Gaming

30568 readers

41 users here now

From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!

Please Note: Gaming memes are permitted to be posted on Meme Mondays, but will otherwise be removed in an effort to allow other discussions to take place.

See also Gaming's sister community Tabletop Gaming.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Warcraft 2 / Starcraft type games ( or clones, or engine recreations ) (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago by skele_tron@feddit.de to c/gaming

26 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Im missing a lot of charm that w2 and first starcraft games had, and i did not see any open engine recreations, nor clones that lived to this day. With warcraft 3 i only ever finished half of the game, by the time sc2 came out, i was already too old to even bother trying.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] millie 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If you've never played Dune 2 or Dune 2000 or whatever other iterations and remakes of the Dune RTS series, I strongly recommend it. It seems like a lot of Warcraft's DNA comes from Dune.

[–] madkarlsson 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"Seems like"? Dune 2 is the template which most RTS is derived from. Truly a genre defining game

[–] millie 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, seems like. Like when I was a kid and I played Dune 2, then played Warcraft a few years later, the one seemed to inherit most of its ideas from the other.

But I didn't like go look up the dates or exhaustively check that no other game came up with the format first. I know the first Age of Empires is somewhere vaguely in that same time span too, but I'm not certain of the order.

Thus seems.

[–] madkarlsson 1 points 10 months ago

Oh sorry it seemed offensive or negative in any way, I just wanted to clarify that "seems like" i s a vast understatement. Dune 2 predates all of them, and became a template for mechanics and layouts. We've gone a long way since, but dune was the first of the models that we build RTS games as today