Dune - The Grandfather of Real-Time Strategy

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  @NoStringsPrd · 6 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Shoutout to that visual glitch at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOemQuy2JUc&amp;t=574">9:34</a>, introduced to the edit at the very last minute just to keep me on my toes, and I dorped the ball. My B. Also, some corrections courtesy of Nyerguds;<br><br><br>&quot;-It&apos;s peculiar how you didn&apos;t mention Westwood&apos;s own earlier BattleTech games. In terms of game genre, Dune II was a direct continuation of those, with the turn-based part made real-time. In fact, I believe those games are the origin of the sidebar command buttons.<br><br>&quot;-Dynasty really isn&apos;t a &quot;remake&quot;. Unlike OpenRA, which really is a 100% new engine, Dune Dynasty is an enhancement of the original engine, as reverse engineered by the OpenDune project. In other words, it really is the original game, with added enhancements.<br><br>&quot;-Intelligent Games didn&apos;t make the Red Alert expansions. They are only credited for making multiplayer maps for them. In fact, I know that the expansions&apos; core idea of experimental technologies came from the Westwood people being so impressed by the creativity of the community in utilising the rule tweaks in maps... and back in the original game, sneaky elements inside the company had laid the foundations (the Morse code in the manual) that would force the management to allow them to develop the secret ant missions in the expansion pack. So all that was certainly created by Westwood itself.&quot;

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  @joebwan0240 · 6 years ago (edited)

  As the co-creator, lead programmer, and gameplay-designer of Dune II (Joe Bostic), I have to say this is very accurate. There are a couple of minor nits to pick on some facts, but otherwise a great job! Congrats.

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  @bass-dc9175 · 6 years ago

  &quot;But when we zoom out to a more playable height, they look like the same thing&quot;<br><b>Laughs in Supreme commander</b>

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  @nevermindmeijustinjectedaw9988 · 2 years ago

  &quot;ask a nice man with one leg&quot;<br>yarrrrr

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  @gnot_paul · 4 years ago

  I had Dune II for Sega Genesis when I was a kid. I was struggling &nbsp;with one of the final maps so I called the tip line that was in the instruction manual. About a month later my mom started yelling at me. She got the phone bill and there was a charge listed as &quot;Virgin Tips&quot;. I was fourteen years old.

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  @achuchin · 5 years ago (edited)

  Legend says that every time Dune 1 or 2 is mentioned somebody somewhere installs it and plays it again

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  @joahnaut · 6 years ago

  Underrated channel. This was fantastic

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  @FuchsiaShocked · 6 years ago

  &quot;Wormsign&quot;<br>[MUSIC KICKS IT UP]<br>[my face grins]

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  @AK-3.1416 · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  The game of my teenage years... And looking back at it, the lesson is: don&apos;t make games based on someone else&apos;s IP. Well, we only have 34 more years to wait until it becomes public domain.

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  @jonny1speed85 · 5 years ago

  It makes me so happy that there is a bloke out there that cares so much about the Dune RTSs to make a great documentary about them

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  @arturomorales966 · 6 years ago

  It has been an honor to watch this documentary.

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  @boredtodeathwth · 6 years ago

  This must be the Ahoy of RTS!

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