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What Is Your Favourite RTS And Why?

BMT's Photo BMT 04 Jul 2010

Well it's no secret that Overwatch will be featuring its own take on the good old RTS, so we'd like to know what your favourite RTS game is. More importantly, why? Try and describe exactly why you find your choice better than the other titles you may have played in the genre. Feel free to mention specifics like a unique gameplay element or even a particular unit that you feel helped improve the game.

Just to start off, my favourite is Red Alert 2. Its gameplay, while an improvement over the original C&C and Red Alert, is simple in its approach compared to how some popular RTS' function today, yet it isn't simple enough to not offer a wide variety of approaches to attacking and defending. It's visual style and industrial soundtrack please me so and aside from the heartaches of 4+ hour long battles being cut off unexpectedly there were many epic multiplayer experiences to be had, especially if you could get a decent 8 player match on the go! To me, it did everything right before 3D came along and messed with the formula, simple gaming mechanics executed perfectly.
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dsi1's Photo dsi1 04 Jul 2010

I really want to say RA2, or even just Westwood in general, but I have to say that Company of Heroes is one of my favorite RTSes out there.

Relic did a good job at balancing teams that played very differently, even more so in the expansion. It did a very good job with squads, intelligent enough to get behind heavy cover if they were just a foot away from it, but they wouldn't wonder off from your positioning either. The expansion also did direct control, from the RTS perspective, allowing the player to take shots on cover that the enemy might be hiding behind, as well as creating light cover for friendly infantry, then letting the tank go on its way and take its own shots. It wasn't a hard game to learn, but it wasn't easy to master either, there was no one dominating tactic or one 'best' playstyle.
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AndY's Photo AndY 04 Jul 2010

Waaa? C&C Red Alert hands down. Why? Best f..... story and characters ever. Einstein, Stalin, TANYA! Playing through the campaign will never get old.
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Tucker's Photo Tucker 04 Jul 2010

Empire Earth.

Graphics suck but I like having spaceships and and pewpew laz0rz.
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Eric Fong's Photo Eric Fong 05 Jul 2010

Lord of the ring: war in middle of earth
Red alert 2
Company of heroes
Age of mythology
and Age of empire.
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A1win's Photo A1win 05 Jul 2010

StarCraft II. Why? Because Galaxy Editor. Customization <3
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elite879's Photo elite879 05 Jul 2010

Men of War.

The most realistic WWII RTS I've ever seen and the graphics aren't bad for an RTS either

Plus the Direct control feature, you may have heard me praising it, it IS awsome :D
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Auxor's Photo Auxor 05 Jul 2010

Age of Empires 3. A combination of an awesome single player game, excellent multiplayer and skirmish mode along with just a great premise in general makes this one of my favourite RTS' ever.
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Shawn's Photo Shawn 05 Jul 2010

I personally like the Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War series the best. Mostly because The Emperor wills it so of the shear amount of awesome.

Space Marine cutting up Orks with a chainsaw-sword? Sounds good.

Of course that's not the ONLY reason, it has lots of good "lore" around it too.
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BMT's Photo BMT 05 Jul 2010

View PostShawn, on 05 July 2010 - 07:42 PM, said:

I personally like the Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War series the best. Mostly because The Emperor wills it so of the shear amount of awesome.

Space Marine cutting up Orks with a chainsaw-sword? Sounds good.

Of course that's not the ONLY reason, it has lots of good "lore" around it too.

The Dawn of War games play fairly well, they're my favourite of recent RTS titles for sure.
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braddollar's Photo braddollar 06 Jul 2010

League of Legends is definitely current favorite RTS, sort of. Not your typical RTS though as you are normally only controlling a single unit.

Dawn of War has always been fun for the smaller squad based tactics. Always liked that it more so emphasized your unit control strategy over your build order like Warcraft or Starcraft.

Warcraft 3 has definitely given me the most bang for buck of any RTS due to the awesome custom "maps" that are really more like mods. Unfortunately I don't think Starcraft 2 is going to provide the same bang for buck, and with the Battle.net 2.0 stuff I'm thinking I probably won't even give it a buy.
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Rymosrac's Photo Rymosrac 06 Jul 2010

I'm a longtime fan of the C&C games, though I must also grudgingly admit that Starcraft was WAY ahead of it's time.

Right now though, I can't name an RTS that does a better job of creating a derverse, unpredictable, dynamic, immersive, and fun environment than Company of Heroes. Dawn of War was a little to grand of scale and didn't feel quite as visceral as I was hoping, and DoW2 is just a hair too fast and closed by comparison.
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Ranma's Photo Ranma 06 Jul 2010

Does Natural Selection count?
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DaFox's Photo DaFox 07 Jul 2010

Easily Warcraft 3, largely because of the crazy custom map scene that it had.

Warcraft 2 was my first RTS. Big fan of AoE2 aswell.
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Whitebird's Photo Whitebird 07 Jul 2010

View Postelite879, on 05 July 2010 - 11:24 AM, said:

Men of War.

The most realistic WWII RTS I've ever seen and the graphics aren't bad for an RTS either

Plus the Direct control feature, you may have heard me praising it, it IS awsome :D
isn't that an RTT?

Anyway, my favourit RTS are:

Company of Heroes (all expansions, and the blitzkrieg mod)
Age of Mythology (sending a hurricane to the enemy, why not?)
C&C on PS (first RTS i've ever played)
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elite879's Photo elite879 07 Jul 2010

View PostWhitebird, on 07 July 2010 - 06:50 PM, said:

isn't that an RTT?

What's an RTT?

And no, It's an RTS
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braddollar's Photo braddollar 07 Jul 2010

View Postelite879, on 07 July 2010 - 09:49 PM, said:

What's an RTT?

http://tinyurl.com/29tjjmo
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elite879's Photo elite879 08 Jul 2010

Ah I see what you mean.

Yeah I guess it is an RTT then
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cheesydud's Photo cheesydud 08 Jul 2010

My favorite would be Starcraft + Brood War.
It's such an old game, but Blizzard really perfected it. The gameplay is still fun after all these years. Plus, over 10 years later and we're still getting patches from Blizzard.
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Lord_of_Sausage's Photo Lord_of_Sausage 08 Jul 2010

Warcraft, because of the World Editor! I lost track on how many maps, let alone hours, i've spent in it!
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