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10 Nov 2011, 5:25 pm

Who used to love those games back in the 90's, like the first C&C and Red Alert, before EA took over?



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10 Nov 2011, 5:52 pm

Meeeee!

They were great.

Used to play Red alert skirmish games a lot. The AI left a lot to be desired though.


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10 Nov 2011, 7:51 pm

Skirmish on Red Alert was rather cool, especially with the Docklands map. Let the AI opponents be isolated and build up cruisers to bombard them from a distance and aircraft to gun them down one by one!



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22 Jan 2012, 1:46 pm

Moog wrote:
Meeeee!

They were great.

Used to play Red alert skirmish games a lot. The AI left a lot to be desired though.


iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Skirmish on Red Alert was rather cool, especially with the Docklands map. Let the AI opponents be isolated and build up cruisers to bombard them from a distance and aircraft to gun them down one by one!


You are right. Skirmish mode was fun, the AI was very bad and the cruisers very handy. ;-) Setting up to many AI's resulted in horrible game peformance and they remained stupid though.

Red Alert was one of my biggest obsessions ever! As soon as I got my hands on the map editor and the tweaking settings I was even more lost in the game. Many many months went by playing up to 14 hours a day. I just can not believe it.



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22 Jan 2012, 2:30 pm

I just remember the weird music from that game, specifically the one with lines such as "you fail, do not return" while some rock tune was in the background.


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24 Jan 2012, 10:11 am

Tiberian Sun was my favorite, and I've done some thinking and I have a rant ready on why the sequels don't live up to that one, only it's impossible to register to the ea-forums to post it.
ea has dissapointed me too much for me to care though.