The CIA uses board games to train officers

Re:The CIA uses board games to train officers by frik on Sunday March 19, 2017 @02:51AM (#13905694)

There used to be a PC game genre called Real-Time-Strategy (RTS). Former famous game series were Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, War Craft, Empire Earth (and some more). The genre was very popular in 1997-2005. Sadly casual Free2Play Facebook games, mobile touch and console gamepad destroyed the genre. Today no Triple-A game worth mentioning gets released in the RTS genre.

RTS is very useful and you can learn a lot.

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Re:The CIA uses board games to train officers by carlosdp on Sunday March 19, 2017 @02:56AM (#13905703)

What? RTSs are still around... Starcraft 2 was released in the last 5 years or so, for example.

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Re:The CIA uses board games to train officers by gaddferreira on Sunday March 19, 2017 @03:04AM (#13905735)

Almost 7 years ago actually[1], in the gaming world i think that's a very long time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft_II:_Wings_of_Liberty

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Re:The CIA uses board games to train officers by ygra on Sunday March 19, 2017 @04:05AM (#13905905)

Games that are played competitively tend to stick around for longer. Neither players nor audiences want to re-learn everything every year or two.

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Re:The CIA uses board games to train officers by frik on Sunday March 19, 2017 @04:28AM (#13905959)

You can play old games for many years yes. But after a while it gets boring anyway.

Some of the 10-20 year old RTS games got released as HD-editions recently. But they are just the same old games. What is really needed are new games with new content. Not just lame cheap re-releases named "HD". The world needs new Triple-A RTS games, that are not clones of Star Craft 2. Star Craft 1, Age of Empires and Command and Conquer series were better games in many respect and this is what is missing today - non-causul non-F2P new RTS games with realistic scenarios like in C&C Generals and Age of Empires or Empire Earth series.

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Re:The CIA uses board games to train officers by untoreh on Sunday March 19, 2017 @04:57AM (#13906030)

Aoe2 has got a couple of expansions that added more factions, however from my perspective I don't really look for more content in updates as much as better features... Spectating a game in aoe2 is a joke and watching the casters struggle with disconnects and having to synchronize replays is kinda sad.

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Re:The CIA uses board games to train officers by gaddferreira on Sunday March 19, 2017 @04:19AM (#13905943)

You're likely right, thanks for pointing that out.

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Re:The CIA uses board games to train officers by ukyrgf on Sunday March 19, 2017 @03:01AM (#13905729)

Nearly 7 years, and that was a looong time coming.

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Re:The CIA uses board games to train officers by lazzlazzlazz on Sunday March 19, 2017 @08:18PM (#13910710)

I think you've been out of the loop for quite a while - RTS games were the absolute premier competitive ("esports") game type (see twitch.tv for more recent evidence) probably through 2014, being eclipsed by MOBA games (like League of Legends).

The rise of "casual" games was essentially irrelevant, actually, but that's another story.

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Re:The CIA uses board games to train officers by tth on Sunday March 19, 2017 @06:46AM (#13906330)

The Total War games are still going strong.

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Re:The CIA uses board games to train officers by frik on Sunday March 19, 2017 @06:56AM (#13906363)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_War_(series)

Total War is a computer series of strategy games developed by The Creative Assembly. These combine turn-based strategy and resource management, with real-time tactical control of battles.

It's not a Real-Time-Stragey (RTS) game series like Age of Empire, Command and Conquer or War Craft.

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