Dammit

[Boron]

Arryn said:

I had a great deal of fun with Starcraft years ago. And with the expansion pack for it. I've even occasionally reinstalled and played it over the past few years -- when I'm feeling nostalgic and super-bored.

Fans of Kohan would argue with you over which game is "best". And I'm sure that some C&Cer would chime in if their game(s) weren't mentioned (though C&C isn't even in the same league as Starcraft or Kohan).

SW Rebellion isn't "basically TB" using its pause, since you cannot issue orders while paused, unlike with the Paradox games. I no longer will play RT games in which you cannot issue orders while paused. Rebellion wiped out any tolerance I had for that.

oh i have so far only heard of kohan but never played it

is it a good mp game too ?
i jugded starcraft mainly on mp .

i think still no rts game with really different races is as balanced as starcraft when played in mp .


age of empires 2 / empire earth were good too but they have the same units for everybody so it is easy to balance .


from the viewpoint of user interface the c&c series is very good . but from the viewpoint of balance .
i haven't played c&c generals but in c&c 3 which i wishfully awaited i was disappointed too .


balance was horrible there :
gdi had the grenadierrush .
later nod had the overpowered artillery .





now a positive list :
my first rts game was dune 2 it was good at its time
c&c 1 and 2 were nice too .
starcraft was almost perfect and occasionally i too play it sometimes even now
in sp i liked lords of the realm 2 quite much though it had serious flaws in ai .
master of orion 2 was really great too but the ai there is extremely bad
heroes of migth and magic 1-3 were really good ,
aow 1+2 too but now with my knowlegde of dominions they are just boring

magic the gathering i still play occasionally

other strategy games that are good but have severe issues are :

missionforce cyberstorm ( bad ai ) , mech commander 1 ( no saving during missions ) , mech commander 2 ( too easy / short ) , shogun/medieval total war ( too simple / boring ) and the paradox series where i agree with you on bad ai too .

then imperialism 1 ( buggy though + you win to quick with the diplomatic vote )



i ordered myself now civilization 3 for sp but i am not 100% sure if i will like it i liked master of orion 2 + alpha centauri but civilization 1+2 not really [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]




the only other turn based game which i still like extremely and where the knowlegde of dominions didn't influence this in a negative way is still the steel panther series , mainly SP WAW .

but this is a quite different game to dominions though and has only turn based in common

looking really forward to :

-total war : rome
-hoi 2
-world in flames

and of course dominions 3