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Re: RA PATCH NEWS [Re: RA update (fwd)]

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From: Nicolas
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 00:00
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Ky...@708644668.neo.lrun.com a ๏ฟฝcrit dans l'article
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> 
> Ok first I would like to state that Red Alert is very poorly writen.
> The game loads and runs so slow.  Warcraft runs better overall, and
> much better online and it was made how many years earlier?
> What I mean is Westwood is just out to make a date and not a 
> quality program.  Why does Blizzards battle net have over 7000 people
> on it with no lag and Wchat has a shit load of lag with 400.
> I tell ya programming and lack of good beta testing. 
> No points make this game good or a crappy expansion that includes things
> that should ahve been in the origonal version.  They just want
> more money.  I think the game its self is very poor and heavly biased
toward
> the russian side.  Which makes multiplayer suck.  I am not just 
> a bitcher, I have been up to 400 on cases ladder out of 4000 people so 
> i am good at the game, but am very dissapointed with some aspects of it.
> I think DARK REIGN is going to blow every multiplayer strategy game off
the 
> NET!  Check out some of the info on it.  All and all some companies like 
> Westwood just write crap (and put more time into the stupid movies and
setup 
> than the actual game) ie serria and others.  I don't plan to ever buy
another 
> westwood product considering the few i have now all suck compared to the
10 
> other games i have.  The question I ask is WHY WHY WHY?
> 
>

Sorry, but tell me why when I play Warcraft2 after a game of Red Alert I
feel like playing Wolfenstein 3D after a game of Duke 3D?

War2 is a very popular game but and because it is very simple. War2 is very
much in limited in a matter of tactics and number of units you can build on
a map. I have played many games of War2 and they were all looking very much
like the other games of War2 I played before, which never happens when I
play Red Alert.

Tell me why a game between 2 players is as much interesting than a game
between 6 players in War2?

The only advantage of War2 over RA are the shortcuts for producing units
and buildings, but the shortcuts that C&C and RA offer are far more useful
than the ones in War2.

Oh, by the way, you say that Blizzard makes better games than Westwood...
Did not Blizzard make the dullest and least interesting game in the World,
Diablo? I am going to sell it after a very few games.

You say that RA runs slow on you PC. You sure have a 486. Every games
programmed under Direct X will run poorly on your 486, including Diablo and
every future games from Blizzard, including Starcraft, of course.

Now this last test: take a unit and send it from one corner to the opposite
one. What will happen? In C&C and RA, the unit will make its way (if not
killed, of course) to its destination. In War2, you will find the unit
stupidly staring at a tree in the middle of the map. So... Tell us again
what game is superior?
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From: "Nicolas" <ni...@worldnet.fr>
Subject: Re: RA PATCH NEWS [Re: RA update (fwd)]
Date: 1997/04/03
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