EA will remaster Command & Conquer: Red Alert in 4K

[Fulcrum29]

Is anyone looking forward to the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection? In my opinion, it isn't worth the price. The originals are still very much playable.

Recently the devs announced modding for C&C in the run-up of the launch in a few days, well June 5th, but they don't even have LAN which is part of the legacy code...

It seems all of the marketing efforts are going into the workshop and remastered soundtrack.

I would have liked a remake, but yeah... they are trying hard to avoid another Warcraft 3 Remaster.

 

[Mystic Twilight]

Red Alert 4 should have been made, but it seems dev houses/publishers are going the hollywood route with reboots aka remasters.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Red Alert 4 should have been made, but it seems dev houses/publishers are going the hollywood route with reboots aka remasters.

I like remakes more than remasters. For people who own the originals it is but a mere upscaled second copy. A lot which has been put into this remaster was already done by the OpenRA community, including the new pixelation models, but some things will be touched up a bit more.

I appreciate the idea to play this game online, but to remove its core LAN is simply an anti-piracy move. They did say that LAN will come back at a later time so I guess 'LAN' is being used as the game's 'DRM'.

Generally, I think the game is overhyped. Warcraft 3 was also overhyped.

I also now see that some people are calling on a Dune 2000 remake, but little do they know that the license is revoked and that it used it's own and unique proprietary game engine which made Dune 2000 look like a RA reskin. On this note, the original Dune property rights are expiring any time now, and the new movie rights are already available.

 

[theratman]

Is anyone looking forward to the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection? In my opinion, it isn't worth the price. The originals are still very much playable.

Recently the devs announced modding for C&C in the run-up of the launch in a few days, well June 5th, but they don't even have LAN which is part of the legacy code...

It seems all of the marketing efforts are going into the workshop and remastered soundtrack.

I would have liked a remake, but yeah... they are trying hard to avoid another Warcraft 3 Remaster.

I haven't played the remaster but I'm happy to buy it. I have the originals, I tried playing them vanilla and it was meh to horrible tbh, played maybe 30min and I bought the entire set.

For me personally the upscaling is the key. If I can run it full screen and in hd then the experience will be much better. Proper nostalgia.

I'm also too lazy to mod the games. I just want to click and play. CNC was the first AAA game I bought, and I played it on a pentium 100 back in 95(?). Loved the series since (well not so much the later games but I still played them)

 

[genetic]

The charm of the early C&C series was it's pixelated nature... It's like taking 1982's Rambo and remastering it in 4K. It will just look wrong and probably cheapen the experience. Just give me the VHS and let me watch it in all its lo-fi glory - the way it was meant to be viewed. Same goes with the early C&C series. I don't want to play it in 4K and ruin my childhood memories.

 

[Fulcrum29]

I haven't played the remaster but I'm happy to buy it. I have the originals, I tried playing them vanilla and it was meh to horrible tbh, played maybe 30min and I bought the entire set.

For me personally the upscaling is the key. If I can run it full screen and in hd then the experience will be much better. Proper nostalgia.

I'm also too lazy to mod the games. I just want to click and play. CNC was the first AAA game I bought, and I played it on a pentium 100 back in 95(?). Loved the series since (well not so much the later games but I still played them)

I am just cautious of it being too much of a mechanical copy of the progress made by the OpenRA community which was enlisted, voluntarily I believe, to support the remaster. Yes, the OpenRA games only support the original creative works, video and audio, which are now open-source for that purpose, but they have done all of the pixelation upgrades and upscaling, and even ported Dune 2000 into their engine.

The remasted source code is released now for modders:

GitHub - electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection: Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection

Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection. Contribute to electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

OpenRA is available as always:

GitHub - OpenRA/OpenRA: Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.

Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X. - OpenRA/...

github.com

OpenRA only distributes the reimagining of,

1. Command & Conquer: Red Alert
2. Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn
3. Dune 2000

but the others are available through other distributions maintained by other repositories. All of which are now compatible with the latest rendering APIs.

I don't know how the quality of life improvements of the remaster will differentiate with OpenRA's, but the remaster have reworked video and audio.

Just to add, the OpenRA community also worked on the remastered video and audio. Just strange that EA is cashing in on this unless there is community compensation. However, it is the era of remasters it seems.

 

[Fulcrum29]

 

[theratman]

Downloaded the files last night, hopefully I'm in for a CNC filled weekend

 

[StoneCold]

So looking forward to the release today

 

[AntennaMan]

Also downloaded it already, but can't play it yet...
I can't wait. I've burned so much time on RA and RA2.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Can anybody scud storm!

 

[Heisenborg]

All your base are belong to me

 

[CT_Biker]

Can i use Autohotkey?

 

[AntennaMan]

Does anyone know what time we can start playing?

 

[theratman]

Does anyone know what time we can start playing?

There's a count down timer on their site, I think we can play around 7pm SA time.

Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection Home - Electronic Arts

Welcome back, Commander. Command & Conquer and Red Alert defined the real-time-strategy genre 25 years ago and are now both fully remastered in 4K by the former Westwood Studios team members at Petroglyph Games. The Remastered Collection includes all 3 expansion packs, rebuilt multiplayer, a...

www.ea.com

I'm also itching to play.

 

[AntennaMan]

There's a count down timer on their site, I think we can play around 7pm SA time.

Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection Home - Electronic Arts

Welcome back, Commander. Command & Conquer and Red Alert defined the real-time-strategy genre 25 years ago and are now both fully remastered in 4K by the former Westwood Studios team members at Petroglyph Games. The Remastered Collection includes all 3 expansion packs, rebuilt multiplayer, a...

www.ea.com

I'm also itching to play.

Thanks. I don't know if it shows, but I'm a wee bit excited about this.

 

[theratman]

Thanks. I don't know if it shows, but I'm a wee bit excited about this.

Me too

 

[theratman]

It's go time!

 

[Duke of Hazard]

Those games played a large part of our childhood, If done properly I think they would do well with people who were kids in the 90s

 

[theratman]

I'm having a blast. Played 5 GDI missions and they've done a decent job. One of the coolest things is pressing spacebar switches to the old graphics. I find myself switching back and forth quite a lot!