now here's a question to provoke some serious argument

the most popular right now seem to be age of mythology and warcraft 3 but there some older underated titles like Total Annhilation and the moon project

9/25/2006 1:47:21 AM

Rome: Total War

After mid november, Medieval 2: Total War

[Edited on September 25, 2006 at 1:54 AM. Reason : Unless you were specifically refering to base building RTS games]

9/25/2006 1:52:21 AM

minesweeper

9/25/2006 1:55:55 AM

wolfenstein 3d

9/25/2006 1:59:16 AM

TA

War3 was pretty fun though too. It's pretty hard to say -- best how? Most fun? Best gameplay?

War3 was tons of fun because i played with my suite back in the day. Not sure if I'd say its the best strat game though, I dislike blizzard's inclination towards frantic micromanagement

9/25/2006 3:44:38 AM

homeworld is the most popular 3d RTS. war3 is played in 2d.

9/25/2006 4:29:13 AM

company of heroes is a lot of fun and pretty realistic.

9/25/2006 9:08:20 AM

what kinda strategy games?

RTS
turn based?

9/25/2006 9:26:17 AM

I'll second Rome: Total War and the upcoming Medieval 2 is going to be tight.

For an RTS, Company of Heroes rocks.

But if you're looking for best all-time, that'd be Starcraft with TA a close second.

[Edited on September 25, 2006 at 11:46 AM. Reason : ]

9/25/2006 11:46:12 AM

AOK and AOK Conquerors expansion

9/25/2006 12:06:55 PM

I LOVED Total Annihilation, and played it constantly, And to this day I think it has the best air combat out of any RTS except the

But the only thing about it I didn't like was it seemed like all the units felt too similar, it was just "Spam all the tanks and kbots you can and send them to the base" So I don't know if I would call it the best ever.

But it is extremely fun, if someone hasn't played it I definitely recommend it, you can find it and the expansion at wal-mart for like $10, its old as hell but the graphics have aged well.

I'm definitely looking forward to Supreme Commander.

9/25/2006 12:14:01 PM

i re-bought total annhilation at eb about two years ago for like 1.50, loved it back in the day

9/25/2006 12:22:09 PM

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"AOK and AOK Conquerors expansion "

whats AOK? or are you talking about AOE? cause i know AOEII had a conquerors expansion

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"Supreme Commander"

i've seen this mentioned in several threads...i must check it out...

[Edited on September 25, 2006 at 1:08 PM. Reason : fda]

9/25/2006 1:07:51 PM

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"Rome: Total War After mid november, Medieval 2: Total War [Edited on September 25, 2006 at 1:54 AM. Reason : Unless you were specifically refering to base building RTS games "

Amen.

It does kinda have base building as in your cities, but they are only in the actual battles during seiges, and really the walls are the only things that matter. Dont know if that is going to change in Medieval 2, and I dont know how it could. But i do know that the surrounding layout of the land will not be a cookie cutter square like in RTW.

But yea, Total War series ftw. You got multiple lvls of strategy with armies, buildings, diplomats, navy, spys, assasins, religion, generals.

9/25/2006 1:17:03 PM

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"whats AOK? or are you talking about AOE? cause i know AOEII had a conquerors expansion"

Age of Empires II: Age of Kings

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"i've seen this mentioned in several threads...i must check it out..."

Unofficial sequel to TA, made by the same people but a different company. It isn't really the same universe, but the storyline is very similar, as is the base construction idea (a commander unit with nanobots that can turn raw resources into an army in a few minutes).

It is also on a HUGE scale.

9/25/2006 1:19:03 PM

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"what kinda strategy games? RTS turn based? "

rts, personally I think civilization owns all rts games

and this can be purely tactical too, I almost said ground control as my favorite

9/25/2006 2:51:14 PM

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"civilization owns all rts games"

you can remove the i think

9/25/2006 2:52:33 PM

nuke nukem was the heat

if you pressed spacebar the strippers would show you their thingies

9/25/2006 2:53:04 PM

RTS...not FPS

9/25/2006 2:55:07 PM

POPULOUS AND FUCK YOU ALL FOR NOT LISTING... c & c

9/25/2006 3:00:21 PM

black and white 2 was fun

9/25/2006 3:09:43 PM

rome total war

medieval total war


some of the best unit tactics



rise of nations is a different take on things...

9/26/2006 9:29:06 AM

C&C
TA
Civ 4
Starcraft?

9/26/2006 10:01:53 AM

The Warhammer 40k adaptation done by Relic was beautifully done. In general, I think Relic has been knocking them out of the park when it comes to the RTS genre.

9/26/2006 1:48:46 PM