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AFrench2
07/17/20 4:21:22 PM
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Which RTS?


Command and Conquer is what really made the genre, right?

I mean it was not until Warcraft 2 that the series really came into its own...

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SevenTenths
07/17/20 4:27:05 PM
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starcraft

warcraft 1&2, C&C, AoE1&2, all had everyone was the same with different skins and maybe 1 unit.

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Ruvan22
07/17/20 4:42:29 PM
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SevenTenths posted...
starcraft

warcraft 1&2, C&C, AoE1&2, all had everyone was the same with different skins and maybe 1 unit.

Did you play C&C 1? The NOD and GDI vehicles and air units were completely different...

TC, I'd say Dune 2 as it introduced the concept of resource management, building strategy, and unit management

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Gobstoppers12
07/17/20 4:44:20 PM
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Warcraft didn't invent the genre, but Warcraft II and then Starcraft set the gold standard.

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SevenTenths
07/17/20 4:44:48 PM
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Ruvan22 posted...


Did you play C&C 1? The NOD and GDI vehicles and air units were completely different...

fair enough c&c wasn't skin swaps like warcraft.

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Zikten
07/17/20 4:45:03 PM
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Warcraft 2 is the game that finally made the genre popular. the original Warcraft was not a very popular game
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Ricemills
07/19/20 2:05:04 AM
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CnC.

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Waddlez
07/19/20 5:56:30 AM
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Ricemills
07/19/20 5:59:21 AM
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Dune II predates all of other games listed here, and laid the foundation of RTS genre.

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St0rmFury
07/19/20 6:01:39 AM
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Warcraft II introduced more than 1 resource.

Starcraft introduced more than 2 races that plays very differently.

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Solid Snake07
07/19/20 6:09:02 AM
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Warcraft was my first introduction into rts games

But starcraft was wildly more defining and influential for the genre

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Foppe
07/19/20 6:11:34 AM
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Dune II.
It wasnt the first one, and it was inspired by multiple games, but it was the game that defined the genre.


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Keith_Valentine
07/19/20 6:20:09 AM
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In the future there will be super soldier robots and theyll be controlled by Expert gamers like Shroud. Human soldiers wouldnt stand a chance.
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Sir Cyrus
07/19/20 7:11:58 AM
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Dune II is the answer.
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andri_g
07/19/20 9:55:10 AM
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Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (1992) re-defined the genre--it's "the mother of all modern RTS games."

Before 1992 many RTS games had harvesting resources, making structures/units, or taking territory:
Final Frontier (1987);
Populous (1989);
Supremacy (1991); etc., **
... but not all of these things (yes, Dune II has all of them).

** [ The Ancient Art of War (1984) is squad strategy--you configure and position, but not control, individual units. ]

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Jagr_68
07/19/20 9:57:11 AM
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Gobstoppers12 posted...
Warcraft didn't invent the genre, but Warcraft II and then Starcraft set the gold standard.


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YellowMustard69
07/19/20 10:05:45 AM
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Ricemills posted...
Dune II predates all of other games listed here, and laid the foundation of RTS genre.

Yup.
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