CNC vs. Starcraft

Rat Keeng · Post by **Rat Keeng** » Fri Jul 05, 2002 4:31 am

Oh, Tiberian Sun was awful, has to be one of the worst RTS games i've played. I haven't played RA2 yet, and i probably never will, i think RA1 was boring, i didn't even finish either campaign, just played a few skirmishes and that's that.

The most enjoyable RTS i remember is Dune 2, with Starcraft and C&C as runner-ups. Though the only one of those i play at the moment is Starcraft. I liked Warcraft 2 as well, fun game though not spectacularrrr.

TheReaper · Post by **TheReaper** » Fri Jul 05, 2002 6:54 am

I liked Dune 2 but I found Emperor: Battle For Dune to be better, if somewhat harder...

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Jul 05, 2002 7:29 am

Homeworld is good, and command and conquer is ok. A bit repetitive though, so I just got red alert 2 and play that from time to time.

I haven't played starcraft or Total Annihilation yet :oops:.

Any good sites to look up information on either of them?

the guardian · Post by **the guardian** » Fri Jul 05, 2002 9:00 am

wow, someone who has yet to play starcraft... in a way i envy you pyro, you havent gotten sick of the game yet

on starcraft: blizzard have some good info i think, as well as tons of fan sites

tux · Post by **tux** » Fri Jul 05, 2002 12:33 pm

SC had one of the better storylines in an RTS... exept for that game where you had to grow some drug and use it to control your soldiers. Can't remember the name though.

tux · Post by **tux** » Fri Jul 05, 2002 12:35 pm

I think it was called LED wars. (pronounced led, not L E D)

Ashmo · Post by **Ashmo** » Fri Jul 05, 2002 2:26 pm

Command & Conquer and StarCraft can't really be compared.
I loved StarCraft, but C&C TD is still the best RTS I ever played.
Everything after TD was worse than the original. Even RA didn't convince me.
The difference between C&C and SC is that C&C was just plain modern warfare (or something supposed to be like that) and SC was ... well... StarCraft.
The units in StarCraft had some funny animations and somehow it didn't feel as much like war as C&C did. SC always stayed something like a broad-scale RPG for me, must have something to do with the fact that I played it mostly singleplayer and worked on some mods for it as well.
It's like comparing Diablo and Fallout. It's just not the same.

Jack_Deth · Post by **Jack_Deth** » Sat Jul 06, 2002 1:15 am

I have to agree with Ashmodai, the appeal of C&C Tiberian Dawn was that it was and still is the best "modern war" game. The only thing it lacked was air-to-air combat, everything else was great. Multiplayer was also great, but you had to do this over modem-to-modem which hadn't totally caught on when CNC came out.

Bulldog · Post by **Bulldog** » Sat Jul 06, 2002 5:36 am

Homeworld is a different game altogether. I don't think it even belongs in the same place and these two.

Constipated BladeRunner · Fri Jul 12, 2002 11:05 am

Homeworld is god.
Starcraft is in its shadow, yet most CNC games are alike, you have the DUNE2, C&C, RA, TS phase, then you have the fast pased almost fps like RA2, E:BD then you will have the generals phase.
Also, the world of starcraft is as much a group of cliches as any CNCs. It just kept you going through plot twists. Homeworld on the other hand................

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