Hi,

I am currently looking for a fun game to play for a while(till Starcraft 2 comes out, sicne i think i like what i saw in the vidoe demos)I was planing on geting one of these: each got its buts/and doubts, I mainly enjoy RTS's, but play some other games as well if they are good, but right now Im looking for a RTS that is fun, and the online is working(since all ea games cant really compete in online play, im not even considering any of their games)

I playd Medieval 2 for almost a year now, but got bored of it a bit(even the expansion), since i prefare faster games, somethign that i can launch fast, play, and leave, and Im a bit pressed for $$ so I would probably go for only 1 game right now, that would last me for couple months(the least), the main issue with many games nowedays is that i tend to get really bored with them rather fast , and udually on average do not play them longer than 2 weeks or so , and then switch to something else, and usually never return back to them.

-Supreme commander-playd it at friends place, but got bored after couple games(about 9 or 10), seems to "sterile",and the enviroments werent anythign interesting, althou the water was one of the best i saw in it, although it was ok overall

-Starcraft (yes I never playd it), i playd the demo, but it isnt anythign special, even if I dont complain about the dated vizuals, playd the demo, I doubt i would be able to play it for a long time, maby a week if not less

-Warhammer 40K (platinum pack)- relatively ok, but I hate the fact one has to go out and get points in order to build up resources, also the demo had issues with my widescrean

- World in conflict - I was in the closed, and open beta of it, and i playd the demo, and somehow i liked it, but doubt i would play it for longer than couple days

-Company of heroes- i got a coppy to play for about 2 weeks(then my friend wawnted it back ), was ok, i enjoyed the campaign(very engaging), very nice gameplay, and vizuals, and sounds, but again didnt like the fact one has to go out and atack/get to the resource points, but overall it was plesant, but somehow i felt that that 2 weeks was enough, but i guesss thats because i didnt have acces to multiplayer

-Company of heroespposing Fronts, actually considering this title the most, since i enjoyed coh, and I heard that the British are one of the most defensive/turtle/least needing to go out and "explore" factions, so if anything i would get this just for playing with them, if its fun....still waiting for the demo though

P.S I have a wide screan monitor(had to replace my old one which burned out on me lately ), so im looking for games that support it well

I would strongly suggest you Command & Conquer tiberium wars. I just love the game. Good graphics and really amazing and easy gameplay. If you were fan of old comman & conquer games you will love this one.

If you didn't like SC1 what makes you think you'll like SC2?

Try Warcraft 3... it's a lot of fun.

Also I'll second that about C&C 3... it's a lot of fun as well.

Other than that... maybe look into Rome Total War or the other Total War games... maybe Stronghold 2 or Stronghold Legends would interest you...

Or perhaps the settlers games for a slightly different take on the RTS element.

I thought of Settlers, but hadn't played it myself so didn't say anything. It does look like it could be a lot of fun though.

It is quite a fun game. Kind of an aquired taste though. Try the demo of the new one thats kicked around the net. That'll tell you if it's your soft of thing or not.

Have you ever thought that there might not be a fun RTS out there at the moment, you might have to wait for the new Starcraft. If I where you, I would go out and get a big online game like Battle Field 2 which is fairly cheap or try a few new demo’s or even the Crysis beta to see if you can get in to them. Once you can you will be hooked for a fair few months just getting better and better at the game till you see your name at the top of the leader board game after game.

Sounds to me you are getting what I got after Warcraft 3, a complete loss of interest in RTS games. Despite what a lot of people say, they are all the same and if you play them for years you will get bored with all of them not just a few of them. Oh and Total War like you is the only one that’s captivated my interest in the last 5 years. I purchased Company of heroes but after paying £30 I have only played it for 2 hours… that was 9 months ago.

Have you tried Ground Control II? It is Massive Entertainment's previous strategy game before World of Conflict. I noticed you didn't mention Ground Control II in the list of games you've played and it is a really great game (my favourite strategy game of this century so far ). It was released in 2004-2005, so it still has great graphics even by today's standards. There is a nice demo version of it somewhere on the Internet in case you want to try it out.

That’s a good point, I completed Ground Control 2. It's a good game and differs a lot from your bog standard build a base RTS games. Didn’t last very long though only taking a week to complete and as I said I did not remember it as the games not all the memorable.

I Second Ground Control 2. Couldnt put it down and enjoyed both sides of the campaign thoroughly!! Great graphics and immensely strategy based.

hmm... if your tight on $ you can try (and yes it might be illegal, but I don'[t think the company cares anymore) downloading emulator games for the snes, its surprisingly fun (myself I actually owned the games already)

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. You'll never play a totally linear FPS again.

Thank You all for the imput, I dint get the email notiffication till lots of posts were added, I played quite many games(either beta's or demos, or got some from my friends for tryout), the list would be long, in regards to cc3, i play the demo, and to be honest its ok i guess, but i just hate ea, after what they did with bfme2, and bf2142(btw i play bf2, its ok, but i need some thing new), so thats why I thought to myselfe..."never get any ea developed game", i playd teh settlers beta, didnt like it much. regarding FPS's im not into blody goty ones much , I playd them before long ago, but switched to RTS's ...sicne I did have problems with getting quizy(btw been playing the tf2 beta...its ok...for a bit), so mainly i lpay rts games nowedays, and i like any game that makes me think(like myst 4 did)

The sad thing i guess nowedays i care abotu vizuals and game play more, in the past it was only gameplay( i guess t his happened when i got my new 2900xt), since in the past i had an oldie pc, till mu upgrade

I find that I desire more graphics if I can display more as well, but SupCom is undeniably EPIC in scale

Two points. Nintendo cares about SNES emulation, because they want to sell classic games for the wii.

I'm examining COH opposing fronts. We're running into 'issues'. more details to come on this.

Starcraft and Broodwar can be had for less than $20. Since money is an issue for you...

^ thx for the info, but is the starcraft battle chest worth getting, I mean the vizuals are really dated, is the gameplay fun sompared to the other games?
thx

Gameplay wise, probably only AoE2 comes close for multiplayer RTS. And that looks dated too.

Also not mentioned is LOTR's Battle for middle earth 2. I like this game and have spent loads of time playing it. I usually alternate between a few other RTS's but this game always stays.

Wait you say you hate bfme2. I hate them for the first but I think they were able to salvage the game in the second. Mind you I am a big LOTR fan so I may not be seeing past that novelty.

Hi, as to AoE2 i loved it back in the day(got the xpack and all), but after a while I just got bored of the rather reprtitive gameplay(atleast for me)....and stopped playing it, as to bfme2, I dontknow, it looks really quite nice cant argue with that, gameplay wise i liked the mechanics of the first one more, since in bfme2 it seems to me that units die way to fast, and I loved to have some units lvl up really high, and heal them up and get couple squads of them in bfme1, they were completely devastating after ading 1 or 2 heroes...instant win , also i liked the combination of different types of units (batalions) in bfme1, not really bfme2, since it seems that all units are just made to die soon after one gets them , and Im more of a "stick to one batalion, max upgrade lvl them, and send them at Your enemy" ind of a guy , since even in 2v2 matches i could get 2 or 3 maxed out batallions and 1 or 2 heroes maxed out to win the entire match for me(with heal and all), and then i knew that i can just sit back and enjoy the view
in bfme2, it seems to me a ea just wanted to ride on the fame of bfme1 , and it was the most dissapointing game of all that i bought, especially since i bought it for multiplayer mainly, and the online of bfme2 isnt the best, lots of people have high pings, and lagg the game enourmously, not to mentione timeouts, and random crashes ...even on such an older) game

......arent there any more games that are good? so far i did a bit of research , and really i guess starcraft 2 is the only so far worth waiting for(i hope), and I see no really WOW'ing RTS's that would be comming this year(I might be wrong thou)....any ideas? on those or any already released games?