Do real-time technique video games want a critical shake-up? Developer Dave Pottinger, who labored on Halo Wars and Age of Empires thinks so, and that the RTS style has barely modified in 20 years.
Age of Empires is without doubt one of the best RTS games on the market, simply up with the likes of Command and Conquer. Nonetheless, developer Dave Pottinger, who labored on the previous sequence in addition to Halo Wars and a number of other others, thinks the real-time technique style must evolve to keep away from stagnating.
Talking on the VideoGamer Podcast, Pottinger, who’s at present engaged on technique sport Challenge Citadel, discusses the historical past of the RTS style together with how, of their infancy, RTS video games had been a critical distinction to the extra action-based title which dominated the market.
Discussing their present state, he remarks that,”You’re nonetheless enjoying the identical sport we’re enjoying 20 years in the past and taking a look at a few of these new video games—Stormgate and others like that—they usually’re nonetheless actually largely primarily based on that formulation.”
Definitely, issues are usually not wanting nice for Stormgate proper now. Stormgate launched to a mixed response and this free-to-play RTS, which requires a web-based connection has simply 91 players on Steam, down from a peak of practically 5,000. Might extra innovation assist?
Pottinger provides that the present RTS resurgence is an opportunity for builders to do one thing totally different with the style. He and his workforce, Final Maintain, made it some extent to replay a few of the RTS greats, and whereas they received a heat, nostalgic feeling from the expertise they had been struck by simply how little issues have modified.
“I feel it strengthened our choices to innovate with Challenge Citadel,” Pottinger provides. Nonetheless, he additionally acknowledges that within the present local weather that’s not at all times going to be simple and that there’s the chance of alienating current followers. Followers apart, some Triple A publishers have expressed their want to stay with current franchises and codecs.
Pottinger hopes that by ranging from scratch, Final Maintain may have the chance to do one thing genuinely totally different with Challenge Citadel. Sci-fi technique sport Challenge Citadel is “coming quickly” to Steam Early Entry, although there’s no concrete launch window as but.
Within the meantime, there are many great strategy games and turn-based strategy games to discover.
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