Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

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Blob v Blob simulator.

This game is a great RTS. One of my favorites, especially due to the huge armies you can make. There is a second game in the making to! (at least as of the time of writing)

Game is just frustrating. Unit production sucks. Units just run off and die on their own. Armies get massive and hard to control. In order to gain some semblance of control, the scale has to be pumped way out and loose all graphics of the game as they become tiny pixels of an icon. There is almost zero strategy to the game; it is a game of numbers and attrition, not much else which makes it boring. The amount of over-speech is off the chart, stopping game play for extended periods without having to cancel each and every one. Combat sounds sucks too. The laser and whatever they are shooting just sounds dumb. Might as well have put in the Roadrunner beeping. The sci-fi part of the game is dumb too, the premise being that hyper mind altered humans are controlling devices, ships, and buildings form 1000's of light years away and removes all notion of risk of life. There really is no risk. You just make more and more and more units. That's the game... making units to overwhelm the enemy. Boring.

I'm only downvoting because this was recommended as a great RTS *Single Player* game. The campaigns took about six hours to go through. I'm sure it's all kinds of fun for multiplayer, but six hours of single player throughout four campaigns (one of which if basically a tutorial) makes the "single player" tag false advertising.

RTS game that focuses on Macro instead of Micro play

Tedious. Not fun at all. Boring like just about every single game of theirs.