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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 02 May 2025 14:17:26 -0400, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:

>On Fri, 02 May 2025 12:32:02 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Also, some freebies of my own! I already own these games on GOG so I
>>can't claim 'em again, but there's no reason to let them go to waste.
>>Redeem on GOG (https://www.gog.com/en/redeem). You'll need a GOG
>>account, obviously. First person to grab the key gets it. ROT13
>>'encrypted' to fend off the bots.
>
>I guess I was the first person because I got them both. Thank you
>Spalls.
>
>I played Legacy of Kain years ago on my friend's Playstation I think?
>It wasn't bad.
>
>As for the Star Wars game, I will give it a try when I am in the mood
>for some RTS. Admittedly though, the only games in this genre that
>ever really clicked with me was Warcraft and Age of Empires.

Have fun with them! Their biggest faults are their age; for their
time, they were quite good, and if you can forgive twenty-plus years
of developments in game design and visuals, you can still have a good
time with these titles too.

(The Number thanks you too!)

There were just so many RTS games from that era that I'd have a hard
time pointing to a favorite. I think I always leaned more towards the
"Command & Conquer" side of things over "Warcraft"; the first two
games especially were my favorite. 

But I've fond memories of a number of RTS games from back then;
anything from the "Army Men" games, to "Act of War", to "Ground
Control" to the "Myth" games; "Cossacks", "Empire Earth", "Rise of
Nations", "Homeworld", "World in Conflict", "Hostile Waters", "Nexus:
The Jupiter Incident", "World in Conflict", "Battlezone",
"Stratosphere", "Dawn of War"... and oh so many, many more. 

There were a lot of losers too ("Frontier Wars", "Original War",
Sacrifice", "Cave Wars", "Black & White", "Submarine Titans", etc.)
but the biggest problem of the genre was the sheer flood of games; it
was just too much to keep up with, and it wore out the market. But for
a while it was a really exciting time to be a gamer. ;-)