RTS died when zoomers were like 5, nerd
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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True. There's a picture of me at five years old playing dawn of war
Wow, I didn't manage to kill a whole genre when I was 5. Some ants maybe, but not a genre.
RTS has been a dead genre since long before Zoomers started buying anything.
I don't think RTS was even big when RTS was big. SC1 and wc3's custom map scenes were way bigger.
A lot of the games that killed the RTS genre were even games from that custom map scene.
(That all being said, it didn't exactly die. Just it didn't grow the way Moba did)
Exactly! Tower Defence, MOBA, and all the other games built out of the RTS engine in custom maps replaced it, and this all happened years before Zoomers were even walking much less playing advanced video games.
Blaming the RTS genre dying on zoomers would be like blaming them for killing 90s rap, they had nothing to do with it and it's downright ludicrous to suggest.
Maybe what we miss is battle.net. It was essentially an endless games playstore and you didn't need to pay for any game modes. It was gamer paradise and we didn't even recognize it back then. We live in a gaming dystopia now
"We have battle.net at home"
at home: Roblox
It still exists. And for what it's worth many of the people I play StarCraft with today are zoomers.
??? RTS' require crackhead adhd attention splitting to be good at, not planning and concentration
By their own logic zoomers should be taking to them like fish to water
fake news from anon. The problem is that we hit the supply cap/population limit/CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS so no more RTS... sad.
Just kidding, forget about all of those, we have Beyond All Reason: a free and open source RTS game set in space. Actively in development, cross-platform and has a unit cap way higher than any of the RTSs from the 2000s.
OpenRA is a open source red alert for anyone interested in a semi active (30 players?) RTS
In what world is RTS dead? Strategy games in general have been making a huge comeback in the past five years or so. I would aks if this dude (because we all know it's a dude) lives under a rock, but he's on 4chan so we know he does.
AoE2 has been going for 2+ decades and is still quite strong.
By pointing out a game released over 2 decades ago, I believe you are making their point.
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