RTS

RTS games often require much time. They are, in some ways, the pinnacle of PC gaming. As a hobby, an RTS require the management of people, resources and time in the way indicative of a real-life intelligence.

However, they often require time that a working professional cannot always give. However, the modern RTS game seem to have the benefit of guiding the gamer through the mechanics. For example, Dawn of War is able to guide the gamer through a series of ever increasing meetings.

Have played - Megalomana. As an Amiga RTS game, it was superb. Quirky, detailed and with an intricate system of battling.

Playing - Empire Total War. It seems difficult, to say the least.

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So what's this all about?

It's a Sunday afternoon here on Britain's lovely Northern coast. Outside it's sunny, if a little cold, and inside here I am typing away at this new blog.

What does it intend to do? It intends to look back on some classic gaming moments in my life, look at my gaming habits now, as a professional in his late 20s, and review/complain/eulogise about some of the current games I'm playing.


So!

Looking back

I remember playing a hideous Amiga game - full priced at £20, which was utterly unworth the quality of the game - that was a mash of riding on a 2D boat avoiding monsters dropping stones, generic sea-side arcade sidegames, and a chess board that shot snakes and eyes at you. The instructions didn't really explain what was happening, there were no continues, and only three lives. Hours were spent playing the games that didn't kill you, getting money (or not) for shops that didn't exist. The boat level didn't seem to have an end, and may have even looped. It was, in all, a lazy game. But back then, in the early 1990s, did I expect anything else?

Having just spoke to my good friend Nick, and spending a good 20 minutes looking through a newly-found website of Amiga game box scans, I have found the sod. http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/list.php%3F%26list_language%3DEnglish%26lineoffset%3D2754

And the manual? A wikipedia entry.



Right now

I have recently (since December 2009) begun to play games again. I stopped playing games as a hobby at about the 2003/4 era. Before that I had a rich history, and an enjoyable imaginative life. Right now, this weekend, I have purchased COD6 and completed it. I applauded with laughter the climax of many of the levels. It is a quite brilliant pick-up-and-play game. Unlike above.

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