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08-04-2008
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Name: Daggoth -V- Hours: 402 Last played: November 20, 2008, 2:28 AM | |  Re: Red Alert 3
C&C went to crap when EA bought Westwood out. Hands down, Westwood did it right. EA just sucks. If EA is the publisher never buy a new title for at least 3 - 4 months. That way all they bugs will get worked out. Seriously, so many times I have bought a EA game and couldn't play it for one reason or another until EA released a patch.
I have been playing C&C games since the first one released on DOS. Anyone remember Dune? Came from Westwood and basically grew into C&C. I like the RA series it was a different twist. RA2 wasn't bad but didn't play it online though.
I bought C&C 3 and played through most of it, but honestly it was likely playing Generals with updated graphics. EA just sucks! (Did I say that already?)
EA is to gaming what Microsoft is to operating systems.......
I hope RA3 gets improvements. I read a recent article in PC Gamer and it sounded like RA 3 had some potential. Hopefully the bad beta will show some light on the situation but with EA involved my hopes are small.
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08-04-2008
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Name: TheG2 -V- Hours: 95 Last played: September 12, 2008, 9:44 PM | | Re: Red Alert 3
What's wrong with Microsofts operating systems? I run Vista and XP with 0 problems...
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08-04-2008
|  | Community Regular | | Join Date: Dec 26th, 02 Location: Great Britain
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id presume he meant how they make u pay out ure teeth for utter wank - or atleast for undeserving merchandise |
08-04-2008
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Name: {LOD} DoomsDay/ AsYLuM-DeMoN Hours: 73 Last played: August 19, 2008, 12:01 AM | | Re: Red Alert 3
I've been playing CNC since I was 5 when my dad couldn't beat the first level but I did.  (Don't blame him, up till that point he had played games like Decent and Doom). And I own multiple copies of every CNC game. But you do realize that most of Westwood left when EA purchased them right? They started another company to work on RTS games but I forgot the name. I just read it on Wikipedia when I was board in school one day. 
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08-04-2008
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Name: TheG2 -V- Hours: 95 Last played: September 12, 2008, 9:44 PM | | Re: Red Alert 3
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Originally Posted by AsYLuM-DeMoN  I've been playing CNC since I was 5 when my dad couldn't beat the first level but I did. (Don't blame him, up till that point he had played games like Decent and Doom). And I own multiple copies of every CNC game. But you do realize that most of Westwood left when EA purchased them right? They started another company to work on RTS games but I forgot the name. I just read it on Wikipedia when I was board in school one day. | Petroglyph
So far they're turned out some decent games, but nothing on par with C&C yet.
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08-07-2008
|  | Member | | Join Date: Feb 11th, 08
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Well, I finally got my hands on the RA3 Beta yesterday...
To be honest, I rather like the game. Granted, I've not played Red Alert 2 in a ridiculously long time and I never played Red Alert 2 online, so I don't know how well this game fulfills the desires of a long-time Red Alert fan looking for something both similar and new online-wise.
It's odd, however... It just doesn't feel like the sequel I expected it to be. There's a whole lot more micromanagement involved in this game for me than in C&C 3, as the economy is ridiculously slow (>_>) and pretty much every unit has an interesting secondary ability. That, and the way each faction builds/techs up is entirely different. Fun stuff, and it's definitely a new experience for me, but it's not Red Alert as I remember it. It takes an awkwardly long time to tech up- so much so that you're really limited on the fun you can have when you get to third-tier units unless you're completely dominating the map's ore nodes.
I honestly wish that the Beta had a skirmish mode, and I hope, for everyone's sake, that they don't screw up Red Alert 3's storyline. I like the game so far, but I can't see it as it is now being a stand-alone title that I'd be willing to buy. Hopefully the balance changes that they keep making will ultimately lead to something nice.  |
08-07-2008
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Name: |TV| SoBe Green [PoV] Hours: 433 Last played: November 16, 2008, 12:31 PM | | Re: Red Alert 3
You hope they don't screw it up? Oh well RA3 = Soviets went back in time and removed Einstein and now everything that happened before has never happened now and the Allies don't have chrono technology but they still have the chronosphere. Also despite the fact that RA3 will take place about the same time as RA2 (just in a different "time") everyone will have better technology and we are supposed to nod and say "Yes this makes sense."
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08-07-2008
| | Member | | Join Date: Feb 11th, 08
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Originally Posted by SoBe Green You hope they don't screw it up? Oh well RA3 = Soviets went back in time and removed Einstein and now everything that happened before has never happened now and the Allies don't have chrono technology but they still have the chronosphere. Also despite the fact that RA3 will take place about the same time as RA2 (just in a different "time") everyone will have better technology and we are supposed to nod and say "Yes this makes sense." | *sigh*
And here I was hoping for a sequel.
Ten figurative bucks says they play off the Chronosphere by saying Einstein was killed after he'd already made the blueprints. -_- |
08-07-2008
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Name: TheG2 -V- Hours: 95 Last played: September 12, 2008, 9:44 PM | | Re: Red Alert 3
I've played about 10 games online, and I'm still not impressed. Id take C&C3 over RA3 any day of the week.
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08-07-2008
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Name: |TV| SoBe Green [PoV] Hours: 433 Last played: November 16, 2008, 12:31 PM | | Re: Red Alert 3
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Originally Posted by Aeronaut *sigh*
And here I was hoping for a sequel.
Ten figurative bucks says they play off the Chronosphere by saying Einstein was killed after he'd already made the blueprints. -_- | Yea probably so. At this point the only good C&C game would be the one that ignores anything made after Tiberian Sun and then links the RA storyline with the tiberium story.
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08-07-2008
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Name: |TV| Chocolate Rev Cookie Hours: 922 Last played: November 18, 2008, 11:49 AM | | Re: Red Alert 3
Oh man, C&C Red Alert 2 is the awesome. You gotta love a game where you can spam trained dolphins and hentai octopi at your foes!
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08-23-2008
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Name: MastahKlah -V- Hours: 173 Last played: October 31, 2008, 6:27 PM | | Re: Red Alert 3
Open Beta at gamepspy! grab it while you still can! |
08-23-2008
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Name: |TV| Σvilpeяsoи -V- Hours: 275 Last played: October 10, 2008, 8:40 PM | | Re: Red Alert 3
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Originally Posted by RavinReverend You gotta love a game where you can spam trained dolphins and hentai octopi at your foes! | Of all the aspects in RA2, the choice of the quoted above does not surprise me by rev.
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08-25-2008
| | Member | | Join Date: Feb 11th, 08
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| | Re: Red Alert 3
Just dug something up on EA's forums that has to be one of the most entertaining things I've read about this game yet... Support Forums : Dolphins that fly! ...
...That's right, dolphins are actually considered flying units when they jump out of the water. And as such, MiGs can shoot them out of the sky. XD |
09-21-2008
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