For me, if I ever hear "card-based" or "soulslike" I have absolutely no desire to play a game, no matter how many people reccomend it.

I'm also not a huge fan of modern "roguelikes" but I've sunk days into nethack and games like that.

  • dannoffs [he/him]
    hexagon
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    6 months ago

    The only RTS I ever liked was lego rock raiders, and that's probably because I was a child with nothing else to do.

    • AernaLingus [any]
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      edit-2
      6 months ago

      Loose rock!

      A landslide has occured!

      I also dug Lego Rock Raiders as a kid. Come to think of it, I don't think I've played an RTS in about 20 years:

      • Lego Rock Raiders
      • Warcraft III
      • Age of Empires II
      • The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth (1 & 2)
      • Rise of Nations
      • Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds

      I never got too heavily into the "strategy" part--I just loved being able to have these battles play out with catapults and horsemen and the occasional Dodge Viper with machine guns (howdoiturnthison is forever burned into my memory). I particularly enjoyed how your units could get upgrades and rank up, and they'd carry across missions in BFME so you could make them absurdly powerful. I also remember the graphics being pretty impressive to me--I spent a lot of time just zooming in on units and watching their idle animations and stuff.