RTSs

[Spoo]

Real-time strategy
Real-time strategy (RTS) games are a genre of computer wargames which do not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II.

In an RTS, as in other wargames, the participants position and maneuver units and structures under their control to secure areas of the map and/or destroy their opponents' assets. In a typical RTS it is possible to create additional units and structures during the course of a game. This is generally limited by a requirement to expend accumulated resources. These resources are in turn garnered by controlling special points on the map and/or possessing certain types of units and structures devoted to this purpose. More specifically, the typical game of the RTS genre features resource gathering, base building, in-game technological development and indirect control of units.

The Wikipedia provided description should be unnecessary.

I am shocked at the lack of interest of RTSs on this forum. Sure, the primary genre is RPGs and all, but aren't RTSs pretty close relatives of them? Can someone please show some interest?

RTSs were basically my first non-kiddie PC games. I started playing Command & Conquer [intelligently] at a fairly young age (probably no older than six or so), and I stuck with that for several years. It was fun and challenging but the lack of a skirmish game type had me bored after a while, so I picked up an at the time new game that, in my opinion, was very underrated. Real War: Rogue States; this game consisted of a pretty good mix of tactics and base building, and it had a nice customizable skirmish system to it. I still play this from time to time, though I play other things more.

After RWRS I moved on to the more popular games Warcraft III and Starcraft. These games were different and therefore hard on me. I positively loved WCIII's online (DotA, Tower Defense, etc.) and it's map editor (Fun fact: Had I not bought WCIII, I wouldn't be making RPGs today).

Somewhere in the gaps of this history I also got interested in Stronghold, the castle sim. This was thanks to my brother-in-law who let me borrow the game briefly. Stronghold was also a very customizable game and I liked the balance of social, economical, and military management it provided. Stronghold Crusader is still one of my favorite games to date. I would pick up Stronghold 2, but I can't find a copy anywhere and, quite frankly, the 3D version just doesn't seen like it'd be the same great game I played before.

tl;dr I like RTSs, how 'bout you?

 

[Jason]

Red Alert 2 = Best RTS ever made.

/thread

 

[Daxis]

no problem with them. I've had some fun, although admittedly the only command/conquer I played had horrible controls and trying to play starcraft had similar results.
Age of series was fun as shit though.

 

[Spoo]

Gah! I forgot all about the Age of series; I never played the real games, but Star Wars: Glactic Battlegrounds was a lot like it.

 

[Venetia]

pharaoh > everything forever

age of mythology is my #2

stronghold is my #3

am currently playing starcraft 2 but it will remain off my top rts list until i can play zerg

 

[Daxis]

age of mythology was fun, but in the main age of series I liked #2 the best. #1 sorta was average, and number didn't work out for me. Mythology had innovation and crap.

On the otherhand, check out the game Majesty. Majesty was a fantasy rpg/rts mix, where you actually had units that leveled up, but you couldn't control them; you set bounties on monsters, and the higher it is, the more likely the units produced would attack them. Fun, fun shit, although I haven't tried majesty 2.

 

[Fusty]

I love RTS´s, I've played most of the Age of Empires games and more recently I've been playing a lot of Halo Wars, yes it's a console RTS but this game is one of the few (if not the only one) that actually plays really good.
Besides those I tried Command and Conquer but I never really got into that, dunno why...

 

[Necrile]

shogun 2 looks absolutely amazing (yes i know its a tbs but stfu).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yFuYTC9jXc
Also red alert 3 was amazing awesome, even on the consoles (hit me up if you have a ps3)

 

[Jason]

Lol Necrile I'm actually thinking of buying Red Alert 3 on PS3 since I saw it for like £12 (That's about $18ish) but didn't have any cash out with me at the time, although I can order it online with free delivery anyway, think I'll have to... someday. First I'll have to wait until I've finished Disgaea 3 (Haven't even finished the story, haha...) and my backlog of many games D:

 

[Necrile]

(Side note: WHAT? dude, play disgaea to the sweet end (Land of carnage endgame pirates), the game doesnt even start until you beat the story)

Yes. Get red alert. It's so much fun, and the three campaigns are so different and amazing.

 

[Jason]

Lol I know it doesn't start until the end, but I've been in the Item World for like 60 hours levelling my guys up so I can just roll through the last chapter of the game, all my people are level 400-600 right now, with the exception of Mao who's 750ish, probably high enough to finish the story anyway since it can be done at level 60-70, but meh, I'm looking for pirates too lol, haven't found any yet, although that's maybe because I've only gone over floor 90 a few times since I get bored around floor 60 or so. Also, do you know the name of the club that lets you jump higher? I forgot what it's called, but I couldn't finish the treasure room because I couldn't reach any chests that were on towers of 4 blocks or more D:

Also, we're sort of derailing the topic aren't we?

 

[Necrile]

Like, bird watchers club or something. Also, dude. just do death eaters (7-3 i think?), until you get hall of ordeals 4.

Also, I forgot to mention company of heroes. If anyone has it, hit me up as well. (as well as if you have warcraft 3)

 

[Jason]

I've played Company of Heroes, thought it was pretty good, although I don't actually own it, I played it at my mates. And I do own Warcraft 3 + Frozen Throne, but haven't got 'em installed anymore and I can't be arsed reinstalling 'em, haha.

 

[Necrile]

Register your keys on battle.net :3 Takes a lot of strain off of having to worry about your discs etc.

 

[Jason]

Effort.

 

[Necrile]

Aforte.

 

[Spoo]

Like, bird watchers club or something. Also, dude. just do death eaters (7-3 i think?), until you get hall of ordeals 4.

Also, I forgot to mention company of heroes. If anyone has it, hit me up as well. (as well as if you have warcraft 3)

I've got WC3 but it's currently being held hostage by my brother in law, probably because I have his precious MW2 but w/e. I'd like to play Company of Heroes sometime, but isn't there a steep learning curve to that or something?

 

[Necrile]

Not really. Make sure you get the tales of valor expansion though, seeing as the british whoop fucking ass. (even though when i play lan with my brother he always fucks me with the german v2 rockets >_<)

 

[psiclone]

is company of heroes the one where you call in mortar strikes and stuff? if so, there's like, no learning curve for that imho. though, i only played the campaign cause i pirated it, so idk.

 

[Velocir_X]

I started with the Age of Series (And I still play Age of Mythology, IMO best one - didn't like 3 very much)
I've also started playing Warhammer 40k Dawn of War, which I find absolutely brilliant.
And since Starcraft 2 came out I've been meaning to pick up a copy of the Starcraft battle chest - but it awfully overpriced for a 12 year old game