Poll

Which Game/Series is the Best RTS of All Time?

Command & Conquer Series41%41% - 89
Total Annihilation Series5%5% - 12
Age of Empires Series12%12% - 28
Black & White Series0%0% - 2
Starcraft Series5%5% - 11
Rome & Medieval: Total War Series7%7% - 17
Warcraft Series8%8% - 18
Company of Heroes10%10% - 22
Rise of Nations Series1%1% - 3
Other6%6% - 14
Total: 216
Cheez
Herman is a warmaphrodite
+1,027|6656|King Of The Islands

Totala (love how people call it what the CD was called, including me ) Was great and all, but there was only really the one game (yes I know about Kingdoms). One does not constitute for a 'series'. Even so, it canes.

(PS. Bidoobida Booboo Badi Da-da-da)
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
Vilham
Say wat!?
+580|6984|UK

jsnipy wrote:

Warzone2100!!!!

(its free try it: http://sourceforge.net/projects/warzone2100/)
Warzone 2100 is a 3D real-time strategy game that was released in 1999. It's source code was liberated in december 2004. Development has picked up from the original source code to make it cross-platform and, in the end, better.
Isnt that the game where you design your own vechicles. It was pretty fun, similar to Ground Control. Hopefully the graphics have improved though.
jsnipy
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+3,276|6740|...

B-Scimitar wrote:

C&C is good, but Civilization is even better.
Civ is turn based ... and a time machine makes day to to night and night turn to day quick.

Vilham wrote:

jsnipy wrote:

Warzone2100!!!!

(its free try it: http://sourceforge.net/projects/warzone2100/)
Warzone 2100 is a 3D real-time strategy game that was released in 1999. It's source code was liberated in december 2004. Development has picked up from the original source code to make it cross-platform and, in the end, better.
Isnt that the game where you design your own vechicles. It was pretty fun, similar to Ground Control. Hopefully the graphics have improved though.
Yeah, they have been updated it, but the graphics are not to something you might by now  .. but it runs smooth (has lights,fog,etc.,d3d and opengl) ... and the tech tree has been expanded ever further. Realistically you would never research anything in a real game. If you sat playing easy it would take you over an hour to research everything.

Last edited by jsnipy (2007-01-01 23:02:00)

Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6892|Canberra, AUS
All hail CnC.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Executiator
Member
+69|6638

wedge3382 wrote:

Command & conquer, its what started it all.  I still own the orignal DOS version.
Negative, the Warcraft series was the original spark of influence.

And wheres Warhammer on there!?!?!


BTW, blizzard needs to stop slacking AND MAKE SC2 FOR FUCKS SAKE!!

Last edited by Executiator (2007-01-02 01:48:49)

psH
Banned
+217|6601|Sydney

ryan_14 wrote:

I've never played C&C, it looked stupid.

Must be quite popular I'm guessing.
Yeah same, AOE was good enough for me.
Vilham
Say wat!?
+580|6984|UK
People who are voting C&C blatently have only ever played C&C RTS games. They are no where near the best RTS games. Their story is bland. Their tech trees are small. Their factions are limited. Their combat is primative. Its suffice to say they are fun but not good RTS.
sergeriver
Cowboy from Hell
+1,928|6975|Argentina

Vilham wrote:

People who are voting C&C blatently have only ever played C&C RTS games. They are no where near the best RTS games. Their story is bland. Their tech trees are small. Their factions are limited. Their combat is primative. Its suffice to say they are fun but not good RTS.
I loved the C&C games, but I agree with you Warcraft series is the best.  Everyone who never played it, get WC3 now, the singleplayer story is amazing and the online mode provides more fun than any other RTS game ever.
rustynutz
I am British!
+124|6900|England and damn proud
TA was great, still have it on cd...somewhere....

Cant wait untill Supreme Commander!!
Pernicious544
Zee Tank Skank
+80|6918|MoVal So-Cal
The Total War franchise is BY FAR the best that I have played. I've played every game on the list and do enjoy them all but Rome and Medieval 2 are just so much more epic and intense. C&C is so unrealistic, its funny (what do you mean my tank cant kill an RPG soldier with 1 shell!?!?!) and Age of Empires puts me to sleep. Total war FTW because when you have literally THOUSANDS of troops on screen no other RTS can come close........except for Company of Heroes, small, intense quad RTS combat.
-=raska=-
Canada's French Frog
+123|6843|Quebec city, Canada

Vilham wrote:

People who are voting C&C blatently have only ever played C&C RTS games. They are no where near the best RTS games. Their story is bland. Their tech trees are small. Their factions are limited. Their combat is primative. Its suffice to say they are fun but not good RTS.
I agree. Personnaly I null voted because I havent played all of the games in the poll. But Ive played C&C, AOE, Starcraft, Rise of nations and a bit of warcraft and I know that Aoe and Starcraft are better than C&C. For example, in starcraft, everything is well balanced while having 3 races very different. You can win by multiple ways, not like C&C where you only add to build 25 tanks and rush the ennemy base to win the game. Thats what the C&C series is all about, building the largest tank army possible then send them in their base and make them attack in group... No deep tactic in this game, or not more than in StarCraft.
Doctor Strangelove
Real Battlefield Veterinarian.
+1,758|6686
Total War because it lasts the longest. C&C, RoN, CoH and AoE are very excellent but none of them stay as fresh for as long as the total war games do.
sfarrar33
Halogenoalkane
+57|6836|InGerLand
AoE series followed by black and white but i havn't played C&C yet...
i disagree with Vilham AoE3 is pretty damn awesome with the expansion pack
GunSlinger OIF II
Banned.
+1,860|6861
Sid Meiers Colonization
Vilham
Say wat!?
+580|6984|UK
..is not RTS. Let me make it clear to people what RTS is.

RTS = Real Time Strategy. Thus any game that involves only turns and no real time parts is not an RTS and infact is Turn Based Strategy.

You see? Two completely different concepts.

Also dont you mean civilisation? Otherwise if there is a game called Colonization that is RTS I appologise.

Last edited by Vilham (2007-01-02 10:20:52)

GunSlinger OIF II
Banned.
+1,860|6861

Vilham wrote:

..is not RTS. Let me make it clear to people what RTS is.

RTS = Real Time Strategy. Thus any game that involves only turns and no real time parts is not an RTS and infact is Turn Based Strategy.

You see? Two completely different concepts.

Also dont you mean civilisation? Otherwise if there is a game called Colonization that is RTS I appologise.
i am quite awara of the difference between RTS and turn based.  I dont like RTS.  total war series has both.  but yeah, sid meiers colonization was a turn based game, I was thinking about how  much i dislike RTS and forgot to add that part.  Colonization is a very old game, look it up.  itys a blast and best strategy game i have every played, turn based or not.  Ive been playing computer strategy games for at least 12 years now, the whole reason why im into gaming.  Lord of the Realms was a good one.  Sierra put out a lot of great games in the early 90's.  Microprose was a good company that put good strategy games too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonizati … er_game%29

Last edited by GunSlinger OIF II (2007-01-02 10:32:29)

Dr_3V|L
Member
+51|6942|Twente, The Netherlands
C&C, Total Annihilation and Warcraft. C&C Being the best.
Vilham
Say wat!?
+580|6984|UK
K well you know this is about the best RTS? My point was that Colonization is out of the running for the best RTS because it isnt an RTS.

Yeah Sierra own. Casar, Pharoah, etc. All great Economic Strategy games.
djphetal
Go Ducks.
+346|6553|Oregon
Okay so... I have a dilemma ...

I don't have time for 2 new games at once...

Do i buy COH... because it looks amazing and I don't have a RTS that i play...
or BF2142?
Milk.org
Bringing Sexy Back
+270|6993|UK
A lot of good ones but C&C dominates.
Paco_the_Insane
Phorum Phantom
+244|6862|Ohio
Warcraft
Peter
Super Awesome Member
+494|6619|dm_maidenhead
wheres dawn of war and battle for middle earth?

Nah joking C&C ftw
sergeriver
Cowboy from Hell
+1,928|6975|Argentina

GunSlinger OIF II wrote:

Vilham wrote:

..is not RTS. Let me make it clear to people what RTS is.

RTS = Real Time Strategy. Thus any game that involves only turns and no real time parts is not an RTS and infact is Turn Based Strategy.

You see? Two completely different concepts.

Also dont you mean civilisation? Otherwise if there is a game called Colonization that is RTS I appologise.
i am quite awara of the difference between RTS and turn based.  I dont like RTS.  total war series has both.  but yeah, sid meiers colonization was a turn based game, I was thinking about how  much i dislike RTS and forgot to add that part.  Colonization is a very old game, look it up.  itys a blast and best strategy game i have every played, turn based or not.  Ive been playing computer strategy games for at least 12 years now, the whole reason why im into gaming.  Lord of the Realms was a good one.  Sierra put out a lot of great games in the early 90's.  Microprose was a good company that put good strategy games too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonizati … er_game%29
Wtf?  Are you kiddin me?  Get Warcraft 3 asap dude.  I love the genre, it's one of the best among all videogames.  RTS is fun single and multiplayer.  It's not like a FPS, which is only fun multiplayer.  Try those games and let's talk later m8.
sergeriver
Cowboy from Hell
+1,928|6975|Argentina

djphetal wrote:

Okay so... I have a dilemma ...

I don't have time for 2 new games at once...

Do i buy COH... because it looks amazing and I don't have a RTS that i play...
or BF2142?
Advice: get BF2142 and wait for C&C 3.
RedTwizzler
I do it for the lulz.
+124|6754|Chicago
Totala and C&C are the top. I like C&C because it's more realistic, but Totala has some of the best, largest-scale battles I've ever played.

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