@Devilbless: C&C didn't always suck. When it first came out it revolutionized the RTS genre but not it's stagnated and nothing has really changed apart from visuals and the rest of the genre has moved on.
Also, you seriously don't want to be older, you're 17, enjoy the freedom while it lasts cause being an adult sucks ass most of the time.
Whatever happened to traditional Base Building RTS's? I enjoyed locking myself inside of my base until i had an army worthy of the dark lord... Now they got rid of that in most games =(. Bring back base building.... please?
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@Michael Dukakis - Mets fan: After Starcraft there was a period where you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting an RTS. Getting rid of base building was a natural response. I agree with you 100%. I loved the crazy defensive structures used in Total Annihilation.
@-Skyline-: Oh god you're so right! Playing defensive for the whole game, staying quietly in your corner of the map, reaching the unit cap then unleashing a wave of destruction and ending the game in minutes is one of the best feelings I've had in gaming ^-^
After all these reviews saying that the RTS genre was stale, and how it lacked innovation...developers have finally started changing the mechanics, BUT THEYVE CHOSEN THE WRONG DAMN ONES!
@-Skyline-: get sins of a solar empire entrenched. it's a defensive rts players wet dream. and it's massive. most skirmishes take like 6 hours. but I do see the point, devs probably don't want their rts denigrating into a 3d map tower defense game.
Or they hate you. Go with the second one, and kick some ass!
@-Skyline-: Agreed :( I really dislike this mobile base / squad based RTS fad going around developers right now. The only reason I still bought and played command and conquer games is because I love base building.
@Skyburnbright: I agree, SC, AOEII, RA and early C&C were my favorites because of base building. RTS used to be one of my favorite types of games until they started getting rid of base building, now there is not a single RTS that has that old school feel. Here's hoping SC2 has good base building. *crosses fingers...
Thats the Tacitus, infused with LEGION. The Tacitus being an alien artifact of unknown power, and LEGION being the AI that Kane wrote (alongside CABAL, who went rogue) that ended up being used to bring the Tacitus 'online' at the end of C&C3: KW.
The storyline is totally hammy, but pretty great stuff if you're into alternate world sci fi sorts of things.
It's never specifically said, but strongly hinted at.
The one thing that EA did justice by Westwood studios was the little tidbit of info (either in the KW files or the C&C 3 files) that there was rumours that Kane was sighted in Soviet Russia (reference to Red Alert).
The alien thing comes from the Scrin discovering that they have records of this 'Kane' person in their database from long before Earth was even around.
So we have the GDI employing some Tau Crisis Suits to support a giant upside-down bathtub in order to take down a giant scarab beetle that shoots lasers? Well I'm sold.
I'm hard pressed to see how this screenshot looks significantly better than C&C 3. Not that graphics are the most important thing, I'm just slightly surprised they haven't up the ante as much as one would expect from a sequel.
But it still looks good, and judging from the amount of lasers, fun. And fun is what matters most.
I have too many fond memories of the series, but that screenshot really takes away from the wicked designs of the previous games, and throws ugly brutish looking mechs at each other. I hope this is just a really early screenshot and more concept then anything.
Also please keep away from the goofieness of the Red Alert series, and keep the story and the strat serious.
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*sigh* that just made me realize that 30 is just around the corner. damn I'm old.
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Besides, C&C always sucked, only Red Alert ruled, and even that, just the 1st.
not this crazy japanese school girl crap -.-.
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Also, you seriously don't want to be older, you're 17, enjoy the freedom while it lasts cause being an adult sucks ass most of the time.
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@-Skyline-: TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE.
Play like you got a pair! I don't want to spend 2 hours trying to get you out of your shell!
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@-Skyline-: Face it! I have won! There shall be no more turtles! FOR I AM SHREDDER: Hater of Turtles!
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After all these reviews saying that the RTS genre was stale, and how it lacked innovation...developers have finally started changing the mechanics, BUT THEYVE CHOSEN THE WRONG DAMN ONES!
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Or they hate you. Go with the second one, and kick some ass!
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I couldn't resist.
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@Trygle12 is back! Still can't read his own...:
Sorry Shredder, but I know your one weakness.
Dude.
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Skills. I've never really seriously played a C&C game before. It's all been about Starcraft for me.
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Thats the Tacitus, infused with LEGION. The Tacitus being an alien artifact of unknown power, and LEGION being the AI that Kane wrote (alongside CABAL, who went rogue) that ended up being used to bring the Tacitus 'online' at the end of C&C3: KW.
The storyline is totally hammy, but pretty great stuff if you're into alternate world sci fi sorts of things.
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I fell in love with the original C&C, but when I couldn't play the later ones on my Mac, I too turned to Starcraft, and haven't looked back.
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So... the Command & Conquer and Red Alert series just naturally come off as awesome to me.
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Considering the presence of C&C 3, KW and RA3, I would suspect its going to get a port.
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I really, really really hope they just drop the 'Kane is an alien' storyline they kept pushing in C&C 3 and KW.
I was more than happy with having him as some sort of unexplained Biblical Figure.
EDIT: Also, GDI having to turn to motherfucking KANE of all people to save the earth is nothing short of awesome.
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It's never specifically said, but strongly hinted at.
The one thing that EA did justice by Westwood studios was the little tidbit of info (either in the KW files or the C&C 3 files) that there was rumours that Kane was sighted in Soviet Russia (reference to Red Alert).
The alien thing comes from the Scrin discovering that they have records of this 'Kane' person in their database from long before Earth was even around.
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Long live the messiah!
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THIS is how we want the cinematic quality to be EA. Different locations, tons of actors, surprises.
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@CanaryWundaboy:
There you go
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But it still looks good, and judging from the amount of lasers, fun. And fun is what matters most.
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Also please keep away from the goofieness of the Red Alert series, and keep the story and the strat serious.