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I've tried to not miss anything obvious but sorry if i did.
I wake this morning in the warm glow of RTS nostalgia. I wanna know what your favourite is and - dare i hope? - some anecdotes~
Any titles in the poll which are the names of wider series rather than individual games should be treated as umbrella options for the series. If you want to specify more closely (say, tiberium sun vs c&c 4) i invite you to comment
EDIT: My choice (took a while)
I wake this morning in the warm glow of RTS nostalgia. I wanna know what your favourite is and - dare i hope? - some anecdotes~
Any titles in the poll which are the names of wider series rather than individual games should be treated as umbrella options for the series. If you want to specify more closely (say, tiberium sun vs c&c 4) i invite you to comment
EDIT: My choice (took a while)
Honourable mentions:
World in Conflict - I think this is probably the perfect modern warfare RTS. A descendant of the surpassing Ground Control series, I was recently replaying this and was completely dumbfounded to hear that it was made in 2007!!! It is gorgeous to this very f*cking day. And the gameplay is addictive, the campaign smooth as silk and really tense.
Warcraft 3 - This game was a Big Bang of an RTS game for me. Games would never be the same again, and it would lead directly into a 15+ year WoW addiction. I'd just be wasting words if I tried to say more, it was just the lushest, more dramatic, most visually stimulating, more completion-inspiring game I ever played.
Age of Mythology - Basically better than Age of Empires 2, it came later and didn't get as much playtime but hot DAMN.
Rise of Legends - I loved Rise of Nations with a burning passion, but RISE OF LEGENDS is where it's at with this series! Fantastic gameplay changes, great graphics, awesome units, it was just a total adventure and I recommend it to everyone.
Ground Control - The first title was a huge groundbreaker and a total delight. It blew my little brain apart when I first saw it in like 1999 or something, at a neighbor's house, and to this day i think the graphics are timeless and really stylish.
Homeworld - you can't not mention homeworld, but it was basically everything I said for ground control but space-bound, more epic, with beautiful music and fantastic battles/ships. It just had next to no replayability compared to other games on this list.
>>this thread has let me get in touch with my inner RTS fan, which i am, probably, first and foremost<<
My pick: Age of Empires (series)
^^Hard to find good gifs ^^
It can only be Age of Empires. Other games were more explosive, more dramatic, more beautiful, but none of the games had the pitch perfect gameplay, and none of them ate up as many hours as AoE2 did for me, and Age of Empires before it. I've been playing this RTSs since the very dawn of my PC career back in 1998.
Awesome campaigns, pretty landscapes, great iconic units, a rock solid economy, a diamond of a Random Map game creator and mission editor... A few lackluster HD remakes don't detract from the prefect of Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors Expansion.
World in Conflict - I think this is probably the perfect modern warfare RTS. A descendant of the surpassing Ground Control series, I was recently replaying this and was completely dumbfounded to hear that it was made in 2007!!! It is gorgeous to this very f*cking day. And the gameplay is addictive, the campaign smooth as silk and really tense.
Warcraft 3 - This game was a Big Bang of an RTS game for me. Games would never be the same again, and it would lead directly into a 15+ year WoW addiction. I'd just be wasting words if I tried to say more, it was just the lushest, more dramatic, most visually stimulating, more completion-inspiring game I ever played.
Age of Mythology - Basically better than Age of Empires 2, it came later and didn't get as much playtime but hot DAMN.
Rise of Legends - I loved Rise of Nations with a burning passion, but RISE OF LEGENDS is where it's at with this series! Fantastic gameplay changes, great graphics, awesome units, it was just a total adventure and I recommend it to everyone.
Ground Control - The first title was a huge groundbreaker and a total delight. It blew my little brain apart when I first saw it in like 1999 or something, at a neighbor's house, and to this day i think the graphics are timeless and really stylish.
Homeworld - you can't not mention homeworld, but it was basically everything I said for ground control but space-bound, more epic, with beautiful music and fantastic battles/ships. It just had next to no replayability compared to other games on this list.
>>this thread has let me get in touch with my inner RTS fan, which i am, probably, first and foremost<<
My pick: Age of Empires (series)
^^Hard to find good gifs ^^
It can only be Age of Empires. Other games were more explosive, more dramatic, more beautiful, but none of the games had the pitch perfect gameplay, and none of them ate up as many hours as AoE2 did for me, and Age of Empires before it. I've been playing this RTSs since the very dawn of my PC career back in 1998.
Awesome campaigns, pretty landscapes, great iconic units, a rock solid economy, a diamond of a Random Map game creator and mission editor... A few lackluster HD remakes don't detract from the prefect of Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors Expansion.
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