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Anon misses the RTS genre (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

RTS died when zoomers were like 5, nerd

[–] Zirconium@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

True. There's a picture of me at five years old playing dawn of war

[–] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Wow, I didn't manage to kill a whole genre when I was 5. Some ants maybe, but not a genre.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

StarCraft killed it by being too fucking good.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Pretty much. Blizzard supported the hell out of that game. Tweaked everything until it was perfect. At launch, it was as good as anything else at the time, but it wasn't knife-edge balanced like it became.

Modern Blizzard isn't capable of that anymore, and neither is anyone else. The genre can still innovate and provide perfectly good experiences otherwise, but it will always have this spectre of "not balanced like Starcraft" hanging over it.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The genre can still innovate and provide perfectly good experiences otherwise, but it will always have this spectre of "not balanced like Starcraft" hanging over it.

Which is weird, because if you have a 3 faction RTS, the simplest, most balanced solution is to copy Rock, Paper, Scissors.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do not remember starcraft being perfectly balanced....

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Grandmaster:

Protoss: 57%
Terran: 57%
Zerg: 55.2%

Masters 1:

Protoss: 52.7%.
Terran: 52.5%
Zerg: 51.9%

Masters 2:

Protoss: 51.2
Terran: 51.1
Zerg: 50.9

IDK, looks pretty balanced to me

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe because I only observe high level play.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Higher than Grandmaster and Master?