Command & Conquer 4K remaster coming

Kainz · 29 Apr 2019 at 12:48

CaptainRAVE said:
Heh, the amount of time I spent playing the demo.

I was in uni at the time when I picked up a PC magazine that had the demo on the cover cd. Little did I know that the following 12hrs would introduce me to the RTS genre and get me hooked on it for weeks to come. I later went and bought the boxed version upon release, which I still have with me today. The manual was so good to read

CaptainRAVE · 29 Apr 2019 at 13:35

Kainz said:
I was in uni at the time when I picked up a PC magazine that had the demo on the cover cd. Little did I know that the following 12hrs would introduce me to the RTS genre and get me hooked on it for weeks to come. I later went and bought the boxed version upon release, which I still have with me today. The manual was so good to read

The day of a proper box and manual

I was the same with the Starcraft manual.

McBain · 29 Apr 2019 at 13:39

RA you say?! Count me in.

Tessla coils = :cool:

Mak3R · 29 Apr 2019 at 15:45

Unable to comply building in progress.

Psycho Sonny · 29 Apr 2019 at 15:53

EA will make it that you need to pay £13.99 a month to play it or something along those lines.

Or they will mess it up to the point nobody likes it.

Souness · 29 Apr 2019 at 20:10

If this is done well this could be huge. All depends on the execution

kindai · 29 Apr 2019 at 20:33

Psycho Sonny said:
Or they will mess it up to the point nobody likes it.

Apparently theyve recruited 9 "community veterans" to help guide any changes.

Frankly these guys are likely to do more damage than EA could on their own as I know all the big names from back when the online scene was huge and not one of them is on the list or knows of anyone who is. Which means these "vets" are basically super fanbois who play the latest cnc rubbish.

andy_taximan · 29 Apr 2019 at 21:19

If you played the original have a try of The Settlers , simple times but fun

Cavallino · 29 Apr 2019 at 21:31

Pigeon_Killer said:
If they've nerfed the ability to build a wall all the way to the enemy base and spam your own buildings/weapons I'll be annoyed.

Or sneak Stealth tanks right at the beginning of the game to your opponents base....

Good times

Psycho Sonny · 30 Apr 2019 at 02:16

kindai said:
Apparently theyve recruited 9 "community veterans" to help guide any changes.

Frankly these guys are likely to do more damage than EA could on their own as I know all the big names from back when the online scene was huge and not one of them is on the list or knows of anyone who is. Which means these "vets" are basically super fanbois who play the latest cnc rubbish.

What happened to the guys who founded and worked at Westwood studios?

Did they cash in and retire?

Phil2008 · 30 Apr 2019 at 08:30

The Command & Conquer games dont look bad even now, and they work fine with win10.

Souness · 30 Apr 2019 at 11:20

Phil2008 said:
The Command & Conquer games dont look bad even now, and they work fine with win10.

C&C3 still looks great. MP is dead tho

kindai · 30 Apr 2019 at 12:20

Psycho Sonny said:
What happened to the guys who founded and worked at Westwood studios?

Did they cash in and retire?

The founder retired and became a photographer from what I remember, the rest of the staff just moved on to other companies or moved to EALA, the majority work at Petroglyph Games now (aka the people who are doing the remaster).

Psycho Sonny · 30 Apr 2019 at 12:44

it's amazing someone hasn't been able to essentially make a type of clone and hoover up the hole left by C&C.

tiberian sun and renegade (the fps) were 2 of my most favourite games back in the day.

Pudney · 30 Apr 2019 at 13:00

The big question for me is what are they going to do with the FMV scenes?!

linktoinsanity · 1 May 2019 at 12:54

Psycho Sonny said:
What happened to the guys who founded and worked at Westwood studios?

Did they cash in and retire?

They became Petroglyph games, who are the one making the remasters...

Gerard · 1 May 2019 at 14:37

linktoinsanity said:
They became Petroglyph games, who are the one making the remasters...

Some of them did, quite a few pocketed the cash and went the hookers and cocaine route

Quartz · 1 May 2019 at 15:48

Psycho Sonny said:
it's amazing someone hasn't been able to essentially make a type of clone and hoover up the hole left by C&C.

C&C set the standard with FMV and with unlimited units. Starcraft 2 has the FMV but unit caps. Every other RTS has unit caps.

Double07 · 1 May 2019 at 15:58

Quartz said:
C&C set the standard with FMV and with unlimited units. Starcraft 2 has the FMV but unit caps. Every other RTS has unit caps.

An RTS without a unit cap is stupid, it's a resource after all, as someone with superior macro could simply never lose. And I dont recall C&C having an unlimited supply cap, are you sure?

Also Starcraft 2 does have modes where the supply cap is removed and you can build unlimited sized armies, and watch your PC die in the process.

Pudney · 1 May 2019 at 16:05

Double07 said:
An RTS without a unit cap is stupid, it's a resource after all, as someone with superior macro could simply never lose. And I dont recall C&C having an unlimited supply cap, are you sure?

Also Starcraft 2 does have modes where the supply cap is removed and you can build unlimited sized armies, and watch your PC die in the process.

I don't remember C&C having a supply cap, but I do vaguely recall there was a cap in the number of units you could select in one go.

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