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Originally Posted by MPower
Populous and Dune preceded Simcity and Warcraft as God and RTS games. They may not have been as popular, but they did lay the groundwork. I am surprised they left them off.
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I remember playing Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis back in '92.
Now granted Dune games did help lay the ground work of the genre but, I'm pretty sure Warcraft was mentioned over it because of the volume of units sold and popularity of Warcraft in comparison to the Dune franchise. It's the same reason I'm guessing Doom was mentioned instead of Wolfenstein 3D (1992).
Still it would have been nice to have Dune and Wolfenstein receive an honorable mention.
On a side note, I'm pretty sure Dune II three factions way back in '92... Take that Starcraft.
Edit: After reading the article again it seems Warcraft was picked because "The first three Warcraft games represent the introduction of real-time strategy overlaid on a narrative." Not sure how I missed that the first time. Though that still doesn't explain Doom - Wolfenstein & as for Populous - Simcity no clue there either, all I know is both came out in 1989.