I feel like the original intention was the opposite. It was a genre where you just give orders and sit back, you dont have to do the work yourself. so its supposed to be comfy.
Boomer programmers really struggled with pathfinding and unit AI so you needed to micromanage your units like crazy to do anything efficiently.
>>736268835>It was a genre where you just give orders and sit back, you dont have to do the work yourself. so its supposed to be comfy.Did you play any of the campaigns in AoE 2?
>>736268835
An appeal of RTS was just growing your civilization/base.
>>736268835>Its kind of strange that RTS turned into an intensive and high skilled genreHow is rushing high skilled?
What other RTS scratch that comfy itch that AoE2 did?
My annoyance with modern RTS is how they completely ignore realistic weapon ranges
>>736269521Anno 1602.
>>736269521>>736268835For me its Majesty. More about that laid back style. Also Rise of Nations.
>>736268909I did. But man, they're a lot harder than I remembered now that I don't use pause commands.Like, god damn, the second Joan scenario, the first real game after the tutorial and no-build scenario and it's a 1v3. Hell of a way to start the campaigns.Attila campaign is comfy in comparison.
>>736268835>It was a genre where you just give orders and sit backthis was literally never the case in AoE2 or even AoE1
>>736269310hi, I'm one of those weirdos that only plays single playerI just like structured campaign missions with unique maps and objectives. "random map go kill the other guy" isn't very fun for me. and I suck at aggression
>>736269405sim city fans getting confused about the genre theyre playing be like
Why does no one ever speak about AoE3?
>>736268835Another relaxing genre ruined by Blizzard you say?
>>736269524>graphics will never get better than this
The thing with genres like RTS is that the appeal to normalfags, especially in the modern era where anyone can just download time wasting garbage like Vampire Survivors for 3 dollars and play that for 100 hours, is just not there. That leads to devs focusing on hardcore players, which in turn decreases the already small pool of casual players. Those casuals then turn around and bitch despite the fact that 99.99% of casuals would never play the game in question no matter how easy or approachable it is.
>>736269686perfection
How do I beat Prince Kassad in Generals on hard mode? I can't even do it using the superweapons chick ;_;
>>736269743SOVL
>>736269743>blood texture>ON THE BODY
>>736269661Not worth talking about. Too streamlined. It's the only RTS I've played where I can play on the hardest difficulty while listening to video in the background.It's what happens when you can make 5 units at a time, so no need to spam barracks, and can build both food and gold farms, so no econ micro.
Fight the opponent, not the UI.
>>736268835Two decades ago when I first played AoE2, I got my ass handed to me in the tutorial stage. You actually have to think when playing this game, as in infantry aren't good for breaking down walls and that you have to accept that your soldiers will die if you send them to attack something.
>>736269661It's just worse than AoE2 in most ways.
>>736268835It was never meant to be multiplayer, and still isn't. Multiplayer causes scumbag try hard to literally break and ruin the mechanics in ways they weren't designed for in order to speedrun matches. RTS is a genre designed for campaigns and fighting bots, and to be a somewhat laid back and relaxing genre.
>>736269661I've always liked it, but mostly because I have a major soft spot for the colonial period and musket warfare. It also had some awesome TECHNOLOGY aspects for an RTS from 20 years ago, like destructible buildings and randomly. But it was never as good as AoE2 and most people don't appreciate the setting as much as I do.
>>736270473>randomlyRagdolls* Dumb autocorrect
>>736269894Zero-K would be a lot better if its balance was more stable. It's yet another game that sees constant +5/-1 changes without having time for a genuine meta to develop.
>>736268835>War>comfy
>>736271224In a world of content creators this is no longer true. They sell your game to people.
>>736269521Tzar
>>736271224>no one's going to give you approvalThere literally is a cash prize if you're good enough.It's fine to be a casual, but this wall of cope is just disgraceful.>I NEED online strangers' validation to not feel like a shitter
>>736268884playing WC1 right now and... yeah kek
>>736269521Empire Earth.
>>736268835Its the sorta genre that sweats got into co-opted then turned the game into something only enjoyed by the 1%Its why the moba genre came into existance, its just a toned down version of rts, 0 resource management or building just a handful of units being controlled.
>>736271224>casuls are /v/edditorsWe know
>>736270578I don't think this applies at all. Most people do their own thing regardless of whether there are any balance changes or not. People adapt in 1-2 matches.
>>736271123War is extremly comfy for the most part. But don't worry, you get drafted soon enough.
I play these games exactly like that.Just sit back, relax, collect resources, amass an army and attack move towards enemy base.Kino.
>>736269639You are not a weirdo for prefering singleplayer, especially post early/mid 2000's. Now every other faggot has some hack or an exploit, like FOW remover or whatever, that completely kills the fun of multiplayer. Unless you have friends that you can play with, just avoid it.
>>736272524>a handfulI don't play assfaggots, but I do know they only control one unit and it looks boring.
Korea did irreparable damage to the RTS genre>just sit in your base clicking build orders really, really fast until you can finally go out in to the map and win da map
>>736273135Compfags ruin every genre this is universal
>>736273135>>just sit in your baseAlready wrong
>>736273135You could have stopped it.
Play BAR now
>>736273319This is retarded cope, if this was true then why do RTS with single player focus sell three copies as well?>>736269727 is right
Zero-K is the purest form of RTS. Play Zero-K instead of BAR.
>>736272562How old are you?
>>736273372All the most popular RTS games right now are singleplayer focused
>>736273510What does "popular" mean hereIf they're "popular" then why are spergs still complaining about the genre being niche?
