War Games

Nubclear · February 22, 2003, 00:53

Anyone have any good RTS games based in the modern age with lots of war in them?

Also, BOYCOTT BHG!

DinoDoc · February 22, 2003, 01:04

C&C: Generals

Wage your own War on Terror.

DuncanK · February 22, 2003, 01:20

Hmmm... I saw that one at the store. Sounds good.

Nubclear · February 22, 2003, 01:51

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Originally posted by DinoDoc
C&C: Generals

I hear that the specs can crush a system.

DinoDoc · February 22, 2003, 02:00

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Originally posted by Tassadar5000
I hear that the specs can crush a system.

What sort of limits are we working with?

Nubclear · February 22, 2003, 02:03

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Originally posted by DinoDoc

What sort of limits are we working with?

128 RAM
700 MHZ

DinoDoc · February 22, 2003, 02:04

Red Alert 2?

Nubclear · February 22, 2003, 02:06

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Originally posted by DinoDoc
Red Alert 2?

Sure. Anything else?

Also, do you know of any fast, cheap systems?

monkspider · February 22, 2003, 02:06

WHat is C and C generals about? Is it just a FPS or something?

Nubclear · February 22, 2003, 02:08

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Originally posted by monkspider
WHat is C and C generals about? Is it just a FPS or something?

RTS

DinoDoc · February 22, 2003, 02:12

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Originally posted by monkspider
WHat is C and C generals about?

Looks like a 3 way Chinese, US, Al-Qaeda type organization war.

monkspider · February 22, 2003, 02:14

Hmm, sounds interesting. I was always a big fan of Tiberian Sun, so I will probably check it out.

DinoDoc · February 22, 2003, 02:21

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Originally posted by Tassadar5000
Sure. Anything else?

What games do you have?

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Also, do you know of any fast, cheap systems?

Ask Asher.

mactbone · February 22, 2003, 03:20

I have a similar sytem Tass and Generals will be jaggy and slow except on the absolute minimum.

I've vaguely heard the names "Real War" and "Real War: Rogue State" you might want to check them out.

DinoDoc · February 22, 2003, 03:21

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Originally posted by MacTBone
I've vaguely heard the names "Real War" and "Real War: Rogue State" you might want to check them out.

No, you don't.

Nubclear · February 22, 2003, 03:24

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Originally posted by DinoDoc

What games do you have?

Not very many. I'm LOOKING for games here

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Ask Asher.

Ok.

jdd2007 · February 22, 2003, 10:51

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Originally posted by MacTBone

I've vaguely heard the names "Real War" and "Real War: Rogue State" you might want to check them out.

got a demo of real war a while back. the modern units were cool to look at for about 20 minutes...

then i realized its absolute crap.

Pekka · February 22, 2003, 11:10

C&C: Generals is.. well I like it. If you like the previous command and conquer stuff, this is for you. However if the pervious system irritated you, you don't want this.
And then, you need to have some iron in your computer to be able to run this game properly. But as c&c friend, I like this game a lot.

Pekka · February 22, 2003, 11:15

But on the other hand, do you want to spend all that money to a game that is basically still just c&c?

St Leo · February 22, 2003, 13:07

Total Annihilation is probably the only good RTS with tanks available...

chequita guevara · February 22, 2003, 13:16

RTSes blow chunks. Whee gather resources, build buildings, build units, swarm the enemy.

Blech. I'll admit, it's a good way to kill a day or two, but so's watching paint dry.

DinoDoc · February 22, 2003, 13:16

He said modern, not sci-fi. SC is better than TA anyway.

Mercator · February 22, 2003, 14:18

Commandos!!

Az · February 22, 2003, 14:27

che:

St Leo · February 22, 2003, 23:41

He said modern, not sci-fi. SC is better than TA anyway.

There are no good modern RTSes.

SC is the worst thing to ever happen to RTS games. Unfortunately, people always insist on praising the things that StarCrap got horribly wrong.

Its sides are horribly unrealistic. IRL, the Zerg, Terrans, and Protoss would have ended up with exactly the same weaponry within a year at most.

It uses the stupid harvester model of resource control.

It has a fixed and very low resolution.

The queueing that it does have is extremely limited and badly implemented. WC3 actually managed to make the queueing situation worse by dropping build queues. Attacking bases is a pain when you can't tell your units the order of razing in advance.

I don't remember if it required buildings for unit support or not, but it probably did because that's the stupid way of doing it.

You could only select a very limited number of units.

Et cetera et cetera et cetera...

DinoDoc · February 23, 2003, 01:04

StarCrap? God, I haven't heard that since my time at the TA Universe forums over a year ago. I needed the laugh.

David Floyd · February 23, 2003, 01:11

Starcraft is awesome. Even today. How dare you, DD!

DinoDoc · February 23, 2003, 01:14

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Originally posted by David Floyd
Starcraft is awesome. Even today. How dare you, DD!

How dare I?!?! I was the one saying that it was awesome.

mactbone · February 23, 2003, 01:38

If we're going to get into a discussion about games - why not have it in a forum that counts posts?

Start a thread in the Other Games forum and we can get this into high gear.

Jack_www · February 23, 2003, 01:44

Try Empire Earth, you can play any age you want, and the units in Modern age are good, the only thing is that tanks are pretty uselless in the game, cause they get killed easly be anti tank weapons.