Re: Microid's 2024 Empire of the Ants demo came out yesterday!

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 02:17:30 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, except "Dune". I never really liked that one. Too crunky in its
design. RTS weren't worth playing until C&C/Warcraft, IMHO.

Dune 2 was so awesome on my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC. I tried to
replay it, but gah its controls were awful adter playing modern RTS
games. One unit at a time?!

In fairness, I really only 'discovered' "Dune II" around the time that
I started playing "Warcraft" and (shortly afterwards) "Command &
Conquer".

    [although I played the hell out of Cryo Interactive's
     original "Dune" game. Man, that game had awesome music.]

Even with FM MIDI on my original Creative Labs' Sound Blaster in the
same PC! And nice graphics, but the genre was not for me!

Compared to those later RTS games, the limitations of "Dune II" were
really annoying, and it set my opinion of the game forever afterward.

I did have some fun with the remake, "Dune 2000", released some years
afterward which used the engine and mechanics of "Command & Conquer
II". Although even then, it never ranked that highly, just because
that game came out when there was such a glut of RTS games that it
failed to stand out amongst its peers.

Dune 2K was cool. Don't forget Emperor: Battle for Dune too!

For a while on PC, I think there were more RTS games than FPS. I can't
say I played _all_ of them, but damned if I didn't try! So many titles
almost nobody even remembers anymore: Metal Fatigue, Submarine Titans,
Dark Reign, GeneWars, Baldies, Tzar, Beatdown, Seven Kingdoms,
Firewall, Hooligans, Enemy Nations, Machines, 7th Legion and so many
more...

Tooooooooooooo many. I don't think I played those.

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