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Why does nobody know how to make an rts? Why is it always starcraft over and over and over. Why not make a total annihilation clone? A company of heroes clone? An age of empires or empire earth clone? Command and conquer? No. The rts gamers yearn for ranked ladder. We must espurt again it’ll definitely work this time.

SHUT UP ABOUT BLIZZARD SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT THE FUCK UP THEIR GAMES ARE SHIT SHUTUP SHUTTUUUPPPP matt-jokerfied

RTS is by far my most favourite genre and dawn of war was absolute crack for me how is nobody able to make 1 good release?

Halo wars 2 is an unsung diamond its campaign is better than mainline halo

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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There really is an undercurrent (and sometimes just a current) of ableism in that kind of attitude, isn't there? I never really thought about it beyond it being "elitist" but it is also ableist as fuck, it isn't just people without endless free time that they dismiss out of hand.

And I never played Halo Wars 2, I played the first one on the 360 though, a shame more RTS games don't try for controller support, most RTS don't have that many hotkeys (or at least ones that can't be remapped) that a keyboard is completely necessary. I might check out HW2 if it has good skirmish AI, always frustrating when they don't bother to program interesting AI and just have it cheat. It doesn't even help the ladder climbers practice that way, since playing the AI is so different to a non-cheating human.

[–] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Microsoft never released it on steam so its a windows store exclusive. Its such a shame i feel like a steam release would revive that game, creative assembly just has so much talent