Okay, so I was plaing Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, it's a fun game where you play as the russians, japanese, or allies to destroy the other guy. It's an RTS.
So, I was playing as the japanese, I was using their commando (Yuriko Omega) who can rip apart bases and tanks and infantry forces with her bare gray matter.
So I was trying to decimate my enemies base but they had anti-infantry so my commando died. again.
and again.
and again.
But here's the thing: They nuked me. I nuked them once, yeah, but they NUKED me. Not only that, but their FRIEND nuked me too!
Who the heck does that?! Who nukes a guy TWICE? TWICE GODANGIT!!!
Yeah, games railroad you like that. I was playing Civ IV and for the lulz gave everyone like ten nukes. They launched ALL of them at me in one turn, so I had like 120 nukes land on all of my improvements and cities.
i tried playing Command and Conquer at my friends house, we tried a link, cuz he had 2 computers, and we were on a team, 10 seconds after we started, everything blew up. we tried it again. same thing. then i had to leave. so i was sad. xD
I was playing against a Hard CPU on Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour... and out of the blue, they launch a scud storm at me, and it kills the 500 Missile Defenders I was sending to destroy them.
[I wish I could play multiplayer on Zero Hour, but my serial number is apparently invalid... anybody know what I should do?]
[I wish I could play multiplayer on Zero Hour, but my serial number is apparently invalid... anybody know what I should do?]
Zero Hour is the expansion pack for the original C&C - Generals, right? Guess what, I have the same sort of problem. I have the C&C Generals Deluxe edition (C&C Generals, Zero Hour and some other crap like posters) and the fools who made it decided to print the serial number on the bloody manual, of course, I don't keep the manual and so now can never play Generals or the expansion pack again (or at least, can't play it again with my legitimately purchased code).
I think this thread is turning into my official RTS discussion thread. O_o
Zero Hour is the expansion pack for the original C&C - Generals, right? Guess what, I have the same sort of problem. I have the C&C Generals Deluxe edition (C&C Generals, Zero Hour and some other crap like posters) and the fools who made it decided to print the serial number on the bloody manual, of course, I don't keep the manual and so now can never play Generals or the expansion pack again (or at least, can't play it again with my legitimately purchased code).
In that case, they probably opened the god dang thing up and used the serial number... friggin EA Support People are HORRIBLE when it comes to security...
It might be an extreme example of overkill, but I would probably do it just to watch the pretty explosions. :P
That's why in Civ IV, I make good relationships, park my army at the enemy doorstep and invade them before they know what the hell is happening, to avoid retaliatory strikes like that.
That's why in Civ IV, I make good relationships, park my army at the enemy doorstep and invade them before they know what the hell is happening, to avoid retaliatory strikes like that.
I know in Civilization 3, most of my games lasted for longer than a week - I instantly went for all the culture I could get and slowly culture bombed them (where you push back their borders until their cities decide they like your country more and join your empire) and I'd just slowly take their cities by having all the wonders, the libraries, the theatres and then either I owned most the map and they were barely pissed off (because I also got all their goods, which I normally gave back to them) or space raced it.
In Civilization 4 I take a bit more of a militaristic approach, but my victory still very much revolves around my awesome culture points.
Did anyone play Alpha Centuri? It was like the follow up game of the space race victory in Civilization 3, for those of you who haven't played it, after researching the right technologies you can build spaceship parts, first person to build them all launches into space and automatically wins the game. Alpha Centuri carries on, supposedly your ship crashes on an extra-terrestrial planet, and then it's sort of like Civilization, on an alien world with a lot more tactics, for example, it's better to create agricultural tiles next to mountains because the rain flows downhill and therefore your crops grow better. It's a great game.
