If you don't want to spend 6 months of your life learning the intricacies of a strategy game or several hours doing stupid stuff during battles like mining for resources, I highly recommend World in Conflict...an awesome action-based RTS war game.

16 player battles > 2 player matches

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Originally posted by Cpt.Cocaine I find it ironic that you'd use that as an example here because starcraft is far deeper and more complex than chess.

chess is all about strategy. starcraft is all about tactics and superior micro.

...and world in conflict is all about not being able to play RTS games for adults.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN chess is all about strategy. starcraft is all about tactics and superior micro.

Theres plenty of strategy involved in build orders, appropriate scouting times and predicting actions and movements of your enemy. In particular hiding things/making your enemy think things.

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter Theres plenty of strategy involved in build orders, appropriate scouting times and predicting actions and movements of your enemy. In particular hiding things/making your enemy think things.

none of that is strategy, lol.

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Ignore pk..he's a whore for supcom which is one of the most tedious games of all time. Sure he can probably kick your ass when it comes to memorizing 60 different types of ammunition and 200 different ground vehicles, but he wouldn't know fun if it bit him in the ass.

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Originally posted by Capitalizt Ignore pk..he's a whore for supcom which is one of the most tedious games of all time. Sure he can probably kick your ass when it comes to memorizing 60 different types of ammunition and 200 different ground vehicles, but he wouldn't know fun if it bit him in the ass.

true and that right there is the definition of strategy, lol.

To show off your sparkly machine it's worth looking at :-

Crysis (mentioned)
World in Conflict (mentioned)
Call of Duty 4 - you've most likely seen it but if you haven't the single player is up there with Bioshock as the best experience ever created. COD5 is rubbish in comparison.

GTA4 is out or coming out on PC, there's usually a healthy glut of PC MP mods.

Coming soon will be Operation Flashpoint 2 and ARMA 2

Enemy Territory Quake Wars is a superb MP experience that never really took off. There's probably a few good servers about in the US though.

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Originally posted by Capitalizt Ignore pk..he's a whore for supcom which is one of the most tedious games of all time. Sure he can probably kick your ass when it comes to memorizing 60 different types of ammunition and 200 different ground vehicles, but he wouldn't know fun if it bit him in the ass.

just coz you like games for simpletons don't take out your lack of skill on me little boy! starcraft is an awesome game (and lots of fun!) but that doesn't mean its particularly strategic. its a game that is almost completely dominated by tactics and smart unit micro.

good to see kinetic energy back in here parading his ignorance. you've been missed!

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN just coz you like games for simpletons don't take out your lack of skill on me little boy! starcraft is an awesome game (and lots of fun!) but that doesn't mean its particularly strategic. its a game that is almost completely dominated by tactics and smart unit micro. good to see kinetic energy back in here parading his ignorance. you've been missed!

You're understanding of the word "strategy" is the only ignorance in here. Don't hate

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY You're understanding of the word "strategy" is the only ignorance in here. Don't hate

haha! no, its people confusing tactics with strategy! a build order is not strategy.

strategy - the overall "plan" for the game.
tactics - how you go about following your plan.

most RTS titles focus mostly on tactics (which is fine, that's where most of the fun comes from).

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN haha! no, its people confusing tactics with strategy! a build order is not strategy. strategy - the overall "plan" for the game. tactics - how you go about following your plan. most RTS titles focus mostly on tactics (which is fine, that's where most of the fun comes from).

Because so many chess players have this overall plan for the game besides winning...

I fail to see how build orders is not strategy yet some things you do in chess are?

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