Company of Heroes or Supreme Commander???

[Pelu]

CoH or SupCom???

 

[Dorkenstein]

Company of Heroes and Opposing Fronts, so many late nights spent with that game. Anyone else think the Tales of Valor expansion sounds dumb?

 

[Pelu]

its a standalone that is what i heard... 2 new battalions... and so on... like opposing fronts... dunno the place of the fight... eastern front... pacific... north africa? no clue...

what about supcom? or supcom 2????

 

[Dorkenstein]

Supcom 2 is being published by Square Enix, which amazes me. I am waiting to see how it turns out with some interest. I didn't like Supcom much at all, and I even went so far as to buy the expansion. I loved Total Annihilation though.

And as for Tales of Valor, all it adds (that I know of) is a mouse turret control for tanks, new "mini campaigns" for the existing armies, but no new armies or units. Hopefully I am wrong.

 

[Pelu]

yeah hopefully u are lol...

 

[Pelu]

so why u didnt like supcom that much?

 

[lupi]

totally different. COH is about multi small unit management while SC is about controlling a large number of units over a huge battlefield.

 

[Dorkenstein]

Hmm. First, the "vibe" I got off the game was boring, but that's just me. It doesn't take me long to decide whether or not I like a game. The scale of Total Annihilation was there, but the units felt too similar to each other and I just didn't find myself catching on to any particular units as my favorite. There were some things I was also doing incorrectly when playing skirmishes, and again, that's my fault. I am actually going to re-download it from Direct2Drive and give it another look.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

No experience with CoH, so SupCom (in particular Forged Alliance) gets my vote.

NEEDS MOAR POLE!

 

[Pollock]

CoH, hands down. Supreme Commander is uninspiring and was quickly forgotten.

 

[AdamK47]

Both are great games. Can't go wrong either way.

 

[JTsyo]

I got through ~1.25 of Supreme Commander campaigns before I got bored. Just playing through CoH now but it seems better. SupCom just seemed more of the same. I didn't enjoy the massed units, it got hectic to keep track of.

 

[Boobs McGee]

CoH is great. I am have been replaying it myself lately. I couldn't really get into supreme commander. The battles got really big, but just seemed really slow and boring to me. I ended up giving it to a buddy who loved it though.

 

[Maximilian]

Ive played both, and their expansions. CoH is the better game by quite a long shot, the multiplayer is awesome on it. Although supcom isnt a bad game its not as fun as CoH is.

 

[Elcs]

Did not enjoy Sup Com. Too "large scale" for me, didnt appeal and got boring very quickly.

CoH + OF are fantastic. Fun kind of micromanagement with realistic settings which you can identify with and the game wraps you with immersion (SP Campaign), making you feel a part of a War.

Ramp up the volume, engage the 24 pounders and feel the rumble!!!

 

[Bateluer]

I liked SupCom personally. I never played the CoH games, just too sick of WW2 games. Titles set in WW2 should be banned for at least 10 years. Honestly, there've been conflicts between 1945 and 2008 that would make great settings for a game.

 

[shortylickens]

Company of Heroes. Shame because Supreme Commander had so much more potential.

Not that I dont like it. Its a fun game but has too many annoying issues and isnt really that original. Still have it and play it occasionally, but if you could only spend time with one make it Company of Heroes. You'll have fonder memories of it years from now.

 

[zerogear]

CoH and SupCom honestly is completely different. And the experience itself is different. I loved SupCom, but I find that CoH is a little more strategic, while SupCom is more about how fast you can build units and send it over in waves.

 

[pontifex]

coh

 

[mc866]

I like COH better personally, but like mentioned above two completely different games.

 

[you2]

I really enjoyed COH and did not love supcom - but I only played single player. Multi player might be a different story. COH production was well done and the mechanics were not overly tedious and (imho) more interesting.

 

[ayabe]

COH all the way. SupCom does get boring very quickly.

In fact, I'm gonna be replaying COH again with DX10 when my new rig gets here tomorrow.

But the new COH expansion sounds like a real piece of crap, I cannot get excited about it, I dunno what Relic is thinking.

 

[ZzZGuy]

CoH is more about tactics, managing small units in a small environment. Very limited base building, as in you have X spot allotted to build on and X, X,X and X buildings you wish to build. You only control ground units, only exception being calling in air strikes as a special ability. Climatically it looks cooler as well.

Supreme Commander is more about balancing base building and creating your army. It is on a HUGE scale with zoom that lets you go from global view of the battlefield to a single unit taking up your entire screen with up to 1000 units per team. You can build land, sea and air units. You can turtle, rush, swarm or out tech your opponent. It is the more traditional RTS.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Multiplayer is MUCH better than the campaigns and AI in SupCom... But if you play multiplayer you need the expansion pack because no one really plays w/ the original anymore.

 

[Gautama2]

CoH