Video games

This is a /v/ related article, which we tolerate because it's relevant and/or popular on /tg/... or we just can't be bothered to delete it.

Vidya gaems are games played with an electronic device, instead of paper, pens, dice, boards, anything traditional, and most of the time omitting your imagination too.

Many traditional or tabletop games (like WH40K and D&D) can now be played as using electronic devices to substitute for their tactile components like maps or minis, proving once again that technology continues to screw up everything that we all wished had remained as it was.

In the dark of the night, when the mods are asleep and the only lights to glisten off a neckbeard are the moon and the monitor, threads of strange, electronic games played by strange, electronic fa/tg/uys may sometimes sprout and grow. While vidya gaem-related gubbins are usually discussed on /v/, /tg/ has accepted that any game can be traditional, and so this media fits right in with the old board games and Tabletop Wargames we all know and love. Some video games are tolerated and even enjoyed by /tg/. Many, however, are not. Video game threads in general, especially games with no corresponding /tg/ version, belong on /v/ instead.

If you are feeling kinda ronery, you could use the electronic heresy device known as a virtual tabletop so you can play a tabletop game with your friends out of town.

Games that at least part of /tg/ enjoys

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• Dwarf Fortress
  • We loved it so much, we made its retarded brother, Kobold Camp

• Roguelikes
  • Nethack
  • Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
  • TEARDOWN, a Space-Hulk roguelike

• Anything Warhammer
  • WH40K Dawn of War and its sequel.
  • WarpRogue, another WH40K roguelike
  • ... but not the Warhammer Online MMO. Not even Warhammer 40k Online.
  • The old and glorious Warhammer Epic 40,000: Final Liberation

• Turn-based Strategy
  • The original X-COM: UFO Defense
  • Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (mostly just for the role-playing setting)
  • Master of Magic
  • Advance Wars TBS on handheld devices. Wickedly addictive. Japanese too, so expect some atypical Anime heroes and Weeaboo fanboys.

• Plot-driven western RPG games
  • Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
  • Fallout
  • The Ultima Series (but really only IV through VII)
  • Baldur's Gate I & II
  • Planescape: Torment
  • Neverwinter Nights (esp. the homebrews of classic D&D modules)

• Minecraft, for some odd reason.

• Touhou, for a more obvious reason.

• Mechwarrior, because /tg/ loves Battletech.
  • MechWarrior I is lauded as a classic, and thus the best
  • MechWarrior II is lauded as the best
  • MechWarrior III is lauded as the most engrossing storywise, and thus the best
  • MechWarrior IV is lauded as the latest and greatest, and thus the best
  • MechCommander II is lauded as most like the tabletop, and thus the best
  • MechWarrior Online MMO is not out yet, and thus only /v/ and /m/ know of it's existence
    • As you can see, the fanbase is divided. Asking which Battletech game is the best is a classic troll move on /v/.

• Jet Grind Radio seems to have enthused one orky drawfag to the highest of possible levels, make of that what you will.

• punchquest is a very, very gar game app for iPhone. It is a punchan fighter dungeon crawler side-scroller , with a 16-bit twist.

For Video Games that someone felt were good enough for a full page on this wiki, see Video Games

Games that can be used to troll /tg/

• World of Warcraft
• Any other MMO, but a special level of Baator is reserved for World of Warcrap
• jRPGs like Final Fantasy XXXVI-2: "No Really This One's The Final One" Edition

If you have to ask, the answer is probably "we hate it."

The Game List That People Copypasta

Every so often (like, once a week), someone posts on /tg/ "Wow, you guys are so smart and cool and hip; can you recommend some video games to play for those lonely, wretched hours when I'm not playing tabletop?" It happens so often that people have made copypasta for the occasion... even image copypasta.

You will find a lot of those games on Good Old Games, DRM free, for 6 or 9 bucks.