Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:19:57 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Microid's 2024 Empire of the Ants demo came out yesterday! Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:19:56 -0400 Message-ID: <6l3ahj5kcue7d5m3i2cpon0a3ih7cdapn8@4ax.com> References: <0akvgjd4c0h37f61u5c8rnlhkku863agkn@4ax.com> <5zudnXnHZP8cAIz6nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@earthlink.com> <9u15hj1o9mtsv5ia5uib9gk5gc1sv1lc2e@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 35 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-0QGBWNKs+838K5u5b5taK8xWFouPy0YLoJx3hl4v48NVw+ybP1bNJt6WaZDSC3cawwKhxp4mDsyXhsI!vlXwlM3YjiYC4xgPC9oHIeWtMk/R+Plr5uZIQhESKLsqgFCJWH8eo6X2iCu1At0rmy+KSe8P X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2961 On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 02:17:30 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote: >Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >> Well, except "Dune". I never really liked that one. Too crunky in its >> design. RTS weren't worth playing until C&C/Warcraft, IMHO. >Dune 2 was so awesome on my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC. I tried to >replay it, but gah its controls were awful adter playing modern RTS >games. One unit at a time?! In fairness, I really only 'discovered' "Dune II" around the time that I started playing "Warcraft" and (shortly afterwards) "Command & Conquer". [although I played the hell out of Cryo Interactive's original "Dune" game. Man, that game had awesome music.] Compared to those later RTS games, the limitations of "Dune II" were really annoying, and it set my opinion of the game forever afterward. I did have some fun with the remake, "Dune 2000", released some years afterward which used the engine and mechanics of "Command & Conquer II". Although even then, it never ranked that highly, just because that game came out when there was such a glut of RTS games that it failed to stand out amongst its peers. For a while on PC, I think there were more RTS games than FPS. I can't say I played _all_ of them, but damned if I didn't try! So many titles almost nobody even remembers anymore: Metal Fatigue, Submarine Titans, Dark Reign, GeneWars, Baldies, Tzar, Beatdown, Seven Kingdoms, Firewall, Hooligans, Enemy Nations, Machines, 7th Legion and so many more...