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Command & Conquer Remastered
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:26 am
by Ascender
Looks like this is due to be released tomorrow on Steam, so I think that's my work distraction for the next week or two sorted. Absolutely loved those games when they came out and wasted many an evening playing on LAN after work.
Anybody else going to pick it up and relive their near-youth?
Re: Command & Conquer Remastered
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:46 am
by Simon
It looks fun but there isn't enough hours in the day really to start including games that have barely moved on at all in the 'remastering', what with all the other games in our respective libraries...
Re: Command & Conquer Remastered
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:30 pm
by Matty
I only liked Red Alert.
Although I did enjoy the overly-hammy acting they used to have on their terrible storylines they had in some. IIRC they actually had some well known names in them, plus some girls in tight tops just to keep people interested
Re: Command & Conquer Remastered
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:36 pm
by Orange Cola
I was just thinking the other day I’d quite like to see if there’s a C&C app or something I could download and play. I really enjoyed Red Alert but the machine I installed it on went years and years ago.
I wonder if it’s available for Mac OS... *toddles off to check*
Edit: no it isn’t.
Re: Command & Conquer Remastered
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:53 pm
by drcarlos
Loved red alert and c&c but I’m well tied up on Star Trek fleet command at the moment.
Re: Command & Conquer Remastered
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:58 pm
by simon_g
There is no way I'm not buying it, so have had a preorder since the video that announced it.
C&C was probably responsible for slightly poorer A-Level grades than I should have got, and Red Alert probably contributed a lot to me flunking out of my engineering degree.
Have a decent PC and a 40" 4K display these days. Cannot bloody wait to play back through it all again.
edit - fired up Steam and pre-loading the 20-odd Gb now. Excited.
Re: Command & Conquer Remastered
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:34 pm
by Simon
Total Annihilation and Earth 2150 were my thing. Are they getting redone anytime soon?
TA was the first game I played online IIRC - back in 1999 ish against a colleague at an insurance company I worked at. Happy days.
Re: Command & Conquer Remastered
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:49 am
by Mito Man
Had a look on steam, £5 so tempting but it doesn’t look like an especially great remaster, at least from the screen shots. Looks like they made the characters and buildings HD and the maps are still how they were. Don’t think I’ll bother.
I bought the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro remaster and it’s really odd how as I started playing it all came back to me and after a few hours I stopped because of it. In fact I do that to every remaster!
Re: Command & Conquer Remastered
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:19 pm
by Delphi
Simon wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:34 pm
Total Annihilation and Earth 2150 were my thing. Are they getting redone anytime soon?
TA was the first game I played online IIRC - back in 1999 ish against a colleague at an insurance company I worked at. Happy days.
TA was effectively re-done in the form of Supreme Commander (also written by Chris Taylor).
Re: Command & Conquer Remastered
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:22 pm
by Ascender
Mito Man wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:49 am
Had a look on steam, £5 so tempting but it doesn’t look like an especially great remaster, at least from the screen shots. Looks like they made the characters and buildings HD and the maps are still how they were. Don’t think I’ll bother.
I bought the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro remaster and it’s really odd how as I started playing it all came back to me and after a few hours I stopped because of it. In fact I do that to every remaster!
Yeah, I'm going to have a look today because the screenshots aren't great but they say everything has been re-done in 4K res. So not sure...
Its maybe appealing because I can chuck it on this laptop and play in quiet moments from work rather than something I need to get the console fired-up for.
Re: Command & Conquer Remastered
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:44 pm
by RobYob
Delphi wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:19 pm
Simon wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:34 pm
Total Annihilation and Earth 2150 were my thing. Are they getting redone anytime soon?
TA was the first game I played online IIRC - back in 1999 ish against a colleague at an insurance company I worked at. Happy days.
TA was effectively re-done in the form of Supreme Commander (also written by Chris Taylor).
I really liked TA and TA-Kingdoms but Supreme Commander and the similar Planetary Annihilation haven't engaged me anywhere near as much. Probably just not having the free time to grind out massive complex armies anymore.