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« Last post by Canvas on September 27, 2017, 08:49:21 AM »
Quake is arguably my favorite game. It is a first person shooter with cool enemies, great movement which makes getting around fun, satisfying weapons, and my favorite arena shooter mechanics. I think singleplayer is great, in fact Quake 1 is my third favorite singleplayer fps (first being Doom, second going to Descent), but as I have gotten better, multiplayer has become a much more fun experience to me. The sequels are great too but so much changed from Quake 1/World to Quake 3/Live that both are worth a try. For example, the first Quake game had air control, which was only very recently readded with Quake Champions to specific characters which my toaster cannot run. The first game did not have weapons such as the rail gun, which I actually rather like because railgun slowed the pacing of games. There are other small changes too such as how items work, armor for example does not stack, each different colored armor blocks a percentage of damage (red armor will not only give you 200 armor, but protect against 4/5ths of all incoming damage, while green armor will only give 100 armor and protect against 3/10ths), mega refuses to start the respawn counter until the holder completely loses it, there are no footsteps or crouching to slow the game down, and so on. As I have mentioned level design is tighter, the only bad part about this is spam is a very viable option outside of maybe dm6. Anyways all of this and more are why I love Quakeworld. For singleplayer I recommend the source port Quakespasm, while for multiplayer(ded) I recommend nQuake. Since multiplayer is dead you will have to compromise in which case I recommend you play Quake Live or Champions as both have a decent playerbase by arena shooter standards
Civilizations Revolution is easily my favorite turn based strategy. It is exclusive to consoles, and it's sequel is pretty much the exact same game but exclusive to phones instead, with no option to sell units or multiplayer as far as I know. It IS casualized compared to pc Civ, but in my opinion only things I found frustrating were removed, such as revolts, starvation, units disbandoning, workers in general, tile attributes affecting movement, things I am not sure why are in any of the games to start with. I consider many things exclusive to this title great improvements; roads can be instantly built rather than spend 50 turns building roads one tile at a time (obviously the price being gold, don't worry there aren't even microtransactions in the mobile game i dont think, this is ingame), roads count as a single movement square whereas in pc Civ they usually just make you move twice as far (this is significant at much further distances), if a unit can move two tiles it can do that over ANY tile yes that includes mountains there are no movement debuffs, and thats ONLY touching on movement. The actual level generation is tighter than other Civ titles which contributes to this speed, no managing food/gold means you can specialize cities which makes the game even faster and riskier, for reference a game of Civilizations 5 could last 30+ hours, while at most Revolutions will go on for 4 hours. The UI is easier to understand, the controls are great, the rules are so much more simple, I love it. This game isn't perfect however, obviously it isn't on my main platform which sucks, and on Xbox 360 the game has horrible slowdown late game. Not only that, but the Xbox version has very, very long animations, and this makes the game unfun online as you will find you wont be able to manage your cities if you happen to be winning as 60 second timer is not enough. The DS port does not have this animation or slowdown issue (if you have a DS i recommend this its a great port with great controls, if you don't i wouldn't bother emulating as its a pain in the ass without the touch screen) and the mobile sequel Revolutions 2 doesn't suffer from slowdown at least (you can also emulate android which this plays okay mouse and keyboard, i prefer controller but anyways, bluestacks sucks with ads but is the best option you really have as far as playing this on PC, the others emulators are even worse). Finally the one feature I absolutely miss is the ability to destroy my cities, as often they are pretty bad and you don't want them dragging you down which bad cities definitely will.
These are really the only two games other than Umihara Kawase of course that I feel strongly about, I like them both a lot and highly recommend them to anybody
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