' Wrote:EA games™ means that you get to enjoy this game five full times (should you decide to uninstall it) before you're forced to buy a new copy. Yeah.
EA also seemed to think that something was missing, so they added giant anime robots and a jap school girl with PSYCHIC powers! Hell yes! (actually no)
Really now, is this what games are all about now a days? To take a piss at the ones who came before them all for the sake of "LOLOLOL NEXT GEN"?
Red Alert has devolved to a silly pun fest, the only "serious" C&C game left is the tiberium series... but i'd rather play Tiberian Dawn rather than Tiberium Wars.
I think you are being a little harsh. The Red Alert Series has always been about puns and stereotypes. Yuri's revenge? The freaking shocwave tank from aftermath? The idea of the new japan faction is what sold me.
Having said that, it is an EA product who do have a bit of a sellout record, as such I am leaving my final judgement for when I play it.
' Wrote:And people that use the excuse "I normally wouldn't pirate it, but the DRM forces me to do that.", I have no respect for you, whatsoever. Piracy is piracy. If you don't like the DRM, don't buy the game. If it's not being pirated, and not being purchased, maybe EA will be, "Hey. Piracy is down, but our games aren't selling... What gives? Let's remove the DRM."
I can only see the next form of DRM being even worse then SecuROM.
No, the point is for people to actually *download* the game instead of buying it. And here's why: http://www.forbes.com/2008/09/12/spore-drm..._0912spore.html
Someone is actually listing this, so it's only appropriate that EA sees what is happening. I am hoping RA3 will get a similar response as Spore did.
Oh and I played the beta, and to be honest the game balance ain't too far off from what CNC3 had to offer, in that the units are still amazingly frail and you're poised to spam them out in the end. Of course the naval units add a new dimension to gameplay, but the secondary abilities that are so advertised for the game frequently find players not having enough time to even use them, cause the units pop quite fast under enemy fire.. hopefully they'll up the hitpoints on all units a bit.
I may get it, i have all the command and conquer games. I love the original Red alert. But. Red alert two was kinda iffy. But, i will more then likely get this one too. to complete my collection that i have already started.
Well my stance on piracy is still piracy. Everyone who downloads the games is only hurting PC gaming in the end.
Look at it this way... Sure. You're pirating the game EA has published, because they put a DRM on it.
But you're also punishing the game developer, who had no choice in the DRM, and now because they're not getting money from the game, they don't make expansions/sequels, OR, they leave PC Gaming and move to console.
Congratulations.
I got the game today and I have been playing it, and it is a good rts, but it is not Command and Conquer. I hate to say it, but I feel like I am playing Suprem Commander. I am all for elvolving the way a game is played, but the controls, options, unit controls etc have all gotten complicated. C&C has always been about simplicity, this is not. Way too much micro unit management for my taste.
I broke down and bought it today as well.
I don't know why, I'm not gonna have a chance to play it for awhile... I'm busy with Far Cry 2, Fallout 3, I'm replaying Baldur's Gate 2, I'm going through Dead Space, playing Fable II... Blahhh.
Will post again when I've had a chance to see how RA3 is.
Its a duff copy, installation cant find a file that I am staring at on the screen. Of course, I have my head in my hands.
I'll exchange it tomorrow for a good copy....
I was a bit skeptical about buying an EA title. This is the first game I've ever bought that has failed out of the box. And I have tons of games that I bought. I think im going to buy only the games that I really want if they have EA plastered on them. Things like mass effect and spore, I would have bought, but the DRM and general unreliability pushed me away. Good job too, otherwise i'd have three games that dont work instead of one.
The problem for me is that EA has purchased my favourite developers. It is truly quite hard to whirl a wired controler without hitting something carrying teh EA name now. I do honestly and truly fear a monopoly.
If they make it happen like Spore, where you can only install it a few times, I will not buy the product, simple as that... I have two computers, two homes, divorced family, I won't buy two copies just to please a bunch of dickheads working there just to get money.
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