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[โ€“] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I miss having a hero I can directly control in an RTS game. Rise and fall civilizations at war was the closest there was, but it won't even run on windows anymore

[โ€“] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Have you heard of Divinity:Dragon Commander? It's exactly what you're describing

Also Black and White has a lot of that

[โ€“] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks like a cool one, I'll check it out.

I'm not an avid rts player and I found it very difficult fyi

[โ€“] Nashua@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is an old one, but have you ever played Sacrifice? Loved that game, think it was around the same era as Black and White

[โ€“] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sacrifice looks pretty dope.

[โ€“] Lurker@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm totally not the guy to give this advice, but I am frequently told you can get almost any old game running on windows with the right emulators and know how. I don't have the know how, but I'm sure you could figure it out if you spent a couple days learning about it.

[โ€“] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No your right %100. I actually already know how to do all of it. But I also do a lot of that stuff for my job, and while I really want to play the game. I really don't want to spend half a day to the majority of a day setting up a VM. One day.

[โ€“] Lurker@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Yup, that's my problem in a nut shell. People make it sound really easy, and I'm sure with enough time and reading it would be, but man is that not just something I can do right now

[โ€“] linuxdweeb@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That kind of sounds like the Warriors franchise.

[โ€“] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It was a LOT like that. Think of a regular RTS game. Rome, Egyptians, Greeks. 5000 population cap. But you can enter a dynasty warriors mode with your hero and level up and give your troops rudimentary commands. It was dope.

[โ€“] prole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

One of the things that made Warcraft 3 so fucking good at the time.