What is the best strategy game ?

[MultiForce]

Every RTS from good old Westwood before EA ruined everything.

[Alessandro]

total war (rome and medieval)

[yasobelber92]

Age of Empires 3

Diablo

[HmcR]

Age Of Empires II : The Conquerers

Eternal Masterpiece.

btw, any good aoe2 players who want a challenge pm me.

[ZaZu]

Master of Orion ii: Battle at Antares

[kondrae]

C&C series is great.

Tiberium sun
red alert 2
tiberium wars

also loved age of empires 1 n 2
and empire earth

[Ri0T]

Age of Empires II.

Good looking at its time, excellent gameplay and great story telling.

[The Flying Cow]

Ri0T knows what he's talking about.

AoE2 still looks good nowadays, and it's so light on sys req. The game/graphics/physics engine is so well crafted they made something like 2 official patches to fix minor imbas.

That's saying something, when you compare it to games like Warcraft III RoC and TFT. They are still making patches for those, and the game and it's expansion remain imbalanced and a pain in the neck to try to tackle (i.e. Night Elfs are clearly overpowered, and Undead are too weak).

AoE2 and it's expansion is still #1. Maybe SC2 will come to take it's place, but it'll be a hard task.

[DATTER]

Rise Of Nations I love this game!

[HmcR]

Ri0T knows what he's talking about.

AoE2 still looks good nowadays, and it's so light on sys req. The game/graphics/physics engine is so well crafted they made something like 2 official patches to fix minor imbas.

That's saying something, when you compare it to games like Warcraft III RoC and TFT. They are still making patches for those, and the game and it's expansion remain imbalanced and a pain in the neck to try to tackle (i.e. Night Elfs are clearly overpowered, and Undead are too weak).

AoE2 and it's expansion is still #1. Maybe SC2 will come to take it's place, but it'll be a hard task.

^^ I agree, but you know the best thing about it that until today (I've been playing this game for 4 years now, another friend of mine has been since it was released) is that we are always discovering new strategies and game mechanics and every time we think that it would be the last technique we would find but still we'd find something new, an eternal masterpiece.

SC2 will have a VERY hard time trying to take AoE2's place, its cause developers just cram a huge amount of stuff into newer strategy games that players very shortly become confused of the excessive variety.

AoE2 has 5 or 6 main military buildings but has infinite depth.

great work microsoft!