Command & Conquer Remastered Collection from Petroglyph

GDI has selfishly kept the truth from the masses of the world that the world is in fact all Ohio.

 

There is only 1 C&C game worth remaking, and that is Generals. Who cares about the others, they are all shit. Age of Empires and Starcraft/Warcraft were always better.

 

Oh god, not you.

 

T minus 30 minutes.

 

Decrypting now

 

Unpacking...

 

https://wccftech.com/review/command-conquer-remastered-collection-review-the-best/
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection Review – The Best Remaster

 

Unpacking soooo slooooowwww....

KANE CANNOT ABIDE BY THIS DELAY

 

Fuck yeah the fake installation screen! Now, gentelmen, I am off to have C&C fun, don't worry if you don't see me for a while.

 

One vision. One purpose.

 

Thank you CODEX.

 

I'll hold off just a little while in case there are any surprise improvements/massive bugs in there.

 

This is AMAZE. Really hit hard by nostalgia

 

I think they fixed some of the TD AI cheating. IIRC AI harvesters in the campaign gave some obscene amount of money when unloading at a refinery so you couldn't just kill the harvester and watch it run out of money. This seems to no longer be the case. I killed the harvester in the second nod mission and the GDI AI stopped building shit, probably running out of money. This was on hard difficulty BTW.

Also fucking APC full of grenadiers in mission 4 is pissing me off. Grenadiers OP.

 

This games looks the same as I remember original C&C (i.e. not a pixelated thingy, but something beautiful). And it plays fantastic! Back to killing filthy GDI

 

The remastered music is really good! Gives me goosebumps.

e: Some thoughts though... I like how you can now quene units and issue command by left clicking. Another nice feature is that your harvesters aren't selected when you click and drag, only the combat units. As someone mentioned the AI doesn't appear to have unlimited funds anymore.

However I miss some of the nice conveniences of OpenRa like being able to set rally points for unit producing structures. I would really like to see some enhanced gameplay features like unit veterancy and other stuff I have got used to playing OpenRa.

 

KANE LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

That one...



On the plus side, flame troopers you get in mission 5 are *gud*

 

It makes me feel sad to say this, but this is nothing like as good as when I was a kid. Refunded already because I just can't see when I'll play it given limited game time with family stuff.

Music is great, definitely. But the AI is meme-worthy and it just doesn't feel good to play. For example deploying troops from an APC doesn't seem to work properly. I wish they'd remastered the gameplay a bit as well as the graphics, honestly.

 

Or, you know, make a brand new CC game, instead of selling what basically amounts to a brand new Ford Model T.

 

So how much of this dug up 25 year old corpse is quality RTS, and how much is nostalgia?

 

I always go into this kind of thing just assuming it'll be good because I loved it so much when I was a kid. But the "overwhelming positive" reviews on Steam must be very nostalgia-driven IMO.

I'll admit I'm not a major RTS buff, but play something like the first Company of Heroes and then the remastered C&C side by side. I think it would have been better to leave this game in the past... and I didn't expect to be thinking that when I waded in.

 

In Company of Heroes you control 6-8 squads max and fight over control points whereas C&C has no population cap and lets you mass tanks and troops out the ass. I hardly see how this comparison makes any sense.