omega 616 said:
Vanguard_Ex said:
Sir Kemper said:
Hello Escapist's, recently i've been playing the RUSE beta and enjoying myself, however i fall into that familliar catagory of 'people who love RTS games, but suck at them'.
So, my question for you today is: What's an RTS game you enjoy, and what RTS games do you think i might enjoy.
Yes, i realise i left it sort of vauge on what i enjoy in RTS games, but i'm open to almost any series.
Dawn of War and its 3 expansions. It's relatively simple, yet so addictive, and the races are all so diverse.
Except all the races have been nerfed into oblivion and orks are the only race that are effective, were they were the only weak ones.
The most overpowered races are Tau and Eldar, according to the consensus on GameReplays.org. Tau Fire Warriors' damage output exceeds that of any other race, and in the early game too. Eldar have Dark Reapers who have great damage, good hp, and decent melee. They can be micro-ed with fleet-of-foot, which increases movement speed, to avoid being engaged in melee, and out-firepower any non-vehicle unit apart from Fire Warriors. Dark Eldar and Chaos are considered to be High-Tier. Orks, Space Marines, and IG are mid-tier. Necrons and Sisters of Battle are considered to be low-tier.
All Tier systems have their drawbacks and subjective differences, but the Top Tier is widely agreed on. Orks may be High Tier. (Orks won the last tournament I watched. Then again, 3/8 players were playing Orks.)
I only mention this because I've been watching several DoW:SS tournaments, and that seemed to be the opinion of the skilled players.
OT: My favorite RTS used to be Age of Empires II. I stopped playing it a long time ago, but I still enjoy Age of Mythology and Age of Empires III to this day. I like AoE III worse than the other 2, but it is damn pretty to see all those cannon-physics. I enjoy playing Ottomans and massing Great Bombards, the biggest cannons you can build in the game.
Dawn of War was a lot of fun too, it was full of flavor. I really enjoyed Dawn of War II as well(I actually played it before DoW I). DoW II doesn't really have staying power, but it was an enjoyable Single-Player campaign.
I tried Company of Heroes, also made by Relic, but I was finding the Single-Player Campaign pretty irritating. I'm not that skilled a player, maybe that's why, but it really seemed like the Computer was massing Panzers at a MUCH faster rate than I could deal with them. The part where you prepare a setup to defend the town was really irritating too. I set up all these heavy defenses, then suddenly the computer has infinite artillery strikes because of a scripted event, and all my forces disappear, leaving me a single engineering squad to hold off 5 Panzers and the rest of the German army.
Homeworld 2 was also fun, although the Single Player was pretty challenging near the end. Your tactics in that game REALLY matter. Don't let your fast fighters and bombers rush in without support, or you'll just lose them all. Unfortunately your best tanking ships are also your slowest ones. It's also fun to zoom into their view and look at what they're doing as they fly through space (The "F" key I think).
Star Wars: Empire at War was improved by Forces of Corruption and the additional units that brought. Just make sure you patch the game, otherwise the Smuggler/Pirate/whatever faction will be WAY overpowered in space battles (they have more powerful units, and without the patch, those units are far too cheap). I didn't like the land battles at all, but the Space Battles were always fun. Unfortunately, I don't have any game-owner friends to play with, so all I had was the AI to play against. The no-good, cheating, evil AI who somehow gets the same resources as me even when I control all the resources on the goddamn map.
I'm not a particularly skilled player, yet all these games were fun.