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So for those confused by the timeline, here is a very, very well made video which is a bit less batshit crazy than this thread but has most of the same information. It covers the chronology of Red Alert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmP__MTS8PQ He also has a video following Kane throughout all the timelines and games, worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLa9Fv7Dik So you can sum up this thread in these two videos, but with much less comedy and pictures of actors in cheesy roles. Also has a video on Tiberium (the substance) and the circumstances of the Tiberian related games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0pi-kyT_r8 devmd01 posted:A Path Beyond, yep. I was literally the “ideas guy” for that mod and started it, then basically stopped giving a poo poo once I went to college. Good lord there was some stupid drama with the team. the drama continued for over a decade, now it is run by people who stole a forum database and ripped it and implemented it on their own server/website to kick out the old leadership., but seems to somewhat exist. Most of the 'good times' updates were under the leadership of Chronojam, the poster above me. A whole load of goons worked on the project during the 'good years' and many of them are in this thread. whatup. drunkill fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Oh poo poo. Hey Lefty.
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Red Alert was originally going to be a WWII game, unrelated to C&C. But then they found they had millions of fans in Germany and it would be censored so they quickly pivoted to an alternate reality WWII without nazis and a cold war turned hot scenario then went balls deep in military conspiracies and rumoured secret weapons etc and threw in time travel as the excuse. Westwood was based in Las Vegas, they would have been all over the Area 51 conspiracies and some of the local devs probably remembered nuclear testing as kids. drunkill fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Mar 13, 2020 |
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DJlaptop made those. I think he still hangs around the n00bstories irc. Ghost Leviathan posted:I mean really, thinking about it C&C is basically almost Warcraft levels of 'We couldn't get the license so we changed the bare minimum' but with GI Joe instead of Warhammer. Not that that's a bad thing either way, really, but it's hard to unsee. Well, with the obvious Dune II influences on gameplay. Almost, they made Dune 2 and then wanted to do their own thing so they got more money, not having to pay license fees. C&C was going to be about wizards and stuff, like a lot of the previous westwood adventure games, but they figured military worked better like it did in dune.
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Surf no Mercy was a surfrock/misirlou-inspired rendition of the song No Mercy, which is a C&C song not an RA1 song. It played after you beat the giant ant missions in RA1 as a bonus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WideTH9XxSs I'm not sure why it was tacked on to Smash in that video posted above. Someone probably ripped a soundtrack cd years ago and the two tracks were recorded at once? A huge number of tracks never made it onto the physical soundtrack releases. One thing the new remaster will be pretty cool, having a 6 cd soundtrack in the collectors edition and all the songs that made it into the games available in the in-game jukebox, even some unreleased tracks.
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Tombstone is probably the only one.
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Posting this here, despite it being C&C 1 advertising material. I think it is fitting to post it during the Generals play through, given that game is pretty on the nose with many topics and depictions.   These ads scream 1990s videogame, like duke nukem or doom ads, or even videocard ads. And a reminder, the C&C and RA1 remasters come out on steam (and origin) next weekend, head over here for more information: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3919118
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