R.i.p c&c

[slag]

...I vonder iv it vill be raining...

 

[Loop2kil]

Love Generals and Zero Hour...keep hoping for a Generals 2

 

[CVSiN]

many fond memories of playing Sole Survivor (alpha/beta tester)

you and me both.. man that was a LONG time ago..

 

[brencat]

Red Alert 2 was probably my favorite and I have many fond memories of playing with my younger brother online in a comp stomp (usually us 2 vs 4 brutal enemies) since we lived in different states.

Also played a ton of Zero Hour which I really enjoyed. Loved playing as the terrorists (can't remember what they were called)... "thank you for the new shoes!" LOL and the dirty bomb you could drop from that aging cargo plane hahaha. Let's not forget the fuel-air bombs either and the first 'good' nuke explosion in a game (Chinese side).

I haven't played much C&C lately but my 8 year old son LOVES Tiberium Wars. The game is 4 years old now and he is mesmerized by the graphics (maxed obviously) and really enjoys the commentary of the Avatars... laughs when they say "clear the junk!". Great watching little kids enjoy the simple stuff...

 

[darkxshade]

Oh man RA2 was awesome. Being young and broke, a friend and I would chip in to buy the game... He'd play the Allied campaign, I'd play the Soviet and we'd swap discs when we were done.

 

[Martimus]

Oh man RA2 was awesome. Being young and broke, a friend and I would chip in to buy the game... He'd play the Allied campaign, I'd play the Soviet and we'd swap discs when we were done.

That is exactly what I did with my buddy in high school. He bought the original C&C, and I bought Red Alert, and one of us would have one of the cd's so that we could both play multiplayer.

I enjoyed the original game the most, but part of that is because RA brought so much balance that there was never the worry about losing your base quickly to a multitude of tactics like taking some engineers or commandos via transport helicopter to the back of your base to destroy the MCV and Construction Yard, or any of the other dozen valid ways to win. RA made it so the only real valid way to win was to build up a stronger force, which made the game really easy. To the point where I won every multiplayer game I ever played in RA except one. I preferred the challenge of the original C&C when there were dozens of ways to win that you had to counter.

 

[dclapps]

I think C&C was the first PC game I ever played. It was so difficult at the time, but I think I re-loaded it and smashed through it.

I think the thing I loved the most was the background music. It seemed to be either louder than what I find currently in games or better suited to the atmosphere; or, maybe it was being 12.

 

[Texashiker]

One thing I loved about C&C / C&C Gold, was the womans voice that said "building" and "unit ready".

The music was pretty awesome as well.

 

[Maximilian]

I think C&C was the first PC game I ever played. It was so difficult at the time, but I think I re-loaded it and smashed through it.

I think the thing I loved the most was the background music. It seemed to be either louder than what I find currently in games or better suited to the atmosphere; or, maybe it was being 12.

Frank klepacki just made really really good game music :thumbsup:

I thing I loved about C&C / C&C Gold, was the womans voice that said "building" and "unit ready".

The music was pretty awesome as well.

Yeah the EVA voice was cool. I liked CABALs voice in tiberian sun too.

 

[slightlyhuman]

spent LOTS of time on red alert the aftermath. made top 100 in westwood ladders when i was in junior high. i would do ANYTHING to go back to the days of quake 2(on a low ping) and the days of westwood chat and RA. heck the last 2 months i've been meeting tuesday nights for 3 or 4 5v5+ quake 2 LMCTF matches with the same people i played with back in 98 and on. 150+ people from a mod played YEARS ago all on a facebook quake2 LMCTF group. good stuff:beer;

 

[Powermoloch]

RA will always have a place in my heart

:rose: westwood

 

[Coydog]

Fond memories of C&C.

Tech level 1 w/ Crates on and in the Business's new computer lab with the then top of line CPU Intel Pentium 133. Best part was it was played right after the re-release of one of the Star Wars films (think it was ESB). Security caught us and was gonna bust us for using computers for playing games. Had the head of IT peek up and said "They are helping me test the network, best thing to do is play a game."

Needless to say, I found a nuke and then evaporated a friends assembled mass army. The thing is, next guy got a tank in his crate.

 

[Anteaus]

After having major problems getting C&C Generals to run on my xp machine over the past couple years I decided to give it a try with my current Win7-64 machine with 2600k and 570 gtx. Installed and patched and it ran with absolutely no problems. Not bad for a 8 year old game designed to run on Win98/XP.

 

[Wreckem]

In my opinion the best C&C games were C&C, Red Alert and Generals (for other reasons). Ironically, the series went to crap after EA took over. Odd how that works.

It went to crap before EA took over. Westwood made poor business(to many projects running at the same time) and technical decisions(come on voxels? that was serious waste of time and money).

Also, EA "tookover" before TS was released. TS was in development hell and they forced Westwood to release it early than Westwood had wanted. After TS every game Westwood made was controlled by EA. EA shut down Westwood in 2003 because of the commercial failure for Renegade and Earth and Beyond.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

So many good memories playing C&C over appletalk in university labs with my uncle. I was pretty young at the time, but I loved it.

C&C3 was a great simple rts. Good campaign too.

 

[Elcs]

I personally thought Dune 2000 was a terrible game. It was horrendous after coming from Dune II imo.

Emperor wasn't bad and introduced some good things like the tech houses but also changed up some things which didn't look so good.