Supreme Commander Gold Edition

All your love in Total Annihilation plus some new interesting stuff and new from view from macro scale, hundreds units, three completely different fractions and one campaigning with main line the same but other point of view and tasks.

Already have this on Steam, but the launch discount was more than sufficient enticement to get a DRM-free copy. I've had this game for a /long/ time, and keep coming back to it. The sheer scale and complexity (not to mention the massive stompiness of the experimentals in Forged Alliance) is something no other RTS had done at the time, nor has done since. Three different factions with three different strategic approaches to warfare (four, if you must count the alien faction)...it's a blessing that game continues to operate on modern hardware.

Oh, I love the supreme commander series. I played it when I was a lad, and now with a much better graphics card, the game is more than I remembered. And it’s not even the rose-coloured glasses talking. I get a lot more of the nuance of the storytelling from the main campaign now, and the Cybran Nation swiftly rose from my least favourite back then to my most favourite now. I don’t want to spoil the story, but now that I understand a lot more of the struggles of marginalized peoples who just happened to look different or have different backgrounds or births, and have already really thought if the difference between a computer made of neurons and a computer made of circuits is just what they’re made of, the story starts drag you in. Again, attempting to avoid spoilers, “bring my daughter home” stuck with me, proving that in that universe, Cybrans have souls. And as for gameplay; it’s responsive and interesting, with massive armies you have to manage while trying to bring out the big guns before your opponent can. However, don’t get too hung up on building your experimental units to the exclusion of everything else. I once tried to turtle to get my fatboy out only to find Aeons can zerg-rush pretty well too. I don’t use the online multiplayer, so it doesn’t mean much to me. But if that’s important to you, than I'm sorry it doesn't have that. But to me, the campaign, the skirmish maps, and the LAN multiplayer was more than enough to keep playing, and more than worth it’s low asking price of a few bucks.

Forged Alliance is the greatest RTS of all time. It has and never will be surpassed. The co-opting of the genre by real time tactics ensures this. Starcraft killed the RTS genre.

But I see too many 4* ratings because no FAF support. Well. That's about to change, and the rts fans are still sleeping of this game because fast and repetitive rock/paper/scissors Starcraft, which by no means is a bad game, but it's no SupCom.