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

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 02:49:52 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

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:

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

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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?!

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

To be honest, I dont' have much recollection of them either. I had to
thumb through my CD-ROM folder to pick out a lot of the titles. All of
them, I know, got _some_ play-time, but I don't think I finished a lot
of them.

But, again, that said more for just how _many_ RTS games were
available in the late 90s/early 2000s. You literally could not keep
track of them all.