We here at Twinstiq are announcing our newest series of videos and articles, Fine RTS. It's a long term series and if you'd like to know more then watch the video, the transcript is after the break in case you can't watch the video.
Welcome to a new ongoing feature on Twinstiq: Fine RTS! In this new series of videos and written articles we will be taking a look back at the RTS genre in a more or less chronological order. Now, I'm not going to be a stickler about it and I will undoubtedly miss someone’s favorite game here or there but that's what the comment section is for. We'll be covering the big names, as well as some of the hidden gems and forgotten trash of the genre in a loose review format. In this video I want to lay down some ground rules for the series:
Rule 1: RTS is going to be loosely defined as a descendant of Dune 2, or Dune 2 itself. What this means is that we aren't going to be covering games like Total War or Dota 2, even though they do fall into the Real Time Strategy umbrella. In addition I know that Dune 2 was not the first RTS game and that other games came before, but Dune 2 really set the standard for what RTS would be going forward, so it’s the style we will be focusing on.
Rule 2: We will be going in mostly chronological order, with allowances for coverage of games we missed if brought to our attention.
Rule 3: We will be focusing mostly on the single player portion of the game. I know that one of the best parts about RTS games is usually the multiplayer and if I can find some other players I will test that part out, but it’s going to be difficult getting some of these older games into multiplayer matches and I won't be spending enough time with any one game to become a multiplayer expert, so it's safer for everyone if I mostly concentrate on the single player aspects.
Rule 4: All of these rules can and will be broken throughout the course of this series. This is about entertaining and informing you, the reader, and if I feel like that purpose would be better served by ignoring one or more of the rules, then I will do that in a heartbeat.
With all that out of the way, the first game we will be covering in Fine RTS is Dune 2: The Building of a Dynasty by Westwood Studios!
Rule 1: RTS is going to be loosely defined as a descendant of Dune 2, or Dune 2 itself. What this means is that we aren't going to be covering games like Total War or Dota 2, even though they do fall into the Real Time Strategy umbrella. In addition I know that Dune 2 was not the first RTS game and that other games came before, but Dune 2 really set the standard for what RTS would be going forward, so it’s the style we will be focusing on.
Rule 2: We will be going in mostly chronological order, with allowances for coverage of games we missed if brought to our attention.
Rule 3: We will be focusing mostly on the single player portion of the game. I know that one of the best parts about RTS games is usually the multiplayer and if I can find some other players I will test that part out, but it’s going to be difficult getting some of these older games into multiplayer matches and I won't be spending enough time with any one game to become a multiplayer expert, so it's safer for everyone if I mostly concentrate on the single player aspects.
Rule 4: All of these rules can and will be broken throughout the course of this series. This is about entertaining and informing you, the reader, and if I feel like that purpose would be better served by ignoring one or more of the rules, then I will do that in a heartbeat.
With all that out of the way, the first game we will be covering in Fine RTS is Dune 2: The Building of a Dynasty by Westwood Studios!