Red Alert 3

[Blanky]

This game is 6-7 years old, but it was on sale recently on Steam, so I picked it up. I played the original C&C :biggrin:

I'm on possibly the last mission in the Russian campaign (first campaign I've tried) and I think the co-commander approach has ruined single player. I've done all missions so far on hard, but this last mission my co-commander is just being insanely stupid. He's constantly sending out troops a few at a time at the enemy base to harass it. All that's happening is that when the enemy does the same, his base is mostly empty, his defenses are a joke, so I'm having to manage my defenses and his. He's also expanding his base up the map, which makes no sense at all. Meanwhile my base is impregnable and I'm building up an assault force. But doing that while constantly fending off the attacks to him (he also has a ridiculous fetish for building a naval base, which falls quickly in the several tries I've done) is making it just too hard. The game is constructed to be enemy against two competent players, but he's barely worth anything.

I have to say I think co-commanders ruined single player for Red Alert 3 and it's a damn shame.

As an aside, it's strange that RTS went from being a hugely popular genre to more or less dead from what I can tell.

 

[clok1966]

you can only do the same thing over and over with new paint so many times (collect, build attack) unless you are a FPS of course. RA II is maybe my all time favorite RTS, and I pretty much enjoy them all. They have went out of favor in the last few years for sure, the LOL, DOTA games area nice offshoot, but much more one on one. Yes I enjoyed RA III but didnt like the co commander part at all.

I still fire up Dune 2000 (dune was so great, but the controls are to clunky today) and go through every campaign. Have been hearing good stuff about Gray GOO?

 

[MetalMat]

The RA3 expansion was too hard. I could not get past the first level.

 

[Josh123]

C&C Generals ruined it for me.

Westwood Studios ftw

 

[frozentundra123456]

I liked Generals actually. I was thinking of playing it again if I can find my CDs and codes. The franchise went steadily downhill after that though. The final nail in the coffin was some expansion called Red Alert (3 or 4) Uprising. Absolutely terrible game.

Maybe that is the game you are talking about Metal. I know there was some level with a really obtuse trick the AI used, and it was almost impossible to win unless you went online and found the trick to beat it. If I recall correctly, you continually got killed by some unit that was off the map. I dont remember what you had to do to defeat it.

 

[futurefields]

30fps cap on RA3 sucks too. there is probably a way around it.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

C&C3 was my favorite of the modern ones.

 

[Albatross]

You can always try http://www.openra.net/

 

[Blanky]

I actually enjoyed generals and I played it quite a bit.

I finally got through this ra 3 mission with the old silly approach if locking down my base with insane defense and waiting until the ai blew through all its money throwing people at my walls. Once the ore was up I was going through remaining money and oil Derrick very slowly so able to build up a force to go out and shut them down. Turns the game into tower defense which really is the funnest stuff about these games anyway.

 

[clok1966]

Well i fired it up last night after this thread, I wonder if anybody hacked it so you could turn of the 2nd commander? I had forgot the C&C live action cut scenes, so fun, over the top, and SULU! Thanks for pointing it out again, not the best int the series, but still fun.

 

[MetalMat]

I actually enjoyed generals and I played it quite a bit.

I finally got through this ra 3 mission with the old silly approach if locking down my base with insane defense and waiting until the ai blew through all its money throwing people at my walls. Once the ore was up I was going through remaining money and oil Derrick very slowly so able to build up a force to go out and shut them down. Turns the game into tower defense which really is the funnest stuff about these games anyway.

I have not played any RTS games in ages but Generals Zero Hour is the 2nd best one I have ever played right behind the original starcraft

 

[carling220]

I bought RA3, played it for about ten minutes and haven't put it on again. Maybe I need to give it another go? Thought it was terrible I remember.

C&C Tiberium wars and the expansion I thought were both great in terms of RTS'.

Another RTS that's really good is Supreme Commander Forged Alliance, the scale is really impressive, even if it's a tad dated.

I was disappointed with Starcraft 2, too geared up for online for my personal tastes.

Dawn of War was my favourite I played online for years. DOW2 however ruined it for me, no more base building; it was based on Company of Heroes which I also did not like that much.