FOSS recreation of the oldschool C&C games + Dune 2000.
Comment on The First Dune Game 32 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 9 months agoAnd 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.
kakes@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
tarmac@lemmy.world 9 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 9 months ago
I mean … Warcraft Orcs & Humans came out before c&c
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Warcraft, especially the first one, was quite archiac compared to C&C.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Command & Conquer released 2 months before Warcraft 2.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No one is arguing which game came out first. I didn’t say C&C was the first game. I said C&C was the first one to nail the modern RTS format, and because of that I think Dune 2000 is a less irritating game to play from a modern perspective than Dune 2.
jack55555@lemmy.ml 9 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).
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 9 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.