I had Rise of Nations as well. I bought it for the hype. If I remember correctly, it never made it out of the shrink wrap. See, I started out with RTS on PC. (I was truly a console kid first.) It was Red Alert that made me a PC gamer instead of console only. From there, it was Age of Empires II and then Empire Earth, C&C: Generals, Battle for Middle Earth, Warcraft 3, a little bit of Starcraft (wasn't a big fan). I eventually focused on shooters and lost interest in RTS. Perhaps it was for the reasons eldaking brings up. I have surprisingly not contemplated it. But it was always comp stomps for me. I had no interest in an RTS campaign. The only one I played was Starcraft II, and that was very worthwhile.

I've lately been itching a lot to buy and play Northgard. It looks more like the pace of an RTS of old rather than a cut-throat game like SC2.

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I like the visual quality. However, I don't know if this is just a phase, I'm not sure I'm into the theme. After A Dance with Dragons (book), The Witcher (show), John Wick (movie), The Pacific (show), I'm tired of dark and gritty themed entertainment. Perhaps I will still get Hellpoint someday, but I'm really not in the mood right now.

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Anyone else get trapped into super long games of Empire Earth back in the day? I can still remember a match my friend and I did one day against AI... 4 hours into it, we decided it would never end!

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Quoting: razing32Lord of the Rings Battle For Middle Earth - awesome story (though campaing was repetitive)

:woot: I forgot about that one! I don't recall if I played the campaign, but I played cooperatively with my friends many a time. I loved it!

I had no care for RTS campaigns back in the teenage days. The idea was strange to me. I loved comp stomps though.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPAt some point, maybe, developers will realize that classic RTS development with a multiplayer focus just doesn't make sense.
For single player, sure, more than enough successful enough single-player RTS titles out there.

But multiplayer-classic-RTS is a dead genre, with a handful of (old) titles holding the players that are left captive. And those old titles are so well polished by now that any new challenger can only fail. Especially if it is in such a rough state as this one was on early access release.

How do you rank Northgard? When you say multiplayer, do you only mean competitive?

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Man, that sucks. It looked really appealing. That said, I typically will not pay to test alpha and beta versions. Heck, I barely even do it if it's free for me.

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I tried Veloren out a couple months ago. It launched and stuff but there didn't seem to be anything to do yet. I'll try it again.

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If Godot and Unity end up on equal playing ground, then sounds good to me. Competition is good for us.

You know what other engine would be nice to have on Linux? Frostbite.

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This reminds me that I installed Mint to a 64GB USB stick for my dad long ago. I wonder if he ever used it. Time to ask and get that thing back if he never used it! :P Now that Windows 7 is beyond support, perhaps he will give Linux a try. *shrug*

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It looks more like a tech demo to me. Pretty cool physics, albeit a bit fragile looking. I'd expect a building to act more brittle and break in chunks before swaying over like a tower of cake.

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