RTS - The Changing and the Future of a Genre

[Neobanana 1]

Hello, I am Neobanana. (No shit since that's my ID)

I am here opening this thread, to talk and discuss my favorite genre, RTS or strategy games in general. It was the first genre I played, the game being Total Annihilation, and i loved it. Being able to command vast armies and built bases and cities to defeat your opponents. I will be the first to say i am not the greatest RTS player, for one i like making sure my bases look like....well bases. Not random buildings placed in random places. Order. Control. Strategy. However over the last couple of years, the RTS genre has slowly started to disappear, in light of the MOBA or DoTA genre. Fine. It seems to me that RTS has split, in a couple of sub genres.

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, Turn-Based, other ones such as the new fable game. 

I maybe wrong about all that. But I feel like my Favorite genre will be no more, well what i mean is only big games like Sid Meier's Civ, Blizzard's Starcraft and well.. nothing else comes to mind. Maybe Command & Conquer whenever that decides to get released. 

I have a large collection of RTS games in my background. But nothing has hit my fancy, so to speak. Command & Conquer Generals. Probably still my top. I have played Banished from new indie developer, although a good game, no combat. Not for me, sadly. But I tiip my hat to him, as he made the game by himself, minus the sound design.  

Now I offer anyone else to join, and share their opinion, even if you argue with me about everything i just said. But like i said, I maybe wrong. 

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Neobanana
A Banana with the Power to Save the World

[Neobanana 1]

and with the lack of replies, I sense that this genre is indeed dead..... on this site

and that makes me sad.

[GTI 13]

I'm a pretty big fan of the old C&C, AoE & civ games.

 

I also feel like they are a dying breed of game, which is a shame.

look how great the old ones were, namely Age Of Empires Gold. That game took up quite a large chunk of my childhood actually. i never really thought about the lack of RTS games these days until i read this post.

 

Even the Civ game which got released on xbox a while ago was just... shit, really.

 

Man, you're making me want to fire up my ps1 for command & conquer