Supreme Commander: Gone Too Soon (Retrospective)

Supreme Commander is a well known series - and one that in my opinion, did not reach its full potential. Created by RTS veteran Chris Taylor, it delivered massive battles on a huge scale, and persists as one of the best strategy games of the 2000s.
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[@-Raylight]

"Nooo no no no. We don't make products, we make games"

[@ChrisEmmerik]

Forged Alliance Forever is amazing, keeping Supreme Commander alive to this day. still the best RTS to date

[@peterc504]

I'm still shocked that RTS gaming has not evolved past what Supcom did...its quite sad. To this day supcom is still the ultimate RTS gaming experience.

[@RiskOfBaer]

The collision detection is honestly one of the most impressive things in supreme commander. All projectile attacks have their own hitboxes and they don't home in on the enemy like it many other RTS games. A shot can miss the target, fly past it and hit an enemy unit behind it. I've seen ridiculous things like fighter planes intercept incoming nukes and artillery shells by being exactly on their ballistic trajectory, saving an entire base by pure chance. It's all simulated to a ridiculous degree, it's one of the reasons why the game has performance issues. But nobody would have it any other way.

[@EvilFookaire]

No. I do not remember Total Anihilation. And I do not still get trembling limbs whenever that game is mentioned. I did not spend entire weeks on end tactically dismantling the enemy to the last single unit and then denying it access to any resources, basically taunting and torturing it until I had the entire map covered and that lone enemy only had one tiny corner left in which my units just tore it apart. No. I do not remember any of that. I am not going back into rehab, goddamnit!

[@-JustHuman-]

Yeah, pas on a cloud RTS. There is no way it would be anywhere as good as a PC RTS, as the game has to be so simple that you can use it with two fingers input, and so low demand on tech that it can run on mobile devices. So for me that is a hard pass.

[@mangrey2361]

Well .... im sad to see that Chris cant make is buisness run with his art. When money greedy EA just put out trash in a 2 year cycle

[@SALX808]

Forged alliance forever guys and girls. I still play this all the time. Join the community!

[@andybrown4284]

Supcom, one of the rare games being hyped at E3 that actually mirrored what happens in the game.

[@CheapSushi]

I also love how the projectiles have actual physics instead of the basic "hit-scan", simplistic model with near perfect trajectories that most games use.

[@dichse2157]

Is nobody going to talk about the amaaazing Soundtrack SupCom had? Jeremy Soule did such an amazing job, i still find myself humming the melodies at the bus stop, only realizing afterwards that i just hummed the melody from a game i have not played in 5 years.

[@NotTheWheel]

We need more designers like Chris Taylor who make games they'd love to play. It really shows in supreme commander and his excitement then and now in talking about it.

[@sorokabeloboka8818]

I'll admit, I almost cried when I watched this. I was about 10 years old when I got this and I was rightaway blown away by the variety of units and buildings, and it was before I found out there are TIERS that bring even more.

[@marski9956]

You forgot to mention one of the defining features of Supreme Commander - reclaim.

[@jackcooper2489]

My favorite thing had to be capturing an enemy engineer and then building a research lab of their type to get the best of all the factions into one army

[@MemeatorMotivatoroftheMemes]

I am proud of my Children in this comments section and those who watched the video.

[@B20C0]

Dude I would pay a thousand bucks for a Supreme Commander Forged Alliance Remake with updated graphics, multi core support and fixes to some of the issues the old game had (pathing, projectiles hitting terrain, matchmaking, desyncs, rejoin after disconnects, etc.) and then maybe one more faction or at least some more units. This game is unbelievably good.

[@bass-dc9175]

Supreme Commander 1 was an Epic in a time where the word "Epic" lost all meaning.

[@samc6974]

Time to reinstall Supreme commander!

[@Wintermist-SWE]

To this day Forged Alliance is still my fav strategy game, despite the flaws it has (mostly engine related, game's old after all)