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Re: PC gamers, know the roots of RTS games: TecnoSoft's HERZOG ZWEI on SEGA GENESIS / MD

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From: Zealot The Crazy Lui
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

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Subject: Re: PC gamers, know the roots of RTS games: TecnoSoft's HERZOG ZWEI on SEGA GENESIS / MD
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:53:27 -0700
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