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Ultimate General - New game about the civil war
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:59 am
by Kung Karl
If this has been posted before please remove this thread.
A new game is in development by the creator of the awsome Total War mods, darthmod. Check it out:
http://www.ultimategeneral.com/
RE: Ultimate General - New game about the civil war
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 12:36 pm
by Perturabo
It's an operational game, not strategic game. What's the deal with people calling non-strategic games RTS?
RE: Ultimate General - New game about the civil war
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 7:47 am
by Kung Karl
RTS is the genre not the scale of the game.
RE: Ultimate General - New game about the civil war
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 12:14 pm
by Perturabo
ORIGINAL: Kung Karl
RTS is the genre not the scale of the game.
RTS is a genre about building bases, gathering resources and building armies and sending them against enemies. These are features of the strategic scale.
It's basically a beer and pretzel strategic game moved into "real time" and given fancy graphics.
I don't see the building bases and gathering resources or building armies in the game description. The game description sounds like a RTS player has never heard about wargaming and thinks that he just invented it.
RE: Ultimate General - New game about the civil war
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 3:33 pm
by wodin
RTS isn't my thing, however I quite like the look of this. Will keep my eye on it.
RE: Ultimate General - New game about the civil war
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:40 pm
by Fallschirmjager
The Darthmod creator is one of the most petty and egotistical people I have ever ran across on the net.
He quit work on all of his mods for TW and made a very public exit from the modding scene because he felt slighted by Sega and the Creative Assembly because he was not invited to a conference of modders for the upcoming Rome 2 Total War.
RE: Ultimate General - New game about the civil war
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 6:39 pm
by undercovergeek
ORIGINAL: Perturabo
ORIGINAL: Kung Karl
RTS is the genre not the scale of the game.
RTS is a genre about building bases, gathering resources and building armies and sending them against enemies. These are features of the strategic scale.
It's basically a beer and pretzel strategic game moved into "real time" and given fancy graphics.
I don't see the building bases and gathering resources or building armies in the game description. The game description sounds like a RTS player has never heard about wargaming and thinks that he just invented it.
is CMBN RTS? im sure it says on the box, right there - RTS
wargame europe?
wargame air land battle?
World in conflict?
RE: Ultimate General - New game about the civil war
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 6:54 pm
by sullafelix
RTS was used when the Command and Conquer games and all it's progeny came along. At that time it did represent a genre of PC games and I always took it as being used as a slight against a game if it was called an RTS, at least by Grognards.
Now, people are using it to describe exactly what it means " Real Time Strategy " which many deep wargames are.
So you are both correct.