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Anonymous11/18/25, 08:53No.2245907
>play
>press buttons faster than the enemy
>win
Why is this considered strategy and allowed on this board? This shit is basically just Osu but without the music and in pvp mode.
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Anon11/18/25, 08:54No.2245908
this goes for all the games in the genre
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Anon11/18/25, 09:10No.2245929
So what you're saying is we should combine rhythm and RTS?
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Anon11/18/25, 09:37No.2245956
This nigga plays rts on a console
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Anon11/18/25, 09:39No.2245961
>Why is this considered strategy
It's not, but this board is very liberal when it comes to strategy since it allows visual novellas (/gsg/ games)
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Anon11/18/25, 09:48No.2245971
>unc has early onset arthritis
Vidya aren't for you anymore, old man.
Try books or something.
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Anon11/18/25, 09:49No.2245973
It's *real time* startegy.
So timing matter.
It's in the name.
Play HoMM if you need something turn-based.
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Anon11/18/25, 10:27No.2246007
>press buttons faster than the enemy
this is only half the battle
the other half is pressing the correct buttons
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Anon11/18/25, 12:27No.2246189
People like to think they're god-tier strategists, and that the only reason they lose is that the other person is faster or employed some kind of "cheese"
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Anon11/18/25, 13:14No.2246265
*laughs in LimitedViper*
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Anon11/18/25, 13:19No.2246274
pretty bad strategy to be slow and decrepit
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Anon11/18/25, 13:20No.2246275
>play
>press buttons faster than the enemy
>win
Why is this considered strategy and allowed on this board? This shit is basically just Osu but without the music and in pvp mode.
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Anon11/18/25, 13:27No.2246287
>inhale
>exhale
>live
I mean what the fuck
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Anon11/18/25, 13:43No.2246312
>I can't pause real life therefore strategy can't exist
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Anon11/19/25, 19:50No.2249661
RTS are multi unit action games.
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Anon11/20/25, 10:04No.2250513
>invent the radio
>win because i can give my guys orders faster than the radioless guys
wowowowow no. god needs to balance this out NOW
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Anon11/21/25, 08:16No.2252290
I've been saying for years, they're actually just a gradient of the same genre. RTS Games >>><<< Fighting Games >>><<< Rhythm Games
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Anon11/24/25, 23:15No.2260026
>playing pvp
You get what you deserve.
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Anon11/27/25, 04:09No.2265063
Fucking agreed. Really liked the concept of Anno games, but couldn't keep playing it because there was no effective pause and autopause.
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Anon11/27/25, 07:29No.2265239
pressing button faster than opponent is pretty much every PvP vidya .
every single game is just a skinner box of press button for stimulus. press button-->see output-->press button--->see other output
boiling down all games like this demystifies the expierence "breaks immersion" via awareness of conditioning which is the first path to breaking the conditioning.
looking back when video games was mainly nerd shit I see how people would look at gamers with pity and disgust. They are pressing buttons purely to hear the different beeps and boops on screen. and getting some sort of visual feedback as well. which amounts to something akin to masturbation.
like you could be more productive if you tried to play the piano or synthesiszer.
But anyways I agree with you OP. When I play RTS im not intersted in hitting hotkeys and other stuff. I like to sitback and enjoy the ambiance and environment of the game.
When it comes down to press button faster competitive play, I hardly see the point of a UI/UX and a graphical display.
you're more concerned with other stuff besides graphics. in competitive play.
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Anon11/29/25, 07:53No.2268708
You could make a game where there is deliberately lag between orders and action. But no one would play it.
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Anon11/29/25, 10:03No.2268780
The strategy is encoded in the proper combination of buttons pressed at the right time, just like in all games.
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Anon11/29/25, 10:24No.2268799
I'm not really the type to play RTS, but wouldn't most unit have timer to build? How does pressing button faster make you win?
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Anon11/29/25, 15:33No.2269267
Yeah I was over RTS pretty early on for the button mashing, actions-per-minute bullshit. Not gonna say its not strategy though, I just dont care for the format. There is turn based, but that feels a little too table-top for me. I loved the early Total War series for the fact it kind of combined the best of both. All turn based when it came to management but you still get to fight battles in real time with whatever resources you managed to strat into the battle in turn-based mode. It's real god damn shame they dumbed the games down so much and shitted them up with stupid mechanics. Now I can't find anything I like. The paradox stuff seems to be the next best format but it's also kind of boring not having real battles and just blobbing around. Anybody got other suggestions?
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Anon11/29/25, 16:41No.2269362
Mr Slow on YouTube. 20 APM still wins. Not just clicking faster.
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Anon11/29/25, 22:02No.2270055
I haven't played AOE 2 against another human for about 6 years or so now. And that was just a series of matches against a friend of mine I knew personally.
If you play ANY game competitively and care about winning or losing them, you're an irredeemable basement faggot and really should get a job.This board is for normal people who only play AOE 2 and StarCraft 2 single player for the kino campaigns and maybe to get gold medals.
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Anon11/30/25, 04:53No.2270721
I've never considered gookclick to be strategy.
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Anon12/09/25, 21:26No.2289339
Play better games and not gookclickers.
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Anon12/10/25, 09:24No.2290040
>play
>have higher iq than an enemy
>win
Why is this considered strategy and allowed on this board? This shit is basically just having superior genes but online.
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Anon12/12/25, 06:16No.2293242
Aoe 2 is the easiest game of all age of empires, is literally a baby game.
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Anon12/13/25, 11:30No.2295064
I wish I could still play RTS. My wrist is shot. I can't use a mouse anymore at all
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Anon12/13/25, 11:46No.2295079
If you lose simply because your opponent is faster than you, that just means you suck at strategy as well as being fat and slow.
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Anon12/21/25, 15:17No.2303905
If only there was a way to combine real time and turn based strategy to get the best of both worlds. Too bad the only company to ever do it turned into ultraslop with zero competition.
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Anon12/30/25, 14:02No.2311600
this board would be pretty much dead if the strategy thingy was actually enforced. rts games and total war games unfortunately do shit up the catalog but at least the
>people
playing them are contained in a few barely alive threads. I doubt they would fuck off to reddit if they weren't able to post here so it's good enough I guess
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Anon01/03/26, 17:52No.2314689
Actually the problem is that gamers optimize the fun out of everything and in AoE and RTS games in general that means you must follow the flowchart for your particular civ and failure to do so results in losing the game as your opponent is following their flowchart and RTS games come down to who follows their flowchart the quickest. In AoE especially the flowchart is far more important than even micro. This makes the game great for PvP as if both sides follow their meta build orders the game becomes purely skill based, the problems arise when you try to use a more fun but suboptimal build order or unit type. If you want an easy civ that has a good winrate in shitter elo then just spam Goths, Byzantines, Magyars and Franks or even Teutons, also Britons but they're Archers so they need a bit more micro.
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Anon01/05/26, 15:05No.2315891
play Knights&Merchants
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Anon01/05/26, 15:42No.2315904
>basically just Osu
I'd say it's more like racing.
>run a few laps on a race track to get the feel of it
>tune up your car for straights/curves/off-road/drift/whatever
>hog the road so others can't overtake you
>effectively recover from a spin-out
>go recklessly when desperate
>hope for a miracle when too far behind to catch up
It takes speed to win, obviously, but also knowledge, assertiveness, restraint, composure - basically a lot of experience to play very well.
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Anon01/15/26, 20:04No.2322220
This is why true strategy games are turn-based.
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Anon01/16/26, 06:28No.2322438
The whole problem with RTS is that it's 90:10 when it comes to doing actions with precision and speed and doing all that strategy in real time. The strategy comes in when a player's army is in the wrong place and it loses them the game. The strategy comes into play when a player realizes the enemy wins if the status quo continues, so they're pressured to attack.RTS has those elements, for sure. It's unfortunately not the focus of RTS. It might seem like it is to people who already mastered the precision and speed of input. Would you like chess if you had to read a passage from a book before you make a turn? Plenty of people out there would find the game unaltered. They've learned to read fast. RTS players seem like the kind of people who would have trouble with that. They'd rightly question that the focus of the game seems to be in reading really fast.
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Anon01/16/26, 23:11No.2322847
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Anon01/24/26, 19:48No.2327663
I played AOE1 and AOE2 when they came out. I simply refuse to believe that anyone is still playing them in current year, much less playing them with a fucking console controller. This is elaborate bait.
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Anon01/27/26, 19:32No.2329206
I hoover around 1100 elo and 100% of my wins are against people with higher APM
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Anon01/27/26, 23:58No.2329373
Bros are still arguing in this low quality bait thread