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Anonymous01/10/26, 17:24No.2319080Unpopular vst opinions thread.
I'll start with the fact I don't like the Populus games even 3.
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Anon01/10/26, 17:28No.2319083
We need more games like Kenshi. I know the stigma sandbox games get these days, but Kenshi did a lot right.Masada might do the same for space games.
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Anon01/10/26, 18:45No.2319155
I'd consider playing RTS online if the matches were really short by design, fifteen minutes at maximum.
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Anon01/11/26, 23:02No.2319966
The entire XCOM series is fucking dogshit
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Anon01/11/26, 23:14No.2319975
I think UI readability and controls should be considered more when talking about game quality. I don't care that a 90s-00s game has deep simulations, if its design is more hostile than spikes on park benches and it requires sixty keyboard shortcuts, then no amount of features will make it any more fun or playable.
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Anon01/12/26, 00:18No.2320005
some really awful taste itt, jesus christ
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Anon01/12/26, 00:44No.2320011
command and conquer sucks ass
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Anon01/12/26, 00:53No.2320017
Rusted warfare is actually a very good game.
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Anon01/12/26, 01:00No.2320022
C&C3 and RA3 were great games that objectively improved upon their predecessors in terms of gameplay mechanics. Writing and aesthetics were more hit-and-miss, but even there they edged out ahead occasionally like when C&C3 actually bothered to do some worldbuilding.
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Anon01/12/26, 02:03No.2320059
I'll continue with saying I love low effort leddit threads like this.
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Anon01/13/26, 16:30No.2320957
I really don't like any of the CnC games and I think it's over all style is pretty garbage and dated. Only one I really liked was Generals/zero hour which plays the least like a CnC game.Dungeon Keeper 2 is better than 1.Age of Empires Online is the best AoE. also yes, I am the one anon who occasionally pops in to the AoE threads to spam my opinion and shill for the private server as well.I think Stormgate is actually good, the real reason people hate it is because it LOOKS like dogshit. The art style and world is fucking horrid and all over the place. I guarantee if it had a better art style at least it wouldn't be dead.Starcraft 2 is an abomination of a game.
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Anon01/13/26, 16:32No.2320961
If you're over 10 years old and still prefer campaigns over MP then this genre simply isn't for you and you're literally too dumb for strategy games.
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Anon01/13/26, 18:04No.2321028
HoMM4 is the best HoMM game. Including visual presentation, unit roster and the way how it handles magic.
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Anon01/13/26, 18:08No.2321034
RUSE was the best that happened to RTS genre since the 90s and people ignored it, because it didn't fit the pre-existing molds
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Anon01/13/26, 18:33No.2321065
I don't mind a game having a lot of DLC as long as they are good.
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Anon01/14/26, 12:57No.2321554
the nazis were bad
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Anon01/15/26, 06:39No.2321952
If genocide is the easiest path to victory in your strategy game, then your game is badly designed. War should take time to build up to, be expensive to maintain long term forces, and leave you at a disadvantage to those who stayed out of it. If you chose a scorched earth strategy, you shouldn't be able to just clean it up in a couple turns. You should be warring only because you know you will win or as a last resort.Research in 4x should not be boosted by structures and should be separate from any other resources and you should be able to research multiple things at once.4x in general are a trivial genre and nothing would make them actually challenging.
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Anon01/15/26, 15:29No.2322069
The biggest problems with single player strategy games are UI and AI.
You're not in a rush when playing a turn based game, but you still have the same amount of hours in the day, so if the UI is slow to go through then that's a massive problem.
Every time you scroll through a menu it's a flaw in game design and they will have stolen hours from you, and thousands of hours from us, every time you move your mouse when you should be able to do your next action with 2 hotkeys on the keyboard it's also a flaw in game design.
Players want to win and not face an unbeatable AI yes, but they want an active AI that actually commits and engages with you.These two things don't move sales, so developers can just ignore them and players will keep buying though.
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Anon01/15/26, 16:15No.2322084
coh is better with high ttk realistic mods
i still have faith in relic
ao4 is completely fine. ao2 tho? where you’re the aztecs so heres the same archer line everyone else gets. that overly balanced shit over mechanical asymmetry sucks massive dicks.
civ6 does not look bad. it plays bad, but its fine
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Anon01/19/26, 20:24No.2324664
Total war arena was good
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Anon01/25/26, 22:27No.2328240
ck2 was too ugly for me to get into, looks atrocious
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Anon01/29/26, 12:12No.2330232
I don't get why AoE2 is such a big deal. It had interesting ideas but at the end of the day it's a perfectly regular RTS among many others of its time. Sounds like its biggest driving force was the backing from Microsoft who could've picked up any other game franchise.
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Anon02/03/26, 03:48No.2332902
I think tactics games are superior to strategy games even though I prefer strategy games.
It's easier to estimate how long games will take when both players have limited assets, and the games are usually shorter which I think would make multiplayer more appealing. Players naturally have more focus at the beginning of the match than they do at the end, tactics games match this by starting out very complex and becoming simpler as both sides take casualties. This is in comparison to a strategy game which increases in scope and required cognitive load as the game progresses. Limited assets mean that the focus is less on multitasking and more on tactics. They also fully emphasize combat over base building or resource gathering. I admit resource gathering and the like does actually provide another dimension to gameplay and is one of the reasons I prefer strategy games like CnC, however, so this reason isn't objective. I also think it would be easier to understand what you did wrong in the event of a loss, and it would be easier to act on that information since you're given a menu to plan your army composition ahead of time instead of having to put it into practice in real time while doing everything else demanded of you by an RTS game. On that note, no unit production also means no build orders, idle production buildings/workers or a lot of the things that non-RTS players dislike about the genre (or struggle with because they don't know the theory of it).
Most tactics games (war on the sea, sea power, nebulous, etc) are hamstrung by being autism simulators. I think that a well made but relatively simple tactics game could be highly successful.
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Anon02/13/26, 08:33No.2341595
Bump
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Anon02/23/26, 16:17No.2349635
Rise of Nations is the best historical RTS ever made.
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Anon02/23/26, 16:59No.2349657
The guy looks like Zaluzhniy and it pisses me off.
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Anon03/07/26, 17:32No.2357423
Shogun 2 is a shit game that only gets credit because it was sandwiched between two even worse games.
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Anon03/13/26, 01:52No.2360872
Iorn Harvest was a good game.
Halo Wars 2 is a VERY good game that deserves a ton more attention.
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Anon03/13/26, 07:33No.2360928
Anyone who for any reason praises hoi3 outs thenselves as contrariran retard