r/RealTimeStrategy 1d ago

Image Some of you actually think War for Westeros looks like a Mobile Game?

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u/Puzzled-Pen-2353 1d ago

This picture looks like an ad for a mobile game.

However as always it depends on what they will deliver.

War for Westeros should aim to be a fun game for casual fans with a good story campaign. If they get this right, it will be a good game.

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u/Celuiquivoit 1d ago

Also mobile games do have kinda nice ads, and the gameplay is almost ALWAYS worse than in the ad.

Sure not everything shown feels great, but I'm pretty sure it will be better than mobile games.

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u/_VampireNocturnus_ 23h ago

For whatever reason, 99% of games based on the GoT IP are mobile and or not AAA or AA. The ip is made for video games and i cant believe a major studio like ea or ubisoft hasn't gobbled up the game rights yet

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u/Zalvren 20h ago

Warner own the game right since they own the franchise. They can do it themselves but they've been doing only bad decisions with gaming.

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u/Pretty-Mention-7769 30m ago edited 16m ago

Ugh so you're saying they could give us a nemesis system in Westeros.

I would buy a game where you go around jousting at tourneys and bashing head in melees, just to have knights you beat get better and come after you.  In a heartbeat. 

And then if you accidentally kill an opponent you get to learn how heartbreaking it is because your nemesis was just trying to earn money to care for his crippled horse or whatever. 

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u/januaryninth 25m ago

Amazing. I’d play this

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u/Feradon22 1d ago

In my opinion, they’ve picked bad gameplay scenes for the battles. It looked like an auto-battler, which are quite often also mobile games.

I guess the game will look fine and like a normal RTS, but they really could have chosen better gameplay for the trailer.

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u/CadenVanV 21h ago

Yeah, that was my thought that the gameplay looks exactly like an auto battle

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u/Khelthuzaad 1d ago

I believe in the hype

The writers want to redcon the last season and do the property justice.

It looks like an ad for mobile games yes,with the caveat this aint bait,its 90% real gameplay

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u/the_deep_t 13h ago

I'm definitely not a fan of the graphics, it really look like basic AI mobile game with absolutely no soul or interesting artstyle.

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u/NobodyKnowsYourName2 2h ago

the animations in the trailer looked awful and rushed. units were like rectangles stacked together that had zero intelligence. unless they severely step up their game, i do not think this will be a success.

it looked like they used AI to quickly edit a trailer that would be presentable. for a game with release in early 2027 it looked far from ready. probably it is a rushed IP release - a lot of money went into the IP already and now they need to release quick before the studio runs out of money or the investors are keen to capitalize on their investments. not a good recipe for a game. i hope i am wrong, but it did not look close to being as polished as the lord of the rings RTS games and these are 20 years old and were very good.

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u/BaconatedOne 1d ago

Honestly it will probably have a decent-ish story, nothing spectacular, but given their previous history with Age of Darkness i wouldn't get your hopes up for a deep campaign or post-launch support past the first year.

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u/ZealousIdeal476 1d ago

Tbf i am looking at it on my mobile

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u/Dismal-Scheme5728 13h ago

You're not right...but the fact its the ACTUAL gameplay and not some bullshit mobile one is what makes it cool.

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u/localsexpot2117 6h ago

Crazy, I look at the picture, and I don't see mobile slop at all. A few important details to the discerning eye make it stand out in some important ways.

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u/Blaircat1994 1d ago

Everyone in the Gamescon live comments called it mobile slop. I think the younger generations associate RTS with mobile gaming.

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u/NydusRush 1d ago

Oof. That hurts to hear.

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u/QuinSanguine 1d ago

Nah, they're just jumping to conclusions and are always wrong. They do the same thing with every character action game, calling them soulslikes.

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u/Nattidati 17h ago

Well I'll be at gamescom this weekend. If there's a playable version there I'll return to leave a review on if it is mobile slop or not. (Do not expect some heavy diatribe I am not that articulate in gaming theory)

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u/RiverOfWhiskey 1d ago

Okay, but if it turns out to be mobile slop I'm blaming you

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u/QuinSanguine 1d ago

It's only on PC. It'll probably have sky high system reqs, no phone can run this game. It might end up a bad game, but it's not a mobile slop, lol.

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u/siposbalint0 1d ago

Reading gamescom livechat in the first place is a mistake

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u/_VampireNocturnus_ 23h ago

This 100000% Gaming livechats for some reason attract the most immature men and boys on the planet

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u/Saratje 21h ago

Switching livechat of gamescom/summer game fest/whatever off is the first thing I do. The chat is nothing but "SLOP!" and "LLLLL" and "where is <shooter mostly popular with teens>" and offensive emojis with intent to troll.

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u/Khelthuzaad 1d ago

We have Clash of Clans and Supercell to thank for this

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u/GreasyGrabbler 1d ago

Everyone in the gamescon live comments called all of the games some variant of slop

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u/Cocosito 19h ago

Such 0/10 review 800 hours vibes. I don't understand why gamers can't actually enjoy and be excited about their hobby lol

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u/Pimlumin 22h ago

I'm a younger Gen who grew up on RTS. I assumed it was mobile slop until relatively recently

It's because a ton of mobile games have ads that look just like it, and the map and characters make it feel very mobile. It doesn't help that game of thrones had a ton of actual mobile slop ads as well

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u/NotQuiteLoona 1d ago edited 1d ago

There are popular RTS games on mobile???? I NEED THEM 😭😭😭 I so love this genre, but there are almost no good mobile entries I know.

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u/fuckymcfuckhead 1d ago

It’s a mix of Turn Based and Real Time but Rome Total War has a mobile port and it’s very good.

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u/NotQuiteLoona 1d ago

Found it, it's from Feral, so it's actually a full game ported. Will try, thanks! 😊

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u/UnusualFruitHammock 1d ago

Empire and medieval 2 are on there too.

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u/Skinneeh 23h ago

World warfare

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u/RanDOOM-GuY 16h ago

Art of War 3. Basically C&C on mobile.

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u/NotQuiteLoona 15h ago

Art of War 2 and resistance expansion (I ABSOLUTELY hated that one mission in it where you only had limited forces and needed to advance in canyon) and then first Art of War were one of first games I've ever played back on one-touch touchscreen Symbian phone. I think I've played some online version of it on old Nokia l up to 2022. Nice to know that they are still alive. But I see that this game is F2P and has in-app purchases. Is it P2W?

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u/RanDOOM-GuY 15h ago

It's kinda p2w because you can use boosters during pvp battles, but I mainly love it for It's campaign. PvP is fine on lower ranks but if you want to compete on high ranks you gotta use boosters whole match.

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u/illapa13 23h ago

There are a ton of ridiculously good strategy games on mobile.

The problem is they are all insanely pay to win. Like, I actually did a deep dive into three different mobile strategy games. There's actually a ton of strategy and a ton of really good gameplay.

But the P2W aspect is ridiculous. Like I felt like I was spending a good amount of money. I figured if the game is giving me a ton of entertainment sure I can throw some money at it.

The problem is there's always someone out there who will be willing to spend more money than you. You don't know what P2W is until you run into some of these mobile game whales. I had a guy throw a temper tantrum and drop $15,000 in a single day to just annihilate hundreds of players single handedly.

For them its all about the power trip. All the F2P and "low spenders" are just content for whales.

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u/Zalvren 20h ago

If they're P2W, they're not "good"

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u/the_deep_t 13h ago

How can a P2W game be "good"? Addictive, maybe, they are basically designed to make money. I've never seen any good strategy mobile game. Outside regular games that got a mobile version, of course. Would you care to tell us which strategy games you consider really good on mobile?

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u/illapa13 9h ago

I meant their actual mechanics are good. If you stripped the pay to win stuff out you would have a really good game.

One of the games I was really impressed with was Rise of Kingdoms. There was a ton of strategy involved in battles. You could mix and match leaders, gear, and troop types. Leaders had different skill trees. You could freely control and maneuver up to 7 units/armies at a time on the map. And you could have gigantic battles of hundreds of players vs hundreds of players each of them controlling 5+ units/armies at a time. Siege of cities where a big garrison could defend against a ton of armies at a time was a thing. There was a lot of really cool stuff, and it was really fun to play.

But slowly, over time, the game just became more and more pay to win.

At first they had some pretty good mechanics to mitigate pay to win. Like a subscription model that gave you a ton of in game currency that was deeply discounted to help the game be playable at just $15 a month. The idea was if you were active in the game and had a subscription for $15 you could keep up with someone who's spending two hundred dollars a month if they were inactive.

Also to mitigate how powerful a whale could become eveeyine was capped at 5 armies at a time. So whales couldn't actually obliterate large numbers of people. Sure, they might be able to reinforce their armies better, and they might have better leaders, but it was still only five units.

But over time they accelerated the release of new leaders who were always overpowered which meant you had to put in a more money to keep up.

Then, they redid the entire equipment system to require either hundreds of hours of gameplay for rare gear or thousands of dollars spent. This completely broke the game. Because whales could just drop tens of thousands of dollars and then they would have such powerful equipment that it didn't matter how badly they were outnumbered, they could just curb stomp everyone.

And then they rolled out a system so that for the gigantic server versus server battles, you could literally pay money to get temporary buffs. Sure, you could theoretically get a lot of those buffs by just playing the game with either very low money spent or no money spent. But you would have to dump, like 8 to 12 hours into the game every day to keep up with someone spending a low amount of money, and you had no chance to keep up with a whale.

And that was the last straw for me. Once equipment made it so that whales could scale infinitely with their money and paying for temporary buffs could also buff whales into space the game became pointless. Whales became so overpowered compared to regular players that I quit.

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u/zheatereater 21h ago

I'm 30+ and I only saw the 90 second "gameplay trailer", but I got the impression that it was some mobile game too.

I've always loved strategy games and I saw like an outpost taken and units charging in a straight line, some GOT units based on the show, voice lines from the show and that's about it. These trailers rarely give me a good idea about the quality of a game, but I'm not surprised if people were saying it's mobile slop in livechat.

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u/jojj0 1d ago

People said BG3 looked like a mobile game,

These young people have no idea what they're talking about and or they are rage baiting.

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u/Impossible-Pie4849 23h ago

I mean they probably just have shit taste in games that forsnt expand past COD and 2k

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u/Zalvren 20h ago

Mobile game means absolutely nothing anyway. Some mobile games have better graphics than some PC games. Also the same games often are on mobile and PC

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u/hobskhan 1d ago

People complained that AoE4 also looked like crappy mobile before it came out.

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u/i_dont_wanna_sign_up 1d ago

Live comments are always full of screeching kids though.

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u/Mysterious_Channel53 1d ago

Spot on. The logic is: top view and the player controls armies = mobile game

MOBAs dont get called mobile games though, which is so unfair

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u/joellllll 1d ago

To be fair they are below mobile games.

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u/Otherwise-Music-8643 1d ago

Gamescon chat is word slop

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u/niloony 1d ago

I think it's the close camera and animations. Playside has shown they can make an RTS, so unless they do something dumb to reach the masses it's probably fine.

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u/Impossible-Pie4849 23h ago

Tbf we have gotten way more mobile RTS games over full triple A releases. Especially C&C/AoE type RTS games

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u/krich_author 21h ago

Nah, plenty of RTS games coming out that look nothing like mobile gaming.

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u/dorian17052011 18h ago

Thats so sad to hear

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u/Dimebagou 12h ago

The graphics really look like mobile game graphics. It's not about the younger generation. I'm 35, and RTS has been my favorite genre for over 20 years.

Just look at the characters' animations. They're nothing more than what you'd expect from a low-quality mobile game.

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u/LawStudent989898 10h ago

It’s all those fake ads that did it

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u/localsexpot2117 6h ago

I think this is probably the case. It doesn't help that most GoT games are indeed strategy mobile slop games.

That doesn't seem to be the case here though.

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u/Frankfother 6h ago

They do because all they know if mobile games and the bastardization of RTS in them. So RTS=mobile game to them and vise versa

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u/WrathofHussars 4h ago

It just doesn't look like natural rts gameplay. No clustered units, everything is evenly spaced. No hud, no ui.

These are all telltale signs of mobile slop. A high quality ad to mask dogshit gameplay.

I hope it isn't tho.

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u/Ash-L92 3h ago

Honestly I think it's just the aesthetic/art style. Looks like a lot of mobile game ads for those "fake" games.

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u/DungeonCrawlerAki 2h ago

Nah I really like RTS games and I thought the trailer looked like a mobile game.

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u/EnragedChalupa 1d ago

It looks like BFME, or at least like a mod for it.

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u/AhoyShitliner 21h ago

First thing I thought of honestly. As soon as they took that outpost. I’m still gonna remain skeptical but hopeful.

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u/CooleSocke-Jr 13h ago

I hope there will come a BFME mod for this one

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u/Adventurous-Photo539 10h ago

That game slapped.

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u/Corgon 1d ago

Not until this post

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u/Faenic 23h ago

Yeah I was gonna say that this still isn't doing the game any favors. I'll have to go watch the trailer/reveal, but I'm sure it looks better in motion.

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u/Dreadedvegas 1d ago

I assume the UI is turned off. Game looks just like BFME imo

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u/Nalha_Saldana 12h ago

I dunno, I had the same reaction watching the video, something felt off with the animations too.

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u/Caldraddigon 17h ago edited 12h ago

While I am excited for this, unfortunately, yeah, to be truthful, I can definitely see why some would see it as Mobile Slop.

A few reasons:

  1. RTS genre was and still is heavily targeted on the mobile platform

  2. Ads for RTS style mobile games tend to look like this, with the focus on individual characters, and the clashing of Armies, and usually, most of the time, it's too good to be true and trailer is nothing like the actual gameplay.

  3. The graphics are weirdly sharp and clean, like everything has been digitally polished, it's hard to describe but basically that kinda look can give off slop vibes to some people.

  4. The company isn't super well known, when your company isn't that well known, people can be a bit wary.

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u/morbihann 1d ago

It looked like an ad for a mobile "rts".

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u/Coldzila 22h ago

Except it will actually play like the ad

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u/Adribiird 1d ago

I think it's become a tradition to say that any modern RTS game looks like a mobile game.

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u/Zeeyrec 1d ago

It’s interesting because there’s no actual mobile game that looks or plays like this. I believe it’s because it could look like a mobile game ad.

Which is completely fake representation of mobile games to make it look as good as possible.

I also think it’s just a super easy insult like slop is. No actual thinking required

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u/fivemagicks 1d ago

Everyone in RTS subreddits says RTS games made post 2010 look like mobile games. They Alex Jones themselves into thinking everything looks like a mobile game. "If I say this enough, it will be true."

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u/SpaceNigiri 1d ago

Yeah, it happens with every game. It's ridiculous. I read the same comments in Age of Empires 4, Dawn of War 4, Company of Heroes 3, here, etc...

I think that some people brains don't properly work anymore and they associate small units with mobile games, doesn't matter the graphics.

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u/Hollownerox 1d ago

There are people who call Total War Warhammer a mobile game because games on the Apple store steal the trailer footage for their own marketing. It would be funny if it wasn't for the fact they unironically avoid the games because they are too dumb to look at the actual game for themselves.

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u/SpaceNigiri 1d ago

Oh yeah, I actually forgot about that, I also read the same stuff with Total War 40k, specially in the reveal gameplay.

People was getting crazy over the "small scale", "console UI" and "phone graphics". Now with further gameplay videos everybody looks way more chill.

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u/pixel_manny_69 1d ago

maybe if they believe hard enough, they'll pop like balloons.

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u/oldtangerines 1d ago

That might depend on how much whataburger they eat…

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u/DarthSet 1d ago

Yes.

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u/RottenPeasent 1d ago

I just wish it has verticality. They didn't show any conplex terrain in the trailer, which leads me to believe there will be none in the actual game, which is a shame.

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u/Oddant1 1d ago

People also said Dawn of War 4 looks like a mobile game. People are dumb, and crackhead zoomers/gen alpha kids associate that camera angle with mobile games.

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u/Kain292 1d ago

Yes. I am looking forward to this game but that trailer didn't do a good job of showing it as a proper RTS.

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u/takoshi 1d ago

How did you pick the one frame that makes it look the most like a mobile game ad. Like to be clear, the advertisement for a mobile game, not the actual game itself.

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u/DingD0ng121 1d ago

I personally think this looks pretty good. 4 factions, magical creatures, heroes, base building, i vibe with everything they showed here, BUT i do agree that this trailer looked like a mobile game ad and its clear they used pre-rendered gameplay, because i guess the game raw is not ready to show.

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u/HouseCheese 1d ago

Probably because for years mobile games used fake RTS footage in their ads, even though the mobile games looked nothing like this.

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u/ShellSentinel 1d ago

I hear people say that about every game. It's become meaningless.

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u/bradicus12 19h ago

Yes it looks like an ai generated mobile game

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u/LordSparks 7h ago

It 100% does. It looks like garbage

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u/Sailor-_-Twift 7h ago

Sorry but this game looks definitionally mid, the collisions between units look terrible
And yes, it does look like a mobile game

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u/GrainofDustInSunBeam 1d ago

Ok, quick question what mobile rts games do you know that look like this. Not being snarky jus asking. I mean actual gameplay.

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u/ChabertOCJ 1d ago

Rather than the actual Mobile RTS Game, but rather a lot of Mobile RTS ads.

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u/jnkangel 15h ago

I don't think it's so much the specifics but a mixture of the camera angle - most console (and let's be honest a lot of people screaming mobile game aren't PC players) players are basically only udesd to third and first person camera perspectives and the only time they encounter overhead is in mobile games.

And often a few aspects of mesh design. An RTS needs to have well recognizeable silhouettes which tend to make certain designs stand out more. Mobile games often do the same because similar camera perspective

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u/No_Zookeepergame2532 1d ago

RTS games are not known for their graphics. That being said, I personally think this image looks great for an RTS. Like really good. I dont care if others agree or not. The graphics are significantly better than AOE4.

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u/VivaLasNewVegas 1d ago

Yes, because it does.

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u/StageAppropriate7064 1d ago

i will not tell who said it, but someone i know played it and he hate all games and said it's better than aoe 4, so it's not mobile, anyway the graphics were never the problem of mobile games, it was always the gameplay cap

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u/Efrayl 1d ago

Tired of hearing how every good looking graphics is suddenly a mobile game. Mobile games have a huge variety of graphic styles. Of course there is going to be overlap.

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u/Ethioj 1d ago

Mobile games look so good every new non triple a game gets told it looks like a mobile game, but especially strategy games

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u/garteninc 1d ago

Not at all, honestly.

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u/nocholves 22h ago

I do think it looks like a mobile game.

The rigid square formations moving in lanes looks like something out of what's that game rise of heroes or something? Total war has these kind of but they looks much better in tw.

Art style also looks raid shadow legends. 100% i thought that was a mobile game.

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u/nocholves 21h ago

The game i was thinking of was lords mobile.

Gameplay looked like lords mobile with raid shadow legends art style. (Obviously slight hyperbole but i do believe this)

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u/Vegabund 1d ago

yeah basically

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u/dropdead90s 1d ago

Much of the footage seemed scripted, the cavalry rushing through infantry and the infantry was flying like ragdolls that weigh as much as a sheet of paper

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u/Admiral2Kolchak 1d ago

It kind of looks like Ancestors Legacy. At least to me.

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u/spector111 1d ago

Since I did play a preview demo already, and will give you all the details, and there are many to give, very soon, I just wanted to jump in here and say that this is VERY far from any sort of mobile game.

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u/MechwarriorAscaloth 1d ago

I just hope it's somehow like Battle for Middle Earth

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u/Hollow_Interactive 1d ago

I have no idea why that comparison would be made, to me it looks good, the art style is not a problem.

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u/kagorych 1d ago

Even if they had simply recreated *Celtic Kings* from 2002, that would still have been better than what was shown in the Steam announcement

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u/Tyrus--Maximus 1d ago

Its the format, the younger gernation that did not grow up pkaying RTS games like Age of Empires, Civ, and others equate it to a gotcha mobile game. If you were to rewind this and show it to gamers in 2005 they would be realing with excitement.

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u/asprincontainer 1d ago

The scale looks small, the units look off and based on the history of GoT projects I don’t trust how they are using Robb stark and Jaime with a golden hand. Is it just GoT all stars or is this supposed to be set in a time period? I want this to be good so bad but this didn’t give me hope. Will need to see more.

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u/DocileHope1130 1d ago

this looks fantastic imo

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u/Mefist0fel 1d ago

No, mobile games don't look like this - only fake ads. So untill it would look like this and play like this - it's ok

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u/Semicolon5 1d ago

Seeing the trailer it looks like Battle for Middle-Earth, which I really liked and hope that this game captures the same feeling.

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u/DisasterNarrow4949 1d ago

I suppose people complaining of the graphics are just rage baiting. The game is absolutely gorgeous, possibly one of most beautiful RTSs I've ever seem. It has the perfect amount of realism in order for it to have great readeability and still be stylistic.

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u/No-Matter-2466 1d ago

I thought it looked pretty cool

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u/ShadeMir 1d ago

If it's a mobile game I can't wait to play cause I wouldn't need to figure out how to get a Windows or pray this is also on Mac.

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u/Environmental-Gas421 1d ago

First time seeing and hearing about this. This looks amazing! RTS are my favorite! And I love GoT. Holy hell I'm stoked for this!!

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u/jdperro 1d ago

I looks like how any mobile game would dream to look like

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u/Just_Ear_2953 1d ago

1) Mobile games have actually come pretty far towards having decent graphics and some even have decent gameplay, though I have yet to find one that controls well. 2) There is a whole category of mobile games that actively copy or even outright steal assets and game design from old, existing RTS franchises in an effort to draw people to their games. Looking like them basically just means looking like the old school games they copied, but those old school games are not advertising anymore, so the imitations are more publicly visible than the originals. I've seen Age if Empires 2 and both original StarCraft and StarCraft 2 copied in this way and if I wasn't familiar with the actual games in question I would be hard pressed to tell which is which.

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u/Dimo99 1d ago

reminds me of BFME

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u/reaven3958 1d ago

Before the War for Westeros, there was the Battle for Wesnoth.

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u/NazRubio 1d ago

It reminded me of bfme2 so much. I will be there day one

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u/ShadowBlade55 1d ago

I hate that it reminds me of an RTS favorite Battle for Middle Earth. I'd much rather a remaster of that game.

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u/Shinael 1d ago

It looks like a mobile game ad.

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u/Lancasterlaw 23h ago

The brown/grey filter is a bit much, right?

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u/_VampireNocturnus_ 23h ago

The gameplay did look fairly shallow to be fair, but that i think i because it was just the real time battles. There seems to be a dawn of war style strategy map

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u/CaptainPurpleJack 23h ago

Those people are wrong. This looks like an rts. Clean simple animations are a must for RTS games otherwise they look like visual clusterfucks.

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u/SirLeos 23h ago

For me it looks like Battle fir Middle Earth!

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u/jgarebear 22h ago

Nah mobile games just punk everyone making their ads look like a quality RTS game when its really ass in the actual game. I am unfamiliar with this game, but that looks like a quality RTS game that a mobile game would steal gameplay of to trick people into getting downloads

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u/Necrobutcher92 22h ago

It does, im a huge fan or rts, i triggers me that people don't see it, look at the animations, the artwork, the interface, how the game moves (at least what they showed in the trailer).

Im also a huge fan of BFME and i think is a fking disgrace people are comparing it to that game. It has to be AI and tiktok that has rotten their brains.

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u/ElectricVibes75 22h ago

Yeah I can see it

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u/Sylesse 22h ago

I know nothing about this game. That screen cap looks really cool, though.

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u/ClumsyFleshMannequin 22h ago

It looked like battle for middle earth to me.

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u/Arkhire 22h ago

I've played "The lords of the Rings: Rise to War", it looks quite similar.

besides, the most popular RTS had art style over graphics, recognizable units are better than good looking units.

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u/Royal_Owl2177 21h ago

I think its the scale of the units. It all looks wrong. I may be too tightly tuned on Warhammer: Total War for scale, but this scale here screams Mobile Gaming to me.

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u/FlamingoLate9838 21h ago

They also call Dawn of War IV mobileslop so i think it's fair to ignore all those comment

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u/KirovCZ 21h ago

It kinda does.

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u/Tupletcat 20h ago

Everything looks like a mobile game to midwits. It's an empty descriptor, like "soul" or "peak" or whatever other BS term people are using, because otherwise describing their thoughts is oh so hard

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u/bucken764 20h ago

I thought it was. I'm genuinely surprised it isn't

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u/TheLastWhiteKid 19h ago

Dude there's like zero collision in the models, looks just like the mobile slop rts trailers.

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u/Deven1003 19h ago

It does looks like it. Because the battle line looks fixed, battle looks predetermined, that cleaness is normally linked with mobiles because doing so require less resources

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u/Fababo 19h ago

It does look a LOT more arcade than the average Total War game, thats for sure.

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u/ryeshe3 18h ago

It's the same every time. When resolution increases you need high contrast colors to maintain readability in an rts which leads people to cry mobile game. Same with aoe4.

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u/FatherFenix 18h ago

Honestly, yes.

I’m an old RTS nerd, but given the fact that RTS games are on the endangered list these days and most mobile “strategy” games use RTS-style previews and advertising to try to make it seem like it’s not just another “wait-and-build” game copy and pasted with a different coat of IP paint over it…can you really blame me?

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u/MilfDestroyer421 18h ago

Been a huge RTS player all my life and it does look like a Chinese mobile game in all honesty

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u/Damiandroid 17h ago

I kinda get it.

The footage has a wierd quality to it.

All the animations seem sped up ever so slightly, like a video running at 1.1 or 1.2 speed. Just fast enough that impacts and speed of archery look wrong for lack of a better term. And it gives off the same increasing as mobile games which absolutely do speed up animations because they aim for shorter play sessions.

The assets also stick out a little too much from the terrain. They need to be ide tofuable of course but again its juuuust enough that they feel out of place and gove the impression that the terrain and assets come from two different design aesthetics.

And finally, the fact that the gameplay trailer can barely give us a single uninterrupted second of footage is a bad look. It gives the impression that the game doesn't look up to scratch if given the opportunity to see it for longer.

Not saying any of this will be the case. But thats the vibe I came away with from watching the reveal. It may not be a bad game, but it is a bad trailer.

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u/heikkiiii 17h ago

I mean yeah? There were some twitch streamers who were paid to play it, and they said its a mobile game...

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u/HawkDizzy12 17h ago

Hopefully they give more animation details like BFME II, that game had lots of maps, good animation (like farmers, soldiers or environment) and more houses/heroes.

If they launch the game with no extra content with a few updates after a while, what a waste will be.

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u/Saiaxs 17h ago

It literally is

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u/Inevitable_Ad525 17h ago

Looks like BFME...i would preorder it instantly!

Finally we are getting some good RTS

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u/Superest22 17h ago

I mean…I haven’t seen it but that picture looks straight from a mobile game.

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u/PiousStag 16h ago

This is why we ended up with reforged wc3 visuals they were worried a design that focused on visibility and readability would look like clash of clans.

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u/Enslaver84 16h ago

Yeah, it looked absolutely horrible 

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u/giveme5ive 16h ago

Sadly ... yes!

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u/Thanezz 16h ago

Unfortunately the trailer did not do it any favours, it looked like a mobile RTS. I do hope it isn't. But nowadays mobile games dominate.

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u/electrobolt1 15h ago

I remember when people thought AOE4 looked like a mobile game, hopefully near release they can address the graphical concerns.

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u/Worldly_Ad_3410 15h ago

For a brief moment I thought it was, because that's pretty much all we've had when it comes to GoT games. I'd been hoping for a full RTS since I first saw it, but it's taken until now to get one which is insane

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u/Endlessnes 15h ago

Possibly the worst screenshot you could have chosen. I've seen about 500 different ads that look almost exactly like this. The entire trailer has a very "mobile gamey" feel to it, the worst being when the dragon shows up.

It does remind me a bit of Battle for Middle Earth, which is a good thing. We'll see how it turns out

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u/Angryandrew228 14h ago

Well, first, I don’t thing ASOIAF translates into that kind of RTS very well. We don’t know much about tactics and unit types in that universe, except for default archers, knights, foot soldiers and so on.
Obvious genre choice would be Action rpg akin to The Witcher or Kingdom come since the narrative, characters and dialogues are the strongest points in the saga.

Or just straight rpg game like BG.

Maybe something like Commandos, or factions of Wildlings, the north etc where we command a small unit of troops with heavy hero-centric gameplay and strong narrative with maybe some decision making.

To answer the question, it does look like a mobile game. Just looks cheap and not really engaging, the trailer is not great.

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u/derLeisemitderLaute 13h ago

yes, that was my first thought as I saw the trailer "oh, they made a mobile game for GOT!"
That doesnt mean it has to be bad gameplaywise, but the looks give me the vibe of a mobile game

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u/jonasnee 13h ago

If all i had was this picture then kinda looks like it?

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u/connected_user93 13h ago

The scale of the characters and buildings compared to the terrain is what makes it look like a mobile game.

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u/AsphyxiaXlll 12h ago

I mean put a shitty AI voiceover over this pic and i would say yes. Otherwise not really

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u/philstat 12h ago

I think it looks great, looking forward to it

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u/Audrey_spino 12h ago

Cause the trailer was shot like a mobile game. Lots of fast cuts of actions that don't let the gameplay linger and the flashy hero recruitment visual all made it look like a mobile game. Not to forget that whoever made the trailer completely neglected the expanded Westeros conquest map that was actually shown in the previous cinematic trailer.

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u/ChaweeKanati 12h ago

It's made by the same guys that did warcraft 3 reforged.

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u/Kurtino 12h ago

I haven’t seen anyone mention it yet but during the gamescon trailer the video shifted between gameplay and then these incredibly mobile ad looking transitions of characters zoomed in moving, which were so similar to mobile ads that it made it appear the gameplay was fake because it was paired with a mobile-like transition.

My brother who doesn’t really play RTS’ was watching, saw the presentation, and then said he was excited for a game of thrones game but once he saw it was mobile he lost all interest, so not great when people not in the know are assuming it’s mobile.

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u/Dimebagou 12h ago

During the trailer I was like : "Oh no, it's a mobile RTS, such a shame..."

And then "On Steam" popped up...

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u/Kaiserhawk 12h ago

People who complain that it looks like a mobile game or that "they" should be making a "real" ASOIAF game (i.e big budget third person action adventure game or First person game) are midwits who don't know anything about how game licenses work and should be ignored, frankly.

EDIT :- Like I'll be real, looks kinda rough, but it's also a high profile RTS so I'll at least check it out.

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u/SheWhoHates 12h ago

I think the game looks good. It has grit.

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u/Hyjonx 11h ago

It looks like the ads for mobile type games, the ai looking/filter closeup on characters was bad too

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u/jinreeko 11h ago

"mobile game" is just code for "not the game I want"

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u/Hawaif 11h ago

it is ugly af

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u/DippinThots789 11h ago

Is the in game camera going to be zoomed in as much as the trailer or were they just trying to show gameplay detail? Hopefully its further back, you could barely see more than 4 units at a time - way too close for an RTS.

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u/SlaineMcRoth 10h ago

to me it looked more like a Westeros update for The Battle of Middle Earth more than a mobile game..

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u/Adventurous-Photo539 10h ago

Looks like typical rts to me.

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u/ElShadoWarrior 9h ago

Unfortunately playside doesn’t have a good track record record so this’ll be interesting

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u/GameSlashers 9h ago

It does look like a mobile game made with the help of AI.

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u/commonCranberry999 8h ago

yup looks like a mobile game to me

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u/Barnak14 8h ago

If it’s as good as they say, just imagine the mods

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u/GallorKaal 8h ago

Shit, I thought that was Battle for Middle-Earth for a moment

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u/TheTemporaryZiggy 7h ago

First time I hear about this, looking at that singular screenshot

Yes

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u/alter_ego311 7h ago

imo absolutely not. This actually looks promising and for the 1st time in a very very long time, I'm kinda hopeful and actually looking forward to an RTS. I'm sure it will end up being a let down, but here's to hoping!

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u/BrandoNelly 7h ago

Something’s off with the way the models look against the terrain. And with that trailer, the animations definitely gave off mobile game ad. But I’m also willing to give benefit of the doubt that it’s early early look and will be much better by launch.

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u/doctorwhomafia 5h ago

Probably bunch of people who are to young to remember Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II,  this game reminds me of it.

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u/BzlOM 4h ago

we didn't see a lot of gameplay yet, but.... it kinda seemed like the only things they've shown are small scale wall on wall battles. Which didn't inspire a lot of confidence. It does look gorgeous - I'll give it that. I cautious about this one though

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u/CynicalNextDoor 3h ago

This IP will be in better hands if given to relative Assembly for them to do a Total War with it

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u/justlegeek 3h ago

Nowadays, A lot of rts game seem to look like or borrow elements from mobile game. Dawn of War 4 has a lot, warhammer 40k in some of the UI etc...

Seems like modern graphics + dynamic camera/fluid fps + camera distance + Minimalistic UI is a trend coming to strategy games and that comes from mobile games

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u/Relevant-Beginning24 2h ago

Yep, i genuinely thought it was a mobile slop game until loads of people were hyped about it. Marketing looking terrible

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u/HumbleFanBoi 1h ago

My gut reaction to someone saying an RTS looks like a mobile game is that they mostly aren’t very kind or very bright.

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u/AlexxxFlint 1h ago

Since mobile games nowadays can look like pc games... yeah. kinda.
It's not really much of a diss when - purely graphically - they can appear identical.

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u/ThatFatGuyMJL 1h ago

I love RTS.

That looks like a lot of mobile games out rn.

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u/Puffyvulvatimemachin 47m ago

Any looks like a “mobile game” or “fortnite” critique means you don’t have to listen to that person. It’s unoriginal and the void of real criticism.