Command & Conquer Announcement Nears...

karlos103 · 10 Jul 2009 at 18:04

cannot wait for new c&c release !!

Chong Warrior · 10 Jul 2009 at 18:07

Frapple said:
China inf destroyed both of those if played right.

We should totally install it again and batter the crap out of each other

China was for n00b spammers who had no tactics, especially China inf

Though I must admit I loved playing as China Nuke with the exploding battlemasters until they nerfed him too much with a patch

West · 10 Jul 2009 at 18:19

I'm sorry but Generals was poor imo.

I enjoyed everything from the Original upto RA2, then back into C&C3 and then died again when RA3 came out.. hopefully this will breathe some well needed new life into the franchise.

Chong Warrior · 10 Jul 2009 at 18:25

What was poor about Generals?

I think a lot of people didn't like the fact you could attack each other almost from the word go. I loved being able to harass and stop people bunkering in and trying to build huge armies of tanks

Strife212 · 10 Jul 2009 at 18:26

The campaign was poor compared to old C&C offerings.

It was godly in multiplayer though. Superweapon general makes people so angry

Chong Warrior · 10 Jul 2009 at 18:35

Strife212 said:
The campaign was poor compared to old C&C offerings.

It was godly in multiplayer though. Superweapon general makes people so angry

Pretty much sums it up I think, I think I spent 99.99% of my time on it online.

Superweapon general was useless against a good player. I usually won within a couple of minutes... let them build up their defences and you were in trouble with that overpowered Aurora plane!

vincent1989 · 10 Jul 2009 at 18:53

i looks naff, still, much better than bears and dolphins.

they'll never top C&C: RA and RA2

Kainz · 10 Jul 2009 at 18:57

It'll struggle against Supcom 2 too.

liveforeva · 10 Jul 2009 at 21:14

Kain Lives

I hope Joseph Kucan Is back for this, i love him as kain

drunkenmaster · 11 Jul 2009 at 02:03

Chong Warrior said:
What was poor about Generals?

I think a lot of people didn't like the fact you could attack each other almost from the word go. I loved being able to harass and stop people bunkering in and trying to build huge armies of tanks

what was poor, was that it felt nothing like C&C, the single player was embarassingly poor, from tasks, to the bitty slow small missions, to really not a single ramp up in time. All the early games through to the RA2 addon, other than the odd mission here and there they got more complex, longer and you needed to get more resources and build more as the game went on. Generals was mostly boring, disgustingly simple missions. It lost the entire feel, from the story, the gameplay, the mission style, the look.

Almost everything about it was wrong.

All the westwood versions except maybe one, were fantastic with the right "feel" start to finish. Complete tosh since then, even when they screwed up and tried to get back to the old Kane-FMV story style they did it badly with a poor story and campaign, improved, but overly easy, basic, zoomed in and well, consolified.

I'm sure I'll get the new one, and pray its decent, but it won't be.

Praying for Renegade 2, first one was so awesome, hilariously weird single player, freaking awesome online till they put Orca's in the game. It felt like a budget title back then though, a newer one, with no doubt console's involved means a big audience and maybe they'd put some real money into it. What I'd kill for a truly polished FPS version of C&C.

Chong Warrior · 11 Jul 2009 at 15:23

Seriously who cares about the single player in these kind of games? It's all about multiplayer online and that's where it was brilliant... you sound like you never played it online?

Speed · 11 Jul 2009 at 15:38

Chong Warrior said:
Seriously who cares about the single player in these kind of games? It's all about multiplayer online and that's where it was brilliant... you sound like you never played it online?

Err.... anyone who's played the original games and cares about the story? :confused:

There are hundreds of thousands of people who don't play C&C online but still enjoy it due to the great story. I've played online myself but still prefer the Single Player Campaign.... you sound like you've never played it offline! :rolleyes:

mithrandir · 11 Jul 2009 at 15:45

Excellente!

Good the franchise is still alive and kicking. I've enjoyed all the C&C/RA games I've played (all bar generals and addons)

Chong Warrior · 11 Jul 2009 at 15:55

Speed said:
Err.... anyone who's played the original games and cares about the story?

There are hundreds of thousands of people who don't play C&C online but still enjoy it due to the great story. I've played online myself but still prefer the Single Player Campaign.... you sound like you've never played it offline!

Chill dude

I've already said the game was poor in single player I think that's accepted. To just dismiss the whole game as being rubbish just because of that is a bit silly...? Especially considering how it comes into it's own when played against real people, then there are few games better, in my opinion

AI is stupid in these types of games 99% of the time and too easy to beat once you learn it's weakness. That's why I'm not too bothered about offline and wouldn't just **** the game off for it's weakest point. It had more going for it.

dalin80 · 11 Jul 2009 at 15:57

Chong Warrior said:
Seriously who cares about the single player in these kind of games? It's all about multiplayer online and that's where it was brilliant... you sound like you never played it online?

i do, i dont play online so SP is my only concern.

heres hoping it doesnt have ra3's stupid forced co-op system.

Loosecannon · 11 Jul 2009 at 17:06

If you have a friend with which to play it co-op through the missions its a brilliant game, as is DOW2.

I can understand being annoyed if you dont have any mates online to play it through with you.

Duke · 11 Jul 2009 at 17:26

skippi90 said:
Looks like we're back to Tiberian Sun style units.

Yeah looks good imo.

Teki187 · 12 Jul 2009 at 07:07

dante6491 said:
Hopefully they have got the Westwood studio back together. one can dream I suppose.

Couldn't have said it better my self!

Teki187 · 12 Jul 2009 at 07:09

Chong Warrior said:
Seriously who cares about the single player in these kind of games? It's all about multiplayer online and that's where it was brilliant... you sound like you never played it online?

I couldn't give a damn about the online e-peen waving competitions that happen when games have multiplayer mode.

For me its all about the single player.

Chong Warrior · 12 Jul 2009 at 12:51

Teki187 said:
I couldn't give a damn about the online e-peen waving competitions that happen when games have multiplayer mode.

For me its all about the single player.

You stick it on easy level so you can bunker in, spam huge tank armies and bully the poor AI then

No seriously I can't really understand why you'd want to play strategy games against something as stupid as PC gaming AI. The only way they can challenge you is to cheat... I don't get how that's fun or rewarding, personally I only find the challenge of human opponents of interest for any length of time.