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The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] foxglove@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And you cannot play it anymore due to the BS drm crap. I don't need a remake, just let me play it somehow

Games of that era are also just to big to easily pirate. A SNES ROM? Ezpz. But a full DVD game? Not without torrenting

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I think this is all you need nowadays, it’s one click install I think. https://www.moddb.com/mods/battle-for-middle-earth-patch-222/downloads/patch-222

Hell, I will give it a go myself tomorrow

[–] foxglove@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Dang, thank you!

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yw yw have fun (hopefully it works, haven’t checked myself yet)

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I played it quite recently I think the community has solved that problem, even online iirc it worked. Don’t remember the links though. It’s still fun and a good escape when warhammer gets stale.

I do remember it was bashed for drm on release though. I also remember these things called no-dvd cracks you pulled form the shady websites with disgusting porn ads to not have to have the disc in your drive at all times. Also avast antivirus shenanigans. I wouldn’t say it was good old times but it all had certain flavour though I probably wouldn’t want to go back in time haha.

Gaming is generally in an amazing place now with an exception of few things lost along the way one of which is aaa RTS and another early Bethesda rpg genre, they totally changed their games starting with oblivion.