Is RTS still a thing?

dal · 28 Feb 2017 at 07:28

mattyfez said:
Rise of nations is good but old now, nothing more satisfying than out evolving the enemy, and rolling a bunch of tanks into a base that's still in the medieval age

I used to love that game, found it very satisfying sending a fleet of bombers in to wipe out a city.

Mark1989 · 28 Feb 2017 at 08:41

Ashes of Singularity bit of help, i can buy it on keys site for 8 quid however on steam its not there just the new version escalation, if i bought the old cheaper one would it even work? or would steam upgrade it to the new one?

francky · 28 Feb 2017 at 09:18

You can still download and play the original Red Alert on Windows 10 for free, through a download and installer on Cnnet.org

Played it last night in fact...what a game that is.

Diddums · 7 Mar 2017 at 20:38

Apologies for not getting back to this sooner, but thanks for the replies all, definitely some fodder here worth a play. Many titles I'd forgotten about too. Anyone remember KKND? I loved that game for the 5% of the time I could get it to work properly.

Smokey Deza · 8 Mar 2017 at 17:41

Rise of Nations was remastered few years back and is pretty good. I dumped it though. Annoying battle timer :/

Act of War was very good for its time.

KKND and the like were massively overshadowed by TA and C&C. I never played any of them.

Diddums · 8 Mar 2017 at 20:25

Another one I forgot about was Dune 2000. Reskinned Red Alert with a few tweaks, great fun!

hornetstinger · 8 Mar 2017 at 20:31

what about Orcs & Humans

"Stop poking me!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ncZTspQ7g

Diddums · 8 Mar 2017 at 20:37

READY TO WORK!

Diddums · 27 Mar 2017 at 19:56

Well folks, I'm sure this has been posted but I'll post it here anyway:

It seems our collective prayers have been answered!

Schnippzle · 27 Mar 2017 at 20:06

I still look at World in Conflict (including expansion) as one of the finest pieces of RTS work in recent times. Shame Massive were swallowed by Ubisoft

linktoinsanity · 28 Mar 2017 at 09:37

8-bit Armies (and Hordes and Invaders) are made by some of the same developers as C&C. It's simplified for quick games and is quite fun.

I also like Supcom 1+2 and COH2.

Kiyoshi · 28 Mar 2017 at 11:07

mattyg said:
Settlers or megalomaniac

I'm old

I was 12 when Mega Lo Mania was released, I'm 38 now and still remember the level code GATAVRXRONT :confused:

(level 8 I think).

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 28 Mar 2017 at 11:36

Diddums said:
Well folks, I'm sure this has been posted but I'll post it here anyway:

It seems our collective prayers have been answered!

Loved Starcraft

I think it was the last RTS game I played. The first one that I can remember playing (a lot) was Dune II.

darknite · 28 Mar 2017 at 12:46

Schnippzle said:
I still look at World in Conflict (including expansion) as one of the finest pieces of RTS work in recent times. Shame Massive were swallowed by Ubisoft

I love World In Conflict. However the game does have issues on Windows 10

crashes a lot, sometimes levels will not declear victory etc. Might just be my weird hardware though. But it is a beautiful looking game.

Aberfala · 28 Mar 2017 at 14:16

DONOHUE07 said:
The closest thing to C&C in years is Halo Wars 2. Played it at my friends over the weekend, really good

VincentHanna said:
Yep, enjoying Halo Wars 2.

And can play at 4K from my sofa with a gamepad - Unprecedented.

Have either of you played it with mouse/keyboard rather than gamepad ?

I was going to get it but reviews say the mouse/keyboard controls suffer due to making it gamepad friendly so I was looking for some honest player feedback especially from people used to playing RTS's on PC.

VincentHanna · 28 Mar 2017 at 14:42

Sorry, no.

Schnippzle · 28 Mar 2017 at 18:31

darknite said:
I love World In Conflict. However the game does have issues on Windows 10 crashes a lot, sometimes levels will not declear victory etc. Might just be my weird hardware though. But it is a beautiful looking game.

That's a massive shame!

DONOHUE07 · 28 Mar 2017 at 18:43

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Aberfala said:
Have either of you played it with mouse/keyboard rather than gamepad ?

I was going to get it but reviews say the mouse/keyboard controls suffer due to making it gamepad friendly so I was looking for some honest player feedback especially from people used to playing RTS's on PC.

Im afraid I havnt, i think there's a demo available to download now though

Aberfala · 28 Mar 2017 at 19:03

DONOHUE07 said:
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Im afraid I havnt, i think there's a demo available to download now though

I hadn't noticed they'd released a demo, thanks for the info

White_hell · 28 Mar 2017 at 21:51

I love RTS's
Halo Wars 1+2 are great now that its on PC.
Though I wish Command and Conquer came back.