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I'm going to buy some old classics to play during the summer but is the original Command and Conquer better than Red Alert 2?
I loved the original but I also liked RA2 although the original was much better in terms of gameplay and I heard Generals is alright but also not as good.
But I'm afraid it the original won't work on XP and it might have bad netcode like AOE2: The Conquerors.
I loved the original but I also liked RA2 although the original was much better in terms of gameplay and I heard Generals is alright but also not as good.
But I'm afraid it the original won't work on XP and it might have bad netcode like AOE2: The Conquerors.
I'm going to buy some old classics to play during the summer but is the original Command and Conquer better than Red Alert 2?
I loved the original but I also liked RA2 although the original was much better in terms of gameplay and I heard Generals is alright but also not as good.
But I'm afraid it the original won't work on XP and it might have bad netcode like AOE2: The Conquerors.
I loved the original but I also liked RA2 although the original was much better in terms of gameplay and I heard Generals is alright but also not as good.
But I'm afraid it the original won't work on XP and it might have bad netcode like AOE2: The Conquerors.
u'll probably feel too limited in the original with all the more options in the newer ones although i still play the original red alert every once in a while. but personnaly the best oldie RTS is total annihilation. so many units, so many guns. it rocks. and the community is still huge.
Silent Scope wrote:
> I loved the original but I also liked RA2 although the original was
> much better in terms of gameplay and I heard Generals is alright but
General is basically the same as every other C&C game that has come before it, only it looks better. Nostalgia isn't enough these days; those tank rush strategies I used to use just don't fill me with the same sense of achievement as they once did.
I'll have to go back to the original myself one day; it was after all the game that introduced me to the RTS genre, now my favourite type of game.
> I loved the original but I also liked RA2 although the original was
> much better in terms of gameplay and I heard Generals is alright but
General is basically the same as every other C&C game that has come before it, only it looks better. Nostalgia isn't enough these days; those tank rush strategies I used to use just don't fill me with the same sense of achievement as they once did.
I'll have to go back to the original myself one day; it was after all the game that introduced me to the RTS genre, now my favourite type of game.
I was personally not that impressed with C&C 1, because I played it AFTER i played Red Alert. C&C is good but you are too limited, Red Alert probably gets may vote as the best but Red Alert 2 is very good as well. I'd avoid tiberian sun, didn't like that much, and I can't give my opinion on Generals because my PC only has 64MB of RAM and C&C generals needs twice that to run!!
The trouble with the original C&C was the use of sandbags. Amazingly, enemy tanks didn't breach sandbags of fences that you could build, so me and my brother devised a strategy that worked wonders.
Build a giant wall of sandbags to the enemy base as a makeshift road and just charge our army down it while the enemies stood back watching it all because their units couldn't blast through a wall of sand. Silly, but this was back at a time where I wasn't as good at RTS game as I am now.
Build a giant wall of sandbags to the enemy base as a makeshift road and just charge our army down it while the enemies stood back watching it all because their units couldn't blast through a wall of sand. Silly, but this was back at a time where I wasn't as good at RTS game as I am now.
Then, stick an Obelisk of Light/Advanced Guard Tower at the end of the sandbags, and bingo!
C&C is a legendary title, but outdated and tired now. Hell, for a really outdated game, try Dune 2! Excellent and revolutionary for its time, but there isn't even a drag-bx to select units! One by one you order them to attack (and with no context sensitive cursor - all click on unit, click attack/move, then position!) I'd love to complete both campaigns again on C&C, and try Dune 2 again. Got to the end of the Atreides campaign - insanely hard. I been playing Red Alert too recently, and the nostalgia ain't worn off yet - because it's a quality title, despite being outdated and limited.
Medieval Total War is how RTS must be done to impress me, and Rome: Total War looks incredible.
C&C is a legendary title, but outdated and tired now. Hell, for a really outdated game, try Dune 2! Excellent and revolutionary for its time, but there isn't even a drag-bx to select units! One by one you order them to attack (and with no context sensitive cursor - all click on unit, click attack/move, then position!) I'd love to complete both campaigns again on C&C, and try Dune 2 again. Got to the end of the Atreides campaign - insanely hard. I been playing Red Alert too recently, and the nostalgia ain't worn off yet - because it's a quality title, despite being outdated and limited.
Medieval Total War is how RTS must be done to impress me, and Rome: Total War looks incredible.
I meant Red Alert sorry I think so anyway, sounds like Total Annihilation has a few problems but still works anyone tried it with a mate or a few?
My brother is currently playing Total Annihilation, though says it's quite prone to crashes. I haven't gone back to it myself but remember it being one class RTS game, very addictive and great graphics for the time. Even though there was a sequel made, I here there's a new Total Annihilation in development, by a different developer but hopefully it won't be as disappointing as TH2.