im new to the RTS genre what am i missing ?

so i decided to try this genre i never played before and when i see video of those type of games i always say how the hell do people injoy such games..untill i played empire total war last week :) now im hooked on it and i made a list of the RTS games im going to buy what do you think of them ? and what should i look for ?

starcraft 2 ( i bough it today installing right now ;) )

age of empire 3

stronghold 3

shogun 2

civilization v

how is those games ? and what else is good

( sorry for my bad spelling :( )

Some older games, but great nontheless, include:

Age Of Empires 2 Gold
Rise Of Nations Gold
Cossacks Anthology (available on GOG.com)

You should try Company of Heroes.

so i decided to try this genre i never played before and when i see video of those type of games i always say how the hell do people injoy such games..untill i played empire total war last week :) now im hooked on it and i made a list of the RTS games im going to buy what do you think of them ? and what should i look for ?

starcraft 2 ( i bough it today installing right now ;) )

age of empire 3

stronghold 3

shogun 2

civilization v

how is those games ? and what else is good

( sorry for my bad spelling :( )

kratos_q80

Supreme Commander and Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance are both worth getting. They're large-scale RTSs with beefy maps to fight wars across.

(Avoid Supreme Commander 2, which was dreadful)

Company of Heros and World in Conflict are a mustpure_perv

those are modern wars style ya ? ill check them

thanks for all the info guys RTS game libery is endless :) the fun is just starting for me ...damn starcraft been installing and updating for about 2 hours now ! still waiting

starcraft 2 ( i bough it today installing right now ;) )

age of empire 3

stronghold 3

shogun 2

civilization v

how is those games ? and what else is good

kratos_q80

Absolutely fantastic. Except for Stronghold 3, I heard nothing but negative stuff about that game.

Check out Age of Empires Online if you like age of empires 3.

Check out previous Total War games if you like Shogun 2

Wargame: European Escalation is an RTS game that came out recently.

[QUOTE="pure_perv"]Company of Heros and World in Conflict are a mustkratos_q80

those are modern wars style ya ? ill check them

World in Conflict has a modern setting yeah.

Company of Heroes is WW2.

Command and Conquer: The First Decade

Company of Heroes

Sins of a Solar Empire ( You can pre-order Sins of a Soalr Empire: Rebellion, which is a stand alone expansion pack that includes everything in the original game and its expansions)

Westwood - Dune 2 - Dune 2000 - Red Alert 1, 2 , 3 , Tiberian Universe all of Tiberian games. aka Command & Conquer serials. Dune 2 is considered as father of RTS genre. Try any RTS from Westwood you wont regret. EA and Westwood isnt same. Westwood once company of talent and uniqe games now just a garbage of Big Bad Evil Troll called EA!

If graphics don't matter...

C&C

Red Alert 1 and 2

Tiberum Sun

Generals

Age of Empires 2

Age of Empirse 3

newer games...

Company of Heroes

World in Conflict

Empire Total War

Shogun 2 Total War

World in Conflict

Westwood - Dune 2 - Dune 2000 - Red Alert 1, 2 , 3 , Tiberian Universe all of Tiberian games. aka Command & Conquer serials. Dune 2 is considered as father of RTS genre. Try any RTS from Westwood you wont regret. EA and Westwood isnt same. Westwood once company of talent and uniqe games now just a garbage of Big Bad Evil Troll called EA!

Assimilat0r

World in Conflict. Has an excellent tutorial that I wish other devs would emulate.

World in Conflict. Has an excellent tutorial that I wish other devs would emulate.

topsemag55

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World in Conflict. Has an excellent tutorial that I wish other devs would emulate.

Toxic-Seahorse

But it's fun calling in a tactical nuke to hit your enemies.:D

Hey OP. I have a few questions for you.

Do you like giant robots and lasers?

Do you like the idea of incredibly huge armies of giant robots marching across massive maps while fighter jets and bombers scream overhead?

Does the word "strategy" mean more to you than memorizing a build order and clicking really fast?

Do you like good graphics and incredible unit scale coupled with strategic zoom capabilities?

If you answered YES to all of these, then boy do I have the game for you!

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. Get it RIGHT NOW!

If you have friends who have it too, you can learn the game by teaming up against ai opponents!

Hey OP. I have a few questions for you.

Do you like giant robots and lasers?

Do you like the idea of incredibly huge armies of giant robots marching across massive maps while fighter jets and bombers scream overhead?

Does the word "strategy" mean more to you than memorizing a build order and clicking really fast?

Do you like good graphics and incredible unit scale coupled with strategic zoom capabilities?

If you answered YES to all of these, then boy do I have the game for you!

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. Get it RIGHT NOW!

If you have friends who have it too, you can learn the game by teaming up against ai opponents!

xLittlekillx

The Warhammer Dawn of War games, surprised no one has mentioned them unless I missed it.

wh40k: dawn of war 7 pack.

7 games, 1 price, all awesome

[QUOTE="Assimilat0r"]

Westwood - Dune 2 - Dune 2000 - Red Alert 1, 2 , 3 , Tiberian Universe all of Tiberian games. aka Command & Conquer serials. Dune 2 is considered as father of RTS genre. Try any RTS from Westwood you wont regret. EA and Westwood isnt same. Westwood once company of talent and uniqe games now just a garbage of Big Bad Evil Troll called EA!

Toxic-Seahorse

Btw brothers unite against EA :)

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"][QUOTE="Assimilat0r"]

Westwood - Dune 2 - Dune 2000 - Red Alert 1, 2 , 3 , Tiberian Universe all of Tiberian games. aka Command & Conquer serials. Dune 2 is considered as father of RTS genre. Try any RTS from Westwood you wont regret. EA and Westwood isnt same. Westwood once company of talent and uniqe games now just a garbage of Big Bad Evil Troll called EA!

Assimilat0r

Btw brothers unite against EA :)

Starcraft 2 is the only RTS you'll ever need.SwarmKing

so i decided to try this genre i never played before and when i see video of those type of games i always say how the hell do people injoy such games..untill i played empire total war last week :) now im hooked on it and i made a list of the RTS games im going to buy what do you think of them ? and what should i look for ?

starcraft 2 ( i bough it today installing right now ;) )

age of empire 3

stronghold 3

shogun 2

civilization v

how is those games ? and what else is good

( sorry for my bad spelling :( )

kratos_q80

Civ V is crack, get it

C&C 3 didn't like at all

Rise of Nation is excellent but it's old and graphics look bad, I couldn't play it.

SC2 haven't played but people swear by it.

Link It's on a discount on Amazon right now, throw all your RTS games in the trash can and Get this game NAO.

Funny as a big rts fan I have yet to play Sins of Solar Empire, Homeworld, or Supreme Commander.

I did play games like Warhammer though and they were boring.

I myself dislike non basebuilding RTS. World of Conflict is one of the only exceptions.

Warcraft 2 is another great RTS. Way better than Warcraft 3.