Other competative RTS games besides Blizzard ones

On December 05 2011 05:44 Mohdoo wrote:
None of them have a community prestigious enough to make accomplishments within them feel worthwhile. The problem with playing a game competitively, when you've played a "more competitive" game of the same genre before is that you'll never really feel good about accomplishments in the easier game, since you know its not as good as if you were doing the same in the more competitive game.

Not to mention, non-Blizzard RTS games are noticeably lower quality and have more glaring balance problems. The games are less fun, they are less balanced and they don't give you the same competitive satisfaction as a Blizzard RTS.

We've all been down this road before, and it always brings you back to the same place: Blizzard RTS games.

On December 05 2011 06:31 Brutaxilos wrote:
I remember when I was really small, I use to play SC while everyone else played a myriad of RTSes like red alert, c&c etc. they use to criticize me for not being open to play the real games. Well, i guess we all know which game wins the RTS award.

On December 06 2011 02:41 Kaal wrote:


Rofl.

AoE2 is far from dead. We still have tournaments with large prizepools over at www.aoczone.net, and there's always people to play on Voobly, Garena, and many other LAN Servers. Most of the tip-top players still play, like Chris, Grunt, Kyo and Tim.

I dunno why you'd think it's dead.

On December 06 2011 23:43 brichals wrote:
Dawn of War 2:Retribution is excellent imo. it gets a bad rep for previous bugs and imbalances. I must stress that most of these have been fixed. I think the next patch will solve all (It's already regarded as fairly balanced, just a couple of bugs to fix). The player base is small compared to SC2 of course but it is dedicated and overall improvements are being made to make it easier for new players, organise more tournaments, and put out more content. Gamereplays.org are looking after that and are the main portal for DoW2 stuff. Although the player base is small its easy to get games (especially on European times) and the game is intense and really fun. Also 2v2 and 3v3 are very viable game modes. Actually the gameplay is a bit inbetween a classic RTS and a MOBA game, it's quite unique.

Here's my favourite caster for talking through the games complexities, you could check it out.
http://www.dowreplays.net/

PS the learning curve is very steep and takes a lot of time to learn, but put 100 or so hours into multiplayer and the game becomes pure awesomeness.

On December 06 2011 23:43 brichals wrote:
Dawn of War 2:Retribution is excellent imo. it gets a bad rep for previous bugs and imbalances. I must stress that most of these have been fixed. I think the next patch will solve all (It's already regarded as fairly balanced, just a couple of bugs to fix). The player base is small compared to SC2 of course but it is dedicated and overall improvements are being made to make it easier for new players, organise more tournaments, and put out more content. Gamereplays.org are looking after that and are the main portal for DoW2 stuff. Although the player base is small its easy to get games (especially on European times) and the game is intense and really fun. Also 2v2 and 3v3 are very viable game modes. Actually the gameplay is a bit inbetween a classic RTS and a MOBA game, it's quite unique.

PS the learning curve is very steep and takes a lot of time to learn, but put 100 or so hours into multiplayer and the game becomes pure awesomeness.

On December 06 2011 02:41 Kaal wrote:


Rofl.

AoE2 is far from dead. We still have tournaments with large prizepools over at www.aoczone.net, and there's always people to play on Voobly, Garena, and many other LAN Servers. Most of the tip-top players still play, like Chris, Grunt, Kyo and Tim.

I dunno why you'd think it's dead.

On December 07 2011 00:24 Jimmy Raynor wrote:
How is the delay when playing online DoW 2? I got the last standalone version (where I can only play last stand)and when playing there is big delay

On December 07 2011 00:18 Fruscainte wrote:
Well, Company of Heroes is by far my favorite Non-Blizzard RTS. I mean, they have no dreamhack or anything -- but there's still quite the crowd out there for it. Perhaps even DoW has something still going.