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Warcraft 2 / Starcraft type games ( or clones, or engine recreations ) (feddit.de)
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Im missing a lot of charm that w2 and first starcraft games had, and i did not see any open engine recreations, nor clones that lived to this day. With warcraft 3 i only ever finished half of the game, by the time sc2 came out, i was already too old to even bother trying.

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

If you've never played Dune 2 or Dune 2000 or whatever other iterations and remakes of the Dune RTS series, I strongly recommend it. It seems like a lot of Warcraft's DNA comes from Dune.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    "Seems like"? Dune 2 is the template which most RTS is derived from. Truly a genre defining game

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, seems like. Like when I was a kid and I played Dune 2, then played Warcraft a few years later, the one seemed to inherit most of its ideas from the other.

    But I didn't like go look up the dates or exhaustively check that no other game came up with the format first. I know the first Age of Empires is somewhere vaguely in that same time span too, but I'm not certain of the order.

    Thus seems.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Oh sorry it seemed offensive or negative in any way, I just wanted to clarify that "seems like" i s a vast understatement. Dune 2 predates all of them, and became a template for mechanics and layouts. We've gone a long way since, but dune was the first of the models that we build RTS games as today

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