I cant believe I am actually playing Stronghold again after the quick look. What am I doing? I might actually buy the steam pack so i can play the rest of the series, I never bought a game past the first sadly but me an my cousin played Stonghold endlessly for like a month straight after we picked it up used when we were kids.
edit: now that I think of it I should see if he still has heroes of might and magic, another gem we bought together way back.
Stronghold
Game » consists of 3 releases. Released Oct 21, 2001
Stronghold is a castle-building strategy game focused on gathering resources and creating giant armies and keeps.
Oh god! Anyone else dig Stronghold up again...
I dug up the second game,(Stronghold 2, not the expansion even though its longer than the first game) cus I miss the kind of cornball stories historical RTSs tended to have. With those tiny units zoomed in way closer than they ought to be for "cutscenes", voice acting by the programmers. I miss that shit.
" Bought Stronghold off the GOG deal and its freaking great! A bit trial and error, but still great. "As did I.
The game can be brutal at times. I think it was the fourth combat mission where I was prepared for one last wave of enemy archers, when I see tents being pitched. "What are they doing, setting up camp?" I thought to myself. Then suddenly those tents turned into catapults. Was not prepared for that at all. They obliterated my archers and flimsy wood walls in seconds. Needless to say, I got over-run that time.
I actually kind of dug Stronghold 2.
It's dropping of rolling logs on enemies from high ground that did it for me I think.
I think I'll pick up Crusader. It looks like Stronghold but in a different time period so how can you go wrong. Maybe I'll try Extremes if I can handle it. Reading around it seemed like they patched Stronghold 2 pretty well, but the game just doesn't look the same to me. Maybe 3 will eventually come out.
I picked up Crusader at gog.com when they had the special deal last week after watching the QL. Still loving it! Great game.
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