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Artillery games

Discussion in 'General Gaming' started by Severian Silk, Jul 28, 2016.

  1. Severian Silk Guest

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    Are artillery games such as Scorched Earth strategy games, or are they turn-based shooters?

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    Discuss.
     
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    They require first and foremost ability to eyeball trajectories and fine manual skill to adjust them so TB shooters.

    Also, some could be played in both TB and RT modes:


    Or even RT only:
     
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    They be just arcade games mang. Or is Worms a TB shooter as well now ?
     
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    they could be rpgs because in scorched earth you have to spend points to buy skills/weapons which have different uses in their endless series of fights.
    not unlike icewind dale.
     
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    Turn based shooters. What's an RPG anyway.
     
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    Worms? Please. Give me gorillas throwing bananas at themselves in QBASIC any day of the week.
     
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    :love::love::love:

    This, Accolade's Grand Prix Circuit, Alley Cat and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego were the first videogames I ever played.
     
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    Im still in love with this one.

    :love:
    Also this

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    Apart from Scorched Earth (which is be all end all of all artillery games) I also used to adore game named Caste or Castles. There was only two castles, blue and red one, they had one kind of ammo (cannonball) and became moar and moar damged during combat, that one that received enough damage - exploded. It was simply but extremely fun DOS gaem, cannot find screenshots.
     
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    Gorillas and Nibbles were my first PC games ever. Even before solitaire. We had some PCs in the back of our 3rd grade homeroom class, and we'd go in there early and play the games. This was before my family ever got an IBM PC a few years later.

    I still remember that we had to actually type in the directory to load the game. I thought it was so cool.
     
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