Now that the dust has settled, what were the best RTS games?

Now that the dust has settled, what were the best RTS games?

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Fuck blizzardshit, this here's a man's RTS

fuck off plebs

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Rise of Nations is my personal all time favorite
>Nations are similar enough that you can instantly play as any nation, but different enough that each one takes time to master
>Almost all but a handful are useful and have their own set of great units, abilities, etc. (the dutch and a few other factions are just garbage)
>The 4x/RTS blend works really well
>Wars scale up in a fun and thematic way that really makes you feel like a civilization moving through time
>End game techs prevent stalemates.

it's wonderful. i go back to it often.

My first RTS, still my favorite along with SupCom and C&C Generals

red alert 2 is my personal favorite. I'm not saying it's technically the best, or super competitive, but it just all comes together perfectly for my tastes.

never played homeworld, should i check out the remastered collection?

Age of Empires II

Thank you based Nutra-Grain CDs

definitely
it's one of the best sci-fi stories ever told in a RTS as well

Metal Fatigue

my nigger

Yes, the only downside is it doesn't have Cataclysm

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ITT PLEBS

you guys are alright
dont go to Sup Forums tomorrow

DID SOMEONE SAY RTS

Not the best but very underappreciated imo

that one

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I only had that game as a kid and could never beat it past level 3 or something.
Was it hard or I'm just a shitter?

Holy shit I played a demo of this so long ago and could never find out what it was.
Thank you.

it is that hard
level 3 is alright, but i think the 7th is where it gets hardcore, as youre in the middle of two different camps who try to shit all over you and can destroy you very easily
you should reinstall it user

I could never get fast enough to play against other people in RTS games, but I still really liked WC3.

TAKA! Man I miss Bullfrog ;_;

isn't this more of a god game?

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you are the shaman that leads the people, and control everything so i'd say it fits

i liked war3

RTS?
does this count
probably not really

excellent game heavily underrated

you're right. it's been years

>remember Commandos being hard as fuck
>reinstall
>completely breeze through it with no problem
huh

>tfw nobody else here played this

bullshit

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what about the sequel
or the third one with goddamn time limits

Is Yuri the most OP and broken faction in any RTS ever?

I loved it graphics. It had a sort of "encyclopedia with drawing" style to it. Only wish there were some more civs.

hm, I was only ever into bw and war3 mostly for dota, but I watched the ESL coverage of Ting's Invitational this year and was pretty impressed; think it's probably better than dota

>Prism Tank

Nah.

I could never made it past that level where the sea level was rising and you had to move your tribe before drowning.

No, it's an RTS in the strict sense of the word. You manually select which buildings you want and if you want your basic indians to become specialized indians. The only thing you don't really control is resource gathering and indian spawning. The powers are no different from WC3 hero skills

No.

Agreed. Had a lot of fun with this one, shame how hard it bombed.

Total Annihilation.

The ending to the Core Contingency is maybe the best ever.

Fight a galaxy spanning war.
Start to lose the war.
Develop a plant to implode the galaxy to destroy your enemy.

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not him but Com2 is much easier than 1 since most of the guys can do many things

if its the one im thinking about, its kinda okay after the beginning, you just move a bit and summon angel of death at the end which makes you win immediately

Too bad that the expansion fucked things up making the gringos the most OP civ in the game.

Also disliked that you couldn't build walls. I remember I had a friend who only played AoE2 and I showed RoN to him and we played a couple of matches, I always destroyed him because you simply can't defend your borders effectively without walls.

And end game is just plain broken nigga. Almost infinite and instantaneous resource gathering, immediate unit creation and nuke shield.

It was basically legit cheat codes.

>watching them drop the ball with planetary annihilation

how did they fuck up so bad?

Commandos would be more like RTT, although even that it's not a pure example because Commandos and games like it were their own thing. Some weird puzzle/stealth/RTT hybrid.

>mayans in AOE 2
close but no cigar my friend

Is that that lovecraftian cowboy game?

I unironically believe that CoH1 is the best RTS ever made. The amount of depth that game had was incredible and how everything functioned properly despite sounding OP as shit.

It's basically dawn of war 1.5, they successfully implemented all of those mini tactical elements from DoW and mixed them with base building

>fellow desperados bro

There are dozens of us!

Where the fuck can I buy C&C Generals?

>Is that that lovecraftian cowboy game?
you're probably thinking about hard west

What was added since the release ? From what I remember, the heavy cruiser were OP as fuck and the frigates useless

SO WHAT IS BEST Sup Forums:
>no base building, handful of units, more tactical than strategic
>simple base, no research, no upkeep
>simple base with customization
>complex base, simple research
>complex base, complex research

All of it. I see no reason to limit myself to only one type.

gookclick
armchair strategists are a riot because they don't do anything competitive enough to be rigorously evaluated

Dota 2

How is that game anyway? Never got around to playing it.

>no base building, handful of units, more tactical than strategic

damn that game was gory

No, Tyber Zahn in EaW is

Why are expansion pack factions always the most broken. Are devs just lazy by this point and don't properly playtest?

Supreme Commander (+Forged Alliance +FAForever)
I think there even were some FAF bros over here.

In Rise of nations thrones and patriots it was basically impossible to beat the americans if they reached the final age because they had a fuckload of exclusive final age units that were 10 times more effective than anything anyone else had. The marines were the better standard infantry unit in the game, and I believe that they also had some ridiculously op stealth bomber

This one.