RTS (Real-time Strategy) General - Gookclick anon can't find us here.

[foam rolla]

Started playing Stronghold: Definitive Edition today, its a great game. I feel like this is what I really wanted to be playing as a kid instead of AOE2, because I would always just build big cities and fortresses in scenario mode. Hadn't even heard of the Stronghold games until recently seeing some promotional stuff for Crusader: Definitive Edition.

The voice acting puts modern games to shame.

Edit: Got a loud "Oh shit!" out of me the first time I'd seen the siege engines and the ladder guys sprinting towards my walls. Talk about a difficulty spike, the rat bastard ran straight through me.

Same. Played it last year and it was the first one of the series I played. It scratches my autist urge to build castles, set up elaborate traps and defend against the hordes.

Stronghold is to AOE what Men of War 2 is to COH

 

[Silvanus Thompson]

I've been having some fun playing through the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection. What a great set of games. I also tried them using OpenRA.
It's a shame that the original videos had to be upscaled with AI magic.

Is Tempest Rising worth a try?

Is Stormgate finally dead now?

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Is Tempest Rising worth a try?

I heard it's pretty good if you like that style of RTS

Is Stormgate finally dead now?

It was never alive.

 

[Most Wanted Banana]

Stronghold 4 has been announced. The demo will be available on the 23rd of this month.

 

[BibiLivesMatter]

Stronghold 4 has been announced. The demo will be available on the 23rd of this month.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=G5iFil7KIIg

Never played a stronghold game before, is it like a more in depth Age of Empires? Kind of looks like that type of game, but with more mechanics and longer games?

 

[Kane Lives]

Never played a stronghold game before, is it like a more in depth Age of Empires? Kind of looks like that type of game, but with more mechanics and longer games?

Haven't watched the trailer yet, but Stronghold is more of a ... mix of tower defense/simple econ sim than a RTS. There are RTS elements involved, but a lot of it is just building more of your shit than your enemy and then letting them kill whatever you point it towards. Basically an arcade castle builder, if you will. They Are Billions and Diplomacy Is Not An Option are clearly spiritual successors, in that sense.

 

[Defensive Ella Purnell]

I've been playing From Glory to Goo, put off getting it for ages even though it was like 12AUD because I don't like the pixel art but it absolutely shits all over Thry Are Billions and similar games. Highly recommend.

 

[KZ27]

Companychads, we're eating good this year.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Stronghold 4 has been announced. The demo will be available on the 23rd of this month.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=G5iFil7KIIg

It just looks like a graphical update. Is there anything new in this trailer other than the ingame events? The cutscenes look very out of place too.

 

[foam rolla]

Companychads, we're eating good this year.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tnVoeTSC4rU

I wonder if they're making this since COH3 didn't meet the hype.

 

[Mysterious Girlfriend X]

The voice acting puts modern games to shame.

Not just the voice acting, but the sound effects. Everything from the sounds of the structures doing their things to the way each particular weapon killed someone was done perfectly.

And the music. The music!

Is Tempest Rising worth a try?

If you like C&C, you'll like Tempest Rising.

 

[Snekposter]

If you like C&C, you'll like Tempest Rising.

Yeah, solid game. Both the Tempest Dynasty and the GDF manage to mix up and integrate both their respective C&C counterparts to create something that's both easily identifiable yet extremely unique, if that makes sense.

Also, the Mammoth Tank copy pulls double duty as a copy of the SC Siege Tank by deploying into an artillery piece, which is badass.

 

[56 others]

DUST FRONT DEMO IS OUT ON STEAM
It fucking rocks, it feels like Generals

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

DUST FRONT DEMO IS OUT ON STEAM
It fucking rocks, it feels like Generals

looks pretty cool but from the look of it would never guess Generals kinda gameplay
thing gives me 40k vibe
will check out

 

[56 others]

looks pretty cool but from the look of it would never guess Generals kinda gameplay
thing gives me 40k vibe
will check out

It's the closest thing Ive played to a C&C RTS since 2007. Its definitely not a clone, but the units, the way they control, and the way you build out your base feels like C&C

 

[Lurking no more]

The Stronghold 4 demo is out on Steam. I haven't had a chance to play it yet, so I can't say if it's any good or not.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Never played a stronghold game before, is it like a more in depth Age of Empires? Kind of looks like that type of game, but with more mechanics and longer games?

Basically but the castle building is extremely detailed. If it existed in the middle ages it exists (undermining walls, oil pots, trebuchets as a thing if I recall that you have to build on site, ladders, tower galleries, etc.)


Edit: On that trebuchet thing, the reason I care is that games often treat siege engines as field artillery (lol) or at best movable siege artillery that you limber and unlimber like a cannon, but siege engines were usually things you had to build ON SITE. That's often what ends the siege; you're just trying to buy time before their trebuchet was set up.

 

[geckogoy]

The Stronghold 4 demo is out on Steam. I haven't had a chance to play it yet, so I can't say if it's any good or not.

I am tbh pretty shocked, I thought for sure 3 was the death of them based on the stories I heard about development and the state of their finances

Supposedly its still firefly, I wonder if its the same dudes or just the husk picked up in some IP selloff or something