I liked Warcraft III and its expansion the most out of all the Warcraft games. Good gameplay, good UI, good visual and audio presentation, good netcode, good campaign, good modding tools, and obviously full of SOUL with all the easter eggs and the outro song.
Starcraft was way ahead of its competition in everything, including production values.
Starcraft was ahead in UI, responsiveness, the story based campaign, and just polish and stability. It wasn't innovative, it wasn't better looking or better sounding, it wasn't original.
And not like it's self-defeating one when it comes to "being ahead of the curve". Because as much of a second string boring cutout representative of a genre already well on a crash course with a concrete wall as KKND2 was, at least it mastered marvelous technology of scaling res, up to a fairly standard at that point 1024x768. But that's as far as you can go with SC - compare it to other basic 2d rts based on personal preferences and even on that arena it hardly shines - something like Dark Colony is a way sexier game imo, and it came out a year earlier.I'd strongly contest the UI claim tbf. 12 units max at a time is enough to ridicule it, but when SC came out I was way too used to different forms of automation, queuing, selection, orders, formations etc that prestigious 1997 releases allowed for. Of course there's an argument that SC didn't need any of that, being the game that it was, but still.
Do you mean Age of Empires and Myth? Or older stuff, like C&C or Dune? Those are the period RTS I've played, and they all control worse than Starcraft, and the UI isn't as good.
Dark Colony being "sexy" you say???That's your example?
TA and Dark Reign are the best examples of classic rts that really raised the bar when it comes to options allowing for different unit behaviors, production/economy automation, queuing various stuff etc. But Myth is also a good example when it comes to different formations and their use, although its UI is nothing special in general (but boy, was it groundbreaking in lots of other ways). And the arguments for 12 unit limit are a bit too... outlandish for me, sorry. Like I said, that part alone is utterly ridiculous and I always felt like one of the actual reasons for it was that it was the maximum number of those small unit icons with dmg status they could fit in the window, which made it even more stupid.
That's exxxtreme high iq goalpost moving. But remember, a 640x480 2d rts was way ahead of the competition in production values in 1998.
Not sure if more fake news or hot takes, but why not both, eh.
In that case Total Annihilation is the best RTS of the 20th century
They went onto bigger if not better things for sure. I often think how cool an evolution of Myth would be. Like mixing a D&D style RPG where you control a small party with independent units and armies going about their business as in Myth. For example your party could assist a village and its gathered militia against a goblin incursion. Anyway, slim chances of a game like that happening anymore with the sad direction the hobby has gone in.
Some Warcraft III campaigns kind of play like that. And in general, Warcraft III is your Myth successor game, sort of.
TA's engine is amazing and goes well beyond that with not modding needed.In that case Total Annihilation is the best RTS of the 20th century
Fake news itt? Impossibru.
