Anything besides 'D&D: Tactics' ? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Anything besides 'D&D: Tactics' ? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
Vasily
05-28-07, 04:49 PM I don't mean to sound like a "roll"-player here, but I do enjoy the tactical aspect of the game. However, I can only find one decent video game: "Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics" -- but this is apparently only for the PSP and I don't have one! Does anyone know if they make a game like this for the PS2 or X-Box or even the PC? I had "Pool of Radiance" for the PC but it used 3.0 rules instead of 3.5.

Again, that "Tactics" game looks really neat, but I don't know if they have any plans for making it for other systems. If you know of any other game out there that uses the 3.5 Turn-based system, let me know! (And I don't think I'm interested in the D&D online - sorry!)
Zyrusticae
05-28-07, 04:56 PM I don't personally know of any D&D games that are strictly turn-based. The Baldur's Gate series, Neverwinter Nights series, and D&D Online all use a real-time system (although it is round-based as the RPG is). Now, in NWN and Baldur's Gate you can set it to automatically pause the game at the end of each round to simulate a turn-based game, but that's about as close as you can get (keeping in mind that Baldur's Gate is a 2e series).
cat_god
05-28-07, 05:24 PM There was that one RTS, I just can't remember its name. I heard it was okay.
Anaxander
05-28-07, 05:33 PM Temple of Elemental Evil by Troika games. It's the best tactical turn-based D&D game ever made. Story, dialogue, etc, aren't that great, however.
Ogre4Hire
05-28-07, 06:05 PM The Temple of Elemental Evil gets the distinction of being "the best" largely due to a lack of competition. Although it may have enough patches out to make it run smoothly now, it had a lot of problems even a year after it was released.

Also, the frequent lack of payoff in that game was pretty annoying (had to spend 100 gold to cast Identify on every magic item, even if said item had a resale value that was much lower, quests often paid less than the cost of resources required to complete them, ect). And punching out the hirelings to keep them from hogging all the good loot really got old.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Vasily 05-28-07, 04:49 PM	I don't mean to sound like a "roll"-player here, but I do enjoy the tactical aspect of the game. However, I can only find one decent video game: "Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics" -- but this is apparently only for the PSP and I don't have one! Does anyone know if they make a game like this for the PS2 or X-Box or even the PC? I had "Pool of Radiance" for the PC but it used 3.0 rules instead of 3.5. Again, that "Tactics" game looks really neat, but I don't know if they have any plans for making it for other systems. If you know of any other game out there that uses the 3.5 Turn-based system, let me know! (And I don't think I'm interested in the D&D online - sorry!)
Zyrusticae 05-28-07, 04:56 PM	I don't personally know of any D&D games that are strictly turn-based. The Baldur's Gate series, Neverwinter Nights series, and D&D Online all use a real-time system (although it is round-based as the RPG is). Now, in NWN and Baldur's Gate you can set it to automatically pause the game at the end of each round to simulate a turn-based game, but that's about as close as you can get (keeping in mind that Baldur's Gate is a 2e series).
cat_god 05-28-07, 05:24 PM	There was that one RTS, I just can't remember its name. I heard it was okay.
Anaxander 05-28-07, 05:33 PM	Temple of Elemental Evil by Troika games. It's the best tactical turn-based D&D game ever made. Story, dialogue, etc, aren't that great, however.
Ogre4Hire 05-28-07, 06:05 PM	The Temple of Elemental Evil gets the distinction of being "the best" largely due to a lack of competition. Although it may have enough patches out to make it run smoothly now, it had a lot of problems even a year after it was released. Also, the frequent lack of payoff in that game was pretty annoying (had to spend 100 gold to cast Identify on every magic item, even if said item had a resale value that was much lower, quests often paid less than the cost of resources required to complete them, ect). And punching out the hirelings to keep them from hogging all the good loot really got old.