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It's sad that RTS (Real Time Strategy) games are more or less dead for more than a decade. I still play 10-20 year old RTS games like Age of Empire series, Age
by frik 10y ago
It's sad that RTS (Real Time Strategy) games are more or less dead for more than a decade.
I still play 10-20 year old RTS games like Age of Empire series, Age of Mythology, Empire Earth, C&C Generals from time to time. Especially playing skirmish mode against hard AI on random maps is really great.
Several spun off genres like Tower Defence, MoBa sprung off as Mods from Age of Empires series and WarCraft 3. Since 2009 also the Facebook games like Farmville, et al and Free2Play casual games implemented kind of RTS mechanics.
On consoles various unsuccessful RTS games like C&C 4, Halo Wars 1 and some failed Free2Play efforts like C&C Generals 2 meant basically the end to Triple-A RTS games as we knew them. The RTS genre was the best selling Triple-A genre on PC, even stronger than shooter and RPG, back in the late 1990s after all.
Now that all old genres like adventures or RPG (except RTS) got a successful revival, it would be great to get new Triple-A RTS games for PC.
- m_mueller 10y agoThe UI is the problem. Controllers or touch screens are just not precise and/or fast enough. I could see VR bringing back RTS however, simply because top down view on a map is much easier to implement than first person. It's like the old graphics constraints (which also made RTS popular because it was far more believable than FPS for a while) applied to a new input dimension (movement). Personally I hope for a return of the RTS Battlezone which combined both. My favorite game still.
- frik 10y agoRTS doesn't work with Controller (without simplifying the gameplay, which would sucks, aka no base building, not hundreds of things to manage, see Halo Wars 1 and C&C 4). But Mouse, Touch, voice and gestures works fine. Rise and Fall (the spiritual successor of Empire Earth), was a good RTS that allowed one to zoom-in and play in 3rd person with one's hero character (similar to Dungeon Keeper). Battlezone (1998) was interesting too - first person shooter combined with RTS incl base building, similar was C&C Renegade. And Operation Flashpoint 1 (2001, now called AMA) had such a mode too. But playing complex games like Watch Dogs 2 on PS4 nowadays, which has similar mechanics with the hacking tool and the quadcopter (you can control cars and what not while steering an quad copter while playing a third person character) - I am the opinion that nowadays, a complete non-simplified RTS would work on consoles just fine, even with a controller.