What are the prettiest looking 2d rts games in your opinion (or just strategy games in general)?Why don't developers go back to 2d, it's better for strategy gamesI like Twisted Insurrection, Anno 1503, SunAge, AoE DE, and Desert Law (the game is not great but it looks like a crpg, like Fallout II or Planescape, cool visuals)
>>2356187That game is SunAge btw, pretty obscure, it was decent
Desert Law is basically a Mad Max rtsIt looks cool but the game is just alright
Rising Kingdoms is very prettyGood game
Celtic kings / Imperivm IIIUnderrated game
NebuCHADnezzar
Pre-rendered graphics make the experience feel more immersive
Alexander 2004I don't know if this game is good or not, but it looks beautiful
>>2356217One of the better not cossacks games.
>>2356209cool to see these devs are cooking a kino mediaeval manager it seems
CulturesNation is quite cute. It's standalone mod of 2000 game Cultures. But I think there is only Polish version.https://culturesnation.pl/
KaM Remake: standalone open remake of 1998 game Knights and Merchants.https://www.moddb.com/mods/kam-remake
>>2356198>>2356206>>2356217any of these games are actually good tho?
D.O.R.F. is looking pretty cool
anytime soon
Mental Omega is great but I suck
same with Tisted Insurrection, it reminds me I suck at rts games, but I still enjoy it
Indie developers are still making retro 2d games, and I think that's coolThis one is "Fertile Crescent", a decent age of empires cloneThis one looks fun too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rj212KKfWQ
3d was a mistake
Tooth and Tail
>>2356309I had fun playing Rising Kingdomshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYPRuUyWLI4&t=1293s
>>2356430They literally changed arthas from the chad pose into the virgin pose
>>2356304Nice, I never played this, maybe it's a good opportunity to try it
>>2356438cool, is it similar to battle realms?
stronghold crusader
>>2356198You are the only person besides me that played it. Spent more than a decade on imageboards and have never anybody else mention it. Very pretty graphics indeed, although the campaign was a bit subpar. The ending is also extremely anticlimatic.
>>2356309Hell no.
>>2356975Something always turns me off about this franchise....maybe it's when I see the enemy approaching in long lines like ants full of bullet sponge enemies
>>2357004I have the exact same problem with this game lol
>>2356298Thank you I didn't know about this mod and I played Cultures/Northland/8thW for over a decade
>>2356429>CheeselordsI swear on me mum some of these devs just throw dildos at a wall with names like VICE and pick the most retarded and unappealing and nonsensical combinations. They are ensuring total marketing and sale failure by being so fucking retarded and uncaring about optics.How is RTS supposed to ever re-emerge when you have these clowns naming their games CHEESELORDS? How about SMEGMA MASTERS? Maybe LETTUCE COMBATANTS? Or CALI WALI HOT FRANK? Nothing says "RTS" like CALI WALI HOT FRANK
>>2356187>What are the prettiest looking 2d rts games in your opinionMaybe AoE2.Starcraft and Red Alert are nice looking, but not super pretty. There are screenshots of aoe2 where it just punches solidly above them, and even in normal play the bases tend to look pretty good, like if you took a random base from a booming competitive game, and then added in some roads, trees and bushes it would look very pretty. >(or just strategy games in general)?homm2, songs of conquest, age of wonders are the first that come to mind, but it's probably Anno
>>2356298>>2357151I forgot to mention the standalone mod/remake is open source, made by community. There should be English language option too. Download link to latest 1.3.1 version is kinda hidden, but I found it:https://culturesnation.pl/news.php?readmore=132->https://culturesnation.pl/serwerdownload.php?cat_id=8&download_id=344->https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m0m00ywvKjJwdHiOnPA77avuaM239-e_/view
>>2356187age of empires 2 definitive edition for me
>>2357194well the game does seem to be about producing cheese
