Dawn of War

[JonatanRaven]

• The resource management
  • The fact that you don't harvest resources but rather capture strategic points is refreshing. Although I think that would be more suitable in a RTT-game than in an RTS-game. It's a lot more suitable in Company of Heroes or games like Close Combat.
    
• The units
  • Yes, I agree about the units, to a degree. You're only able to build light units at the start and you upgrade to heavier units in the classical RTS-style. Although, so far, I've found the lighter units to get obsolete once you get access to the heavier units, and with the steep limitation to how many units you can produce (in the sp-campaign at least), well, I just don't like that.
    
• Online play
  • I will refer to my SIG once again. I haven't played online so I can't really have an opinion of that aspect, but from my experience with other RTS games, that's where the fun part is. Most RTS-games I've played has had mediocre (at best) single player campaigns but has made up for that flaw with online gameplay.
    
• Races
  • I've only played a few skirmish games to try out the other 3 races that are in the original game, and yes, the unit's are slightly different and the way you produce your tech is also slightly different. On the whole, they seem very balanced, but this also makes for rather similar units. Yes, I agree that if you're ALREADY a 40k fan, it IS a great game. If you're just another RTS-fan though, it's not that great (I am a bit of a 40k fan though).
    
• Non-mainstream RTS
  • Well, the main reason I haven't played some of those titles is that I haven't had a computer of my own over the last 5 years or so. The ones that I've borrowed hasn't been top-of-the-line computers, so I pretty much haven't bothered buying new games, but rather I've comtinued playing the mainstream, a bit older ones.
    
• Game development in general
  • Well, it's true as you say, "why fix it if it ain't broken".
    
  • But HL always sucked and Bf1942 made that category of games a lot more fun.
    
  • Sports management games always sucked too, so I never played them (they were boring in the first place so why bother).:P
    
  • Yes, the graphics are better and the AI's probably improved, but the game-play? I just don't think DoW adds a lot to the gameplay and I could play a remake of Warcraft and have just as fun. This is where units and races come in, it's always fun to try a new game because of them.
    

Anyways, I'm not saying DoW isn't a good game, I just fail to see the greatness of it. I think I'm more of a RTT-gamer anyways, so CoH is more my style.

If I ever get my connection to work properly, I'll take any of you bastards on (as long as I can be the Orcs!)!

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[Exile]

Yust a quicky,
dawn of war, in a few words is AWSOME.
got the dark crusade expansion, and i yust love the imperial legion with it. best RTS i've ever played.

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[Qunitinius~Verginix]

You mean the Imperial Guard? Yea, they rock alot.

Also, here is something important Jonatan. You dont need the other two expansions installed to play the last expansion, Dark Crusade. And since you don't play online, you wont lose anything when it comes to gameplay cause you only have the LAst one! Its pretty sweet.

Verginix Out

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[McNeo]

I play DoW a bit but the gameplay is way to linear. You do this, then that, that, then this, and then you have the baneblade. Its too generic to be great. The capture system is also wierd, and doesnt suit a game like that. Its much more suited to CoH.

Supreme Commander. Now thats a unique game. The basic units are the same but it has alot more use of tactics. There is a counter to everything aswell.

Example:

Enemy builds bombers - you build fighters - they build mobile ground AA - you build ground attach units - they build artillery - you build destroyers for fire support - the enemy builds subs - you build torpedo defence....etc

there is always a new tactic to learn in supcom. Its not a game where knowing the hotkeys count, but how strategically minded the person is.

DoW pales in comparison to SupCom and AoE II. And Galactic battlegrounds clone campaigns (i like the generic ones AoE style alot)

[Exile]

About dawn of war,
i got dark crusade, and dawn of war self. but still want "winter assault " but i cant seem to find it, annyone anny ideas?

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[Exile]

GAaah:mellow:

all my files in the dark crusade folder are gone:mellow::unsure:

i have no idea how, and i lost the fraking disc<.<

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[Qunitinius~Verginix]

Exile, If you ahve Dark Crusade, don't bother getting WA. It will come as a dissapointment because Dark Crusade was easily they BEST of all three of them.

And remember, with Dark Crusade, you already have the full game and WA doesn't unlock any new content.

Verginix Out

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[Exile]

Exile, If you ahve Dark Crusade, don't bother getting WA. It will come as a dissapointment because Dark Crusade was easily they BEST of all three of them.

And remember, with Dark Crusade, you already have the full game and WA doesn't unlock any new content.

Verginix Out

Allright, wont get WA

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[JonatanRaven]

How many missions are there in DoW?
I've played 11 so far, and I released some kind of demon, but I didn't get any final cinematics. Now there's no new mission to select, was 11 the final one..? (All out war I think the name was..)

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[Exile]

Yes it was.

he's the commander of the chaos forces, the word beares legion in dark crusade, i yust whooped his ass btw.:laugh:


For the emperor!

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