Sci Fi RTS

Hey,

I like games like AOM, Rise of Legends, Starcraft etc.

Any other good ones you can reccomend?

 

Sins of a Solar Empire.

'nuff said.

 

Supreme Commander+Expansion.

 

Dawn of War (and expansions Winter Assualt, Dark Crusade, Soul Storm)

 

Star Wars: Empire at War can be fun, but skip the expansion. The game just feels unbalanced with the addition of the new overpowered faction, imho.

 

Dawn Of War > all

 

Dawn of War is great fun but it's half sci-fi and half fantasy. Orcs and all.

Of the games mentioned so far, only Sins did not come with SecuROM DRM on it. Supreme Commander's expansion Forged Alliance, had parts of it disabled, but the program itself is still there and operative, doing other things.

 

Plus, Supreme Commander is like commanding a bunch of dots around the screen. All the detail is lost due to the large scope of the game.

 

supreme commander is VERY VERY different from all the other starcraft-esque rts games. It's worth a shot but dawn of war would be more familiar to you.

Sins of a Solar Empire isn't strictly just rts but its fun too.

 

Sins is a great RTS for those of use older folk that have lost the twitch reflexes. C&C3 is great, but many battles require a quick wit and reflexes. I'm slowing down with both.

Dawn of War games are fun, but they're not really Sci-Fi, more fantasy based. I'm a sci-fi fan myself, and look forward to Starcraft 2. Don't know of many other sci-fi based RTS's that are decent of recent.

 

Homeworld and Homeworld 2 are my recommendations, another plus is that you don't need a beefy laptop to run both games maxed out.

 

C&C3 could also be considered sci-fi-ish.

 

fantasy is fine also

 

Why is the warhammer 40K universe (Dawn of War) not considered Scifi?

How much more scifi can you get than genetically altered superhumans fighting aliens and religious nutters for a galactic spanning empire that makes the nazi regime look like puppies and happiness?

 

I'd recommend C&C 3 also

 

Yeah, not too sure on what everyone is saying here either.... And if you do get the game, try out some of those User Mods which do away with the pop caps...imagine truly massive battles (sorta like the Epic minis scale). Plus you can max it out easily as well.

 

Orcs, goblins, devil worshippers and demons should clear that right up.

 

Dawn of War, it's an epic game.

 

If anything StarCraft is Science Fantasy and DoW is Science Fiction, I cant see how you can argue that fact?

EDIT: Sorry for the double post

 

And I'm sure we should call just about every "Sci-fi" game that has a non-human race in it fantasy?

That would basically knock down most games, including star wars, starcraft, supreme commander as a fantasy game.

Sci-fi stands for Science Fiction. Fiction pertaining to the opposite of non-fiction, if you didn't know.

So it's basically "fantasy," except in the future.

 

Krorks (Orks) were a genetically engineered fungal creatures created by the Slann which hold comman traits to orcs of fantasy (because warhammer was created first and 40K had to use alot of the same molds due to GW's lack of funds in the 70's).

There are no goblins in 40K...the closest thing i can think of there are Gretchlings and Snotlings. But they're just small orks (they have to grow up basically)

No devils in 40K either. Closest thing was Malal, but he was killed by the most powerful of gods...Copyright Law

Deamons are actually extra dimensional creatures. But "deamons" fit better into the fluff of High Dark Gothic setting that 40K is.

I understand your view though, Dawn of War is pretty storyline lite. So the "orcs and elves in space" arguement does hold alot of truth. I was a rouge trader (independant GW rep for spreading the game) from Dark Millenium until they killed the program (about 10 years) and have played for almost 15 so the background of the setting holds a special place in my heart.

 

Straw man ... here! That would be a very silly idea.

That's why nobody would use that entirely silly definition.

Thanks for the much-needed English lesson. You've saved the world for another day.

Sure, you can just say words have no meaning if you like. Your call.

Obviously there is a difference between bumping into alien races like you would do in sci-fi and bumping into orcs, goblins, demons, trolls, devil-worshippers, and fairies. (DOW has 4 out of the first five.) You don't have to like it, but it's just not something that isn't clear.

 

Goblins operate the machine guns on top of the Orc towers in DOW. The acolytes are obviously the DOW equivalent of devil-worshippers. The horned beast that the Orcs can summon is another instance of something we can try to finesse if we feel like it, but let's face it ... it's just a fictional convention. We all know what fantasy characters these are. And they were put in there for precisely that appeal.

Me, I like it. And that's good enough for me. Fantasy in space is fine. I just think once you start calling it science fiction you might as well throw all language out the window and just start calling things whatever you want.