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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.

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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.

Last edited by Capitalizt on Dec-25-2009 at 03:37

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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Last edited by Darkarbiter on Dec-25-2009 at 09:05

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN and just for good measure

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



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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.

Last edited by Capitalizt on Dec-30-2009 at 15:54

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.

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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.