EPTHomeworld was great too, but I did not like the very slow pace of gameplay.
And of course, Wings of Liberty had the best overall design and gameplay.
Your fave RTS campaign is?
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Billy_
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Homeworld was great too, but I did not like the very slow pace of gameplay. And of course, Wings of Liberty had the best overall design and gameplay. | ||
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
On March 24 2011 19:42 Billy_ wrote: Out of the few straategies I have played I'd say World in Conflict wins overall. It's the best looking, most cinematic, it's full of good developments all around and the gameplay is decent. Homeworld was great too, but I did not like the very slow pace of gameplay. And of course, Wings of Liberty had the best overall design and gameplay. Do you say it that way because this is a starcraft forum? I thought SC2 Campaign was pretty meh. I didn't like where they took the story. WC3 Was amazing though, it really was. Nice combination of gameplay and story. Very enjoyable. | ||
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kuresuti
1393 Posts
WoL is definitely up there gameplay wise. | ||
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exterior8D
United States36 Posts
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Sobba
Sweden576 Posts
Starcraft 2 was abit cheesy, too many weird missions. I missed the standard build a base and kill the AI bases. Not saying it was bad but could been better! | ||
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zerglingsfolife
United States1694 Posts
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Velr
Switzerland10812 Posts
It's campaign was way better than SC2 for sure.... (I don't care about Unitupgrades and all that shit, i want cool missions). | ||
Boblion
France8043 Posts
In my opinion Sc had the best story of all those games and Sc2 had the best missions by far even if the story itself is pretty bad. War3 RoC was decent too. | ||
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eluv
United States1251 Posts
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vyyye
Sweden3917 Posts
On March 24 2011 19:47 Sobba wrote: Warcraft 3 and TFT campaigns were fun. Starcraft 1 aswell. Starcraft 2 was abit cheesy, too many weird missions. I missed the standard build a base and kill the AI bases. Not saying it was bad but could been better! I'm personally so glad they changed it up. RTS campaigns revolving around killing AI bases and doing it over and over are more boring than the "Wait for 30 min until reinforcements arrive!", they really accomplished something with SC2. It's the only RTS campaign where I actually enjoyed the gameplay. | ||
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chenchen
United States1136 Posts
It was that good. | ||
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Celadan
Norway471 Posts
I can't count the amount of time ive spent playing it. Although BFME1 is on the second place (yes, I admit to like a RTS from EA). | ||
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3FFA
United States3931 Posts
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emucxg
Finland4559 Posts
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Lightwip
United States5497 Posts
The fact that I can micro now makes them cooler. Starcraft had a not so great campaign in comparison, though it's worth it just for the story. | ||
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MentalGNT
Denmark1264 Posts
WC3 RoC campaign was also great. Didn't like TFT much. WoL campaign had a crappy story for sure, but i liked the design. :p And i don't know if this counts since it's a RTS/turn based hybrid, but i love the total war series as well. | ||
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xarthaz
1704 Posts
On March 24 2011 19:47 Sobba wrote: the diverse gameplay of single player is the best ting about sc2 imo. such a blast to play the sp missions. So much memorable stuff.. zombie plagues, berserking odin, lava rising, survivalWarcraft 3 and TFT campaigns were fun. Starcraft 1 aswell. Starcraft 2 was abit cheesy, too many weird missions. I missed the standard build a base and kill the AI bases. Not saying it was bad but could been better! | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
On March 24 2011 20:21 xarthaz wrote: the diverse gameplay of single player is the best ting about sc2 imo. such a blast to play the sp missions Yea Blizzard did an amazing job on the missions. Some seemed inspired by great old games like commando. Definitly better and more varied than the repetition of build army, kill comp, kind of missions. | ||
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Rabbitmaster
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Edit: My RTS experience is pretty much limited to war3/sc tho, except for a little age of empires and total annihilation. | ||
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Resilient
United Kingdom1431 Posts
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Drake
Germany6146 Posts
On March 24 2011 19:45 Jayme wrote: Do you say it that way because this is a starcraft forum? I thought SC2 Campaign was pretty meh. I didn't like where they took the story. WC3 Was amazing though, it really was. Nice combination of gameplay and story. Very enjoyable. i foiund wc3 campaing really bad and for me sc2 was also one of the best ever made so its just oppinnion based i think i also think that C&C always have some of the best campaings ever played | ||
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Billy_
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Jyvblamo
Canada13788 Posts
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LittLeD
Sweden7973 Posts
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drlame
Sweden574 Posts
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Optimist
Australia161 Posts
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valaki
Hungary2476 Posts
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hidiliho
Canada685 Posts
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WiljushkA
Serbia1416 Posts
On March 24 2011 20:21 xarthaz wrote: the diverse gameplay of single player is the best ting about sc2 imo. such a blast to play the sp missions. So much memorable stuff.. zombie plagues, berserking odin, lava rising, survival +1 lots of rtses had better story than sc2, but sc2 had the best gameplay and most diverse mission design. | ||
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jmols
New Zealand41 Posts
Also SC:BW, Populous III: The Beginning, Red Alert 2 (not yuri's), and WC3:TFT | ||
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writer22816
United States5775 Posts
It was pretty easy (even on hard) but it's still really fun. The final Undead and Night Elf missions are works of art imo. I also really enjoyed the BW campaigns, but that was mostly the dialogue, not the gameplay. The action mission design was pretty meh. SC2 campaign was really underwhelming. | ||
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CaptainSlow
Malaysia164 Posts
 i liked sc2's campaign! it was interactive and made you make choices on what to spend. the different moral choices was a nice touch though. but my fav is warcraft 3 RoC. The part when arthas turns is super awesum!!! | ||
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heishe
Germany2284 Posts
SC2's missions principles are the same of course, but what you actually have to do brings a lot of tension to the game. And then of course there is all the other awesome stuff like researching upgrades outside of the actual missions etc. That's just gameplay though. In terms of story... I'm not really sure. I haven't ever played an RTS that had a decent story, most of it was superficial standard stuff... SC and BW drew a really nice picture of an original universe and the plot developed fairly interesting, but the characters were just pretty one-sided (unlike actual persons). | ||
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Zato-1
Chile4253 Posts
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fuzzy_panda
New Zealand1681 Posts
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Phearlock
Norway400 Posts
I also agree with the people mentioning Wc3, some very good missions in there and not bad story-wise. (So sad that WoW leads to it being canon that so many of the characters from that are killed off in such unsatisfying ways <.<) | ||
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WArped
United Kingdom4845 Posts
WoL was amazing as well. | ||
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Copymizer
Denmark2096 Posts
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relexa
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DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
Sc2 had great mission design but facepalm story. On top of that i enjoy most of the Age of Empire campaigns. WH: Dawn of War was pretty good aswell. | ||
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OPSavioR
Sweden1465 Posts
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Antisocialmunky
United States5912 Posts
Really... alternate History Stalin was epic. | ||
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DiaBoLuS
Germany1638 Posts
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DyEnasTy
United States3714 Posts
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Bloodash
Netherlands1384 Posts
in cinematics, I was quite impressed with armies of exigo, tough the story itself kinda sucked | ||
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Germany2296 Posts
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Sweden1811 Posts
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Obsolescence
United States270 Posts
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Thrill
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Baldwin <3 | ||
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RyanRushia
United States2748 Posts
not only did it follow the movie quite well in a linear fashion... the large-scale battles of helms deep.... minas tirith... the black gates.. and many more were extremely epic, best campaign ive played | ||
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Wolfsinus
United States22 Posts
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Portugal1621 Posts
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Delvin
Finland141 Posts
I tried to like the SupCom campaigns but a lot of the missions felt like they were very repetitive. Basically you'd have some objective and enemies would continue to attack in regular intervals (including spawning outside the map) until you completed the objective, after which the map expands and you'll get some extra resource nodes along with a new objective. You could even abuse this by massing a huge army before completing an objective and be more than well prepared for whatever the next area of the level contains (because the enemy is stuck in the weaker spawn patterns until you move on). | ||
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Glueburn
United States496 Posts
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Excessive
Denmark151 Posts
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GGTeMpLaR
United States7226 Posts
nothing else comes close in the RTS department and those two stand out | ||
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nShade
Bulgaria296 Posts
Those games are soo underrated. | ||
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Odeyuken
France94 Posts
Of course WC3 had a much better story... but even if the gameplay was not as rich, I think there was a true link between the buidling up of the tension in the storyline and the missions themselves. The final missions for each race were phenomenal... the final Night Elf mission is probably the best EVER. Plus, I think being limited to play with the Terrans only is pretty lame, in WC3 you usually was delighted to control a whole new race along with new heroes once you had completed a set of mission. | ||
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sc4k
United Kingdom5454 Posts
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Bacillus
Finland1986 Posts
On March 24 2011 23:04 nShade wrote: Ground Control 1 and 2. Those games are soo underrated. This was my thought. Although I don't think I ever completed GC1, the campaign I got to see left a very positive feeling. The missions are quite variable, the gameplay feels challenging and even the storyline seemed interesting. It felt like the game was actually designed for people able to think on their own instead of pointing out every slightest bit of detail with huge highlights. | ||
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TigerKarl
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This was when Kane was still cool and mysterious. GDI fighting!!!!! Epic mammoth tanks, the cutscenes. Unique, ahead of it's time and awesome. | ||
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AimlessAmoeba
Canada704 Posts
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. | ||
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Ydriel
Italy516 Posts
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gosuRob
United States319 Posts
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Tschis
Brazil1511 Posts
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 | ||
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Eeevil
Netherlands359 Posts
HW Cataclysm was awesome. | ||
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DorF
Sweden961 Posts
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Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
PS: The ants in Counterstrike were a nightmare, why the hell would ants have flamethrowers damnit?! | ||
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noezke
England514 Posts
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TigerKarl
1757 Posts
Mech Commander 1 That was a unique piece of shit. | ||
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Antedelerium
United States224 Posts
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 | ||
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ejac
United States1195 Posts
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. | ||
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StuartLove
Germany267 Posts
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Slakkoo
Sweden1119 Posts
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SirazTV
United States209 Posts
EDIT: Cant believe I forgot Homeworld. That game was pretty epic. | ||
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triangle
United States3803 Posts
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Ansinjunger
United States2451 Posts
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Shiladie
Canada1631 Posts
SC2 is in the middle of the line for campaigns. I have high hopes for HotS though. | ||
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Zechs
United Kingdom321 Posts
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SkiZou
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appletree
Denmark109 Posts
Warcraft II - Tides of darkness. | ||
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Kingqway
United States155 Posts
Did anyone else like Dow II? I thought that campaign was awesome, albeit repetitive. World in Conflict was pretty epic too, though unrealistic. | ||
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s.a.y
Croatia3840 Posts
AoE 2 is great also. | ||
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Goshawk.
United Kingdom5338 Posts
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Mavkar
Germany592 Posts
Rich storyline and a diverse scenario-development. | ||
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Tachyon
Denmark146 Posts
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clusen
Germany8702 Posts
Such an awesome game € And Z was amazing aswell | ||
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beefstew
United States43 Posts
After a while the horrid mission design of sc and wc3 and pretty much every other rts got to me. That never happened with sc2 for me. | ||
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laguu
Finland278 Posts
On March 25 2011 00:36 appletree wrote: UFO - Enemy unknown (X-COM: UFO DEFENSE). epic, though not RTS. Dune 2 isn't very good by todays standards and the campaign is basically the same thing over and over again but I sure enjoyed that a lot Wc3 and sc2 were both really good but sc2 is the better one. | ||
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blackone
Germany1314 Posts
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Belha
Italy2850 Posts
For my fave campaign i just go for vanilla Sc, the best plot ever for a rts, so fking many epic moments.The science vessel cinematic, the "death" of Kerrigan, the Duke capital ship mission (the real "Berserk Thor" mission), the "return" of Kerrigan, the invasion og Aiur, Fenix appearance, the fall of Fenix, Tassadar appearance, the return of Fenix, the quest for Zeratul, Raynor-Protoss alliance, Tassadar sacrifice, JESUS, so much epicness on that campaign. Also, imo, Sc music and voices are better than Sc2. Honorable mention for Warcraft III RoC, some epic missions too. | ||
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Billy_
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Spinfuser
United States47 Posts
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simme123
Sweden810 Posts
SC1 with BW as well is also awesome, kerrigan is like the best villain ever. | ||
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TSM
Great Britain584 Posts
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Torumfroll
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#2. Age of Mythology.I really liked the story of this game. It felt very diverse and expanded historical cultures in a very fun and interesting way. #3. Age of Empires 1-2. I'm quite interested in history and AoE 1-2 have campaigns that were really fun. | ||
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Gigaudas
Sweden1213 Posts
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TOCHMY
Sweden1692 Posts
). The Yuri expansion wasn't good though in my opinion EDIT: Also Rexxar campaign i WC3 :D | ||
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aimaimaim
Philippines2167 Posts
Every Westwood RTS were great! BW came close though. EA had to ruin it all with adding Yuri to the story and fucking up Kane's character. I Loved the Dune series. :D :D :D C&C and RA were great but Dune was the best. :D | ||
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SecretA5DC
Korea (South)225 Posts
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N3rV[Green]
United States1935 Posts
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. | ||
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AzurewinD
United States569 Posts
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 >_< | ||
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
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. | ||
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HowardRoark
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Billy_
461 Posts
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. | ||
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NationInArms
United States1553 Posts
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Bhaalgorn
Slovenia214 Posts
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. | ||
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KaiserReinhard
United States554 Posts
The WC3 campaigns were also a lot of fun to play, I liked the aspect the heroes added to the game. | ||
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Zedex
United Kingdom310 Posts
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KleineWout
Netherlands11 Posts
The epic voices where epic. (I was 10 years old when I played it) | ||
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Eishi_Ki
Korea (South)1667 Posts
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 | ||
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RoosterSamurai
Japan2108 Posts
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Ideas
United States8144 Posts
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 :\. | ||
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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
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muzzy
United States640 Posts
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. | ||
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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
On March 25 2011 08:48 muzzy wrote: 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. I LOVED myth 2, but I'm not really sure if i would consider it an RTS by definition. | ||
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Kazzabiss
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Zerkaszhan
Canada120 Posts
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
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Chewey
United States32 Posts
But my favorite is Age of Empires for sure. So many good campaigns. | ||
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Loanshark
China3094 Posts
On March 25 2011 09:00 JingleHell wrote: 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. Yeah AOE2 campaigns were fucking insane. The narrations at the beginning of the levels with the book and drawings and the pages turning were so epic.....holy shit. I also liked the Novaya Russia Campaign in Empire Earth 1. | ||
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Vinski
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Bajadulce
United States322 Posts
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AKomrade
United States582 Posts
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Zerkaszhan
Canada120 Posts
Sc2 i didnt truly enjoy Age of Mythology hands down my fav | ||
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Fruscainte
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gurrpp
United States437 Posts
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emc
United States3088 Posts
I also remember C&C Generals was pretty fun. And Company of Heroes was really fun because I enjoy WW2 a lot but that game was difficult some of the missions were ridiculously hard. | ||
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TemplarCo.
Mexico2870 Posts
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Philip2110
Scotland798 Posts
On March 25 2011 09:18 Zerkaszhan wrote: Gotta go with C& C tiberian sun for number 3 Sc2 i didnt truly enjoy Age of Mythology hands down my fav Age of Mythology and the titans have such good campaigns! | ||
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dudeman001
United States2412 Posts
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TheDougler
Canada8306 Posts
Then WC3, Then SCBW and then SC2. Just couldn't get THAT into the campaign of SC2 due to so many story lines just ending without a real conclusion or any connection to the rest of the campaign. | ||
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laste
Bulgaria242 Posts
wtf is wrong with you people?! =p | ||
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dudeman001
United States2412 Posts
On March 25 2011 09:59 laste wrote: Broodwar. wtf is wrong with you people?! =p Having to kill Fenix was just too much for me. I still cry at night | ||
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Supamang
United States2298 Posts
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Existential
Australia2107 Posts
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OhMyGawd
United States264 Posts
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KevinIX
United States2472 Posts
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X10A
Canada9837 Posts
Brood war and SC are also up there Halo Wars, in all sense was good as an Xbox RTS game, but if it there was a PC version... BFME2 as much as I hate to admit it. | ||
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kiy0
Portugal593 Posts
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KasPra
Estonia983 Posts
After that SC1 vanilla, Brood War and then maybe stuff like Age of Empires because of the little history lessons. I actually remembered quite a lot as a kid and then aced all my history tests. ^_^ | ||
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prOxi.swAMi
Australia3091 Posts
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Half
United States2554 Posts
SC2 campaign was just bad. Decent gameplay, but it didn't really match the addictive fun of stacking up your heroes and soloing bases (Illidan, Frozen Throne Human campaign soloed the game on hard with him lol.) And the story. don't get me started on that lol. | ||
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SilentCrono
United States1420 Posts
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Pigsquirrel
United States615 Posts
Seriously, turning the Eiffel Tower into an omgwtfbbqmegadeathlazor never gets old. So many wacky, out there missions in that game, but enough normal build base --> steamroll missions too. And RA2 is a riot anyway. WC3 campaign needs no introduction. The campaign was just epic. | ||
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tnkted
United States1359 Posts
BEST LEVEL EVER. I played that level so many freaking times... that one priest was a fucking commando priest. It was like playing as the symbian lybanese army in a video game. | ||
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exterior8D
United States36 Posts
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mastergriggy
United States1312 Posts
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TsoBadGuy
United States221 Posts
Between everything going on between Arthas and Illidan I can't vote for any other RTS. They had the badass rivalry and badass back stories to match. SC2 was pretty meh, as was said earlier in this thread. It needed a reformed Paladin and a Demon Hunter. Instead you were constantly reminded how fragile, but important, you were to the grand scheme of things. Playing through the campaign with hero units lends itself to story better I think. Like in War 3 Frozen Throne when you're losing levels as a Death Knight, and gaining them as a Crypt Lord, you have to fight a boss. Crypt Lord labels the enemy as truly powerful and goes, "FIGHT AS YOU'VE NEVER FOUGHT BEFORE." Got me all fired up. | ||
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backtoback
Canada1276 Posts
Anyone here don't like campaign like me and stick to multi player? | ||
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
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muzzy
United States640 Posts
On March 25 2011 08:51 DannyJ wrote: I LOVED myth 2, but I'm not really sure if i would consider it an RTS by definition. Well, not in the traditional sense. No base building/resource gathering. I guess it's more of a RTT... Real Time Tactical. Hard to fit it in a genre, as there aren't really any games that play quite like Myth. The multiplayer was so much fun. | ||
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Eishi_Ki
Korea (South)1667 Posts
On March 25 2011 12:56 tnkted wrote: Age of empire 1, in one of the first missions, was this: they gave you a single priest and it was up to you to convert a villager and destroy two different civs. :D BEST LEVEL EVER. I played that level so many freaking times... that one priest was a fucking commando priest. It was like playing as the symbian lybanese army in a video game. Oh man that was an amazing mission, Babylon I think it was? Epic. | ||
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
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Macabre
United States1262 Posts
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jimmyjingle
United States472 Posts
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nohbrows
United States653 Posts
and there was something deeply satisfying about using the Death Star to blow up a planet. Where else could the Death Star clear the planet of Yavin 4 and fire off its shot before Luke could fire the proton torpedos into the exhaust port? | ||
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PandaBlunt
United States292 Posts
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jalstar
United States8198 Posts
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anatem
Romania1369 Posts
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Netherlands1181 Posts
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Belgium3115 Posts
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GertHeart
United States631 Posts
Dungeon Keeper 1 - For anyone who's played this they understand, it was an RTS and a First Person shooter where you played the bad guy, defending your realm from those good people. The in between stories were funny too =D. The music was especially notable Empire Earth 1 - Long LONG LONG campaign takes you true cave man times, where you had holy men who could summon tornadoes and the likes, to futurist mechs. I believe it had about 14-17 ages instead of AoE's 4 Star Trek Armada 1 and 2 - Yeah I like Star Trek, these games were very good RTS games though, and had a great campaign, I remember in the Final Stage of Star Trek Armada 2, you could play as Borg and combine 8 cubes together to make a super cube >.> Nothing like assimilating everything in your path. Also to note for the Armada series, the voice actors lent their voices. AoE1 - For the Campaign, but online play was horrid and unbalanced. Some Civs could go T3 in 5 minutes and some could go T4 in 8 minutes. AoE2 Age of Kings - Great online play mediocre Campaign. I was also known as "GodofWar" on AoE2, it came out before the GodofWar series ever did =/ Kratos copied me =( and I copied Aries. Majesty - A great RTS, but played with a twist, you'd actually have to play it to understand and enjoy it. | ||
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Gladiator6
Sweden7024 Posts
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BGrael
Germany229 Posts
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IntoTheEmo
Singapore1169 Posts
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xZiGGY
United Kingdom801 Posts
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Kelberot
Brazil364 Posts
Hell I even got all achievements, and I'm no achievement whore. SC2 has the best single player for me. | ||
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Zorgaz
Sweden2951 Posts
SC2 campaign had some cool stuff in it, but story wise it wasn't that good. Too cheesy overall. | ||
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SMaD
Spain137 Posts
- Warcraft 3 & Warcraft 3:TFT - amazing story, great characters and in-game scenes. They show how a perfect campaign should be. - Starcraft & SC: Brood War - elaborated story, music, characters and scenes. Just amazing. - Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War - This game surprised me with a really well-developed story. Highly recommended. I'd love to include SC2 between my favs but WoL does not deserve it. Let's see what happens with HotS and LotV exp and their campaigns... | ||
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Biff The Understudy
France7921 Posts
I would say Warcraft 2 and BW. I can't believe that after all the epicness of W2, they manage to make somethinng as horribad as the scenario of W3 and WoW. | ||
Falling
Canada11378 Posts
Followed by Starcraft BW and Command & Conquer 1. Then I'd put SC2, but as far as varied missions/ gameplay- definitely SC2 is at the top. | ||
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TheBorg
Netherlands56 Posts
It was the story of StarCraft and Brood War that made them amazing campaigns (not so much the missions, they were average for the most part). And why? Because there was no cataclysmic event foretold in the future! You had no idea that Mengsk would leave Kerrigan to die. Or that she would be turned into the Queen of Blades by the Overmind. And I remember vividly sitting in front of my screen during the end of SC1, thinking "No, Tassadar, don't do it!" when he steered the Gantrithor head-first into the Overmind. Story-wise, StarCraft and Brood War are like The Usual Suspects: you really don't know who Keyser Söze is, whereas Wings of Liberty is like Face/Off where you know all along how things will pan out. | ||
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DERPDERP
Kyrgyzstan189 Posts
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Carsto
Germany72 Posts
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FaCE_1
Canada6181 Posts
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[SuNdae]
Finland323 Posts
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HolydaKing
21254 Posts
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Rain.cz
Czech Republic227 Posts
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hoppipolla
Australia782 Posts
On March 26 2011 00:43 Eishi_Ki wrote: Age of empire 1, in one of the first missions, was this: they gave you a single priest and it was up to you to convert a villager and destroy two different civs. :D BEST LEVEL EVER. I played that level so many freaking times... that one priest was a fucking commando priest. It was like playing as the symbian lybanese army in a video game. Holy shit that mission was so good! I must have done it so many times that wolololo is still stuck in my head. | ||
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MichaelEU
Netherlands816 Posts
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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clusen
Germany8702 Posts
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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ninini
Sweden1204 Posts
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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Ryndika
1489 Posts
SC2 campaign has been awesome so far, but I haven't still even finished it. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17460 Posts
#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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TheRhox
Canada868 Posts
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tnud
Sweden2233 Posts
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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hugman
Sweden4644 Posts
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ChaoticBlack
Australia288 Posts
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Dankbeer
United States61 Posts
Honorable mentions include: WC1 RA1 RA CS WC3 | ||
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ReacH.
Scotland333 Posts
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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ApocAlypsE007
Israel1007 Posts
Red Alert 2, a fun big sandwitch with eggs... AND HAM! | ||
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acidfreak
Romania352 Posts
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Haemonculus
United States6980 Posts
Such good games omg edit: 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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Scribble
2077 Posts
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Sanski
United States57 Posts
played it in my puberty and boy that Tania! | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17460 Posts
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MoYoG
Germany16 Posts
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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ChaseR
Norway1004 Posts
- 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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HEROwithNOlegacy
United States850 Posts
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Pleiades
United States472 Posts
SC: Memorable characters and lines. As for BW, the storyline went downhill sort of. SC2: WoL campaign was lacking setting, even though they basically stayed in the Koprulu Sector. Going from world to world too many times just threw away most of the story. In the original Starcraft, you had many worlds too, but they didn't jump so much per episode campaign and they were revisited several times. Character development was lacking if you did not read the novels... Hope they do better in HotS. | ||
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dezi
Germany1536 Posts
Clips also were amazing (and C&C just devolved since the first game when it comes to good music, cutscenes and ideas). | ||
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thehitman
1105 Posts
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Rashid
191 Posts
But i'd have to say World at War has the best campaign and the best story. | ||
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Ulfsark
United States958 Posts
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Xirroh
Canada146 Posts
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Dearion
Denmark26 Posts
Wings of Liberty was fun to play, but I didn't enjoy the story as much. | ||
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CojoStarcraft
Canada8 Posts
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Sandrosuperstar
Sweden525 Posts
And the gameplay of SC2 sure is fun but the story is even worse than wc3. And my favorite is Starcraft and Broodwar :3 but since being enlightened by Fanatic Templar i realized that the story of broodwar is indeed dumb as well. But i still love the lore of Starcraft the most! | ||
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lagbzz
Poland171 Posts
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Befree
695 Posts
Warcraft 3 probably was the best because of heroes. | ||
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Devil Trigger
United States107 Posts
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Lohse
Denmark237 Posts
Also the gameplay was superb for it's time. | ||
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Lohse
Denmark237 Posts
Also the gameplay was superb for it's time. | ||
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TheButtonmen
Canada1403 Posts
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Inside.Out
Canada569 Posts
for RTS all i had was WC3 and SC2, neither of which really impressed me | ||
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Millsington
United States28 Posts
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arcfyr
Canada121 Posts
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DAofCanada
Canada55 Posts
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SoishamanSC2
Russian Federation1 Post
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CaptnAsia
United States61 Posts
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MattyClutch
United States711 Posts
Kane showing up at the end was A++ Some others are really close though, like WarCraft 3 and SC1. | ||
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SafeWord
United States522 Posts
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kevconsim
United States317 Posts
LOVED THAT GAME | ||
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duk3
United States807 Posts
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10366 Posts
just, wow the hero system really worked well with the campaign too ^_^ the story, level design, etc., was all epic (good, and the actual literal feel of epic -- grand battles good vs evil tragedy drama etc.) | ||
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Tolwe
Canada1 Post
I thought the WoL campaign was pretty meh, although it was fairly diverse in objectives. | ||
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