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Looking for a Base Building Game
November Fifth
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So...I kinda suck at RTS's in general, but I do enjoy turtling up, laying out bases and defending them from oncoming hordes. I am looking for RTS's where this can be a major focus of the game and don't care anything about multiplayer.
I have already have:
Starcraft
Command & Conquer
Star Wars: Galactic Battlefields
Dawn of War
Any recommendations will need to be available via digital distribution (Steam, GoG, etc).
I have already have:
Starcraft
Command & Conquer
Star Wars: Galactic Battlefields
Dawn of War
Any recommendations will need to be available via digital distribution (Steam, GoG, etc).
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Dwarf Fortress, as mentioned, is also a good option.
Have you played Dungeon Keeper?
Best I've played, and the tech tree is amazing.
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OP should try some tower defense games.
theres like 20 or 25 different types of turrets per side, total game has something like 250 different units with the 2 sides combined. everything from dinky little lasers to giant rotary artilery that can fire half way across a map at 5rounds/second and kill anything it hits.
plus you get all your resources from buildings so you can seriosuly turtle up.
http://www.tauniverse.com/ should have all the info you could ever want.
here's how dwarf fortress goes:
first, you hate everything because you can't tell what the fuck's going on.
then your forts start lasting longer, as you gradually get the hang of it.
then you hate everything because goddammit it's 5 in the morning and you just got your magma forges set up okay five more minutes.
i'm pretty sure dwarfort is the best game ever made.
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Grid Tower Defense - not an RTS, but you build towers.
Because you are ignorant. You can absolutely base build in CoH though I don't think it would be as interesting. Tower defense games are as deep as a parking lot puddle. Less costly though I suppose?
edit: also regarding CoH I think the 2nd or 3rd mission your objective is to turtle Carentan and hold out.
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I liked Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader, I haven't tried the later ones, I can tell you this: It's a really great RTS game, but I don't know if I would place it at the same group as Starcraft and C&C, Stronghold is about building a castle, managing economy supplies (Wood, rock, iron, tar, etc), food supplies (meat, cheese, apples, beer, etc), war supplies (Armor, weapons, recruits, engineers, etc.), defending and eventually defeating other lords.
You could watch gameplay videos on Youtube if you want to take a glimpse of it.
They are both really good games, I can spend ours playing a map in Crusader and not get bored, I highly recommend them, but they aren't of the style of *craft games or Age of Empires of Building a Tech Tree and swarming the enemy base, at least, the game doesn't punishes you with rushes if you take too time preparing (at the beginning at least).
Now, the thing is, the first Stronghold has a "storymode" about some lord liberating England or someplace like that from tyrants, and in each mission you get introduced to each playing mechanic, how to get food, how to build a stronghold, etc. At the beginning most building options are locked and as you play (Single Player, they are unlocked for multiplayer) you unlock buildings, troops and stuff, in order for you to learn how to use everything.
In Stronghold Crusader, you get new things, mainly the mercenaries (Moor soldiers) and other extra building things, and the sprites get a crusader-times style, but the game also expects you to know how to play from the beginning, it's actually just a bunch of themed Skirmishes (multiplayer games), so it can be a bit intimidating to player S:C first.
Sadly, if I recall correctly, you couldn't use bots to play multiplayer in the first stronghold (It's been years since I have played it, maybe they patched them in) while you can play against bots in S:C, which is a good thing for me.
Hopefully it helps and you could find them cheap, they are really good "Castle Sims".
However, I freaking loved Evil Genius. It's kind of quirky, but if you ever wanted to be a Bond villain and design your own mad science project in the hollowed out center of an extinguished volcano, it's super fun. The base is the primary focus of the game, too, so you spend most of your effort making a layout with traps, rooms, and items in whatever way that you like.
It's available on GoG and Steam, both at a reasonable price ($10).
COH is exactly the last game the OP wants, if he sucks at RTS's and likes base building and turtling up
even the brits require a level of micro and have very light base building compared to pretty much any other RTS
edit: Oh didn't see the 'last' there.
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This game fits under the parameters you set, but is so much more.
Try it. Download the demo. You will like it.
How do I know that you will enjoy it? Check your pulse for me. Is there something there? That's how I know.
I will agree that if he does suck at RTSes CoH is probably not the way to go. I'm a sap for ww2 though!
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Then you reinforce those defensive layers with gigantic shield generators and counter missile defence systems.
And then when the enemy has been completely boxed in and is no longer a threat you fill several screens with bomber aircraft and long range missile artillery and build multiple nuclear missile silos and a GIANT ROBOT SPIDER and wipe them from the face of the planet in epic apocalyptic fashion.
Supreme commander takes me hours just to do basic single player missions, because my base must be an unassailable fortress of doom. Not that the game requires it, but I do.
That's like the textbook definition of someone who should be playing tower defense games--I don't know why you guys are hating on them so much.
Do you have a PS3 or PSP? Pixeljunk Monsters is pretty awesome. Also on the PS3, Savage Moon is pretty good. Not as good as Monsters, but it has a cool sci-fi vibe that I like, and the graphics are pretty amazing for a PSN title.
For modern game base-building luv, I cannot reccomend Age of Empires III any higher. You really can make a sprawling base, and it's not just for show. It's functional, and pretty, and the game itself is pretty well balanced and interesting. Note that the expansions are questionable... they really changed the gameplay around, I'm not sure for the better.
I've tried to get into this game twice. It's too fucking annoying to figure out.
http://afteractionreporter.com/2009/02/09/the-complete-and-utter-newby-tutorial-for-dwarf-fortress-part-1-wtf/
then it consumed 3 months of my life
You could build up walls and build turrets on the wall.
It was very satisfying until I got to the final map and the game crashed losing 2 hours of progress.
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I used to play Command and Conquer as offensive base building. I'm sure the OP has allready done it, but building an inexorably encroaching line of Tesla Coils into your enemies base is vastly amusing. At least for a little while.
The only way I would play that game was in instant action and get my town ready to go go with some stones and wood and then just build so many walls and towes and then castles.