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[@bouldy2]

It's strange to see EA succeed where Blizzard failed. Well Done to all involved!!!

[@Zade_95]

I know right. Thumbs up all around

[@TheKiller1922]

Peace through power!

[@jmal]

At this point, anything is possible. What a time to be alive.

[@danieluchwal3515]

Definitely glad that EA did not f$^k this up finished the GDI campaign over the weekend

[@lordsilver14]

Blizzard succeeded with StarCraft Remastered, too.

[@DanMcLeodNeptuneUK]

I cried the manliest fanboy tears of joy when I first started C&CR up and saw that retro-style installer introduction! WOW

[@purebaldness]

How manly are you?

[@aussie-elders]

Totally agreed! That was a pleasant surprise!!

[@hakont.4960]

I giggled like a giddy little kid when that installer started playing.

[@dinosaurandnapkin]

I also teared up.

[@ceesmiddel5097]

Port 220 IRQ 5 DMA 1 is a sequence of numbers etched into my brain that apparantly still holds some nostalgic value :). Who knew.

[@nineballseraph6986]

Someone must be messing with space time continuum because EA done better remastering than Blizzard.

[@TheBikeOnTheMoon]

yeah, crazy time we are in if you ask me....Never thought that EA would do something better than Bliz for once

[@kylexla]

EA con here we come lol

[@danielpotts1172]

Don't give them too much credit lol. Yes, they permitted it to be remastered, but the skill and perfection of it is down to Petroglyph, which included the original Westwood team...EA simply have the perks of owning the title... Hopefully Petro get the green light to do others. Really hoping for Tiberian Sun, Renegade and Generals...maybe they might create Generals 2 for us too.

[@lordsilver14]

Blizzard did a great remastering of StarCraft, too.

[@Marinealver]

@@lordsilver14 and all that flushed down with Reforged. However it isn't just Reforged that has tarnish the Blizzard brand. They truly have usurped EA from the "Worst Game Company" throne.

[@Starcatplays]

The AI pathfinding still as shit .... Ah yes this is a one for one of the classic

[@givemeanaccountdamit]

Just finished another playthrough of Red Alert and swore at so many units for being so useless

[@dragonjohn34]

just waiting on red alert 2

[@Zade_95]

You and me both brother

[@GUnitSoldier4]

Same :D

[@rsj2877]

Perhaps with that one they may take a look at a notable mod based mainly on the expansion, mental omega, altough for me that collab seems to be stuck in 3.3.4 with the last missions on the campaign being still on development, the can look at it on how to expand the games, bringing an old game to modern day will being completely staying true to its original is great, adding more things that weren't previously there will be even better. Like i in the mod i mentioned there is a soviet mission set in washington dc. And the maps size is HUGE it includes the skirmish multiplayer map wish is also tbe base for many missions in ra2 alongside the alexandria part with the soviet mission 1 and allied mission 6 plus many other thing including the capitol.

[@BoostedMonkey05]

Yes these are classics. But these 2's gameplay have dated significantly. RA2 and Tib Sun have gameplay that hasn't dated as much and are still fun to play compared to RA1 and Tib Dawn. But one of the council members said that if the remaster does well we might get a Tib Sun, RA2 remaster and hopefully they include the same quality of life changes.

[@conradbr11]

Same here

[@Marinealver]

Dear EA, Apology Accepted. I have ended my decade long boycott. Here is $20 for the game.

[@ordinaryhuman5645]

I still won't acknowledge the existence of a particular game that should not have happened, and therefore did not happen.

[@Marinealver]

@@ordinaryhuman5645 Reforged? If only it did never happen.

[@RealRatchet]

@@Marinealver the fourth

[@jeremyalgood7230]

Tib Twilight is a spin off not a numbered installment.

[@lordyaromir6407]

@@ordinaryhuman5645 *particular gameS

[@Darkdaej]

About the 3d cutscenes: I can understand someone who didn't play the game 25 years ago would have preferred redone cutscenes, but I can say I prefer that they haven't touched them beyond upscaling and cleaning them up a bit. The whole point of this remaster is to give the fans a huge nostalgia boner while also poking the interest of new players. Changing the cutscenes would have caused a bit of a backlash I think.

[@channe3049]

Redo the cutscenes in render animation would be look so cheap and lost the original charm. It's the best to keep the original look and make it looks more cleaner and modern.

[@Zade_95]

Yeah fair enough. I totally get that!

[@profsrlojohn635]

As someone who didn't play the originals 'til..... 2011 I think, I can say I certainly prefer the old 3D cutscenes, compared to what I imagine a redone looking like. (Then again, I'm the guy who thinks windows XP looks better than new version aesthetically)

[@xenoaisam]

Preferable can swap cutscene in real-time.. just like ingame :)

[@SamGarcia]

@@xenoaisam this

[@psymcdad8151]

"Welcome back, Commander." - I had a big grin on my face, and a little tear in my eyes. :)

[@trustjesus1250]

amen

[@t4rv0r60]

i had a john wick moment when EVA greeted me back EVA: Welcome back Commander. Me: you know what? i think i am back.

[@andyhulsmeijer1471]

Same

[@kaidokuukap]

Don't think the selling of all buildings is a flaw in the AI. It had no way to fight back and gave up, selling everything. Saves you the trouble of spending time on blowing up power plants and silos.

[@Av-vd3wk]

Correct-A-Mondo!

[@JoshMD2009]

That's how the "old" AI reacted as well once you've destroyed/captured its production buildings. It completes the experience in my book.

[@terryhiggins5077]

EA didn't screw it up.....they actually nailed it....I am conflicted, happy, inordinately so, but....EA. Also curse you Corona for delaying my physical edition/cool swag to "early fall". KANE LIVES!!!

[@1AmTheStig]

This makes me so SO excited for a Tiberian Sun/Red Alert 2 remaster. Just those small quality of life improvements will be amazing!

[@BrianFace182]

I have a theory that the politics of it include EA almost literally begging Petroglyph to fix the toy they broke. Right down to the choosing the original EA logo for the menus while Westwood is replaced by Petroglyph and Lemon Sky. It's to show that Petroglyph is a phoenix, rising from the ashes, and EA is a hollow shell of what it once was.

[@garyhall3919]

myself my brother and nephew bought it to play multiplayer like we used and it didnt work at all. we all refunded. good job EA

[@Keirnoth]

At least you don't need Origin to play this version as well!

[@KaloqnBankov]

Where did you even get the physical copy?

[@andyblargextra]

I REALLY hope we get a Remastered Tiberian Sun. It's my favorite in the series with an awesome art style. I want to see it in HD.

[@Zade_95]

Meeeeee too

[@Joker-no1fz]

tiberium sun had the best music.

[@madmehtab]

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[@madmehtab]

See this

[@35andyman]

YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!

[@Deckaio]

My hopes were very pretty low, after seeing the first screen-shots. The buildings looked too clean and plastic-toy like. But seeing the release, major props to the developers on keeping the original style/flair. Similar releases like the most recent AoE2 remaster suffered in this department in my opinion.

[@Zade_95]

Yeah I think they achieved a great feat by keeping it authentic. I don't agree on Aoe2 (i think it looks great) - but I definitely get what you mean. There are some graphical parts I don't like, more with AoE1 definitive

[@TheBikeOnTheMoon]

I love aoe 2 DE graphic upgrade actually, it looks way much better than the original...however tho, the attack animations for melee units and Idle animation definitely look worse than the original

[@Strategiain]

@@TheBikeOnTheMoon Yeah, the actual models look great, but every single animation I've seen, from combat to moving to idling to even the buildings collapsing, just seem _wrong_ to me. They're _too_ clean, _too_ smooth, it falls right in the uncanny valley.

[@TheBikeOnTheMoon]

@@Strategiain yeah and before buildings fall, the fire magically disappeared as well

[@Trent957]

EA has done good twice now, This is pretty much unheard of and maybe, just maybe, they have gotten their heads out of their asses. First: Jedi Fallen Order Now: CnC Remastered keep it up!

[@lordsilver14]

Unravel, Unravel Two, Titanfall 2, Apex Legends, NFS Heat was great, too. Battlefront 2 became great after updates.

[@kwizzeh]

Don't forget they finally are back on Steam.

[@Calvin_Coolage]

We're in the middle of EA's redemption arc it seems. I hope it lasts a while.

[@Zade_95]

I hope so. They look like they're turning a new leaf! I can hope, anyways

[@boneknockgrit2695]

Jedi Fallen Order that is a pure Respawn try hard work after Apex lose its player base real fast because of cheaters and server problem where EA not even give a crap to help (the same as they left BF series dev suffer from the same problem). when c&c remastered this the long hard work from the group of die hard fans and old staffs from original Westwood studio. EA only publish it and get the money from copy right.

[@waltonli]

I just hope they could go on and remaster the newer CnC, like RA2 or General

[@littleamigo5169]

They will if this one gets enough sales/ is successful

[@EnterpriseKnight]

They need to do that for TibSun and Ra2. We need the source code for these games so that Ares can make even more changes.

[@matsu11177]

Generals is not even cc fk generals

[@ROBOHOLIC1]

@@matsu11177 sure Generals was different, but it's as much of a Command and Conquer game as the rest of the series. Generals definitely deserves a remaster.

[@Zade_95]

I hope so too!

[@brandonvortex995]

I must be imagining things did.... EA doing right thing while blizzard gone worst did someone went back in time?

[@nastymclovin]

EA used their RL Chronospere

[@chavezchavo]

It must be KANE!

[@JoHn-if6wy]

Sorry but your statement is a joke. I wont be recommending this game to anybody. It lags and its bad. The game hardly can take 20 tanks at a time without the game lagging. Horrible remaster. Youre out of your mind,

[@dubya85]

@@JoHn-if6wy maybe time to upgrade your computer? Lol

[@jeremyalgood7230]

Maybe we will finally get Command and Conquer 4!

[@Zade_95]

That would be nice! A shame it ended at 3, with no more releases after that.

[@dragonslayer20085]

I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or not, there is a 4th one

[@clairehays556]

Dane Jensen No, I’m pretty sure the series ended at Kane’s Wrath. I definitely would have heard of a fourth one being released at some point.

[@waterdroplet369]

@@dragonslayer20085 na mun. Latest is kanes wrath

[@NizarHaddad]

currently existing C&C 4 should probably have been renamed as C&C Arena, for example, just like how Generals & ZH are different from the original C&C series, C&C 4 doesn't fit in and should have been categorized in a new different C&C branch

[@krisfrederick5001]

Lets be honest, this wasn't focused on gaining a new audience. It's for the veterans

[@Zade_95]

Very true

[@BastardBrad]

I got my son s copy, he's 15. He loves it....and already got one of his friends into it!

[@Joker-no1fz]

@@BastardBrad i think a lot of dads will do the same and make a new generation of fans.

[@MetallGecko1]

EA has done a good job for once?! Somethings wrong i can feel it.

[@Marinealver]

Relax, this is just 2020... EVERYTHING IS WRONG!!!!

[@silversolver7809]

EA has done a number of good things recently. Does anyone know if there were top-level changes there maybe 5 years ago? There seems to have been a priority change from revenue to good product.

[@hakont.4960]

@@silversolver7809 Well, those to can go hand in hand though. Maybe they're realized that they can make more money by keeping their customers happy.

[@Val.Kyrie.]

It’s 2020 everything’s backwards.

[@STSGingie]

C&C was my gateway to gaming and I love how the Remastered Collection turned out. Inexplicably EA did everything right, from licensing Petrglyph, to the Community Council. It's so strange but so good.

[@CrazyBlueTv]

I just wish they had at least improve the path finding a bit

[@PepicWalrus]

"Don't walk through Tiberium it's radioactive and will kill you." Ground units: "Pretty green rock huehue"

[@Horfenico]

My thoughts exactly

[@zapy9715]

@@PepicWalrus Minigunner: "heh heh. Geiger counter go ticktcktckctkckkcktck."

[@melonshop8888]

YES.!!! A LOT TO BE DONE. 😄😊👌👍

[@silversolver7809]

Maybe they'll make a remake sometime to sort that & other gameplay issues. Problem is, would that lose the unique ethos-charm of CnC?

[@Merguin]

The original 3d cutsences are actually what i love the most, as it gives a really nice nostalgia feeling to see these again. The selling of all buildings to get troops just to lose the game is a bit wrong. This a mechanic from back in the day, when the AI realizes it has lost, it will forfeit by selling all buildings, as there is no button or option to just give up. Same happens in AOE2 DE, the AI will destroy all military buildings if it has lost all or most of its Town centers and Villagers. The only major flaw I have encountered to far is the difficulty setting for the campaign (havent tried custom games). As it kinda feels like its as follows: on causual all your units/buildings have 50% more hp, on hard all your units/buildings have 50% less hp. Which makes the nod campaign in certain missions impossible. And no its not whining, if someone knows how to win the steal orca mission on hard or the first nod commando mission, feel free to link me a video or guide to it. I have tried for hours, but those pesky airstrikes ruin the mission every time...

[@davidbutler9226]

Completed it

[@zapy9715]

*loads game for the first time.* "OH they are just 'upgrading the original game.' suuuure" *plays the campaign and gets the upgrade graphics prompt* "Oh it's not going to be thaaat great." *presses space bar and faints from how great the graphics become.*

[@Zade_95]

i thought my game was broken without the new graphics then i pressed space and i saw the light

[@jk844100]

They were thinking about updating the AI to have better path finding and make better decisions but they found that the game is so tightly balanced on the way the AI currently works that when they changed even a little thing it had a lot of unintended effects on the the game. In the end they decided to leave the AI as it was in 1995/6 because to change it they’d have to rebuild it all from the ground up and at that point it’s not even a “remaster” anymore it’s a “remake” and that’s not what they wanted

[@TeroZX]

They could have just upgrade the player-side pathfinding algorithm and retain the old pathfinding to the AI so nothing will go wrong.

[@melonshop8888]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@Thomas-u8q]

They could at least have fixed the AI so it could attack walls/sandbags, that stuff is still broken

[@jk844100]

Համուրաբի I literally explained why that can’t do that. But hey, the game is open source so if fans what to have a go at making mods to fix that then they can.

[@jman454]

let me know when the re master RA2 and RA2:YR... I would buy that in a heartbeat.

[@Zade_95]

Me too!

[@TheAngelOfDeath01]

The remastered games are absolutely GORGEOUS looking. And so crisp and fluent. Yes, there are the tiny glitches here and there but that is in my opinion to be expected on some levels. Not all pc setups are the same, so there are bound to be some tweaking that needs to happen. But the by far overall impression is amazing. And yes, I do indeed hope that they will remaster Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2. It is worth it and I believe EA hopefully sees it an acknowledges it. It's like old vintage movies -- classics -- that's being brushed up in HD. They do sell, because there are still those old enough to remember them -- and hopefully younger people who too will enjoy these old classics that paved the way for the modern games.

[@digitalcat303]

First EA game I bought since 2007. They finally did what made them great back in the day - let the developers do what they love. The "installation" part set the tone for a renewed and rejuvenated experience. The graphics are fantastic and the music is simply awesome. Best nostalgia moment I've had in a long time.

[@Zade_95]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@Brite-um2tq]

You didn't even buy Spore?

[@mattblom3990]

I turn 35 next week...Who here is close to me in age and playing this again?!

[@Skullogk]

Havent picked it up yet, but likely to later this week. Turning 37 next month. Red Alert was one of my 1st RTS games.

[@dmcdickify]

Yeah 36 here and playing it.. 😂 i guess my first RTS was settlers 2 or warcraft 1..

[@discoder]

36 here. Bought it and told myself I could play one mission and ended up blasting through the GDI campaign.

[@void2258]

I wish they had added things like waypoints, attack move, and patrolling as optional additions. Can we have the real C&C 4 now?

[@BlitzDragoon7115]

EA is slowly reearning my respect

[@Marinealver]

I will consider thus proper atonement for closing Westwood, C&C4 Tiberium Twilight, and Mobile game Rivals.

[@smash461986]

It's only one game and we can thank the developers. Got a looooooong while to get to anything but pure distain for EA.

[@jeremyalgood7230]

This is a step in the right direction though.

[@boneknockgrit2695]

this one is long hard work from die hard fan and old staffs of original westwood studio. what ea do is just sell it and take money of copy right. reality not so beautiful isn't it ?

[@SamBlips]

My dream: Petroglyph gets the backing and green light to make something Empire at War related. A sequel, or remaster (PLEASE CHANGE THE LAND COMBAT THO! xD )

[@Zade_95]

do NOT tease me with an Empire at War sequel :P

[@albireo8166]

great review also quite interesting to see your opinions on it and I agree I dreaded while I booted the game up cough warcraft 3 cough, but after going into my first mission I was sold if your interested in c&c and how it used to be it is a good recommendation.

[@Zade_95]

Thank you!

[@Romanovich451]

Its hard to believe that ea were kind enough to release a full source code on github of this remaster. Its truly amazing what they have done, not even blizzard would have the balls to do a thing like this.

[@igorthelight]

"... to release a full source code ..." - they released only the engine and not the assets (to prevent people to just build it from source instead of buying). Which is not a bad thing at all.

[@Zade_95]

It's a really cool move, for sure. EA... good?

[@igorthelight]

@@Zade_95 Kinda. One good deed doesn't make you good as one bad deed doesn't make you bad :-)

[@Hamiltonz1291]

One nit pick with your video. I'm pretty sure when the AI sells all its buildings it's surrendering. C&C was not the first RTS Westwood worked on and this is a Quality of Life improvement. We started selling walls in multiplay because you're not dead until all buildings are dead. This is the AI not being a dick.

[@Fagottor]

It is not. The AI in most C&C games tends to sell all remaining structures beyond a certain point (e.g. when they have no production buildings left), and use the infantry units it gets from selling the buildings along with whatever attack capable units it has to swarm/rush your base. In RA2 it even sends the harvester units into your base. However: It might be that the developers kept this behaviour regardless of winning conditions to, as you say, avoid the AI stalling you after you've crippled it. The same behaviour is present in at least up to RA2, with the same selling and insta-losing when winning is based on structures. Oversight or planned might be difficult to say, but the behaviour stems from the actions taken by the AI when winning is based on no units left, and not a primary "not being a dick"-ness.

[@Zade_95]

Could be the case - either way it's hilarious :P

[@melonshop8888]

THEY FORGOT TO PUT ON/OFF HIDE FOR SELECTION UNIT LIFEBAR. MUCH BETTER TO WATCH IF SELECTION UNIT LIFEBAR is OFF. ALSO MADE AVAILABLE UNIT TO ITS OPTIONAL HALF SIZE. AND ALSO MADE THE MASSIVE MAP ZOOMABLE IN & OUT. OTHERS ARE EFFECTS NEEDED IN STRUCTURES LIKE FLYING LITTLE DEBRIS AND EXPLOSION FOR A BETTER DETAIL. HOPE THERE WILL BE TRIPLE TURRET FOR ALLIES TO COUNTER SURPRISE THE TESLAS 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

[@0pticalstatic832]

I am so happy to see how well this remaster turned out. I am having a blast playing it and hoping to be able to see a Tiberian Sun remaster sometime. This review is spot on, amazing work Zade! -0pticalstatic

[@Zade_95]

Glad to hear man! Appreciate you watching :)

[@EPEPICTURES]

the review might be just him nitpicking smaller details but i can respect his opinion, the real key of remaster is this... they bundled in two greatest ip and just give the fans back the way they wanted not what the publisher wanted this is why this succeed is because they listen to the fans at least this only franchise wasn't ruin because of stupid promises you can immediately tell the developers have fun making this for 2nd time. incase people forget EA has been spoiling fans alot...

[@KiltedCritic]

This should be sent to Blizzard as how a re-master SHOULD be done. (I know the Starcraft remaster was technically good, but it lacked the soul and love showing here.) Playing this again feels like I’ve time warped back to my early teens, when I’d volunteer to do house chores for my folks to get more time on the computer to play C&C, memories of which I’m appreciating even more than I normally would, with all that bad stuff in the world going on. I hope they release the new soundtrack to buy, as I’d be all over that in a hot minute! From having done a speed run of GDI/NOD campaigns, and being well into the Allies one, there are a few issues to be made aware of until they can be patched out. Deploying units out of any transport vehicles is rather janky, as double clicking is now also a command to select all units of type on screen. I found moving them to a tile, and then clicking the deploy command just before the unit comes to a stop as a workaround. When commanding groups of units, I’ve found sometimes not all units will attack, and just sit still, some need told a few times! I’ve also found units/static defences ignore hostile technicians/civilians, and need told manually to attack them. Also if you have a large group of units, if they can’t move to where you command and a wall or hostile building is in the way, they open fire on the obstacle, which I guess is the dev’s workaround to stop the player fencing in the AI, which is fine but it needs some tweaking, I’ve almost lost missions as my groups tried blasting buildings I had to capture! I was hoping they would stop the AI building anywhere on the map in single player, but it’s still done, which I’ve found as always really lame. Especially as so many missions you’ve to wipe everything out, then that gun turret hidden behind a tree almost walled off by rocks got re-built miles away from any other structure. Those niggles aside, this is absolutely fantastic work and I’m delighted to see this is topping the Steam sales charts this week, which is no mean feat. Hopefully this tells EA loud and clear there is still huge demand for C&C, and there’s no need to resort to horrible mobile games again. Let’s see the other titles remastered ahead of a brand new entry (or a very heavily redux version of that title of which we never speak about). Happy gaming commanders!

[@timobela01]

As a 16 year old boy that came from RA3 (don’t hate I was quite young at the time) and my dad coming from RA, RAII and Starcraft, I think I would like to try this and potentially get a physical/collective copy for my dad. Thanks for the video

[@Zade_95]

That's awesome dude. Thank you for watching!

[@1Raymon]

iam sure he would love that.

[@Ataximander]

This plus the Age of Empires remasters just makes me giddy.

[@Zade_95]

I know right. Glad they both stuck the landing! Unlike some other remasters recently....

[@EliteGi]

They did such a brilliant job with this. However, I just wish they would have fixed the pathfinding. That stuff, these days, is beyond enfuriating because instead of actually strategising you are forced to micro manage literally every unit as they pass a choke point or a bridge like an underpaid babysitter looking after 7 siblings fighting over a toy

[@fernandohood5657]

Its near imposible to play skirmish here, the AI is just too braindead, it rly needed more AI options, a modern AI set, look at age of empires 2 remaster for example. This rly kills it for me , since i dont enjoy the gameplay in campaigns. Its a shame cuase the art textures sounds are all well done, but if the AI is terrible whats the point

[@SiD19884]

yeah cool and all but I'm very much disappointed by lack of innovation... also.. did you see, the tanks are drifting side ways and such? the game is a bare-minimum effort .. might as well not come out as its perfectly okay to play openRa these days.

[@steelc0re593]

I was hoping it would be a bit smoother to play... more shortcut keys and better scrolling/contolling funtionality.. hoping to give it a blast in the coming weeks and see how it goes.. the pathing does look tricky on some maps I suppose that means have a wider base and better placed buildings on the main part tho.. I guess a big bonus is player base too

[@tech6985]

i refunded it because they didnt fix my biggest grip, the path finding or wel the unit AI. Like when i ask if a long range unit like the v2 launcher to attack something. He doesnt attack iot from it maxinimun distance. No he is first gonna hug it and then he dies. This is a major problem imo since you cant really rely your units to really defend. Because o found them being attacked by units that were in there range but they didnt attack.

[@simounobrien9096]

Soldier!!!! What is that? That's the Enemy's Construction Yard No, that's 2500 dollars!!!!

[@Globalnet626]

AI selling their buildings is a feature added into the remaster to prevent 50 hours of looking for a random ore silo tucked in a random part of the map.

[@Zade_95]

idk that sounds fun to me

[@xxxx85]

Could have bought this game if it wasn't for EA. Fuck EA games. Never giving them another dime of my money.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

You know, fans, whatever you do, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT check on Washington Post's review of this. Please.

[@filipeamaral216]

Jesus Christ, I tried reading it and the author is a complete moron.

[@ErukanuSenpai]

Jesus christ I just red that article and Boi.... That was the hardest cringe moment ever.

[@rubz1390]

Can I get a TL DR so that I don't have to taint my eyes and brain?

[@Wlof25]

I don't agree with everything the guy said, but I do agree that the game is waste of my money and i also think that the game is wasted opportunity. We could have gotten a new C&C game, or actual remake of the two games with updated game mechanics, AI, pathfinding, etc and etc, but we didn't. EA did something incredible. It made people to forget for all the crap it did and sold people nostalgia and people are throwing money in EA's face. It is genius when you think about it.

[@filipeamaral216]

@@rubz1390 "Muh old game. Muh should have made a new game. Muh I am not the target audience and wouldn't buy a new game anyway and anyhow."

[@Aboveup]

I didn't want to get my hopes up about this release and wasn't expecting to pick it up. Ended up buying it at launch and loving the entire package. My only real issues with the game are like your, with the original base game. Which is hard to hold against a remaster. But that soundtrack alone more than makes up for it.

[@Zade_95]

Glad you're liking it! I know right. $20 album with free game :D

[@scrapinator8910]

Hey Zade, you mentioned a while back that you had a Dawn of War series overview in the works. Is that still on the agenda for the future?

[@Zade_95]

Yes, it still is! There's a few other projects that have pushed themselves into the schedule though. So ya still planned, just not sure when I'll get to it right now :)

[@jeremyalgood7230]

He’s probably talking about Grey Goo :D

[@voswouter87]

The AI selling their buildings at the end for a final attack is a feature so the game ends quicker. Otherwise you end up hunting down single riflemen all over the map. It's not consider a 'good strategic choice', just the method of surrender.

[@Heavyshield]

bs, stupid AI and 0 pathfinding makes it unplayable. I can listen soundtrack on YT.

[@justicerowe2005]

NEED TIB SUN. the freeware one aint cutting it- but i hope for a ground up remake.

[@Kuolonen]

13:40 "With success we've seen here, I think it is less of a pipe dream than some of you might think" Hope is a first step on the road to disappointment, as a smart librarian once said.

[@danworkman2206]

I love it. I much prefer that they didnt waste time redoing the terrible cut scenes.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

What did you say?

[@GalacticoUC]

Oh yeah!! Please tiberium sun and Red Alert 2 next!!

[@KingOfMadCows]

The gameplay of Tiberian Dawn is outdated and can be a slog once the nostalgia wears off. But Red Alert holds up surprisingly well.

[@SlavesWereGood]

tank rush much?

[@sgtmyers88]

Check out the Tiberian Dawn Redux mod.

[@thomasjoshua3499]

Felt the same with the gameplay part. I can still recall the hype of playing TD 20 years ago. But I might drop the remaster very fast, because in gameplay and gaming contents, it sure ages and cant keep up with now. I love the way AOE2:DE did, but that's not a fair comparison to begin with. AOE2 has a lot more game depth and content to start with, so it's not hard for AOE2:DE to be more appealing to modern players. So if there will be C&C2 or RA2 remastered, I think that would be a fair match, and these two are also the big boi in the franchises. I hope the dev can execute well, to both keep the charm and core of the original game but also make more changes to update the game plays and feels better in modern standard.

[@Ratich]

I will humble brag and say that I was the one that suggested that they updated the HUD to a more C&C 3 style one

[@silversolver7809]

Great review Zade, thanks. What about the whole EVA intro sequence & the Westwood logo, brilliant. I thought for a minute I was going to have to select sound & graphics cards etc :) ~ I love CnC & RA, but my gameplay fav is Generals Zero Hour-the Generals Challenge is the best RTS experience I've ever had. Despite GZH's QoL & other improvements, I've totally enjoyed the ~6 hours I've put into the remaster so far. ~ To new to CnC or RTS players, I say this is a game where the S still features-ie there is strategy involved, rather than most later RTSs which have been much more focused on tactics. ~ To EA, this is superb work, very well done on so many levels. Petroglyph & Frank, you'd done an iconic classic proud, thank you all.

[@Zade_95]

Thank you! Glad to hear you're enjoying it

[@doug8232]

Flipping from HD into the much loved old graphics makes me think I've got chlorine in my eyes

[@Proiteus]

Hopefully this will revive the base building RTS genre, haven't seen a game like it since "Grey Goo", hint hint :D

[@Zade_95]

it is literally on my list LUL but i have it planned out for a while :P

[@ancientgamer3645]

Your late Zade! I already have a couple hundred hours playing all the campaigns. But as usual, you have done a really fine job. Thanks for your good work. FYI it also already has some good mods.

[@Zade_95]

You know what they say, better late than never! Thanks man :)

[@daarylsulzmann2064]

It's great loving replaying this classic they should do a Tiberian sun & RA2 Yuri's revenge pack next they'd be fools not too

[@salmonforest640]

I hope they remastered command & conquer generals and zero hour. my fav in the series.

[@Zade_95]

Me too!

[@keithwaggoner2375]

fix path finding and add attack move and its perfect!

[@VallornDeathblade]

I never played C&C beyond some games of Yuri's Revenge at a friend's house... But this game blows my socks off. I love how the micro plays in Tiberium Dawn, the feel of the game, the setting, everything just puts this massive grin on my face while I play. Westwood were amazing to make a game of this quality back in the 90s, and I'm very happy I was able to enjoy it through such a faithful remaster years later when I'm getting into the RTS genre again.

[@PigletCNC]

The selling of the building thing is because the AI forfeits.

[@Zade_95]

Funny either way :P

[@TABRO284]

Faithful remaster Lots of content No micro-transatctions No DRM I wanted this remaster so I had to reward EA with a purchase. Hopefully this success will help move the games industry back to a more ethical and creative state. It will probably just spawn a lot of bad remasters. Lots of people have complained no LAN play

[@35jeff13]

I heard they plan to include it. Covid slowed them down and they didn't release everything they wanted to. It also looks like they didn't finish the multiplayer lobby (chat). Expect patches down the road.

[@manofsesame3024]

They should do a remaster on Dune2000 and Emperor: Battle for Dune as well

[@AJKiesel]

Oh fuck, yes.

[@zacharylanciana748]

I think there are licensing issues with these titles. But would love to see them redone like this collection.

[@aragornii507]

Authentic as it gets. Been playing since 1996

[@BjornBS]

Let's hope they also remaster Tiberium Sun.

[@Zade_95]

Goddddd i hope so!

[@Antimanele104]

I am still at knives with EA for it's shady bussiness... but at least, AT LEAST... they came up with the best idea to bring back the original gang who made the first C&C games and boy... this is how you do a proper remaster. Oh, and one more thing: congrats, EA, for finally bringing your games back on Steam. Thank fuck for that !

[@THEDonnyB]

I remember playing my dad's copie of the original C&C and Red Alert on my hand-me-down compaq computer. I also played Warcraft 3 on his old Alienware. It is so odd to see how badly botched Warcraft 3 Reforged was. They advertised the same game but with updated graphics and failed to deliver. But C&CR is pretty much just the same game, but with a few tweaks a fixes to make it work and look a little better while retaining what made the games amazing.

[@zbyszanna]

The soundtrack is amazing. I played the game yesterday and had.moments where I simply stopped playing and listened to the music. The quality of sound is really good to the point where you wonder if this is the music for this very game , because the game feels like from a different era, but the music certainly does not. I think the remastered game is a great value .

[@fuqupal]

I dunno, man! $20 / 18 euros for a remake of a 25 year old game. I dunno, man! I played this a lot for free online a few months ago. Not sure if I wanna BUY it. At least not for that prize. Maybe $5/ 3-4 euros.

[@ZartaxtheWise]

Well, the omission of attack move makes this feel almost unplayable. That's how much I'm used to that feature and how long it's existed.

[@kaox44]

The remastered stayed true to the original and the remix new music is AMAZING! 9/10 from me.

[@blood_n_guts_murphy]

I am unclear about multiplayer. Can I just play a 2 player game with Red Alert? And how many maps are there? I am literally only going to get it to play against one friend. If only Red Alert works with just one or two maps we may go for Rusted Warfare or something else instead. Great review BTW, thanks.

[@CliffuckingBooth]

13:44 Exactly that ! Bring back Frank Zagarino as Anton Slavic (who only faked his death) and we can have a proper C&C4! Not like that abomination that we don't speak of. One vision, one purpose !

[@KananNallainathan]

people forget both the excellent Titanfall games published by EA and developed by Respawn which were very successful and Titanfall2 still has a large community on PS4... anyways regards to the Command & Conquer Remaster... it was handled brilliantly by Petroglyph and its a quality product... i was playing C&C95 back in 1995 and the Remaster is a huge nostalgia trip for me... also head over to the Command & Conquer FB Group... its a great community and i think you lot would love it... cheers!

[@justicerowe2005]

tbh i think tib dawn is worth $10. a remake would have been worth $40. and id pay $70 for a remake of tib sun. but 40-50 for a remaster because of how great it is. but its not like they MADE a new game. they just tiddled with the models, which has probably been on the modding community list for years. (which sounds like what EA would do [case file: command and conquer 4]) i just see alot of copy and paste wrapped up in a new box. and i say that as i debate buying it because if you dont support it, it sends the wrong message (if you want a new C&C)....cause i want more from them and if i dont pay them they wont work and or do the project i want.

[@Kingnaster74]

EA: Westwood ehem... I mean Petroglyph? Petroglyph: Yes EA: Could you remaster C&C for us? We need it really bad Petroglyph: But you fired us.... EA: We know, just this time? Westwood: Time to rock n roll!!!!!

[@JoeAprimay]

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[@stahliboi6249]

My issue was how unfair some of the campaign missions in red alert 1 were. Like there was a mission as the allies and i had to capture a building. But there was also an Iron Curtain and a Nuke Silo, so i send a large force round the back of the Soviet base to destroy these buildings. I succeeded. Not 5 minutes later the AI sends a mammoth tank to my base that is protected by iron curtain and they drop a nuke still anyway. Like, neither of those buildings were on the map anymore and the AI got to use them anyway.

[@jothain]

EA. I've been a gamer since late 80's and I've watched you been involved in so many great franchises, but I've hated and boycotted you all since around 2000, pretty much since online gaming became a thing, as you've destroyed so many great things and created shit like loot boxes etc. garbage transactions. I'm so glad you've now done this c&c remaster. I know about great openra project and quickly tried it and thought that I should fetch my original discs and implement videos/music and replay it someday. But you've now actually created something that I'm going to go for Steam and actually buy this within couple hours. Good job EA. This is the right track. Back to the roots of good gaming. I won't forgive you, not even close, but you're definitely on the right tracks. I hope some at EA's HQ would read this.

[@cptwhite]

You can't set a rally point for buildings, you could do that in the original games....select building, then left or right click on the ground.....cant remember which. Also pretty sure attack move was also possible - you used to do this to squash troops (Ctrl + Shift + Left/Right click if I remember correctly - the cursor changes colour...maybe this was RA2 only?)

[@GoldenArbiter01]

I was so psyched when this was announced, and that they were getting petroglyph, and Frank and all the good stuff they were doing... My only issue, is that it absolutely plays like a game that came out in 1995. While it looks nice (And yes, I know how much trouble they went through to get everything *just* right), a little modernization goes a long way. Attack Move, AI pathing, etc... All stuff you covered though. They did a lot of stuff right with the remaster though, and that honestly can't be argued.

[@Foxhood]

I seriously hope this is an indication of a potential new norm and the first sign of a true revival of the franchise. There is absolutely nobody who would fault anyone for just pretending the 4th never existed. So i kind of hope EA would do so too. Declare the 4th entry non-canon and instead picking up where 3 finished. Afterall they did that to the ending of the scrin mini-campaign teasing an invasion, The existence of LEGION with forshadowing of CABAL not being completely gone, Retconning tiberium vulnerability to resonance and completely missing what made the Silent commanders without backstories so great... Get the hint EA. C&C is still a potential gold mine. The remasters are providing you with opportunities to wipe the slate clean and undo what the Franchise Killer has done. Don't Waste it. Even Kucan is apparantly still willing to do stuff for C&C

[@pipikaka3886]

Contender for the GOTY price. This is one of the best remasters ever made, hands down. I bought the standard digital edition, I will buy a physical special edition, if available. This is a childhood gem and it's worth every cent!

[@patrickmaloney1810]

LOL give me a break. Buy the C&C bundle pack for $5 somewhere. The only thing new here is playfield graphics. All the things you remember that you hated are still there. Crappy pathfinding, bad AI, etc. Why didn't they redo the cutscenes?

[@lelouche25]

Now all we have to do is wait for Tiberium Sun Remaster and my life will be complete.

[@Zade_95]

[@Kingnaster74]

TS needs to soooo bad. I can barely run it on Windows 10

[@arlaban22]

I just got it and it's exactly what you remember but with better graphics...that said when it came out first it looked great too...so...would l recommend it.?..yes !!...why not??..it isn't expensive and it's fun to play.🙂

[@esraeloh8681]

Oh my god, Mods could finally fix the horrendous path finding & all the broken AI bugs, not understanding basic economics starting with 2500 it still builds 2 power plants & cannot afford the reffinary, & the lack of any dynamic stratagy, it's painfull at times, & bloody units getting stuck, oh jesus units getting stuck

[@Jinny-Wa]

In the original games you did not lose when you lost all your buildings. It's new ERA RTS style to lose the game. AI still thinks it can overmatch you with the units it gets from the buildings.

[@deim3]

It still has a lot of issues. In fifth mission, Khakis Island, the game glitched and I couldn't finish the mission. All victory conditions have been meet, but the game went on! That was rather an anticlimactic end of my run to finish all of red alert at first try.

[@MrCalhoun556]

Psssst..., the only reason it was authorized by EA was because C&C rip-offs are currently in high popularity in China.

[@alexmoore3676]

Now Blizzard needs to remaster Warcraft 1&2 then the first 3 RTS franchises will have a their first 2 entries remastered. That's what they should've done instead of Reforged as Orcs vs Humans needs the quality of life improvements to be playable.

[@camillecirrus3977]

I played it not too long ago, and my only genuine complaint are those horrid baseless missions, where you are given a set amount of troops and expected to take own an entire Nod army. As someone who is only _alright_ at RTS games, i find them *completely impossible* on normal, while completely impossible *to lose* on casual. Apart from that, the game definitely seems to have been left untouched by EA, 'cause its pure gold. PS: Retro graphics for the win!

[@mastabatrix]

I don't care for the fact they didn't fix unit combat reactions, also even if you specify attack orders for some reason your units just wont shoot, when you play the game on hard(campaign) its more like a bad SC2 Mutation where your units don't respond attack or retaliate, where as the AI"s actions are precise and perfect. and I just think this game needed that fixed more than anything. unlike the people just purchasing it for nostalgia having only good things to say then having it sit in their library i actually play the game. Decent review one too many TY's at the end though. I'll praise someone that much when they actually get something done perfectly. Don't really want to have to rely on modders to fix this stuff

[@Shervin86]

For me this what a remake should be... 10/10. I don't know if the broken unit pathfinder is good or bad hahah nostalgic sure but uuffff.... 8:25 AI always sold all buildings to mass attack with troops... it's been a thing since Vanilla. It is there both as a last stance and/or to make it easier for players to not search the entire map for 1 unit/building...