What are some games with a good campaign? Something that you replay from time to time because either the campaign is varied and fun to play or the story is good. Pic unrelated.
For me it's
>StarCraft 1/2
>WarCraft 3
>Age of Empires 2
>C&C Red Alert 2
>C&C Generals
>The Settlers 3/4/6
>Anno 1404/1800
>Stronghold
what is this game
I recall usually going back to the Nod campaign for Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun.
Rising Kingdoms (2005)
Have not played it for myself.
Kino scene tbh.
>brotherhood we are whole again
>the sickness, has, been, cut out
Remember that campaign. Was fricking dog shit. One of the human levels was a dota like where you only have one hero and workers to build towers so your forced to basically turtle for half an hour before doin anything. Another was when you've got to travel through a town of enemies picking up allies as you go but theirs invisible attacking enemies and the units to reveal them are only gotten half way in the level. I only beat it due to an item bug causing an integer overflow where healing wards would be infinite and stacked them.
Game was all fun ideas, terrible execution.
for me it was the nod mission with the crashed alien ship. being a kid that didn't understand much English didn't help at all.
But yeah, these Commandos type missions are pretty hard to pull off in rts games.
Majesty didn't really have a main storyline, but each level had an interesting premise
Original War.
You play this game for the story.
I also have a soft spot for Warcraft 2, but I am weird.
Age of Mythology.
Kohan series.
Frostpunk
SpellForce series
Might and Magic 5
>Frostpunk
Way too linear.
>SpellForce series
Each game contradicts others.
>Might and Magic 5
The story and dialogs are so bad.
Spellforce 1 had an epic campaign with it's expansions.
rise of legends
Arknights
gonna go on a slighty lengthy post about my favorites:
>Warcraft 3
Goes without saying why
>Age of Mythology:
Fall of the Trident is hands down one of the best campaign for a RTS, ever.It really feels like you're reading/watching an epic movie about heroes of old. The Titans campaign was not as good, but was still decent in the end and we don't talk about the other one... you know which.
>Starcraft 2 (terran campaign)
the atmosphere and the characters made it my favorite, specially their interactions (the Zerg and Protoss campaigns weren't as good nor their characters were charming enough.... except Alarak and Stukov)
>C&C3 and Kane's Wrath
While the inclusion of AYY LMAOs can be considered questionable, the game itself is good enough to be my favorite, plus both GDI and Nod campaigns are canon since it shows the same events, but with a different perspective, and the expansion just shows how much Kane has been playing the long game.
>Rise of Legends
Steampunkish Italians vs Arabs riding scorpions and flying carpets vs Mayan Goa'ulds
>Tropico 4
Because frick it, on my opinion city builders can be considered RTS.
>Starcraft 2 (terran campaign)
I really must find my Wings of Liberty box, despite the story's problems everyone seems to speak rather highly of the campaign.
That and I'd like to see that notepad with Raynor's wanted poster again.
>While the inclusion of AYY LMAOs can be considered questionable
Eh, the Scrin were referenced as far back as Tiberian Sun but their presentation in TibWars isn't exactly up to Westwood's original vision.
>and we don't talk about the other one
The dorf mini-campaign wasn't that bad.
Agree on Starcraft 2, really liked the terran campaign, and while everyone shits on the zerg I enjoyed that Kerrigan power trip, protoss also had some good moments. My life for Aiur!
>Rise of Legends
I will second this. Pretty cool campaign in general, but gets a bit boring when you hit third map.
I always liked the old 2D Haemimont games for having such pretty graphics.
World in Conflict
this. take notice OP, this here is one of the greatest campaigns in an rts, no joke.
>fun to play or the story is good.
In no particular order
The room VR
Skyrim
Planet Ride
Trover
Shadow point
cloudbreaker leaving haven
Wilson's heart
>they're insanely fun.
Strategy board, moron.
Battle For Middle Earth 1.
Warcraft 2.
The former is just fun, the latter I get weirdly nostalgic about. Warcraft 3 is in a similar boat, but weirdly never got into Starcraft 1.
Ground Control 2
I really like the campaign for TA: Kingdoms - I usually play it through once every couple of years. The campaign for the expansion pack is good too, and it ties up loose ends from the base game campaign quite nicely.
This. I remember a mission where you need to liberate undead death camp or "failed invasion" one. kino story and narration
I liked replaying the original TA on hard every so often myself, especially Core Contingency, but eventually I got tired of the crappy pathing (which is less of an issue in TAK), can't believe that no patch ever fixed that. Not much story in there but there's a lot of missions where you get to try different approaches however you like. The AI plays along nicely and if you give it too much slack, it'll shell your base with long range artillery (same happens in TAK when playing against Aramon or Creon). I wish some new features from TAK were backported to TA, too.
I liked the visuals of Verunian city streets and beaches, and jungles of Zhon. Very underrated.
I've never played the original TA, I need to give it a shot someday for sure. There's a patch for TAK that I always use now that makes the pathfinding a lot better; I really am surprised there's not something like that for TA as it seems like the more popular game to me.
Oh, there's mods for multiplayer since TA scene was always leaning more towards online play apparently. Tried getting some that fix pathing and they just broke the campaign altogether...
I've been playing this, the campaign is neat but holy shit a couple of the later maps have been brutal, but I fully admit I probably suck. They're absolute meat grinders and I've heard the expansion is even harder.
Original War
Rise of Legends
Settlers 3 (especially the Amazon one)
Vast majority of HoMM3 and especially 4 campaigns (hell, the only reason to bother with 4 is the campaigns)
Battlezone 2
battlezone has a kino campaign that's right way ahead of its time this game
I actually like risk style campaigns like rise of nations, rose of legends and dawn of war dark crusade a lot. Im Coh3 the campaign was like that but very barebones and not well thought out at all. Any other games with risk style campaigns?
>risk style campaigns
Company of Heroes 2 Ardennes Assault is like that, it's a bit barebones and short, but it's nice.
I'm gonna be repeating stuff already mentioned in the thread, but the RTS game campaigns I remember most fondly are:
>Starcraft and Brood War
>WC3 and Frozen Throne
>Stronghold 1
>Command and Conquer Red Alert 2
>Age of Mythology
>Starcraft 2 (Wings of Liberty only)
>World in Conflict and Soviet Assault
Awesome games which I felt at the time had campaigns not as good as they could have been considering how fun the game was otherwise
>Command and Conquer Generals and Zero Hour (Campaigns got tedious / spammy IIRC)
>Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (Random map / scenarios is honestly more fun, those campaigns are so long)
>Tiberian Sun (I just didn't really like the campaign design for some reason, I just remember spamming the tank unit every mission, and I hated the 'no build missions' in this game)
>AoE2 (They were too hard for me as a little kid lol)
>Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (Also too hard for me as a little kid, even today that game is fiddly and frickin tough)
>C&C Generals
Its campaign is mediocre at best. I want to meet the genius who decided to make half of the levels set in cities despite the game's absolutely atrocious pathfinding. They also decided to actively unlearn the fact that artificially buffing enemy units for higher difficulties is a terrible idea. Worse, it doesn't even have a story to fall back on like every other C&C game.
Feels like they should've spent more time developing and getting the generals system into the original game and maybe incorporating it into the campaigns.
Still love Generals but I agree with a lot of what you say, anon, particularly about the story.
What made Generals so good was the flavor of the game. Factions represented real world counterparts.
Those voice lines.
Those elite units.
Lot's of interesting units and mechanics.
It was just a fun fantasy universe you could get engrossed in.
Armies of Exigo, Universe at War, Ground Control 1/2. And pretty much everything else everyone already mentioned.
If you liked Anno 1800/1404, you should try 1701 sunken dragon. I really loved that one
Has no one said Company of Heroes 1? wtf lol it's one of the best rts campaigns ever made
I have all the old Spellforce games on GoG, which one do I actually play? There are multiple 'editions' or stand-alone expacs of the same shit available for download.
>Spellforce 1
Order of the Phoenix, then the Breath of Winter, and finally Shadow of the Phoenix, all are incredible.
>Spellforce 2...
Well, the main game (Shadow Wars) is meh, but still worth a playthrough, Dragon Storm is great, definitely recommend, completely skip demons of the past and faith in destiny, they are terrible.
>Spellforce 3
Main game is good, Soul Harvest is a direct upgrade and when the series finally go full rpg with romance, character relationships and all that, troll addon is shit.
>Conquest of Eo
Its MoM with Spellforce storytelling, play if you got nothing else to do.
>"They are billions"
Campaign seem pretty cool, and somewhat difficult (at least until I figure out the correct research order).
Strange that noone mentioned Jagged Alliance / JA2 yet. JA2 was definitely more fleshed out but the original had its charm as well.
Most people probably wouldn't associate JA with RTS, but it does have SOVL
StarCraft 2 WOL is the only thing that I replay once a year. HOTS was shit but I replay LOTV sometimes.
I used to replay Red Alert 2 for a bit but that game got too old. Red Alert 3 is a once every 2 years kind of game.
Commandos 1, 2 and stronghold as well from time to time. God, I love stronghold's music.
What is the best custom campaign you have played.
WC3 story is the most absolute kino shit. I love how they made the Orc allied races original. Too bad WoW makes the horde races cringe "muh honor", morons forgot what it originally meant.
>Too bad WoW makes the horde races cringe "muh honor"
Only half the time, the other half they're moronic savages that ruin everything but then they'll instantly swing back the other direction. The Horde is a fricking mess, they should have just stayed straight-up badguys.
Umm akschyually gnomes are evil