Warcraft 3 and it's expansion are the only RTS single player games I've ever really liked, and played through to the finish for everything no cheating.

Starcraft 1 has the nostalgic factor, and the story was actually amazing...but it was just so long ago, and I pretty much was a little cheating bastard back in those days. Good lord I was bad at the game xD

But that was before I knew what starcraft REALLY was, and thankfully iccup saved me YEARS later.

But ya, Warcraft 3, fuckin amazing campaign.

AzurewinD

United States569 Posts

March 24 2011 17:12 GMT

#102

Homeworld 2. It fixed alot of the slower elements of its predecessor while still keeping the excellent larger-than-life feel and amazing atmosphere.

Loved moments like this. The soundtrack is simply superb. 720p this for sure.

Also one of my favorite moments in Homeworld 1 was encountering the Swarmers in the Garden of Kadesh.

"If you will not join, then die. There is no withdrawal from the Garden..."

Fuck there were sooooo many of them in that mission >_<

Euronyme

Sweden3804 Posts

March 24 2011 17:24 GMT

#103

WC3 both reign of chaos and frozen throne were absolutely a blast. They were quite awesome.
Other than that I recall the red alert 2 campaign being quite good as well.
Now when I think about it the red alert 2 campaign was probably on an even stage with the WC3 ones. I spent hours and hours on that game when I was younger.

HowardRoark

1146 Posts

March 24 2011 17:29 GMT

#104

Warcraft 1 was the most fun experience for me, but I guess it was because I was younger, nowadays I can't stand RTS campaigns.

Billy_

461 Posts

March 24 2011 17:50 GMT

#105

On March 25 2011 01:58 TOCHMY wrote:
I have to say Red Alert 2, hands down. I think i played through the campaign like 10 times as a kid. Absolutely LOVE that game. The gameplay combined with the cutscenes that wasn't animated was so cool I thought when i was a kid (now i realize how terrible the actors are). And Tanya was hawt

). The Yuri expansion wasn't good though in my opinion

EDIT: Also Rexxar campaign i WC3 :D

RA2 was great because of the terrible acting though. Kind of like Arnie in the 80's when he was in Commando and Batman and Robin.

NationInArms

United States1553 Posts

March 24 2011 18:01 GMT

#106

The campaigns in Age of Empires 1 and 2 were the best in my experience. Each game contained about 5 historical and accurate campaigns that weren't just "build a base and kill all AI", but actually were interesting. There was the William Wallace Campaign and the Joan of Arc Campaign that I think were the best.

Bhaalgorn

Slovenia214 Posts

March 24 2011 18:02 GMT

#107

Warcraft:RoC and TFT were quite a blast, I play them through every few years when I get the urge.

RA2 was also quite hilarious because of the cheesy cinematics.

Rise of Legends and Age of Mythology weren't half bad either.

Despite what people say I found the WoL campaign excellent as far as the mission design goes. Never liked campaigns where you had to just create a massive army and roll the retarded AI.

Also remembered Supreme Commander+Forged Alliance. Who doesn't love continuous pumping of T3 units+experimentals and nukes going off everywhere.

Now I realized that the OP asked for my favorite campaign so I'm gonna go with WC3 and WoL sharing first place and SupCom coming in close second.

KaiserReinhard

United States554 Posts

March 24 2011 18:14 GMT

#108

Homeworld probably had my favorite RTS campaign, I played through it multiple times. It's also a fun campaign to play in that your army carries over between levels and you can either build an invincible fleet or lose everything in one level and be screwed for the remaining part of the game.

The WC3 campaigns were also a lot of fun to play, I liked the aspect the heroes added to the game.

Zedex

United Kingdom310 Posts

March 24 2011 18:20 GMT

#109

The red alert 2 campaign was awsome, it seriously kicked some ass. Played it several times.

KleineWout

Netherlands11 Posts

March 24 2011 18:24 GMT

#110

Warcraft II: Tides of War.
The epic voices where epic.
(I was 10 years old when I played it)

Eishi_Ki

Korea (South)1667 Posts

March 24 2011 18:35 GMT

#111

On March 25 2011 03:01 NationInArms wrote:
The campaigns in Age of Empires 1 and 2 were the best in my experience. Each game contained about 5 historical and accurate campaigns that weren't just "build a base and kill all AI", but actually were interesting. There was the William Wallace Campaign and the Joan of Arc Campaign that I think were the best.

Alright, enough.

William Wallace -

1) There MAY have been a Bridge involved in the Battle of Stirling Bridge (the third last mission)...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stirling_Bridge

2) Scotland lost at the Battle of Falkirk (the last mission)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Falkirk

The end of the campaign was actually akin to what happened after the Battle of Bannockburn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bannockburn

I'm not pissy about you enjoy the campaign, but dont assume it is accurate and DEFINITELY dont assume Braveheart was accurate either.

/rantoff

Enjoyed CnC Generals and it's expansions campaigns to be honest, gotta love dems Chinese tanks n that

RoosterSamurai

Japan2108 Posts

March 24 2011 18:47 GMT

#112

Total War: Shogun 2

=P

Ideas

United States8182 Posts

March 24 2011 19:05 GMT

#113

i got bored of WoL campaign after the like 1st 3 missions lol. the story/narrative was really lame and the gameplay itself was really easy/boring. this is probably just because i was so used to really competitive BW that it was just unbearably easy (basically the campaign felt like I was just waiting for a clock to rundown or for an AI unit to reach a destination the whole time) for me.

Im sure someone with no real BW experience would of liked it more but i thought it was just boring as shit.

I really liked world in conflict and the first company of heroes campaigns. although bear in mind i was still a newb so I thought they were really fun. perhaps if they came out after I got really back in BW i would of found them dull as well and i would feel the same way about them as I had SC2.

although as said before, WiC has such as amazing narrative. easily the best for an RTS game ever, and it still stick around with me now as one of the more memorable game narratives in the last 5 years. a very cool game and I really wish the game was more popular :\.

DannyJ

United States5110 Posts

March 24 2011 23:43 GMT

#114

To be honest, I've never once finished an RTS campaign. RTS vs the computer really just isnt that interesting. However, of the time i spent with any RTS i liked CoH the most. I guess shooting mortars is fun no matter who you are doing it too.

muzzy

United States640 Posts

March 24 2011 23:48 GMT

#115

On March 24 2011 21:42 relexa wrote:
Myth/
end thread

This.

The story, the atmosphere, the music, everything. It's a shame so many people missed out on Myth, was an amazing series and to this day I'm sad that it died out.

Myth II was good as well, better gameplay, but Myth:TFL had the best single player campaign.

DannyJ

United States5110 Posts

March 24 2011 23:51 GMT

#116

On March 25 2011 08:48 muzzy wrote:

Show nested quote +

I LOVED myth 2, but I'm not really sure if i would consider it an RTS by definition.

Kazzabiss

1006 Posts

March 24 2011 23:53 GMT

#117

WC3 RoC

Zerkaszhan

Canada120 Posts

March 24 2011 23:58 GMT

#118

C and C tiberian sun for sure my very first RTS and by far the best campaign one ive played next to BLizzard warcraft series

JingleHell

United States11308 Posts

March 25 2011 00:00 GMT

#119

Age of Empires 2 original campaigns. They were scattered across the different cultures, and fairly short, but I liked the historical tie ins, especially as a kid.

Chewey

United States32 Posts

March 25 2011 00:02 GMT

#120

Warcraft series, even though I never played past the first 2 it was a great story and I followed it all the way through just cause it was that good.

But my favorite is Age of Empires for sure. So many good campaigns.