EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3

Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by salmo on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:45PM (#23250928)

Unfortunately, even though these games were really popular, there's nothing reasonably current with their style of RTS gameplay. I think the Age of Empires franchise was probably the last one that had the same feel to me. SC3 is more of a twitchy high-speed reflex game that's too hardcore for a casual like me. Modern mobile games go with the town + battles setup, probably because games need to keep drawing you in (and getting you to pay) and not just be a session when you want it.

It's probably that combined with the nostalgia of 'old folks' like me. I'd love to relive the Wilhelm scream and cheesy futurism of C&C. And I will always love the wololo of AoE.

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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by dopeboy on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:42PM (#23251540)

Bingo - this genre as a whole has kinda died out. I played all the C&Cs religiously so I'm squarely in their target market and will probably pay for the remastered.

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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by chongli on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:56PM (#23251693)

I wonder if the demands of their control scheme had something to do with it. Other genres of games translate pretty well to consoles and mobile. RTS games (of the classic sort such as C&C, TA, WC1&2) seem to demand enough precision that keyboard & mouse are essentially required to play. So many people have consoles, phones, iPads, and laptops now. These games would not be very playable on any of them unless you could connect a mouse.

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