The era of remasters wouldn't be complete without this. We got AoE (huge success) and WC3 (huge flop) remasters. Now it's time for C&C.
They are remastering Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert, along with 3 expansions (Covert Operations, Counterstrike, Aftermath).
Features: - new graphics with up to 4k (and ability to switch between legacy and new on the fly) - remastered music - upscaled and remastered videos - included secret missions from consoles and other misc stuff - overhauled UI and controls (you can re-define all hotkeys from the menu) - rebuilt multiplayer (elo matchmaking, in-game leaderboard, observer mode etc.)
They've been working with the community to create this so I'm hopeful. AoE 2 is currently my favourite RTS to play and if they do this right, it can turn into another amazing trip down memory lane.
On March 12 2020 19:54 Manit0u wrote: Why are people only talking about pre-orders here? I only mentioned them in an informative way and wasn't encouraging anyone to do it.
I'd be more interested as to what your general thoughts are about the project, do you like the new graphics etc.
It is more about the general trend of the gaming industry where preorders shafted the players with the exceptions of a few rare cases.
Thoughts on the project?
It looks decent in the trailers, some of the old developers are back, communications between the developers and community (mostly on reddit commmandandconquer) is good. Reddit is very very high on the game
The lack of information on gameplay improvements, UI changes, ladders is worrying. When the trailer's focus is mostly on NEW REMASTERED music and the real life switch between classic and remastered gfx while gaming, I worry a little. It doesnt matter if we can play a visually superior game but being filled with bugs like WC3:RF
The new game must be good. If not, why should the fans pay so much to support it? When the older version is f2p online and I've been burned with C&C: The First Decade
Less than a month away until this is released (June 5). Man, I really want it to be a good successful remaster. If they pull it off it will be good for the RTS genre as a whole I think.
When it comes to remasters, Blizzard has set the bar so unbelievably low, that I am actually willing to believe, even EA, EVEN EA can't do any worse...then again, EA has so often shown me depths of sucking I didn't knew existed before. I am excited no matter which direction this takes!
On May 09 2020 20:51 naughtDE wrote: When it comes to remasters, Blizzard has set the bar so unbelievably low, that I am actually willing to believe, even EA, EVEN EA can't do any worse...then again, EA has so often shown me depths of sucking I didn't knew existed before. I am excited no matter which direction this takes!
When it comes to remasters Blizzard has shown us the lows (SCR, WC3R) and Forgotten Realms have shown us the highs (AoE).
On May 09 2020 20:51 naughtDE wrote: When it comes to remasters, Blizzard has set the bar so unbelievably low, that I am actually willing to believe, even EA, EVEN EA can't do any worse...then again, EA has so often shown me depths of sucking I didn't knew existed before. I am excited no matter which direction this takes!
When it comes to remasters Blizzard has shown us the lows (SCR, WC3R) and Forgotten Realms have shown us the highs (AoE).
SCR is a low? WC3R is definitely, but apart from a couple of missing features (2v2 ladder mostly) SCR is basically the perfect remaster, hell, they even respected extended features like EUD trigger maps.
On May 09 2020 20:51 naughtDE wrote: When it comes to remasters, Blizzard has set the bar so unbelievably low, that I am actually willing to believe, even EA, EVEN EA can't do any worse...then again, EA has so often shown me depths of sucking I didn't knew existed before. I am excited no matter which direction this takes!
To be fair, this C&C Remaster is being developed by Petroglyph Games rather than by one of EA's internal studios. EA is just publishing. Even though Petroglyph hasn't done any remarkable games recently imo, they have enough key ex-Westwood devs on their staff to be the logical choice for this remaster.
On May 09 2020 20:51 naughtDE wrote: When it comes to remasters, Blizzard has set the bar so unbelievably low, that I am actually willing to believe, even EA, EVEN EA can't do any worse...then again, EA has so often shown me depths of sucking I didn't knew existed before. I am excited no matter which direction this takes!
To be fair, this C&C Remaster is being developed by Petroglyph Games rather than by one of EA's internal studios. EA is just publishing. Even though Petroglyph hasn't done any remarkable games recently imo, they have enough key ex-Westwood devs on their staff to be the logical choice for this remaster.
My favourite C&C was Tiberian Sun, still done by original westwood with EA as a publisher and after playing it for a couple thousands of hours, I thought how I would improve that game and came to the conclusion that adding the ability to costumize the starting units instead of randomizing them would have made a great game even better. Later I read in an interview that was one of the features cut because EA pressured to release early hard. So I am sure they will manage to make Petroglyph trip up aswell, EA has the skills to ruin everything.
On May 09 2020 20:51 naughtDE wrote: When it comes to remasters, Blizzard has set the bar so unbelievably low, that I am actually willing to believe, even EA, EVEN EA can't do any worse...then again, EA has so often shown me depths of sucking I didn't knew existed before. I am excited no matter which direction this takes!
When it comes to remasters Blizzard has shown us the lows (SCR, WC3R) and Forgotten Realms have shown us the highs (AoE).
SCR is a low? WC3R is definitely, but apart from a couple of missing features (2v2 ladder mostly) SCR is basically the perfect remaster, hell, they even respected extended features like EUD trigger maps.
My gripe with SCR was the forced global ladder and the purposely worsened original graphics (different renderer) ... image they pulled that with WC3R which didn't offer an acceptable alternative, kinda SCRs saving grace. Forgotten Realms did a good job with AoE2 DE, however they brought us AoE DE and AoE2 HD before that, it took them many years to get it kinda right (did they actually ever fix the game refusing to load into ram (only uses virtual memory) or the memory leak on 4k graphics)?
Edit: They also released AoE2 DE in a state that I considered end of alpha, right before beta. The first 2month I mostly spend working as a slave (without payment), wait, i acutally paid microsoft to beta test and every ladder session was followed by writing a page long report of bugs, which they eventually fixed the most annoying/gamebreaking of, that was the release version of the game, not early access. That left a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to AoE2 DE's release. I don't know how it is right now, but 5 month after release it was finally in a decent state. So if forgotten Realms is the high, EA could surpass them easily, that high is not a very high high.
RA1 was a freaking classic. I remember going to my friends house after school everyday to play it on the PS1 and we had a mouse connected to it. Massing Mammoth tanks and “Ooing” and “Ahhing” when the Tesla defenses zapped enemy infantry.
I don’t expect a lot from a remaster but I’ll probably get it just for nostalgic’s sake
On May 11 2020 10:13 GGzerG wrote: Why are people saying not to Pre Order? I guess there is no reason to as everything will be digital but meh why not?
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