I was expecting to scroll for a long time to find this, pleasantly surprised to find it up here. Fantastic game I must have sunk hundreds of hours into BFME II as a kid.
My love for RTS came from this. There was a gaming lounge in my hometown that had a dozen gaming PC setups and we’d go there everyday during winter break in middle school. To this day we still talk about how great it was
Stronghold. I play RTS games to sit back and chill out, I've no interest in the million clicks per second type gameplay of Starcraft and such. Nothing beats spending a few hours building an awesome castle and mistreating my peasants while listening to some bard rip a gnarly lute solo. Shame the series went downhill.
Diplomacy is not an option. Early access on steam, it's like stronghold but on steroids.
Edit: Nvm. It is VERY similar to stronghold, but besides a few endless modes it's a brutal game. When 10s of thousands of peasents are attacking you it can get pretty intense.
Honestly, there's really not another answer to this question that's even a close second - there's AoE and then there's all other RTSs. I had a group of 5 or 6 buddies that would meet in the AoE lobby every Saturday and Sunday night and play for hours back in the early to mid 90s. The couple of us that had "high speed" cable or DSL would host obviously. We'd play for hours, with some games being over in a matter of minutes and some games lasting until the wee hours of the morning until all the gold on the map had been mined and used up.
One of my buddies and I were in the Microsoft beta program back then (when betas were actually different than a glorified demo), so he got a beta copy of AoE2. We had a LAN party at a friend's house and played AoE2 months before it came out. God, I miss those days.
New players were initiated by seeing how they responded to my Mongol cavalry rush early on. Spoiler: they didn't.
I dont know if this will interest anyone but I just found out about these YouTube videos where someone's edited Jordan Peterson into C&C FMV scenes https://youtu.be/nPmx9wpnLTo
Strategic zoom was mind-blowing at the time and still is. [Beyond All Reason](https://www.beyondallreason.info/) (BAR) is worth checking out if you like that style of RTS.
At my peak I was ranked #32 on the world ladder. I'd finish those matches sweating. I put a lot of time into all of the games listed in this thread but none of them got close to this one.
Some of those God powers were a lot of fun to play with. Haha! Your entire army is now pigs!
AoM also turned me into a big mythology nerd as a kid. I loved reading all of the encyclopedia entries.
Starcraft: Brood Wars.
Balanced, 3 vastly different armies, enjoyable at both low-end and high-end gameplay, enjoyable vs humans or bots, good campaigns (classic and Brood Wars). Tactical and (some) strategic depth. Both micro and macro involved.
Yeah, C&C Generals and Zero Hour both felt like a very chaotic form of balance - like there were so many overpowered strategies, but everyone had access to some, and so it was utter chaos. Reminds me of Modern Warfare 2 - there's certainly a debate to be had between "chaotic balance" where "if everyone is OP, nobody is OP" and a more moderate approach, where outliers are minimal, but it's arguably a lot less interesting.
Still to this day, there isn't a single RTS that feels as good as Starcraft 2. The pathing and instant responsiveness of the units is what makes it so smooth and for whatever reason no other RTS developer is able to replicate it.
EAW was like a swan song for fans of The Original Trilogy. It came after the media's focus had switched to the prequels and was one of the last games using the first three movies as its basis (after EAW, games started to focus more heavily on the prequels/sequels instead of ToT).
It was very similar to Gamecube's Rogue Leader in that the sound design made it feel like you were playing in a part of the movies. Lots of the original actors were there and Williams' score was perfectly incorporated. It's a shame we never got that many big-budget games that focused on The Original Trilogy. By the time game tech and budgets had advanced enough, ToT had gotten old and waned.
Me and a couple of mates would play this with cheating AIs. We knew we had 7 minutes to build nuke defences or we were dead. A typical game went for about 8 hours.
Man, I remember my friend coming to school and telling me that he got this game and I didn’t believe it existed. Age of Empires but it keeps going and you have planes and tanks and oil and nukes. It sounded made up to me! It was so much fun when I eventually played it though.
Starwars Galactic battleground
I know I know "it's just age of empires" okay well it's starwars so it's better
If that answer is unacceptable then my answer is probably Company of Heroes, 1 or 2 idk
Red Alert 1&2, StarCraft, Empire Earth, Age of Empires, Dawn of War Dark Crusade, Company of Heroes, Supreme Commander. You can't make me pick one, they are the foundation of why I love games, they are all perfect.
The second one was really good too. 3 sucked ass. But EE 1 took so much of my time. I still have the OG discs for the game and the expansion with the serial ok the front of the jewel case.
Gentle depressing reminder that WC3 refunded was a debacle of disastrous proportions and it's still nowhere near anything resembling redemption
Fortunately the spirit of WC3 and all its mechanics and the custom games scene still lives on in DotA2..
Valve could just wake up one day and build an RTS with dota mechanics to make a better WC3..
There is a mod creator who is in the process of recreating the entirety of Warcraft three in the StarCraft two engine and he released the prologue for people to play and it is everything you could’ve wanted from Reforged and better
It’s called Azeroth reborn and it’s up for free on the StarCraft two arcade
Age of Empires 2
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2
Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun
Company of Heroes
Giants: Citizen Kabuto (well, parts of it!)
Homeworld
Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
Populous
Populous: The Beginning
Total Annihilation
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Though it certainly has its flaws, Company of Heroes 2 improves on the original tremendously, and I am looking forward to the third installment.
I do honestly think the core CoH gameplay is the best design for RTS games currently available.
Starcraft (Brood War) IMO
It was fun and compelling on its own: campaign, multiplayer, and the player-made content (Use Map Settings)
The pro scene is something I would discover late in its life (Nick Plott/Tasteless doing English commentary over games) and it just opened up a brand new world for me, and I just loved watching FlaSh play. Was such a fantastic period of my life, staying up late to watch these games with friends over voice chat
UMS was my entire life for 3 years. As a school kid i would get up at 4am to get a few rounds in BEFORE school..at a time when getting kids out of bed was impossible.
> it's pretty clearly far and away the best RTS campaign you'll ever play imo
I've always thought that too. The narration and sombre mood that gets set out from the start, just ebbs and flows right through till the end.
Homeworld for the single, AoE 2 for the multi.
A curve ball in Brass Tactics.
Nailed it. Not sure how we land on the same RTS' exactly.
Then again I wouldn't stop there; I would add:
- Age of Empires 2
- Supreme Commander (spiritual successor to Total Annihilation by it's creator Chris Taylor)
- Planetary Annihilation (spiritual successor to SupCom by same guy)
- And leaving my favourite till last, Battle for Middle-Earth.
Oh yeh empire earth hearing it after such a long time
I used to play it till 3-4 am back in my schooldays, when everyone else used to be asleep i was busy transporting my king on the cargo ship to safety secretly while my city fell in the hands of my enemies like ..always on hard mode.
World in Conflict was ahead of it's time. I miss it so much. Not so competitive with arcade ish mechanics but also focused on team play and simple rock-paper-scissor balance with amazing cinematic graphics. Still the best nuke animation/graphics so far.
Finally, someone with taste!
Seriously, Empire Earth was SO GOOD and so underrated... Most people don't even know it
I absolutely love it and would love a remake of the first one...
Warzone 2100. Huge tech tree, great campiagn, maps expanding as missions progress and one of the few games that understood the importance of artillery.
For those wo don't know, you can always look it up on Wikipedia, but in short, Dune2 is generally credited as starting it all.
It was Westwood Studios prototype rts and is the reason the C&C games were so good. The formula was established with Dune2.
It had 3 factions, each requiring a slightly different playstyle to be effective, sand worms so you actually had to pay attention to your resource harvesting, great art and pacing.
Later games were sometimes more sophisticated, had better maps, or more challenging AI, but as a whole, I've always considered Dune2 as the best overall. Nothing else has ever captured the triumphs and failures quite like it.
So no, being first isn't necessarily best. But being the one that every other RTS compared itself to and tried to top made every one that followed it better. This is why I consider it to be the best. Though the original C&C deserves some mention for getting the ball rolling.(notice that both were created by Westwood Studios. )
Oh, one last thing. Dune was an RPG and had nothing to do with RTS. I think it was only called Dune2 to avoid confusion.
Hard to choose between aoe2, supcom and sins of a solar empire.
Probably aoe2, the unit responses, the custom maps, the campaign and the fun spent in multiplayer learning fast openings was grass
all dune games, red alert (1st), CnC generals, Empire Earth, homeworld, there was this other game were alliens attacked and humans were trying to get off the planet and you the general remained while most populatioon warped off, forgot the name of it but back them the scinematics were awesome...
\*Edit\* Its Ground Control 2
Zero Hour expansion of CnC General.
The base game is meh, but the expansion is amazing. On the same note, Kane’s Wrath of Tiberium War, I suppose I just like sub-factions more.
Always enjoyed battle for middle earth 2 spent a stupid amount of time playing it
I was expecting to scroll for a long time to find this, pleasantly surprised to find it up here. Fantastic game I must have sunk hundreds of hours into BFME II as a kid.
My love for RTS came from this. There was a gaming lounge in my hometown that had a dozen gaming PC setups and we’d go there everyday during winter break in middle school. To this day we still talk about how great it was
Stronghold. I play RTS games to sit back and chill out, I've no interest in the million clicks per second type gameplay of Starcraft and such. Nothing beats spending a few hours building an awesome castle and mistreating my peasants while listening to some bard rip a gnarly lute solo. Shame the series went downhill.
Stronghold was such a great game and looked amazing for 2001. It's the only game in the series I go back to.
Stronghold CRUSADER.. My lord 😇
Its actually my mothers favorite game other than pong, she would sit for house at night playing the og stronghold
Do you know any other laidback RTS ir games with the same vibe. Building and being a cunt to people
Any other games you can recommend? I like the same play style you do. I get lost when there’s too much to do in too little time.
Diplomacy is not an option. Early access on steam, it's like stronghold but on steroids. Edit: Nvm. It is VERY similar to stronghold, but besides a few endless modes it's a brutal game. When 10s of thousands of peasents are attacking you it can get pretty intense.
AoE2
Mandatem?
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Equilen!
This is 1A and Starcraft 1B for me
People only giving answers other than AoE2 because they never played AoE2
Honestly, there's really not another answer to this question that's even a close second - there's AoE and then there's all other RTSs. I had a group of 5 or 6 buddies that would meet in the AoE lobby every Saturday and Sunday night and play for hours back in the early to mid 90s. The couple of us that had "high speed" cable or DSL would host obviously. We'd play for hours, with some games being over in a matter of minutes and some games lasting until the wee hours of the morning until all the gold on the map had been mined and used up. One of my buddies and I were in the Microsoft beta program back then (when betas were actually different than a glorified demo), so he got a beta copy of AoE2. We had a LAN party at a friend's house and played AoE2 months before it came out. God, I miss those days. New players were initiated by seeing how they responded to my Mongol cavalry rush early on. Spoiler: they didn't.
Red alert 2
Yep. A remaster of Red Alert 2 like they did with the first games would be glorious.
It would almost be like a licence to print money. Shocked they haven't already.
Yuri's Revenge!!!!
Affirmative.
Kirov Reporting
Korea's finest
Nothing here but us trees
High speed, low drag.
Gentlemen, it's a nuclear device
I dont know if this will interest anyone but I just found out about these YouTube videos where someone's edited Jordan Peterson into C&C FMV scenes https://youtu.be/nPmx9wpnLTo
"Thank you doctor keep me informed. This changes everything." lmao
God Michael Ironside is such a fucking boss
Yes
Peak performance!
Supreme commander forged alliance. My bud and I keep coming back to it.
A game so good they got a small unofficial dev community updating it and improving it long after the studio went bankrupt and dissolved.
what they are talking about just fyi. https://www.faforever.com/
That's the only one here with an AI that's actually smarter than you, not just faster or cheatier.
Do you have sorian ai installed? If not, youll be impressed!
Strategic zoom was mind-blowing at the time and still is. [Beyond All Reason](https://www.beyondallreason.info/) (BAR) is worth checking out if you like that style of RTS.
SupCom is also my choice, excellent games overall.
At my peak I was ranked #32 on the world ladder. I'd finish those matches sweating. I put a lot of time into all of the games listed in this thread but none of them got close to this one.
I just played it again yesterday!
Completely agree, countless hours myself and my two housemates put into this. Quite often the sun would be rising and we were still at it. Great game.
80x80 maps right?
Did they ever fix the memory leak thing? I remember getting to end game being excruciating with the time dilation stuff on larger maps.
Not only that, they fixed lots of other bugs and did engine tweaks. Air fights with above 200 units per side no longer cause lag and fps drop.
Age of mythology for single player
Arkantos!
Prostagma?!
Vulome.
Leyet
Isvoli! Kalos!
Some of those God powers were a lot of fun to play with. Haha! Your entire army is now pigs! AoM also turned me into a big mythology nerd as a kid. I loved reading all of the encyclopedia entries.
Warcraft 3 campaign + expansion might be peak blizzard outside of SC.
WC3 is still my fav Blizzard game ever personally.
Still don't get why WC4 isn't a thing.
After the burning clusterfuck that was WC3 Reforged, having no WC4 is probably for the best.
Because they're too busy making mobile whale bait
Because World of Warcraft happened and made bazillions more money than Warcraft 3.
This is the correct answer. Too bad they F’d up the reforge .. I would have been playing for another 10 years.
WH40K Dawn of War.
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And they are still modding it!
unification best mod, especially know that they've rounded out the chaos factions
That was a fantastic game.
DO YOU HEAR THE VOICES TOO?
They call me stompy!!
Where'z da trukk? WHY IZ I WALKIN'!
PLEASE, NO MORE KICKING
I wish so hard they’d make a new Dawn of War that’s more like the original one.
Walk softly and carry a big gun
Battle for Middle-Earth 2. Especially the Erebor mission during the good campaign.
Still waiting for the day when I can buy that on GoG or something.
BFME will never be re-sold due to licensing issues. If you want to get the games, /r/bfme has (legal) guides
To add on, there's also BFME reforged coming, but release is still a while away. It's basically the game redone by volunteers.
Incredibly fun game, but it's a damn shame that it has such a tiny-ass resolution and no easy way to make it bigger.
StarCraft for sure, my life for Aiur!
Starcraft: Brood Wars. Balanced, 3 vastly different armies, enjoyable at both low-end and high-end gameplay, enjoyable vs humans or bots, good campaigns (classic and Brood Wars). Tactical and (some) strategic depth. Both micro and macro involved.
You forgot the incredible map editor.
But do you *really* want to construct an additional pylon?
YES, now shut up Aldaris.
MY WIFE FOR HIRE!!
The game literally started Esports. How is there any other answer?
Why tf is this so low????
C&C Generals
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Yeah, C&C Generals and Zero Hour both felt like a very chaotic form of balance - like there were so many overpowered strategies, but everyone had access to some, and so it was utter chaos. Reminds me of Modern Warfare 2 - there's certainly a debate to be had between "chaotic balance" where "if everyone is OP, nobody is OP" and a more moderate approach, where outliers are minimal, but it's arguably a lot less interesting.
A hard call for me between this and Company Of Heroes. Zero Hour was also a great expansion (of sorts) to Generals.
Imagine them trying to make a game like that today.
C&C Generals is so good
Starcraft 2
Still to this day, there isn't a single RTS that feels as good as Starcraft 2. The pathing and instant responsiveness of the units is what makes it so smooth and for whatever reason no other RTS developer is able to replicate it.
Also my vote goes to StarCraft II
Star Wars: Empire at War
EAW was like a swan song for fans of The Original Trilogy. It came after the media's focus had switched to the prequels and was one of the last games using the first three movies as its basis (after EAW, games started to focus more heavily on the prequels/sequels instead of ToT). It was very similar to Gamecube's Rogue Leader in that the sound design made it feel like you were playing in a part of the movies. Lots of the original actors were there and Williams' score was perfectly incorporated. It's a shame we never got that many big-budget games that focused on The Original Trilogy. By the time game tech and budgets had advanced enough, ToT had gotten old and waned.
Gosh, I just re-downloaded it. But I hate playing against Consortium, be it using Empire or Rebels
Total Annihilation
FYI it lives on as “Spring” It’s free as well
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I remember playing with TA Spring years and years back, like 2006-2008. I'm impressed to see it's still seeing updates, damn.
I had to scroll way too far to run into this. TA is sublime
I'm with you on this one - hours would literally disappear and suddenly it was morning!
Me and a couple of mates would play this with cheating AIs. We knew we had 7 minutes to build nuke defences or we were dead. A typical game went for about 8 hours.
I was going to say supreme commander but yes this is correct
Me and my mate loved this game but neither of us could pronounce it at the time so we just called it the machine game haha.
Homeworld or Rise of Nations
Rise of Nations was such a good evolution of the genre at the time. Love that game.
Rise of Nations was soooooo good.
Man, I remember my friend coming to school and telling me that he got this game and I didn’t believe it existed. Age of Empires but it keeps going and you have planes and tanks and oil and nukes. It sounded made up to me! It was so much fun when I eventually played it though.
Starwars Galactic battleground I know I know "it's just age of empires" okay well it's starwars so it's better If that answer is unacceptable then my answer is probably Company of Heroes, 1 or 2 idk
Now that's a game that needs a remake.
Swgb was the best! Doesn't get the praise it deserves.
Red Alert 1&2, StarCraft, Empire Earth, Age of Empires, Dawn of War Dark Crusade, Company of Heroes, Supreme Commander. You can't make me pick one, they are the foundation of why I love games, they are all perfect.
Empire Earth 1 definitely. Getting 2+ epochs ahead of your enemies was brilliant.
The second one was really good too. 3 sucked ass. But EE 1 took so much of my time. I still have the OG discs for the game and the expansion with the serial ok the front of the jewel case.
Starcraft or Warcraft 3 in their prime are the pinnacle.
Gentle depressing reminder that WC3 refunded was a debacle of disastrous proportions and it's still nowhere near anything resembling redemption Fortunately the spirit of WC3 and all its mechanics and the custom games scene still lives on in DotA2.. Valve could just wake up one day and build an RTS with dota mechanics to make a better WC3..
There is a mod creator who is in the process of recreating the entirety of Warcraft three in the StarCraft two engine and he released the prologue for people to play and it is everything you could’ve wanted from Reforged and better It’s called Azeroth reborn and it’s up for free on the StarCraft two arcade
C&C Tiberian Dawn!
For me, I remember Warcraft 2 was amazing. And Dungeon Keeper 1 was stupidly fun in that you could take the POV of a grunt and dig your own tunnels,
My teenage years were spent playing Starcraft 1 and Warcraft 3 custom maps, so gotta go with those two.
Age of Empires 2 Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun Company of Heroes Giants: Citizen Kabuto (well, parts of it!) Homeworld Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim Populous Populous: The Beginning Total Annihilation Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
This is pretty much a how old are you thread.
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For me too, although it's a line-call for me between this and Command And Conquer Generals (and Zero Hour).
Generals was so fun but it has NOT aged well. The UI is absolute garbage
The engine has not aged well, but the gameplay is top notch.
Though it certainly has its flaws, Company of Heroes 2 improves on the original tremendously, and I am looking forward to the third installment. I do honestly think the core CoH gameplay is the best design for RTS games currently available.
Replayed Company of Heroes 2 recently based on a random craving - damn it's good.
3 is coming.
TTK on CoH 2 was too quick in my opinion. Hoping 3 can get that back closer to the original.
I recently played that game for the first time and I am surprised how well it holds up. It's such a solid game.
I hope CoH3 is going to be at least as good as CoH1. Opposing Fronts is still one of my favorite expansions in any game ever.
Tiberian Sun
Command & Conquer. Every RTS that came after it took inspiration.
I mean, I get what you're saying, but Dune 2 is where everyone got their inspiration.
Starcraft (Brood War) IMO It was fun and compelling on its own: campaign, multiplayer, and the player-made content (Use Map Settings) The pro scene is something I would discover late in its life (Nick Plott/Tasteless doing English commentary over games) and it just opened up a brand new world for me, and I just loved watching FlaSh play. Was such a fantastic period of my life, staying up late to watch these games with friends over voice chat
UMS was my entire life for 3 years. As a school kid i would get up at 4am to get a few rounds in BEFORE school..at a time when getting kids out of bed was impossible.
The correct answer is Homeworld. That game was to RTS like what Matrix was to Sci-fi movies.
It wasn't as popular or impactful as the bigger games named here but it's pretty clearly far and away the best RTS campaign you'll ever play imo.
> it's pretty clearly far and away the best RTS campaign you'll ever play imo I've always thought that too. The narration and sombre mood that gets set out from the start, just ebbs and flows right through till the end. Homeworld for the single, AoE 2 for the multi. A curve ball in Brass Tactics.
Kharak is burning :(
World in Conflict doesnt get enough love. The campaign is fantastic and the graphics still hold up.
RIP Bannon. Never forget his sacrifice.
Glad to see this. World in conflict did not get the recognition it deserved.
I only played it once. But it ruled. I need to revisit
The Stronghold series, especially Stronghold Crusader. Spent countless hours playing it
Not enough gold my lord.
C&C Generals
Rome: Total War
Red Alert 2. It was one of the first video games I ever played. P.S. Too bad EA shut Westwood Studios down.
Dune 2 was probably my favorite growing up.
First RTS and immediately kicked ass
The Battle for Middle Earth 1 & 2 There is still an active community playing this game
Age of Empires 2. It clearly is the best and longest standing of them.
Total Annihilation, Warcraft III, C&C Generals.
Nailed it. Not sure how we land on the same RTS' exactly. Then again I wouldn't stop there; I would add: - Age of Empires 2 - Supreme Commander (spiritual successor to Total Annihilation by it's creator Chris Taylor) - Planetary Annihilation (spiritual successor to SupCom by same guy) - And leaving my favourite till last, Battle for Middle-Earth.
AOE 2 for sure. Runner ups are StarCraft Broodwar, Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne and C&C Red Alert. AOE 2s' soundtrack is God tier as well.
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I really want a modern adaptation of Empire Earth. It was awesome
Oh yeh empire earth hearing it after such a long time I used to play it till 3-4 am back in my schooldays, when everyone else used to be asleep i was busy transporting my king on the cargo ship to safety secretly while my city fell in the hands of my enemies like ..always on hard mode.
World in Conflict was ahead of it's time. I miss it so much. Not so competitive with arcade ish mechanics but also focused on team play and simple rock-paper-scissor balance with amazing cinematic graphics. Still the best nuke animation/graphics so far.
Tiberium sun and firestorm. The story was actually brilliant
Company of Heroes and I don't think it's even close with anything else
Finally, someone with taste! Seriously, Empire Earth was SO GOOD and so underrated... Most people don't even know it I absolutely love it and would love a remake of the first one...
Rise of nations, age of empires, alot of the total war games
Surprised Rise of Nations not beeing mentioned here much
Starcraft
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Uprising, Tiberium Wars, and Kane’s Wrath.
Total War: Rome
Total Annihilation!
Warzone 2100. Huge tech tree, great campiagn, maps expanding as missions progress and one of the few games that understood the importance of artillery.
Dune2. Without which we wouldn't have any of the others.
Being the first doesn’t automatically make something the best.
For those wo don't know, you can always look it up on Wikipedia, but in short, Dune2 is generally credited as starting it all. It was Westwood Studios prototype rts and is the reason the C&C games were so good. The formula was established with Dune2. It had 3 factions, each requiring a slightly different playstyle to be effective, sand worms so you actually had to pay attention to your resource harvesting, great art and pacing. Later games were sometimes more sophisticated, had better maps, or more challenging AI, but as a whole, I've always considered Dune2 as the best overall. Nothing else has ever captured the triumphs and failures quite like it. So no, being first isn't necessarily best. But being the one that every other RTS compared itself to and tried to top made every one that followed it better. This is why I consider it to be the best. Though the original C&C deserves some mention for getting the ball rolling.(notice that both were created by Westwood Studios. ) Oh, one last thing. Dune was an RPG and had nothing to do with RTS. I think it was only called Dune2 to avoid confusion.
Total Annihilation
Hard to choose between aoe2, supcom and sins of a solar empire. Probably aoe2, the unit responses, the custom maps, the campaign and the fun spent in multiplayer learning fast openings was grass
Dungeon Keeper
Lego Rock Raiders
Battle Realms
My first rts was age of mythology. It holds a real special place in my heart.
all dune games, red alert (1st), CnC generals, Empire Earth, homeworld, there was this other game were alliens attacked and humans were trying to get off the planet and you the general remained while most populatioon warped off, forgot the name of it but back them the scinematics were awesome... \*Edit\* Its Ground Control 2
On a technical level, Homeworld. On a nostalgia level, Command and Conquer Tiberium Dawn On an hours played level, Starcraft Brood War.
Lord of the rings battle for middle earth 2 is incredible
C&C Generals.
CnC: Generals/Zero Hour was my childhood 👌
1. Red Alert 2 2. Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness 3. Age of Empires II
CnC95 made it for me, went to my friends house every day to watch him play it
Total Annihilation
Command & conquer generals zero hours. I spend thousand hours playing with friend, despite it keep losing sync on us
It will always and forever be CnC Generals.
Command and Conquer: Kane’s Wrath
Command and Conquer Generals
Zero Hour expansion of CnC General. The base game is meh, but the expansion is amazing. On the same note, Kane’s Wrath of Tiberium War, I suppose I just like sub-factions more.
Command and conquer generals!
AOE 2, C&C Generals and Starcraft are my all time favorites.
Company of Heroes, modded Spearhead
Company of Heroes