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If you've never played Dune 2 or Dune 2000 or whatever other iterations and remakes of the Dune RTS series, I strongly recommend it. It seems like a lot of Warcraft's DNA comes from Dune.
"Seems like"? Dune 2 is the template which most RTS is derived from. Truly a genre defining game
Yeah, seems like. Like when I was a kid and I played Dune 2, then played Warcraft a few years later, the one seemed to inherit most of its ideas from the other.
But I didn't like go look up the dates or exhaustively check that no other game came up with the format first. I know the first Age of Empires is somewhere vaguely in that same time span too, but I'm not certain of the order.
Thus seems.
Oh sorry it seemed offensive or negative in any way, I just wanted to clarify that "seems like" i s a vast understatement. Dune 2 predates all of them, and became a template for mechanics and layouts. We've gone a long way since, but dune was the first of the models that we build RTS games as today