Best RTS Games EVER

[Kraneloran]

No Love for C&C Tiberium Wars?

[Matcam89]

That game is good also but just not one that comes to mind as one of the best

[Matcam89]

Best RTS games for me is

Rise of Nations
Empire Earth - Original
Red Alert
Red Alert 2
Generals
Dune
Age of Empires 3
Company of Heroes
Dawn of War 40k series
Starcraft

[James27]

Dawn of War 2 is without a doubt one of my favourite RTS games, had a lot of fun with that game, and it still is has people playing it.

[Merlin]

The genre is all but forgotten these days. I never really played anything but starcraft 1. If you want to play against other people...well good luck I don't know if thats a thing. But if there are good ones for single player, I'd like to know them, because I do like the genre for single player story, odd as that may seem. I really liked it in starcraft and warcraft games.

[Damian Cunliffe]

If I was forced to pick one I might say Age of Empires 2, or maybe Sins of a solar Empire - Rebellion.

But Age of Empires 1 will always be really special to me. It was the first RTS game I ever saw or played around age 10 (didn't have a PC yet, just consoles) and hearing that haunting music as I saw my civilization advance from the stone age to the classical world... it just fired up an obsession with history inside me. I guess any history-based RTS game I played would've had the same effect but it was AoE 1 that did it, so that's the game to blame for having like 500 books on a huge shelf in this room... all history.

[The_Dirk_Diggler]

My view is due to my time in the military but Company of Heroes is my epitome of an RTS. The way that real life weapons and tactics were handled, plus the way maps devolved into blackened cesspools of shit and blood the longer the fight lasted. Pure brilliance.

[Noobc0re]

Red Alert 2 and Supreme Commander.

As for active ones...I don't think there are any active RTS other than SC and SC2. Maybe the AOE remaster has people playing?

[Major]

Red Alert 2 and Supreme Commander.

As for active ones...I don't think there are any active RTS other than SC and SC2. Maybe the AOE remaster has people playing?

Thank you for answering my question! Everyone telling me what their favourites were but not many have mentioned if they know of any games with an active player base!

[boozie2600]

I have always been a warcraft / starcraft fan, even since WC Orcs and Humans but when Planetary Annihilation came out I thought it was going to dominate the RTS market and even though I think its pretty solid, they didnt market it well enough (kickstarter, so not a lot of marketing funds), and its sorta petered out.

[Matcam89]

You could probably check out Rise of Nations or the remaster of Age of Empires these remasters are fairly new I haven't played an rts online for a long time so not sure how active they are

[kalin]

Warcraft 3 probably my all-time favorite, the hero system is just a lot of fun. Starcraft 2 is probably clsoe second, both the games have just a very smooth and clean feel, nice design, solid competitive feel. I quite enjoyed red alert for the fun factor, but less for serious 1v1

[Methpoodle]

Man, this is so hard. Anything from Westwood makes the list for me. Dune2000, C&C, Red Alert, Tiberian sun. Even though EA was half responsible for Red alert 2 I'm gonna count it as a Westwood gem too.
Warcraft 2 was the tits. Age of empires and Total annihilation were awesome too.
I wish the days of the sexy base building RTS would come back.

[KLoWn]

The Starcraft 2 trilogy. Even though the single player lost some steam in LotV it was still a blast to play through.

[Major]

all the above are great games I certainly agree BUT, the question really is, what base building RTS games are out there (other than Starcraft 2) that currently have a good active, online player base?