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I never understood why RTS games died off, apart from being better to play on a PC with keyboard & mouse then consoles there is nothing that should prevent them stll being made today.

I wish I had read the IGN review and NOT purchased this game. Big disappointment, terrible icons and pointless unit micro... If you can micro units then it should be doable and useful, otherwise leave it out like Stellaris.

Still a sucker for RTS games! But changed my addiction from Aoe2 to company of heroes

Tiberean sun was as good and Ra2 was better

I just want a good WC3 remaster and then it can die.

Empire Earth was one that wasted many hours of my productivity

Red alert 2 was a banger

Lotr battle for middle earth 2

shit i think i missed out big time by never trying Total Annihilation back then. that game looks amazing!

Tiberian sun is the coolest and has some pretty tight meta. I felt red alert was more arcade and less of a wild wild west of irc and such

There are moments when you watch a video like this when you just say to yourself "wtf, did he really just say that?" and this video has one so bad I stopped watching. From the very start I knew the three games would be C&C, Brood War, and TA. When you instead pivoted to Red Alert it was a ridiculous decision. C&C1 is indisputably more significant of a game. To then also downplay Tiberium Sun and RA3, while not even mentioning Tiberium Wars or RA2 is baffling. They were innovative games, and you already admitted RA was not. What a contradiction. Ok, dumb move but let's continue. Brood war, I'm with you on this... until... SC2 is a failure? W.T.F are you talking about? Unless you only played WoL, and never HotS, or LotV, idk wtf you are talking about. It's widely seen as incredibly balanced and effective competitive game. You sir, are an idiot. And I stopped watching.

Still playing Sub Com FA I am really looking forward to sanctuary shattered sun.

The best was Command and conquer generals and zero hour. In my opinion was the best of the series. I played this game for over a decade and never got bored of it, that shows how good and addictive those games were. I only stopped playing when Company of heroes came out and then that was my go to RTS game.

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Saved the best for last. TA was great. I remember playing the PC Gamer demo disc version over and over until finally buying a copy. Its amazing that the modding scene for TA is still alive after all these years.

Its a literal joke. According to what Alanah Pearce said, the general baseline is a 7/10 for a game thats functional so IGN hasnt even followed their own grading scale as a 5/10 would indicate its barely functioning. Then again these are the low iq people who gave Dragon Age Veilguard a 9/10 when that game is as dull and cringe as a kids afterschool special.

Wonder if my apm70 boomer micro can handle this game

Look the solution is pretty obvious to me. Every player gets access to every unit. New units can be locked initially and unlocked via leveling up or some challenge, i.e Unlocked via playing the game. Monetization happens on the cosmetic level and you pay for different unit skins. There is just no way on planet earth that locking units behind a paywall is going to avoid being p2w. Even IF everything was perfectly balanced in reality, you'd never avoid the player PERCEPTION of imbalance. And that's what would kill your game.

You missed out ages of Empires 2, warcraft 2, kill krush n destroy,

Any else tired of season passes in games????? Just charge for the gorram game

Man i love these games. And wish these kind of games would come back in mainstream.

The good ol time

Do the different factions have faction abilities/commander abilities as well as unit varients? Also does the game feature a Strategems type loadout function, ahead of battles? Or just the deck cards? If Wasps are becoming a meta unit, then their supply value needs to be modified to limit the number available to the player. Surely this would reduce the appeal and balance things? As for monitization, I don't know what the list price of the game is likely to be but what if premium content could only be unlocked proportionate to the number of achievements or no. of hours you've put into the game. The sense of reward, would still be there and the devs would be eeking out a profit over a longer period of time but it would avoid P2W from day one. Just some thoughts, pleased I'm not expected to solve this problem 😂

Your "deck" of selected units mitigates the p2w effect of strong individual units being locked behind a battle-pass since presumably things will have counters if the game is supposed to be balanced at any rate so knowing there is a meta of using what ever new unit is powerful in a battle-pass should self correct when people start accounting for it by putting in a counter unit. The power of expensive cards in CCGs behind a paywall seemingly hasn't affected the success of the genre, as long as buy X unit and win +% of your matches doesn't become demonstrably true and the battle-passes aren't excessively expensive I don't really see a problem with this system. League doesn't give you every hero like Dota2 does, some people prefer dota2 because of this difference but League still seems to have the bigger community overall so it can work.

Spring project got destroyed by the troll community, ironically Swedish where the term originally comes from. Fair warning about that sorry corner of the world

Wings of Liberty were the days!

How would you go about solving the monetization problem? The comparisons to MOBA games are obvious in terms of them periodically introducing new champions/heroes to play with and these being painfully slow to unlock (or you throw money at them). The issue for an RTS like Battle Aces is that putting actual units behind a paywall is more like the equivalent of limiting the items a player could buy with their gold in a game of LoL or DotA... (credit: someone on the Battle Aces Subreddit).

The constant demand for High-apm and obsessive micro drained the fun out of rts for me and basically killed my interest in multiplayer. I suspect there are a lot of casual players who think the same.

remastered imagery is not the classic imagery, this is remastered

starcraft kickstarted twitch tbh

A good video essay???? On my yt feed??? Wtf

A more civilized time.....

I remember playing TA non-stop on gamespy... Thumbs up to let me know I’m not the only one alive that remembers com-bombs 🪦

Nice vid!

I can still hear “Unit lost” 25 years later!

Oh yea they said they are making a 4rth race. I hope they update the whole game when they do that because i don't like it. But like rebellion, it will take me 100 hours to get used to it. And they kept updating rebellion years on as well.

Its not as good as rebellion at first. Way more things that are cool in rebellion. Idk where my $80 bucks went. I hope they update it soon. Rebellion is amazing and it got updates years later which made it way better.

We really need some online RTS games that fit into a limited and predictable 25 to 45 minute time limit. CnC and Starcraft derived gameplay is stale. Total Annihilation style games drag on too long for modern lifestyles. Maybe have outcomes be scored rather than dependent on a defined win/loss condition. This would encourage people to attack throughout not sit around building passively. The time limit would prevent the bloat that tends to define the more simulation style RTS games.

I would put Command and Conquer Tiberium Dawn, Tiberium Sun, or Generals over any of the Red Alert games. the Tiberium games have the Rocket armed motorcycles which are my favorite units in the franchise while Generals allows a mix of motorcycles armed with Machine Guns and Rocket Launchers. As much as I love Total Annihilation I would put Homeworld I over it. All your choices focus on 2D view or 2.5D view surface combat with air or space forces generally limited to supporting the ground troops.

If anybody is using IGN for reviews then they have never researched how bad that company really is.

Knights and merchants!!!!

I loved TA 👍🏻

Red Alert 2 was the peak in my opinion

very good video. I think the multiplayer aspect is overcooked though, in practice that scene was such a small part of total players that it sure enough did not dictate much at all and it should not have. With the huge exception of south Korea and sc1 of course, but even then, most players by far in sc1 and sc2 were single players. After arcade came to the game exploded. A true masterpiece

Red Alert was aweome!

My Top 3 RTS ever: Age of Empire 2: Deluxe Edition, Red Alert 2, Starcraft Broodwar

lol lmao even

StarCraft is such a brilliant game, apart from the game itself the map editor was fantastic. I spend so much time playing custom maps.

Total annihilation was completely lost in my memory. Thanks for reviving it.

The best thing about the original C&C was that a lot of its units were still grounded in reality. It quickly jumped the shark in later installments with impractical mechs and whatnot