Comment on The First Dune Game 32 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective

CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And while Dune 2 laid much of the initial groundwork for early real-time strategy games, I highly advise anyone from current times who is interested to play Dune 2000 instead. If you ask me, the original Command and Conquer (same developers, Westwood) is the actual genesis of the modern RTS, and Dune 2000 is built on the Command and Conquer engine and is this significantly less clunky and irritating to actually play.

  And it’s got John Rhys-Davies in the cutscenes. You can’t really go wrong there.

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  • UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I loved the FMV cut scenes in Westwood Studios games. They always managed to get a minor celebrity as the games got bigger.

    They also made a really good Diablo style game called Nox.

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  • kakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    www.openra.net

    FOSS recreation of the oldschool C&C games + Dune 2000.

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  • tarmac@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agreed Dune 2000 is a better experience with better quality of life mechanics but Dune 2 was definitely the actual genesis of modern rts, compared to C&C. All amazing games. Dune 2, for its time, but it’s definitely aged at this point I’m with you there.

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  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean … Warcraft Orcs & Humans came out before c&c

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Warcraft, especially the first one, was quite archiac compared to C&C.

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      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Command & Conquer released 2 months before Warcraft 2.

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      • jack55555@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Im a huge fan of the Warcraft rts games but you are right. Especially the first Warcraft felt like an ancient game compared to the first C&C, the controls were horrific (no right clicking on resources to send peons to it lol).

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