/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8979647]

What's your favorite RTS game?

[Anonymous No.8979652]

Homeworld

[Anonymous No.8979653]

[Anonymous No.8979663]

[Anonymous No.8979783]

It's so fucking good

[Anonymous No.8979787]

>>8979647
Westwood and Blizzard realtime RTS games + AOE 1 and 2.

[Anonymous No.8979808]

>>8979783
This one for me as well.

[Anonymous No.8979817]

>>8979647
Underrated kino

[Anonymous No.8979834]

I keep going back to this.

[Anonymous No.8980048]

[Anonymous No.8980153]

>>8979647
Warcraft 3 (before the rape)
Nothing beat the custom game scene back in the day, and I don't mean DotA

[Anonymous No.8980580]

>>8980153
Yep, that game had something really special going for it until Blizz decided to neglect, then resurrect, then rape/murder it.

[Anonymous No.8980639]

C&C Red Alert 1 and Tiberian Sun for me.

>>8980153
While I spent countless hours playing WC3 custom games, I really don't like how the actual RTS portion plays out.

[Anonymous No.8980642]

ra2 because I'm casual like that and it's what I grew up with

[Anonymous No.8980664]

StarCraft 1, Tiberian Dawn as an extremely close second

[Anonymous No.8980978]

Posting another favorite of mine. This series did a great job of eliminating the tedious micro that plagues RTS without sacrificing any depth.

[Anonymous No.8981214]

the only rts that managed to hold my attention for more than one hour

[Anonymous No.8982363]

>>8979647
Warcraft 3, multiplayer perfection

[Anonymous No.8982664]

>>8979647
I kind of favor Warcraft 2. Spent the most time with it.

[Anonymous No.8983012]

>>8979647
>play Eidos demo disc as a kid
>pic related catches my attention
>play the demo relentlessly
>constantly bug parents for it
>finally get it for birthday in 2000
>play it nonstop
>gets me into the RTS genre and end up trying all sorts of RTS games throughout the years because of it
>dev goes bankrupt years later
>IP becomes abandonware
>hardcore fans pick it up and make it freeware
>still receives updates and mods to this very day
>still play it to this very day
Shame it wasn't more popular. There's nothing else quite like it.

[Anonymous No.8983226]

>>8979663
I played this a lot. With the expansion I think.

[Anonymous No.8983227]

>>8979783
One of the best OST's of all time.

[Anonymous No.8983891]

>>8979647
honerable mention for ios RA3 (probably not retro). was legitimately 10\10 for a portable device. i have no idea why they never ported ANY other cnc or ra game over (inb4 ra IS cnc)

[Anonymous No.8984005]

>>8983891
>(inb4 ra IS cnc)
RA1 is a spin-off. It has some of the features that define the setting but that's it. RA2 is a spin-off of a spin-off, because of how time travel doesn't really work.

[Anonymous No.8984197]

>>8983227
Don't get the hype, the OST is boring.

[Anonymous No.8985176]

>>8984005
Renegade reveals the RA2 timeline is the main C&C timeline, amusingly, and Renegade 2 was gonna further this by taking place during the rise of Nod from the ruins of the USSR

[Anonymous No.8985195]

>>8985176
>Renegade reveals the RA2 timeline is the main C&C timeline
How?

[Anonymous No.8985221]

>>8985195
Pictures from RA2 in the Nod cathedral

[Anonymous No.8985363]

>>8985221
Really? I guess it is understandable that I've missed them in that hell of a mission. You might as well post them because I'm not playing through that again any time soon.

[Anonymous No.8985383]

>>8985221
>>8985363
Wait, you don't mean those few Apocalypse Tank pictures? Because Westwood had teasers of their upcoming new game in every game they have released, usually in the form of video.

[Anonymous No.8986404]

>>8985383
RA2 came out 2 years before Renegade

[Anonymous No.8987705]

>>8986404
Interesting. I don't remember release dates that well now.
So how is there no mention of Yuri, psionics, not two but three huge wars in the past, prism technology, tesla coils, GDI inhereting robot tanks from Allies, mirage technology, bases and combat on the Moon, flying saucers, magically self-replenishing ore and I think I'm missing a few?

[Anonymous No.8987851]

>>8987705
Maybe it's just all in museums and movies and super normal. Like, when you play a game taking place in a modern war, surely your squadmates aren't all "hey remember zeppelins, Hiroshima and the moon landing?" all the time?

Like, yeah, there was a John Wayne movie about the allies beating Stalin and Rambo II takes place on the moon, big deal. But now holy mackerel here's an alien plant that shits even better ores than the ones we had for those two world wars, also that sexy bald dude on TV says UN forces are secretly mowing down civilians with laser satellites, now that's some real story. Not like those boring history channel documentaries on russian mind control.

[Anonymous No.8987854]

I loved RA2 to death but I'v eplayed like 1 mission total of RA1. Is RA1 much of an improvement over C&C1?

[Anonymous No.8987861]

>>8979647
C&C3 Kane's Wrath. It needs a few tweaks in the controls (some which they did in RA3) and it would be perfect.

[Anonymous No.8987872]

>>8985176
The official idea was that RA1 and C&C is the same timeline, then in an upcoming game after Tiberian Sun, Nod trains psychic corps and finds a RA1 era Chronosphere and sends one of their acolytes back to change history. He lands in Soviet Russia and starts influencing Romanov, leading to RA2.

the game with this plot never got made due to Westwood folding. It was either for Tiberian Twilight (aka C&C3 at the time) or Continuum (some kind of MMO) or Renegade 2, I forgot which.

[Anonymous No.8987879]

>>8987854
RA1 fixes a lot of the controls and improves the economy and the graphics. The stupid Harvester AI is almost the same though. Gameplay is much more enjoyable overall, especially single player where C&C1 was extremely unforgiving.

Also the music is even more legendary than C&C1.
RA1 is like C&C1 + shitload of quality fixes + even better FMVs and music.

[Anonymous No.8987920]

>>8987872
That's Tiberian Incursion/Tiberian Twilight, but accoring to the dev it'd have splintered RA2 into its own timeline (because the Twilight guys didn't want the RA2 guys, who were another team, sharing their timeline), so obviously that's not the option that was retained for Renegade (and the source went on to work on Generals instead). See Adam Isgreen's quote there:

https://forums.cncnz.com/topic/17116-new-article-connecting-red-alert-and-tiberium-universes/?do=findComment&comment=206788

[Anonymous No.8987921]

>>8987851
Ah, of course, weaponry more advanced than 2/3 of what is available in TibSun would just be curia. Nice headcanon, bro.

[Anonymous No.8987934]

>>8979647
Total Annihilation, then Brood Wars, AoE2 and Red Alert 1

>>8979652
Based

[Anonymous No.8987950]

>>8987851
>those two world wars
Also, three world wars. WWI didn't just vanish anywhere just because WWII was Stalin attacking the Allies instead. And since it's apparently in the same setting as RA2, that's WWI, WWII in RA1 and WWIII in RA2.

>boring history channel documentaries on russian mind control
Yeah, as long as it's fake. Wait, it's not, and mind control would be a colossal asset to Nod. Shame they are honor-bound to never ever use it. Just like GDI. And everyone else in the "same" setting.

[Anonymous No.8987965]

>>8987920
>but accoring to the dev it'd have splintered RA2 into its own timeline
Yeah, that was what I was implying. C&C3 would've had that part that "explains" how RA2 comes to be, as an entirely separate timeline.

[Anonymous No.8988017]

>>8987872
Damn EA to hell for fucking that up for us.

[Anonymous No.8988024]

>>8987950
>three world wars
But only two with the magical ore as far as we know, since apparently WW1 went completely normally
>Shame they are honor-bound to never ever use it
As far as RA2 continuity goes Yuri's the only one who ever made the tech work, and the psi corps were all revealed to be Yuri clones. So once he was out of the picture the tech was unusuable. Even if you assume the merged timeline post-YR is one where he survived locked up in the isolation chamber, you can see how GDI would never risk making a deal with him and it's quite possible Nod wouldn't either, if they were able to find him at all.

[Anonymous No.8988071]

>>8988024
>>As far as RA2 continuity goes Yuri's the only one who ever made the tech work, and the psi corps were all revealed to be Yuri clones. So once he was out of the picture the tech was unusuable.
Ah yes, ancient space magic. Sorry, "time travel".

>Even if you assume the merged timeline post-YR is one where he survived locked up in the isolation chamber, you can see how GDI would never risk making a deal with him and it's quite possible Nod wouldn't either, if they were able to find him at all.
The only reasonable thing out of this fanfic. Because GDI at the absolute least would be using prisms, mirages and robot tanks left right and center if it really was the same setting.

[Anonymous No.8988146]

>>8983012
Whenever I see this pic, I remember a time about ~10 years ago when I could have picked up a big box edition of this game for $1 dollar. I had already spent a bunch of money on other games and passed it up. Stupid ass me.

The second-hand PC game market has since completely dried up in my area.

[Anonymous No.8988171]

>>8988146
Having the box is nice but at least the game is freeware.