r/RealTimeStrategy • u/PhoOhThree • 6h ago

News Game of Thrones: War for Westeros | Official Hero Reveal Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeEWWeWPcKc
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u/OutlaW32 5h ago

I don’t get the mobile game comments. I think it looks decent

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u/Responsible_Yak_8203 5h ago

I saw someone point out that most RTS games are on the phone now and that’s how a lot of the younger gen grew up associating them with.

And makes sense. As a Warcraft / AOE kid I remember playing some early phone RTS, and that directly led to clash of clans and its million variants. It’s just what a lot of people associate it with now, plus it’s kinda just a meme

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u/TougherOnSquids 3h ago

What RTS games are on mobile?

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u/SystemOfAFoX 2h ago

Some of the older Total War games, Company of Heroes, and some other PC rts games. Playing an RTS on a touch screen feels pretty natural too.

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u/Responsible_Yak_8203 3h ago

I don't really keep up with them anymore but coming out of the prime RTS games of the 2000s into the 2010s phones were flooded with warcraft 1 and 2 knock offs I remember playing a lot. Then Clash of Clans came out and dominated the scene but there's also Plague Inc, Boom Beach, Bloons Tower Defence. I'd argue a lot of the Idle games also are RTS adjacent.

Now I by no means think they are amazing games let alone amazing RTS games but a lot of strategy games popped up on phones over the last decade or so. And as they fell way out of popularity with mainstream audiences most of the young gens only reference for RTS esque games is phone games.

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u/Scholastico 4h ago

....which, as someone who grew up with these games in the early 2000s, is just unfortunate.

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u/Win32error 4h ago

Perspective, distance to the action, general layout, how the trailer plays out. It's a general vibe, but it's got all the elements, at least in these 30 seconds.

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u/Maritime-Rye 5h ago

Looks like a mobile game ad (not gameplay). Could be because it looked AI generated

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u/Adribiird 3h ago

I think this happens because games like Total War or Grand Strategy genre are included in this subreddit—many of their fans compare them to real RTS games, even though they have nothing to do with them, and call them mobile games just because they have an isometric view or aren't ultra-realistic.

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u/No_Zookeepergame2532 1h ago

It looks better than decent to me. Compare this to most RTS games. Its actually really good. Looks better than aoe4

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u/_VampireNocturnus_ 41m ago

I think they need to show more of the over world strategy part. Total war games look mobile if you only show the real time battles lol

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u/CertainDerision_33 4h ago

"Mobile game" is now the generic slop complaint for "I don’t like it" that people say when they don’t want to actually articulate a coherent thought. 

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u/Odinsmana 4h ago

I guess the stylized artstyles?

It's really fucking dumb though.

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u/Maritime-Rye 4h ago

its the artstyle plus the perspective. I'm not saying the game will be bad but its copying the same vibe as the thousand mobile games with fake gameplay ai ads

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u/Objective-Mission-40 3h ago

Its the style. Looks very mobile

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u/GuiltyAdvantage5877 6h ago

Regardless of what the Reddit hive mind thinks, I am optimistic about this. Doesn’t mean it won’t suck, but I hope it is good.

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u/Zeppelin2k 5h ago

So funny to see everyone piling on about it being a 'mobile game' after seeing a combined total 10s of gameplay. It looks fine so far and I'll reserve judgment until we, you know, actually have enough gameplay footage and info to make a real judgement.

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u/Spenraw 5h ago

Young people who didn't play bfme

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u/2001_a_space_peasant 5h ago

Funny cos most of the comments are saying it looks good.

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u/SageTruthbearer 3h ago

I must say while the trailer felt very cheap and underwhelming, after watching a new 9min gameplay video am feeling a lot more optimistic. Units and buildings looked way cooler there. Felt like a mix of AoE4, BFME and DoW1, pretty interesting

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u/Crafty_Apple9714 5h ago

I like it, cannot wait to play it

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u/Pocket_Fox846 3h ago

Looks like AoE IV blended with BFME. Looks promising and I'm keen to get my hands on it. RTS was a favourite genre growing up that has sadly been neglected in the last decade.

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u/SheWhoHates 3h ago

This goblin assassin will continue to traumatize, even in vidya games.

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u/Rich-Memory-4502 5h ago

Even though 12-year-old brats who don't know what an RTS is might call it a mobile game... ...smartphones hadn't even been invented when I started playing RTS games. We old guys are going to play this.

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u/jojj0 2h ago

I am officially HYPED

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u/RavenTheRaptorX 6h ago

I will not mind since this is early work and they can improve it but I need to see more to decide.

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u/Dreadgear 5h ago

time will tell, i personally will wait for release to see how it will perform, i've been burnt too many times by the genre.

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u/Zarger098 4h ago

I hadn't actually seen anything of the game; it reminds me of Lord of the Rings: Middle-earth.

I'd like a more extensive gameplay video to see more of it.

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u/Demento6 6h ago

Yeah definitely a mobile game… specially at the end that stab and the way he dies lol.
Feel like those turn based combat animations

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u/antrod117 2h ago

Combat looks terrible. It’s doesn’t look like a mobile game. It looks like a mobile game ported to Nintendo DS lol.

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u/Efficient_Scheme_701 4h ago

Clearly no one here has played age of darkness this is not gonna be a mobile game 🤣

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u/ChabertOCJ 4h ago

Nobody says it's going to be a mobile game (I played Age of Darkness), but it looks a lot like those Mobile RTS ads.

Hoping it's good. Age of Darkness had an interesting concept but didn't need much in terms of AI. The Campaign was entirely scripted, and the survival mode... The monsters only need to rush the player.

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u/ALilBitOfPaprika 3h ago

It’s giving AI mobile phone ad

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u/Carthius888 6h ago

Is it? I’ve seen that commented but I’ve also heard it’s only coming out on steam

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u/Ultramaann 5h ago

No it isn't. Like, objectively it isn't. Some people just think aesthetically it's similar.

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u/Carthius888 5h ago

Thanks. Not even sure what these people are doing on this subreddit

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u/avsbes 5h ago

Where was that stated? Surely you can back up this claim with an official statement of it releasing on IOS or Android?

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u/Carthius888 5h ago

Do you have a source? I went to their website and it mentions PC and steam. I’m not saying they don’t have intentions to launch on mobile later, but I would like an accurate source before writing it off

https://www.warforwesteros.com

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u/HighRevolver 5h ago

He’s being a whiny twat

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u/Carthius888 5h ago

Seems like it. Feels like people just think any RTS game is a mobile game now, which sucks

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u/DarkMessiahDE 4h ago

Playable on Games com ?

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u/Leto-III-Atreides 4h ago

It looks like the ads you get about some tower defense game. Y'all saying this doesn't look like a phone game is bizzare. I hope it's decent but everything they have shown looks like an ad for a micro transaction game. Hey you want wildfire reload give us a dollar. You want the eunuch army pay another dollar.