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Stealth has been around for a while in most game genres, but I’ve noticed it more and more lately within the RTS genre and it’s almost in every RTS in some form or fashion. Is stealth a good thing or a bad thing? Does it take skill to use?

 

From my perspective I’m ok with stealth as long it’s not broken, which I’ve often seen in many RTS games. Usually it’s one of those things that just make good units great and can usually really only benefit those who are already winning. There have been a few times where stealth has been implemented correctly and actually improved gameplay by giving the player more balanced tactics to play with and in those circumstances it has worked quite well IMHO.

 

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Within most current RTS games you have a couple of playable factions, which the end result usually being something akin to the “good guys” and the “bad guys”. Is this ok? Do you enjoy playing as the bad guys? Why?

 

I’ve often found more of a fun factor when I A)Find a faction that works for me and B)Has something innovative about it. From most of my games this tends to be some of the more dark or evil factions. (Does that make me a bad person?) It’s either by some large creative decision to make the evil factions good at attacking hard and quick or it just so happens that most of the time in the RTS games I’ve played the evil faction ends up being a little bit better. 

 

Now, I don’t sit at my desk and drink blood or hang out with thugs – but…

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Within the RTS genre, there have been games that use the same type of units for every playable faction and the only difference is color. Nowadays we are seeing more and more unique units and in some cases even having multiple factions that each have their own unique set of units. I’m going to go ahead and say it now, I have a love hate relationship with unique units. 

 

Part of me really enjoys those games that have a lot of unique units per playable factions. What I like is that it makes every playable faction play a little differently and it potentially creates multiple unique strategies. I akin this scenario to the cereal isle in the grocery store. You have a lot of flavors and some of those cereals work really well together and the uniqueness of the multiple brands really helps them stand out among the rest.…

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