Papa Phil: "Xbox has to mean quality games"

[Pemalite]

KiigelHeart said:

Pemalite said:

Sad but true. Halo Wars 2 was actually a ton of fun... But sadly the multiplayer population imploded a few days after release in Oceania and I haven't been able to have a match since.

Hopefully with Microsoft opening up their wallets and buying up a ton of studios we see them put their best foot forward next gen.. But I still hold some reservation.

I've seen you mention this before about Halo Wars 2 but are you sure it's region locked? I could still find matches pretty quickly couple of months ago and some were with people from US. 

Halo Wars 2 is indeed a quality game and fun RTS to play with a controller. Sales were disappointing unfortunately.

Not sure if it's region locked or not.

But even if it wasn't region locked I am only going to be playing with people in my own timezone anyway... Xbox sells best in North America where the bulk of the Xbox gaming population resides... So unless a game sells really well, multiplayer population will always be a hit or miss here.

In saying that... Halo Wars on Steam has a non-existent multiplayer population too.

Halo Wars is definitely the best console RTS game... But when compared to PC RTS games it doesn't hold up nearly as well... StarCraft, Total Annihilation, Dark Reign, Total War, Company of Heroes, Homeworld, Ashes of the Singularity, Age of Empires, Stellaris, Stronghold, Sins of a Solar Empire, WarCraft, Command and Conquer, Battlezone, Sacrifice... List goes on. - Hard to compete among those titles on PC.

Last edited by Pemalite - on 29 July 2019