2012-08-15, 08:54 | Link #81 |
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
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RA3 is campy. But at least it is still recognisable as a RA game. EA kill games by just turning them into something else entirely.
Face it, you would rather Generals 2 to resemble Red Alert 3 than what it is becoming right now.
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2012-08-15, 09:02 | Link #84 |
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RA3 was fine. sure is not as strategic as RA2. but it still fun game and have C&C campy experienced (and fun mod )
to be honest i expected to learn mess from C&C4 since it bombed badly. but never expected from them to go much worse! not to mention they already have F2P C&C. i dint expect them to go this way
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2012-08-15, 10:20 | Link #86 |
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Lookie here. I told people to keep their expectations low for this title and I do not know how many people heed my warnings but it seems I have a vindication of sort now.
About this move to make C&C and online only game, I can see EA's reasonings if we look the CoDs and SC. People buy the game for the online multiplayer, they do not care about the campaign, some don't even touch it. So why bother ? Just do away with the single player and save the budget for something else and widen the profit. What really interest me is that they are making this free. EA had never done something for nothing before and they never will. So how are they going to get their returns ? I think it will be along the line for paying real money so one has the rights to access higher level of techs or a new faction. |
2012-08-15, 10:34 | Link #87 | |
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So what EA is doing is to kill the most distinct part of the franchise that separates it from the competitors, and promote the weakest aspect of it... I do not know anyone who bought RA3 or Generals just for multi-player.
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2012-08-15, 10:42 | Link #89 | |
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This is worse than just ruining franchises; they are murdering them in ways that are pointless. Games that could have sustained entire companies by themselves are being ground down into minced meat, to be turned into dog food. It's just SAD.
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2012-08-15, 11:09 | Link #90 | |
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IMO, RA3 and C&C4 (along with things like Dungeon Siege 3) are the "anti-fanservice" games; just riding the hype of previous titles and fucking everything up. You'd think companies would know better.
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2012-08-15, 11:33 | Link #91 |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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You know a lot of people say change is good....but when it comes to changing your identity it's just....I don't know but stupid.
I hope this game fails miserably or the hate is so great that EA backs out. |
2012-08-15, 12:50 | Link #92 |
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Also one more thing that nobody seems to mention but really irked me in the trailer.
Where's the BIG ASS BASE? From what I saw, there's some neutral structures, a lot of units and 1 (ONE) base looking structure. Please don't tell me it's C&C4 all over again. I understand having purely unit based RTS is like this multiplayer wet dream or something but I want my giant ass base!
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2012-08-15, 12:59 | Link #93 |
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I'm pretty neutral about this, since the C&C series kinda ended for me when Westwood ended. It holds a lot of nostalgia for me as the original C&C was what formally introduced me to PC-Gaming. While the majority of my school were playing Warcraft-II, I was playing C&C.
That said, it just bugs me why they even bother to label it as C&C, if they are not going to utilise what made C&C, C&C. It looks like it might be a fun game, but they're are just generating ill-will by twisting the knife. "Hey C&C fans! Remember that game? Check this out." *applies salt* Call it "Tank Spam: The Game" or whatever, but please stop with the corpse-humping. You are only making it easier for me to dismiss this product and motivating me to discourage sales by word-of-mouth. If you're not going to make a C&C game, don't call it C&C. Cheers.
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2012-08-15, 13:13 | Link #94 |
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RA1 was dated but fun. RA2 was a bit too silly for my taste but was still really fun. Generals and ZH were fun and have some good mods.
RA3 looks like it took all the overly cartoony parts of RA2 and tripled it...ugh. This new generals thing looks like some generic sci-fi BS. It'll probably be UN vs terrorists, like that isn't done to death already. |
2012-08-15, 13:44 | Link #95 | |
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2012-08-15, 15:34 | Link #97 |
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Free to play? How is that going to work? Are they going to make it so that to unlock certain units in certain factions you have to pay for them? Sounds pretty sketchy to me.
I was looking forward to this game after Company of Heroes 2, but it may be that I might just stick with CoH 2.
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2012-08-15, 23:23 | Link #99 | |
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Natch.
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