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CnC3 or Supcom

THE RTS game I'm playing in the next couple months

  • CnC3

    Votes: 61 37.0%

  • Supcom

    Votes: 104 63.0%
  • Total voters
    165
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these 2 great RTS hitting the market 1 month in between, which one are u getting?
 
Supreme Commander. The demo is out and its a blast. C&C3 on the other hand gives me a bad vibe for some reason and there is no demo out right now. If a demo pops up before retail launch and its good I might consider it.

Its odd because in that time frame I never played TA I was too busy playing Red Alert/Red Alert 2/Starcraft. I have nothing to back it up but my gut says C&C3 won't be so hot. I hope a demo of C&C3 proves me wrong. :p
 
SupComm beta was just incredible, love the game, makes me wish I had played TA back in the day
 
Having played both Lord of the Rings RTS games from EA I will without a doubt be picking up SupCom.
C&C3 is based on that engine which means little maps and low unit caps. I'm not trying to go off on the LOTR games but SupCom takes RTS to another level and can make use of any hardware that is out today (quad core, widescreen monitors, dual monitors) while I doubt that C&C3 does anything outside of advancing the story line, which is typical EA fashion. Maybe a demo will prove me wrong....but until EA realizes it's 2007 and listens to their customers I don't plan on buying any more of their games.
 
I see no reason that I can't get both, but if I had to choose between the two I'd go with supcom. I played the beta from the beginning and am working my way through the campaign in the demo (RAM issues have slowed that down) and I just love the game. I am hopeful for C&C3 as a revival of the franchise and a return to RA2 roots, but I'm doubtful because it is after EA. We shall see though.
 
I'll likely be getting both, but at this point I'm thinking my game of choice may remain Company of Heroes.

*Hell freezes over*

Yeah yeah, I know I've been one of the "Total Annihilation is the best RTS ever" crowd for years and I should be absolutely drooling over SupCom, but there's something about CoH that has hooked me like no RTS since TA. I didn't get into the SupCom beta and it became too much of a hassle to keep up with the AI "patches", but what I played of it doesn't have as much appeal to me.

I guess it's that even TA and SupCom turn into brute force games more often than not, where with CoH the game can be won without having the biggest guns.

I'm trying to stay optimistic about C&C3, but it's EA so...we'll see.
 
pain.angel said:
Also, I'm one man boycotting EA games.
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Thate's 2 of us buddy! After what they did to Generals online play I'm not spending money on another C&C game for a while. I'll try it out, maybe have some hamachi fun with it, but truthfully, it just sounds like more of the standard RTS fare. SupCom just feels so fresh and new after having played WC3 for the last few years.
 
Sup Com is a really fun game. But since no demo is out for CnC3, i dont know. Ill buy Sup Com and probably CnC3 if its decent.
 
Well, lately I haven't been into rts games much, but I did enjoy Age of Empires, Dark Region, Empire Earth and Age of Mythology, so I'm going to try the demo for supreme commander, might like it.
 
I'm waiting until the C&C demo next week to make my judgment.
 
Technoob said:
Company of Heroes :)
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^FTW

The thing about not putting both on the list is because so few of us probably not have to time to been playing both with decent amount of time, they release at such close date for a reason

Ill pick Supcom even if i'm getting both, C&C3 will most likely release many expansion before they welling to patch it.... the EA style.... looking forward to Red Alert 3 :)
 
Supreme Commander, but not for a while. I loved the beta, but I just bought the Dark Avatar expansion pack for Galactic Civilizations II, so that kinda eats up my gaming time for a while at least.
 
SupCom by far. i would play C&C but its EA and they can just go ahead and stop making anything but football games....and SupCom is chris taylor after all...and gas powered games, and its actually fun to play for long periods of time.
 
C&C3.

Nothing against SupCom and I know that C&C3 is by EA... but I love the older C&C games so much that even the slightest chance the new game may be as good as the old ones is enough to get me excited to a level that no other RTS could possibly achieve.
 
Supreme commander, i enjoyed the demo and it got me more insterested than c&c3 from when i first saw it.

But saying that, i will definately give c&c3 a go
 
I was playing the demo of supcom last night and I love the technology with the dual monitors. First game I have ever seen be able to do this, more need too. But, for me and I am sure I am a small percentage, never really got into TA back in the day. I just couldnt play the game for very long. I lost my interest in it and couldnt finish the demo. I will probably like C&C3 better but mostly just because of the world it is based in and the units.
 
supcom, just from looking at it you can tell it will have way more depth than c&c3..
 
Well, i played supcom beta and demo and i already know its fricken awesome.
80x80 + lan party == awesome.

As for CNC3, even though its the sequel to my namesake, i just have a REALLY bad feeling about it for two reasons.

1) EA. They seem to find ways to crap up every single game they produce. Not to mention they have some horrible thing against widescreen resolutions.

2) XBOX360. I know its technically possible to play a RTS game on a console, but you DO need to dumb the game down for it to work, for both technical and fanbase reasons.

I'll be buying both of them on release day...but i just dont hold out much hope for cnc3.
 
tskiller said:
1) EA. They seem to find ways to crap up every single game they produce. Not to mention they have some horrible thing against widescreen resolutions.
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To be fair, C&C3 apparently supports widescreen and with the forthcoming "Games for Windows" tag requiring widescreen support my guess is EA will give in (finally). That said, I agree that they'll still probably find a way to muck it up, which is a shame because it does look like a ton of fun. Here's hoping my low expectations are disappointed with the product they deliver.
 
I think a more apt poll would be

Which game are you getting FIRST?

Me, I'll get SupCom first and I'll have to get CnC3 for the loyalty to brand. Or I get one and friend gets the other and we trade after some time.
 
A lot of you guys say no to C&C3 because of EA... I know how you feel, but I'm pretty optimistic about this one.

EA knows they dissapointed a majority of C&C fans with Generals. It wasnt even the same game. The only reason the words Command and Conquer were on the title of that game is to associate with an already successful franchise.

I feel like for this game, EA really has been listening to the fans. They got Joe Kucan back for Kane, they went all out on the live action cut scenes, and went back to the fast gameplay style of the other C&C games.

The only thing I'm worried about is them destroying the story line. In a perfect world, Westwood would still be around, Red Alert 3 would've been released instead of this Generals bullshit, and they probably would've released the real C&C3 by now as well... But this apparently is EA's world, and we have to live in it... :I
 
devman said:
SupComm beta was just incredible, love the game, makes me wish I had played TA back in the day
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It was a great game, I worked for the company that did match playing for TA, so I spent too many hours playing that thing.

My favorite strat against noobies was to create an air transport 1st thing, find their commander (always building at the base), then pick him up with said transport and set it to patrol over his base.

Either they would stop building entirely or build an anti-air turrent to knock it down, and you can guess what would happen (think boom). Either way it was game over.

Good times..:p
 
tskiller said:
Well, i played supcom beta and demo and i already know its fricken awesome.
80x80 + lan party == awesome.
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Dont know where you are, but Im planning on seting up a decent sized lan at my place in norcal over my spring break. On an 8 way FFA or 2vs2vs2vs or 4vs4, I think we could find an extra chair.
 
I'm definitely falling into the camp of if EA put their stamp on it - it gotta be bad. I realize that EA is a publisher and not an implementor but the last 4 or 5 games I've played from EA have really sucked. The entire medal of honor series (COD is so much better). Currently generals (hey was only $10 for the delux version) has the same crappy game plan as medal of honor. Limited map, limited mobility, limited...

After playing a few high quality games (call of duty, company of heroes, age of wonders shadow magic, far cry ... oddly none of them are distributed by EA

(ack will ea ruin crysis ?)
 
I gotta go with neither. I've been playing SupCom for a couple days, trying to get into it, but I'm just not impressed at all. Build a crapload of units, bumrush the enemy base, repeat...yay. As far as C&C, I'm probably one of the biggest fans of the original C&C games, but generals ruined it for me. Thanks EA. However, I did pick up CoH and have been very impressed with it, so that outta hold me over for a while.
 
just pre-ordered supcom from gogamer and they bundled in rise and fall all for less than 50 shipped... can't complain =)
 
B2BigAl said:
I gotta go with neither. I've been playing SupCom for a couple days, trying to get into it, but I'm just not impressed at all. Build a crapload of units, bumrush the enemy base, repeat...yay. As far as C&C, I'm probably one of the biggest fans of the original C&C games, but generals ruined it for me. Thanks EA. However, I did pick up CoH and have been very impressed with it, so that outta hold me over for a while.
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From what I've seen of SupCom, where it falls short for you is the maps. Its game engine allows for some very significant tactical advantages given the right terrain, but I've never seen a map on the game that really created terrain that would give advantages like that. There weren't enough strategic points to have an impact on the game.
 
Is Rise and Fall worth missing out on getting Supcom for a few days? Deal is [H]OT but I want Sup Com NOW NOW NOW.
 
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