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I love the lore in the W3+TFT campaign. I couldn't care less about the story in SC2, but the missions were awesome. "Hey let's put this giant thor in the game, that'll kick ass" and asses were kicked.
I liked the AoEII campaign because it sort of taught you history in a fun way. What 6-year old kid knew about Jean D'Arc, but us AoEII players? The missions weren't exactly diverse, but I had a lot of good times.
The C&C Generals campaign was pretty awesome. The story is, again, terribad. But I flooded some innocent people's houses by breaking a dam. That'll teach 'em to be innocent.
I really liked the level designs in the CoH campaign. It could be pretty challenging at times. It's WOII so there's no great story to speak of, but it didn't bother me.
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On April 05 2011 17:29 IntoTheEmo wrote:
Don't think anyone can disagree that WC3 had the best campaign ever. The story, the cutscenes, the music were all top notch, none of that cheesy WoW stuff you see in Cata nowadays.
Of course I can disagree.
It was way too easy and some missions were just boring. What you mentioned was really top notch, but there is a thing called gameplay, and that matters to me a whole lot.
Z is/was so much better in singleplayer. It's so old that not many people know that game, but the gameplay was extremely refreshing, the cutscenes were very funny and it is much much harder than any of the mainstream rts mentioned .
I'd pick drunk robots over Arthas and Illidan any day of the week, even tho WC3 will always stay my fav rts.
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Red Alert 1. I remember how amazed I was by the "real graphics" in the film sequences. For those who haven't played the game, in RA the sequences were filmed with real actors, but the compressions of that time was so ridiculously bad that you could hardly see anything. Or maybe it was just that the computers at the time were too slow to show "TV-quality" film sequences. My first computer had a 100Mhz processor, which is 1/20 of what I have today. Ah, those were the days. Windows 95 and the 2 minute long startup time. No internet.  Today's generation is spoiled with totally unneccessary high def graphics.
I remember I liked the WC3 campaign too, for the "story".
Edit: story, not graphics...
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WC3 probably because I wasn't so cynical about quality of gameplay back then when I played thru it. It also has "THAT" feeling but maybe because games were different kind of back in days.
SC2 campaign has been awesome so far, but I haven't still even finished it.
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Here's my list.
#1 Homeworld series - best campaign ever. And they're pretty challenging too.
#2 Armies of Exigo - campaign was very nice and again, pretty challenging at times. Large variety of missions too.
#3 WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos - human -> undead campaign transition is the best thing ever. Was a lot of fun. TFT wasn't nearly this good.
#4 Earth 2140 - really nice.
#5 Red Alert series - cut scenes were the shiznit, pretty enjoyable overall.
That would be the top 5 RTS campaigns off the top of my head.
Honorable mentions:
Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War
Company of Heroes, with all the bonus campaigns they added in expansions
Dungeon Keeper series
Sacrifice
Myth
Edit: This thread brings out so much nostalgia...
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War3, I still get chills when I play through that campaign was brilliant
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On April 05 2011 21:39 Manit0u wrote:
Here's my list.
#1 Homeworld series - best campaign ever. And they're pretty challenging too.
#2 Armies of Exigo - campaign was very nice and again, pretty challenging at times. Large variety of missions too.
#3 WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos - human -> undead campaign transition is the best thing ever. Was a lot of fun. TFT wasn't nearly this good.
#4 Earth 2140 - really nice.
#5 Red Alert series - cut scenes were the shiznit, pretty enjoyable overall.
Honorable mentions:
Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War
Company of Heroes, with all the bonus campaigns they added in expansions
Dungeon Keeper series
Sacrifice
That would be the top 5 RTS campaigns off the top of my head.
Oh I love DK and DK2. That last mission on DK2 though.. holy hell. I don't even remember if I ever managed to beat it lol.
For me Wc3, but I haven't played many RTS's besides blizzard and AoE
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Even though the SC2 story wasn't that great, the missions were fun and varied in style. I enjoyed the campaigns of Age of Mythology, Company of Heroes and Warcraft 3
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SC1 / BW. One of my all time favorite RTS.
Honorable mentions include:
WC1
RA1
RA CS
WC3
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On April 05 2011 21:39 Manit0u wrote:
Edit: This thread brings out so much nostalgia...
Hah, tell me about it. I might go dig out my copies of the original C&C and Red Alert... I sank so much time into those games in LAN games against my brother. 
Overall I'd say WC3: RoC has the best RTS campaign, although I haven't played a bunch of games mentioned in this thread. I must have completed it about 5 or 6 times at varying difficulty levels, never gets old.
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Red Alert 1!! The Soviet campaign is so nice.
Red Alert 2, a fun big sandwitch with eggs... AND HAM!
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For me, no other RTS campaign comes close to WC3. Amazing story, amazing gameplay.
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Myth: The Fallen Lords, and Myth II: Soulblighter. I've played through those goddamn campaigns start to finish like 5+ times. And I love it every single time!
Such good games omg
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Also, Armies of Exigo. This was another awesome game that just never got the attention it deserved.
WC3 vanilla had an awesome campaign too. I really loved all the random units in it. Silly, sure, but I loved facing armies composed entirely of unique units you'd never see in multiplayer. Entire new races to defend and/or battle against was very fun. That being said, I did not at all enjoy the Naga in TFT. They just felt dumb, but oh how I loved rampaging against those high-elf armies!
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probably Red Alert 2.
played it in my puberty and boy that Tania!
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So, judging from this thread I guess we can all agree that WC3: RoC was the best overall RTS campaign ever. Wasn't it?
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C&C1 - Classic story, funny videos, first of its kind
Red Alert - Weird story, but super funny cut sequences
WC3 - Very nice story and good mission design + some hidden lvls and stuff + epic blizz animations
Homeworld - Epic story
Not sure bout WoL. Doing a snd run right now.
Too much future star sheriff stuff, story wise. Mission design is quite good, but often relies on "build-featured-unit" and not "think-about-best-strategy". Like the upgrade stuff to individualize your run.
Hope other campaings will improve.
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- Red Alert 2 + Yuri's Revenge was fucking awesome, Kari Wuhrer was HOT :D
- Tiberian Sun + Firestorm, the real life cutscenes is Westwood's glory
- SC + BW, the story was really deep and meaningful, great dialogues and missions.
- Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom + Northern Expansion (ungodly difficult!) I loved it and played it a lot.
- I never got past Homeworld's 2nd/3rd mission and no longer have it.
- The WC3 campaigns and cutscenes where all good at the time although the MP experience sucked.
- Company of Heroes was fucking Amazing! So realistic and authentic recreation of WW2.
- Dungeon Keeper 2, never ever gets old, fucking brilliant campaign.
- AoE2 & AoM had lots of great campaigns and story arcs.
- There are probably many others I could mention but I'm out of one liners.
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Starcraft II so far has been my favorite, excellent story line and fun missions.
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