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I've been waiting for Warcraft 4 for 15 years now (can't believe it's been that long!). Warcraft III/Frozen throne are quite simply the best games that I've ever played, none have ever come close. I'd give honourable mention to Age of Empires/Rise of Nations. I think it was killed due to the success of World of Warcraft.
I remember having fun with WC3 so I'll probably give it a try.
Late to the party, but worth throwing the browser rebuild of tiberium wars out there. - https://www.adityaravishankar.com/projects/games/command-and...
For a minute I got excited...
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> the casuals that liked to pvp got driven out by the experts and tried to start again in a new game. I find this to be a really interesting point. Many people would ask why they are playing a PvP game in the first place, if they're not interested in competing. I think it makes a lot of sense though, because they're not actually all that interested in playing against players. They just want more of a human-like chall…
A friend and I used to keep in touch by playing RTS Vs the AI while chatting over the mike. The AI in most games is utterly banal and predictible, and as soon as you go past the easy or medium settings it cheats ruthlessly. Of the big recent ones (StarCraft 2, Company of Heroes 2), it's been a very disappointing experience. For SC2, it just keeps rushing you, so you end up turtling until the AI runs out of resources.…
This meant that subterfuge and concealing your intentions was legitimately a huge part of the strategy - if you intentionally let the AI see a lot of a certain kind of unit and then build a different kind of strategy, you'd often see success, but because of the way the AI strategised it could sometimes meet you head on with an unexpected surge because it briefly saw you building up from an unspotted recon unit hiding somewhere.
Ultimately it is relatively easy to defeat with a little experience, but I still several years later occasionally boot it up with a friend to try and beat the hard AI 2v4 - we've only managed a handful of times, and the experience of slowly being whittled down back to back is a great experience to have in a friendship
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> the core series focused too heavily on maximizing the experience for esports, and that spoiled the genre for the mid-range gamers that were its bread and butter. Out of curiosity, in what ways in particular did they do this?
Personally, I felt this way about SC2 as compared to SC1. I think one of the largest changes I noticed was an increase in the hardness of counters as well as an increase in the APM necessary to properly wield certain units. For the first point, in SC1, if I had suboptimal army composition against my opponent, I would likely lose any battles that ensued unless my tactics were quite superior- but I'd likely due some da…
I played StarCraft 2 for nearly a decade after it came out. It was always a solid experience. It is surprising that in all that time, there hasn't been a serious competitor to SC2 in the traditional RTS format. This article does a great job of breaking down why that might be. I mean, the mobile revolution did take some steam and excitement out of PC gaming for a while there. As the author points out, game devs tend t…
I remember when the iPad came out I was incredibly excited. This was surely perfect for RTS games! There was Command & Conquer: Red Alert Mobile, then.... The only other one I remember was an actually really good StarCraft clone by Gameloft (I forget the name). I always thought mobile would be great for RTS and then it just wasn't. Though when I think about it, the keyboard is pretty important and that kind of fast c…
Do you (or anyone) know of any iPad games that fit the bill these days? I played Vainglory for a while but that’s not a RTS - it’s a MOBA (and was fun and worked super well on touch).
Blizzard cleaned it all up. Their games were so good no one even bothered to compete. I spent countless hours playing starcraft and warcraft. The other games didn't have the same addictive elements.
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Yeah but Mythic+ is not the mainstream content most of the players experience in the game. And the anti-social behaviour and elitism surrounding those groups who do M+ has even become a meme. The mainstream wow content is ridiculously unchallenging. You are grinding dailys you can join up queues to do your daily/weekly run of the instances and repeat next Wednesday. This is what most of the people playing retail see…
So..... the game is both difficult and unchallenging?
Most of the game content and mechanics is unchallenging.
A group of people "guarding" the tiny difficult part are difficult.
I bought an iPad excited for a generation of touch-optimizes RTS games and have been...disappointed. I played around with some of the MOBAs (Vainglory, etc) but that genre isn’t for me.
Are there any great (or even decent) iOS games that fit the RTS bill? I see a ton in the App Store that match the description but most just end up being free to play micro transaction gambling/monetization pits of despair, not actual RTS.
Suggestions appreciated!
A battle with more, slower moving units and simplified commands makes for a more tactical match-up that's less about hotkeys and razor-sharp reaction time and more about the art of war.
Does anyone know if there's a franchise out there moving in that direction?