| Captain_Yuri said: Yea I think the irony is that I'd say something like Red Alert 3 that came out in 2008 might actually look better than AoE IV. The water reflections in that game looked so damn good for it's time.
I think the main problem is that they got Relic to do it. Relic is an okaysh developer but they haven't made anything care worthy in a long time but I suppose that is the problem since neither has most other developers in terms of RTS. And yea, I am still playing SC2 but mainly 4v4 and Arcade maps like Desert Strike since those are still pretty fun. I am not playing it competitively anymore, that's for sure. Maybe with the success of Command and Conquer Remaster, EA or all people might bring it back properly. Or at least, give us a remaster of some of the more modern versions. C&C3 is still great to this day. Then again, it is EA... |
haha, I totally wasn't thinking the same thing 
I even think SC 2 looks better atm than AoE IV tbh. Both those games had their own styles to them, but ngl, AoE IV just gives me "mobile gaming" vibes with the low res unit polygons. The environments look stellar for sure, but the main bread and butter are the units and animations, and well...both look kinda 2013 mobile-esque. Like the building collapse animation that played when those war elephants smashed into the chruch looked like sub 30fps, as if we went back in time to OG AoE II, and you'd think they would make those animations play at 60fps and be unique each time as well (it's 2021, we gotta put in some innovation into the genre sometime).
Last thing Relic made was a sparse mish mash DoW 3, and that didn't please anyone really (not even myself), they also dropped the game on it's head six months after release and that was it. People on that subreddit actually remembered that too, so it doesn't bode well if we still remember their past mistakes, and if they don't change for the better with this game, it could spell for a flop.
Someone in that thread also had the absolute gall, to claim "no wonder the RTS genre is dead, RTS gamers are hard to please", and I just
Like are you being for real?, were you even there for the past 20 years, to know what even happened to the genre, to make such a flippant comment like "hard to please?". It's like they forgot about the Moba genre, the HD consoles taking off big time, the stupid publishers hamstringing budgets and butchering studios (never will forgive what MS did to Ensemble, and EA with Westwood, as well as Activision recently killing off SC II studio staff, 3 big publishers, each killing off an RTS studio...).
I dunno, people like that really rile me up, because I know for a fact that they weren't around, nor cared as much for the genre as we did back then and still do now. I want the genre to come back strong, but if we're all going to act like a bunch of spineless yes men, then the genre will never grow and innovate, it'll just stay stuck with mobile graphics for another decade or two, or worse, be forgotten all over again...
That being said, I should probably reinstall SC II and give the arcade and co-op mini campaign stuff a go again, it's already been 3-4 yrs since I last touched the franchise.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
