Thread 724905941

name an RTS that is not AOE, AOM, warcraft, starcraft or command & conquer

age of empires 2

homeworld deserts of kharak

KKND
Total Annihilation
Dune 2000
Grey Goo

Homeworld
Total Annihilation

Stronghold OG, playn it right friken now this snake guy is gonna GET IT

>>724905941 (OP)
Act of War
Act of War High Treason
Ground Control 2

>>724905941 (OP)
Supreme Commander
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

Rise of Nations
Dawn of War

battle realms
populous 3
total annihilation kingdoms

>>724905941 (OP)
Homeworld
Total Annihilation
Sins of a Solar Empire
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War
Tempest Rising
Tooth and Tail
Star Wars: Empire at Wat
Impossible Creatures
Iron Harvest
Halo Wars
Sea Salt
Universe at War: Earth Assault
Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth
Mech Commander

>>724906089
Black and White
Majesty

>>724906153
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Forever

>>724905941 (OP)
starcraft 2

>>724905941 (OP)
Empire Earth series
Halo Wars 1 & 2
Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds

AI War 1 and 2

>>724905941 (OP)
I'll shamelessly consider Dungeon Keeper-series as an RTS.
In that vein I'll also shill War for the Overworld as the spiritual Dungeon Keeper 3.

>>724906221
I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned in right near the start of the thread.
Was this game really not that popular?

This seems like as good an opportunity to ask as any, I bought these in a bundle over a decade ago but does the Anniversary Edition contain the expansions or am I supposed to install them separately? The store page implies it contains them

World in Conflict
Company of Heroes
Men of War
Wargame Red Dragon

>>724905941 (OP)
Original war. Fantastic hidden gem RTS

Rise of Nations goes dummy

the greatest of all time

>>724905941 (OP)
Z

>>724906193
Rise of Legends
The Settlers series
Cultures 2

>>724905941 (OP)
Blitzkrieg
Commandos

>>724905941 (OP)
spellforce

>>724906345
it got several sequels but AoE was just plain better.

>>724905941 (OP)
>Primitive Wars
I remember this game
Check picrel.

>>724905941 (OP)
Dawn of War.

sins of a solar empire: rebellion

>>724905941 (OP)
dawn of war
that flash game where you spam units in lines, think it was called warlords
that flash game where you play as either romans, chinese or some third race i can't remember and have to take over circles of the other teams
that extremely jank starcraft clone made in the early 2000s that became abandonware

Command and Conquer Generals and LOTR Battle for Middle Earth 2 were both fun

Fate of the Dragon

Perimeter

>>724905941 (OP)
Sins of a Solar Empire is my GOAT

>>724905941 (OP)
Empire Earth 2

Battle for Middle Earth 1, 2 and the expansion.

>>724906754
Dude this looks fuckin sick

>>724906490
close follow-up

>>724906345
IDK, I always felt it was never that popular, but it did get a couple sequels
The AI cheating like crazy doesnt help it at all I feel

>>724906830
I played this in 2001. It was developed by some Taiwanese studio. In the game you have two maps - local and global. You send the troops to the global map to enter "strongholds" either occupied by the AI or neutral. You conquer them so you have many local maps where you get to have the gates and the walls preventing the enemy from entering until they are breached. There's also cool stuff like research and rituals in the temple that give you all sorts of boons.

>>724906856
raced you. see >>724906754

>>724905941 (OP)

alchemist. did anyone play this?

>>724906937
Yeah im thinkin im gonna try this, reviews from the time seem to like it too

>>724907158
another thing that I might misremember is that there were seasons. But maybe I'm confusing it with something else. I remember that you had to switch from farming millet or rice or something to pigs. But again, I might confuse it with something else.

KnightShift
Armies of Exigo
Warlords Battlecry
American Conquest
Tzar

ai war

Real War + Real War: Rogue States expansion pack

Age of Darkness final stand was pretty cool

>>724905941 (OP)
>Completely disappears, never to be seen again

>>724905941 (OP)
Seventh Legion

>>724906372
AE has them all

Kohan

>>724907162
I ordered this game off Amazon back in I think 2002. fun game

One of the greatest RTS games, you cant tell me otherwise

>>724909217
I really enjoyed it more than the AoE

>>724905941 (OP)
Original War

>>724909217
pretty fun AoE clone

>>724906490
kino

>>724905941 (OP)
Ground Control, Homeworld.

>>724906221
WEEERLL UNDERLL ATTACK

>>724905941 (OP)
Godsworn

>>724906221
>my name is methos

>>724905941 (OP)
Pikmin

Homeworld: Cataclysm
Superior to the original mechanically, your tone and narrative preference will dictate which you prefer.

Dark Reign.

One of these days I'll bother to check out its sequel.

>>724906193
>Black and White
Braindead game but I loved it so much.

>>724905941 (OP)
STAR WARS™ Galactic Battlegrounds Saga

>>724905941 (OP)
starship troopers: terran command
steel division 2
warno
mindustry
company of heroes 2
dawn of war
ai war

>>724905941 (OP)
Paraworld
Dragonshard
Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring
Act of War
Act of Aggression
World in Conflict

>>724905941 (OP)
Herzog Zwei

>>724905941 (OP)
Dark Reign 2

>>724905941 (OP)
BAR

Sacrifice

>>724905941 (OP)
Rise of Nations

Unironically the best RTS of all time

>>724907664
Shitty IP, movie slop and millenials killed it.

outpost 2 divided destiny, a colony sim rts from ancient times

>>724911616
MY NIGGA

>>724905941 (OP)
0 a.d.

empire earth

>>724906636
Fuck I liked this shitty game. Had a boxed copy. I remember it had a first person spinoff where you could jack people's mechs too.

>>724912052
In my humble stupid opinion rise of legends was better because I could play steampunk italian robots versus aztec aliens.

>>724905941 (OP)
Battle for Middle Earth

>>724905941 (OP)
War Wind

ParaWorld my beloved...

>>724909217
it needs a DE edition

>6 campaigns, can be played as one of two leaders each
>roguelike mode at the end
>first DND advanced game on pc
>had tits, and beautiful spritework
One of my favourites as a kid.

>>724906102
Peak vidya

>>724905941 (OP)
Rise of Nations
Impossible Creatures
Rise of Legends
American Conquest
War Front: Turning Point
The Settlers - Heritage of Kings
Stronghold 2
Stronghold Crusader
Stronghold Crusader Extreme

Ones I never played but know of:
Cossacks
That Star Wars game that they built on the AoE engine
Halo Wars
Stronghold
Stronghold Legends
Stronghold 3

Similar for those who enjoy the genre:
Rome - Total War
Imperial Glory
Star Wars: Empire at War
World in Conflict

>>724906856
Have this on disc. Loved the glide units just spam them and ignore enemy walls LMAO

>>724906139
I bought Act of War a few years after it came out but could never get it to work. Worth playing?
>>724906193
>>724906221
Forgot these two. Dungeon Keeper 2 (presumably also Dungeon Keeper 1, but I never played it).

>>724906382
These aren’t really RTS games since the building element is marginal to the core gameplay. Most who enjoy RTS games will like them, though.

Is RTS castle defence like thronefall or TheyAreBillions or Darfall RTS? I play a lot of this shit because it's the only thing that I see come out for RTS these days.

>>724915983
is thronefall fun? i considered getting it or the one that came out around the same time with a similar premise.

Warrior Kings ofcourse one of the most underrated RTS games of the 1990's

>>724907218
I loved Tzar, a shame I never got to finish the campaign due to a combination of soft locking bugs and a lack of skill

Zeus

>>724905941 (OP)
that one RTS about time travel that seemed like it'd change everything but then didn't, not sure it even came out

>>724916090
Yeah it's pretty fun, feels like a wc3 custom game or something.

Why are there no good Modern Warfare RTS games. I tried playing Syrian Warfare but it feels like a janky CoH mod.

>>724916480
Warno is pretty good but it's also very milsimy.

>>724916480
modern warfare is too spread out to fit with what RTS excels at. it'd really only make sense as a map game and that's not what people who play RTS want

This game is kinda shit but it had one really cool mechanic, you could lob limbs off your opponent's mech, steal them, bring them back to base, reverse engineer them, and use that component for your own mech.
Still not interested? Ok how about the fact you fight on 3 different levels. Ground, underground, and sky (low orbit?)

Warlords Battlecry 3

>>724905941 (OP)
Hey sseth, looking for some new games?

>>724916551
i wish eugen wasnt retarded and was better at marketing warno. it's a lot of fun.

>>724906185
stopped reading at mech commander

Rasetsu (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THFhfpaIHMg&t=395s

Star Command Deluxe
This pile of shit came out 1 year after red alert and I doubt anybody here has played it but I loved this shit.

>>724916660
There's been several attempts at it. Like World in Conflict, and that Red Dragon game. The irony being that the abstraction most games use to make their gameplay work could probably benefit a modern warfare style RTS. Worked out well for CnC Generals.

Z

>>724915149
I had that first person game, it was actually a predecessor. It had the mechanic where you could play on foot or inside a mech, which was quite advanced at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUSl_DLlPBc

I like that the game was developed by the 7th Level which also made a pretty fun Ace Ventura adventure and two Monty Python games.

>>724917379
I wish there were more anime themed rts games

>>724916480
warno, broken arrow, call to arms, RTTs are better fit for modern warfare

>>724905941 (OP)
dune 2000

>>724917543
I only had the demo for g-nome, it really seemed fun. Dominion was kinda jank compared to how slick red alert was unfortunately but it was bogged down in a mess of production.

>>724905941 (OP)
Shattered Galaxy

>>724917778
Dominion reminded me of Space Clash: The Last Frontier from 1999. That was a cute little game from Spain but somehow it was very difficult for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0s7mTNW60

I love this little game like you wouldn't believe. What other games let you listen to the game's entire soundtrack played by a goblin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbAbihV5CH0
Caves was the best by far.

Playing dawn of war right now, soulstorm specifically because I think the flying shit added in the last expansion was dumb.

>Golem
>2002
>Sea-based RTS
>Three races: steampunky humans, biohorrors and a sci fi master race.
Wasn't as fun as Submarine Titans but still pretty cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97GKEWUqzB4

>>724918121
>Soulstorm
>Dark Crusades campaign map

Que?

>>724917692
This was in 2001, when Japan's PC market is dying en masse. The only real time strategy games left are the Nobunaga's Ambition and Romance of Three Kingdoms games.

>>724905941 (OP)
When are people going to make an RTS that doesn't have that stupid isometric camera? I want an RTS where your character is actually on the battlefield fighting and controlling your army at the same time.

It was not of the best ones but god, this soundtrack may unironically be among the best in all the industry.
https://youtu.be/Zr1Dnv8LQsw?si=PH08sAiSGRIpEBO-

>>724918704
Brutal Legend is the best I can think of that tried that.

>>724918242
he meant dark crusade, you can tell because he used correct name for the game with the flying shit that he said he didn't like.

Settlers II
The game's soundtrack was made by the guy behind the Falkenbach band, I think.

>>724918242
>>724918853
Sorry that's correct, playing dark crusade because soulstorm flying shit.

>>724918704
>I want an RTS where your character is actually on the battlefield fighting and controlling your army at the same time.
1. That camera is kino fuck you
2. There are quite a few games that do that but they never sell well and mostly died out. Battlezone is the most famous, Viking battle for Asgard is one of the more recent attempts.

>>724918704

Spell force
Hostile Waters
Sacrifice

Age of mythology

>>724918704
Battlefield 2 and 2142 had this, it was called commander mode.
Also planetside 2 you can lead platoons of 48 people, and you're staring at the map 95% of the time.

>>724918704
>I want an RTS for brown "people" which is actually just an OTS action game
there are dozens of those

>>724905941 (OP)
War Wind

>>724905941 (OP)
world in conflict

Shouldn't RTS discussion be held on the RTS board?

>>>/vst/

>>724919543
no

>>724919543
>Dead /v/ splinter is dead
shocking

>>724906345
It was popular at the time but didn't leave much of a legacy.
Honestly Empire Earth 2 was pretty cool but came a bit late for the genre.

The lack of a good way to play either these days doesn't help.

>>724919543
There are also boards for multiplayer games and rpg games, shouldn't all discussion of that be on their respective boards too?

>>724906372
Buying AE gives you the others but you launch them separately on steam.
You only need whichever one you want installed, except possibly winter assault needing the base game idk.

>>724919543
I honestly think autistic people are subhumans. You are worthless and a weight on everyone around you including your parents and you should kill yourself. You are not in good company, we would instantly murder you if this was real life.

>Conquest: Frontier Wars
I loved this stupid game far too much as a kid.
It was the most blatant Starcraft ripoff ever but it was fun.

Question is there a japanese RTS? or do they lack the ability to fight war in real time?

>>724905941 (OP)
>>724918704
Divinity: Dragon Commander

>>724919878
Aw shit I forgot that game existed.
>got to marry a skeleton
Sweet
>she can become a sex bot or steal a human woman's skin to appease you
SWEET

This GBA RTS has one of the best campaign/mission design ever.

>>724919845
>Go into RTS thread to bemoan autists.
Where do you think we are

>>724905941 (OP)
This genre literally was everywhere up to the mid 2000’s then suddenly disappeared . WHAT happened?

>>724918704
They've done it countless times.
You being too retarded and brown to conceptualize anything beyond "your dude" doing things isn't going to make that fundamentally poor concept work.

>>724919993
MOBAS

>>724919993
the casuls and tryhards went to mobas
the autists went to map painter or 4x

>>724919993
Vast IQ drop in the median gamer due to casuals and thirdies

>>724919964
some autists are more equal than others, shitty mentally ill ritual poster is not an equal.

>>724919993
Most obvious cause is that the genre fragmented and split heavily, with more and more prevalence of 4X games, different types of RTS like Total War, MOBAs, eventually colony sims popping up to fill the "gather-resources-and-base-build" desire, and so on.

The real reason though is just that actual PC gaming died. Essentially every fundamentally PC genre died over the course of the 00's. CRPGs? Dead. Space Sims? Dead. Arena FPS? Dead. And so on.
The only things that survived lived through being small enough scale for the indie boom in the early 2010's, or by a couple of individual huge games that carried their genre alone.

>+100 replies
>not a single mention of Sudden Strike
the sheer amount of expansions, spin-offs, clones, mods, bootlegs, let alone illegally released copycats (*cough* Red Ice *cough*) is mind boggling. And that's not even including Nival's plagiarized pseudo-3D copycat - Blitzkrieg.

>>724920353
I thought this was the copycat, do they play the same? I didn't like Blitzkrieg too much even though it looks amazing, the gameplay is kind meh.

>>724919768
Fuck, this game was honestly my weeb awakening as a kid. I don't know how I found it and got a translation patch working at the age that I did, but hey.

Honestly ever since I've wondered about the more niche Japanese strategy games. It's always seemed like there's more there, but they're mega niche and there's almost no information on them. Stuff like Galaxy Angel, Schwarzschild, etc. have a weirdly distinct vibe to them.

>>724919878
>Same devs as BG3
hmm maybe i should give that a try

>>724919993
My theory is it was impossible to monetize.
Look at sc2 for example. The game + expansion format simply doesn't work when you could instead sell loot crates to whales for 4 million dollars. A whale in an rts can only spend as much as a regular gamer.

>>724920705
Stellaris shows you can convince people to continuously buy shit to make your game functional...because you sold the mechanics to the next patch separately.

>>724920432
no it's different. I can't say if it feels the same for someone else but for me it doesn't. The original Sudden Strike game was actually a third installment of Russian language WW2 RTS developed by a bunch of people who finished some fancy electronics institute in early 1990s or so. Blitzkrieg came much later and was just one example of Nival's shady habit of stealing other people's ideas.

>>724920842
Paradox has this shit down to a science. But I don't think that would work in multiplayer and in real time.

>>724920934
Paradox has presumably been "encouraging" Triumph to do that with Age of Wonders 4. The game is already gearing up for a 3rd wave of DLC to the point that what it was at launch and what it is now is practically 2 different games.

ORB

>>724921219
holy kino

The first rts game I ever played was Rise and Fall. It probably wasnt very good but I played it alot since it was one of the first pc games I ever bought with my own money.

>>724905941 (OP)
Stronghold 1 & Crusader
Original War
Impossible Creatures
Submarine Titans
Warlords Battlecry 3
:^)

I've never played it personally but Gothic armada 2

>>724921384
>Original War
that main menu theme still haunts me

I have no fucking clue if these are technically tactics games, but there was an Army Men RTS.

>>724905941 (OP)
Rise of nations

>>724920590
It's honestly not good, gameplay wise. It's honestly popular because of the three main girls that you could marry.

>>724920353
It's horribly unbalanced and generally not fun, unless you like quick saving and quick loading constantly.

>>724905941 (OP)
kingdom under fire

Kingdom Under Fire
Black Moon Chronicles
Dark Colony
Earth 2140
Polanie
Myth: The Fallen Lords

>>724920121
>>724920140
>>724920270
>>724920705
This is all generally correct, but missing the core issue. People became extremely insecure faggots due to self-esteem educational models eliminating social competition from life, and RTS is one of the quintessential competitive genres. That's ultimately what caused the splintering. If people aren't looking for competition, other genres do what single-player RTS does, but better. In the online RTS games still alive today, the most popular modes are co-op compstomps and team games.

The FGC likely only survived by grace of the genre's approachability due to its extremely low skill floor. Competitive FPS has only become more team-based over time. MOBAs became more popular not just because they're far simpler with a character focus for people like this >>724918704, but because they are fundamentally imbalanced and team-based, allowing protection of the ego in almost all situations. Compared to RTS, most 4X and sims are entirely constructed around a more relaxed single-player experience, have a much lower skill floor, and have more depth and content.

There's also the contributing factor that, being inherently competitive, RTS is stressful, and the vast majority of people aren't looking for more stress in their lives right now.

>>724905941 (OP)
Tooth and Tail. It's a mediocre game but I remember there being a lot of hype for this game before it came out. It's completely forgotten now and I'm surprised the furries haven't latched on to this game.

>>724921434
Bombastic game and underrated around these parts

I bought endwar and stormrise.

>>724923230
>headless soldier nebula in the background
based

>scroll through the suggestions
>almost every game I wanted to mention has been mentioned
Good on ya, /v/, making me proud

To add to the thread:
Rising Kingdoms
Heroes of Annihilated Empires
Atrox (lmao)

>>724905941 (OP)
Sins of a Solar Empire

>>724906221
WE'RE UNDA A TAK

>>724922476
I'll add to this that the genre is saturated, just like FPS.
There are so many existing titles with variations in mechanics and themes that I'm not sure what a new RTS could do to differentiate itself. Speaking personally, I can't imagine what would get me to stop playing AoE2 (other than continued dogshit expansions, but then it's back to Voobly). Microsoft tried with 4, but that was basically AoE3:2 and only supplanted that less popular entry.

>>724905941 (OP)
Original War

Since nobody mentioned them
Army Men RTS
Battle Realms
Dark Planet Battle for Natrolis

>>724920140
https://quanticfoundry.com/2024/05/21/strategy-decline
>When we looked for long-term trends across the 12 motivations, we found that many motivations were stable or experienced minor deviations over the past 9 years. Strategy was the clear exception; it had substantially declined over the past 9 years and the magnitude of this change was more than twice the size of the next largest change.
>It’s the equivalent of everyone (worldwide) losing 6.60 points of IQ.

>>724906065
>KKND(2: Krossfire)
>>724919856
>Conquest: Frontier Wars
>>724910205
>>724911493
>Dark Reign
looks like I have nothing to add here, other than specifying the KKND sequel, damn I was fucking young when I played this shit not even 10 yet
fuck I want it, I want that child brain dopamine sense of wonder getting brain sexed by everything

>>724906384
it's not hidden, people played it and discovered it was complete dogshit

>>724919857
there are plenty, they're just not the cookie-cutter top down build bases send blobs to attack style of western rts games.

>>724905941 (OP)
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty

It's easy because command and conquer is just that game with a worse IP. They even kept the fucking spice harvesters.

>>724905941 (OP)
Northgard
Stronghold series
Combatants

Dune 2
Dune 2000
Emperor: Battle for Dune
7th Legion
Total Annihilation
Majesty(?)
Warlords Battlecry
Homeworld
War of the Rings
Battle for Middle Earth
Dawn of War
Company of Heroes
Populous 2
Battle Realms

>>724924989
Damn, that's a useful article.

>>724926695
>Northgard
Dune: Spice Wars did it better desu, though it basically requires being played multiplayer.

Warzone 2100
One of the first PC games I ever owned

Dark Colony
War Wind
Outlive
Stalin vs Martians
ZeroSpace and D.O.R.F. (coming Soon™)

>>724905941 (OP)
Does Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds count?

I saw a voxel-based RTT game on YouTube about a year ago that looked cool. Anyone know what it might have been? Fully destructible environment, played like World in Conflict, and looked like Ace of Spades.

>>724906221
BASED

>>724916674
Blue print progression. Seen in that one Minecraft clone (Story something or other), Spore, Rust, Unturned. Kind of a cool mechanic.

>>724917505
World of Conflict was cool but I remember the units being kind of dumb. It made it a lot of micromanagement which I couldn’t keep up with even when I was younger.

>>724906705
What mod is this ? Looks good.

>>724907463
I heard about it but never played it. I know it was advertised with this mini game called Kilt Invaders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iIlJDNeAsA
This also reminds me of another minigame advertising Settlers 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7VtTPnCC3I

>>724917960
How is it that all of these games from the 1990s look so much better than the crap we got in the 2000s? I know most of them were painful to micromanage and had bad controls but I just can’t figure out what the art directors were even thinking going 3D. Age of Empires III was the first RTS I ever owned and I played Rise of Nations far more often just because it looked so much better.

I had a demo disc that came with pretty much the full skirmish mode for free, so good

>>724905941 (OP)
Impossible Creatures
Metal Fatigue
Army Men RTS
Battle Realms: Winter of the Wolf
Sacrifice
Age of Ethanols

>>724918704
There’s Overlord (an Age of Empires 2 mod), and Dungeon Keeper. There was a game like this I remember seeing in the store like 20 years ago where it was an RTS based in classical Greece but you could fight in first person mode using a hero unit (I’ve never been able to find it online, though).

It’s a cool idea in theory but in practice the mechanic isn’t really all that fun and becomes anachronous once you move beyond the Napoleonic Era.

>>724922135
>>724922292
>Kingdom Under Fire
Great game

>>724919227
Battlefield 2 and 2142 were both FPS games, not RTS games. I don’t think 2 had it. I could never get it to work with 2142.
>Planetside 2
I had an idea for a game like this before I had ever heard of it. I’ve still never gotten around to playing it but I imagine it’s a lot of fun.

>>724917542
My brother. I remember watching the intro cutscene with my friend in primary school. We laughed at the robots drinking beer.

>>724932048
>It’s a cool idea in theory but in practice the mechanic isn’t really all that fun and becomes anachronous once you move beyond the Napoleonic Era.
It works if an NPC controls the vast legion of mooks and the player is just one unit in that vast sea of mooks (see: RUNNING WITH RIFLES) and some PvP FPS game I can't remember the name of where it's another player putting down buildings and making NPC units and stuff, but I think at that point you're entering ASSFAGGOTS territory if you have to make the player characters unique from the NPC mobs.

>>724905941 (OP)
Sudden Strike, Blitzkrieg, Ground Control.

>>724919673
I tried going back and playing Empire Earth II years ago and it didn’t hold up at all. Bad camera, janky controls. I remember loving it as a kid, though, it had some great campaigns.

0 A.D.

>>724922476
I liked playing some of these games competitively, but not others. I grew up treating AoE3, AoM, and Rise of Nations as Sim City builders in single player mode. When I got to high school I played a lot of Stronghold 2 online; no fog of war meant it was easy to learn the meta before I even knew what a “meta” was. The community also generally played teams and the skill range varied a ton but didn’t have any ultra competitive players because there was no matchmaking service, just a GameSpy lobby. This was funny. By contrast, in the 11th grade my friends all got really into playing Age of Empires 2 and I hated it because two of them memorized build orders and would flatten everyone with siege onagers while we were still in feudal. I love watching Age of Empires II online but I hate playing it simply because the only way to be competitive is to treat it formulaically like chess.

>>724919993
Shit genre, at least League is slightly fun.

>>724922476
> allowing protection of the ego in almost all situations
Maybe I should start playing MOBAs…

>>724905941 (OP)
Cosmonarchy >:)))
>But that's just Starcraft 1
Modded to hell and back to the point it's no longer Starcraft 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaTRgneNi8A

>>724917503
I had this janky ass game, I love how it had a bunch of novel ideas like each faction having their own damage type which caused different effects.

>>724932245
You’re describing cooperative play. You could do this in World of Conflict and (if I recall correctly) Rise of Nations. It would have been cool in Age of Empires 2 since economic management is so much more involved, but in Rise of Nations you usually just set it and forget it, so the other player is basically just another set of eyes to respond to attacks.

>Conquest Earth
>pestered dad day in day out to get it because it looked really cool
>finally get it
>it's such a broken piece of shit even 9 year old me couldn't cope with
Probably the first time I was crushingly disappointed by a game. Like units would not do anything, not even shoot unless specifically ordered to. And when you ordered a unit to attack, it would simply shoot from wherever it stood regardless of whether the target was even in range.

>>724905941 (OP)
Age of Mythology: Extended Edition

>>724933151
lol. Experienced this with a few games. It was always disappointing.

Rise of Nations was pretty kino

>>724905941 (OP)
i'll even name two that arent in this thread
>from glory to goo
>infested planet

>>724917000
:)

>>724933208
Unit pathing was also broken and I remember this being a thing with a lot of late 90s shovelware RTS games. The units would never go a direct path but move along the edges of impassable terrain like a blind man feeling his way against a wall. And often they would end up getting stuck. 7th Legion is another game I remember having really broken pathing AI.

>>724905941 (OP)
Jackie Chan

>>724933017
AoE2 DE officially supports co-op now in custom lobbies by picking the same color. Or you can just sling in a team game, same difference.

>>724905941 (OP)
Empire Earth

>>724932701
>I hate playing it simply because the only way to be competitive is to treat it formulaically
It's really just the first 18 or-so villagers you really should be following a build order. After that you can do whatever the fuck you want and succeed, even at a high level.

>>724908974
Kohan is not available in my region.
The fuck is wrong with Steam?

>>724937104
I read that it's due to publisher not working with steam in regards to regional pricing. Why couldn't they just say "fuck it, just use the base price" like the japanese do is beyond me, but because of that it's unavailable. Just pirate it I guess, since they didn't care for your money in the first place.

>>724912052
it's pretty flawed, but still great

>>724921434
not an RTS
also the AI is fucking retarded, making singleplayer quite shitty and fuck the devs for just abandoning it after adding the shitty meme titan mode or whatever that was, useless shit "fun" mode

>>724906185
>empire at wat

>>724919993
They stopped focusing on the campaign and went all in on the multi-player. Turns out alienating 90% of your audience is a bad strategy.

>>724906345
It was, but it lacks replayability these days since the AI cheats. So LAN/online was the only good way of playing it.
The campaigns also lack replayability.

>>724905941 (OP)
star wars galactic battlegrounds

>>724906490
>game has kino voice acting in my obscure language
>want to recommend it to others online
>game apparently has no voice acting at all in the english version
What the fuck

anyway, super fun campaign. Really wish there were more RTS games with a campaign that feels like you are adventuring around with a couple characters and just joining and helping out in battles everywhere

>>724929669
Based, the unit creation mechanic in this one was so great. Too bad it was balanced like shit, the campaign is still good fun along with the skirmish.

>>724905941 (OP)
Cossacks is pretty nice. And 3 is pretty much a remake of 1 with almost 1-to-1 mechanics.

>>724912052
This and Company of Heroes are definitely peak of the border pushing sub-genre. Not sure if I would call it the best RTS, but it's pretty great. I just wish it had more content for each age and the early ones lasted longer, while middle ones were a bit shorter. It feels like no matter the game settings, you will spend most of the time (and likely finish) around medieval one.

>>724905941 (OP)
total annihilation

>>724906221
THIS

Spelforce 1 Platinum Edition is a true German classic

>>724916480
Have you tried World in Conflict from 2007? I've enjoyed it back in the day. No idea how it holds up today.

>>724940423
I remember a game with cossacks in it
>spam cossacks in multiplayer
>map centre is a giant deathball when they rebel over not getting paid
>have to move around it to attack each other
fun game

>>724937576
the publisher doesn't exist anymore. The game is effectively in limbo. Heard the money goes directly to Valve for all sales of the game

I liked Earth 2150 and The Moon Project, even though they were extremely janky. More RTS should use this mechanic of having a main base where you do research and progress some bigger quest, while you battle in regular missions at the same time.

>>724940572
I sometimes go on youtube and watch a random tournament game just to see those huge blobs moving around and colliding. You can pretty much open a random one and halfway through there will be a clash of blobs.

>>724906221

Highly based

>>724905941 (OP)
company of heroes

>>724919845
Just kill yourself you fucking sentimental shitmite. If the world was clear of easily manipulated melodramatic golems like you, we'd have space travel and world peace by now. You're garbage given human shape, and literally more worthless than violent rapists as at lest they help population grow in low birthrate countries.

>>724905941 (OP)
Hooligans

>>724918704
You want Urban Assault

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg0zA4EQeqQ

I've been playing BAR because of a /v/ shill posting about it
pretty fun. controls really well

>Every game I can think of got mentioned, even fucking Dark Colony
I guess there's Warband and The Guild if you stretch the definition of RTS a bit

>>724905941 (OP)
DOTA 2

>>724941621
space travel is literally worthless you subhuman retard
there's nothing more impulsive and emotional than an autist, they care about stupid shit that doesn't matter and act violent when other people tell them it doesnt

sw galactic battlegrounds, such a pretty game with patches and widescreen

>>724906221
This

>>724942235
Man, there's nothing I miss more than hand drawn 2D trees.

>>724918704
you can pan the camera to see units very close
also you're a retard

>>724942471
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7h3G5gpeAs

>>724922476
You're wrong because the online multiplayer scene was not the main thing for the genre, Starcraft was an outlier. The internet fucked a lot of genres back in the day, to the point that during the first couple of years of the 21st century it felt like every major game was going to be some sort of online only/MMO type thing. It is precisely the need to compete the thing that killed RTS games. Because the genre was almost entirely SP focused. Empire Earth was kind of a flop because the AI was "impossible" to beat due to it being hardcoded to cheat so it became a challenge for veteran players. People look back at old games and think they are hard because gamers were more intelligent but that's not the case, because the business model was built so you had to buy guides and call hotlines. And the number 1 complaint that devs and publishers received was that games were simply too difficult to complete, and most people dropped them. This was relevant because people who dropped a game were unlikely to buy the next one.

t. Boomer

>>724942129
>space travel is literally worthless
...except it could help mankind survive when Earth inevitably becomes inhospitable.

Someone help me remember the name of an RTS I played:
>multiplayer in the demo
>could play 2/3 factions in demo, could play the 3rd by swapping game files
>3rd faction was full of hovering tanks with artillery, mobile shields etc, orange coloured
>very much played like ground control
>could command the drop ship that brought your units for a short time
>could upgrade it to stay longer and have better weapons\armour

Basically it was like if someone made ground control 3. In fact I believe it was hyped as its spiritual successor

>>724906221
title theme is S+

>>724943164
I thought we were past believing in this fairy tale by now.

>>724943041
I never played anything online until after I had graduated from university and moved to a place with cable. I started with C&C LAN on a friend's pair of Macintoshes, then AoE in the school's computer lab, and by the time AoE2 released, both my brother and I had PCs.

>>724943994
world in conflict

>>724943041
Only if you are stupid, and a lot of kids were back then. I never bought a single overpriced guide or called a hotline. I spent my pocketmoney on Magazines that had the guides and cheatcodes in it. Back then we also had rentals, demos and shareware, making it a lot easier to decide in wich game you want to invest time and money in.

>>724905941 (OP)
Empire Earth

>>724944094
Anon please…re read my post.

>>724905941 (OP)
Rise of Legends
Battle for Middle Earth

>>724944117
Because you were a console kid and your market targeted you. PC was always aimed at adults. The documents you see in GOG games like Guides and whatnot were actual books you could buy. The funny thing is that they were often inaccurate or plain wrong. That whole business branch died when walkthrough sites became a thing.

>>724943994
Ground Control II: Operation Exodus (2004)?

>>724943994
Universe at War: Earth Assault?

>>724944032
Check raw temperature records then and do the tests yourself instead of being an ignorant moron. Pick a nearby weather station such as an airport, they are good because their data is public and consistent.
Go to https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access
or search “NOAA Climate Data Online.” for instance

Download the daily temperature record (they let you export CSV files).

Plot the annual average for the past 50–100 years using Excel or Google Sheets.
You’ll see the trend yourself, local warming is directly measurable.

>>724944351
I grew up with a PC. Amiga then PC. PC Games, PC Action and Gamestar are the ones i remember the most but there were a lot more and they all came with help, guide and cheat sections, sometimes even with cheat programs that modify the save file.
Unless you want some fancy book the magazines were cheaper in the long run. The only problem was that you might have had to wait a few months until the guide was printed to give the official guide time to sell.

>>724945136
>noooo the climate can't change aieeee
It's nothing short of hubris to believe Man dictates, or can dictate, anything.

>>724910306
>Braindead game but I loved it so much.
It's only as deep as you are. To this day, I'm learning little techniques

I used to play Empire Earth back in the day with all kinds of cheats. I remember thinking the game was crazy because you'd go from literally-who throwing sticks and stones to space faring civilizations. There's a cheat to spawn a car, too.

Submarine Titans

>>724945136
>weather station such as an airport
>they are good because their data is consistent
these are the people who fancy themselves scientists

>>724905941 (OP)
Dawn of War
Supreme Commander
Empire at War
Tzar
Earth 2150
Cossacks
Homeworld

dark colony

>>724905941 (OP)
galactic battlegrounds. those explosions sprites are seared into my memory

>>724940553
I loved that game. Got the GOG version which stopped working after I got force-moved to Windows 11 because of software I have to use for work. Couldn't find any fixes online back then, unsure if they exist now. Campaign is also very engaging, but the MP and even AI skirmishes were so much fun.

>>724940553
The idea was unique and interesting but just like WoW AV teamspeak/premades killed the fun in pubs. I didn't even know it had a singleplayer campaign

>>724946314
this shit needs a definitive edition

>>724909217
The VFX have been etched into my memory. I still hear the different kinds of energy/lazer weapons, whenever I think about the game or see screenshots.

>>724905941 (OP)
Spellfo-

>>724906613
>>724940498
>>724919021
these anons beat me to it, awesome posts

Back in the early 2000s I've bought a gaming magazine that came with a CD filled with shovelware. One of the game was an RTS themed around Asia, with a cartoony look (roughly looked like WC3). I can't recall its name, but it was oddly fun.

>>724947737
Potentially Battle Realms. An absolute classic and unique in many ways.

Chaos Island

>>724947514
we've looked into it and it's not feasible with Disney in control

>>724947872
Thanks, I'll check it out.

>>724945658
no? if we can wipe out cities and such in an instant we can wipe out forests and ecosystems, not to mention we've driven many species to extinction.

Battle Realms

WH40k

Rise of Legends. What a kino intro too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvXF3oGy-iE

I get chills re-watching this

>>724947737
Battle Realms
Dragon throne: Battle of Red Cliffs
Three Kingdoms: Fate of the Dragon
War Diary (1996)
Seven Year War (1997)

>>724947872
>>724948030
Holy shit, it's the game! Thank you again!

>>724919543
Sure, just get the jannies to enforce the rules, lmao

>>724905941 (OP)
stormgate lol
LOL
AHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>724919543
>>724948601
a softcore pokemon porn thread died for actual vidya discussion

>>724948753
I wonder how the devs are going to climb out the hole that they dug themselves.

>>724905941 (OP)
Empire Earth

>>724948909
they’re business idiots and industry parasites. they’ll file for bankruptcy and continue to fail upwards by joining other companies and doing the same to them

>>724905941 (OP)
Tempest Rising? Warlords Battlecry?

>>724946228
more like BASED colony

>almost 2/3 of the games being suggested in this thread are actual RTS games
good job /v/ you're getting better.

>>724905941 (OP)
For me it's Rise of Nations.

That game where you were building on islands floating in the sky which fell apart and it was basically just lots of towers slinging discs or something. GOD what a gay ass fucking RAGE inducing game. The skirmish missions went HARD.

>>724906221
i fucking love this game still, shame the AI cheats so hard

posting some webms

>>724906793
>perimeter
game full of ideas that went under the radar. terraforming alone was impressive, but story was apparently butchered in localization.

Since you guys are listing RTS's I'm trying to find one I remmeber playing but could never find again.
All I remmeber is it involved making armies of vareious insects and bugs then using them to kill off the other bugs.

>>724907664
Both BfME games are sadly stuck in licensing hell. If you care about legal purchase, that is.

>>724950858
I couldn't keep playing after the first time I forced it off of a resource and it just kept making units without end. Awful design decision.

>>724931958
Cossacks was hard as NAILS.

>>724905941 (OP)
Nebulous: Fleet Command

>>724905941 (OP)
Zero-K saw the potential of Total Annihilation and took it to another level. It's incredible really.

>>724940498
it's astonishing to me no other game really copied the spellforce formula. at least there's a trilogy + expansions for each game so fan ate well.

>>724905941 (OP)
>mfw missed an rts thread

>>724952018
Empire of the Ants (2000)
Battle Bugs (1994)
Swarm Assault (1999)

>>724905941 (OP)
Rusted Warfare

>>724952431
It was Swarm Assault, holy shit it's been over 20 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUsvYmBEsCo
Thanks anon.

>>724919856
>>Conquest: Frontier Wars
It also had a KILLER soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeYpLndp3KQ

>>724952247
Incredibly ugly that

>>724950901
NOM'd

>>724952525
A sequel exists, Swarm Rampage (2002).

Dark Reign (not a real remaster)

>>724952835
Zero-K won and understood what RTS truly is. It's not spamming 400 afuses in the corner of map to build the most expensive units on repeat to have endless flashy explosion spam. Zero-K have battles which can have problems you need to solve that you can't just simply out eco of. They properly evolve without completely invalidating the current state of the battle.

>>724953182
Get out of here dev you only exist by proxy
Go and make it less ugly please
And remove the fart build gun

>>724953335
Only BAR has the problem where people will have to build afuses on repeat. Only BAR has the problem where the most optimal play is to not play and donate all your stuff to someone else so they can tech faster.

>>724952835
ZK is better in terms of game design
but I can see the appeal of how BAR plays, and that ZK is ugly as fuck

>>724946228
When I was baby, I thought that the intro was the most kick ass shit ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnxO6s41Gc8

>>724953596
>Only BAR has the problem where people will have to build afuses on repeat. Only BAR has the problem where the most optimal play is to not play and donate all your stuff to someone else so they can tech faster.
Sounds like a (you) problems
Apply yourself

I wish more people did webms in general

This and also Haegemonia Legions of Iron

>>724905941 (OP)
ground control

>>724905941 (OP)
Dawn of War

Anons, what's the title of the game that allows you to advance from mudhuts to nukes and SciFi?

>>724952318
Only the original trilogy is Spellforce, the sequels and prequels are skinwalking the IP. Whereby the sequel (2+) is worse than the prequel (3+), even though both effectively butcher and retcon most of the lore established in the original. Not to mention the pruning and shitt friction lesa design that completely neutered the RPG elements.

>>724956027
Empire Earth?

>>724956027
Rise of nations? Empire earth?

Dark Reign: The Future of War. I liked it, still like it.

>>724925567
dumb nigger, get some taste

>>724956465
>>724956487
Rise of Nations. Thank you.

>>724957097
No problem, Anon. Have fun. There's a pretty nice modernized (compatibility, resolution etc.) version on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/287450/Rise_of_Nations_Extended_Edition/

>>724911616
>released 25 years ago
still looks amazing, great voice acting too

>>724932048
Rise & Fall Civlizations At War is the game you're looking for I bet. At least only one that comes to mind with the 3rd person hero control in the classical period with Rome, Persia, Greece and older Egypt. Great ideas with a lot potential I wish a newer game tried to improve on.

It does get very repetitive towards the end, unfortunately.

>>724940932
Earth 2150 is just a blessed mess where they threw in every possible idea they had.
>day/night cycle, can turn unit lights on/off to affect unit visibility in exchange for movement speed
>full range of weather that affects your units, wind, snow, rain, thunderstorms, even meteor showers, one faction can even control these at will while the others get nukes
>units and buildings can be customized by mixing and matching chassis and weapons
>units have limited ammo and need to be resupplied in combat
>units gain experience and become stronger the more they fight
>malleable terrain, you can dig trenches and flatten ground, even build bridges over rivers
>there's a whole another map layer underground where you can dig tunnels
Just to name some. Always wondered what the hell they were thinking while designing the game, but it was cool as hell as long as you didn't care about small things like balance.

>>724959596
You just unlocked some memories. Had to look up this banger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC49F20aWio

>>724905941 (OP)
Rise of Nations
Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds

>>724905941 (OP)
EZ
Dawn of War

But no seriously, Empires, Dawn of the Modern World was goated.

>>724959754
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
>separate day/night/combat soundtracks that are also unique for each faction
I should replay the campaigns one of these days.

>>724954479
I have tried Settlers 2 Aniversary and man, I want to go back to K&M

>>724959596
It's kino. Like an immersive sim RTS where not everything available to you is necessary at all, you can just do whatever seems cool. Soulful asymmetrical skirmish maps too. They could not give one heck about "balance"

>>724959596
>didn't care about small things like balance
>>724961508
>They could not give one heck about "balance"

Unironically, paying too much attention to balance, because you have to have an attractive and competitive multiplayer, is the worst thing that happened to RTS. Most of the greatest games, like early C&C, have very loose approach to balance.

>>724961508
>They could not give one heck about "balance"
Bitching about balance being a bad thing is the sign of being a brainlet

>>724961981
>like early C&C, have very loose approach to balance.
Yeah, C&C fucking sucks outside being a meme
It's not meant to be played at all, just enjoyed by """vibes"""

Cortex command

>>724905941 (OP)
>ctrl+F
>Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds RTS
>0 results
and
>ctrl+F
>Tempest Rising
>2 results
I like RTS that has that rate-limited infinite resources, build queues, battlefields expanding, and missions that start as no bases but has construction and resource gatherer units as part of the reinforcements.

>>724962545
Not sure where you got that. A sense of balance, as in all of the races have a 50% win rate against any other race, is not necessarily good or bad, it depends on the spirit of the game. In Starcraft I can appreciate how no unit is useless and even the strongest ones have good counters. It serves the framework of the game where the campaign is basically a linear set of scenarios with no game state continuity between them. A sort of a puzzle game with clearly defined conditions.

In Earth though the game style is that of a realistic, immersive sandbox RTS. The scenario is very loose, you only have the end goal of collecting enough money and the campaign levels only serve that goal in the end. Units and money are transferrable between missions too, so in this sense balance is thrown out of the window because you can conceivably transport in 10 high-level air fighters in every level, or anything else you can think of. On the other hand, the game should still be winnable even if you take bad losses in one level. Despite the cavalier attitude to balancing this style more or less requires the game is fun, but the fun comes from different things than in a game like Starcraft. Don't take every comment in such a hostile manner.

>>724911616
If any game needed a remaster, it's this.

>>724948087
I remember when my cousin introduced me to Rise of Nations, afterwards I discovered this. It's really a shame that as you enter the third campaign it quickly becomes obvious that it was rushed... Oh well, shame it never made a return on Steam.
If you're interested in the music behind the intro without the sfx, straight from the composer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXMdwdPEV1s
>A fan wrote to me and asked if I had the music for the Rise Of Legends opening cinema without sound effects. Since there was a possibility that the soundtrack might be released separately on CD, I was careful to archive everything from those amazing recording sessions with the Northwest Sinfonia. Here is the final mastered music recording before the sound effects were added.

>>724959596
It really was a pile of cool but poorly implemented ideas. The weather actually had some gameplay effects (snow halves visibility, rain halves ground unit speed, wind slows aircraft.) but I don't remember the weather actually changing ever outside scripted events. I saw a beautiful snowstorm in ED tutorial and that's it.
Half of the game doesn't have any weather left to have. The snow especially lasts only for a few short missions in the beginning, especially since the clock urges you to hurry.

>>724905941 (OP)
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings

>>724924167
>Rising Kingdoms
>only mention in the whole thread
you and I must be the same person, since I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who ever played that
best WC3 clone, desu

>>724931887
Looks like eve online mod.

The competitive scene really did ruin so many genres. RTS really crumbled in popularity when it turned from trying to make fun games to just trying to be the next big esport. Even today most them are chasing that dragon. I still blame starcraft and think the world would have been a better place if it never turned into this

>>724915365
>>724919323
>>724915365
>>724930382
Fockin helli mate, I never knew War Wind was so mainstream

AOW

>>724966240
All competitive play really does is expose badly designed games.

>>724966564
age of what?

>>724905941 (OP)
only real niggas know.

>>724922476
>People became extremely insecure faggots due to self-esteem educational models eliminating social competition from life, and RTS is one of the quintessential competitive genres
This is purely your retroactive projection. RTS games became a generally popular genre in the 90s because of their fun and entertaining single-player modes (C&C, Warcraft, Stracraft etc.).
(You) clearly care more about compfagging because it makes you feel superior to everyone around you, and that's fine, but you're making the mistake of thinking that your personal, anecdotal experience is the one single truth to the matter.

Seven Kingdoms. Based game, fuck the Mughals.

>>724968886
I was a dumb kid. I played the Mughals.
Seven Kingdoms had the best espionage in any video game

I'm trying to remember an old RTS I played when I was like 10, but all I can remember is that you played as the german barbarians during the times of the Rome empire, your mission was to find some Celtic druid niggas, there was a neutral faction of Teutonic knights raping everyone too
I remember your units could upgrade tiers like in Red Alert after getting many kills, their armor would turn silver and gold.
You could also play as the Romans on Skirmish multiplayer maps and make Roman cities and shit
Does anyone know what the fuck I'm talking about?

>>724968948
Just a shame the 2nd one sucked

>>724940553
It was pretty boring. All the units are copy and pasted between US and Russia.

>>724969041
Celtic Kings: Rage of War (2002)
Praetorians (2003)
Nemesis of the Roman Empire (2004)
Imperivm: Great Battles of Rome (2004)

>>724969892
>Imperivm: Great Battles of Rome
They have a similar name, but is not the same company.
This shit right here is what I played, what the fuck. It is a game made in Spain, I didn't even notice.
I remember the controls were clunky as fuck, but it had so much SOVL.
https://as.com/meristation/2002/09/25/avances/1032933600_008076.html?outputType=amp

>>724970708
The linked article is about "Celtic Kings: Rage of War", known in Spain as "Imperivm: La Guerra de las Galias". It was developed by Haemimont Games, a studio based in Bulgaria.

>>724905941 (OP)
Total Annihilation

save this

>>724905941 (OP)
Metal Fatigue

>>724959596
It was strange, you could lose any number of the original campaign's missions and still be allowed to continue and even win the game if you send enough resources into space. But if you finish all the missions, you lose instantly, since there aren't any resources left for you to mine.

>>724906221
This game had an amazing atmosphere, from the opening and the ost, to the cold color palete and the wind effect on the trees. Coming from AoE2 I was blown away when I realized I could tilt the camera to see the sky, and some campaign sceneraios would even have day-night cycles.
That said, I always felt they fumbled the aesthetic for the later eras, industrial and contemporary looked boring and sterile compared to prehistory, classical and renaissance and space era was unimaginative. Pretty much the only good things about those eras were the sail ships and the mechas respectively. All the wonders being greek or ancient didn't help.
Because of this most of the time I would just stick to prehistory-renaissance rather than go all the way.

>you need a physics PHD to fully understand the game
https://youtu.be/b6YYWCW1wVs

>>724934724
How the shit is that an improvement?

>>724971223
I see I see, good to know that's the name of the game. Thanks anon, this brought back so many memories. Might even replay it if I can find it anywhere on the net

>>724976064
it's just so fuckin ugly

>>724976650
It is on sale on GOG for 1.29 EUR.

0A.D.
Its free

>>724906221
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=347qmxgydkE

Is warhammer 3 any good? I haven't played any total war games

>>724977245
Meh

>>724915467
name?

Praetorians (2003) was developed by Spain-based Pyro Studios.

>>724922135
>>724922292
>>724932134
based
I prefer crusaders though
>>724918704
try this one on for size

>>724977245
It's equally better than TW:W2 and worse.

What was the name of this game where you were commanding a UFO(the cpu also had one) that could capture other buildings. You had a set of usable strikes and units were being generated automatically.

>>724978301
AirMech
NetStorm: Islands At War (1997)

>>724978742
nope

>>724906102
Am I the only person that liked 2? It had it's flaws bit it was still lot of fun and I liked the new gameplay features.
Such a shame Firefly are incapable of making a good 3d Stronghold and are just re-releasing the original line up, so much wasted potential.

It's a mod but it's peak Company if Heros

>>724910306
Shame 2 didn't have any sort of skirmish mode and was the end of the series. Unique take on the genre

>>724906221
Beyond based

>Attack with sharpened steel!

>>724979380
on one hand i'm devastated we'll never get another Myth
on the other hand i'm fucking grateful that we never will because holy shit

I actually really liked Halo Wars on the 360 back in the day. Used to play 1v1 online all the time when I was a kid. Just wish it would have had a 3rd faction in the Flood.

Warhammer: Dark Omen

>>724966523
I finished every campaign.
It's a game where themes and visuals are so unique that I am willing to put up with a lot of clunk.
Didn't like the sequel, there should never have even been one human faction, let alone two. At most it could have been a story of a few human hero units each allied with a different alien tribe. The cartoon-like interpretations of the alien factions didn't help. At least the pixel art still looked nice.

>>724918879
Cultures/Cultures 2 is of a similar vein to Settlers. Very kino settlement management.

>>724979380
This game is so ahead of its time, still very playable today despite the graphics, mechanically it feels very smooth and modern, you can use WASD to move the camera around, physics are neat and skillshots are fun to pull-off.

>>724977107
https://youtu.be/CgzkcGN-o_M

>>724981263
>>724979775
Indeed. Amazing game series. Even some of the add ons were great too

W.A.R. Inc. This game was ahead of its time. Only enemy AI was buggy and bad.
>>724919856
Yeah I know that game, but it was in space, so it didn't play quite like StarCraft.
>>724917503
I have played it and I think I still have it. Really cool game, but difficult.

>>724976074
>Time manipulation and time waves
Now that's hella cool (and complex.) temporal manipulation as a gameplay mechanic feels like editing a video in real time. I wonder what's their answer to the grandfather paradox though?

>>724983934
You die, if you kill an enemy factory in the past, the enemy should lose his units in the future.
But there's a hard cap on how far back you can go and it's not that long, it's an old game when memory was far more limited, I wonder how far back a modern game could go.

>>724905941 (OP)
Company of Heroes

>>724905941 (OP)
StarCraft 2

>>724981526
Anybody played this? How is it?

>>724984334
It's good. I like it. Got me into a time period that I never thought I would get in. The game is quite addictive for some reason. I think it can use more adjustments and improvements but been enjoying it so far.

>>724905941 (OP)
Submarine titans
Tzar
Pikmin
Company of Heroes
Impossible creatures

>>724905941 (OP)
RoN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XZd1i2sSSI

>>724984496
>Submarine titans
Based

>>724905941 (OP)
Myth.