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submitted 6 months ago by dannoffs@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

For me, if I ever hear "card-based" or "soulslike" I have absolutely no desire to play a game, no matter how many people reccomend it.

I'm also not a huge fan of modern "roguelikes" but I've sunk days into nethack and games like that.

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

RTS games, namely because I can't micromanage fast compared to some esports gamer hyped up on gamefuel.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

RTS games that let you issue orders while the game is paused are the only ones I'll play

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

What are some examples of those? I like the CRPGs that are real-time with pause lol

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

Total War is probably the biggest franchise that lets you do that

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

Most paradox games, dune spice wars, relic games usually do... Honestly, it's almost only the C&C/warcraft/aoe trad rts ones that don't.

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

FTL Faster Than Light

Beyond All Reason single player

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago
[-] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

the remaster is also pretty great if you don't want to put up with ancient code, locked view and just overall bad QoL stuff

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

I conveniently have this on my EGS account full of free shit I've been redeeming for the past few years - nice!

[-] Des@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

the new Wargame RTS (WARNO) lets you pause and command FINALLY i felt left out of the only cold war pure combat RTS

only problem is EA and single player is still lacking

also not sure if fully paused but everything is so slow it's effectively paused

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

If you haven't played it yet try Steel Division II, which is the WW2 game that came out before WARNO and has multiple full-size campaigns.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Has soviet campaign (or at least operational map mode)

[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

The only RTS I ever liked was lego rock raiders, and that's probably because I was a child with nothing else to do.

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Loose rock!

A landslide has occured!

I also dug Lego Rock Raiders as a kid. Come to think of it, I don't think I've played an RTS in about 20 years:

  • Lego Rock Raiders
  • Warcraft III
  • Age of Empires II
  • The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth (1 & 2)
  • Rise of Nations
  • Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds

I never got too heavily into the "strategy" part--I just loved being able to have these battles play out with catapults and horsemen and the occasional Dodge Viper with machine guns (howdoiturnthison is forever burned into my memory). I particularly enjoyed how your units could get upgrades and rank up, and they'd carry across missions in BFME so you could make them absurdly powerful. I also remember the graphics being pretty impressive to me--I spent a lot of time just zooming in on units and watching their idle animations and stuff.

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

I'm pretty terrible at RTS multiplayer but I love when they're in single player. Single player also lets the devs give you cool abilities and units that would be horribly broken in multiplayer.

[-] TeddyKila@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

macro beats michael every time

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

yeah but marco beats polo, too

that's where the strategic depth lies

[-] coffinwood@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago

I picked up Rise of Nations again, recently. I'll just pause the game, give orders, un-pause.

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