Definitely Command & Conquer 1.
This was when Kane was still cool and mysterious. GDI fighting!!!!!
Epic mammoth tanks, the cutscenes.
Unique, ahead of it's time and awesome.

AimlessAmoeba

Canada704 Posts

March 24 2011 14:25 GMT

#62

SC2 for innovative mission objectives + bonus objectives that actually had an effect on your progression.

WC3 for storyline/persistant progression on hero characters, plus the missions were almost as fun as SC2's. At times WC3 missions could feel like Diablo dungeons, which is a good thing.

RA3 was awfully boring, I was really disappointed. Does anyone remember the RA Counterstrike secret missions where you had to fight the ants? Haha now THAT was bonus content.

Ydriel

Italy516 Posts

March 24 2011 14:26 GMT

#63

Gameplay wise, WoL campaign was pretty cool. But overall, I'd say WC3/TFT had a way better campaign. Solid missions and great storyline. Replayed it bout 3 times. SC and BW also had a great storyline.

gosuRob

United States319 Posts

March 24 2011 14:27 GMT

#64

Age of Mythology, I don't know how the gameplay compared to C&C but I remember having a blast playing that game, probably because I love greek mythology though lol.

Tschis

Brazil1511 Posts

March 24 2011 14:38 GMT

#65

I think SC1 was the best for me.

Maybe WC3, it's just I don't remember any of it, but I remember I was delighted when I was playing.

SC2 was kinda... meh :/

//tx

Eeevil

Netherlands359 Posts

March 24 2011 14:40 GMT

#66

Storywise I loved Homeworld. Too bad the game was a bit broken and you could just capture almost the entire enemy fleet.

HW Cataclysm was awesome.

DorF

Sweden961 Posts

March 24 2011 14:42 GMT

#67

Red alert 2 and yuris revenge aswell as age of mythology (but not titans)

Kipsate

Netherlands45349 Posts

March 24 2011 14:44 GMT

#68

I absolutely hated the SC2 campaign, perhaps because I expected so much better(actually objectivly it isn't that bad). Warcraft III for me(bot RoC and Frozen Throne) the best campaign and story line I have ever played in an RTS game, it was truly something with stuff like Arthas and Manneroth and the blood curse etc. (The nerd in me was happy). SC1 had an amazing storyline aswell. I did like Red alert and Command and conquer, not because it was really awesome, but because of the extremly cheesy storyline, combined with cheesy Real actor footage(The guy who plays Kane is my hero). It was so cheesy that it was good. Red alert 3 went a little overboard though, didn't like it.

PS: The ants in Counterstrike were a nightmare, why the hell would ants have flamethrowers damnit?!

noezke

England514 Posts

March 24 2011 14:47 GMT

#69

WC3 RoC/TFT / Red alert. Also LOVED the Company of Heroes campaigns maybe not the last expansion if you can actually call it one, but the others were great fun.

TigerKarl

1757 Posts

March 24 2011 14:48 GMT

#70

Oh, and i want to add another sick game to the discussion:
Mech Commander 1
That was a unique piece of shit.

Antedelerium

United States224 Posts

March 24 2011 14:56 GMT

#71

Having skimmed what most people here have said, I'm going to have to agree with a lot of people and say WC3 RoC/TFT. The epic buildup to the final battle against Kil'Jaeden in the original as well as the darker storyline involved with the expansion were just amazing.

I still have a soft spot for the epic orc narrator from WC2. Anyone else remember how awesome he made missions sound before going on rampages?

EDIT: Totally left out half a sentence

ejac

United States1195 Posts

March 24 2011 15:04 GMT

#72

Hmmm.. I've played the following rts's campaigns that i remember,

SC (bw) - Pretty good, good story and missions are alright although bland.
sc2 - It was alright, story was fairly meh, missions while well done and fairly unique a lot of the time were simply too over the top. The cut scenes and interactive bc were pretty neat nevertheless.
c&c1 - Classic, but sadly don't really remember well enough to say very much. I did enjoy it very much.
c&c3 - Heh, it was ok.
c&c4 - So bad.... so bad...
red alert 3 - Pretty bad
Wc2 - Classic as well, think the c&c1 campaign was better though. No game will ever be able to top this however
wc3 (tft) - Pretty good. Story was solid and the missions were well done and had plenty of variation. I can't quite put my finger on exactly where the wc3 missions variance was better than sc2's, but nevertheless that is the case imo.

StuartLove

Germany267 Posts

March 24 2011 15:07 GMT

#73

command and conquer generals with GLA / China and USA

Slakkoo

Sweden1119 Posts

March 24 2011 15:16 GMT

#74

Command & Conquer: Generals, WC3RoC/TFT , all Age of Empires games except from the III and of course, Age of Mythology (Not titans)

SirazTV

United States209 Posts

March 24 2011 15:22 GMT

#75

Battletech 2: the Cresent Hawks Revenge, wow that dates me. I don't know why but I loved that game. Also like the commando series. WC3 was solid as well.

EDIT: Cant believe I forgot Homeworld. That game was pretty epic.

triangle

United States3803 Posts

March 24 2011 15:24 GMT

#76

A lot of the custom fanmade campaigns for age of empires 2 were fantastic. Ulio was the one I remember as a total standout brilliant campaign.

Ansinjunger

United States2451 Posts

March 24 2011 15:25 GMT

#77

I liked Sacrifice's campaign. Being able to choose customize your army and spell path was fun, although at times frustrating as you were going for some imba combination but certain gods were mad at you and not giving missions. That was necessary though. Animate dead was hugely op. The voice acting in that game was pretty good too. Also, the late game units and spells were just so fun to use.

Shiladie

Canada1631 Posts

March 24 2011 15:32 GMT

#78

I loved the WC3 campaigns, as well as some of the C&C ones.
SC2 is in the middle of the line for campaigns.
I have high hopes for HotS though.

Zechs

United Kingdom321 Posts

March 24 2011 15:34 GMT

#79

WC3: RoC. Wasn't that big a fan of TFT single player since it had no real orc campaign (well, the side game thing felt like a precusor to DoTA or something). TA was also pretty sweet, some of those missions lasted hours and felt so epic back then.

SkiZou

107 Posts

March 24 2011 15:34 GMT

#80

Probably Company of Heroes' first campaign (Liberation of Caen). Those defense mission were tight, especially the one where you have to defend the hill from nazis. And they attack from every side, oh and they have artillery too.