Most beloved RTS franchises

<3 RTS

  • Age of Empire

    Points: 26 49.1%

  • Dawn of War

    Points: 11 20.8%

  • Command and Conquer

    Points: 9 17.0%

  • Command and Conquer: Red Alert

    Points: 13 24.5%

  • Starcraft

    Points: 24 45.3%

  • Warcraft

    Points: 14 26.4%
  • Total voters
    53
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Which franchise do you like the most? You can vote more than once if you want to, but don't vote for every choice please. ;)
In my oppinion Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dawn of War are one of the best (maybe the greatest) RTS games there are. Fast paced action, good resource systems and awesome units. The cheesy cutscenes of CnC is a must! ;)
While Age of Empire, Starcraft and Warcraft are great games I never enjoyed them as much as CnC games (which is the RTS franchise I grew up with) or DoW.
Out of These three franchises I still like Dawn of War the most and can't wait for DoWII.


-Calle
 
ARGH CALLE! you beat me to setting up Portal: Prelude avatar and sig!!!!

P.S. Dawn Of war, C&C and Red Alert
 
Amazing memories of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Online play is crazy, tons of mods. My disk is too scratched now to install! :( Otherwise I'd still play.
 
they are the same game,mostly,and star and war are totally different,get your facts straight xD
 
I voted for AoE and DoW, both are cool games that I had alot of fun with, but DoW could use some work to become better plus tyranids (which will all be fufilled in number 2!) But im baised towards AoE because it is the game that brought me into the world of computer games! I love me some AoE!!!
 
I picked Dawn of War, Starcraft, and Age of Empires, but you didn't list my favorite RTS ever. Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds. Also, you didn't list the Total War series. My favorite is Total war game is Shogun Total War.
 
C&C is a staple. You can't call yourself an RTS fan without having played C&C at some point in time. But you also seem to have forgotten some of the newer ones as well.

Supreme Commander is by far one of the best RTS' I;ve ever played, and I'd recommend it to anyone. Homeworld 1 and 2 aren't bad either.

Starcraft was meh, I'm hoping Starcraft 2 will bring life back into it.
 
Good call on Homeworld! I couldn't get into it but thought the concept was awesome.

My favorite RTS of all time hands down is Age of Empires II with expansion. In my opinion that was the best.

However, the best Franchise would have to be C&C. They've done so much for the genre. I just got The First Decade and love it. No other company listed has produced more quality RTS games.
 
Raziel44 said:
they are the same game,mostly,and star and war are totally different,get your facts straight xD
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They are not. Only because the gameplay is alike doesn't mean they are the same games. That's like saying CoD4 and CS:S are the same games.

Cervani said:
But you also seem to have forgotten some of the newer ones as well.
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I didn't forget them. I just wanted to have the most important games in my poll.


-Calle
 
DoW.

Starcraft is a game of rock paper scissors to see who wins a lot of the time.
Only C&C game I've liked was Tiberian Sun and Firestorm. And the fact that the computer cheated in so many ways didn't hurt it too.
C&C RA 1 and 2 plus their expansions were fun, but 3 is looking bad at the moment. Pretty sure EA is going to wreck it.
AoE has too much emphasis on resource gathering. When 1/3 of your units are resource gathering units, I find that thats a bit out of hand.
Warcraft 3 and TFT were fun, but I had more fun with the single player than I did with anything else, and that didn't last too long.

Oh, and you left out Sins of a Solar Empire.
 
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