I got into a side rant with somebody on a different thread and figured I'd post this here to get others opinions. Whats your favorite RTS and why? Try not to bash my precious Starcraft too much. As you can see my favorite is Starcraft. I fell in love with it for its unique and advanced appearance (at the time) as well as the insane level of customization in the custom map creator. If it wasnt for the Starcraft 2 beta eating up time I would still be playing the custom maps on the original. I will probably go back to them while I wait for a price drop since I don't wanna buy the same game 3 times at full price. in greedy Blizzard.........*wander off cursing*

Simple.

Command and Conquer 2: Tiberian Sun.

Endwar.....

Starcraft for me too!

Company Of Heros Tales Of Valor
Dawn Of War 2

These are my favorit RTS games

Red Alert 2 and the expansion (Campy, over the top, by Westwood), Dawn of War 2 (Just plain good stuff) and Company of Heroes - Opposing Fronts (Ze British!).

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

I want to try stormrise and SC:2

Total Annihilation

Dawn of war 1

For me it's a tie between Warcraft 2 and Command and Conquer: Red Alert. Never did play Total Annihilation though I remember when it came out it was huge. I was a great fan of Starcraft too, lots of fun with the single player campaigns there.

Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors Expansion

No doubt in my mind. At least 600 hours in that.

sA

Seven Kingdoms

For Online.. Warcraft 3, though mainly custom games.

I'm gonna go with Dark Crusade/Soulstorm. Hated how DoW2 changed the game; I'll stick to my traditional RTS games, thank you. (Granted the campaigns were still epic, though given my lack of enthusiasm for online play, not worth the 30 bucks)

I'm surprised how many people still like StarCraft, though. Compared to modern games, it is a freaking slow-paced game.

Ill also go with DOW dark crusade. Ive played a few other RTS but that one I went back to many times over.

Soulstorm was garbage.

Dark Crusade was fun, but it was no Winter Assault. A sudden cap on Kasrkin made me annnngrrrryyy.

Age of Empires 2 and Starcraft!

Hell yes!

Age of Empires 2 and Dawn of war: dark Crusade!

I played the original Warcraft when it came out on my friend's dad's 486. Good memories. Dawn of War: Winter Assault was great.

Winter Assault is probably my least favorite of the DOW games. That mission in the trenches was abominable.

Homeworld Series, I loved 1 the most though.
IMO, everything paled in comparison to how unique that game was at the time.

Total Annihilation
Supreme Commander
Rome: Total War

In that order. Also good are: Homeworld, Dungeon Keeper, C&C: Red Alert.

I would have to say it's Red Alert 2/Expansion first with DoW1/Expansions in close second with Age of Empires 2/Expansion in an almost distant third.


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Yes, I even think Soulstorm was fantastic.

Total war Series/Mount and Blade

And Homeworld

dragonfire wrote:Total war Series/Mount and Blade

And Homeworld

+1 for both TW and M&B:W (Though Mount and Blade is more of an RPG with RTS elements)

Also, the original Command & Conquer: Red Alert sheerly for how easy it was to modify game files to produce hilarious results. For example, making attack dogs capable of leaping across the biggest maps. Or having every type of infantry cause a nuclear explosion when they died. Godly civilians was a good one too - Civvies blowing up mammoth tanks with single pistol shots was awesome

Its all about the clasic and now free Warzone 2011

I really enjoyed Warcraft 3 and it's expansion.

Dawn of War II.

Not only is the setting cool, but the fact that you actually have to watch your units and not let them die makes me happy.

Warcraft 3, not only does it have an insane amount of customisation available, but its got a good storyline, and its well balanced.

WC3, though really custom games.

DoW: FoK

Warhammer Mark of Chaos: Battle March

Pfft.

Age of Empires. Nuff said. (although Warcraft III is a solid runner up, and GES deserves a Cookie for mentioning AoE 2)

Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising are both at the top of my list.

Age of Mythology was amazing, though. My friend and I used to love stuffing around with Titans and armies of myth units.

DoW: Dark Crusade

I loved the campain and the whole wargear thing.

DOW 2 was actually pretty terrible IMO.
Best RTS games are Starcraft Brood War and DOW Soulstorm (forget that it was $50, FRIGGIN DELDAR MAN!!!)

Mr. Self Destruct wrote:DOW Soulstorm (forget that it was $50, FRIGGIN DELDAR MAN!!!)

Oh sweet Jeebus, I can't believe you -actually- said that with a straight face!

Warcraft 3 as well as Frozen Throne.

I love me some Island Defense.

Age of Empires
Warcraft
Warcraft II
Starcraft
Command & Conquer
Red Alert
Total Annihilation
Command & Conquer II
Red Alert II
Command & Conquer III
Empire Earth
Warlord Battlecry III
Dune
Emperor: Battle for Dune


That's my list of favorites that I keep replaying.

I'm a huge fan of the Total War series, my most favorite of them all is Medieval 2: Total War, I have at least 200 hours on that game.

Homeworld 2 is another favorite, I tried the demo and just had to have it. Great story and fun multiplayer.

DoW 1&2 are on the list, I just hope Relic does Imperial Guard for DoW:2, that would be sweet.

RustyKnight wrote:Warcraft 3 as well as Frozen Throne.

I love me some Island Defense.

I've just fallen in love!

I can't believe that game was mentioned...

That is all I ever played until my disc was broken...

Agh...

Warcraft 2
Command & Conquer 2

SC all the way.

And to whoever said Dune, if you meant to original Dune II, you, sir are a Scholar and a Gentleman.

Sid Meier's: Alpha Centauri!

HOW HAS NOBODY MENTIONED THIS?

Uncultured cretins.

sA

Starcraft by far. no game has kept as many people interested for 10+ years at the level it has, and no other game is as spectateable as this either.

smiling Assassin wrote:Sid Meier's: Alpha Centauri!

HOW HAS NOBODY MENTIONED THIS?

Uncultured cretins.

sA

That was a great game, I loved making little lakes with my bombs. However I got it in a pack containing; Army Men, Alpha Centauri, PanzerGeneral 2, and Metal Marines for about $24.99 so I didn't take too much care of it and I have lost it. For about 10 years now so I doubt I'll ever find it.

smiling Assassin wrote:Sid Meier's: Alpha Centauri!

HOW HAS NOBODY MENTIONED THIS?

Uncultured cretins.

sA

Because I refuse to buy games where one giant ego takes credit for something a whole team of developers did, by putting his name on it.

Disarray wrote:Starcraft by far. no game has kept as many people interested for 10+ years at the level it has, and no other game is as spectateable as this either.

Agreed.

Lesser favorites for me include the Red Alert 1 series + expansions and Red Alert 2 prior to Yuri's Revenge.

Warcraft 3 for sure.

Although I generally prefer turn based Stategy games such as Civilisation series or the Panzer/Allied General games.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Although I generally prefer turn based Stategy games such as Civilisation series or the Panzer/Allied General games.

Definately. Civ is a big one. I'm really excited for Civ V after the slow paced snoozefest that Civ IV was.

Favorite as per nostalgia: Command & Conquer
Favorite as per longest time played consistantly: Warcraft 3
Favorite for strategic and tactial thinking: Close Combat
Favorite overall? none, I like so many of them.

Mr. Self Destruct wrote:DOW 2 was actually pretty terrible IMO.

I have to agree. That and you said DELDAR.

c34r34lk1ll3r wrote:Age of Empires

Good lad.

RaegMachine wrote:Warcraft 2

To my great regret, I was never able to get my hands on this. Was it better or worse than III?

Tilean Bastard wrote:I'm a huge fan of the Total War series, my most favorite of them all is Medieval 2: Total War, I have at least 200 hours on that game.

Not to nitpick, but Total War is turn based. Sort of. At times.

Civ is turn based, not an RTS.

Total War has RT battles, but turn based strategy components.

I like Civ 2 and Rome:TW better than any RTS, but I still have fun with DOW (one of the last games my poor machine can run).

Happy to know some people agree with me that DOW2 is a pretty terrible game compared to DOW: Dark Crusade.

I'd have to say the one I play most of the time now... Dawn of War: Dark Crusade

Warcraft 2 was a better game in my opinion. The 3D gak they tried in 3 just irritated me. Sure its lame, but I much prefer the 2D graphics to the super bright 3D stuff.

When it comes to graphics I think that Command and Conquer were the only ones to transition different styles with improvement each time.

Does anyone remember the RTS where you had a base, and it was with a bunch of creatures. The only race I remember was some marine-snake monsters, kind of like the Naga in WC3. Does anyone remember a game like that? I've been looking for it for years.

I just started digging through my old games again, and I must say, I rather enjoy Stronghold 2. Having to build up your castle before fighting is rather awesome! And lets not forget "Here comes the cow!"

I can't beleive all you people liked DoW 1 over #2, in #1 all it is is just mass your units and throw them at the enemy, who cares if they die.....

Which is exactly why we won't see a Guard campaign in DoW II

Thus, DoW I = Better. Because it has Guard campaigns.

metallifan wrote:Which is exactly why we won't see a Cannon Fodder campaign in DoW II

Thus, DoW I = Better. Because it has Cannon Fodder campaigns.

Fixed

Well, to each his/her own, I suppose.

Lolthanks

I dunno. There's just something unique about having so many guardsmen in one area that you can't actually see the ground. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Even as they scream in pain.

And Karon, how could you!? How could you quote me in your sig and not let me know so that I can up my "officially quoted" sig count in a glorious moment of self-absorbedness!

I'm kidding. I caught you. I have eyes like Ninja.

Fixed.

Slarg232 wrote:

I can't beleive all you people liked DoW 2 over #1, in #2 all it is is just your 4 units and throw them at the enemy, who cares if they faint.....

Supream commander :FA

Hmmmmm hard choice really I like Total Ahilation damn good for an old game#2. Rome:total war was pretty cool sept for the AI#3. And Company Of Heroes is a true favourite for me especially for the mod Blitzkrieg which made it more realistic#1.

I'm really surprised more people haven't said Company of Heroes. To me that's the only RTS that requires you to know and learn some real military strategy and tactics.
Unlike the star and war craft games which in my opinion are just hot key memorization and spam games.

Home world is also tops in my book. best use of an xy and z axis i've played.

CoH really is a classic. I've got it and all of it's expensions and I absolutely love it. The only thing I don't like about it is how prone to bugs/crashes the map editor and custom maps happen to be. I made one map that has a Nazi Precinct built into the side of a mountain in the South East, with a railyard on the South/Southwest side and a training camp on the West/Northwest side. The base perimeter is surrounded by about a Km or two deep of farms and woodlands, with a small town in the northern corner and 88/quad AA emplacements littered all over the place and placed on strategic areas of the precinct itself.

I wasn't done, however, and since installing Tales of Valor I haven't been able to work on it as the file has gone missing. Despite still being able to -play- the map. I also made another map of a city, where only the outermost edges were destroyed. The rest was pristine. I get very little (if any) lag when playing it, but after about 5 minutes it just crashes out of the blue.

Overall though, CoH is an awesome game despite these problems

Company of heroes really is a good game and you can have games that won't last for hours all the time (not like thats a bad thing) and have heaps of fun even if your loosing.

You think you can beat me? Find me online NAMED: Yak1945UT. Warning I live in Australia ping can kill

dawn of war soulstorm with the tyranid mod

Any Dawn of War that isn't the 2nd one. And Warcraft 3 + Company of Heroes.

yeah Dawn of War 2 was more of a RPG then RTS. Very dissapointing coming from relic

I hate how they removed the base building, or limited it rather.

True that. Multiplayer just is too small as well. They should have made like first 1 or like real 40K in my opinion.

TyraelVladinhurst wrote:dawn of war soulstorm with the tyranid mod

what ? link!

Disarray wrote:

TyraelVladinhurst wrote:dawn of war soulstorm with the tyranid mod

what ? link!

google search it as i cannot remember the site at the moment. however if you can get the inquisition mod to work do share how

My fav mod (Offtopic) is the Ork Swarm. It pretty muchs nerfs the orks in all ways... but numbers. And since they are my favorite race to play as, its like a green tide

Also, I believe that the inquisition mod works, but only if you get a valid download site and the right patch, I'll see what I can find when I get home.

I'm a real fan of Close Combat (IV). I like how my men are not all accepting automatons but actually tire, have their nerve broken, flee, go suddenly berserk etc. etc. Covering fire, cross fire, ambushes, it all works!! And it's fun to try and stop (delay is more likely) a load of allied troops with just a few crappy Ost troops.

Close Combat 2 is better in my opinion, if only to fight on own soil.

revackey wrote:I hate how they removed the base building, or limited it rather.

Base building was slowed for half of the forces we had involved in DOW. Marines, Eldar, Chaos...they don't need no stinkin' bases to launch their assaults from.

revackey wrote:I hate how they removed the base building, or limited it rather.

Agreed, most of my 40k and RTS friends prefer the first one for mainly this reason as well.

DOW2 is way too limited and predictable as a multiplayer RTS. Had a fun single player though if you like Space Marines.

Kanluwen wrote:

revackey wrote:I hate how they removed the base building, or limited it rather.

Base building was slowed for half of the forces we had involved in DOW. Marines, Eldar, Chaos...they don't need no stinkin' bases to launch their assaults from.

But what happens when that assault fails and you have no defense when a green tide is coming at your base


EDIT: If you mean realism, I agree 100% with you. What I am saying is gameplay wise.

You call in an orbital bombardment to clean them up.

Was that a trick question?

Age of Mythology, especially online, where you could share your own maps etc with others.

Kanluwen wrote:You call in an orbital bombardment to clean them up.

Was that a trick question?

You mean an Orbital Bonbaonbardlement.

metallifan wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:You call in an orbital bombardment to clean them up.

Was that a trick question?

You mean an Orbital Bonbaonbardlement.

WTF BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

metallifan wrote:Lolthanks

I dunno. There's just something unique about having so many guardsmen in one area that you can't actually see the ground. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Even as they scream in pain.

And Karon, how could you!? How could you quote me in your sig and not let me know so that I can up my "officially quoted" sig count in a glorious moment of self-absorbedness!

I'm kidding. I caught you. I have eyes like Ninja.

But not like Deidara...

Karon wrote:

metallifan wrote:Lolthanks

I dunno. There's just something unique about having so many guardsmen in one area that you can't actually see the ground. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Even as they scream in pain.

And Karon, how could you!? How could you quote me in your sig and not let me know so that I can up my "officially quoted" sig count in a glorious moment of self-absorbedness!

I'm kidding. I caught you. I have eyes like Ninja.

But not like Deidara...

Are you doubting my abilities?

I find your lack of faith disturbing...

Not unless you have a Sharingan, sir.

My lack of faith in what exactly...you must not be speaking of....Jashin

I prefer a rinnengan. Going back towards the topic a bit I wonder if they will ever make a Naruto rts. There's enough storyline and villages to make a unique and interesting game. Plenty of options for heroes to be added into the mix.

Hanging oneself may be considered preferable to being forced to experience a Naruto RTS.

rocklord2004 wrote:I prefer a rinnengan. Going back towards the topic a bit I wonder if they will ever make a Naruto rts. There's enough storyline and villages to make a unique and interesting game. Plenty of options for heroes to be added into the mix.

Ha ha Thats a kids program and you want it to become RTS? Thats like making Rugrats a RPG.

Yak9UT wrote:

rocklord2004 wrote:I prefer a rinnengan. Going back towards the topic a bit I wonder if they will ever make a Naruto rts. There's enough storyline and villages to make a unique and interesting game. Plenty of options for heroes to be added into the mix.

Ha ha Thats a kids program and you want it to become RTS? Thats like making Rugrats a RPG.

This may become the single must dumbed down RTS in history

Meh. I read the manga, can't stand the anime due to the voices. If Halo can have an rts so can Naruto. If done right it would be good, unfortunately if they make one it will be dumbed down but I can still hope. :3

I read the manga too, and I still think it's a horrible idea. And if they made it anyway related to the manga/anime, any single hero will take out anything on it's own.

Favourite RTS(s) hum, well DoW 2 is very fun and when and if they release Imperial guard I'll be veeeery happy. DoW 1 up to Dark Crusade, Soulstorm was just hideous.

Rome total war with the extended greek mod/
Medieval 2 total war.
umm I did enjoy CoH I just find some units way too over powered for example the Kangeroo (shudders) a German players worst nightmare...

Endwar,Halo Wars,Dawn of War 2,

Soladrin wrote:I read the manga too, and I still think it's a horrible idea. And if they made it anyway related to the manga/anime, any single hero will take out anything on it's own.

Soladrin's got it. JRTS = Pure Epic Fail I'm afraid.

Hell, JRPGs are terrible enough as it is. Four things that puzzle me most about them are:

A) Why does everyone have Wings, a Tail, or Cat ears?

B) Why do JRPGs have a hard-on for WTF hair colours & styles?

C) Why do none of the Characters ever have common names? Their names sound like Frank Zappa was in charge of that area.

D) Why is there ALWAYS one Emo/Self-Pitying character?



Euuuugh... Even thinking about them gives me shivers.

No. Let's hope we never see a JRTS.

Just remember to avoid the units with the most armor in any JRTS. If it has a helmet, full body armor, a long weapon(spear, longsword), and is of normal body proportions, then it's obviously the weakest unit in the game.

Seriously, I think Japan got that backwards somehow.

I can't wait for R.U.S.E though, it looks like it may be a great game and an RTS version of Panzer General sounds good to me.

I'll admit that if they make a Naruto rts theres a 99% chance it will be horrible. I can hope for that 1% chance it would be good. Lucky for the people who don't want to see one made it's highly unlikely one would ever get created.

The ever present 1% chance that it would be good depends on how god is feeling that day, and last time I checked he doesn't like naruto.

Medieval 2 Total war and Expansion

Oh and about the Rugrats RTS, Reptar is cheese.

Interesting that everyone that specified age of empires said 2 + expansion. I prefer 3 and expansions to 2, though do not mistake me for not liking AOE 2.

Empire total war is wonderful, my dutchman will kill you and then get wasted, weeded, and build more merchantmen.

Sins of a Solar Empire, without a doubt.

Sins of a Solar Empire, without a doubt.

I saw the words "Naruto" and "RTS" in the same sentence and my eyes started to bleed.

Just....awful. Awful.

rocklord2004 wrote:Meh. I read the manga, can't stand the anime due to the voices. If Halo can have an rts so can Naruto. If done right it would be good, unfortunately if they make one it will be dumbed down but I can still hope. :3

The difference is that Halo is a deeply fleshed-out sci-fi setting, while Naruto is a manga about ninjas with magical powers.

rubiksnoob wrote:Sins of a Solar Empire, without a doubt.

That game is sweet totally forgot about it. I think its awesome with the expansions as well.

All you need is Age of Empires 2 and StarCraft + Brood War.

Trebuchets & Siege Tanks are fun.

Yak9UT wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:Sins of a Solar Empire, without a doubt.

That game is sweet totally forgot about it. I think its awesome with the expansions as well.

Expansions? ^_^

Age of Empires 2.
Dawn of War: Dark Crusade

Dune 2

Outpost 2
Warzone 2100

Cant beat unit customization!

Emperors Faithful wrote:

Yak9UT wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:Sins of a Solar Empire, without a doubt.

That game is sweet totally forgot about it. I think its awesome with the expansions as well.

Expansions? ^_^

Yeah the exspansions Diplomacy and Entrenchment look up on thier site for more details.

I agree, I want the expansion now that I know they exist. I saw the GOTY edition and it didn't have the expansions with it, I guess they're like treasure or something.

Starcraft and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. Also command and conquer 3 and Dawn of War.

Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising

I liked that they got rid of the base building, the combat seemed a lot more intense and quicker to get into.

And the Chaos units actually seemed evil, versus the prepubescent ones in the first

Dawn of War: Winter Assault

I can't tell you how many hours I spent sending 3 Basilisks around using the Earthshaker Round. It was awesome until it got nerfed

Starcraft: Broodwar

Need I say more?