what is your favourite RTS game and why
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Supreme Commander, and a bit of Supreme Commander 2.
Oh, and Command and Conquer.
3 Favourite RTS games
Supreme Commande + 2: Sheer amount of units you can produce, and the experimentals are fucking awesome. Have you seen a battle of experimentals? King Kriptor VS Galactic Collosus is like When 10 Collosii in SC 2 vs Zerg Rush.
Command and Conquer : Sheer nostalgia, one of the first RTS games I tried.
4 sucks.
Oh, and Command and Conquer.
3 Favourite RTS games
Supreme Commande + 2: Sheer amount of units you can produce, and the experimentals are fucking awesome. Have you seen a battle of experimentals? King Kriptor VS Galactic Collosus is like When 10 Collosii in SC 2 vs Zerg Rush.
Command and Conquer : Sheer nostalgia, one of the first RTS games I tried.
4 sucks.
Warcraft 3, this is what I told at a job intervieuw. I told that I liked the graphics and the never boring story and acting. But he asked me about gameplay.
...I didn't know what to say. I couldn't say anything bad about it. Yet, it's the second I've played in my life. (the first being Dungeon Keeper when I was 10 or so) I was suprised at how disciplined my troops were, they didn't do anything unless I said so! (again, not in Dungeon Keeper)
For those who pick Dawn of War, I want to know why. I hope you're saying Dawn of War 2 because yes, DoW had some good gameplay elements and reasonable graphics but the story was short and sucked SO badly! Didn't you think like: "What? That's IT?!"
...I didn't know what to say. I couldn't say anything bad about it. Yet, it's the second I've played in my life. (the first being Dungeon Keeper when I was 10 or so) I was suprised at how disciplined my troops were, they didn't do anything unless I said so! (again, not in Dungeon Keeper)
For those who pick Dawn of War, I want to know why. I hope you're saying Dawn of War 2 because yes, DoW had some good gameplay elements and reasonable graphics but the story was short and sucked SO badly! Didn't you think like: "What? That's IT?!"
Dune 2000. I like the universe and while theres nothing especially amazing about the gameplay, its still fun to whoop on the Harkonans
Warcfrat 3 + Frozen Throne. So many memories, plus the campaign is crazy fun to play. It is what really got me into RTS's.
Siege. Hands up anybody who remembers that one.
In its simplicity, it is everything that I want from an RTS, as a person who does not particularly enjoy RTS's.
I did also enjoy the original C&C, Dune 2, and Homeworld 2 as games that I suck at but have an appreciation for.
In its simplicity, it is everything that I want from an RTS, as a person who does not particularly enjoy RTS's.
I did also enjoy the original C&C, Dune 2, and Homeworld 2 as games that I suck at but have an appreciation for.
Thought I'd be more conflicted about this but when it comes to the sheer amount of fun and hours I've sunk into a game my choice has to be Rome: Total War. Surprised only one other person has mentioned a Total War game so far.
The game is huge, the battles never throw dick-moves at you and instead are all about strategy. The campaign map is wonderfully intuitive to use and adds a whole different game into the mix (to the point where you can auto-resolve every battle and just play it as a turn based Civ-style game). There are a lot of different factions and, while many of them are similar to others, usually there will be a few quirks and they all start in a different place with different challenges. The actual battles themself are just incredible (especially if you have huge unit sizes enabled). When you have your army of 3000 against an enemy of 10000 then you have to make sure every battlefield tactic goes off. And even if you don't win the battle the fact you've badly mauled an enemy means victory in the long run.
I once had a Slavic horde of 12000 (4 seperate armies) siege one of my town which had 1000 defenders. At the end, my guys were dead to a man, but only 4000 Slavs remained. Moments like that make Rome special.
Runners Up are Emperor: Battle For Dune, Sins of a Solar Empire, Homeworld Cataclysm (and 2), Red Alert 2, and Warhammer: Dark Omen (who remembers that one?).
The game is huge, the battles never throw dick-moves at you and instead are all about strategy. The campaign map is wonderfully intuitive to use and adds a whole different game into the mix (to the point where you can auto-resolve every battle and just play it as a turn based Civ-style game). There are a lot of different factions and, while many of them are similar to others, usually there will be a few quirks and they all start in a different place with different challenges. The actual battles themself are just incredible (especially if you have huge unit sizes enabled). When you have your army of 3000 against an enemy of 10000 then you have to make sure every battlefield tactic goes off. And even if you don't win the battle the fact you've badly mauled an enemy means victory in the long run.
I once had a Slavic horde of 12000 (4 seperate armies) siege one of my town which had 1000 defenders. At the end, my guys were dead to a man, but only 4000 Slavs remained. Moments like that make Rome special.
Runners Up are Emperor: Battle For Dune, Sins of a Solar Empire, Homeworld Cataclysm (and 2), Red Alert 2, and Warhammer: Dark Omen (who remembers that one?).
Sure, I may have grown up on Age of Empires, but Dawn of War is my favourite RTS game. It captures the grimdark perfectly and the persistent corpses really evoke the feeling of a large carnage. Looking around near endgame, "Oh hey, its that Guardian Squad that was killed capping the point. They did kill 1 Space Marine though."
I wouldn't know - I use a fusion of a bunch of different mods (mostly GermanSoldiersMod) and as such no other internet games use the same module as me. If I can remember correctly, internet games are usually proper matched (still fun) though I'm somewher out there there's a scenario server.Kurokami said:
If that fails you can just make the scenario in the map editor and play that.
Time for me to dig up the big old nostalgia again: C&C:Tiberian Sun and it's expansion Firestorm - Great story in the campaigns and amazing multiplayer fun, only 2 factions, true, but they were SO different u couldn't really say "well I know how to play GDI therefore I am also a great NOD player". Why the hell did Westwood have to dissapear, they could have made C&C 3 and RA3 what it deserved to be, not the russian space brigade vs the japanese robots vs the allied flying cowboys.
