What are some RTS games that have a great campaign?
What are some RTS games that have a great campaign?
Anthony Bell
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Grayson Wilson
Homeworld 1 and arguably Cataclysm (or whatever the expansion is called now)
Original War
Age of Mythology
Starcraft 1 and Broodwar were pretty good too.
Michael Hughes
Heroes of Annihilated Empires is probably one of the most underrated ones. Shit's got a budget of like 8 dollars but it screams of soul.
Leo Perry
Kohan
Joshua Bennett
That one game where you control your character like in some RPG but it's also a RTS ugh I can't remember now....
Brody Torres
Spellforce
Adrian Campbell
yeah that one
Isaac Nguyen
>Kohan
Look, the first Kohan and it's expansion were amazing, and massively underrated RTS games.
But the campaigns were kinda garbage. The one in Immortal Sovereign was just terribly designed, and the ones in Ahriman's Gift were laughably short and lazy.
Kohan really only shined in skirmish or if you had a LOT of spare time, multiplayer with friends.
Still, I'm impressed that someone even remembers this game existed.
Lucas Barnes
Age of Mythology.. one of the best RTS campaigns
David Perry
Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty
Attila Total War
Hearts of Iron 4
Carter Richardson
until they introduced china expansion
Aiden Martinez
I'm sorry.. I don't understand your post. Age of Mythology never got any expansion.
Nicholas Jenkins
China ruins... everything?
Wasn't it released like 15 years after the actual game isn't even made by the same people?
It's a Titan Quest situation.
Jayden Ramirez
>Age of Mythology never got any expansion.
Benjamin Gomez
if only
all my hopes are for 0 A.D getting out of jank phase
Christian Sanchez
Warcraft 1-3 are all fantastic.
Henry Russell
Nice fan art, user
Jaxon Long
Starcraft 2
Samuel Cruz
Levi James
Rise of Legends has my favorite RTS campaign
Nolan Cox
The gameplay is great and it has good missions with interesting objectives.
Grayson Lopez
Red Alert
Bentley Cox
>Rise of Legends
To this day, I can't get over the low-fps animations of the units. I would've loved to be there when that decision was made and everyone else on the team apparently went "yeah!".
Josiah Miller
Microsoft hired Forgotten Empires, which was a group of modders who made an AoE II expansion-like mod, got it official, and then along with Skybox Labs made future expansion content for HD and AoM EE, and then later the DE versions for 1-3. They supposedly have some former Ensemble employees currently but otherwise are basically the reason 2 & 3 keep getting new shit.
Related to OP's question I'd think the last two AoE II DE DLCs have some pretty great campaigns honestly. The Forgotten and Kangdoms ones are however probably some of the weaker ones though, despite the former also getting revamped.
Jacob Roberts
I've always liked Rise of Nations.
Ethan Diaz
Nah, RoN shits all over it. RoL felt like a downgrade.
Mason Gonzalez
Huh, I never noticed that when I was playing RoL back in the day, but then again I was playing it on a potato of a PC. I just remember being impressed by all the details on the units.
Colton Clark
>Huh, I never noticed that when I was playing RoL back in the day, but then again I was playing it on a potato of a PC. I just remember being impressed by all the details on the units.
I mean, yeah, the game looks pretty good visually. It's just that the units have animations that either have very few key-frames within them or were recorded in like
Caleb Anderson
>What are some RTS games that have a great campaign?
They have mostly already been mentioned in this thread. Specifically Homeworld and Homeworld cataclysm. Warcraft 3 and Starcraft wings of liberty. Red alert 2. Age of mythology.
Jose Mitchell
Oliver Flores
Homeworld and CoH1
no other games compare
Jayden Thomas
I liked Empire Earth's campaigns, especially the russian one given how nuts it gets at the end
Benjamin Russell
blitzkrieg 1
Christian Howard
>especially the russian one
The Russian campaign was insane. I love it.
Kevin Gutierrez
I think they undersold themselves with that parody name
Gavin Foster
I really like AoE3 campaign story, it's like a movie.
How's AoE3 Definitive Edition anyway?
Brayden Lee
Does Dawn of War II count?
Grayson Kelly
>How's AoE3 Definitive Edition anyway?
It's pretty good. It honestly looks better than AoE4. If you liked AoE3, go for it.
Aaron Barnes
Age of Mythology is my favourite. I play it at least once a year desu.
Daniel Adams
Okay, that does look horribly janky. Like I said, I probably didn't notice it as much because my setup used to be crap, but I can completely understand why that would take you out of the game.
Luis Hughes
>Age of Mythology is my favourite.
It might be blasphemous to say but I think I like Age of Mythology even more than Age 2.
Leo Thompson
Fuck yeah it does
Christopher Evans
>mfw Armies of Exigo difficulty spike
Jackson Jenkins
Jordan Diaz
I know it's not a "pure" RTS but I still like it.
Dominic Sanchez
Is AoE1 worth playing today? I got it with the other definitive edition AoE games but I never hear people talk about it.
Matthew Robinson
it still blows my mind battle realms didn't catch on. then again, I forget that was around the time warcraft 3 was released.
>I am Kenji, Lord of the Serpent Clan, and my ancestor broke the world.
Jayden Anderson
every single Command & Conquer game.
Hunter Clark
Cameron Foster
>Is AoE1 worth playing today? I got it with the other definitive edition AoE games but I never hear people talk about it.
Hard to say, really. It definitely has aged. The definitive edition does make a good job to make it look better, at least but if you've played AoE2 or AoM before and try to go back to AoE1, it might be hard.
Christian Williams
It's more that AoE2 has superseded it in every way. I guess there's the campaign appeal if you care.
Jacob Ward
>it still blows my mind battle realms didn't catch on. then again, I forget that was around the time warcraft 3 was released.
I bought it back when it came out on a whim and loved it.
Nathan Young
Battle Realms
Company of Heroes
Hunter Nguyen
Hate me all you want but for me it's Tiberian Sun.
Mason Watson
David Watson
It's real-time tactics so debatable, but yes. I absolutely love Myth. Closest we'll get to a Black Company adaptation and first two games have some of the most depressing campaigns.
Christian Phillips
Incredible campaigns but theyre rtt not rts
Ryder Thomas
Anyone played this?
Xavier Clark
This guy knows his shit
Yeah, but nobody outside of Yea Forums will know the difference. For casuals it's simply a strategy game.
Jaxon Campbell
The shift to linear perspective rendering was a mistake. Orthographic looks better and gives these single viewpoint RTS games more clarity.
Jason Gonzalez
Emergence
Xavier Diaz
what the fuck WAS with that mission, though? you're barely out of tutorial and game hits you with the most difficult mission in the entire game.
Gabriel Phillips
Grayson Hill
No. It's one of those situations where the sequel made the original obsolete.
Alexander Collins
Stormrise was fun
Dominic Butler
Wish I did.
Petroglyph might not always make good games but they are at least interesting for a playthrough
Luis Ross
That looked liked Theris, it has been a long time since you sent him to the underworld Arkantos, fighting old battles again?
Christian Gonzalez
Anyone remember Dragonshard? It was a pretty middling RTS, but I really liked how it handled hero integration and how they were off doing dungeon crawling as well. I liked the hero unit implementation better than the way WC3 did it.
David Walker
Honestly it's one of those cases where it's mogged by its sequels in almost every way, but the ancient civilization setting can be a good reason enough to try it out. The campaigns themselves are very dry comparatively, what with a general lack of both event triggers and voiced dialogue with funny accents, but instead cover a larger period of time for a given civ than just following one or two military commanders; Glory of Greece for example goes from Athens initially overcoming other Greek tribes, to covering the Trojan War, Xenophon's March, and Alexander the Great.