08-31-2008, 12:40 AM
C&C Generals was alright. Lotta rock-paper-scissors. The thing I've never really liked with the C&C games is pretty much what I didn't like about Starcraft: the matches just start to run together and it's too much about build order and set maneuvers rather than diverse tactics and strategies.
I liked AoM too, though I can't recall what in particular made me quit. Quite possibly some other game came out and I just never got back to it. I dearly loved Anubite raids.
Best RTS of all time, in my opinion: Battle for Middle Earth 2. Seriously. If you do regular RTS gaming with friends, I highly recommend picking up a copy of that game. It had a fantastic resource model and rewarded fighting on multiple fronts, flanking, etc, largely by making it so that it didn't pay as much to micromanage individual fights. At one point like 3 of the top 10 people on the EA/Gamespy ladder were me.
I heard the expansion was no good, though. I eventually stopped playing because the EA/Gamespy ladder was unstable.
This is not to be confused with the first Battle for Middle Earth, which was pretty meh.
Total Annihilation was good in its day. Shame about Supreme Commander. That game was a big hunk of crap.
Company of Heroes was pretty interesting, but again, way too much about build order.
I liked AoM too, though I can't recall what in particular made me quit. Quite possibly some other game came out and I just never got back to it. I dearly loved Anubite raids.
Best RTS of all time, in my opinion: Battle for Middle Earth 2. Seriously. If you do regular RTS gaming with friends, I highly recommend picking up a copy of that game. It had a fantastic resource model and rewarded fighting on multiple fronts, flanking, etc, largely by making it so that it didn't pay as much to micromanage individual fights. At one point like 3 of the top 10 people on the EA/Gamespy ladder were me.
I heard the expansion was no good, though. I eventually stopped playing because the EA/Gamespy ladder was unstable.
This is not to be confused with the first Battle for Middle Earth, which was pretty meh.
Total Annihilation was good in its day. Shame about Supreme Commander. That game was a big hunk of crap.
Company of Heroes was pretty interesting, but again, way too much about build order.