State Your Favourite RTS or TBS... - Page 2

Angrist · 06-25-2008, 01:15 PM

Oh, the first Advance Wars was good.

Fox 6 · 06-25-2008, 01:42 PM

Starcraft
Advance Wars
Fire Emblem

The basics

flunkie44 · 06-25-2008, 02:31 PM

Real War, the RTS that got me into PC gaming. It was pretty bad compared to other RTSes at the time, but it's the only one that I really knew of, and it was extremely awesome to me. Command & Conquer Generals was also a favorite of mine. Other than that, Advance Wars on the GBA kept me up late for many a night.

Angrist · 06-25-2008, 02:36 PM

Oh, Conquest of the New World! My brother and I grew up with that game. We still play it once every 5 years or so.

GameMaster · 06-25-2008, 06:07 PM

Oh definitely WarCraft 3.

Yoda9864 · 06-25-2008, 10:46 PM

Mmmmmm, RTS is one of my favorite genres.

C&C: Red Alert 2
Rise of Nations
C&C 3
Supreme Commander
Homeworld 2
Rise of Legends

I liked to play Warcraft 3, but never really got good at it.
I absolutely love the C&C universe. I could put every C&C game up on that list, but I restrained myself.
Starcraft was also a good game, but I never really got into like a lot of people did.

And yes, I am absolutely dying to play C&C: Red Alert 3.

Typhoid · 06-25-2008, 10:48 PM

I have no idea what a TBS is, but I assume it's "time based strategy".

My two favourite, for both, would be Rome: Total War. The "overworld" is a time based strategy, while the battle maps, are real time.

But other ones are:

RTS: Age of Empires II, Age of Empires III

TBS: CIV III (I want to get Civ IV so much)

Pylon_Trooper · 06-25-2008, 11:36 PM

TBS = Turn-Based Strategy. But, I guess time has a lot to do with sometimes, so it works for me.

I'm going to add Enemy Nations and Battle Realms to the list. Wonderful achievements.

manasecret · 06-25-2008, 11:36 PM

EDIT: Oops, Pylon beat me to it. Ah well.

Turn-based strategy, such as Civilization. In Civ, you get to move your entire turn while the computer waits, and then the computer gets to move its entire turn while you wait, and so on.

Real-time strategy (ala Age of Empires) is one in which every player is playing all at once, things happening in real time. When someone attacks you, you don't wait until your turn to react -- you react as soon as he attacks. And so on.

I guess you probably know all that, but it's fun trying to explain it.

Yoda9864 · 06-26-2008, 12:27 AM

Oh I forgot my TBS games.

X-Com 1, 2, and 3
Silent Storm

Good stuff. Makes me want to play them again!

Pylon_Trooper · 06-26-2008, 08:59 AM

Silent Storm - that was awesome. Really good stuff right there. You're spot-on, Yoda.

Yoda9864 · 06-27-2008, 12:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pylon_Trooper

Silent Storm - that was awesome. Really good stuff right there. You're spot-on, Yoda.

Hells yes.

I can't believe that nobody else has said the X-Com series. That is widely regarded as one of the best TBS games ever.

Pylon_Trooper · 06-26-2008, 10:49 PM

Hang on, I'm missing one of the greatest RTS games to come out in the last few years!

SOCOM: Tactical Strike on PSP. Awesome stuff. Really awesome.

Pylon_Trooper · 06-27-2008, 08:42 AM

I'm a Jagged Alliance 2 fan, when it comes to TBS antics.

Pylon_Trooper · 07-01-2008, 10:12 AM

How could I not mention Metal Gear Acid 2?! Flunk should berate me for doing so.