If you plan to continue this series here are some more games worth covering: Spellforce 1/2, Emperor: Battle for Dune, Act of War, Nemesis of the Roman Empire, Perimeter, Impossible Creatures, Star Wars: Empire at War, Castle Strike World War III: Black Gold, Men of War, Codename: Panzers 1/2, Blitzkrieg 2, Soldiers: Heroes of World War II, King Arthur: The Role-playing Wargame, Conquest: Frontier Wars, Haegmonia: Legions of Iron, Star Trek: Armada, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Dark Reign, KKnD, No Man's Land, Knightshift Total Annihilation, Sacrifice, Seven Kingdoms II, Rise of Legends, Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising, War Front: Turning Point, LoTR: War of the Ring, R.U.S.E Desert Rats vs. Africa Corps, Officers, Order of War, Full Spectrum Warrior, Mechcommander, Soldiers of Anarchy, Star Trek: Starfleet Command III, Z: Steel Soldiers, Rush for Berlin, S.W.I.N.E., Battlezone, Imperial Glory, The King's Crusade, Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come, Wargame: European Escalation Planetary Annihilation, Ashes of Singularity, Ancestors: Legacy, Iron Harvest.
There are rarely mentioned the fantasy real-time strategies with RPG elements Dragonshard(2005), Lords of Everquest(2003), Warhammer Mark of Shaos(2006)
I am so glad you include Knights and Merchants. It is a game which still have vibrant multiplayer community including a great fandom KaM remake installer.
I love that friggin game. It's a pain in the ass to beat though. That one fortress al benes is rough because you can't friggin build anything. Basically I had to put my wizard in an outpost and keep him there because a friggin priest would just snipe him out of nowhere. I ended up taking over the small castle to the north of the starting position and building new peasants who COULD build stuff and then I had to fortify against the upcoming onslaught. That mission ALONE probably took me about 2 months to beat because I saved every 2 minutes (almost literally) Once that's taken care of, then it's just taking out the workshops who like to snipe your towers. The last mission though is probably my favorite. I bribed the messiah dude because I thought it'd be funny. I wiped out all the bases on the sides and just left the red base on the top. Then built a shipyard with like 24 peasants on a ship and the messiah dude couldn't kill them all before they got to him to bribe him. It was hilarious.
I'm so glad i played almost all of these games back in the day, truly a golden age where every new game you found was equally as amazing as the last one and had Love,Work and commitment in its soul! wish i could turn the clock back in 2004
Good and almost unique feature about Metal Fatique at 4:09 : The map is divided in underground, surface and orbit. Underground can be reached by elevators build by the drill trucks and u have srsly use the drillers to find caverns with lava4harvest or the enemy underground base...which may also indicates his base on the surface:p Only units of the vehicle factory like tanks (which are small in this game :D ) can operate here. On surface all units (vehicles, Combots and planes) can operate. Orbit can be reached via teleport buildings and units which can fly (planes and modified combots). Flying units ascends directly. Which means you can watch them on surface until the fly srsly out of your screen -> then they appear in orbit at the exact same spot above the surface AND if you fast enough you can also watch them in orbit ascending in circles :D And there different numbers of astroid like plattforms. Which can be used for solar panels (harvesting main ressource slower but endless) or little bases to fight aerial rule. The missions briefing is told by a female K.I. called overseer -> complete voice over. The story is immersive but told about via daily readable only reports of the 3 protagonists (Representing the 3 factions Rimtech, MilAgro and Neuropa). There are a cool render intro and every campaign has its own intro and outro. + a big outro at the end. A cliffhanger which screams SECOND PART!!!! ..wich sadly never appears so far T_T At least Metal Fatigue is avaibale on steam since last year if iam correct (in english). Iam german so i was lucky to find a german patch because we have luckly great voice actors:)
C&C Generals - it's scary how well this game predicted some themes and events of early XX century. Amazing game, I played it 20 years ago, I play it still to this day ( literaly, I did generals chellenge just yesterday :D ). Oh, and mods are amazing too :D .
A little game which is hard to find anything on these days is Theocracy, you lead a small Mayan tribe to slowly expand into an empire and then fight the invading Spanish, but each province needs to transfer units through caravans and you can speed up/slow down the world time
Ive always loved how unique that game was, it has such a strong sense of identity. As a kid i remember playing it and enjoying chilling thinking i had all the time in the world, before the spanish would show up and totally wreck my shit 😂
@@loftus8660 I played it soo much that I almost fine tuned the beginning, I take Nine Peeks using the hero Jarakhi alone, then the next region with the least amount of casualties, then the quest location above to get the wonderbows and then abandon the region so the teal guys don't declare war etc XD I got really really into it.. also the ending when you defeat the spanish is really interesting
@@dragour8723 thats awesome! I remember going to play it a few years ago and having loads of trouble getting it to run, maybe its time for me to give it another shot 😊
nexus the jupiter incident 2 was going to be amazing, i was so sad to see it was cancelled. the tech they were showing off looked amazing for the time.
Armies of Exigo?! A better game than Warcraft III. You play as an Human Empire fighting agianst beastmen, only to suddenly find out a Lovecraftian monster race had arrived on your world hundreds of years ago, into a cavern deep underground where they spent 100 years growing their population and are now an massive invading force. Eeally fun game.
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1:53 my favorite game of all time. 7:17 another game by the same developer as Tzar or at least they were involved. Subsequent expansions including Carthage really made the game cool, but it is a different approach altogether.
Was going to comment on previous video, including Majesty as unique indirect control RTS and Earth series that have features that are cited as unique/interesting in 2of other gamesfrom that video (split screen in 2150 like Submarine Titans from the same year and asymetrical base building in 2160 - which Grey Goo used 10 years later) . Anyway: few more noteworthy and interesting/unique RTS: Spellforce (2003), very unique RPG/RTS mix, your units are based on runes you find around during game, also great story. Sacrifice (2000) really unique 3rd person view RTS - battle to control points, recycle souls of fallen units (both yours and those of your fallen enemies) Black and White (2001) sort city builder/god simulator, unique with working mouse gestures (gestures were also at least shown in B&W2 but unfortunately never worked for me) When mentioning G&C generals - there is one more of the Westwood games that is even more forgotten and IMO more interesting - Emperor: Battle for Dune (and dont forget Dune 2 when we are at it, thats also a legend, but that one have mainly historical value) Not sure if qualifies as forgotten, but there are games like Homeword or Sins of a Solar Empire which would fit into a list too (also as far as I am aware both have next addition to the series in development)
Hello, I'm lookin very old strategy game y played in my childhood but I can't remember it's Title. May be the comment section can help me? This is what I remember abot the game. -It was a RTS game with a sci-fy setting and sprites -It was about the death of earth and the colonization of an alien planet -Building a proper colony was as important as combat itself -There were two factions, tons of units and several "tiers" of units -Every unit was a land- vehicle as far as I remember -There were enviromental events, such as lava spreading though the map you could block using special walls -You could build schools and research hypnopedia -I could swear the planet was called nova-terra does this ring a bell? Anyone?
I don't know if it is RTS or not, when I was a kid almost anything that wasn't a shooter or platformer, I called it RTS, but I loved Warhammer: Dark Omen. That game was absolutely amazing.
Nexus the Jupiter incident was awesome and the mods were insane, another great game was haegemonia legions of iron, which came out in 2004 and to this day has the best ship explosions, the camera would shake as the ship was ripped to pieces by multiple explosions it was awesome.
Would like to mention game called "The Outforce" it's really unusual space theme rts with actually cool and inventive mechanics for it 2000 year release, one of my favorite rts of all time
Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War seems kind of basic, town building and resource gathering, but once your heroes become stronger you are able to take control of them in first person view and fight the enemy armies yourself
dark colony - 1997. Not much functioning difference between factions but quite a unique spin on aliens vs humans RTS setting, very brutal gameplay and a veterancy system
sudden strike 1 and 2 were really special, have to say ground control 1 was the more special title - GC2 was fun but it didn't have the same magic as 1.. fun fact i'm 95% sure the same people who did ground control did world in conflict
You forgot about "war commander (2001)" and "army man" series, "Real war", "Lords of the Everquest", " Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns", "Civilizations at war". Supreme commander still alive, but have a 1-2k people daily online in "Forget alliance forever" client.
hi. I know that a lot of time has passed today but how pleasant it is to remember everything from that time. I remember so much a game that is very similar to Dune, it is or rather to almost all the video games that you have uploaded in these videos. only this one was about aliens fighting soldiers. In order to generate soldiers, bases, machines, one had to go look for energy sources which were prostrate on the ground, the aliens had to do the same. Likewise, one had to get to know the terrain so that it became clearer because it was all dark. As you passed levels, you unlocked machines and tanks. As for the aliens, it was the same, even they had yellow shirts and were white with big eyes. The soldiers were dressed in black special suits. In the soldiers' team, a captain was differentiated, I think a cursor differentiated him. The game had cinematics that were saved in the PC folder, I even remember one of those videos because of how a deceased alien was. I played this game in 2003/2004. It was a very good game, at that time I was a little kid. If you have any idea how to find it or what it's called, I would be totally grateful, you made me remember all those games, very good video. By the way, this text is translated
Hmm... I played only in: "Pharaon", "World in Conflict", "Supreme Commander", "Sudden Strike" and "Generals". Not that many as in some of previous videos like these.
Just wana recoment A.R.S.E.N.A.L 2 Extended power , probobly not many know about this game. One of my fav RTS ever. 5 diff factios, chose your commander, diplomacy is good, and enoy. Kinda wwII with tanks, planes, ships and def buildings.
Ground Control 2 was a good one, due to being one of very few RTSes where artillery shot extremely long distances. It continued the first game's tradition of great graphics, gameplay, and sound design, though it failed to innovate much on what it already had. C&C:Generals I'm a little surprised to see on the list at all, as it's one of the more remembered older RTses. And for good reason, since it played better than most contemporary RTSes around that time with distinct Generals, memorable troops/vehicles, and good gameplay depth (at least after the patch which made most Generals viable; I think 1-2 of them were still pretty bad). 2000s were definitely great for gaming, but for RTSes in particular it's weird to call it a golden age since there were so many clones and shallow RTSes spammed onto the market at that time trying to capitalize on Starcraft's success.
good review missed battlezone 1 & 2 & Red Oddyssey which was 1998 game of the year. That warzone 2100 looked like Machines. Machines was pretty cool because you could also go into first person shooter mode............im glad you didn't do ages of empires
Of these I only played Knights and merchants.. It had a scheduled sequel, but they must have cancelled it, since it never got finished.. Tbh its so much better than Settlers, in every way, but somehow settlers got a better reputation.. which is a shame, since settlers sucks. Suggestion for more RTS that have been forgotten to time: - Warlords Battlecry 1-3 amazing games of their time..
first it got to be said.. not 'populus 3' ..populus the begining , from bullfrog before EA devoured it :/ when ever anyone claims full planet maps are 'impossible' always show that and remind ...that was made to run on 'potato computers' and incase any potential watcher wonders , no dont compare supreme commander 1 with the sequel it butchered the scale and foundational mechanics that made the game a hit saddly enough if only the first sold a few more copies so the studio not hade degraded it the same way they did dungeon siege for the sake of 'broader customer appeal' :( though good news is i think there is a active self curating and independent mp services providing community for it. and , huh ..surprised i dont see empire earth ONE on this list.. ahh dam , ground control though mm... now that was a tasty title to , original release discs huyha! hehe dam though if speaking of lost legends for RTS , how about a hybrid that somehow hade the most ruthless use of both RTS and FPS to ensure victory.. Urban ,assault.. best played with a big fat joystick that vibe and shake if the thing you jumped into takes hit... or heavy fire is starting to land around your host station ^^ dam thoughthe workshop function to tweak your armies arsenal that was in earth 2150-60 was rad , even if the sequel was a bit weaker due dumping the potential to build bridges , roads , dig out proper blast door shielded underground vaults for your fragile power generation etc... its also one reason i hoppe another lost title that saddly was before its time get renovated for g.o.g 'thandor' i think it was called ..that hade a workshop function to ,but free for you to tinker with defensive structures hardware , be a dream with a rts having the workshop function with the earth landscaping , bridge building etc and some proper large scale infrastructure like factorio..heh , one can dream one can dream ^^
We need Sudden Strike Remastered. Now. I played it since the demo in 2000 and still play it today (last time yesterday). Still the best non base building RTS I ever played. SS2 was okay, especially with Ressource Wars, but the rest was way behind Sudden Strike Forever.
I was watching this randomly and it just occurred to me... Almost every part of this video, the writing, the narration and the editing are obviously generated or performed by AI. I wouldn't be surprised if the idea for this video itself was the result of an AI prompt. The only thing I think is man-made is the b-rolls playing in the background. But even that might be "borrowed" based on the fact that some games are in Russian and others in English. I'm not sure if I should be impressed or scared.
Anyone remember Machines: Wired for War? (its like a 1999 game, so probably not, ha). The quirk in that RTS was that you could control any of the units in FPS view.
O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base very forgotten. Depending on how you classify them, The original Army men I and II games before the console sequels went crazy. Star Trek Armada I &II .
SupCom is anything but Forgotten, not only is it itself still beloved, there have been many spiritual successors like Planetary Annihilation or the Upcomming Beyong All Reason. What really deserves more love is Populous 3 !
I played Tzar in a cybercafe in 2001, been loking for that game from time to time but i was clueless bout the name till today, thanks. I found some good games looking for it like stronghold anyway. Hope its runs in windows 10 lol
Still no Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds (why they adapted the musical adaptation specifically and not the IP in general is not a piece of info I am the keeper of, but it works. Soundtrack slaps, naturally)
I cant find a game i played a bout 15 years ago, UT was an rts with diablo 2 ish graphics in a futuristic setting, the main campaign you controlled a guy with sunglasses that by the end gets es kinda like abducted and turned into a cyborg of sorts. I just cant find it . Anyone knows what im talking about ?
There was a game I don't... I'm not sure if it's name was either Primeval or not. But I'm sure the name starts with P... I remember getting a demo CD from a game magazine. There were some robots passing through some mountains. That's all I remember.
Generals was great. Played it with my friends all the time. One of better strategy games of that era and in general. Knights of honour was also great. It was first game where I saw new factions emerging or destroyed reappearing which blew my mind.
Knights of Honor is not forgotten, a year ago they made the 2nd part of the game, KoH 2: Sovereign, which is based on the original game but with many new features
Universe at war was a garbage game. Truthfully it was incomplete when it was released. There was supposed to be a earth faction but they didn't even get to that point because they had to rush it out the door
If you plan to continue this series here are some more games worth covering:
Spellforce 1/2, Emperor: Battle for Dune, Act of War, Nemesis of the Roman Empire, Perimeter, Impossible Creatures, Star Wars: Empire at War, Castle Strike
World War III: Black Gold, Men of War, Codename: Panzers 1/2, Blitzkrieg 2, Soldiers: Heroes of World War II, King Arthur: The Role-playing Wargame,
Conquest: Frontier Wars, Haegmonia: Legions of Iron, Star Trek: Armada, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Dark Reign, KKnD, No Man's Land, Knightshift
Total Annihilation, Sacrifice, Seven Kingdoms II, Rise of Legends, Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising, War Front: Turning Point, LoTR: War of the Ring, R.U.S.E
Desert Rats vs. Africa Corps, Officers, Order of War, Full Spectrum Warrior, Mechcommander, Soldiers of Anarchy, Star Trek: Starfleet Command III,
Z: Steel Soldiers, Rush for Berlin, S.W.I.N.E., Battlezone, Imperial Glory, The King's Crusade, Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come, Wargame: European Escalation
Planetary Annihilation, Ashes of Singularity, Ancestors: Legacy, Iron Harvest.
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and Perimeter were part of my childhood, I still have Perimeter installed and working thanks to GOG.
Dark Reign 2, Hostile Waters and Machines
Many good ones in this list 😁👌
Outlive
Mayday: Conflict Earth
I still play tzar from time to time and I love it
Check out tzared!
Wich version do u use?
There are rarely mentioned the fantasy real-time strategies with RPG elements Dragonshard(2005), Lords of Everquest(2003), Warhammer Mark of Shaos(2006)
I would add The game Three Kingdoms: Fate of the Dragon
I am so glad you include Knights and Merchants. It is a game which still have vibrant multiplayer community including a great fandom KaM remake installer.
when will kam 2 come out?
Used to play this game by a LOT. Such fun mechanics and gameplay.
I played the demo back in the days. It had really strong combat for a building game.
Didn't knew that so many people are still playing the game.
I wouldn't say that Supreme Commander is 'forgotten' game. Its community is still supporting multiplayer.
Forged Alliance Forever! For the blue of the UEF!
"supporting multiplayer" is a bit of a understatement, FAF's community is thriving, even running paid, real prize money tourneys frequently
Tzar is definitely not forgotten. This short intro doesn't do it justice though :)
I love that friggin game. It's a pain in the ass to beat though. That one fortress al benes is rough because you can't friggin build anything. Basically I had to put my wizard in an outpost and keep him there because a friggin priest would just snipe him out of nowhere. I ended up taking over the small castle to the north of the starting position and building new peasants who COULD build stuff and then I had to fortify against the upcoming onslaught. That mission ALONE probably took me about 2 months to beat because I saved every 2 minutes (almost literally) Once that's taken care of, then it's just taking out the workshops who like to snipe your towers. The last mission though is probably my favorite. I bribed the messiah dude because I thought it'd be funny. I wiped out all the bases on the sides and just left the red base on the top. Then built a shipyard with like 24 peasants on a ship and the messiah dude couldn't kill them all before they got to him to bribe him. It was hilarious.
I'm so glad i played almost all of these games back in the day, truly a golden age where every new game you found was equally as amazing as the last one and had Love,Work and commitment in its soul! wish i could turn the clock back in 2004
We all do
I knew the 90's and 2000s were the golden years of rts games but I didn't know there were so many released.
Tzar and Metal Fatigue being listed makes this a legitimately good compilation
And Majesty
Good and almost unique feature about Metal Fatique at 4:09 :
The map is divided in underground, surface and orbit.
Underground can be reached by elevators build by the drill trucks and u have srsly use the drillers to find caverns with lava4harvest or the enemy underground base...which may also indicates his base on the surface:p Only units of the vehicle factory like tanks (which are small in this game :D ) can operate here.
On surface all units (vehicles, Combots and planes) can operate.
Orbit can be reached via teleport buildings and units which can fly (planes and modified combots). Flying units ascends directly. Which means you can watch them on surface until the fly srsly out of your screen -> then they appear in orbit at the exact same spot above the surface AND if you fast enough you can also watch them in orbit ascending in circles :D
And there different numbers of astroid like plattforms. Which can be used for solar panels (harvesting main ressource slower but endless) or little bases to fight aerial rule.
The missions briefing is told by a female K.I. called overseer -> complete voice over.
The story is immersive but told about via daily readable only reports of the 3 protagonists (Representing the 3 factions Rimtech, MilAgro and Neuropa).
There are a cool render intro and every campaign has its own intro and outro.
+ a big outro at the end. A cliffhanger which screams SECOND PART!!!! ..wich sadly never appears so far T_T
At least Metal Fatigue is avaibale on steam since last year if iam correct (in english).
Iam german so i was lucky to find a german patch because we have luckly great voice actors:)
Plus the cinematics is absolute banger
I'm so glad Universe of War was mentioned
It's a really fun game
It's really cool how they made civilian structures etc as the game's reaource
Супримка и Генералы не забыты.
C&C Generals - it's scary how well this game predicted some themes and events of early XX century. Amazing game, I played it 20 years ago, I play it still to this day ( literaly, I did generals chellenge just yesterday :D ). Oh, and mods are amazing too :D .
I'd hardly call C&C Generals a forgotten game, though. There's still tons of mod support in the indie mod developer side.
Alien Nations, Dark Colony, Beasts N Bumpkins, 7th Legion - anyone remember? 😊
A little game which is hard to find anything on these days is Theocracy, you lead a small Mayan tribe to slowly expand into an empire and then fight the invading Spanish, but each province needs to transfer units through caravans and you can speed up/slow down the world time
Ive always loved how unique that game was, it has such a strong sense of identity. As a kid i remember playing it and enjoying chilling thinking i had all the time in the world, before the spanish would show up and totally wreck my shit 😂
@@loftus8660 I played it soo much that I almost fine tuned the beginning, I take Nine Peeks using the hero Jarakhi alone, then the next region with the least amount of casualties, then the quest location above to get the wonderbows and then abandon the region so the teal guys don't declare war etc XD I got really really into it.. also the ending when you defeat the spanish is really interesting
@@dragour8723 thats awesome! I remember going to play it a few years ago and having loads of trouble getting it to run, maybe its time for me to give it another shot 😊
Absolutely amazing game
I remember playing Populous on the Playstation, it was so awesome!!
Stupid firehand guys were do OP!
Celtic kings Is also known as imperium, which It survived and today have 3 Versions and i think a DE.
I loved the first one.
Only 2 civs, but had a rpg/rts campaign as enjoyable as Wc3.
The next 2 games didn’t had so fun campaigns.
@@adamnesico yeah the first one has an amazing campaign.
No Total Annihilation or Dark Reign :(
I still play bulk TA
You remembered them.
I wouldn't say TA is a lost legend. It's very well known in the rts community.
Check zero-k, it's a best ta style game and 16 vs 16 players on same map make it epic
Or Rival Realms
I will forever remember the tragedy of never having Nexus: The Jupiter Incident 2. Tech demo blew my mind back then.
Nexus was originally developed to be an Imperium Galactica 3, but at some point they decided to make it a standalone game.
Armies of exigo is arguably the best underrated game in the RTS genre
I loved knights and merchants as a kid ❤ Was rlly easy if u got enough bowmans😊
OMG i remember that Populous 3 and entirely forgot about it ! After 15 years i remember its name once again. Thx buddy
nexus the jupiter incident 2 was going to be amazing, i was so sad to see it was cancelled. the tech they were showing off looked amazing for the time.
You forgot Warlords Battlecry 3/The Protectors
Armies of Exigo?! A better game than Warcraft III. You play as an Human Empire fighting agianst beastmen, only to suddenly find out a Lovecraftian monster race had arrived on your world hundreds of years ago, into a cavern deep underground where they spent 100 years growing their population and are now an massive invading force. Eeally fun game.
To this day I still play Tzar. ALMOST beats C&C despite its flaws like the terrible ai.
The original Dark Reign, Net Storm and Chaos Island: The Lost World are missing from this list 😢
Мы докатились до того. что Supreme Commander, которого мы так долго ждали стал забытым.
Steam keys gift:
Orbitect
R0M3P-6Z4GI-K657[number]
AlexanderBall: A Countryball Tale
0L7FA-[number]DE8W-HYV2D
Black Beacon Hill
RYLQB-LEIG[number]-XZ2LC
Folk Hero
ZGCVY-TEI[number]F-XJBQA
Instead of [number], you need to insert a digit from 0 to 9. You must guess. But I think these keys are already taken.
Orbitect
R0M3P-6Z4GI-K6574
AlexanderBall: A Countryball Tale
0L7FA-2DE8W-HYV2D
Black Beacon Hill
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Folk Hero
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Another forgotten classic, Impossible creatures, not many seem to know about that one
Three other forgotten strategy games is Dominion Storm over Gift 3, Cyberstorm 2 Corporate Wars, and KKND
Knights and Merchants is still develope by community in Remake version
1:53 my favorite game of all time.
7:17 another game by the same developer as Tzar or at least they were involved. Subsequent expansions including Carthage really made the game cool, but it is a different approach altogether.
The old Starship troopers game where you command a squad off troopers where Soo good
A truly forgotten game ia knights and mercants since it isnt even mentioned in videos like this.
Populous 3? Oooooooooooooooooooh......... Myth: The Fallen Lords narration before the levels? OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!!
Tzar could add a few QoL improvements (auto-heal and auto-repair come to mind) but it was definitely one of the better older games.
Majesty 1 and 2 are the most underrated rts ever made. Hands down
You forgot about submarine titans. Only because the entire game was played underwater. I've never seen the sort again
Celtic Kings? Is Imperium in my country.
Was going to comment on previous video, including Majesty as unique indirect control RTS and Earth series that have features that are cited as unique/interesting in 2of other gamesfrom that video (split screen in 2150 like Submarine Titans from the same year and asymetrical base building in 2160 - which Grey Goo used 10 years later) .
Anyway: few more noteworthy and interesting/unique RTS:
Spellforce (2003), very unique RPG/RTS mix, your units are based on runes you find around during game, also great story.
Sacrifice (2000) really unique 3rd person view RTS - battle to control points, recycle souls of fallen units (both yours and those of your fallen enemies)
Black and White (2001) sort city builder/god simulator, unique with working mouse gestures (gestures were also at least shown in B&W2 but unfortunately never worked for me)
When mentioning G&C generals - there is one more of the Westwood games that is even more forgotten and IMO more interesting - Emperor: Battle for Dune (and dont forget Dune 2 when we are at it, thats also a legend, but that one have mainly historical value)
Not sure if qualifies as forgotten, but there are games like Homeword or Sins of a Solar Empire which would fit into a list too (also as far as I am aware both have next addition to the series in development)
great video, actually a list for 'forgotten' games that deserve to be cataloged
Огнём и мечом с превью -лучшая игра, Господи, до сих пор играю
Dark Colony would have been a good one also
Why isn't Dark Reign on the list?
Where is Battleforge on the list? :(
Hello, I'm lookin very old strategy game y played in my childhood but I can't remember it's Title. May be the comment section can help me? This is what I remember abot the game.
-It was a RTS game with a sci-fy setting and sprites
-It was about the death of earth and the colonization of an alien planet
-Building a proper colony was as important as combat itself
-There were two factions, tons of units and several "tiers" of units
-Every unit was a land- vehicle as far as I remember
-There were enviromental events, such as lava spreading though the map you could block using special walls
-You could build schools and research hypnopedia
-I could swear the planet was called nova-terra
does this ring a bell? Anyone?
I don't know if it is RTS or not, when I was a kid almost anything that wasn't a shooter or platformer, I called it RTS, but I loved Warhammer: Dark Omen. That game was absolutely amazing.
Dont forget Dominion Storm over gift 3
Warlords Battlecry III
Love this game. Still don't know of a modern RPG/RTS that rivals the mechanics of this game.
Knights of Honor and Celtic kings damn, those 2 games were some of my favourite, 2004 was a wonderful year
Nexus the Jupiter incident was awesome and the mods were insane, another great game was haegemonia legions of iron, which came out in 2004 and to this day has the best ship explosions, the camera would shake as the ship was ripped to pieces by multiple explosions it was awesome.
Wow, Universe at War is a totally new info for me :P It seems worth a try!
This is what modern gaming forgets: innovation.
Would like to mention game called "The Outforce" it's really unusual space theme rts with actually cool and inventive mechanics for it 2000 year release, one of my favorite rts of all time
KKND2: CrossFire
It's Australian version of Terminator + Fallout World
Total Annihilation , 7th Legion, Warfare, Syrian Warfare, Dark Reign, Act of War, End War, Force 21
Haha, I remember playing almost all of these games. Such olden yet golden.
Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War seems kind of basic, town building and resource gathering, but once your heroes become stronger you are able to take control of them in first person view and fight the enemy armies yourself
dark colony - 1997. Not much functioning difference between factions but quite a unique spin on aliens vs humans RTS setting, very brutal gameplay and a veterancy system
sudden strike 1 and 2 were really special, have to say ground control 1 was the more special title - GC2 was fun but it didn't have the same magic as 1.. fun fact i'm 95% sure the same people who did ground control did world in conflict
You forgot about "war commander (2001)" and "army man" series, "Real war", "Lords of the Everquest", " Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns", "Civilizations at war".
Supreme commander still alive, but have a 1-2k people daily online in "Forget alliance forever" client.
hi. I know that a lot of time has passed today but how pleasant it is to remember everything from that time.
I remember so much a game that is very similar to Dune, it is or rather to almost all the video games that you have uploaded in these videos.
only this one was about aliens fighting soldiers.
In order to generate soldiers, bases, machines, one had to go look for energy sources which were prostrate on the ground, the aliens had to do the same.
Likewise, one had to get to know the terrain so that it became clearer because it was all dark.
As you passed levels, you unlocked machines and tanks. As for the aliens, it was the same, even they had yellow shirts and were white with big eyes. The soldiers were dressed in black special suits.
In the soldiers' team, a captain was differentiated, I think a cursor differentiated him.
The game had cinematics that were saved in the PC folder, I even remember one of those videos because of how a deceased alien was.
I played this game in 2003/2004. It was a very good game, at that time I was a little kid.
If you have any idea how to find it or what it's called, I would be totally grateful, you made me remember all those games, very good video. By the way, this text is translated
Seven Kingdom1-2,Wargames,Real War,7th Legion.M.A.X,Ground Control,Imposible Creatures.
Can picture this game from 2000-2002 era…in space..build up and fought others. Played against each other in computer class. Cant find it anywhere
Hmm... I played only in: "Pharaon", "World in Conflict", "Supreme Commander", "Sudden Strike" and "Generals". Not that many as in some of previous videos like these.
Just wana recoment A.R.S.E.N.A.L 2 Extended power , probobly not many know about this game. One of my fav RTS ever. 5 diff factios, chose your commander, diplomacy is good, and enoy. Kinda wwII with tanks, planes, ships and def buildings.
Ground Control 2 was a good one, due to being one of very few RTSes where artillery shot extremely long distances. It continued the first game's tradition of great graphics, gameplay, and sound design, though it failed to innovate much on what it already had.
C&C:Generals I'm a little surprised to see on the list at all, as it's one of the more remembered older RTses. And for good reason, since it played better than most contemporary RTSes around that time with distinct Generals, memorable troops/vehicles, and good gameplay depth (at least after the patch which made most Generals viable; I think 1-2 of them were still pretty bad).
2000s were definitely great for gaming, but for RTSes in particular it's weird to call it a golden age since there were so many clones and shallow RTSes spammed onto the market at that time trying to capitalize on Starcraft's success.
good review missed battlezone 1 & 2 & Red Oddyssey which was 1998 game of the year. That warzone 2100 looked like Machines. Machines was pretty cool because you could also go into first person shooter mode............im glad you didn't do ages of empires
The outro is generals in Red Alert 3?
Generals Evolution mod for Red Alert 3, yes.
Of these I only played Knights and merchants.. It had a scheduled sequel, but they must have cancelled it, since it never got finished.. Tbh its so much better than Settlers, in every way, but somehow settlers got a better reputation.. which is a shame, since settlers sucks.
Suggestion for more RTS that have been forgotten to time:
- Warlords Battlecry 1-3 amazing games of their time..
most of that not even rts and neither are forgotten
pharaoh literally just got a remaster
first it got to be said.. not 'populus 3' ..populus the begining , from bullfrog before EA devoured it :/ when ever anyone claims full planet maps are 'impossible' always show that and remind ...that was made to run on 'potato computers'
and incase any potential watcher wonders , no dont compare supreme commander 1 with the sequel it butchered the scale and foundational mechanics that made the game a hit saddly enough if only the first sold a few more copies so the studio not hade degraded it the same way they did dungeon siege for the sake of 'broader customer appeal' :( though good news is i think there is a active self curating and independent mp services providing community for it.
and , huh ..surprised i dont see empire earth ONE on this list..
ahh dam , ground control though mm... now that was a tasty title to , original release discs huyha!
hehe dam though if speaking of lost legends for RTS , how about a hybrid that somehow hade the most ruthless use of both RTS and FPS to ensure victory.. Urban ,assault.. best played with a big fat joystick that vibe and shake if the thing you jumped into takes hit... or heavy fire is starting to land around your host station ^^
dam thoughthe workshop function to tweak your armies arsenal that was in earth 2150-60 was rad , even if the sequel was a bit weaker due dumping the potential to build bridges , roads , dig out proper blast door shielded underground vaults for your fragile power generation etc... its also one reason i hoppe another lost title that saddly was before its time get renovated for g.o.g 'thandor' i think it was called ..that hade a workshop function to ,but free for you to tinker with defensive structures hardware , be a dream with a rts having the workshop function with the earth landscaping , bridge building etc and some proper large scale infrastructure like factorio..heh , one can dream one can dream ^^
We need Sudden Strike Remastered. Now. I played it since the demo in 2000 and still play it today (last time yesterday). Still the best non base building RTS I ever played. SS2 was okay, especially with Ressource Wars, but the rest was way behind Sudden Strike Forever.
I was watching this randomly and it just occurred to me... Almost every part of this video, the writing, the narration and the editing are obviously generated or performed by AI. I wouldn't be surprised if the idea for this video itself was the result of an AI prompt. The only thing I think is man-made is the b-rolls playing in the background. But even that might be "borrowed" based on the fact that some games are in Russian and others in English. I'm not sure if I should be impressed or scared.
Anyone remember Machines: Wired for War? (its like a 1999 game, so probably not, ha). The quirk in that RTS was that you could control any of the units in FPS view.
O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base very forgotten. Depending on how you classify them, The original Army men I and II games before the console sequels went crazy. Star Trek Armada I &II .
SupCom is anything but Forgotten, not only is it itself still beloved, there have been many spiritual successors like Planetary Annihilation or the Upcomming Beyong All Reason.
What really deserves more love is Populous 3 !
I played Tzar in a cybercafe in 2001, been loking for that game from time to time but i was clueless bout the name till today, thanks. I found some good games looking for it like stronghold anyway. Hope its runs in windows 10 lol
Still no Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds (why they adapted the musical adaptation specifically and not the IP in general is not a piece of info I am the keeper of, but it works. Soundtrack slaps, naturally)
dude didn't mention about the sky or underground in metal fatigue? It's a really complex game if you really dig into it.
I cant find a game i played a bout 15 years ago, UT was an rts with diablo 2 ish graphics in a futuristic setting, the main campaign you controlled a guy with sunglasses that by the end gets es kinda like abducted and turned into a cyborg of sorts. I just cant find it . Anyone knows what im talking about ?
I was wandering if the thumbnail in this clip is from the Tzar and I was right. It is very nice WarCraft2 and AoE mixture.
"Supreme commander" series is played for now. "World in Conflict" was big enough release to noticed by everybody and well known even now.
There was a game I don't... I'm not sure if it's name was either Primeval or not. But I'm sure the name starts with P... I remember getting a demo CD from a game magazine. There were some robots passing through some mountains.
That's all I remember.
I'm disappointed that you don't even mention Warlords Battlecry III.
Best RTS game I've ever played
Hey Knights and Merchants is very much alive, its an old man, granted, but just today I played it with a couple of friends haha
Celtic Kings 👍
I'm still play Celtic Kings: Punic Wars
Carthage shall prevent!!
huh warzone 2100 forgotten? This game have still huge playerbase same as supreme commander
Super strategy games for me is: Cezar III, Cossacs II, Legion oder Spartan, Starmageddon, Pretorian.
no Warlords Battlecry?
dude, you missed out if you never played them... FYI they are pretty cheap on GOG
Generals was great. Played it with my friends all the time. One of better strategy games of that era and in general.
Knights of honour was also great. It was first game where I saw new factions emerging or destroyed reappearing which blew my mind.
Dark Reign sure was good but was overshadowed by releasing the same time a total annihilation iirc.
also netstorm was pretty fun
Hy. You could have added Submarine Titans (3 i guess) to the list as well. A childhood classic. Just sayin ;)
Knights of Honor is not forgotten, a year ago they made the 2nd part of the game, KoH 2: Sovereign, which is based on the original game but with many new features
KKND Krossfire 1/2 Lost, Shame. Otherwise, thank you very much for the great memory
7KAA was a great game. You could have spies that bribed the captain and made the enemy's fort yours
Haha, I watched the first video and left the Warzone 2100 comment only to watch this one and realise you have it in already. Noice
Universe at war was a garbage game. Truthfully it was incomplete when it was released. There was supposed to be a earth faction but they didn't even get to that point because they had to rush it out the door