do you think RTS games are hard?

[okr]

SvennoJ said:

okr said:

The golden age of pc rts games. I grew up on Dune II, the game used to drive my parents crazy, ready, reporting, on my way. ...
AoE II is the last great one I played as well. I like base building and the RTS genre has been moving away from that ever since.

To the op: Have you tried Settlers, can't get more relaxing then that. (Well they did add more fighting in the later ones :/)
Nowadays I stick to games like Tropico for that building itch. Simply destroying stuff isn't fun anymore.

I loved the stupid harvesters in Westwood's Dune II and Command & Conquer.

Westwood Studios, Blizzard Entertainment, Ensemble Studios. The 90s RTS triumvirate. And then Bullfrog invented tower defense with Dungeon Keeper (at least retrospectively and in my opinion).

BTW: I played Settlers I to VI and loved the first 4 games (Settlers II was the best), but in Germany - where all the Settlers games were created - neither the media nor the gamers really considered them as RTS games. They are economic/city building sims to us (which is visible on wikipedia even today: Settlers games are called RTS in the English entries and "Wirtschaftssimulation" in the German entries). Same goes for the other successful German (originally German-Austrian) economic/city building sim franchise which is labeled RTS in English speaking countries: Anno.