Besides Starcraft 2 what's the best Base-building tactical RTS game?
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Base-building eh? Well that'd have to either be Warhammer 40k Dawn of War, or Company of Heroes, can't quite decide which.
Any of Age of Empires 2, Mythology and AOE3 to me. I love the first game for pure nostalgic reasons, but it doesn't quite hold up to the later ones.
AOE2 is a straight up classic, streamlined but hard to master, and still easy to pick up and play.
Age of Mythology is just all out fun - god powers, myth units, heroes and the addition of favour make it unique, but it still plays as well as AOE2.
AOE3 gets quite a lot of flak from fans of the original, and to an extent rightly so, but if you look past the RPG/Home City element it's the deepest and most rewarding game in the series IMO. With both expansions there's 14 civs, including 6 completely unique ones. Just a shame that the last time I played online, there was one very overpowered civ (Japan).
And next month Age of Empires Online is coming out, which you might find worth checking out since it's free to play.
AOE2 is a straight up classic, streamlined but hard to master, and still easy to pick up and play.
Age of Mythology is just all out fun - god powers, myth units, heroes and the addition of favour make it unique, but it still plays as well as AOE2.
AOE3 gets quite a lot of flak from fans of the original, and to an extent rightly so, but if you look past the RPG/Home City element it's the deepest and most rewarding game in the series IMO. With both expansions there's 14 civs, including 6 completely unique ones. Just a shame that the last time I played online, there was one very overpowered civ (Japan).
And next month Age of Empires Online is coming out, which you might find worth checking out since it's free to play.
I enjoy Supreme Commander and Total Annihilation above all other RTS games.
I don't know what it was, I could never get into Starcraft.
SupCom 2 doesn't exist in my mind though.
I don't know what it was, I could never get into Starcraft.
SupCom 2 doesn't exist in my mind though.
I really loved Warlords Battlecry - I don't know how I forgot to mention it earlier.DeadlyYellow said:
But SupCom 2 is only 3.74 on steam today! ;P(whitty name here) said:
I mentioned CoH in mine. And I would have said DoW2 as well, probably my game of the year 2009...Fenreil said:
I wouldn't say Starcraft 2. In fact, its very far down on my list. I think I had to dig a hole to put it in there.
I hear good things about Company of Heroes.
I hear good things about Company of Heroes.
Tactical RTS is pretty much Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, CNC and Starcraft.
Manly RTS's, on the other hand, are a dime a dozen. Supcom, sins of a solar empire, etc, the ones where the devs don't spend half their time caressing their money and plan on an addicted community who will foolishly follow their profiteering tactics to the end.
Manly RTS's, on the other hand, are a dime a dozen. Supcom, sins of a solar empire, etc, the ones where the devs don't spend half their time caressing their money and plan on an addicted community who will foolishly follow their profiteering tactics to the end.
dow and coh are the top rts around for base building, however u can't eliminate wc3 which is unbelievable given its value even today. besides wc3 those two are easily the best base building games u can get and u don't need to have an apm of 250+ to be good at them
Okay here's the list that I would recommend, some are from the late 90's but don't dismiss them blindly.
Command and Conquer franchise (especially Generals) - DONT start with C&C4 though, they did terrible things...don't wanna talk about it...
KKnD - only game I remember having three factions before starcraft
Total Annihilation (see that's already on your list)
Supreme Commander (see above)
Rise of Legends
Dune 2000
Emperor: Battle for Dune(really anything by Westwood, just check out their library)
Any of the Warcraft games before WOW
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Homeworld
Sins of a Solar Empire
Not a fan of Warhammer 40,000, but Dawn of War (more troop movement than base-building)
.... that's all I can think of now.
Edit: check out Darwinia, not base-building but RTS-ish
Command and Conquer franchise (especially Generals) - DONT start with C&C4 though, they did terrible things...don't wanna talk about it...
KKnD - only game I remember having three factions before starcraft
Total Annihilation (see that's already on your list)
Supreme Commander (see above)
Rise of Legends
Dune 2000
Emperor: Battle for Dune(really anything by Westwood, just check out their library)
Any of the Warcraft games before WOW
Z
Homeworld
Sins of a Solar Empire
Not a fan of Warhammer 40,000, but Dawn of War (more troop movement than base-building)
.... that's all I can think of now.
Edit: check out Darwinia, not base-building but RTS-ish
Red Alert 2 is my favourite RTS. It is a bit dated though.
I especially like the 2 comments above mine.
I especially like the 2 comments above mine.
Command and Conquer.
I really love the original one.
I can't imagine how it could be so bad to warrent such a fast drastic price cut to move sales.
I really love the original one.
I had to laugh at it, the first time I saw it in stores it was already selling for $19.99 new.strider2u said:
I can't imagine how it could be so bad to warrent such a fast drastic price cut to move sales.