Which RTS has the BEST unit chatter of all time?Blizzard is renowned its 4th-wall breaking "comedy" lines in WC/SCRelic has a combination of both gritty chatter and the occasional comedy in DoW/CoHHomeworld has realistic ambient radio chatterAoE2 has standard lines, but is native to each of 45 civilizations AoE4 has the language advance to suit the periodPersonally, I think Homeworld games have the best chatter because of the immersion
Relic was peak for its variety. I don't think any other game has units call you out for ridiculous orders like trying to attack a tank with riflemen. Blizzard's lines, while certainly classic, would be considered trite today.
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>>1933946steel division: normandy 44
>>1933946CoH 1 and it's not close.
DoW 1 and it's not close.
SC 1 and it's not close.
>>1933946Homeworld for the actual quality of the lines
Majesty 1 and it’s not close.
>>1933946CoH has a lot of voice lines for different situations and moods. The radio static you hear when the units are far away is a nice touch.EndWar has voice lines not just for different unit types but also for individual units of the same type hailing from their respective codenamesAge of Empires 3 has you command multinational armies of regular soldiers, outlaws, mercenaries and natives so there's a bunch of different languages thrown around. And even units speaking the same language can use different dialects.I also like Star Trek Armada's for no particular reason. Nostalgia, I guess.
>>1933946CoH2 gets my vote. Lots of gems there. Could listen to voice line compilations for hours to get me through work back in the day.
For me it's DoW2 because of all the dynamic responses that let you know what's happening with your units. Like specific voice calling out being attacked by specific enemy. And they also had good voice actingOther than that HW games has really cool chatter, and Warcraft 3 in general had cool lines and voice work.>>1934100many ppl hate on AoE3, but I really liked it
>>1934100>EndWar has voice lines not just for different unit types but also for individual units of the same type hailing from their respective codenamesdon't forget that they have different voicelines based on experience. Rookie units are hesitant while veteran units are cocky.If you put a rookie command vehicle's in danger they start cursing you which is great. That game was soulful but very very mediocre to play.
>>1933993>mom, can we have 40k?>no, we have 40k at home
>>1933955"Let's snatch that point Lads"
>>1933946Brutal Legend and Dawn of War 2 (plus expansions) are the two games that I know that have gone far and beyond with this. All speaking units have various lines suited for every possible situation they might find themselves in. As a small trade-off there are also silent or just grunting ones but you shouldn't expect eloquence out of voracious space bugs.Brutal Legend:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV5iZ6BvceY (Doviculus, the "hero" of Emperor of the Tainted Coil faction)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LOFLpzEvTM (Scream Vagon, Tainted Coil's buffing unit)Dawn of War 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWVPP_lUL38 (Warlock hero of the Eldar)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFs4_8sJTT0 (Diomedes from Retribution, force commander for Space Marines)
>>1933946Command and conquer generals & zero hour by far>OKAY OKAY I WILL WORK>Can I have some shoes?>What are they, protestors?
>>1934452for me it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb6cSEI1FLk
>>1933946DoW1 and CoH1. CoH1 has some fantastic lines."SARGE? ARE YOU HIGH?""DOES YOUR MOMMA KNOW YOU'RE A FUCKING IDIOT?"
https://youtu.be/hB5f-9lWypE
>>1933949>>1933955>>1934634CoH3 was soooo disappointing when it came to quotes (although I never bought it so I might be wrong). Most of it is literally taken from the first game. Knew some nostalgiafags who praised it for this reason while I was like "they couldn't even come up with new stuff to say?"
>>1933955https://youtu.be/yw4sZfKPinY?t=177https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1wsBrH4RN4
>>1934634I played a lot of coh1 but never heard those. How do you get them?
HOLD YOUR WEAPONS HIGH
DoW1 and nothing comes closeEven if you don't know about W40k or it's your first time playing it, it's instantly awesome and realize why people love it so much. Instant SOVL
>>1935107>You requested a Psyker, my lord?>Forward, men!>March on and stop for nothing!>The time... for KILLING!... is upon us!>WITNESS YOUR DOOM!>SPLIT YOUR THOUGHTS ASUNDEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH
>>1935107Grey Knights have some of the best delivered and voiced lines as well."THIS IS THE PUNISHMENT OF THE RIGHTEOUS, SCUM!"
World in Conflict had very nice unit chatter. Like if you zoomed close to any unit you could hear them chatting or shouting orders if they were in combat.
>>1935374WiC is one of my favorite games, but for me it loses points because 1. You have to zoom in to absurd degrees to hear this, and 2. any unit other than American and British ones will have their chatter in another languages without subtitles.Good unit chatter should have variety, immersive small talk, and most importantly be understandable otherwise it may as well be gibberish.>But I like unit chatter in other languagesIt's not always bad, but it needs to be capable of being understood. We all get what "prostagma" means after a while, that's not possible in the WiC example.
>>1935183https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilSDgI1JONw
AI will teach us what it truly means to be humanHumans will begin focusing on things AI can't match
>>1935525The the clouds dissapear and we start to kill eachother for resources and then offspring.
We are Jagdpanzer... and we hate you.Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm on the eastern front... AND SO ARE FUCKING YOU!
World in ConflictTom Clancy's EndWarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhfMinlUAaI Just look at fucking EndWar's unit audio, goddamn.
>>1933955"Duffy. Fuel? And you are smoking ciga-fucking-rette?
>When units just idle chatter about worldbuilding stuff or just banterhttps://youtu.be/tvGfCpj_dwgSovl.
>>1936374yep that's the stuffthe game might have retconned stuff and wasn't perfect at parts but it really had work in it
>>1936514>yep that's the stuff
>>1936334The cannon fodder units had this many lines? They hardly even do anything useful in the game.
>>1934543Generals unit lines are legendary and still quoted to this day across all boards.
>>1936374Such a cool unit that tears through the desert, bounces around on dunes, and runs circles around the enemy. Too bad it becomes borderline useless just a few missions in.
>>1936706They're not even controllable by you, aren't they? All I remember them doing is running to the center of the map to shoot the enemy that's doing the same.
>>1933955>if you move the screen away from a unit their dialogue gets a radio static overlyKino shit. It's also the only RTS I've played where units have different dialogue depending on their circumstances, as opposed to the generic select/move/attack trifecta. Select them when they're milling around your base you get a generic greeting, select them in the middle of a firefight and you get a panicked I'M A LITTLE FUCKING BUSY!Why don't more games do that?
>>1933946Out of all of these AoE2 is the least annoying.Get a new civ and have a slightly different experience if you got bored of the previous lines.Now the others will get some phrases stuck in your head for weeks and prevent you from enjoying it further since the repeats are so much more jarring, over time feeling like a bad rap song.
>>1937080They were also available as an off-map call-in that was also uncontrollable once deployed. You could park those at chokepoints or send them right at the enemy to spearhead an assault.
