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Turn based PC games to play with the GF

AndorienAndorien Registered User
in Help / Advice Forum
I love playing games with my girlfriend, since it's something we can both enjoy together for awhile. However, I really can't think of that many to try at the moment. We've had great success with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and 5, but I can't really think of much else to try. I've thought of Civ 4, but that type of game never really appealed to me, and she seems to really enjoy the fantasy style games, so I'm hesitant to try a historical or sci-fi fare (though sci-fi would probably be better, so long as there's something she can connect to).

Any suggestions would be great.

REQUIREMENTS:
Must be a PC game
Must support hot-seat play
Must allow coop of some sort

GAMES THAT HAVE WORKED:
Heroes of Might and Magic series

GAMES THAT HAVE NOT WORKED:
Worms

Note: I'm pretty tipsy. I'm pretty sure this is intelligible, but it's it's not, please forgive me.

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  • AldoAldo Registered User regular
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  • bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    Civ4's an awesome game to play with your partner. My girlfriend's an addict and we can play for hours. If you have a chance, definitely give it a shot - don't let the historical setting turn you off, it's really a brilliant game.

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    Baldur's Gate 2? Or the BG series in general. This has been my most fun experience of co-op PC gameplay, and although not technically turn-based the system does allow for a lot of pausing/simulated turn-based play.

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  • vonPoonBurGervonPoonBurGer Registered User
    bsjezz wrote: »
    Civ4
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  • zhen_roguezhen_rogue Registered User regular
    Warlords II Deluxe, Warlords IV

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  • crakecrake Registered User
    This brought back memories of when I used to play these Olympic themed games with my best friend on her commodore 64 (hay, did you hear they're bringing them back?)

    Do they still have stuff like that out there? Oh, what about the sneak about type games like Splinter Cell? Fun to watch the other play, and you can take turns on difficult to perform missions, etc. (creates fun competition when someone manages to make it through and lords it over the other) I used to do that with my brother quite a lot.

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  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    Andorien wrote: »
    GAMES THAT HAVE WORKED:
    Heroes of Might and Magic series

    Age of Wonders 2. You can thank me later.

    (Fantasy, similar to HoMM but with some Civ-like elements. Yes, it supports hotseat co-op.)

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  • LoneIgadzraLoneIgadzra Registered User regular
    Some girls dig Baldur's Gate type stuff (I know my sister enjoyed watching me play that game on occasion), though hotseat is a bit of a stretch.

    Well, you've already got Heroes III, which was going to be my first suggestion, and I would emphatically not recommend the Master of Orion series, because its desiged to be played ten turns at a time as opposed to hotseat (and is quite a bit nerdy and not appealing to any girls I know at that).

    So in addition to not recommending MOO (though I do love it), you might check out Wesnoth. It's a pretty good game, and I love the art style, but it's much simpler fair than Heroes III.

    Heroes V is not a bad sequel at all, but it's basically like Heroes III in 3D (with some things related to flavor worse, and some things related to gameplay better) and is not strictly necessary. Also bad for hotseat, because it has a lot of slight delays between screens that slow play way down (at least on my MacBook Pro).

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  • AldoAldo Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    Andorien wrote: »
    GAMES THAT HAVE WORKED:
    Heroes of Might and Magic series

    Age of Wonders 2. You can thank me later.

    (Fantasy, similar to HoMM but with some Civ-like elements. Yes, it supports hotseat co-op.)

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  • Grid SystemGrid System Registered User
    Aldo wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Age of Wonders 2. You can thank me later.

    (Fantasy, similar to HoMM but with some Civ-like elements. Yes, it supports hotseat co-op.)
    All you really need to know. At this stage it'll be dirt cheap too.

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