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Warms my old gamer heart. Heroes of Might & Magic III got me info RTS in a big way.
by 1GZ0 2y ago
Warms my old gamer heart. Heroes of Might & Magic III got me info RTS in a big way.
- nottorp 2y agoThe HoMM games aren't Real Time Strategy games though?
- 1GZ0 2y agoNo not really, but HoMM was a nice gateway-drug to proper RTS
- rollcat 2y agoNope, it's not an RTS, but back in the 90's - when computers were bulky, few, and preciously expensive, Internet access was charged by the minute, and friends not always within PC carrying distance - hot-seat games such as the HoMM or Worms series were winning the battle for screen-time over the likes of StarCraft or Quake in basically almost any social context. We'd sometimes meet up and try to take turns to beat a particularly difficult mission, but by the time anyone had a second (imagine!) computer in their house, broadband Internet was getting widespread. My first ever StarCraft LAN was in 2009, IIRC.
- nottorp 2y ago> hot-seat games such as the HoMM or Worms series I've done both thank you. In high school I was living very close to the school and me and a group of friends gathered at my PC to play Worms after school and sometimes during school. HoMM took longer so needed more organization.
- bombcar 2y agoThey were similar “play feel” - perhaps Unrealtime Strategy would be a name for it. We’d be deciding to play Action Quake together, or maybe StarCraft or Tiberian Sun/Red Alert, or watch someone play Half Life, or HOMM3 hot seat. The last would often win out if it was more of a chill night.
- r721 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-based_strategy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-based_strategy
- chupasaurus 2y agoCheck out previous 2 installments in the series to chill your heart back.