So who else thinks that futuristics RTS games are boring?

I've always loved games like World in Conflict and Company of Heroes, but I can never sit through a game of Command & Conquer 3, Supreme Commander, or Universe At War without getting bored. I've always like realistic type RTS games, but I just get bored really fast with futuristic RTS games. Anyone else the same way?

I enjoy RTS that takes place in a medieval environment. Well it can also be ancient, or modern, but I prefer medieval. I have played futuristic RTS too, but, as you, I got bored fast.

I also play other types of games, like RPG, city-building, turn base strategy, economic strategy (I am not sure if this last one is an official game genre, but I talk about games where you take a company and try to build a financial empire). But as before I don't like them to be futuristic.

I enjoy RTS that takes place in a medieval environment. Well it can also be ancient, or modern, but I prefer medieval. I have played futuristic RTS too, but, as you, I got bored fast.

I also play other types of games, like RPG, city-building, turn base strategy, economic strategy (I am not sure if this last one is an official game genre, but I talk about games where you take a company and try to build a financial empire). But as before I don't like them to be futuristic.

MasterVlad

Kind a same here, don't enjoy sci-fi stuff much. (But well there are some exceptions.)

Not me. Any kind will do as long as it's good.JP_Russell

Im the opposite, I perfer sci-fi themed RTS over any generic WWI-II crap. There are only so many 'KILL ZEE RUSSIANS/GERMANS' games before they become stale and lack luster.MasterJawa

Haha, love the Snatch reference "ZEE GERMANS?"

Personally, I dont like Medieval RTS games. Modern and Sci-fi is fine by me. Although, I cannot stress enough how much I HATED Supreme commander, worst RTS ever.

I prefer sci-fi games and futuristic settings, when you have real world weapons and situations developers tend to sacrifice gameplay for realism, not as much with sci-fi in my experience.nutcrackr

You talk about realism like its a bad thing, its realism that makes games like World in Conflict so great.

I love space marines and all but...Phase 3 Dark Trooper > Space MarineOrcishman05

SoB put them both to shame ^^"

seriously though, I don't believe realism is an iusse. every game is working under realism as long as it takes as background a believable world. all games are fictional and no RTS has approach "real" realism yet.

WiC, realsitic? no human soldiers can possibly cover that much ground by foot with such short time, ever. when ever do you see those soldiers camp and rest in WiC and CoH?

the issue is about subject matter. Fantasy, Sci-fi or historical...but I don't have a preference. as long as the game is good.

Not me. Any kind will do as long as it's good.JP_Russell

me too

Universe At War is fantastic. The three alien races have a great design.

But C&C3 sucks.

The game setting is not important to me.

I like Sci-Fi and Medieval/Classical Age settings more than WW2 (for now). But I prefer Company of Heroes, a WW2 RTS to all but one RTS that isn't scifi. That's how little the setting matters to me: a.k.a it doesn't matter to me at all.

The game setting is not important to me.

I like Sci-Fi and Medieval/Classical Age settings more than WW2 (for now). But I prefer Company of Heroes, a WW2 RTS to all but one RTS that isn't scifi. That's how little the setting matters to me: a.k.a it doesn't matter to me at all.

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a.k.a. wasn't the right abbreviation for that sentence, you were looking for ie.

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But yeah, Supreme Commander = My favourite RTS at the moment. I really need to buy the expansion pack soon.

I've always loved games like World in Conflict and Company of Heroes, but I can never sit through a game of Command & Conquer 3, Supreme Commander, or Universe At War without getting bored. I've always like realistic type RTS games, but I just get bored really fast with futuristic RTS games. Anyone else the same way?

Hellfireknight

I like several kinds of rts to be honest. Everything from Battle for Middle Earth to Age of Empires/Mythology to Red Alert to Starcraft.

Im the opposite, I perfer sci-fi themed RTS over any generic WWI-II crap. There are only so many 'KILL ZEE RUSSIANS/GERMANS' games before they become stale and lack luster.MasterJawa

Which World War II games have you killing Russians?:| Are there WW2 games out there where you play as the Germangs against Russians or something?

Not me. Any kind will do as long as it's good.JP_Russell

Same here. If its good, then the setting doesn't matter to me.

Universe At War is fantastic. The three alien races have a great design.

But C&C3 sucks.

Baranga

yeah, all the three races are really great and walkers rule - it has become my favorite rts unit

Star Craft is set in the future. So is Dawn of War, and they're good.ASK_Story

I like star craft too. And I wait impatiently for SC 2. So I don't exclude futuristic games from start. There can be some that I enjoy, SC was one off them and I am sure i will like SC 2.

You know why I actually prefer games that take place in medieval, ancient, modern, WWII? Because I recognize the stuff there, because the stuff there were real things. And here I mean: swords, bows, rifles, tanks, machineguns, hammers, armours, axes, firethrowers, etc. Those things actually existed.

But you can't say that about a ray gun, an anti-mater bomb, a laser sword or a laser gun. The design off those weapons, the way they work, and the impact that they have is the product off imaginations. Now don't get me wrong, I don't say that it is stupid to try to imagine the future, actually it is a good thing, for something to become a reality, to be invented, first someone has to imagine it.

So everybody has it's tastes and preferences. The good thing is that there are a lot off different games out there so that our tastes and preferences are satisfied.