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>>2356187
That game is SunAge btw, pretty obscure, it was decent

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Desert Law is basically a Mad Max rts
It looks cool but the game is just alright

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Rising Kingdoms is very pretty
Good game

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Celtic kings / Imperivm III
Underrated game

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NebuCHADnezzar

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Pre-rendered graphics make the experience feel more immersive

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Alexander 2004

I don't know if this game is good or not, but it looks beautiful

>>2356217
One of the better not cossacks games.

>>2356209
cool to see these devs are cooking a kino mediaeval manager it seems

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CulturesNation is quite cute. It's standalone mod of 2000 game Cultures. But I think there is only Polish version.
https://culturesnation.pl/

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KaM Remake: standalone open remake of 1998 game Knights and Merchants.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/kam-remake

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>>2356198
>>2356206
>>2356217
any of these games are actually good tho?

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D.O.R.F. is looking pretty cool

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anytime soon

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Mental Omega is great but I suck

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same with Tisted Insurrection, it reminds me I suck at rts games, but I still enjoy it

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Indie developers are still making retro 2d games, and I think that's cool
This one is "Fertile Crescent", a decent age of empires clone

This one looks fun too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rj212KKfWQ

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3d was a mistake

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Tooth and Tail

>>2356309
I had fun playing Rising Kingdoms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYPRuUyWLI4&t=1293s

>>2356430
They literally changed arthas from the chad pose into the virgin pose

>>2356304
Nice, I never played this, maybe it's a good opportunity to try it

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>>2356438
cool, is it similar to battle realms?

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stronghold crusader

>>2356198
You are the only person besides me that played it. Spent more than a decade on imageboards and have never anybody else mention it. Very pretty graphics indeed, although the campaign was a bit subpar. The ending is also extremely anticlimatic.

>>2356309
Hell no.

>>2356975
Something always turns me off about this franchise....maybe it's when I see the enemy approaching in long lines like ants full of bullet sponge enemies

>>2357004
I have the exact same problem with this game lol

>>2356298
Thank you I didn't know about this mod and I played Cultures/Northland/8thW for over a decade

>>2356429
>Cheeselords
I swear on me mum some of these devs just throw dildos at a wall with names like VICE and pick the most retarded and unappealing and nonsensical combinations. They are ensuring total marketing and sale failure by being so fucking retarded and uncaring about optics.
How is RTS supposed to ever re-emerge when you have these clowns naming their games CHEESELORDS? How about SMEGMA MASTERS? Maybe LETTUCE COMBATANTS? Or CALI WALI HOT FRANK? Nothing says "RTS" like CALI WALI HOT FRANK

>>2356187
>What are the prettiest looking 2d rts games in your opinion
Maybe AoE2.
Starcraft and Red Alert are nice looking, but not super pretty. There are screenshots of aoe2 where it just punches solidly above them, and even in normal play the bases tend to look pretty good, like if you took a random base from a booming competitive game, and then added in some roads, trees and bushes it would look very pretty.
>(or just strategy games in general)?
homm2, songs of conquest, age of wonders are the first that come to mind, but it's probably Anno

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>>2356298
>>2357151
I forgot to mention the standalone mod/remake is open source, made by community. There should be English language option too. Download link to latest 1.3.1 version is kinda hidden, but I found it:

https://culturesnation.pl/news.php?readmore=132

->

https://culturesnation.pl/serwerdownload.php?cat_id=8&download_id=344

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m0m00ywvKjJwdHiOnPA77avuaM239-e_/view

>>2356187
age of empires 2 definitive edition for me

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>>2357194
well the game does seem to be about producing cheese

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Original War (2001)

>>2356187
>Why don't developers go back to 2d, it's better for strategy games
The majority of consumers consider 2d to be strictly worse than 3d hence why it's limited to mostly niche indie games. 2D art can also be a lot more expensive to make.

>>2356438
This soundtrack is so undoubtly slavic.

Rise of Nations
Knights of Honor
AoE2 DE or whichever version it was

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>>2356189
I remember reading a review of it in a gaming magazine when it came out, and they were criticizing the graphics for being outdated due to being 2D instead of 3D.
Even back then I thought that was crazy.

Anyways maybe this is cheating, but Heroes of Annihilated Empires uses 2D sprites for the units and buildings at least, and looks amazing.

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>>2367047
It’s a good game, and it really doesn’t look bad overall. Except for the portraits... what were they thinking? They look awful and completely ruin the game visually.

>>2362423
Haha quirk chungus millenial game design! I love it! So quirky, wah-wah!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA SOME DOGS ARE DOGGOS, SOME ARE PUPPERS AM I RIGHT????? CHEESE. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH CHEESE! THEY.ARE.MINING.CHEESEEEEEEEEE this is soooooooooooooo funneeeeeeeee

>about to post
>realize it's /vst/ and I already posted three weeks ago
We really need to lower the bump limit and max number of threads on this board so conversations aren't so drawn out.
We don't need 10 pages of threads, 5 is enough.

>>2368826
This board should just be removed. It's dead except for the one schizo who runs around shitposting in every thread.

There was a E3 trailer for commandos 2 that is no longer online I think, it ended with "something is moving" slogan, this trailer to this day looks like peak 2d/pseudo 3d top-down 3/4 isometric graphics to me.

>>2368826
That's nonsense, you just aren't used to slow boards. Not every board has to be the same, where everything dies in days and everybody just repeats themselves ad infinitum. What's the benefit of this? It's not like as if anything real would change.

>>2369543
Which one? There are several

>>2369605
Yeah. Just replying then saving the thread on Thread Watcher spares from wasting time on this dumb website

>>2356189
LOVElY!