[Stryke 9]

Break out the champagne.

http://www.gamespydaily.com/news/fullstory.asp?id=4644

Too bad some of them are getting re-hired, and that EA is actually doing better, but hey; take what ya can. The strategy genre has been liberated.

[Solatar]

What about Command and Conquer: generals?

[Ulundel]

****. Westwood was one of my favourites...

[Zeronet]

Westwood made ub3r l33t games.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by Hades
What about Command and Conquer: generals?

Indeed, been looking forward to that.

Ohh, if only you meant Mel Westwood, the drongo who runs the school's IT department.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Hades
What about Command and Conquer: generals?

EA Pacific - I think.

[Fetty]

meh werstwood was good (at c&c red alert)

[Stunaep]

Screws generals, what about Tiberian Twilight!!!!

[Stealth]

I'll remind you that Westwood and Cyro made the first Dune game

[vyper]

*delcares an official hour of mourning*

[Ryx]

I think, we'll see more C&C games.

Generals has gone gold, so it's coming out. The Swedish edition of PC Gamer arrived in the mail today and they had reviewed Generals; Game Of The Month "award".

[Stryke 9]

Eughhh... You liked that ****?

Bleah, Westwood hadn't made anything good since Dune 2. C&C original was a ripoff of that, and it's been cloning itself ever since. No strategy, no tactics, just tank rushes. No thanks.

That, and they kept buying out legitimately good game companies. The computer god's curse on strat gaming.

[Knight Templar]

I loved everything they mad eup until Tiberian Sun.. hated that game. Didn't feel like C&C at all and the cutscenes only aplyfied the bleeding going on inside of my head.

RA2 was ok.. fell away from what RA via Yuri, but it wasn't that bad. I stopped playing RA2:YR when I got to the Yurivs Russia moon mission..

[Nico]

oh, ****
It disappears, just like that? no warning, nothing?

oh, and Stryke, you can stick your champagne bottle up your arse.

edit:
http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Games&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=270351&obj_id=37596

well, at least, seems they haven't given up the C&C series. wait and see, as they say...

[Bishop Gantry]

Hahahahaa... hmmm Muhahahahahaha... no thats not it Bwahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaahhahahaa... yes thats the spirit:lol:

[kode]

Originally posted by Ryx
I think, we'll see more C&C games.

Generals has gone gold, so it's coming out. The Swedish edition of PC Gamer arrived in the mail today and they had reviewed Generals; Game Of The Month "award".

somewhat the reason that I stopped reading that. They live the hype. and stopped being the funney.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
I loved everything they mad eup until Tiberian Sun.. hated that game. Didn't feel like C&C at all and the cutscenes only aplyfied the bleeding going on inside of my head.

RA2 was ok.. fell away from what RA via Yuri, but it wasn't that bad. I stopped playing RA2:YR when I got to the Yurivs Russia moon mission..

i know, yuri's forces were WAY too imbalanced for my liking

plus the missions were a little "bizzare"

[StratComm]

Originally posted by Turnsky


i know, yuri's forces were WAY too imbalanced for my liking

plus the missions were a little "bizzare"

Weren't they though?  Of course, there were all sorts of cheap tricks that RA2 left open for exploitation, like the power and range of prism tanks or the force-fire speed of the Aegis, that made the game way too easy to cheap out on.  Early tank rushes or max tech were the only ways to go (High tech only against comps).  YR was not a very good expansion IMHO, if just because it turned a game with some serious elements (i.e. the nuking of chicago, Soviet invasion, etc) into a stupid comedy attempt, with a bunch of units that did crap and a side that packed no offensive punch on its own.  And yes, the moon mission was utterly laughable, especially since you still got the same tanks (running on internal combustion engines from their ambients I should add) and buildings on the lunar surface, and since you got a massive force (by both sides) to the moon on a couple of undersized rockets.  Just flawed in every imaginable way, and although the features added were fun to tinker with, I think they distracted from the replayability of the game in a major way.  On a side note, original CnC still ranks pretty high for me (and it's the N64 version too) if just because you felt like you were fighting for a purpose.  And seeing the last mission completed with 0 friendly casualties is possibly the best feeling that can be recreated in a RTS when you actually have to work really hard to accomplish that.

[CP5670]

The original C&C is still one of my all-time favorite games, as it was perfect in just about every way (for its time).

And seeing the last mission completed with 0 friendly casualties is possibly the best feeling that can be recreated in a RTS when you actually have to work really hard to accomplish that.

lol, good to see I'm not alone there. Although at least for GDI, I completed the final mission (the A choice) in a very bizarre way. There was a small area next to one of the computer's bases (but outside of it) which contained six silos and was only defended by a pair of turrets. I destroyed the turrets (the computer does not rebuild them), captured all the silos, converted the tiberium to cash and sold the silos. A few minutes later, he built all of them again in the same place (with my forces surrounding the area), filled them up, and I did the same thing again. This happened over and over again about 20 times until the map tiberium had all but run out due to his harvesting. This resulted in my finishing the mission with some 30000 credits and a huge army of technicians.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Bishop Gantry
Hahahahaa... hmmm Muhahahahahaha... no thats not it Bwahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaahhahahaa... yes thats the spirit:lol:

[color=66ff00]Y'know the way when somebody laughs uncontrollably you get the urge to laugh yourself?
Reading that post made me feel like laughing. This is a little surreal.

On a less derailing note; it's a more cut throat market these days, no longer have you got guys coding games for the sheer hell of it, its all marketing. You should probably be glad that Westwood went under, it's a warning to the marketing sheep that you can't simply keep churning out the same stuff with a diferent wrapper and hope that gamers will buy it. Lets hope it starts an inkling of original thought amongst the bean counters...
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