Recommend an RTS?

[Flake]

Heroes of Mana anyone?

[Ack]

Screw all of this. There is only one RTS you need:



Total Annihilation

Why worry about a measly little backwater mud ball planet like Earth? Who cares about Zerg rushes? Heroes suck, the Spice will flow regardless, and I can't even pronounce Herzog Zwei.

Instead, you want a war across a galaxy, where the imperialist robots of the Core digitally mass-produce the consciousness of their greatest warriors to massacre whole worlds of clone-producing Arm rebels who refuse to give up their humanity. You want to slaughter enemies on land, in the air, on the sea, under the water, and skimming over the top of it. You want to wade in with your Commander's D-Gun blazing so you can then breakdown and consume the rubble of your enemy's corpses. You want to do battle on worlds composed of steel, of ice, of magma, or Earthlike worlds of beaches and rolling hills, some even colonized before humanity decided that endless and eternal war was better than peace. Peace is for pussies. You want Total Annihilation. You need it. You need to launch a nuke at your enemy's nuclear power plant, blot out the sky with your bombers as they blast apart the Kbot labs, lead your hordes of robots into battle with support of your numerous vehicles, and destroy whatever stands in your way with a naval artillery barrage.

Total Annihilation is a real man's RTS. Are you a real man, CFFJR?

[CFFJR]

Best. Pitch. Ever.

Ever!

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Alright, for the time being, I've selected both Total Annihilation and Warlords Battlecry 3. Purchased on GOG.

I will play them (and hopefully dig them) and experiment with the other suggestions soon.

Thanks again everybody!

[Snatch1414]

Honestly Total Annihilation is awesome. Amphibious unit, terrain advantage, and having hundreds of units was great in my opinion. I bought it when my parents computer was too slow and I still played it anyways.

Back on topic, I figured this would turn into a "name an RTS" thread. For me the definitive starter RTS is Warcraft II or an old C&C. Then move on to Age of Empires II, then Total War: Shogun II.

[Exhuminator]

Alright, I admit it. I saved my best recommendations for last. So here you go OP:

[MrPopo]

Honestly Total Annihilation is awesome. Amphibious unit, terrain advantage, and having hundreds of units was great in my opinion. I bought it when my parents computer was too slow and I still played it anyways.

Back on topic, I figured this would turn into a "name an RTS" thread. For me the definitive starter RTS is Warcraft II or an old C&C. Then move on to Age of Empires II, then Total War: Shogun II.

I would say that you should prefer War II Bnet Edition to the original DOS War II. The original War II had no group hotkeys and no attack move. Having one makes it fairly easy to do without the other (C&C didn't have attack move for a very long time but had group hotkeys from the beginning) but not having either makes everything into a micro fest.

[Pulsar_t]

Company of Heroes is still great value, considering how many mods are available for it.

There's also a new game called Grey Goo, but at $50 I'll have to wait before it goes down in price

[Tanooki]

I've got to put this here though I think it deserve a thread of its own despite being a known to some people already.

Through the 'kindness' of EAs tiny stone pebble of what it calls a heart, back when Command and Conquer turned 12 years old they started to shovel out their older versions of the game for free online at ISOs to burn to discs or use a bootloader to handle that. Initially it was C&C, then came Red Alert, followed by Tiberian Sun.

If you want to get a taste of RTS and how it evolved over a period of at least a half decade(I forget what hear TS released) might as well use the freebies EA gave out.

For the first one, they're ISOs only, the later games they came with actual installers which showed some laziness. This dude in the following link made an installer for the game and also made further bug fixes and updates to the core title adding in higher resolutions, the special stages the PS1 and N64 got among others in another menu, and even the covert ops addon disc which you can get here--> http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/cnc95upd/cc95p106/

Now if you want Red Alert and it's addons (isos too, ugh) or Tiberian Sun (installer) you can go here: http://www.cncnz.com/features/freeware- ... uer-games/

One last thing to note, the dude who fixed up old C&C also made a loader that'll fire up Red Alert in the same upgraded fashion. I had the game and still hate it so I didn't go digging but I'm sure you can find it. Tiberian Sun though I may grab yet as it's a sequel to the C&C story.

[Xeogred]

Supreme Commander was a fantastic successor to Total Annihilation. Good stuff.

[Ivo]

Also thought to recommend Eufloria.

It is hardly a typical RTS but it may give you a taste of the genre to less dedicated people.