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PC gamers in the mid-to-late 90s apparently started turning up their noses at turn-based strategy games in favour of the new hotness of the Command & Conquers and Warcrafts of the day

A review of X-Com Apocalypse from the time:

"to be honest, the new real-time combat is so good I really can't see why anyone would want to play the much slower (and often infuriating) turn-based tactical game"

:kitty-cri-screm:

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That's like preferring Diablo over Fallout

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[–] NotARobot@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm the same, it's also that and when it comes to playing against players it feels like it's more about knowing the general metas and then having a good enough apm to implement them better than your opponent.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most of the time in an RTS it's about focusing on your economy and production while executing a gameplan. Metagaming is fine and all but someone playing the current meta but missing production cycles will lose to a solid macro player who doesn't follow the current meta

[–] SadStruggle92@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

It doesn't change the fundamental problem (and yes I do think that this is a kind of problem) that everything is still ultimately, mainly determined by ones APM abilties.