[SpardaSon21]

It won't be a C&C game though.  Where is the epic base building?  Where is the tank spam?  Where are the massive armies crashing against each other?  In other words, where's da epic?

[Ghostavo]

It won't be a C&C game though.  Where is the epic base building?  Where is the tank spam?  Where are the massive armies crashing against each other?  In other words, where's da epic?

Where has it ever been? I don't remember large armies or large bases being staple of the C&C series. Ever.

[Liberator]

You been playin' Generals boy?

I always build giganamus bases when I play.  Even when I don't have to.  Massive armies?  Not so much.  I hold till the mammies are ready then roll over them.

[Ghostavo]

The total amount of buildings and units required to successfully overrun another player is nowhere near the size required in some other RTS's.

Being a turtler/boomer is something you can do in every economy based RTS too.


And actually, I've been trying to play Tiberian Sun again.  

[General Battuta]

Yeah, C&C bases have always been pretty small (even compared to other simple RTSes like Starcraft, never mind something like SupCom.)

[Stormkeeper]

It won't be a C&C game though.  Where is the epic base building?  Where is the tank spam?  Where are the massive armies crashing against each other?  In other words, where's da epic?

My bases are always generally quite small. I don't like having massive bases; makes them harder to defend.

[Liberator]

/necromancy
They released a gameplay trailer a few days ago.

http://www.giantbomb.com/command-conquer-4-gameplay-trailer/17-1650/

All i can say is it looks like they took a game they had on the backburner, recolored the units gold/white and red/black and called it Command & Conquer 4.

I feel sick.

[Scotty]

Well, I'm still looking forward to it.

It looks like they managed to get rid of the "too clean" feeling from C&C3.  Tiberian Sun looked so much more realistic (depiction wise) than Tiberium Wars.

[BloodEagle]

I was left with neither positive, nor negative feelings after watching that trailer.

That being said, post production (of the trailer) could have been better.

[General Battuta]

I'm with Liberator, I think this looks like garbage. I really liked Tiberium Wars, they should've taken it further in that direction.

[Scotty]

Tiberium Wars felt too "clean" for a future total war survival of the species scenario.

[asyikarea51]

That trailer looks like something out of a kiddy cartoon full of weird machinery in funky crayon colours with all those units in my (blunt) opinion. It doesn't seem to convey "the survival of mankind" feeling that well to me. Where the heck did that four-armed cannon robot come from?!

Even the Mammoth Tank gun recoil looks cartoony to me. Boing-boing. -_-||

The only thing I ever liked about C&C3 at initial release was the infantry squads.

[ShadowGorrath]

Yeah, and they pretty much taken out the infantry squads and went back to individual infantry...

[NGTM-1R]

Tiberium Wars felt too "clean" for a future total war survival of the species scenario.

Why? All your units are produced factory-new on the map. They should look clean and new.

[ShadowGorrath]

Tiberium Wars felt too "clean" for a future total war survival of the species scenario.

Why? All your units are produced factory-new on the map. They should look clean and new.

I don't think that's what he meant...

[NGTM-1R]

What did he mean, then? Survival of the species is usually pretty cut and dried when you hit in extremis.

[TrashMan]

Tiberium Wars felt too "clean" for a future total war survival of the species scenario.

Nah, it looked just right. Especialyl the unit design..

What they done to the overall design here is....horrible.

[ShadowGorrath]

What did he mean, then? Survival of the species is usually pretty cut and dried when you hit in extremis.

Dunno. Probably that Tiberium Wars felt like "everything's fine, nothing to worry about, no doomsday, we only gotta kill those nod scum in their wastelands". Tiberian Sun felt differently though- it was like a "future total war survival of the species" scenario.

[Ghostavo]

What did he mean, then? Survival of the species is usually pretty cut and dried when you hit in extremis.

Dunno. Probably that Tiberium Wars felt like "everything's fine, nothing to worry about, no doomsday, we only gotta kill those nod scum in their wastelands". Tiberian Sun felt differently though- it was like a "future total war survival of the species" scenario.

Probably it was perpectually night in Tiberiun Sun and everything looked gritty. I don't recall many non-night missions, but hey, I didn't play much of the campaign so.

[Mika]

I don't know what to say about that trailer. Kind of a let down, very little interesting in it. The sound effects didn't feel right, at least. Seems to be directed to people younger than me.

That brings me to a point, in C&C1 Westwood wasn't afraid of giving player morally questionable tasks (when playing NOD), or showing people blow up to pieces and GDI interrogator killing prisoners. I still like the video sequences of C&C1 best of the series, though they are lowest in overall graphical quality and don't have professional actors.