>>1737650
>>Incredibly dense gameplay whilst allowing lots of room for creativity.
No, most RTS game will always come to "execution" of the planes you made. Some call it "gookilik" when it comes to rewarding accurate mouse controls too much to the detriment of the rest. Hand-eye coordination and reflexes are not IQ. Creativity is at best "questionable" as most RTS will have specific "metas" for optimized game plans that is publicly available information. You will no rushing gets beaten by static defense, static defense gets beaten by eco and eco gets beaten by rushing, you also know which unit counters which. At that point it is only going for the optimal "answer" to the your opponent's "question" and executing it the best you can.

>Has the highest learning curve and skill ceiling out of every genre ever made.
Team based FPS games and card games politely but very strongly disagree.

>Heavily tests the full breadth of the mind, such as reflexes (APM), spatial perception (micro-management), logical reasoning, etc. You'll get quickly punished if at least one area of your mind isn't in tip top shape.
Again, half of these have nothing to do with your IQ. And has everything to do about learning the necessary multitasking skills and experience of the general game flow and awareness of your game state situation. APMs matters ONLY at the top 5% of the top-most-top competition (and that is being a generous estimate) for the 95% rest APM is a barely useful skill, game awareness and good execution of your plans is what matters the most.

Back | Go to board

Board:

/vst/

Thread:

Are RTS games the greatest, most high IQ genre ever conceived?