@justnormalkorean I stayed mad, especially when I got to play the RTS version Empire at war, that game was also fuckin amazing, but like C&C had to be kept alive by modders/hardcore fans. youtu.be/n93_uvJ3G6Q?si=8iOZ3Uw0cPDEF2BN
@justnormalkorean RTS is easy to play, hard to master if you love PVP, which scares most people away cuz weaponized autism overtook leaderboards, that & the games industry just loved helping department of education in dumbing everything down.
@justnormalkorean StarCraft is ok, but I think they contributed to the downfall of the genre as well with the constant focus on meta, the rules are too rigid, it's not fun until you conform to the arbitrary style of playing, C&C to an extent does have that element, but it's not as important, especially if you play asymmetrical maps, playing "tournament" is boring as fuck, the fun is in the chaos of the inevitable tank spam.
@justnormalkorean It's kinda stupid, StarCraft tried to nip it in the bud with population count & multiple resources required for certain units(but then forced the game to end cuz resources evaporated). Each game had it's own ideas, but aside from them, Star Wars Empire at war kinda went the 4X direction, resources, army, & base construction are handled between battles so you can focus on fighting entirely, wasn't perfect, but hell of a change up.
@justnormalkorean I loved civ5, but not as detailed, most of the guys who were original creators of C&C in Westwood studios when it was shutdown by EA moved on to the new company Petroglyph to continue their work, they were responsible for Empire at war, so the combat is always realtime & in between when you're building you can kinda pause to help manage everything, but when unpaused the enemy can attack at anytime without warning, TBH it was a bit clunky, but that's the thing about old games, you just had to get intimate with all it's flaws as well as it's strengths, adapt to each game regardless of genre. New games are just broken shit.
@justnormalkorean I've had a rough time of having to forgo games due to the economic shit storm that just kept getting worse as time went on in my life, but I had to laugh about the time I stopped so did the game releases, listening to my friends buying the new consoles & having nothing to play was unreal, if I won the lotto tomorrow I could buy everything I missed out on that actually interested me for probably less than 200 bucks at this point.
@justnormalkorean I was forced to stop buying n 2013, I had to go on hiatus in 16, played the living shit out of what I had, thankfully it was alot of great games.
@justnormalkorean Pirating wasn't an option for me, my hard drive was too small, & I'm a Boomer, scared of viruses, I figured I was risking enough with the movies I would get off pirates bay, didn't want to push my luck.
@justnormalkorean That sounds cool, but I'd need an updated PC, my shit's old, & I'm not even sure if I can get it done, it needs all new stuff from GPU, more RAM, like at least 16gb on top of what I have, & a high end hard drive times 10, the only thing that's fine is my motherboard, I even need a Blu-ray capable CD drive.
@white_male@justnormalkorean IDK, I just know that most of my friends at the time said it was ok, but I was better off upgrading eventually, & not only cuz it was just 1TB split.
@josh Women are fucking stupid enough to consider long-distance dating over the internet actual dating, Eve would be no different & being from Chicago I'm surprised they found each other, when that shit became public I immediately thought it was 1 in a million or doomed from the word go.
Kneecapped by multitude of issues, mostly from the wonderful collapse in US education & 2008(now the Kung-flu)economy. Still struggling to find normalcy in the twilight zone we currently inhabit, while subsisting on gallows humor & a dash of rare optimism.