Starcraft 2

[CareBear]

why do people say red alert?! xD its all about tibereium dawn!

[ZaZZo]

Well, I quite enjoy Company of Heroes

[Cp]

Originally Posted by CareBear

why do people say red alert?! xD its all about tibereium dawn!

Red alert pretty much was tiberium dawn except more and bigger, the multiplayer was much better (The tiberium dawn I had didn't have AI players for multiplayer , though its possible gold had it, or it might have been implemented in one of the patches)

[Kruder]

Well its the best RTS,because u cant build a massive army and just send them to destroy everything,like some RTS i could mention(every C&C),every vehicle has their strengths and weaknesses and other faction has always something to counter that threat.

You both need a fast hands with fast thinking ability.

You can use each unit for a range of different purposes,each one is incredibly effective in more than one way...
Every race is so unique in every detail and aspect,one must appreciate the work of genius here.

Nice storyline accompanied with excellent videos...

Its also funny(constantly clicking on units,especially siege tank with shakespare
,goliath with robocop quotes and so on...)

And other RTS games dont have ghosts

[Chef]

Originally Posted by CareBear

RED ALERT STRONg!!1

I agree with that my lover.

[NoxNoctum]

No LAN?!?!?!!?

I'm convinced that's one of the main reasons SC was sooo popular.

SC LAN parties in high school bring back very fond memories for me.

Terrible decision on the part of Blizzard.

[nick20404]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]ZZEZ

Its a shame they took out LAN citing piracy, what made SC popular here was high school LAN gaming.

It does however look very promising

On top of that stupidity of that Pirates can just create Hamachi servers to play online so just like every other game that comes out with heavy Anti piracy the only people who will suffer are the people who actually buy it.

Also if you put all the nostalgia aside supreme commander was one of the best RTS, SC2 doesn't look too innovative just upgrading SC to a new cool looking engine doesn't really make it the best RTS.

[[R-MOD]Bob_Marley]

Originally Posted by Kruder

Well its the best RTS,because u cant build a massive army and just send them to destroy everything,like some RTS i could mention(every C&C),every vehicle has their strengths and weaknesses and other faction has always something to counter that threat.

Because of course you didn't have to win and maintain control of Ore/Tiberium in order to actually tech up to and then build your massive force did you? And of course there arn't units designed to counter either specific units or unit types are there? In Command & Conquer? of course not! After all it didn't need dogs to deal with spies, land mines to defeat numerically superior forces or delay & weaken them so your own conventional forces can deal with them or Destroyers to protect your criusers from Air and Naval attack, just as a couple of examples.

Originally Posted by Kruder

You both need a fast hands with fast thinking ability.

Of course you do, its an RTS. Thats the whole basis of the Genre.

Originally Posted by Kruder

You can use each unit for a range of different purposes,each one is incredibly effective in more than one way...

Valkaries. Can only be used for destroying other air targets and are only effective when engauging a tightly packed mass of said air targets. Against individual air units or properly dispersed ones its useless and has no other application.

Originally Posted by Kruder

Every race is so unique in every detail and aspect,one must appreciate the work of genius here.

Ah yes, an all consuming biological invader dining its way across the galaxy, the elder, war obsessed race who though always outnumbered win through with superior technology, superb training and marital indocrination. Then there the humans, a young, upstart race who have carved thier place in the Koprulu sector and now face destruction at every turn from alien invaders, thier technology may not be advanced as that of the Protoss and they don't have the numbers of the zerg but through good old human cunning and resourcefulness they manage to hold on.

Ever hear of a thing called Warhammer: 40,000? If not, I suggest you google it.

Originally Posted by Kruder

Nice storyline accompanied with excellent videos...

Yeah it is. One of the best of any RTS ever made.

Thats a Zergin' Lester, a smaller type a Zerg. Wouldn't be out this far unless... oh ****!

Its also funny(constantly clicking on units,especially siege tank with shakespare
,goliath with robocop quotes and so on...)

Originally Posted by Kruder

And other RTS games dont have ghosts

Other RTS games don't have Kane, Tanya, Einstien and Stalin!

Anyway, just so we're clear, I'm not saying that Starcraft is a bad game. Its good. Very good and definetly in the Top 5 RTS games ever made. Its certainly the best balanced in gameplay terms but for me the best RTS is still Command & Conquer: Red Alert. A Fantastic storyline, inspired gameplay, distinct factions and of course Giant Ant missions.

Theres a very good reason that I went to the Blizzard World Wide Invitational in Paris, 2008 when I don't play WoW. It begins with an S and ends in tarCraft II. Believe me, something has to get me pretty excited to get me to leave my beloved Essex for France of all places.

[OiSkout]

One reason I like SC way over C&C is simply the atmosphere and units. SC has distinct races, and simply put, the sci-fi atmosphere is way more awesome, including the campaign's story and all.

That is to say, one of the first few Terran missions in SC had you defend a base from a Zerg onslaught, in which you pretty much just built a buttload of marines, vultures, and bunkers to hold out, while everything looked dark and gritty.

Another reason I personally don't rate C&Cs as highly as a lot of people do, is that the UI is horrible and some of the stuff was pretty unintuitive. Though I haven't played the new ones so I don't know if it got any better.

Along with me being able to differentiate different strategies to win in SC when I first started playing(while I still only see like a few basic routes to victory in C&C), and UMS maps won me over big time.

[Emnyron]

Tsh.

Tiberium sun, definately a good one, SC is still good, albeit I cant play it due to it doing a "Oh fuck you" when it figures ive got a 8800 card.
CC:RA was good, and I must admit I rememberd ol`S`s words "When you kill one, Its a tragedy, when you kill ten million, its a statistic"