C8 on 29 January 2009
| martjuh ! said: i do think that rts wil be populair on consoles unless they change the way you play rts on consoles. now you simple can't be as fast on consoles like on pc. so the people who like rts will always play them on pc. the way Endwar works is example although i think there's stil a lot to improve |
I agree, Endwar is an example of a very different way to go about controlling an RTS. It didn't do very well (AFAIK) but I think it is a signal of things to come - more games with voice control, but also that there can be other previously-not-considered ways to control games like RTS's. I hoped that Halo Wars would have something like this (not necessarially voice, but a good new idea that made RTS's easier to control on the console) but so far, I'm not so sure that it does. I'm buying it anyway - but for it to change the perception of what it means to play an RTS with a controller (or, better put, without a mouse) it will need to go beyond the "Halo" name.
