Command and Conquer Generals

[Jamski]

Of course, but I haven't played Monkey Island (I think?) since it was new, on my Amiga 500. My God, I'm not only old enough to remember, but I'm old enough to start forgetting things too.

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Yep, I played it first on my spanky new Amiga as well........'tis a great game that loads of people remember. I had a "funny moments in the monkey island series' thread in 'other games'. You should check it out, there were loads of hilarious responses.

[Jamski]

You think I'm going to hunt it down myself ? I am at work right now. I'll try the search, but if it takes more than 60secs... Gateway Timeout Fun for all.

-Jam

[DrSpike]

It's not a busy forum so it wont be far down. Besides the search function works well if you specify thread title and poster, and the forum in which the thread appears.

[Jamski]

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=58008&highlight=Monkey+Island

Well I never, search worked !

-Jam

[Kc7mxo]

C&C is cool. It has insanely huge fun factor cause its not all that serious nor it tries to be serious. While Age of.. and -craft series wins in tactics sector, C&C wins in huge explosions and insane destruction.

Heh, there are several missiosn towards the end where the Enemy is armed with a Scud Storm, a superweapon with toxic after effects launched from a base. I've twice captured the facility with its count down timer in the last 30 seconds due to paradrops.

I then immidiatly launched them into the AI's base, and sold the building.

[vee4473]

Originally posted by Trajanus
Well we don't play the game for the story
a few screenshots btw would be nice!


PS: now how did you get your hands on the game?

The story is a big part of RTS games. Regardless of what detractors of RTS games think.

But, you have point, if you mean that pure battle and battle graphics are the focus.

[Gangerolf]

It's cool.

a couple of things annoyed me though (I've only played once so far):

1. The Chinese Nuke Cannon - what the hell kind of nuke is that? it didn't even blow up one building!

2. No naval units

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Gangerolf
1. The Chinese Nuke Cannon - what the hell kind of nuke is that? it didn't even blow up one building!

Neutron Bomb?

[Adagio]

I never liked RA or C&C, while I have always liked Dune 2, Dune 2000 and Emperor - Battle for Dune. There was one part of Emperor I didn't like though... all those boring, annoying, boring and boring missions that came between the fights (in SP). If they didn't include those missions, I would proberbly still be playing the game...

Anyway, back to topic:

I might take a look a Generals some day, just to see the graphics... I saw a video showing some great graphics, but I believe the gameplay is still the same...


Just one question: Why is it called a C&C clone, when the fact is: C&C is a clone of Red Alert (AFAIR) and Red Alert is a clone of Dune (A bad clone indeed)

[DrSpike]

No, Red Alert was a later C&C game than the original C&C. You are right that Dune2 (not Dune, which wasn't RTS) came first, but C&C really popularised the genre.

[Adagio]

Sorry, forgot the '2'

Wasn't sure if it was RA or C&C that came first...

[vee4473]

i have an AMD 700mhz t-bird with 256 ram. a 32 meg nvidia riva tnt2 m64 card, my comps a little old.

i'd love to get generals, but does anyone know if i will have problems?

and if the answer is that i would have to turn all the settings down to minimum, then my next question is , does that make the game look bad?

i want to play the game because of the graphics and if i have to turn all the effects off to play, then why bother.



as a little sidenote, warcraft 3 ran like crap on my comp until i upped the ram to 256, now it works pretty good.

it seemed that ram was the major factor in war 3

[Jahi]

C&C is pretty cool, i have to admit. i can even run it at 1600x1200 on my laptop. its just like warcraft 3 except with tanks.

the game seems a little short though.. they really should have put in more missions like warcraft 3

[Kc7mxo]

i have an AMD 700mhz t-bird with 256 ram. a 32 meg nvidia riva tnt2 m64 card, my comps a little old.

i'd love to get generals, but does anyone know if i will have problems?

and if the answer is that i would have to turn all the settings down to minimum, then my next question is , does that make the game look bad?

i want to play the game because of the graphics and if i have to turn all the effects off to play, then why bother.



as a little sidenote, warcraft 3 ran like crap on my comp until i upped the ram to 256, now it works pretty good.

it seemed that ram was the major factor in war 3

You should be able to play it with that system, but not wi9th much turned on. It still looks good, even turned down. Of course, it looks far nicer on a better system.