Any RTS fans?

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The only experience I have with RTS so far is Halo wars 1 and 2 (both which I love, and halo wars 1 is arguably one of my favorite games). I am now downloading Ancestors Legacy which looks pretty fun as well. Never played star craft, but I am thinking of giving it a shot as well.

Any good RTS recommends?
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Only RTS game that I have ever actually enjoyed playing was a game called homeworld. I still play it to this day sometimes but it is about 20 years old now so I am hesitant to recommend it as the graphics are a bit dated and many people actually care about things like that.

To be clear the graphics and engine were fucking godly for its time but, you know... It's time was 1999.
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Interesting never heard of that one
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never heard of that one

Not surprised because, again, 1999 lol.

They also had a few sequels that were pretty old and a prequel that came out only a few years ago called "Sands of Kharak". I have never played any of the sequels or the prequel so cannot comment on any of them other than pointing out that SoK takes place on the ground so is probably a 2-D battlefield (as are most RTS games I am aware of) whereas the others are fully 3-D.

Actually now I am looking at Google and it appears a Homeworld 3 is on the table for the future. So two decades old and still enough of a following to produce revenue. Yeah. That isn't just all hype and nostalgia, it was just that good. As a matter of fact I would unironically compare the physics engine favorably against most modern RTSs, though I admit that probably says more about the stagnation of the genre than anything (I have played video games since I was four years old, which is about when HW came out, but have never called myself an RTS fan and likely never will).

But again, most people actually care about things like graphics so I can't actually recommend the vanilla original version and have never played any of the spin-offs so cannot recommend those. I guess I could recommend the remastered version. I have never played the remastered version but from what I understand it is just a graphics and UI overhaul. It is available on Steam. If you don't give a shit about graphics you can easily find the original somewhere for free, ben olding games is the first place that comes to mind to check, or I could just email you a copy. File size is less than a third of a gigabyte fully unzipped lmao. The age of floppy disks amirite?

I intended to just write a few sentences but now looks like I made a full post lol. I guess I got a bit carried away, video games are (as you can likely tell) one of my passions.

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I enjoy Age of Empires 2 now and then.
I'm pretty bad at it, but I still find it fun to play against other people.
I don't enjoy it against the AI so much though.

I though Halo Wars 1 was kind of fun, the campaign and skirmish against the AI some.

Favorite RTS I've played is probably,
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II,
'Really liked the War of the Ring in it, which was kind of like a Risk Map, where each fight was a skirmish,
Making heroes was fun, and I found it fun to delete them if they died even once.
Campaign was fun.
Not 'easy to get the game to work nowadays though.

Command and Conquer Generals was pretty awesome,
Bit over the top in a fun amusing way at times,
Awesome campaign.

Warcraft III (Not Reforged)
Has a good campaign, though I would have liked some 'choice in the ends.

Warcraft 2, I still like, but 'do think it feels dated.

StarCraft 1, has a great Sci Fi campaign and story,
I've never tried StarCraft 2, don't plan to.

Warlords Battlecry 1,2,3
I enjoyed all, though they are a bit dated,
Campaign was challenging for me in 1,
2 had a cool Risk style conquer the world map,
3 was alright, 'hint of rpg to it.
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For me, playing against the AI in some games can be lacking, Age of Empires 2 as an example.
Part of this is due to the limited actions of the AI, the lack of 'imagination so to speak.
But I think there is also a lack of 'competitiveness.
It's 'fun to fight another 'person.
Though story/campaigns against the AI can be fun, due to the variety of the scenario, as well as 'advancement.

Perhaps it would be good if some skirmish games against AI had ELO you had to maintain,
If it had unique AI of different skills and personalities,
Such as an AI that if it was your ally in a game, and you stole their resources or called them a noob, the AI then tries to wall you in or attacks your structures with mangonels.

A real cheap fighting game I played once, Final Slam 2, had a fight system where you competed against randomly created AI fighters, could become champion, and keep getting challenged by fighters. Could be difficult if you grabbed every championship and were challenged every day, unable to rest and recover health.

Had personalities you could set for the AI, that caused them to build certain units more, expand more, burn cities when they took them over more or the cities were threatened by your armies.