Comment on The First Dune Game 32 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I know the second is the groundbreaking one, but I always had a soft spot for this one.
Comment on The First Dune Game 32 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I know the second is the groundbreaking one, but I always had a soft spot for this one.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 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.
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 10 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.
kakes@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
www.openra.net
FOSS recreation of the oldschool C&C games + Dune 2000.
tarmac@lemmy.world 10 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.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I mean … Warcraft Orcs & Humans came out before c&c
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Warcraft, especially the first one, was quite archiac compared to C&C.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Command & Conquer released 2 months before Warcraft 2.
jack55555@lemmy.ml 10 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).