Best RTS of All Time??

-Dune, for creating the genre
-Command and Conquer: Red Alert (if I had to pick one out of the franchise), for perfecting the fundamentals
-Dark Reign, for being vastly underrated
-Total Annihilation, for being the first epic-scale RTS
-Homeworld, for being the best thing to happen to the genre since its creation
-World in Conflict, for showing gamers that a great epic singleplayer is important in RTSs, even in the 21st century
-Warcraft 2, for making the genre popular
-Ground Control, for showing us that you dont need base building in an RTS (though I think Force 21 came first...not sure)
-Warhammer: Dark Omen, for being the first to give us epic army vs army (like Total War battles) battles in real time, and being damn good to boot

Wow this thread is old.

Best RTS?

Starcraft for being the best competitive RTS ever.

Dune for spear heading the genre.

Dune 2
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
Homeworld

Cant decide which of the above I like best, but those are my top 3. Though nostalgia might be speaking when I mention Dune 2...but damn I remember it being such a fun game.

It's a three-way tie between Starcraft, C&C Red Alert 2, and Total Annihilation.

Warcraft 3 TFT

Homeworld (1 and 2)

Dungeon Keeper (1 and 2)

If Close Combat 2: A Bridge Too Far qualifies as an RTS, I'd put it above both. I get a feeling it's not though.

Starcraft, Age of Empires 2, and WC3 I really cant decide between them. WC3 would dominate easily if you counted Dota... but thats just using the WC3 engine basically... it doesnt have much to do with the game. So of the RTS elements... its very very close. I would probably prefer playing WC3 to either AoE or SC... but admittedly it did come out later so youd hope for instance WC3 would learn from SC and improve

wow, 3-year-old thread

Total Annihilation
Homeworld
Red Alert

halo wars lololololololol

1.Starcraft

2.Warcraft

3.Age Of Empires

4.Empire Earth

5.Red Alert

DarkBunny100

StarCraft. Because of it's balance. Perfectly balaned with very few bugs and the ultimate multiplayer experience.

Dune 2 I guess, since both C&C and Blizzard pretty much copied that formula? (and expanded/tweaked on it) so I think it is the best one, since the formula still works so long after that game was made ^^

Personally I would likely say Dawn of war, or Company of Heroes. I like Relics take on RTS in general, they always try to innovate, and push things alittle further, and those games were really amazing ^^.

Honerbly mention: Warcraft 2 and Starcraft, those two games are very dear to me, going way back to my childhood. I do not consider them the best anymore, but I do consider them insanely good.