Comment on Beyond All Reason

Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Gog has TA and you can still play it, and stil multiplayer with some fiddling. Supreme Commander is good too. I think you can swap out AI engines on TA but never tried it.

  BAR looks fun.

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    IMO Supreme Commander failed to capture the original game’s soul had. You had a sense of an epic battle going on when playing. I think it was because it always devolved into playing all zoomed out, watching tiny strategic icons moving across the map, blinking and disappearing. I can’t even tell you what any of the units looked like because we almost never see them. The fact that they gave generic names to units and structures such as “level one point defence turret” didn’t help either.

    BAR does a much better job of keeping the player zoomed in and into the action, seeing and feeling so the cool details of the battle going on. Heavy plasma batteries blowing up chunks of advancing armies and terrain, lasers blowing up i dovidual targets in rapid succession, sending debris flying everywhere, this was all what TA was about.

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    • CybranM@feddit.nu ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t you dare slander SupCom, best game, I’m very unbiased

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  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Making your own AI variations was one of the coolest things about SupCom.

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