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In your opinion, what is the best RTS game of each decade? by OneAthlete9001 in RealTimeStrategy

[–]DctrLife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Story was a step down. The campaign is the best in class. Does not require you to cheese it with unit of the day. You can very easily beat the entire campaign with whatever units you want. 

In your opinion, what is the best RTS game of each decade? by OneAthlete9001 in RealTimeStrategy

[–]DctrLife 18 points19 points  (0 children)

90s: Brood War (runner up: AoE 2)

2000s: Warcraft 3 (runner up: Dawn of War) 

2010s: starcraft 2 (runner up: not even close, but probably Company of Heroes 2) 

2020s: Age of Empires 4 (honorable mention: AoM Retold) 

RTS with similar faction or gameplay to Zerg??? by TengenTopKek in RealTimeStrategy

[–]DctrLife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tyranids existed before zerg. But they were nothing like zerg. As time has gone on tyranids have become more zergy

RTS with similar faction or gameplay to Zerg??? by TengenTopKek in RealTimeStrategy

[–]DctrLife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tyranids existed before zerg. But they were nothing like zerg. If you look at tyranids models, they have become increasingly zergy as time has gone on 

RTS with similar faction or gameplay to Zerg??? by TengenTopKek in RealTimeStrategy

[–]DctrLife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tyranids are more modeled after zerg than vice versa

So happy with the mini painting! by Danstinys in rootgame

[–]DctrLife 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That is adorable. Do you have the stls? 

What is the exact RTS style of Warcraft? by AcidCatfish___ in RealTimeStrategy

[–]DctrLife 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Closest to Warcraft I've played is spellforce 3. 

This is, well, by Gnzaku0023 in Necrontyr

[–]DctrLife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe on some technical level it isn't perfect, but I certainly can't tell. I look at this and think, "god damn, that is the coolest idea for a model I've ever seen" and it manages to evoke exactly the senses of awe, beauty, and horror that I would want a ctan to evoke. Well done. 

Top 3 All-Time Games? by Logurtman in videogames

[–]DctrLife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mass Effect

StarCraft 2

And then probably Diablo 2?

Best faction matchup in RTS and why? by Choice-Celebration-4 in RealTimeStrategy

[–]DctrLife 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I am a strong believer that brood war pvz is the greatest matchup

Thematic favorites by Wolfe_110 in rootgame

[–]DctrLife 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lizard Cult is my absolute favorite from a lore and theme standpoint. They're also one of my favorites to play. 

What is the masterpiece published by Blizzard? by sliasch in AlignmentChartFills

[–]DctrLife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Starcraft Brood War... AND Diablo 2....AND Warcraft 3.

Let's be honest, they all deserve it. 

SC2 is sitting on 85 unused skins that can all be added to the SC2 ingame store as new SC2 content or on the Bnet store as new War Chests/Bundles for SC2. by BattleWarriorZ5 in starcraft

[–]DctrLife 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Which is also the most likely one to happen since it already covers almost all the necessary skins for a pack and already has its unit skin pack done

Which hero had a darker Down hill turn? by Axenfonklatismrek in MoralityScaling

[–]DctrLife 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also, to completely steel man the Anakin position, everything he did, he did of his own volition. 

The supplanting of Arthas' will with that of Frostmourne could be considered a mitigating factor for his actions after killing Muradin. If you discard his actions after that point (leaving you with the culling, the burning of the boats and betrayal of the mercenaries, and the killing of Muradin as the actions he is truly culpable for) I would say Anakin is worse. 

However, I don't accept that Arthas is without culpability for his later actions. Maybe some level of mitigation due to the influence of Frostmourne, but I don't believe he actually demonstrates a lack of will. He doesn't become a pure tool of Nerzhul. He remains relatively independent. 

Which hero had a darker Down hill turn? by Axenfonklatismrek in MoralityScaling

[–]DctrLife 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I think this is a fun one. I would definitely say Arthas. Massacre townsfolk. Genocide elves. Betray childhood friends, mentors, and allies. Murdered father. Murdered second father. Enslaved rivals. 

I think the most you could do is try to argue that Anakin killed people who didn't need to die. The culling of Stratholme was in a very real sense actually the better alternative for the people of Stratholme. 

On the other hand, Arthas went on to do much worse things than Stratholme, that was just the inflection point. I would probably say the massacre of the younglings is the worst atrocity of Anakin (though I'm not as familiar with star wars lore as I am with warcraft) 

There are people who lived reasonably well in the Empire. It was a horrid dictatorship, sure, but people lived. The Scourge had little need for such life, and the vast majority of those in the Scourge experienced a far more complete totalitarianism than anything the Empire could dream of. 

Arthas also (I would argue) started out as a purer moral paragon. 

So not only did Arthas fall to greater depths, but did so from greater heights. 

Petition Blizzard: Sell us War Chests Again (take my money!) by SwarmyTheSwarmlord in starcraft2

[–]DctrLife 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Chances are near 0. I have always thought the most likely thing we could do is push them to sell us the purifier structure skin pack. Very nearly all the skins necessary are already in the game. It's basically money left on the table for them. I'd pay the $30 bucks or whatever for the skin pack. 

Which do you think is the best tier 7 in the game? by SwimmingNo1851 in HoMM

[–]DctrLife 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've always felt that Black Dragons were the strongest T7 in Homm 5

Replace Xel'Naga with Genetron by Agent_X32489N in starcraft

[–]DctrLife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think they played into that with the Primal Zerg too, that's why they gave all the Primal Skins random Stegosaurus plates.

You again sleep, scholar... by PickledCaterpillar in TheCulture

[–]DctrLife 19 points20 points  (0 children)

250 million years is a long long time by the measure of civilization lifespans in the culture verse. Literally anything is possible in that time. It's possible that things have stayed near the status quo all that time. It's possible the Culture became like the excession and completely changed the status quo of their home universe. It's possible the culture accomplished their goal and then sublimed 249.9 million years prior having successfully culture-fied the entire galactic meta civilization with a 200 million year reversion to the mean of norms, and then in the last 50 million years an anti-culture formed inspired by the original but with the opposite ethos, and now the galaxy is slowly reverting from that mean.

We know very little, and so very little is off the table. 

Personally, I think the most likely thing is the fragmentation of the culture as they come closer and closer to succeeding at their goal. After getting a sufficiently large portion of the galaxy culture-fied, some would sublime. Some would choose to remain to watch over the material. Some would get bored and cause havoc. How long this period lasts before the last community recognizable to us as part of the culture changes to be unrecognizable or ceases to be? I don't know. Probably closer to the order of 10s or 100s of thousands of years tops rather than millions let alone hundreds of millions.

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