RTS time!

Unless you are hiding under a rock, you will know by now that Blizzard has officially announced Starcraft 2. Juciy cinematic and gameplay videos are cluttering the Internet, fanboys and detractors heated in dialectic debates about the apparent lack of a difference between this game and the original. Me? I loved the original and I don’t mind Starcraft 1.5 with a visual upgrade. I don’t mind that at all. It looks exactly how I hoped it would, nothing more and nothing less.

Until Starcraft 2 arrives, many of us have Supreme Commander, the spiritual successor of Total Annihilation. Now, few games have captured me like the original TA did. The sheer scope of the battles, the technical features, the mods, and especially the community-created movie recording and playback tools all sucked a lot of time from me.

The bad news is, Supreme Commander is a massive resource hog. However, I have a new beefy machine to play game on. I didn’t bring my old desktop to Vancouver, and the good old laptop was showing its age. Mirek of Kube Computers has built an excellent (and QUIET!) machine, so if you are in Vancouver and buying a PC, I recommend them.

The worse news is, Supreme Commander is annoying in many ways. I’ll give it a bit more time before I write a long tirade about the game and the severe lack of polish, but my disappointment is dangerously close to what I felt when the horrible TA: Kingdoms was released.

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3 thoughts on “RTS time!

  1. Primer mensaje aqui 😛

    Si eres un fan de TA, y como perteneces a la industria del videogame, quizas te interese este enlace http://spring.clan-sy.com/.

    Que es?, Bueno. Se puede decir que un motor opensource del Total Anihilation para jugar online, mejora el original en varios aspectos(es 3D, sistemas de particulas bastante bueno,…). Y llego mucho tiempo viciandome. En YouTube, si buscas por "spring total annihilation" veras un monton de videos.

    Aviso: Despues de jugar al Spring, Supreme Commander te parecera una mierda.

    Supongo que si llegaran a hacer los chicos de Trilobite la continuacion del TA, este seria como el Spring 😛

  2. Los SY son unos mostruos, la verdad, su dedicacion al TA es increible. Cuando vi el replayer allende los tiempos ya lo flipe mucho, y el Spring es muy chulo. Pero resulta un poco tosco incluso para un oldschool como yo; por eso queria el Supreme Commander. 🙂

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