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Same, just got back into pc gaming for rts and driving sims. I've played a fair few recently and tbh most the best are from mid 2000s
I have seriously enjoyed sins of a solar empire. Steep learning curve and long games but v enjoyable.
Grey goo is made by the old c&c developers AFAIK.
Laam
I have seriously enjoyed sins of a solar empire. Steep learning curve and long games but v enjoyable.
Grey goo is made by the old c&c developers AFAIK.
Laam
StarCraft 2 is one of the most popular RTS's, very similar to C&C in many ways. If you want online competition then I'd think that is one of your best options.
Also has many fantastic "arcade" or "UMS" (for original SC fans) maps - which range from tower defence to a StarCraft spin on RISK (board game) - literally thousands of them, all for free if you have the game.
Sins of Solar Empire is awesome as well, not played for a long time but I think the above is more akin to C&C.
Also has many fantastic "arcade" or "UMS" (for original SC fans) maps - which range from tower defence to a StarCraft spin on RISK (board game) - literally thousands of them, all for free if you have the game.
Sins of Solar Empire is awesome as well, not played for a long time but I think the above is more akin to C&C.
In terms of basebuilding RTS like C&C, I'm not sure what else there is of late other than Grey Goo and SC2 that's any good, though admittedly I haven't played C&C in years ago and I don't really play that sort RTS now.
If you like the sound of space-tallships RTS, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is out in a few weeks and looks really promising.
If you like the sound of space-tallships RTS, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is out in a few weeks and looks really promising.
Edited by mizx on Friday 1st April 19:37
Wargame Airland Battle is worth a look, it is quite tough though, everything happens very fast!
http://www.wargame-rd.com/en/game-ab.html
http://www.wargame-rd.com/en/game-ab.html
SlipStream77 said:
Wargame Airland Battle is worth a look, it is quite tough though, everything happens very fast!
http://www.wargame-rd.com/en/game-ab.html
I'll second this, but it's no basebuilder, the C&C red alert style of game has gone, there is one game worthy of a shot it is a bit rough round the edges, but it will give you that Generals feelings of C&C:http://www.wargame-rd.com/en/game-ab.html
http://www.actofaggression-game.com/
got a 2tb external arriving this week which I will try for games if to slow ill get another SSD.Bit left field, but try out the Warhammer 40k - Dawn of War series. Not Dawn of War 2, for Christ sake, just the first one (and expansions).
Other than that, the world is severely lacking any decent C&C type RTS games at the minute.
If you are alright playing something a few years old, give Supreme Commander a go. Very similar to C&C, but with a tech tree and a slightly more complicated resource system. Easy enough to pick up though and the battles are on a MASSIVE scale compared to C&C.
Supreme Commander 2 scales down the battles of the first one a bit and is probably a more like the battles from C&C.
Other than that, just do what I do and replay the originals from the beginning through to C&C3; then pretend Red Alert 3 and Twilight never happened
Other than that, the world is severely lacking any decent C&C type RTS games at the minute.
If you are alright playing something a few years old, give Supreme Commander a go. Very similar to C&C, but with a tech tree and a slightly more complicated resource system. Easy enough to pick up though and the battles are on a MASSIVE scale compared to C&C.
Supreme Commander 2 scales down the battles of the first one a bit and is probably a more like the battles from C&C.
Other than that, just do what I do and replay the originals from the beginning through to C&C3; then pretend Red Alert 3 and Twilight never happened
The Beaver King said:
If you are alright playing something a few years old, give Supreme Commander a go.
Supcom has my vote, I didn't much like SupCom 2, but the 1st one and Forged Alliance are both awesome. Wish they made another RTS with the "real time resource" makes it much more strategic.Good shout !
Getting a bit misty eyed about RTS's of old.
First one i played was one called Dark Reign from Activsion, which IIRC was the first 3D RTS (or was that Dark Reign 2 which had a full 3D engine?)
Then playing Total Annhilation online on Multiplay on a dial up modem!
Then moved onto more TA with Boneyards.
Afgter that it was SupComm which imo is the best in bread RTS ever! no other game works for me without the Strategic Zoom.
Got pretty good at this and once managed to get into the top 30 in the world for 1v1's. Those were the days!
I tried SupComm 2 and the more recent Plannetry Annihilation but they never had the same feeling as SupComm.
Used to play a lot of the Warhammer RTS games too, which were pretty good, especially if you were into Warhammer lore.
More recently i have tried R.U.S.E which was an RTS based on existing military units from WW1 and up. It was pretty good, not too complicated and was the closest thing to SupComm for a long while.
The same Dev Studio(Eugen) did a successor to Ruse called Wargame which i think had 3 expansions, had a LOT more units, hundreds and hundreds from all nations that have been in a major conflight and from all the different eras.
You really, really had to know what the hard and soft counters were to each and every unit or you would get beaten. Too much for my brain to handle and didnt really enjoy it.
First one i played was one called Dark Reign from Activsion, which IIRC was the first 3D RTS (or was that Dark Reign 2 which had a full 3D engine?)
Then playing Total Annhilation online on Multiplay on a dial up modem!
Then moved onto more TA with Boneyards.
Afgter that it was SupComm which imo is the best in bread RTS ever! no other game works for me without the Strategic Zoom.
Got pretty good at this and once managed to get into the top 30 in the world for 1v1's. Those were the days!
I tried SupComm 2 and the more recent Plannetry Annihilation but they never had the same feeling as SupComm.
Used to play a lot of the Warhammer RTS games too, which were pretty good, especially if you were into Warhammer lore.
More recently i have tried R.U.S.E which was an RTS based on existing military units from WW1 and up. It was pretty good, not too complicated and was the closest thing to SupComm for a long while.
The same Dev Studio(Eugen) did a successor to Ruse called Wargame which i think had 3 expansions, had a LOT more units, hundreds and hundreds from all nations that have been in a major conflight and from all the different eras.
You really, really had to know what the hard and soft counters were to each and every unit or you would get beaten. Too much for my brain to handle and didnt really enjoy it.
The Beaver King said:
Bit left field, but try out the Warhammer 40k - Dawn of War series. Not Dawn of War 2, for Christ sake, just the first one (and expansions).
Other than that, the world is severely lacking any decent C&C type RTS games at the minute.
If you are alright playing something a few years old, give Supreme Commander a go. Very similar to C&C, but with a tech tree and a slightly more complicated resource system. Easy enough to pick up though and the battles are on a MASSIVE scale compared to C&C.
Supreme Commander 2 scales down the battles of the first one a bit and is probably a more like the battles from C&C.
Other than that, just do what I do and replay the originals from the beginning through to C&C3; then pretend Red Alert 3 and Twilight never happened
Other than that, the world is severely lacking any decent C&C type RTS games at the minute.
If you are alright playing something a few years old, give Supreme Commander a go. Very similar to C&C, but with a tech tree and a slightly more complicated resource system. Easy enough to pick up though and the battles are on a MASSIVE scale compared to C&C.
Supreme Commander 2 scales down the battles of the first one a bit and is probably a more like the battles from C&C.
Other than that, just do what I do and replay the originals from the beginning through to C&C3; then pretend Red Alert 3 and Twilight never happened
Both Dawn of War and SupCom2 are still very good.Homeworld was relaunched last year as a remastered version (with 1 and 2 included) which is also superb if you like the spaceship thing.
CrutyRammers said:
Both Dawn of War and SupCom2 are still very good.Homeworld was relaunched last year as a remastered version (with 1 and 2 included) which is also superb if you like the spaceship thing.
CrutyRammers said:
Both Dawn of War and SupCom2 are still very good.That can be rectified though, plenty of mods to sort the scaling and it makes the game look 100x better.
I downloaded and played one of the red alerts recently on my laptop. I was missing such quality games and couldn't seem to find anything newer that was as good.
Strangely I played Tropico 5 on my ps4 to try and give a "similar" style experience and did enjoy that sort of world building and so on.
I appreciate some of the suggestions here and may look them out.
Cheers
RW
Strangely I played Tropico 5 on my ps4 to try and give a "similar" style experience and did enjoy that sort of world building and so on.
I appreciate some of the suggestions here and may look them out.
Cheers
RW
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