The ultimate question - Real time strategies or turn based strategies?

[Oyvoyvoyv]

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Oyvoyvoyv said:

famousringo said:
Turn based.

It's not really strategy if you don't have time to think. :P

 

 I agree. Starcraft is more remembering how to do stuff, and do it fast. So are most RTS.

I mean, there's a reason chess isn't real time.

 

I dissagree.

The strategy often comes b4 the game ever shows up.  If you play RTS games online then it takes a very well planned successfull strategy to win.  The different is RTS also takes skill and you need to adapt to your oponents move in real time.  You will have to alter your strategy and apply new ones.  It requires quick judgment.  There are often many live battles which require you to apply different tactics.

If your looking fo singleplayer then maby TBS is better but online truly makes RTS better in my mind.  TBS would be fun online and great but games often take to long.  RTS allows you to play many games rying many different strategies with no game enging the same way.  Unless you get good and can execute a strategy really well.  Like a rush.  It takes skill, tacitc and strategy to master.

 

 My point is that in most RTS, speed is the most important factor. I crush most people in online RTS games, but some people build so insanely much faster, and they do the same every time. They're so dang much faster with the mouse, that I cannot stand a change.

They kill you before you've even built up an army.

Skill is more important than strategy, but that's not to say you can win without strategy.