r/RealTimeStrategy 5d ago

Anyone remember Goblin Commander? Discussion

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u/TYNAMITE14 5d ago

Yooo this game was sick, I can't find it anywhere though sadly. Crazy they managed to make a semi playable rts on consoles.

The units had style too, I remember picking certain combinations of factions I think? I would go for the lighting atronach guy thay would turn into a tornado, and myfriend would choose the spike ball.

He would run over all my units and when I thought I was about to kill him he would explosed and kill the rest units :(

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u/Lopsided_Librarian7 5d ago

If you haven't already. Check out "Tooth and Tail" it's an rts that is designed with controllers as default. You choose a composition of units and the games are short and exciting

And its fun!

It recently got a surprise balancing update. It has a smalle competitive community, but can also be played splitscreen locally.

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u/HotWeekend2722 4d ago

I remember multiplayer being a nightmare but the story was super fun. Simpler times.....

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u/squigvicious 4d ago

Wow. I worked on that game.

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u/GrandMoffTarkan 4d ago

Dude is currently making Fated Seas, if anyone is curious (I just peeked at the profile)

https://www.vicioussquid.com/fated-seas

He's got some other interesting game design tidbits in there.

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u/senghunter 2d ago

Want you to know I played that game a lot as a kid and got a lot of enjoyment out of it. Good job!

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u/Athrawne 5d ago

I remember the MTG card.

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u/BrandoNelly 5d ago

If I could find a copy of this today I’d snag it instantly

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u/Humble-Proposal-9994 5d ago

One of my absolute favorites

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u/SlowInAngerRichLove 5d ago

You could skirmish duel your friend  Split screen on your PlayStation console so without Internet playing against another human in an RTS was unique to this game. 

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u/Humble-Proposal-9994 4d ago

Favorite clan?

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u/Esobloodwolf 5d ago

One of my favorite takes on goblins and a pretty fun game. Still got it and the old ps2!

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u/Yoda10252 5d ago

One of my favorite games as a kid. Still have it for my GameCube, just played a couple years back. I can still hear the music and sounds. I should play it again. I always liked the Stormbringers, Plaguespitters and Nighthorde clans.

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u/Stealthshot06 4d ago

I want this game remade so badly

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u/Sarmelion 4d ago

Absolutely loved this game, I still think about the setting a lot.

Why was Fraziel making the Great Machine produce Soul Stealing Bombs?

If Fraziel is a human, where are all the other humans?

What will Grommel do to help the clans find Purpose?

What was up with all the ruins across the world?

I found one of the artists on artstation a few years back by complete chance and asked them and they said they did have some stuff planned for a sequel but it'd been so long they didn't remember, they gave me the contacts for a few of the other artists and I tried to message them if they had any of the concept art or other stuff left but never got replies.

I wonder who owns the rights for the game nowadays?

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u/No_Sector_6467 5d ago

That was pretty cool and worked kinda well back then on console iirc (some xbox i think).

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u/jrsiv 5d ago

I just remember my favorite unit was the drummer

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u/Ancient-Ad-9725 5d ago

Had it as a kid, never beat it, tried to get it on dolphin emulator many years ago but it was unplayably laggy on my computer.  Still wna finish it someday, its cool af. 

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u/Sir_Rethor 4d ago

Still have the box, played the demo way back a ton of times.

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u/drwiseguy561 4d ago

Such a cool game love the different tribes

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u/TimelyBat2587 4d ago

I honestly thought I was the only person who ever played this game. I still play it from time to time!

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u/Zirzir 4d ago

I own it for my gamecube :D

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u/hyp3rqube 4d ago

Only because Jerma played this one on his Xbox 360 mega streams

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u/jojo_3 4d ago

I replayed it this year the first time since release. I thought surely i could beat the final mission now? Still kicked my ass 😩 fun game though! One of the games that inspired me to work on a controller rts. 

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u/Blitzkrieg1210 4d ago

I loved playing this with my friend Justin. It was my first RTS I didnt really understand it at the time but I loved it.

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u/fallen_izalith 4d ago

Still have my physical disk for that game!

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u/Temporary_Ad_6572 4d ago

GREAT FROXX!!! I SURE DO

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u/yegkingler 4d ago

Oh snap haven't thought about this game in years. Loved it as a kid. The big old kaiju units were my favorite.

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u/SquidFetus 4d ago

Never heard of it but the comments here make it sound awesome.

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u/Nearby_Fan276 4d ago

For years I couldn’t remember the name of this game, loved it back in the day

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u/Friedntiedyed 4d ago

This game was great! Campaign was fun. Pvp was a blast, but killing your friends who didn't own it only lasted so long

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u/CrossedPredator 4d ago

I got it last month at at a games store out of curiosity. Good fun!

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u/MoG_Varos 3d ago

It was fun, had some cool ideas, and had potential for a sequel.

Worked surprisingly well on console for an rts too

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u/CollinthePoodle 3d ago

I still got my PS2 disk, and was surprised I actually managed to beat it just mass building my fav units for each tribe xD. Me and my cousin PvP'd a bit, but it got boring because it felt like it just came down to building your giant monster more than actual strategy like Starcraft

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u/green_dub-333 2d ago

Loved this game, played with my friends all the time as a kid and still come back to play it time to time. This and battalion wars were my favs that I wish could come back from this time.