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Subject: Re: 90s RTS
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:59:26 -0600
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Mike S. wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:32:00 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
> <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I always had more fun with the Command & Conquer series, but when it
>> came to games of the genre that I enjoyed the most, I tended to favor
>> the games that leaned more towards the tactical aspects. Games like
>> "Myth", "Ground Control", "Company of Heroes" or "WH40K Dawn of War".
>>
>> But I tended to be fairly gregarious with the RTS genre, and made an
>> effort to play many of the games from that era. Still, a lot of the
>> RTS games that I remember best (aside from the obvious ones) came from
>> after the turn of the millennium. Games like "Nexus" or "Battle for
>> Middle Earth" or "Homeworld".
> 
> Besides Warcraft 1 and 2, I played Dune 2, C&C and Total Annihilation.
> They were ok games to me but they never clicked for me the way they
> did for others at the time. So I mostly gave up on the genre. When I
> think of tactical games, I think of something like Jagged Alliance
> which I like more then RTS games.

Total Annihilation is due for a remastering.  That game was ahead of its 
time.  One of its best features was 25 maps in the campaign, a good long 
crawl most people will never be without a map at their own level.