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Article #290782Re: PC gamers, know the roots of RTS games: TecnoSoft's HERZOG ZWEI on SEGA GENESIS / MD
From: Zealot The Crazy Lui
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 22:53
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 22:53
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On Tue, 16 May 2006 00:43:01 +0300, ihatespamandyoumustremov...@mbnet.fi (MuuMiMan) wrote: >Aaaand neext... Stay tuned for when Captain Obvious tells us what >color the sky is! Is captain Obvious cooler than Captain Oblivious? >Well, yes, the genre's name is a misnomer, and scare many games >belonging to it are even only tactical in the broadest sense of the >term. If I had to guess, I'd say the term evolved out of the simple >need to differentiate between the traditional turn-based games, thus >the reason why it isn't perhaps the most accurate reflection of the >content. But eh, it's all nitpickping in the end, and if you'd start >labelling things now as Real Time Tactical games you'd only confuse >people as that's usually the term for the "real time, but without any >economy" -nichรฉ There's no รฉ in niche. It'd be pronounced "knee shay" then :P (rather than neesh) > of RTS games - Stuff like Myth and Ground Control, >for example ;-P Or... >...Also, why is AGSC the only alt. -group this was posted in? =P We're special! :) -- "No I'm saying that I'm a cow dung." - Stephen "Suupernuubie" Ung "Eat a bag of hell." - Cyric The Mad "Yes - I need red hot gay loving" - LTP MSN:ktw...@hotmail.com (BUT DON'T SEND E-MAIL!) YIM: ktwilson AIM: YahooKyleW Zealot the Crazy Lui Grand 16-Star General and overall director of AGSC operations for the Pronoun Army(and webmaster) http://pronounarmy.homestead.com/ http://thirty-five-mil.blogspot.com/ re-vamped sig 7D6h.4h.5h
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