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Any suggestions for a good RTS that will play on my laptop? I have plenty of RAM and processor power - my problem is with the video card.

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Originally posted by ChrstnMchl Any suggestions for a good RTS that will play on my laptop? I have plenty of RAM and processor power - my problem is with the video card.

Dune 2.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/21760/

The game is very scalable and should play fine on medium settings @ 1024x768.

P.S. Ignore pk when he starts whoring his shitty supcom game in a few minutes. If you want a fun game without wasting hours mining resources, building power plants, and other tedious crap before the battle begins, get the one I posted.

his specs arent good enough for FA, fuckwit. and its still amusing to see you judging a game you've never played.

and just for good measure



it doesnt get any more epic than that.

Starcraft broodwar, warcraft 3 tft (especially for custom maps, but if you don't like them might not be worth it).

and yes supreme commander is pretty good. Eu rome is pretty fun and pretty cheap nowdays, as is EU3 HTTT (there's a new demo out of the latest expansion which is only 265.5mb btw).

Majesty 2 is quite fun, and looks great with suprisingly low system requirements. Dungeon keeper is good too.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN and just for good measure

Meanwhile let's show him how it actually looks..



zzzzzz...

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Originally posted by Capitalizt Meanwhile let's show him how it actually looks.. zzzzzz...

Looks interesting to me.

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter Looks interesting to me.

yep. still the best looking RTS on the market...FA is 2 years old and supcom turns 3 soon. capitalizt has decent taste in games (as far as the big-budget mainstream goes) but supcom was simply too deep and complex for him.

There's such a thing as too much depth pk. Having to study the ins and outs of 100 different items that do virtually the same thing is a waste of time.. I also couldn't get past the annoying resource mining and 20 minute prematch preparation with power plants and other shit..Yep, I'm an impatient casual gamer...and I think 90% of other gamers are as well. I don't mind strategy RPG's, chess, or other games with thousands of possible outcomes. A good game should have complex outcomes available from simple beginnings. Supcom has complex outcomes from insanely complex beginnings. I gave it a few days and realized it would take weeks (or months) of study and reading a bunch of guides to discover how everything worked. Recommending that people buy something that takes months of study and practice before they can have a decent match is doing them a disservice..it would be a waste of their time and $$. This is why I always pop up in gaming threads in the COR to warn them against it. We are not talking about hardcore gamers here.. Once they get pwned in Supcom and see the bewildering amount of shit they need to figure out to survive more than a few minutes, they will throw their hands up in despair and give up gaming entirely. Supcom is probably a great RTS but it is a niche game meant for a niche audience that values uber-complexity and doesn't mind spending hundreds of hours learning the ins and outs. It's not a good recommendation for noobs who don't usually play games.

I really dug the Age of Mythology series. Graphics are kind of WC3-esque, but the faqctions/units are all based on Greek, Norse and Egyptian myth. It kind of just throws shit together, but it's a fine RTS if you are a fan of the typical RTS formula.

forged alliance was the easiest RTS to learn and most transparent RTS ive ever played. just because you struggled with it doesn't mean its hard to learn.

There wasn't really anything particularly complicated about supreme commander apart from the economy (and the physics calculations ). Although admitably that was pretty damn hard to muster.

But honestly, I guess my standards for complication have just been raised.

I mean compare to eu3 with the magni mundi mod
-Have to watch my back, and make sure my military doesn't appear to weak so as to tempt invasion
-Have to make sure no other country becomes too strong
-Have to manage religion and factions in the country
-Have to manage rebels and how rebellious certain areas are
-Have to keep the colonists happy and make sure the colonies are keeping a profit
-Have to manage spending on anti piracy measures
-Have to keep up with technology
-Have to make sure I've got the right national focus
-Generally have to keep the balance of power
-Keep checks on the holy roman empire
etc

Compared to making sure that I have enough mass, and knowing when to upgrade my mex it really isn't too much. Although admitably that is a bit hard to balance.

The only strategy game that I've played that I've found genuinly too complicated was probably Victoria. Where admitably diplomacy was a bit simpler, but you had to manage complex economics and politics. Which was just a bit mind melting. Although it has a lot of hardcore fans and I might try getting over the hurdle to enjoy it some day.

Honestly all you need to know with supreme commander is a basic understanding of the economy, that artillery suck v.s. moving targets, that anti air beats air, and about the navy and you can learn the rest through experimentation.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN forged alliance was the easiest RTS to learn and most transparent RTS ive ever played. just because you struggled with it doesn't mean its hard to learn.

I'd definitely agree with transparent, good word for it.

love company of heroes, check out heroes of newerth too, more like dota however

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN forged alliance was the easiest RTS to learn and most transparent RTS ive ever played.

k, look what I just bought..

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...e=STRK:MEWNX:IT

If I'm disappointed I'll be suing you for $8 in damages pk.

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Originally posted by Capitalizt k, look what I just bought.. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...e=STRK:MEWNX:IT If I'm disappointed I'll be suing you for $8 in damages pk.

Lol, jesus I didn�t say YOU�D like it though. if you weren�t into supcom then I doubt there�s anything FA can do to change your mind.

I hope you at least appreciate that the game is all about fighting and map control now, NOT the economy (so much). Its still a handful, but I never really understood how to play supcom, but FA is a million times easier.

I saw a video of Red Alert 3 and it looked pretty fun..I guess it kinda rekindled my interest in larger scale RTS games. FA is supposed to be an improvement over supcom..and supcom was supposedly better than Red Alert..so we'll see.

Defense Grid: The Awakening is pretty simple. You can get a good game in, in less than 30 mins.

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY Defense Grid: The Awakening is pretty simple. You can get a good game in, in less than 30 mins.

Is that a td?

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Originally posted by Capitalizt I saw a video of Red Alert 3 and it looked pretty fun..I guess it kinda rekindled my interest in larger scale RTS games. FA is supposed to be an improvement over supcom..and supcom was supposedly better than Red Alert..so we'll see.

I stole Red Alert 3 and still felt ripped off. I'd avoid it if I were you.

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter Is that a td?

Yes, and it kicks ass. I was surprised how good it was.

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Originally posted by Capitalizt Yes, and it kicks ass. I was surprised how good it was.

yup, It's a lot of fun. Gameplay is rock solid, and it get's challenging. Payed a whole $2 for it.

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