Rise of Nations

[Legioona]

Never go into RoN during it's heyday. Way too fast paced age-whoring for my taste. Zerging in it's classical sense had practically no place in that game, suppose I didn't give it enough time but meh, there were loads of far better RTS games around back then.

 

[msteiner]

If you think RoN is fast paced, the you'd think that almost every other RTS is WAYYY to fast. RoN is one of the slower RTS games. Its probably the genre that you dislike, but that's OK because everyone has different tastes.

 

[Legioona]

If you think RoN is fast paced, the you'd think that almost every other RTS is WAYYY to fast. RoN is one of the slower RTS games. Its probably the genre that you dislike, but that's OK because everyone has different tastes.

With 140-ish APM at SC-Europe back in my prime I'd like to atleast think that I know RTS-games. Suppose I didn't phrase myself correctly, you are entirely right on that RoN was extremly slow compared to most other RTS titles but I never said the game itself was fast paced - just the constant "ageing up" aspect of it.

That is why I said there was no real rushing. Harrasment was a pain to do too simply because you needed to have those bloody carts with you just so your units did not lose HP while on enemy territory. Attacker was so handicapped it wasn't even funny leading to boring quasi-turtle booming games that culminated on two huge stacks of units bumping together in an anticlimatic final battle. The combat wasn't that great either, basic AOE-esque rock-paper-scissors with each unit having one purpose.

Felt like the game put way too much emphasis on macromanagement. If I remember correctly there was like 5 or 6 diffrent resources which in my opinion was way too much useless macro.

Bear in mind that I'm commenting a game I played like six years ago without really paying much attention to it even then. Though RoN was definitely better than Empire Earth RTS-games spanning over thousands of years have never really worked for me.

 

[msteiner]

I would agree on that one! Empire Earth was especially terrible.

 

[king lundmark]

no your wrong. empire earth 2 was good, ah well with my older computer that and rise of nations, dawn of war is the only rts i and play with out problems and civ sucks because it f***ing crashes all the motherF***ing time!