BioWare Tackles Strategy with Command & Conquer Generals 2
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This is like asking a veteran baseball player to play in the Superbowl.Sure they might get the jist of the game but you know they are going to get creamed at some point.
Really? This is what Bioware is doing next? This was what those cryptic screens and clips were for? After creating two hugely successful game series of their own they are now making a sequel to someone else's old strategy game? Granted I have never played the original, it might be great, but I'd rather have Jade Empire 2 please or something totally new ... but mostly Jade Empire 2.
Hmm Bioware can't seem to handle their own franchises properly anymore, much less revive anyone else's, especially when they have no experience whatsoever with the genre.
If I had to guess, I'd say this will be exactly the same game, possibly spiced up with a feeble attempt at story (like World in Confilct); more of a re-release than a sequel. I don't really care since I'm not a RTS player but fans of Generals deserve a good game.
. I'd love to see one of those.
If I had to guess, I'd say this will be exactly the same game, possibly spiced up with a feeble attempt at story (like World in Confilct); more of a re-release than a sequel. I don't really care since I'm not a RTS player but fans of Generals deserve a good game.
Very good questionJaceArveduin said:
. I'd love to see one of those.
I actually enjoyed C&C3 and Red Alert 3 (even if the campaign was really weak in the latter). Will be interesting to see what comes from this.
I'm sorry EA, but changing the name of the developer of a game to Bioware doesn't make it a real Bioware game.
Next year EA sports will become Bioware sports.
Next year EA sports will become Bioware sports.
Not the same, I already use Steam all the time and for almost all my games. If I used Origin like that I wouldn't complain. EA did it 10 years too late.Frostbite3789 said:
Plus they change the prices to local currency, which means $120 for a game. Steam does not do this.
Edit: Almost forgot, if you say the wrong thing on a forum, or someone quotes you and says something, you lose all your games.
I thought the GLA also got pickup drops from enemy vehicles automatically. If you ran over it with a fully upgraded/un-upgradeable vehicle, you got money. Otherwise, it boosted the stats of your unit.AndyRock said:
Halo: Wars played like Baby's First RTS and Endwar's voice command system was awful. I admit, I only played the demo, but it was more than enough to drive me away. I was constantly re-inputting commands because the stupid machine apparently couldn't understand my mild British accent.Paragon Fury said:
*twitch* Don't even fucking joke about that man. Baldur's Gate is my favourite RPG of all time, and frankly I'd be ecstatic if it never got another iteration in the series. It needs to be left well enough alone, as a testament to the greatness of what the Infinity Engine and late 1990s-era Bioware/Black Isle can bring us.Felipe Nurwandi said:
Another D&D RPG? Fine. But not another Baldur's Gate game. Never.
EA!!!! *Echoes as the camera pans skyward in to a view of the planet*
Seriously though, they're making a Generals 2? There's a reason I say Red Alert 2 was the best of the series, and that's because the games afterwards went downhill quickly. Generals was decent but it lost much of the feel of Command and Conquer - so much so that I played through the campaign, played a couple multiplayer games, and dropped it. And they're sticking it with BioWare? Come on EA, you created a game studio so they could revitalize the series, and now you're throwing it in with a group that has never done a RTS game, much less a Command and Conquer game? Might as well have re-made the Westwood name and pretended that it was going to be awesome again. You will fool maybe two of us.
Personally, I'm not touching the thing. Partially because Generals never held that much appeal to me, and partially because every game since then has sucked.
Seriously though, they're making a Generals 2? There's a reason I say Red Alert 2 was the best of the series, and that's because the games afterwards went downhill quickly. Generals was decent but it lost much of the feel of Command and Conquer - so much so that I played through the campaign, played a couple multiplayer games, and dropped it. And they're sticking it with BioWare? Come on EA, you created a game studio so they could revitalize the series, and now you're throwing it in with a group that has never done a RTS game, much less a Command and Conquer game? Might as well have re-made the Westwood name and pretended that it was going to be awesome again. You will fool maybe two of us.
Personally, I'm not touching the thing. Partially because Generals never held that much appeal to me, and partially because every game since then has sucked.
Meh. I'm not really surprised by this. I didn't care that much for generals. I felt the overall quality of Generals was pretty good, but the game got old pretty quick. I didn't even finish it because it couldn't really keep my attention. The story wasn't that good and it literally felt like I was playing a C&C clone, versus an actual C&C game.
I also feel that they are going to put the Bioware title on everything to use it's good name to sell products that aren't normally along the companies lines. And, this will be an Origin exclusive to help bolster their platform. I can't blame them for that of course, but that doesn't change that I would rather have the game show up on Steam (where I have 215 other PC titles already).
I also feel that they are going to put the Bioware title on everything to use it's good name to sell products that aren't normally along the companies lines. And, this will be an Origin exclusive to help bolster their platform. I can't blame them for that of course, but that doesn't change that I would rather have the game show up on Steam (where I have 215 other PC titles already).