Supreme Commander 2 is $10.99 on Steams weekend deal. I've played and enjoyed Warhammer 40k DOW2, Demigod and Company of Hero's online. I'd pick up Starcraft 2 but it sounds the beta is almost closed and I would want my multiplayer fix today and next week in addition to when it comes out.
I have no intention to play the campaign.
Is Supreme Commander 2's multiplayer worth $10.99? And keep in mind I would never play SC1 online for the same reason I wont play SoaSE online, I don't enjoy a multiplayer game lasting over an hour.
-Othello
Thanks everyone.
I wish I could give you all karma.
It doesn't sound like multiplayer is anything to brag about.
I'm going out to buy a Chipotle burrito and maybe Masters of Orion 2 with the money I'd use to buy SupCom2; while I get my multiplayer fix with adding another 20 hours of playtime in Warhammer 40K DOW2.
SupCom:FA is the greatest game ever and you should get it
Nope.
If you have to ask, then you'll never understand. Return to your foolishness.
Not lookin for one.
Who's saying you can't?
As with all the previous iterations, Multiplayer is where the game shines. Even if you don't like Multiplayer, skirmish is still fun, especially with the new AI improvements. Sorian (a modder who worked on the Sorian AI for SupCom/FA who now works at GPG) improved it quite a bit. He even made an "AI Overlord" which controls and coordinates all present AIs in the game, so that the AI will fight against their enemies together, instead of just acting independently from each other.
Stupid quotes...
It's just too bad you can't save your skirmishes. Who the h*** thought that was a good idea? It's been a staple of RTS's for years.
[quote who="Spooky__" reply="28" id="2639126"]Quoting OMG_Teseer, reply 22I'm not going to buy a game that promises to be a successor to the game I love above all other games and falls ridiculously short.Sure, there is nothing wrong with not liking the game as what it is. The game doesn't change if the name changes. Not buying the game simply because it's not named something else, even though you seemingly like it (otherwise you wouldn't think of buying it in the first place?), is idiotic, wouldn't you agree on that?
I know this has already been explained to you in other threads, and you obviously didn't get it, but I'll give it one more shot. Because of the name, it gets compared to the original, its as simple as that. Smart developers don't dramatically change up popular series, because the fans expect a similar experience to the original. If Starcarft II were a space based real-time 4x like Sins, the fans would be (rightly) outraged. But if it wasn't Starcraft II, and instead was unrelated, or a spin-off (Starcraft: Revolutions or whatever) it wouldn't matter, because it wouldn't be Starcraft II.
There's the old saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Bad grammar aside, that is generally a pretty good axiom to follow. GPG however, ignored this advice, and gave a gaint "Up yours!" to all of the fans of the original. They removed (just about) everything that set the original apart. If they hadn't used the SupCom IP, they could have done whatever the **** they want to the game, and it wouldnt' have mattered as much.
Oh, and you mentioned Sorian and modding. That can't happen any more. In another brilliant decision on GPG's part, modding was for the most part removed from SupCom2. Then maybe there would have been hope someone would mod it to be a real sequal to SupCom1/FA, but no, we can't have that happening. So no more community-created improvements to the AI.
And to cap everything off, because of the decision to use Steam, you can't return the POS that is SupCom2, so whatever money you spend on it is lost to you forever.
It's Steam so... dud.
And if K&C does not get everything they imagined, they will again be disappointed, even though it's a completely new IP. Just because of the narrow mindset they share with you and Teseer.
Modding is possible, you can even play Mods online, but at the current state it's not very useful, since it's not implemented like in Demigod for example.
Btw. if you want to hurt Steam, you should buy Supreme Commander 2
This is what he said that you replied to:
"I'm not going to buy a game that promises to be a successor to the game I love above all other games and falls ridiculously short."
It's pretty clear he liked the original game but not the sequel, which he describes as falling "...ridiculously short." How from that you gleaned he "...seemingly liked..." the sequel is beyond my ken.
Nick-Danger: no that part of my reply was in regards to what Teseer said here:
It's supposed to be similar, that's the point of a sequel. It's what is expected of a sequel. Why the **** would you mess with something successful. How is it narrowminded? If they want to do something new, do a spin-off, that way they don't tarnish the series. Why is it wrong to expect a similar experience to the original in a sequel?
They wouldn't have that problem if they hadn't completely F***ed up SC2, now would they? And it doesn't help that everything they've shown so far of K&C makes it look like a reskinned SupCom2. King=Commander. They like to mention how the game will have big huge units that dominate the battlefield (remind you of something? *coughexperimentalcough*). And they're always going on about the "Epic Scale" etc, etc.
If K&C isn't awesome, you're darn right people will be disappointed, because that will be three duds in a row for GPG. Granted, Demigod is actually pretty good, but it still had a bad launch, and terrible support from GPG (Stardock's support for it, on the other hand, is excellent). I have yet to see anyone anywhere refer to K&C as the "true Supreme Commander 2."
And who chose the publisher? I'm sure there are tons of companies who would have been willing to publish SC2.
You know what's fun? Not agreeing with someone and calling them Narrow Minded, lmao.
First:
Go reread your post #28.
OMG_Teseer said in post #22: "I'm not going to buy a game that promises to be a successor to the game I love above all other games and falls ridiculously short."
You quoted that in your reply #28.
I responded to your post #28.
If you meant to reply to what OMG_Teseer said in post #17 then please do so, not another post where he specifically and clearly said he thought the sequel fell ridiculously short -- which certainly sounds like he didn't like it.
Second:
You selectively quoted him in his post #17. Here's the entirety of that post:
If they called it 'Generic Strategy Game 2' I would of had no issues with it and probably would of purchased.
It's not SupCom and I'm royally pissed that I waited so long for an expansion that made my face hurt from face-palming so hard.
And what he said in post #17 doesn't obviate your fallacious argument Strawman -- no one said the game changes because the name changes. The point has been false advertising, trying to ride the coat-tails of the original and failing to do so, unmet expectations, etc.
And, as an aside, thanks for the interesting opportunities to exercise my rhetoric, as it gets rusty with disuse!
Humans are creatues of habit, yes, but that's not always a good thing.
It was similar with Supreme Commander 2. Due to the bad economy and the fact that the Supreme Commander franchise is not really a big money machine, finding a publisher for it was not easy. Square Enix picked it up in their venture of stepping into the western market. But they knew that they had to streamline the development in order to be profitable, so Square Enix made a very tight schedule and a very tight budget (which resulted in the not so optimal release).
@Nick-Danger: I only said "seemingly", I didn't say it was a fact that he likes the game. It would be just incredibly surreal, if he enjoyed the game once he plays it, but can't, simply because it's called "Supreme Commander 2" and not "Generic Strategy Game 2".
I'll say it again. If you don't understand, you never will.
I'd say keep bein' a scrub, but you don't need me to tell ya to.
Never wanted an argument. Never wanted to talk to ya. Just making sure you understand you're a scrub.
Yes it does.
When you're a little douche-cock, one is inclined to return in kind.
So you were trolling then?
Not surprised.
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