The Rise and Fall of Command & Conquer

C&C was my first 'real' pc game. Got that while still rocking Windows 3.1. The soundtrack was the shit.

Still remember a bunch of the GDI missions, especially that one when you only get the Commando. As a 10 year old, I was in awe of how powerful that unit was. I also remember that fucking Corinth, Greece mission where you land with basically nothing and get steamrolled in a matter of minutes. That mission pissed me off as a kid.

Then there was the GDI guard tower glitch where if you sold a regular guard tower and clicked 's' while it was deconstructing, it would pop back up but leave the infantry that left when it was originally sold.

The amount of studios and franchises ruined by EA is impressive.

Any defensive structure would do that for a while

NOD turrets also only costed 250 instead of 600 for a while

The AI was no match for the sand bag snake making its way to their base and filling it with turrets

You could also throw grenades with GDI grenader across the map by giving it another target right as they were going to throw the nade.

Nirgon said:

Any defensive structure would do that for a while

NOD turrets also only costed 250 instead of 600 for a while

The AI was no match for the sand bag snake making its way to their base and filling it with turrets

You could also throw grenades with GDI grenader across the map by giving it another target right as they were going to throw the nade.

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Oh damn, I forgot that the AI would ignore sandbags, such a cheesy strategy but I used it all the time

Man I loved Renegade, it wasn't the best fps, but damn it was unique and fun.

EA: destroyer of franchises.

Hot damn looks modders didn't give up on renegade, rebuilt on unreal 3 engine.

I remember far more C&C missions where you got steamrolled out of nowhere than in SC. They had so much fun and cool ideas in that series and even more hilarious when armies had to cross tiberium fields to attack and died on the way

brekk said:

The original games in the series we're good, but OMFG Red Alert was totally amazing. I was always a C&C over SC/WC person.

The games definitely declined over time, but C&C Generals 2v2 was sooo good.

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Only played Generals when the 10 year anniversary compilation came out and it was fun I thought

This was my jam on the original


And yeah, Hell March and Red Alert were amazing

Used to play red alert over tcp/IP with a guy up the street. So much goddamn fun.

Engineering! Affirmative!

Red Alert was the shit.

Zero Hour was the best of the best -

Somebody already posted this in the FSR thread, but for anyone who didn't see it:

Which one was it that was super not PC and had the durkadurka faction where you could train suicide bombers that said "I love a crowd" when you clicked them? Was it Generals?

If you watch the documentary, Generals was supposedly heavily influenced by EA in a positive way.