Command & Conquer dev: 'We need to wash the stain of C&C 4 away'

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight was not well received by critics and fans, something that new developer Victory Games is well aware of as it creates a new Command & Conquer.

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Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight was not well received by critics and fans, something that new developer Victory Games is well aware of as it creates a new Command & Conquer. A new developer diary video explains how the team is trying to get back to what made the series great to begin with.

"The first thing we said was we need to wash the stain of C&C 4 away," lead designer Samuel Bass said, "and to do that you really need to get back to your roots."

Part one of the Beyond the Battle video series talks about the generals and units, as well as the importance of fan feedback in the design. "Godfather of RTS" Louis Castle, co-founder of the old Westwood Studios that built the first Command & Conquer, also makes an appearance, discussing the core concepts of the original, which were "building a base, defending that base and building an assault army that you could go attack the other base."

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    May 10, 2013 12:30 PM

    John Keefer posted a new article, Command & Conquer dev: 'We need to wash the stain of C&C 4 away'.

    Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight was not well received by critics and fans, something that new developer Victory Games is well aware of as it creates a new Command & Conquer.

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      May 10, 2013 12:48 PM

      Yeah, nothing is ever going to wash that stain off EA, you are simply just going to add to it.

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      May 10, 2013 12:51 PM

      They're going to have a hard time doing that with their fucking F2P model and lack of single player.

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        May 10, 2013 1:30 PM

        I think their goal is to make Generals 2 so bad that C&C 4 looks like a gold mine.

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      May 10, 2013 2:02 PM

      I can smell the fail all ready.

      The Goal is to make C&C game then go out of there way to remake Generals but that was NOT A C&C GAME it was just a tag added on to sell a fairly bland dull RTS.

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        May 10, 2013 2:40 PM

        Generals bland and dull??

        O_o

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          May 10, 2013 3:14 PM

          I think he means the single player story was dull. Multiplayer wasn't bad, I recall.

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            May 10, 2013 3:30 PM

            No i mean both SP and MP found it a fairly dull bland game that just felt rushed and poorly made and to sell had the C&C name put on i know some people like it i did not.

            That been said how ever you look at it its not a real C&C game its just using the name for sales.

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              May 10, 2013 4:20 PM

              While I thought C&C Generals was pretty fun, I agree that it should not have bared the franchise name at all.

              They play radically different. I'd submit to everyone that Dune2000 and Emperor had closer resembling gameplay to CnC than CnC:G did.

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          May 11, 2013 7:52 PM

          i really enjoyed generals.

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      May 10, 2013 2:31 PM

      Ok i've played the original C&C back in the day and loved it, never played Generals though. What makes it so special? Why reference that as opposed to the Tiberium Dawn game that kicked so much tail from the minute you put the disc in to install it?

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      May 10, 2013 2:46 PM

      Isn't DOTA 2 f2p? Why is it not hated as much ?

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        May 10, 2013 3:35 PM

        Because DOTA wasn't rooted in a series of successful SP campaign games, and then stripped of everything that made it DOTA and shoved out as a F2P game to turn a quick buck? All while pretending to get back it's roots while turning it into a game it never was? Just a thought.

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          May 10, 2013 4:01 PM

          I wonder if I push the inf button hard enough it'll inf this twice?

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      May 10, 2013 3:37 PM

      next up, simcity 5 stains? LOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLL

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      May 10, 2013 10:49 PM

      Yeah, good luck. Generals was the last good C&C game, and it still had major flaws (networking code) and the last few, I don't even know how many there were since, all sucked.

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      May 10, 2013 11:03 PM

      THREADJACK:

      Does anyone remember seeing those old leaked videos of what CNC3 was going to look like before EA took over? I've been trying to find some and I get some busted links to CNC-NZ, PlanetCNC, and CNC Ammo (oh god its been almost a decade, holy shit).

      RIP Westwood Studios

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      May 13, 2013 1:26 AM

      I only care about single player and skirmish.

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