I would like a lord of the rings rts by ea

Not sure if you know about them, but they released a couple of games titled The Battle for Middle Earth.

Both were pretty cool.

I guess I'm not smart enough for RTS games

Generals may have been a good game but it wasn't a C&C game anymore.

I primarily played C&C games on console, especially on PS1. But their support on consoles was kinda random. I know playing these games on gamepads is lame, but it works fine when the game is tweaked for gamepads.

I really like C&C3 and RA3, but I never played C&C4 since it wasn't on a console and I didn't have a good PC.

I will probably try C&C4 soon, I have it on Origin.

They ahd to design a way for last gen to handle the 3D C&C games, as generals was PC only, RA3, C&C 3 and Kane's Wrath all used what EA donned the "command Wheel", which allowed you to hold down the right trigger and a large radia menu would pop up.

Despite having the wheel, the user was still limited to jumping into a menu from the circle and then selecting a building/unit, then placing it down. When you factor all that in, you've already wasted more time trying to get around the menu than simply pressing a hotbar key and clicking on the building/unit directly. C&C as all other RTS games (besides the Halo Wars, which was designed with Xbox first and PC last), are better played with the M+K setup.

I don't think you're missing much with C&C 4. It looks nice from an artistic perspective, but they did away with base building and they tried emulating Dawn of War's capture point style system for resources and a very restrictive unit cap, as well as a fancy light show display to let you know if the unit you're using is good agaisnt that other unit (pink laser means it's great, blue it's neutral).

It always bummed me out that I missed out on C&C. I loooved early strategy games and when the RTS genre become popular I was immediately hooked with the original Warcraft, Age of Empires and so forth. I stuck with those franchises and, while I can't seem to remember others, I know I played a ton (such as Rise of Nations and Starcraft).

I'd heard of C&C, but by the time I got around to it the early titles felt dated (I've know doubt I would have loved them in their time) and the new ones just didn't really appeal to me.

I suppose I just preferred the look, music, atmosphere etc of the others more for whatever reason (probably because I played them first).

I might go back and try the early games these days, as I find I'm far more able to have fun with games than I was when I was younger... I suppose young people tend not to be too open minded lol

Red alert 3 on ps3 was good too, too bad we will never get a 4 :(

Bought pretty much every good RTS game and the genre still dies. It truly is a shame because C&C Red Alert Retaliation and C&C Red Alert 2 are within my top 50 games. Another travesty is with Ensemble Studios and Age of Series.

All we have left now is blizzard who were my least favorite in the RTS genre, and they probably cannot decide if they want to continue after SC2.

c&c is excellent but they end up being too hard, i prefer to play with trainers