Yeah someone else just recommended it to me but thanks for the suggestionheadshotcatcher said:Try Company of Heroes and be surprisedThe Rockerfly said:
Don't suppose you have any others?
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Don't suppose you have any others?
Hearts of Iron 3 if you feel like BIG scale strategy, Dawn of war is a bit inbetween regular RTS'es and Company of Heroes, halfway in between I'd say.The Rockerfly said:Yeah someone else just recommended it to me but thanks for the suggestion
Don't suppose you have any others?
You should at least check out Hearts of Iron 3 (and disregard most user reviews..)
Cool thanks I will give that a go ^-^headshotcatcher said:Hearts of Iron 3 if you feel like BIG scale strategy, Dawn of war is a bit inbetween regular RTS'es and Company of Heroes, halfway in between I'd say.The Rockerfly said:Yeah someone else just recommended it to me but thanks for the suggestion
Don't suppose you have any others?
You should at least check out Hearts of Iron 3 (and disregard most user reviews..)
Dawn of War was a complete blast, did you ever try DoW2?
The beta seemed kinda cool (a more dynamic version of DoW1) but not warranting a buy in my opinion, that said I didn't like Dawn of War 1 that much either.The Rockerfly said:Cool thanks I will give that a go ^-^headshotcatcher said:Hearts of Iron 3 if you feel like BIG scale strategy, Dawn of war is a bit inbetween regular RTS'es and Company of Heroes, halfway in between I'd say.The Rockerfly said:Yeah someone else just recommended it to me but thanks for the suggestion
Don't suppose you have any others?
You should at least check out Hearts of Iron 3 (and disregard most user reviews..)
Dawn of War was a complete blast, did you ever try DoW2?
On a scale I'd put it like this
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
1 is Red alert 2, build 100 kirovs and you win no matter what.
5 is Dawn of War, you can still win by building tons of vehicles but there are more effective counters
6.5 is Dawn of War 2 (as far as I've played it), you need to use abilities and have a varied army to win (unless you build those big ish tyranids, the siege things I think. They kill anything)
8 is Company of Heroes, If the enemy uses his environment to his advantage you really need a varied army. Unless ofcourse you have a big amount of artillery at your disposal
10 is Hearts of Iron 3, I've never seen that much strategy needed in a game
Holy fuck!?! I gotta try this I will be buying it on steam as soon as I get some moneyheadshotcatcher said:
Thank you very much for the advice
Hmm, I wouldn't know what to put... I'm not a massive fan of RTS and used to think it was quite nerdy seeing that you have to have a tactical way of attacking and takes ages to play a game.
Now that I have AoE I'm spending like 4 - 6 hours a day, on days that I cba, on it playing about 3 games with my boyfriend.
I beat him for the first time yesterday :') He was so proud especially since me and his friend called it a tie because it was taking too long.
Haven't played any others really apart from Halo Wars but thats naf, personally RTS is one of those genres that I could only play on PC.
Btw, you spelt bother wrong on the poll...
Now that I have AoE I'm spending like 4 - 6 hours a day, on days that I cba, on it playing about 3 games with my boyfriend.
I beat him for the first time yesterday :') He was so proud especially since me and his friend called it a tie because it was taking too long.
Haven't played any others really apart from Halo Wars but thats naf, personally RTS is one of those genres that I could only play on PC.
Btw, you spelt bother wrong on the poll...
Hearts of Iron 3 you mean?The Rockerfly said:
Glad I could be of service
(I pirated it since I can't wait for the (overseas) delivery to arrive wednesday >.> but it seems cool so far if you don't count the patch fixable stuff. One game can easily take over 40 hours if not more )
I find only one problem with RTS's in general. They're not so much Real Time Strategy as they are Real Time SteamRoll simulator. The only successful combat strategy is to mass up a huge army and just level everything in one wave. They've whored out every drop of strategy for more and more gimmicks like superpowers for each unit or a diverse unit selection. The only Strategy game i play now is Advance Wars and its not real time.
i have played many before and will continue to do so but i have some comments to chuck in here
1)Unit Caps...make them map decided eg. supreme commander FA i think in 81kmx81km map i can fit more than possibly 8000 units
2)weapon damage is usally way off but otherwise games would suck horribly so that one can slide
3)i lose to build craptacular load of unit and throw at enemy. why can't players use tactics? or at least not call me cheat and boot me off of games when i use a pincer manouvere or deep strike
4) squad tactic games (DOW) should have garrisonable terrian and destruible terrian. dawn of war 2 did this but screwed gameplay up
5)can we have Starcraft 2 yet? Please blizzard??????? well i kinda want starcraft 2 just because theres nothing else comming soon?
now some good things
1)there usauly is alot of comm talk between teamates so it makes for a better game
2)TRAITORS are killed off with alot more gusto
3)awesome friendships are made
4)patchs fix problems instead of creating them
5)resource collection adds another stragey level(Land, Air, Sea, Economy and sometimes space)
tip. the crippling blow is when you cut off resource gathering abilities. The you can starve them or finish them with less resistance and they won't recover nearly as easily
and a cold hard fact: I introduced my wife to dow...she plays as the necrons and within 13.23 minutes of a games start can have a monolith and full army up and running. She can beat off rushes as soon as 1 minute...it's terrifying
1)Unit Caps...make them map decided eg. supreme commander FA i think in 81kmx81km map i can fit more than possibly 8000 units
2)weapon damage is usally way off but otherwise games would suck horribly so that one can slide
3)i lose to build craptacular load of unit and throw at enemy. why can't players use tactics? or at least not call me cheat and boot me off of games when i use a pincer manouvere or deep strike
4) squad tactic games (DOW) should have garrisonable terrian and destruible terrian. dawn of war 2 did this but screwed gameplay up
5)can we have Starcraft 2 yet? Please blizzard??????? well i kinda want starcraft 2 just because theres nothing else comming soon?
now some good things
1)there usauly is alot of comm talk between teamates so it makes for a better game
2)TRAITORS are killed off with alot more gusto
3)awesome friendships are made
4)patchs fix problems instead of creating them
5)resource collection adds another stragey level(Land, Air, Sea, Economy and sometimes space)
tip. the crippling blow is when you cut off resource gathering abilities. The you can starve them or finish them with less resistance and they won't recover nearly as easily
and a cold hard fact: I introduced my wife to dow...she plays as the necrons and within 13.23 minutes of a games start can have a monolith and full army up and running. She can beat off rushes as soon as 1 minute...it's terrifying
RTS gaming seems to have died down, a lot.
My personal favourites are Populous: The Beginning, CnC: Red Alert 2 and Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.
I think too many people have tried reviving it in new ways, and while I think Dawn of War 2 was onto something, it's not really the same genre.
Starcraft/Warcraft games stopped being made way back when, and the CnC games stopped being good after Generals. Since then, the market has been rather generic or pretentious.
CnC 3 was terrible, CnC: Red Alert 3 was terrible, Halo Wars was one of the worst RTS games ever made, and Company of Heroes was average.
I'm hoping Starcraft 2 pumps some much-needed life into the genre.
My personal favourites are Populous: The Beginning, CnC: Red Alert 2 and Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.
I think too many people have tried reviving it in new ways, and while I think Dawn of War 2 was onto something, it's not really the same genre.
Starcraft/Warcraft games stopped being made way back when, and the CnC games stopped being good after Generals. Since then, the market has been rather generic or pretentious.
CnC 3 was terrible, CnC: Red Alert 3 was terrible, Halo Wars was one of the worst RTS games ever made, and Company of Heroes was average.
I'm hoping Starcraft 2 pumps some much-needed life into the genre.
RTS's are fine, like someone else said ealrier, if theyd stop dumbing it down itd be better, but they're still going strong, cant wait for SCII, even if it became a money-whore
in regards to the Dawn of War series, I friggin LOVED DoW 1 and its expansions, I mean it harkens back to the glory days of SC, soulstorm excluded, and the gay thing where you had to have them all installed to play as all the races in multiplayer. That being said, gameplay was fantastic and the graphics were great.
Then DoWII happened. What. The. Fuck. was that shit. I mean I know it wanted to emulate company of heroes, (which i frggin love btw) but that was just awful, I mean I wouldnt care as much if the made a map maker to DoW 1, or called it a different name, but this shit was not Dawn of War, it wasnt even an RTS, it was RTT, so i wish they called this something different and made a true sequel to dawn of war.
/rant
at anyrate RTS's are awesome
in regards to the Dawn of War series, I friggin LOVED DoW 1 and its expansions, I mean it harkens back to the glory days of SC, soulstorm excluded, and the gay thing where you had to have them all installed to play as all the races in multiplayer. That being said, gameplay was fantastic and the graphics were great.
Then DoWII happened. What. The. Fuck. was that shit. I mean I know it wanted to emulate company of heroes, (which i frggin love btw) but that was just awful, I mean I wouldnt care as much if the made a map maker to DoW 1, or called it a different name, but this shit was not Dawn of War, it wasnt even an RTS, it was RTT, so i wish they called this something different and made a true sequel to dawn of war.
/rant
at anyrate RTS's are awesome
It's ok.
It's still my favourite genre EVER, but EA have taken the best of the best of the best of the best and shot it to "Meh."
We need Westwood Back!
It's still my favourite genre EVER, but EA have taken the best of the best of the best of the best and shot it to "Meh."
We need Westwood Back!
40 hours? What the hell, I might just sell my soul and live on this gameheadshotcatcher said:Hearts of Iron 3 you mean?The Rockerfly said:
Glad I could be of service
