On March 28 2008 06:01 Tropics wrote:
I used to play CoH for a few months when it first came out, long before I discovered SC. It was good but it had so little variety. There were only 4 1v1 maps for the ladder and 2 races that are near identical. Also, it was really easy, more about playing games than actual skill if you wanted to get to the top of the ladder. Not to mention the balance was pretty bad and out of your 3 special skill paths only 1 was really viable for each faction. Not sure what it's like now but I had a lot of fun with it. Of course, after playing SC it's slow as hell. You can play at 20 apm and win games.
The micro in it was a lot of fun though. There's not much funnier than circling and killing 3 stugs in a row with your sherman while only taking 1 or 2 hits. I'd probably be playing the expansion right now if I hadn't discovered Starcraft. Definitely a damn fine game and one I wouldn't mind getting back into someday.
That sounds a lot like Age of empires 3. Basically I could get to the same rank as lvl 70s as a lvl 15 and outmicro some musketeer rusher w/5 shipped strels/skirms.
The apm thing was too easy too. You could basically leave the game for a few seconds and win. The people's skill levels were bad because people had to play people of the same level (ranking system, and only the top twelve aoe3 players got any good). Everyone played normal speed because that was the only way for a game to count as a win.
Then there's imba, I once rushed a guy and killed him with his 3 allies helping him using Russians. Russians have the best booming cuz they can build the most villagers using batch training, (similar to zerg building drones on fastest) and the best rush using strelets and muskets, until natives came along. Even then games took an hour to finish and 15 minutes to find a working game.
In short I would hate CoH. Identical races worked in some games like C&C , red alert, and aoe2, but not in these. You might like these games. Maybe CoH w/ aoe3 is an unfair comparison seeing as i've never played it.
EPT
