Don't forget Kingdom Rush.
It's free, try it !
It's free, try it !
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So What Does Yall Think Bout Tower Defense?
- Thread starter Helton
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Fart Master
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Defense Grid was shit. The best TDs are ones that require mazing AND smart upgrading/tower selection.
MetalCraze
Arcane
Tower Defense genre is shit.
It doesn't require any teamwork or the need to reach some objective. It's you (and optionally someone else too) just grinding dumb mobs mindlessly following the same path.
It's like the laziest game design ever.
It doesn't require any teamwork or the need to reach some objective. It's you (and optionally someone else too) just grinding dumb mobs mindlessly following the same path.
It's like the laziest game design ever.
Damned Registrations
Furry Weeaboo Nazi Nihilist
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It's a potentially interesting genre. Having played assloads of custom maps in SC and WC3 (SC2 has yet to produce anything noteworthy) I can safely say there's some decent stuff you can do with the games. But it's mostly drowned out in casual accessibility. The most complicated and difficult examples can be quite good though.
The main flaw is in the pacing. Having speed multipliers available helps immensely, but that voids the competitive aspect where you race other people to finish waves as quickly as possible (or even send additional units at eachother), which can make things a lot more interesting than simply fighting preset waves for a personal best score.
The main flaw is in the pacing. Having speed multipliers available helps immensely, but that voids the competitive aspect where you race other people to finish waves as quickly as possible (or even send additional units at eachother), which can make things a lot more interesting than simply fighting preset waves for a personal best score.
Gurkog
Erudite
Sol Survivor, Orcs Must Die!, and Sanctum are the only ones I have enjoyed a lot, but I have not played many of this genre.
deuxhero
Arcane
Anyone played Rolling Western or its sequel (3DS) yet? I'm considering getting it the next time its on sale.
baturinsky
Arcane
Of those I played, Kingdom Rush is probably most polished both in gameplay and art
PorkaMorka
Arcane
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It needed a lot more meat to keep my attention in the long term. The RPG customization is very simplistic and provides little depth, so the RPG elements don't offer all that much. This leaves the tower defense gameplay to stand on its own, which it struggles to do because tower defense is a pretty dull genre. They should have copied some ideas from Knights in the Nightmare or something.
Kingdom Rush seems to be better than Defender's Quest and it's a free game.
Gurkog
Erudite
The first tower defense game that I played was probably the mini game in FF7 to protect the pheonix. Was more enjoyable than a lot of that game, but stupid square dumbed down the difficulty of FF7 for the stupid ADD americans 
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