Do you feel bad when losing units in strategy games?

[Shadow-Phoenix]

Losing some of my units in Red Alert 3 hardly bothers me because they are just sacrifices unless they are Giga fortresses then they are valued more than any other unit in the whole game.

Losing units on Starcraft 2 just lets me know iv'e don't something wrong in either my build order or my unit positioning.

 

[Njae]

Depends on the game, if it is fire emblem or Valkyria Chronicles, it is close to panic when I loose a unit.
If it is lets say, Red Alert, it is more of of a Meh-feeling

 

[Crissaegrim]

Yes, and I don't want to talk about it...*Sob* oh god, why must good pikmin die young?

 

[ShatterPalm]

Depends on the game. Personally I only bad if the character has an actuall personality that I like and is otherwise.

 

[PatSilverFox]

No.
I have fun!
Say glfh, and actually mean it ^-^

 

[Duruznik]

Yeah, in Civ. Those units that you've had for centuries, if not millenia. They've led your armies, gone up ranks, been upgraded and buffed, given a name... And then a cheap shot ends their life. I've reloaded saves to keep my fave units alive.

In one Civ V session, I discovered a warrior that I had forgotten was fortified in some Godforsaken peninsula. This was around 1500 A.D, so he was harld yneeded. But I took him and he made the long trek back to my lands to be upgraded... and then lost in his first battle. It was a dark day for the Glorious Republic of England. They had lost a hero, a legend.

 

[cleric of the order]

yes sometimes fire

Fire Emblem.



And im not talking that New fancy pants DS version where your characters are thrown around like paper and no one talks to you, im talking about Eliwood, Lyn and Hector, the three of them developing a bond that nothing can shatter. and not to mention the many other characters, all of whom were given emotional baggage....God, if lost even a single unit, I shut off the game. I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't leave a man behind.

It took my years to beat the game.

me too.

 

[Xan Krieger]

Nope, especially when it comes to starcraft because I love the way marines die. I've charged with nothing but marines just to see all their death animations.

Spoiler

I mean look how that one got cut right in half, that's awesome. When my own marines die in similar ways I enjoy it just as much while I'm producing replacements.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

Always. I play stupidly defensively in RTSs. Pikmin too, obviously. Especially when I accidentally drown them.

Yeah, in DoW I occasionally play Marines, spam scouts with a techmarine, gather resources quickly and early. Then...I build. Played a game against 2 'nid computers on expert, with a guard ally (who sucked). Had 6 turrets (2 missiles), 3 devastator squads, a Techmarine with a melta gun, and 2 tactical squads with Rocket launchers.

Many Carnifexes/Hive Tyrants/Warriors/Swarmlords died that day.

 

[JBGigas]

I die a little everytime a Nord Huscarl or Swadian Knight gets killed in Mount And Blade.

 

[Valiance]

Company of Heroes and Homeworld are one of the few RTS games that make me deeply concerned about my troops on an emotional level...

Original War did a good job of this too, as you had VERY limited personnel - you couldn't just "train" 200 marines...You would have like 8-12 people who would change their jobs depending on what you wanted them to do, and if you lost one guy in combat, it would be a legit problem in several ways...Allow me to explain: A guy could collect resources to build a factory, then he can switch jobs into a mechanic inside of it to build a vehicle, which he can then drive - most vehicles had multiple spots for people (one for driver, one for gunner). Everyone was interchangeable, and throughout the game, your characters gained specialties depending on what you had them doing... This made it VERY hard to overcome losing a character. I mean he might be replaced at the start of the next scenario, but you wouldn't have the same stats as the previous guy, not to mention personality/chemistry kinda did matter too.

 

[chronicfc]

Once whilst playing Rome: Total War, me and my friend noticed a general that didn't die, and we named the horse "Hero", for lols, mainly, so we endeavored to keep him alive, I also don't like losing royalty in the Total War series, other than that, no

 

[Valkaris]

When I lose a company of soldiers in Medieval 2 total war that have max experience and have helped me hold in a bunch of sieges or fought a bunch of battles for me, then I usually feel horrible.

Hopefully they go out in a blaze of glory holding the walls against a mongol horde.

 

[chaos order]

i feel bad killing enemy goddamn workers. I figure hey they're not combatants they dont deserve to die. thats why im bad at starcraft 2

 

[cthulhumythos]

regularly- no.

pikmin- "OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?"

you'll never look at water the same way

 

[xXGeckoXx]

So, say you're playing a strategy game and one of your units is lost in battle. Like, anything from Starcraft to Pikmin. Do you feel bad? Or guilty?

Normally I don't, but I take special care to preserve my units in Pikmin 2. Let's face it, they're these adorable little plant creatures that follow you around blindly and do whatever you want to. They'll help you out unconditionally, and as the song "Ai No Uta" says "won't ask you to love us". And when they die from the many hazards, you hear the sound of the number of pikmin dropping, and then that little outcry as their ghost floats away.

Their valuable and charming units that you get endeared to, and to lose them makes me feel kinda bad.

Company of heroes. I don't feel bad about 1 unit but if I have a really good veteran squad who came through for me every time and I accidentally send them into a situation that get's them slaughtered I feel really bad. CoH is good at getting you to feel the desperation of war especcially when you watch supressed soldiers crawl away slowly.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

Sometimes I feel kind of bad when an infantry rush in a C&C game (any of them) gets blown to hell by a wayward helicopter or, even worse, the tactical death-clusterfuck of actual bombers. Not really because of the lost resources, but mostly because it always ends up being a total fucking slaughter. C&C Generals is pretty guilty of this.

Yeah infantry kind of suck in almost every C&C game even the commandos suck sometimes like the Tank busters from RA3 they can only attack ground and tank units and when they hide underground you can see their hats above ground so if your trying to hide from enemy century bombers you've got no chance of having any Tank busters left since they gain no armour buff from hiding underground =/, and the infantry in Generals they just outright suck against almost anything.

 

[HHammond]

Sometimes I'll be playing and I'll loose a unit and think "oh that doesn't matter, they weren't important" then I'd stop and think: "no, they where alive. Those people where human beings and now they're dead". So I'd feel pretty bad afterwards. This doesn't happen very often.

 

[Raregolddragon]

In Red Alert 3 I get somewhat attached to my men they trust me and there dead if I mess up. So I do feel guilty on there deaths.