Top 5 RTS?

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Avalach21 said:

makingmusic476 said:

This includes TBS like the Total War series.

Anyway, mine are:

Age of Mythology
Battle for Middle-Earth II
Supreme Commander

Those three all tie. Two others are:

Company of Heroes
Shogun: Total War (I sadly haven't gotten any of the later ones. Samurai ftw!)

RTS I dislike:

Empire Earth (Spending an hour building up a 100 man army only to have it slaughtered in under a minute ftl!)
Warcraft III (It's popularity astounds me, seeing as there are so many other, better RTSes out there. It's okay in and of itself, but horribly overrated.)

RTS I own:

Age of Empires II + Exp.
Age of Mythology + Exp.
Age of Empires III
Shogun: Total War + Exp.
LotR: Battle for Middle-Earth
LotR: Battle for Middle-Earth II + Exp.
C&C: Red Alert
C&C: Red Alert Retaliation (for PS1)
C&C: Tiberian Sun
C&C: Red Alert 2
C&C: Generals + Exp. (ruined the C&C name)
Company of Heroes
Supreme Commander
Warcraft III + Exp.
Empire Earth II

And probably a few others I've forgotten.

How is warcraft III horibbly overrated? It is the best RTS out there, hands down. Either WC3 or Starcraft. It's almost to a point that these are facts, and not even opinion.

 

Company of Heroes is great. I'd put that up near the top. Command and Conquer tiberian dawn and C and C Red Alert 1 were great. Red Alert 2 was pretty good too.

 

 

If you like Supreme commander, you should try total annihilation. That was a great game. It was basically SupCom's predecessor.

 

and again, how is WC3 overrated?

I personaly don't like WCIII because it has too much RPG in it. You have to build your first hero ASAP, and if you don't spend every moment possible ranking him up, you're screwed. I'd always lose battles just because my heroes were 1-2 levels behind my opponents. It didn't matter how much I built, or how good my econ was, because the pop caps were so low that it was hard to maintain a sizeable enough army to counter strong heroes. THe fact that units took a bit long to build made it harder to come back after a rough attack. Sure, other games like BFME had heroes, but they didn't dominate the battlefield because you could rank up your regular units as well, and a strong army could counter a strong hero.  In WC, everything revolved around the heros.  I play RTS to fight wars, not run around killing creeps and collecting tomes.

As for it being horribly overrated, most of my friends, the few others that play RTS, only play WCIII, quite often because that is the only RTS they have ever played, and they usually play RPG custom maps. It would bug me to no end. They'd go, "Wanna play some RTS?"

"Yeah sure!" (getting all excited because nobody ever wants to play RTS)

"Okay, let's play WC3."

Then they'd join an RPG custom map and I'd just quit. Sure there were some fun custom maps like Footmen Frenzy (somewhat similar to Mythodea in AoM, which was a blast), but my friends never wanted to play those.

I'll give you Starcraft being one of the best RTS' ever. There weren't any heroes to dominate the gameplay.

And yeah, I've played TA a few times. Good stuff.