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Logan 5 posted:Are they likely to do it anytime soon? I grew up with the C&C's as my core RTS experience so at some point I'm definitely grabbing the Remaster, but Red Alert 2 is one of my favorite games ever and honestly peak RTS for me. Like I've tried and I mostly just bounce off every other more modern RTS after a little while, even if I think they are good (although I can be really bad at them). Not sure if they're doing a remaster but CNCNet is a third party launcher for a few C&C games including RA2 that allows you to play it with other people pretty easily if you own the game. I have the complete edition on Origin and have been playing RA2 with a buddy the last few nights through this and it holds up much better as is than OG Red Alert/C&C. I love the remaster and was happy to buy it to support it but it really just made me realize how badly I wanted to play RA2 instead.
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Is there any place to get Sekiro cheaper than £30? I have to buy it for the third time. Twice on PS4 and both times I thought "hmmm yes I feel done" and sold the disc on, but this game has a hold on my brain I can't figure out and I have to play it again.
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explosivo posted:Not sure if they're doing a remaster but CNCNet is a third party launcher for a few C&C games including RA2 that allows you to play it with other people pretty easily if you own the game. I have the complete edition on Origin and have been playing RA2 with a buddy the last few nights through this and it holds up much better as is than OG Red Alert/C&C. I love the remaster and was happy to buy it to support it but it really just made me realize how badly I wanted to play RA2 instead. I haven't played RA2 in a million years, assuming a mod could upscale the resolution of the game and the FMVs, what aspects of the game would benefit significantly from remastering?
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Pierson posted:Is there any place to get Sekiro cheaper than £30? I have to buy it for the third time. Twice on PS4 and both times I thought "hmmm yes I feel done" and sold the disc on, but this game has a hold on my brain I can't figure out and I have to play it again. Steam's got the current best legit price I'm afraid.
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Logan 5 posted:Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order: I've dumped more hours into Dark Souls 3 than any other game this past year, but I dunno if I want to do a modern star wars game with DS-lite mechanics and no multiplayer option, at least not for $30 right now Fallen Order is a lot of fun, and while the DS-lite element is there, the way you get more skills that open up new parts of worlds you've already visited reminded me as much of Metroid as anything else. But it seems a near certainty this game will be like $20 or less by the fall, and since it's just SP, unless one was going to play it right now there's not much rush.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:I haven't played RA2 in a million years, assuming a mod could upscale the resolution of the game and the FMVs, what aspects of the game would benefit significantly from remastering? Controls!!!!
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StrixNebulosa posted:Strix's Affectionate History with the RTS Genre
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StrixNebulosa posted:Controls!!!! Yeah controls but mostly just bringing it up to date with modern hardware and making it easier to play with other people that would probably be the biggest benefit for a remaster. I agree though that the case for a remaster is way less urgent with a game like RA2 because it does hold up alright as is.
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What's wrong with the controls? I just use the mouse for everything
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:What's wrong with the controls? I just use the mouse for everything I assume the single click command system, which is a fair problem to have.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:I haven't played RA2 in a million years, assuming a mod could upscale the resolution of the game and the FMVs, what aspects of the game would benefit significantly from remastering? RA2's sprites and voxels scale to resolution already, so a remaster would pretty much have to also redo all the graphics to be that notable. Preferably by making it so that units don't have to be voxels*. Hopefully they can actually find the film RA2 was shot on so they won't actually need to upscale. But yeah, some UI tweaks would be nice, steam workshop support, and of course an official way to play online. One side effect of the remasters is that more people are playing the newer games online through the fanmade CnCNet, there are currently over 1000 on YR right now. *If they aren't they don't handle slopes properly.
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Logan 5 posted:Iconoclasts: I'm mostly kinda just neutral on metriodvanias, but the brilliance of Hollow Knight has left me jonesing for more while waiting for Silksong. I get the feeling I'll just compare other metriodvanias unfairly to the masterpiece that is HK though. Iconoclasts isn't really a metroidvania like Hollow Knight is. It's very plot-heavy and the gameplay tends to be pretty linear as a result. You do get to revisit previous areas, but that's not where the focus is. If you're worried about depression, though, this might be one to skip. ultrafilter fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Oct 25, 2020 |
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Oh right I was immediately spoiled by the remaster and I forgot that old CNC games didn't want you to use right click to move. Did they ever let you do that in any of the later games? Or maybe a mod exists?
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Lol I really don't understand the whole left-click/righ-click thing. I've got zero problems switching depending on what RTS I'm playing
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Oh right I was immediately spoiled by the remaster and I forgot that old CNC games didn't want you to use right click to move. Did they ever let you do that in any of the later games? Or maybe a mod exists?
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Forgot to link cncnet https://cncnet.org/
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Mordja posted:Lol I really don't understand the whole left-click/righ-click thing. I've got zero problems switching depending on what RTS I'm playing I assume mobas
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Grapplejack posted:I assume mobas god, EWWWW
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So while we're waiting for Dying Light 2 we're getting another expansions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3QKG9k2a68 Oh yeah, pick up Dying Light if you don't have it already for the best zombie/parkour game around.
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Mordja posted:Lol I really don't understand the whole left-click/righ-click thing. I've got zero problems switching depending on what RTS I'm playing what RTS besides C&C use left click?
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BexGu posted:Oh yeah, pick up Dying Light if you don't have it already for the best zombie/parkour game around. Can confirm. I'd had the game in my library for ages, but only started playing it properly in recent weeks. It has a good tempo of action, proper challenges and a solid co-op mode.
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MMF Freeway posted:what RTS besides C&C use left click? Dune 2!  A ton of them in the 90's did, Total Annihilation (by default) and KKND probably the most successful non-Westwood.
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BexGu posted:So while we're waiting for Dying Light 2 we're getting another expansions. Man I'm gonna end up downloading it and then just goombaing zombies for hours while listening to podcasts instead of exploring DLC content for, like, the fourth time.
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StrixNebulosa posted:okay everyone stop posting for 3 seconds so I can write this out. Playing too much of They Are Billions and Command n' Conquer has fired up the old nostalga buttons and so you all get to hear about : This is a good post and made me remember my own childhood with these games. I've also added Grey Goo and Tooth n' Tail to my Steam cart, both are on sale.
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BexGu posted:So while we're waiting for Dying Light 2 we're getting another expansions. Well the good news is Hellraid is actually coming out now after like 6 years. The bad news is it is now demoted to DLC for an existing game. But glad to see it sees the light of day at least.
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Floodkiller posted:Head to the Workshop and download the CFE patch for quality of life stuff like attack-move, better walls, and actual pathfinding (although I love the bumbling of the original pathfinding where you try to figure out why the hell one of your tanks is now halfway across the map in the other direction because it hit a cliff wrong). You're beautiful, thanks!
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Anybody try out Cepheus Protocol? I ran across it today and it looks fairly promising/interesting, a open world RTS where you're trying to stop a alien virus that's turning San Francisco's population into gigazombies, reminds me of Strain Tactics a fair amount. Seems like development is fairly active too. https://store.steampowered.com/app/979640/Cepheus_Protocol/
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Saw this as I was catching up on posts...Cartoon Man posted:Bought the rear end Creed franchise. Fired up rear end Creed 1 and it did not like my Xbone wireless controller at all. Had to download a controller mod, stick it in the root folder, run an config program, edit a .ini, and then it worked. Ubisoft must’ve phoned in the PC version of the remaster. Apparently I’ll have to do this too with rear end Creed 2... Unless I've been totally in the dark there are no pre-AC3 remasters on PC. You're playing ye olde original AC1 port from the dark times of controller compatibility. They only got a firm handle on the ports starting with Brotherhood. Also I didn't believe ya'll that they had actually torpedoed the original AC3, but yes, they did. You can get Steam support to tear out the deluxe edition and put back in the base game which will work, but then you'll never be able to get the DLC. That's loving atrocious, regardless of what you think about the game itself. Time to get my 12 bucks back. I can't decide if I'm pissed off enough at Ubisoft to stay away from their bullshit for a while or sick enough in the head to immediately put the $12 towards Odyssey Super Ultimate Extreme edition just to get my loving copy of AC3 back.
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explosivo posted:Not sure if they're doing a remaster but CNCNet is a third party launcher for a few C&C games including RA2 that allows you to play it with other people pretty easily if you own the game. I have the complete edition on Origin and have been playing RA2 with a buddy the last few nights through this and it holds up much better as is than OG Red Alert/C&C. I love the remaster and was happy to buy it to support it but it really just made me realize how badly I wanted to play RA2 instead. Oh rad, pretty sure I do own it on Origin (but I've forgot about it because, well, Origin). Mordja posted:RA2's sprites and voxels scale to resolution already, so a remaster would pretty much have to also redo all the graphics to be that notable. Preferably by making it so that units don't have to be voxels*. Hopefully they can actually find the film RA2 was shot on so they won't actually need to upscale. But yeah, some UI tweaks would be nice, steam workshop support, and of course an official way to play online. One side effect of the remasters is that more people are playing the newer games online through the fanmade CnCNet, there are currently over 1000 on YR right now. I'd kill for some more resolution options though, even if they didn't change the graphics one bit. Red Alert 2 on my ultrawide sounds dope. Workshop/mod support would be amazing too. Actually come to think of it, does the C&C remaster have native 21:9 support? Can't believe I didn't think of that yet. McCoy Pauley posted:Fallen Order is a lot of fun, and while the DS-lite element is there, the way you get more skills that open up new parts of worlds you've already visited reminded me as much of Metroid as anything else. But it seems a near certainty this game will be like $20 or less by the fall, and since it's just SP, unless one was going to play it right now there's not much rush. Yeah, that confirms my thought process. I grew up with some Dark Forces/Jedi Knight, so adding a little DS to a modern one appealed to me when I've been really uninterested in whatever EA has done to Star Wars for a long while now. I'm sure I've got plenty of other games sitting in the backlog though (that I keep ignoring to go play roguelites), so I'll wait until this ones cheaper  ultrafilter posted:Iconoclasts isn't really a metroidvania like Hollow Knight is. It's very plot-heavy and the gameplay tends to be pretty linear as a result. You do get to revisit previous areas, but that's not where the focus is. If you're worried about depression, though, this might be one to skip,. Ah, dang. Oh well then. Depression might have been a strong word to use, but it's more like with how the world is now I could really use more stuff that isn't a downer. I can take heavy themes and oppressive atmospheres just fine.
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John Murdoch posted:Saw this as I was catching up on posts... I’m kind of enjoying rear end Creed 1, warts and all. Bout to go make my first assassination. Altair is still a mega dick though... I think I remember playing through parts of rear end Creed 2 at my friends house on a PS3 and it was much better. Can’t wait to get there.
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quote:Dying Light stuff I remember Dying Light being a very fun singleplayer campaign with a tacked-on multiplayer mode, now I look at the store page and there's two dozen pieces of DLC. Did it transition into a Division-style looter-shooter since then? Is it worth taking another look at if I just played it at release?
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Still thinking about picking up Deserts of, uh, Qatar (¿) because I like the aesthetic. How is it for people who are somewhat intimidated by standard RTS games but have played a lot of DoW/CoH?
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RA2 doesn't really scale at higher resolutions, it just zooms out and makes the units super tiny. 1280x720 is pretty much the sweet spot on my 1440p, 27" monitor but it'd be nice to get native res without any scaling artifacts.
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Fallom posted:RA2 doesn't really scale at higher resolutions, it just zooms out. 1280x720 is pretty much the sweet spot on my 1440p, 27" monitor but it'd be nice to get native res without any scaling artifacts. I mean, that is exactly integer scaling, so if your card supports it that's perfect.
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Pierson posted:I remember Dying Light being a very fun singleplayer campaign with a tacked-on multiplayer mode, now I look at the store page and there's two dozen pieces of DLC. Did it transition into a Division-style looter-shooter since then? Is it worth taking another look at if I just played it at release? Not anywhere close to anything approaching a Division style shooter, still a primarily single player zombie stomper with light loot elements. DLC is all cosmetics, neat or boring weapons and some cool story stuff.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Dusk, Amid Evil or Ion Fury? I like the art style of Ion Fury, never really enjoyed the grubby Quake aesthetic, but whatever has the best level design and varied combat encounters will work for me. I love all three. Dusk is the best though.
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Logan 5 posted:Yeah, that confirms my thought process. I grew up with some Dark Forces/Jedi Knight, so adding a little DS to a modern one appealed to me when I've been really uninterested in whatever EA has done to Star Wars for a long while now. I'm sure I've got plenty of other games sitting in the backlog though (that I keep ignoring to go play roguelites), so I'll wait until this ones cheaper
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"The Steam community has awarded you with 6 awards. People are really into what you're adding to the community! Congrats!" But no way to figure out what those awards were, and for what, exactly.
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Fallen Order really is way more of a metrovania with some soulsurgesekirobornioh trappings, and it's good stuff.
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Black Griffon posted:Still thinking about picking up Deserts of, uh, Qatar (¿) because I like the aesthetic. How is it for people who are somewhat intimidated by standard RTS games but have played a lot of DoW/CoH? do you mean Deserts of Kharak if you've played DoW it should be ok
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