Sticking with only one genre or style while fine, really limits the
amount of enjoyment you can have. There could be a gem of a game just
waiting for you to play, online or not.

Turn-Based Strategy is boss.

If you have no interest in clicking on monsters and then clicking on
spells then you'll have no real interest in GW. I liked it for a while,
253 hours worth in less than a month. I just stopped playing. I
recently reinstalled it to find that some scrub haxored my account and
deleted everything. Oh well, I was just going to run around selling
crazy good items for 1 gold apiece. Keep to mapping. If you do get into
GW it will probably consume you for a while, at least if you're
anything like me (I'm not suggesting you're a deranged gaming junkie,
just saying maybe you like the similar games :wink: )

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PixelGames

I own GW, but I wasn't as hooked as some people. Probably because I had
my 'hooked' days with Diablo II years ago. I also own a lot of RPGs
both on and offline so I tend to spread my time between them all.

Team Fortress Classic/Counter-Strike/Day of Defeat, Diablo 2 (and its
expansion), and World of Warcraft are the only things that ever hooked
me... in that order. WoW would have had me in its grips for
longer if it weren't for the monthly subscription fee + back to school
time.

When I visited the WoW website it scared me! You have to pay something
like $30 a month! Total ripoff, and even insane gamers shouldnt waste
so much money! I like all games, but my favriotes are Strategy,
Simulator, and gun games (Not Quake, but Half-Life and stuff). I quite
like Civilisation 2 having played it properly.

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I would love to change the world, But they would'nt give me the source code.

It's something like 13 bucks a month, and it was worth it over the
summer. I mean, just think about the other things you can get for
13 bucks. In my town that's only enough for 1.3 movies at the
theater. So instead of seeing 1.3 movies, you can play an entire
month of WoW....

At school it doesnt make any sense though, since I rarely have any free time.

I think I voted for Strategy- I just love Red Alert 2, C&C games have gone so far downhill since the old times. 3D is not the way.

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I agree. I have the C&C Theater of War set sitting on my desk.

Its a pity that. I much prefered it 2D. Made it much more fun. I never
really liked Generals. The only 3D strategy game I like was
Emporer:Battle for Dune.

The image on the left is the classic "Sand Worm" about to devour some poor tank.

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I would love to change the world, But they would'nt give me the source code.

I think 3D is not the reason that the CnC series went downhill. 3D can
actually be used quite well as it allows some more graphical freedom,
and with a good default camera stance it isn't essentially different
from 2D.

What I believe the CnC games were so strong in is their story and how
it was implemented with the gameplay and gameplay elements. Take
tiberium - not only was it a key element in the story, it also was the
resource for your army and harmfull to infantery making it even more
than just a steady source of income. In Tiberian Sun they used it good
just as well introducing the Forgotten, the idea's behind Tiberium and
all.

That lacks in most RTS these days. Generals played ok but I was
disappointed by the storyline enormeously. It isn't worthy of the CnC
name at all. Recently I bought Codename Panzers: Phase one and though
it played nicely and had a great deal of detail, it's story lacked just
as well that depth that I liked so much in the early CnC games.

Red Alert was fun for me too though I felt it was too much just a mod
of CnC. Red Alert 2, although funny at times, felt way over the top.
The later units just lost every touch with reality which made the game
so much less believable to me. Tanks that are destroyed by infantery as
cookies... Buildings being chrono-erased... not really my taste.

/CnC rant... I just loved those first CnC games and it's a shame there's no good sequel to them these days...

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Actually.. the Warcraft series has been great for RTS, imo. They
have a great story, which, like you pointed out Cap, is
important. The most recent games have great 3D graphics with a
lot of style and humor.

WC3 and FT are definitely up there on my all time list.

A great 3D RTS is Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War. I normally don't like the
40K world (for actual Warhammer models I deal with fantasy) but this
game was a hell of a lot of fun.