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Article #716307Re: Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
From: Insane Ranter
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:10
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:10
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On Jan 30, 4:56 pm, FooAtari <allie.frase...@MTRPgooglemail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:22:49 -0500, Ross Ridge wrote: > > Yah, Warcraft 2, along with Command and Conquer, was where the genre > > really took off anyways. The orginal Warcraft (and Dune 2) were more > > just protypes for what followed. > > I have just been playing Dune 2. I haven't yet got to a mission, but I > have read that you can't select more than a single unit which might get > on my nerves very quickly... :) > > > I find that if I hadn't actually played the game back when it came out, > > it can be very hard to get used to the primitive UIs in old games. > > Yeah, when a game replies heavily on the use of a UI such as an RTS, Its why I no like RTS. Its he who clicks the fastest wins.
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