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    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...

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    #1  Edited By MrOldboy

    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. 

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    #2  Edited By FancySoapsMan

    Stronghold is on sale at GOG.com today.
     
    Just letting you know.

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    #3  Edited By MrKlorox
    @FancySoapsMan:  I also got that email. This isn't the first time a game goes on sale the weekend after GB QL's it. I just forget what the other ones were.
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    #4  Edited By cap123

    I have a copy of it somewhere... I think I may have lost it :(
     
    I totally got the urge while drew was playing though

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    #5  Edited By ryanwho

    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.
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    #6  Edited By MrOldboy

    So how are the rest of the Stronghold games? I never played anything past the first. Should I just stop playing this one and move onto stronghold 2?

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    #7  Edited By rrang

    I heard Stronghold 2 isnt very good. They are coming out with Stronghold 3 apparently this year too!

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    #8  Edited By cabelhigh

    Bought Stronghold off the GOG deal and its freaking great! A bit trial and error, but still great.

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    #9  Edited By welly

    Better check out that GOG deal...I loved me some Crusader back in the day...

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    #10  Edited By cjmabry

    I got it for the first time from GOG, along with Crusaders and Arx Fatalis for 13 bucks. Effin A man!

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    #11  Edited By B0nd07
    @cabelhigh said:
    " 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.
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    #12  Edited By Tennmuerti

    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.

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    #13  Edited By MrOldboy

    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.

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    #14  Edited By snotboogie

    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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    I installed Crusader again. Goddamnit, those games are addicting.

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    #16  Edited By melcene

    I still have all of them.  Haven't played in a while, but its tempting.  Had a helluva lot of fun with 1.

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    #17  Edited By ShockD

    It's a great RTS, nothing wrong with replaying it.
     
    Also if you like Stronghold, you should definitely try Stronghold Crusader.
     
    The 3D Stronghold games suck however.

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