proyebatGARY WAS HEREASH IS A LOSERRegistered Userregular
edited February 2011
[strike]I felt that C&C3: Kane's Wrath was better than Tib Wars, just for the improved interface. You should take my opinion with a bit of salt; I played both on 360.[/strike]
edit: didn't realize that PC Kane's Wrath was an expansion. derp
I enjoyed C&C3 much more than RA3, but I really only play them for the campaigns (I did not finish RA3 I was so bored/turned off by it). RA3 made me wish for the good old days of the original.
I think I'll hold on Command and Conquer for now. I still really need to get into modern RTS games, but there is always the chance of them being cheaper on some other sale.
If you're a fan of RTS I'd avoid them completly. The days when C&C was one of the best RTS frachises have long since passed. I don't think they've kept up with the times at all, the graphics have gotten better but the core gameplay remains the same. Other RTS franchises like CoH, DoW and Sup com have added new elements to the RTS formula but C&C seems stuck at "mine shit then build lots of tanks and send them to the enemy base".
Thats just my take anyway but Red Alert 3 disapointed me badly when I picked it up at the last sale.
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edited February 2011
:P
(Not that I actually give a damn about Starcraft, mind.)
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edited February 2011
I regretted passing on RA3 during the holiday sale, so I had to grab it now
I've wanted the game ever since I saw the first trailer with Tim Curry, Peter Stormare, JK Simmons, and George Takei
Gentlemen, I want to bring to your attention that over at Green Man Gaming, one can currently purchase Medieval II: Total War (Gold) at 75% off, that's 2.49 EUR or something like 3.74 or 3.47 US euros.
The reason I post this here is because that game doesn't seem to be included in the official list of games that can be activated on Steam. However, this is not true. I just purchased it and successfully used the key to activate it on Steam. Thanks to priorityonion over at reddit for bringing that to my attention.
edit: The deal is good for about another 13 hours, after that it'll be a 24 hour sale of Rome: Total War for the same price. Also very good value.
Gentlemen, I want to bring to your attention that over at Green Man Gaming, one can currently purchase Medieval II: Total War (Gold) at 75% off, that's 2.49 EUR or something like 3.74 or 3.47 US euros.
The reason I post this here is because that game doesn't seem to be included in the official list of games that can be activated on Steam. However, this is not true. I just purchased it and successfully used the key to activate it on Steam. Thanks to priorityonion over at reddit for bringing that to my attention.
edit: The deal is good for about another 13 hours, after that it'll be a 24 hour sale of Rome: Total War for the same price. Also very good value.
Gentlemen, I want to bring to your attention that over at Green Man Gaming, one can currently purchase Medieval II: Total War (Gold) at 75% off, that's 2.49 EUR or something like 3.74 or 3.47 US euros.
The reason I post this here is because that game doesn't seem to be included in the official list of games that can be activated on Steam. However, this is not true. I just purchased it and successfully used the key to activate it on Steam. Thanks to priorityonion over at reddit for bringing that to my attention.
edit: The deal is good for about another 13 hours, after that it'll be a 24 hour sale of Rome: Total War for the same price. Also very good value.
So what exactly is the deal with Green Man Gaming? Aside from their "trade-in" gimmick which doesn't seem to actually apply to most titles you would ever want, that is. I think somebody mentioned before that they use draconian DRM?
So what exactly is the deal with Green Man Gaming? Aside from their "trade-in" gimmick which doesn't seem to actually apply to most titles you would ever want, that is. I think somebody mentioned before that they use draconian DRM?
Due to the trade-in system, all tradeable games use a SecuROM DRM that needs to phone home every 3 or 4 days for reactivation. But so far, I haven't found any additional DRM that limit your installation/activation like TAGES or Starforce.
So what exactly is the deal with Green Man Gaming? Aside from their "trade-in" gimmick which doesn't seem to actually apply to most titles you would ever want, that is. I think somebody mentioned before that they use draconian DRM?
Due to the trade-in system, all tradeable games use a SecuROM DRM that needs to phone home every 3 or 4 days for reactivation. But so far, I haven't found any additional DRM that limit your installation/activation like TAGES or Starforce.
One has to add that if you simply buy a game from them to activate on Steam, none of the above applies to you, I guess.
If you also use the promo code "vatfree", you'll get 20% off the discounted price resulting in Empire+Napoleon:TW for £6.
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edited February 2011
I enjoy RTS games for the first couple maps, but I am super terrible at them. I never get past the third map on any game, so I just don't buy them anymore. I am the RTS equivalent of someone trying to play Street Fighter while only using the quick punch button.
I enjoy RTS games for the first couple maps, but I am super terrible at them. I never get past the third map on any game, so I just don't buy them anymore. I am the RTS equivalent of someone trying to play Street Fighter while only using the quick punch button.
I'm exactly the same. Luckily, with all the sales going on at Steam and elsewhere, I just own so many of them that I have played something like the first three maps in some many strategy games, that it probably amounts to one or two games fully played through
I enjoy RTS games for the first couple maps, but I am super terrible at them. I never get past the third map on any game, so I just don't buy them anymore. I am the RTS equivalent of someone trying to play Street Fighter while only using the quick punch button.
I know exactly what you mean. My first RTS was Dune 2, followed by the original Command & Conquer and I loved them both. I did manage to complete both of them. Then I played Starcraft, and while it was awesome, I hit a wall when I got to the Protoss campaign.
I still occasionally play RTSes, and even manage to beat them, but I never feel like I am any good at them. I can't be bothered to learn all the hotkeys or the best build orders and stuff like that. I still get the urge to make my base "look nice" or whatever. This is why I don't play them in multiplayer at all.
On a slight tangent, GoG.com has Stronghold and Stronghold: Crusader on sale this weekend. I've played a good bit of the original Stronghold and it's pretty good! In a way, it's an RTS/castle sim hybrid that encourages turtling. Giant Bomb did a nice little Quick Look: Throwback on it the other day, which made me want to play it again, and it's like Good old Games sensed this!
I enjoy RTS games for the first couple maps, but I am super terrible at them. I never get past the third map on any game, so I just don't buy them anymore. I am the RTS equivalent of someone trying to play Street Fighter while only using the quick punch button.
I know exactly what you mean. My first RTS was Dune 2, followed by the original Command & Conquer and I loved them both. I did manage to complete both of them. Then I played Starcraft, and while it was awesome, I hit a wall when I got to the Protoss campaign.
I still occasionally play RTSes, and even manage to beat them, but I never feel like I am any good at them. I can't be bothered to learn all the hotkeys or the best build orders and stuff like that. I still get the urge to make my base "look nice" or whatever. This is why I don't play them in multiplayer at all.
On a slight tangent, GoG.com has Stronghold and Stronghold: Crusader on sale this weekend. I've played a good bit of the original Stronghold and it's pretty good! In a way, it's an RTS/castle sim hybrid that encourages turtling. Giant Bomb did a nice little Quick Look: Throwback on it the other day, which made me want to play it again, and it's like Good old Games sensed this!
Someone in Something Awful's Steam thread pointed this out (The Giant Bomb quick look at the GOG sale). I watched the Quick Look and then bought Stronghold from GOG immediately afterwards. It looks awesome.
Ack, I am unfamiliar with the Total War series and want to try one (1). Which is considered the best or most solid out of what is on sale right now? Assume I will only play one, rather than moving through the series. I may, but I may not. And I can only afford one right now.
Edit: so between Medieval II Gold, Rome, or the combo of Empire and Napoleon, although that's a bit more expensive.
I can't begin to tell you how many hours I put into that game during high school! Building up impenetrable walls of turrets, harvesting like a madman, sending off nearly dead units on one way scouting missions and/or feeding them to sandworms to make them go away, loving the Harkonnen mega tank but hating the innaccuracy of their palace weapon (which had a non-zero chance of blowing up a good portion of your own base!), or using a phalanx of sonic tanks to simply ruin anything that got in my way, or nigh-wastefully building 3+ palaces just so I could use absurd numbers of Freemen as scouts/shock troops!
Good times.
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Everybody should buy Stronghold if they can. I think it remains my favorite rts. I put so much time into that thing. Stronghold 2 is not so good, but has some interesting ideas. They're also currently in open beta for Stronghold:Kingdoms, which is kind of like a browser-based castle mmo. It's not bad.
Ack, I am unfamiliar with the Total War series and want to try one (1). Which is considered the best or most solid out of what is on sale right now? Assume I will only play one, rather than moving through the series. I may, but I may not. And I can only afford one right now.
Edit: so between Medieval II Gold, Rome, or the combo of Empire and Napoleon, although that's a bit more expensive.
Probably Medieval 2. Rome and Empire are terrible. Napoleon is less so, but it's more expensive than Medieval 2.
Thanks, Medieval 2 Gold Edition is GET! Activates nicely in Steam. Looking forward to giving this a try sometime, in the future, amongst the rest of my backlog. ;P
I really like RTS in theory. I'm just bad it for some reason. I loved Starcraft back when I first played it. But I still couldn't beat the last few missions of Brood War without cheating. Then I went online.... and wept.
I dunno. I'm just not good at these types of games. Kind of the same with Street Fighter-esque games. I'm just not competitive enough, I suppose.
Thanks, Medieval 2 Gold Edition is GET! Activates nicely in Steam. Looking forward to giving this a try sometime, in the future, amongst the rest of my backlog. ;P
I enjoy RTS games for the first couple maps, but I am super terrible at them. I never get past the third map on any game, so I just don't buy them anymore. I am the RTS equivalent of someone trying to play Street Fighter while only using the quick punch button.
I know exactly what you mean. My first RTS was Dune 2, followed by the original Command & Conquer and I loved them both. I did manage to complete both of them. Then I played Starcraft, and while it was awesome, I hit a wall when I got to the Protoss campaign.
I still occasionally play RTSes, and even manage to beat them, but I never feel like I am any good at them. I can't be bothered to learn all the hotkeys or the best build orders and stuff like that. I still get the urge to make my base "look nice" or whatever. This is why I don't play them in multiplayer at all.
On a slight tangent, GoG.com has Stronghold and Stronghold: Crusader on sale this weekend. I've played a good bit of the original Stronghold and it's pretty good! In a way, it's an RTS/castle sim hybrid that encourages turtling. Giant Bomb did a nice little Quick Look: Throwback on it the other day, which made me want to play it again, and it's like Good old Games sensed this!
Someone in Something Awful's Steam thread pointed this out (The Giant Bomb quick look at the GOG sale). I watched the Quick Look and then bought Stronghold from GOG immediately afterwards. It looks awesome.
Another vote for Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader (Haven't played the other Stronghold Games, so I can't comment about them).
Stronghold and Stronghold Crusaders are my favorite RTS, precisely because they deliver my "Oh, my base looks so nice!" and slow pace I need in order to get my game together... They aren't fast or management intensive games like Age and Starcraft, at least at the starting difficulty; I have tried several times to learn to play them, but I get overwhelmed by all the key shortcuts, tech trees, counters, etc. But Stronghold! You can spend HOURS on a map, just watching the farmers pick the crops, the baker pick up flour and bake bread, the blacksmiths making swords and armors (As long as you have proper Castle defenses of course).
Oh, and the battles, sending hundreds of soldiers to storm a castle.. Very nice.
During the Christmas Sale I as hoping Stronghold would go on sale, but had a general 30% off or something and I bought the pack for 11 or 13 USD If I recall correctly.
The only problem I would point out is that, if you try to play Crusader before Stronghold, the game expects you to know how to play (In Stronghold Single Player, units and buildings are unlocked as you progress in the game, and usually you are to use those new units and buildings to reach the map's goal) while in Crusader it just throws you head on into battle.
But Crusader has new units and buildings.. So you can always get both!
I still occasionally play RTSes, and even manage to beat them, but I never feel like I am any good at them. I can't be bothered to learn all the hotkeys or the best build orders and stuff like that. I still get the urge to make my base "look nice" or whatever. This is why I don't play them in multiplayer at all.
On a slight tangent, GoG.com has Stronghold and Stronghold: Crusader on sale this weekend. I've played a good bit of the original Stronghold and it's pretty good! In a way, it's an RTS/castle sim hybrid that encourages turtling. Giant Bomb did a nice little Quick Look: Throwback on it the other day, which made me want to play it again, and it's like Good old Games sensed this!
Someone in Something Awful's Steam thread pointed this out (The Giant Bomb quick look at the GOG sale). I watched the Quick Look and then bought Stronghold from GOG immediately afterwards. It looks awesome.
Another vote for Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader (Haven't played the other Stronghold Games, so I can't comment about them).
Stronghold and Stronghold Crusaders are my favorite RTS, precisely because they deliver my "Oh, my base looks so nice!" and slow pace I need in order to get my game together... They aren't fast or management intensive games like Age and Starcraft, at least at the starting difficulty; I have tried several times to learn to play them, but I get overwhelmed by all the key shortcuts, tech trees, counters, etc. But Stronghold! You can spend HOURS on a map, just watching the farmers pick the crops, the baker pick up flour and bake bread, the blacksmiths making swords and armors (As long as you have proper Castle defenses of course).
Oh, and the battles, sending hundreds of soldiers to storm a castle.. Very nice.
During the Christmas Sale I as hoping Stronghold would go on sale, but had a general 30% off or something and I bought the pack for 11 or 13 USD If I recall correctly.
The only problem I would point out is that, if you try to play Crusader before Stronghold, the game expects you to know how to play (In Stronghold Single Player, units and buildings are unlocked as you progress in the game, and usually you are to use those new units and buildings to reach the map's goal) while in Crusader it just throws you head on into battle.
But Crusader has new units and buildings.. So you can always get both!
Goddammit. There's really no way I can rationally convince myself that adding something like this to my backlog makes any damned sense (especially when I'm currently feeding a CoD:Blops addiction and haven't turned my PC on in a month). But I too am one of those people who basically play RTS games like city sims. And anything under the $5 mark is basically indistinguishable from the $0 mark. I hate you. I hate all three of you. And when my wife see the credit card bill, she may very well sign up for the PA forums just so she can tell you how much she hate you, too.
I still occasionally play RTSes, and even manage to beat them, but I never feel like I am any good at them. I can't be bothered to learn all the hotkeys or the best build orders and stuff like that. I still get the urge to make my base "look nice" or whatever. This is why I don't play them in multiplayer at all.
Yes, this. I enjoy building stuff and organizing my troops a lot more than I do the actual fighting, and I'm useless at the manic pace of multiplayer RTS play. The absolute worst are timed missions, where I have to achieve an objective (or several objectives), while a timer ticks down.
I bought Starcraft 2 at launch and really enjoyed it up until the first timed mission. That's where I stopped playing and I haven't touched it since.
I always think I like RTS games. But then I don't.
This used to be me. Then I realized that strategy games just aren't my "thing" and now I barely even pay attention to them.
I'm in this camp too. Played the fuck out of Starcraft for years with my best friend, and was never great at it. He sent me a guest pass for SCII last year and I played about half an hour of it. It was kind of disappointing to realize that there's an entire genre I just don't care about anymore.
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So it looks like I can't buy this because I'm not in Euroland, is there anyone that could purchase this for me and I'll paypal them the $10 or whatever it costs after the vatfree promotional code?
I always think I like RTS games. But then I don't.
This used to be me. Then I realized that strategy games just aren't my "thing" and now I barely even pay attention to them.
I'm in this camp too. Played the fuck out of Starcraft for years with my best friend, and was never great at it. He sent me a guest pass for SCII last year and I played about half an hour of it. It was kind of disappointing to realize that there's an entire genre I just don't care about anymore.
Your wallet will thank you. I still need to learn that MMOs are not for me too. I'm so tired of the BS and yet I keep going back. What's wrong with me!?
Count me in the "sucking at RTSs" camp. I like them well enough - maybe "liked" is more accurate - but I've always been terrible at them. I guess my mind just doesn't work the right way for them. The only one I've ever beaten (and I'd still call it my fave) was Shogun: Total War, and I'm 99% certain that was on the very easiest setting.
I played a lot of C&C: Red Alert and C&C: RA: Retaliation on the PS1, of all things. Went in halves on them with my friend and whiled away many an afternoon with PlayStations hooked up via System Link, as well as copious amounts of alcohol. I think I beat him like twice. He beat me like a hojillion times, but it was still fun. We'd usually trade MCVs as soon as we could build them so we could each have both Allied and Soviet units. Good times.
I do still buy the odd RTS periodically, I think more out of hope than expectation (and only for super-cheap). I picked up Medieval II: Total War over the Christmas sale and it's awesome, but it handed my ass to me quite quickly. Also in the period since Shogun, the world map section got so much more complex it left me quite baffled. Not to knock the game at all, it's great and I'd recommend it to any of you at that Green Man Gaming special price, which is about half what I paid on the Steam sale!
All that said... I think I'm gonna pick up Stronghold from GOG. I remember looking at it when it came out and thinking it looked cool, but I never picked it up. It sounds like its building/turtling focus might suit me a little better. Plus, you know, castles are awesome.
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edit: didn't realize that PC Kane's Wrath was an expansion. derp
If you're a fan of RTS I'd avoid them completly. The days when C&C was one of the best RTS frachises have long since passed. I don't think they've kept up with the times at all, the graphics have gotten better but the core gameplay remains the same. Other RTS franchises like CoH, DoW and Sup com have added new elements to the RTS formula but C&C seems stuck at "mine shit then build lots of tanks and send them to the enemy base".
Thats just my take anyway but Red Alert 3 disapointed me badly when I picked it up at the last sale.
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(Not that I actually give a damn about Starcraft, mind.)
I've wanted the game ever since I saw the first trailer with Tim Curry, Peter Stormare, JK Simmons, and George Takei
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I had no intention of buying any of these games, but you just made RA3 sound almost irresistibly awesome.
Watch the cutscenes on youtube and you will get all the awesome there is to be had from this game.
The reason I post this here is because that game doesn't seem to be included in the official list of games that can be activated on Steam. However, this is not true. I just purchased it and successfully used the key to activate it on Steam. Thanks to priorityonion over at reddit for bringing that to my attention.
edit: The deal is good for about another 13 hours, after that it'll be a 24 hour sale of Rome: Total War for the same price. Also very good value.
edit2: Linky: http://www.greenmangaming.com/games/medieval-ii-total-war-gold-edition/
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From the product page on green man gaming:
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I know, that's probably what got priorityonion's attention in the first place.
I, however, was referring to this list, which I usually consult: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-WUSF-3601
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Due to the trade-in system, all tradeable games use a SecuROM DRM that needs to phone home every 3 or 4 days for reactivation. But so far, I haven't found any additional DRM that limit your installation/activation like TAGES or Starforce.
One has to add that if you simply buy a game from them to activate on Steam, none of the above applies to you, I guess.
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I'm exactly the same. Luckily, with all the sales going on at Steam and elsewhere, I just own so many of them that I have played something like the first three maps in some many strategy games, that it probably amounts to one or two games fully played through
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I know exactly what you mean. My first RTS was Dune 2, followed by the original Command & Conquer and I loved them both. I did manage to complete both of them. Then I played Starcraft, and while it was awesome, I hit a wall when I got to the Protoss campaign.
I still occasionally play RTSes, and even manage to beat them, but I never feel like I am any good at them. I can't be bothered to learn all the hotkeys or the best build orders and stuff like that. I still get the urge to make my base "look nice" or whatever. This is why I don't play them in multiplayer at all.
On a slight tangent, GoG.com has Stronghold and Stronghold: Crusader on sale this weekend. I've played a good bit of the original Stronghold and it's pretty good! In a way, it's an RTS/castle sim hybrid that encourages turtling. Giant Bomb did a nice little Quick Look: Throwback on it the other day, which made me want to play it again, and it's like Good old Games sensed this!
Someone in Something Awful's Steam thread pointed this out (The Giant Bomb quick look at the GOG sale). I watched the Quick Look and then bought Stronghold from GOG immediately afterwards. It looks awesome.
Edit: so between Medieval II Gold, Rome, or the combo of Empire and Napoleon, although that's a bit more expensive.
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Holy shit, me too!
I can't begin to tell you how many hours I put into that game during high school! Building up impenetrable walls of turrets, harvesting like a madman, sending off nearly dead units on one way scouting missions and/or feeding them to sandworms to make them go away, loving the Harkonnen mega tank but hating the innaccuracy of their palace weapon (which had a non-zero chance of blowing up a good portion of your own base!), or using a phalanx of sonic tanks to simply ruin anything that got in my way, or nigh-wastefully building 3+ palaces just so I could use absurd numbers of Freemen as scouts/shock troops!
Good times.
Probably Medieval 2. Rome and Empire are terrible. Napoleon is less so, but it's more expensive than Medieval 2.
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I dunno. I'm just not good at these types of games. Kind of the same with Street Fighter-esque games. I'm just not competitive enough, I suppose.
Definitely Medieval 2 out of the 3.
Another vote for Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader (Haven't played the other Stronghold Games, so I can't comment about them).
Stronghold and Stronghold Crusaders are my favorite RTS, precisely because they deliver my "Oh, my base looks so nice!" and slow pace I need in order to get my game together... They aren't fast or management intensive games like Age and Starcraft, at least at the starting difficulty; I have tried several times to learn to play them, but I get overwhelmed by all the key shortcuts, tech trees, counters, etc. But Stronghold! You can spend HOURS on a map, just watching the farmers pick the crops, the baker pick up flour and bake bread, the blacksmiths making swords and armors (As long as you have proper Castle defenses of course).
Oh, and the battles, sending hundreds of soldiers to storm a castle.. Very nice.
During the Christmas Sale I as hoping Stronghold would go on sale, but had a general 30% off or something and I bought the pack for 11 or 13 USD If I recall correctly.
The only problem I would point out is that, if you try to play Crusader before Stronghold, the game expects you to know how to play (In Stronghold Single Player, units and buildings are unlocked as you progress in the game, and usually you are to use those new units and buildings to reach the map's goal) while in Crusader it just throws you head on into battle.
But Crusader has new units and buildings.. So you can always get both!
I'm leaving for three months this Tuesday, so I want to complete the game before then, so I can add it to my "Completed" category.
Someone please add me, and we'll play through it tonight and tomorrow:
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Edit: Might have found someone.
EDIT 2: Nevermind this. I found someone.
Goddammit. There's really no way I can rationally convince myself that adding something like this to my backlog makes any damned sense (especially when I'm currently feeding a CoD:Blops addiction and haven't turned my PC on in a month). But I too am one of those people who basically play RTS games like city sims. And anything under the $5 mark is basically indistinguishable from the $0 mark. I hate you. I hate all three of you. And when my wife see the credit card bill, she may very well sign up for the PA forums just so she can tell you how much she hate you, too.
the FMVs, I guess?
Thats the only reason I'd ever entertain the idea of buying it, to know what happens to Kane.
Yes, this. I enjoy building stuff and organizing my troops a lot more than I do the actual fighting, and I'm useless at the manic pace of multiplayer RTS play. The absolute worst are timed missions, where I have to achieve an objective (or several objectives), while a timer ticks down.
I bought Starcraft 2 at launch and really enjoyed it up until the first timed mission. That's where I stopped playing and I haven't touched it since.
Yeah, I´ll probably get it when it is discounted for under $5 and cheat my way through the campaign only to "watch" the story.
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This used to be me. Then I realized that strategy games just aren't my "thing" and now I barely even pay attention to them.
I'm in this camp too. Played the fuck out of Starcraft for years with my best friend, and was never great at it. He sent me a guest pass for SCII last year and I played about half an hour of it. It was kind of disappointing to realize that there's an entire genre I just don't care about anymore.
So it looks like I can't buy this because I'm not in Euroland, is there anyone that could purchase this for me and I'll paypal them the $10 or whatever it costs after the vatfree promotional code?
Your wallet will thank you. I still need to learn that MMOs are not for me too. I'm so tired of the BS and yet I keep going back. What's wrong with me!?
I played a lot of C&C: Red Alert and C&C: RA: Retaliation on the PS1, of all things. Went in halves on them with my friend and whiled away many an afternoon with PlayStations hooked up via System Link, as well as copious amounts of alcohol. I think I beat him like twice. He beat me like a hojillion times, but it was still fun. We'd usually trade MCVs as soon as we could build them so we could each have both Allied and Soviet units. Good times.
I do still buy the odd RTS periodically, I think more out of hope than expectation (and only for super-cheap). I picked up Medieval II: Total War over the Christmas sale and it's awesome, but it handed my ass to me quite quickly. Also in the period since Shogun, the world map section got so much more complex it left me quite baffled. Not to knock the game at all, it's great and I'd recommend it to any of you at that Green Man Gaming special price, which is about half what I paid on the Steam sale!
All that said... I think I'm gonna pick up Stronghold from GOG. I remember looking at it when it came out and thinking it looked cool, but I never picked it up. It sounds like its building/turtling focus might suit me a little better. Plus, you know, castles are awesome.
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