http://www.overclock.net/blogs/kamakazi/ An overclocking forum devoted to maximizing the performance of graphics cards, CPUs, motherboards, RAM and everything else found inside your computer case. en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:40:22 GMT vBulletin 1 http://static.overclock.net/images/oc/misc/rss.jpg http://www.overclock.net/blogs/kamakazi/ http://www.overclock.net/blogs/kamakazi/15-suckiness-supreme-commander.html Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:31:12 GMT So I was happily playing what was probably my 1000th skirmish on Supreme Commander the other day when I realized just how dull of a game it really is, and I will tell you why, but first I will tell you how I like to play RTS games, I am the type of gamer that some would label a "turtler" but I don't really see myself as one, sure at the beginning I keep to myself but in most games by about the 15 minute mark I am starting to do alot of raiding and attacking, not the true essence of a turtler. But anyway back to why SupCom really isn't that great.

First of all, the no unit upgrades so that once you create say a Tech1 tank, you can't upgrade it to a Tech2 tank once you advance, this makes that big army you just made in the last tech level almost obsolete when you bump up to the next one. I hate this because I am a big fan of building some units in the beginning and upgrading them throughout the game (which is why I love Company of Heroes veterancy system so much). But in SupCom I am tempted to build as few as units as possible until I reach Tech3 and can pump out the siege bots.

Second of all, it just takes a long time to get going, I play the Hard AI in skirmishes and it takes me a long time to build up my forces, and by that time, no matter what AI I am playing I just destroy them, I either attack them too early and win really quick, or they are so huge that I am forced to just sit back a build a bunch of strategic missile launchers or expiremental units. But that is pretty much an hour in.

Third of all, and this is where I hate most RTS games, I can't play online because no matter who I play I get destroyed (see other blog post), and it isn't because I don't grasp the strategy of the whole thing, it is because I always end up playing some guy who never leaves his house who can tell you a Tech2 artillery takes 25 seconds to make, does 400 damage, has a 2.5 rate of fire, and has a range of 6 (yes I just made those up on the fly) so therefore I just die brutally. I don't understand people's obsessions with numbers when it comes to RTS games, maybe that is just how they roll, but I hate trying to fight somebody who knows all the numbers because it turns into so much of a math problem.

And Fourth of all, there is no depth to this game it seems, very little tactics, strategy yes, on the grand scale you need to be keeping track of things, but in terms of tactics on the unit level there are basically none "all you guys go attack there" is pretty much all there is, which is probably once again why I like Company of Heroes and the like so much, the reason I play RTS games is to control units in a tactical fashion because it makes me feel good about myself, and I just don't get that from SupCom it seems.

So this was only suppose to contain 2 reasons, but it seems to have went a bit far, sorry about that.

Tommorow I will probably talk about the greatest video gaming series of all time

RTS: Total War ]]> Kamakazi http://www.overclock.net/blogs/kamakazi/15-suckiness-supreme-commander.html http://www.overclock.net/blogs/kamakazi/7-path-getting-owned.html Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:53:35 GMT I love RTS games, I love them alot, I own about 15 of them I could name them off but that would be redundant. Anyway I love them alot, I play them pretty much everyday variously. But all of it is single player, because everytime I go online and play multiplayer I get destroyed really bad. I can... I love RTS games, I love them alot, I own about 15 of them I could name them off but that would be redundant. Anyway I love them alot, I play them pretty much everyday variously. But all of it is single player, because everytime I go online and play multiplayer I get destroyed really bad.

I can barely do anything before I either get rushed or by the time I am ready to attack the guy is so massive and turtlish that my endless waves of whatever I am throwing at him, just die and then he comes and kills me. I have yet to win a multiplayer game on any game I have played, although I came really close on a game of Age of Empires III but that was mainly because I had a really good teammate.

I really wish i could play only RTSs because they are quite fun, but death is not fun, and just gets annoying really fast.

Well that is my little talk. And yes, I just got destroyed again, this time in a game of Supreme Commander. Damn Monkeylords. ]]> Kamakazi http://www.overclock.net/blogs/kamakazi/7-path-getting-owned.html