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Any recommendations on rts/tbs/sim games for the pc?

Games/series I've already played are: Sim City, Command and Conquer, Starcraft, Warcraft, Civ, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Darwinia, Dungeon Keeper 2

I recently picked up Company of Heroes and Supreme Commander. I've played more of Company of Heroes and I'm liking it so far. From the little I've played of Supreme Commander, the scale seems to be huge. Especially coming from Starcraft 2.

People on Slashdot tend to say good things about Battle for Wesnoth.

Warzone 2100 is pretty good.

mikejmoffitt wrote:Age of Empires II

Your PC ok there bud? Allow me to help you out there.

Age of Empires II

Thats better. That and Dune 2 are the best RTS games ever IMO.

Those are not my types of games. You devote all your soul to building your beloved village and so on and a few bastards comes and burn it entirely in a matter of seconds.

Definitely more frustrating than Battletoads.

Any more so than Giga Bowser coming to wreck your city in the Tokyo scenario of SimCity for Super NES?

But then SimCity did have a no-disasters mode. Still, if you want all no-disasters all the time, Animal Crossing might be right for you. If only there were a PC clone of it... Isn't that called MySims?

I haven't played the SNES version, but I clearly remember that when I was a boy I played SimCity in no-disaster mode.
Because for me the point was to build cities - where is the fun in getting it destroyed ?

Bregalad wrote:Those are not my types of games. You devote all your soul to building your beloved village and so on and a few bastards comes and burn it entirely in a matter of seconds.

99% of RTS games that I have played involve the enemy sending their units 1-2 at a time to your base while you send 50 all at once.

Because for me the point was to build cities - where is the fun in getting it destroyed ?

Cheap, quick urban redevelopment?

I've wanted to try out the Age of Empires series for awhile. I always hear good things about Dune 2, but it may be a little harder to track down a copy. I was also playing around with Sins of a Solar Empire. It was going smoothly until some other empire warp jumped to my home planet and kicked my ass.

never-obsolete wrote:

...Dune 2, but it may be a little harder to track down a copy.

Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. Know what I mean?

XCOM UFO Defense is a classic. It can get really intense, trying to keep most of your people alive (so their stats can grow which makes the mid/late game survivable). Jagged Alliance has similar gameplay, but wasn't as fun to me, overall.

Evil Genius is similar to Dungeon Keeper 2, and is pretty well made.

Black and White is another I enjoyed, if you like "god games". It's sorta like a successor to Populous (both by the same designer). I seem to remember liking the 1st one better than the 2nd, but I'm not sure why. It's been quite a while since I had played either.

Floor 13 is a really different kind of strategy game.

Nectaris is another really good one. It was originally by Hudson Soft for the TG16/PCE, but there was a later PC port with more levels. The thing with the game is that the later levels get very difficult. It didn't seem unfair though, it's just that the AI is totally ruthless.

"Sins of a Solar Empire" is pretty good.

If anyone wants to give Age of Empires II a try, I recommend hunting down the Age of Conquerors expansion pack as well as this neato hack-job that lets the game run at your monitor's native resolution. Playing AoE2 at 2560x1600 is a wonderful 30" experience that I can never step down from

mikejmoffitt wrote:If anyone wants to give Age of Empires II a try, I recommend hunting down the Age of Conquerors expansion pack as well as this neato hack-job that lets the game run at your monitor's native resolution. Playing AoE2 at 2560x1600 is a wonderful 30" experience that I can never step down from

I couldn't get the widescreen thing to work myself.