/vr/ - Retro Games

Hey /vr/ I'm trying to find an old game I played back during the early 2000's I still remember the name (Fortress) which is making it hard to look up.
It was a Sci-fi, Fantasy game where you built floating fortress' and had access to: Cannon's, catapults, trebuchets, ect.

If anyone has an idea of the developers name and what not than I could narrow it down.

I love playing on PC nowadays, but PC being the "master race" is a very recent phenomenon. It wasn't until around the 2010s when the indie explosion happened and everything started getting ported that PC became a respectable platform. During the 6th gen and before, consoles had DRASTICALLY superior game libraries. Most "classic" PC games are actual garbage.The reason genres like Point and Click, CRPG and RTS are dead is because they're so boring that as soon as PC started getting good console ports and people had something actually fun to play, people abandoned that janky old shit in droves.

But ports back then sucked as well. Most PC ports were actually worse than the console version. Anything 6th gen and older, I rarely bother with the PC port even if a game has one. Emulating is better than the garbage that passed for a port back then. Even a "bad" port today is better than most pre-2010 ports that didn't even have proper gamepad support.

And the "it just works" factor of consoles was way more important back when digital distribution wasn't a thing and there were fewer online resources for diagnosing issues. Nowadays if a game has problems running on certain builds, the devs can easily find out and push a fix. And even if they don't, there are resources like PCGamingWiki with fan patches for abandoned games. Back then though, if a game didn't work on your particular build out of the box, you were just fucked.

So I guess my question is, is it just nostalgia from people who played on a PC back then because it's all they had? Like, no one SERIOUSLY thinks PC was anywhere as close to as good as consoles anytime before the 7th or 8th gen, right?