on games is focused on. The genre also fizzled out in the early 2000s, which doesn’t help.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Even on PC-focused publications like PCG, this same trend holds true.