What is the best RTS (Real Time Strategie) game?

[GenghisK]

Originally posted by Junzi Nicuzn
@GhengisK - C&C: Tiberium Dawn (the first one) was great...


And so was Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, and Red Alert 2

Bah everone his/her opinion. The fact is there though. On starcraft or war3, there are quite an equal amount of people playing each race. Red alert? mmm weird everybody I played chose USSR...
I never said it was not great. I said about the balance, could do better.

 

[thestonesfan]

I probably enjoyed Red Alert 2 the most out of all the ones I've played.

Balance is overrated. Makes it boring.

 

[Junzi Nicuzn]

GenghisK
Red alert? mmm weird everybody I played chose USSR...

Really? Weird. I hardly ever chose USSR. I played as Allies most of the time, and IIRC it didn't seem any harder the playing as the Soviets. Of course that was ages ago and I have the memory of a goldfish. :fish:

Red Alert 2 I have played recently, and it is unbalanced. But as thestonesfan said, balance is overrated. If I want to crush my opponets I chose Soviets (Kirov/Apocalypse rush), but if I want a challenge I choose Allies. A lot harder to rush with them, I need at least 20 Prism Tanks or 16 Harriers

 

[GenghisK]

Weird but true, that's all... all my friends are also USSR winners and allies loosers...

 

[Deep_Thought76]

Of course, I have to mention WC3..
But if you want to know what I think is best, take a look at Bungie's Myth series. I was never that good at it, but some ppl are still keeping it alive, with their own servers, tournaments, etc. It's unlike most RTS games, in that it's 100% strategy and unit control, 0% teching/base construction/unit management. Which makes it a lot more fun, imo.

 

[JoeP]

warcraft 2
c & c red alert
AoE games
Star Trek Armada 2
Sim City series.

Red alert i always played as allies. The Soviets had slow tanks, and would always get directly hit, compared to the allies smaller, but faster units. And the GPS from the tech center helped out a lot. So did the gap generator in MP games. Me and my buddies used to play each other online. I always smoked 'em. 2 barracks, 3 ore refineries, 3 war factories. Then a radar dome if i felt i needed it. my philosophy with that game: build what you'll need and use...now i'm just ranting..

Many series i haven't tried yet. Tropico looks like a funny game. I think i'll pick it up and play it in the winter, to remind me of the summer warmth.

 

[piedude]

I know its not released yet but Battlefield Command is looking bloody awesome!

http://www.codemasters.com/battlefieldcommand/uk/battlefieldcommand.php

 

[Grisu]

Originally posted by thestonesfan
I probably enjoyed Red Alert 2 the most out of all the ones I've played.

Balance is overrated. Makes it boring.

huh? I can't quite follow your argument. take WC3 or Starcraft: the races are very balanced (meaning you can win against a more or less equal opponent no matter what the race), yet they are totally different to play, and you need different tactics to win - > makes it WAY more interesting and definately not boring, IMHO.

 

[ArmOrAttAk]

Someone mentioned Lords of The Realms 2 that game was great.

I don't really consider Europa Universalis real-time. I'd never play it online because I like games that end after 3 hours or so.

Bought all the Age of Games >played them, but for some reason get bored even though their great games. I guess it just comes down to who can click faster> not much strategy in that.

Quake CTF is real time strategy but others might disagree so my vote goes to the granddaddy of them all Populous.

 

[highstreet]

Anyone who didn't say Europa Universalis has obviously not tried it yet

 

[Dell19]

Its not really an RTS though... Like what the last poster before you said.

 

[highstreet]

I disagree though. It's a hybird...part RTS and part TBS. It plays like an RTS, but you can pause it. I've heard it refered to as a TBS with really short turns, but then again, that's true of all RTS games if you think about it.

 

[Dell19]

The thing is that units cannot move just anywhere, they have to move to a new location and there is a fixed time to move between each province so whilst its not actually a TBS it feels like one.

 

[Archer 007]

Originally posted by GenghisK
All the other games (red alert, C&C 2, Generals etc...) especially red alert were incredibly too unbalanced. Are you surprised that any winner would choose russians?

True! Back when they had global rankings, the highest Allied player was ranked 13# in the world. The aircraft alone we enough to make the Soviets the most dominate faction. The expansion made the situation worse, with the addition of the Shock Trooper. Red Alert 2 was not very unbalanced however. All three sides had advantages. Soviets had most troops in the field at any given time. The Allies has most expensive, but better equiped troops. Yuri had the ultimate defense, but was very hard to attack with.

 

[wildWolverine]

I've never played Age of Empires <rather new to the whole strategy game arena, besides the boardgames Risk, Axis and Allies, and Chess>, but I really enjoy Galactic Battlegrounds...

 

[Hommer]

I don't like RTS but sometimes I take a part in multyplayers battles in our office (after work indeed ).

Our favorite RTS was AgeOfEmpires but since Rise Of Nations have been released, we plays only in this game.

So I think RON is the best RTS. It can be normal RTS like WC2 but if you select "hard sciences" or so option it becomes the global strategy, like Civilization.

 

[tctatheel7]

starcraft is fun. i also enjoy C&C Generals alot, but i cannot really judge it because i am new to the series

i have tried the rts part of Medieval: Total War, and it was really cool, i just perfer the tbs empire building part instead

 

[BobTheTerrible]

Rome: Total War and Battlefield Command look to be neck and neck in my list of upcoming RTS games... Both have amazing graphics, amazing realism, and amazingly high system requirements (probably). (Which of course my comp can't handle) In Rome: Total War units actually battle each other! Instead of mindlessly hacking with their swords, they thrust, parry, use theirs shields, combine that with 10,000 fully 3D animated units on a battlefield, I'd like to see a comp that could handle that. RoN seems good, too from the demo, but that runs slow...

 

[Eli the Lich]

Originally posted by Kasperus
Europa Universalis series and (future) clones

I played Europa Universalis and did not liked it .
AOE The rise of rome was ok
C&C 1
warcraft I&II

 

[FearlessLeader2]

Originally posted by No.Dice
Starcraft set the RTS standard. I'm beginning to think blizzard just got lucky, War3 is an awful game to anyone who played SC competitively. The old school community is already dwindling, and age of myth doesn't seem to be catching on with many of the non AOKers.

To be fair, Starcraft wasn't really completely balanced until a year after its release. Its not been 6 months for war3, but with random item drops, mundane creeping patterns if you're playing to win, and the dumbed down micro, it doesn't really have much of a progaming future.

War3 was still a big success, it just won't have the staying power SC had.

No.Dice speaks for me in this regard. Starcraft and Brood Wars are the penultimate RTS platform. I seriously wonder why Blizzard is wasting my valuable lifespan not crafting new scenarios, campaigns, and expansions for this masterpiece.