Master 17 Strategy Warfare Classics. Are you ready for the ultimate real-time strategy experience? Gather resources, build your base, and create the most powerful armies in the world before engaging the enemy in all-out war.
I guess this is nice for nostalgic value, but where is new, modern real time strategy games like this? It’s been a very long time since anything new existed.
There’s still some stuff going on, but it’s quite dead yeah. In the broader scope of RTS games you still have stuff like Age of Empires 4 and Beyond all Reason, both of which I find a lot of fun. But neither are really much like C&C. What is like C&C is Tempest Rising, which is currently under development. I played the demo and it did feel very C&C like, which is good, but time will tell how polished it will be on release.
I mean, there was StarCraft 2 after it. And the Warcraft 3 remake thing. But yeah, they mostly lost interest (in anything that wasn’t just an absolute fucking printing press for money like WoW was)
The “Warcraft 3 remake thing” was a complete and utter failure by blizzard, and destroyed a game that had flourished for over a decade. Fuck blizzard. Look what they did to my boy
The RTS genre got drowned by cellphone apps doing the same thing.
The games don’t have high technical requirements, so it’s a perfect match for phone/tablet apps.
However they’re also quite easy to program, and easy to make graphics for, so the market is swamped with clones of clones of stock code and stock graphics, so no developer can approach it seriously anymore.
The best games in the genre are good because they have carefully balanced gameplay, but that takes time to discover for the players, so even if someone made the perfect game, it’d never be discovered amongst the shovel-ware.
I guess this is nice for nostalgic value, but where is new, modern real time strategy games like this? It’s been a very long time since anything new existed.
There’s still some stuff going on, but it’s quite dead yeah. In the broader scope of RTS games you still have stuff like Age of Empires 4 and Beyond all Reason, both of which I find a lot of fun. But neither are really much like C&C. What is like C&C is Tempest Rising, which is currently under development. I played the demo and it did feel very C&C like, which is good, but time will tell how polished it will be on release.
Worth noting: Beyond All Reason is FOSS and a really good Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander type of game.
You can also try Zero-K for something with less flashy graphics and more unit customization, also FOSS.
Oh, and before I forget, 0 A.D. if you’re more into an Age of Empires type of RTS, another great FOSS RTS.
Oh awesome, I haven’t checked the other 2 out yet. Thanks for the suggestions!
Not OP, but I hadn’t heard of Tempest Rising before! I’ll have to keep an eye on that, thanks for mentioning it!
They all cashed out on MMOs, The Warcraft series completely died off when WoW went online.
I mean, there was StarCraft 2 after it. And the Warcraft 3 remake thing. But yeah, they mostly lost interest (in anything that wasn’t just an absolute fucking printing press for money like WoW was)
The “Warcraft 3 remake thing” was a complete and utter failure by blizzard, and destroyed a game that had flourished for over a decade. Fuck blizzard. Look what they did to my boy
wc3remake is ass, but thanks to the community the game is in a pretty good state.
It’s kind of good, that blizzard is not to invested. The stuff w3champion and co do for map pool and variety is above blizzards abilities.
The RTS genre got drowned by cellphone apps doing the same thing.
The games don’t have high technical requirements, so it’s a perfect match for phone/tablet apps.
However they’re also quite easy to program, and easy to make graphics for, so the market is swamped with clones of clones of stock code and stock graphics, so no developer can approach it seriously anymore.
The best games in the genre are good because they have carefully balanced gameplay, but that takes time to discover for the players, so even if someone made the perfect game, it’d never be discovered amongst the shovel-ware.
I’d recommend checking out Planetary Annihilation, Planetary Annihilation:Titans, Supreme Commander 1/2 and their mods
Company of Heroes 3?
I wanted to but the reviews show it’s a train wreck.