What the hell is EA doing to Red Alert

[The Rambling Sage]

EA failing at being cool and witty is old news.

I get the impression that this game is being developed by a bunch of wapanese guys.

Metal Fatigue is a game developed by wapanese fags for wapanese fags. This is it is a game being developed by a bunch of morons trying to appeal to the wapanese fags without having the slightest idea of what it is all about.

What are you, a pedophile?

Magical Girls are either jailbait, one thousand years old Lolis, or Nanoha. Rules are rules.

 

[RK47]

Nanoha is a lesbian. T_T

But hey, let's bring this to PC soon!
http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/snk-on-wit ... 207023.php

SNK didn't provide any more information beyond that. This description along with some screens shots of girls in short skirts and cleavage. So, is it porn? Doubt it, and always have. A quick look at the actual SNK images show that the game probably isn't intended for children. Still, we are delighted about this touch-a-girl-to-see-if-she's-a-witch sub-genre. Sounds wicked! Brian Ashcraft

 

[Zinc]

Red Alert 3? Moar like Retard Alert 3 amirite

yourerite

 

[inwoker]

The sad thing is that my colleague being casual gamer don't see any stupidness in the topic when I showed him.

 

[Riso]

I miss Westwood.

They are now called Petroglyph. Their last game was Universe at War, which apparently no one has played, despite an awesome Klepacki soundtrack.

 

[Naked Ninja]

Lol, oh you guys, you're hysterical.

So Red Alert hasn't always been a cheesy, comical RTS based heavily in extreme caricatures of the common stereotypes of world powers then?

So I'm curious, if you lot were to add an asian faction, bearing in mind the sides in RA are built on corny sterotypes of culture X, how would you do it, without giant robotech robots, killer school girls and (I hope, I haven't checked), cyber samurai?


You know how your mother told you "if you keep pulling that face it will stick like that"? I have a feeling the same applies to bitching about videogames. When you start complaining about them raping canon, in a series which has included time-travelling russians having to fight off dinosaurs in the jurassic period and psychically-controlled giant squids, that you've stumbled head first into "raving loon" territory, mmkay.

 

[Truth]

I miss Kari Wuhrer.

 

[Edward_R_Murrow]

Stuff

Look, I know you just love to play the rebellious Codex contrarian as much as you can (and I've a sneaking suspicion you don't believe half of it), but pick your battles man. This stuff is beyond stupid, and the roots of the "super japanese schoolgirl" idea are pretty obvious as is the "sexy" Russian sniper. It's ridiculously forced sex appeal, a la wonderful games such as PoS. I'm not saying the series has an immaculate record of not being stupid....because that's basically the entire premise....but I also think it walked the line well enough between "funny stupid" and "stupid stupid". At least until now that is. Einstein traveling back in time to stop Hitler. Camptastic. Russian secret psychic powers. Goofy and funny. Gundams, schoolgirls, and sexy snipers.....:facepalm:

Just because something is campy or has campy elements does not mean all elements associated with camp get a free pass to fit in.

 

[Naked Ninja]

Wait, Tanya wasn't a gratuitous sexy russian agent chick?

Rediculously forced sex appeal? In a RA game?

Nooooooo, surely not!!!

Oh come on dude. The schoolgirl is obviously for the sex appeal (like Tanya)...AND because sexy schoolgirls with magic powers is a huge stereotype from asian culture and as such fits PERFECTLY with RA's other campy cultural stereotypes. This is completely in line with the way they treated the other nations.

Get a grip man, get a grip. I'm serious, talking about how this breaks "canon" demonstrates a lack of understanding of RA's canon : Cheeseball exaggerated national stereotypes.

 

[Jasede]

Err. Ok.

 

[Darth Roxor]

So I'm curious, if you lot were to add an asian faction

The answer is simple: I wouldn't add an asian faction... <_<

Wait, Tanya wasn't a russian agent chick?

Did we play the same Red Alert?

 

[Naked Ninja]

Ah wait, she was allied :

The ruskies had this lassie :

 

[deuxhero]

What are you, a pedophile?

Magical Girls are either jailbait, one thousand years old Lolis, or Nanoha. Rules are rules.

What one does Sailor Nothing fall under?

Lol, oh you guys, you're hysterical.

So Red Alert hasn't always been a cheesy, comical RTS based heavily in extreme caricatures of the common stereotypes of world powers then?

So I'm curious, if you lot were to add an asian faction, bearing in mind the sides in RA are built on corny sterotypes of culture X, how would you do it, without giant robotech robots, killer school girls and (I hope, I haven't checked), cyber samurai?

I'd go with something from WW2 propaganda.

 

[Trash]

What's EA doing to Red Alert? Simple, the same they've been doing to other franchises for years. They are raping it into the ground. Simple as that. Everything they touch withers and dies. So say goodbye to Bioware. They're as bound to go the way as the dodo as Origin and Westwood before them.

 

[Naked Ninja]

@ Deuxhero : You mean like Time travel, Tesla troopers, attack zepplins, weather control and psychically guided giant squid?

Come on now, you're all taking this way too seriously.

 

[Lumpy]

I think there's a difference between cheesy Science! units and plot plus some hawt sniper chicks, and japanese schoolgirl commando . Seriously, guys, what the fuck?

 

[deuxhero]

@ Deuxhero : You mean like Time travel, Tesla troopers, attack zepplins, weather control and psychically guided giant squid?

Come on now, you're all taking this way too seriously.

All of that is better then what EA did, seriously, do they even know the first thing about magical girls?

 

[Naked Ninja]

seriously, do they even know the first thing about magical girls?

Wait, was that irony? I'm really hoping it was. Hard to tell on the interwebs at times.

 

[kingcomrade]

That Tanya chick was pretty hot.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Look, Red Alert was always a bit stupid. RA1 was ok, just C&C except in a modern cold war-y era. But RA2 was where it really started to go downhill, and every expansion released just made it worse. Lasers, psychics etc. Can't really blame EA for what they are doing, they are just making a dumb series dumber.

Bethesda on the other hand are making an excellent series (Fallout) dumber. Save your nerd rage for them.

 

[deuxhero]

seriously, do they even know the first thing about magical girls?

Wait, was that irony? I'm really hoping it was. Hard to tell on the interwebs at times.

For one, where is the transformation seqeunce? If her clothing doesn't fly off so she can dawn a fancy outfit, she isn't a Magical Girl

And generic psionics? fail. Magical Girls uses wave motion cannon beams, physical beatings, and powers releated to their motif (she is also too old)

 

[Naked Ninja]

I bow to a master on the subject of Magical Girls.

Also, RA 2 was fun. Noting wrong with intentional cheeseball campiness.

 

[deuxhero]

Not that hard when you get bored easily and know about TVtropes.

And EA truely fails if she is hetrosexual.

 

[Dire Roach]

Einstein, Stalin, Time Travel, Tesla tech, spy units that sound like Sean Connery, and Shitty FMVs starring porn-grade actors = Cool.

Psychic dudes that look kinda like John Travolta in Battlefield Earth, battle squids and dolphins, and Wapanese stuff = Lame.

 

[Texas Red]

I think what most think here is that we don't want any retarded Jap shit in our games.