Supreme Commander

Chaotic42 · 02-25-07, 04:31 AM

I'm really picky about games. There are *very* few that impress me. Supreme Commander is one of them. If you enjoyed Total Annihilation, you will love this game. It's literally what my friends and I used to say should be in TA2. It's just excellent.

The automation that you can create is wonderful, and the graphics are awesome. You really have to see it. My friend and I played on the same team against two comptuers (on the same team). He had one monitor on his own units and the other one monitoring my base or the current battlefield. Makes me want to drop $600 on another monitor.

Anyway, since this is a sub forum, I thought I'd leave you with a sub pic. Yes, you can choose surface mode or submerged mode. The story behind the picture is that the computer closest to my friend was going nuts building naval units. While doing a raid, I found that it was building a super-battleship. My friend and I both went after the shipyard, but it was too late. The Yamato II was at sea. It proceded to obliterate my friend's costal regions and fended off his barage of torpedo planes. Finally I decided to sneak some subs up a narrow, shallow river that ran around his main base. Guess what I found...?

Pic: http://www.bigplasticfork.org/supcomsub.jpg

It's a truly awesome game. Well worth the $50.

NeonSamurai · 02-25-07, 09:38 AM

Ya i like it, though it has had a shaky launch and is extremely hardware intensive. It has also been a shaky launch there are a couple of different crash/bsod/reboot bugs. A suspected memory leak or 2, and other problems.

Hopefully though they will get fixed soon

Chaotic42 · 02-25-07, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

Ya i like it, though it has had a shaky launch and is extremely hardware intensive. It has also been a shaky launch there are a couple of different crash/bsod/reboot bugs. A suspected memory leak or 2, and other problems.

Hopefully though they will get fixed soon

Smooth as silk here. No bugs or anything. My friend running it on XP has had some issues too, but here on Vista it's smooth.

Sledge_57 · 03-03-07, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Chaotic42

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Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

Ya i like it, though it has had a shaky launch and is extremely hardware intensive. It has also been a shaky launch there are a couple of different crash/bsod/reboot bugs. A suspected memory leak or 2, and other problems.

Hopefully though they will get fixed soon

Smooth as silk here. No bugs or anything. My friend running it on XP has had some issues too, but here on Vista it's smooth.

Same here (on XP though), I'm just getting started but it's pretty KOOL , having a good system is a must tho........

Dowly · 03-03-07, 11:59 AM

I liked the Total Annihilation back in the day, and I really wanted to like this one too. But it just misses the feel that TA had, it´s not a bad game, but it feels alittle flat to me.

Safe-Keeper · 03-03-07, 12:44 PM

Both my brothers, as well as my cousin, own this game. I didn't like it, though, mostly because I played it MP with my brother without having played the tutorial first, and it was not intuitive. Not only was the resource/power management pretty different from what I'm used to (which is not a bad thing), but there were no tool-tips or other info on how to handle my economy. Really fun when you don't have the option to read the manual or play the tutorial

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I got into it in the end, but it still does not appeal to me. I don't like the looks of the vehicles anyhow, or how you end up with giant robots fighting each others like in some Japanese manga movie. It just isn't my type of game.

02-25-07, 04:31 AM	#1
Chaotic42 Torpedoman Join Date: May 2005 Location: Mississippi Gulf Coast, USA Posts: 113 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Supreme Commander I'm really picky about games. There are very few that impress me. Supreme Commander is one of them. If you enjoyed Total Annihilation, you will love this game. It's literally what my friends and I used to say should be in TA2. It's just excellent. The automation that you can create is wonderful, and the graphics are awesome. You really have to see it. My friend and I played on the same team against two comptuers (on the same team). He had one monitor on his own units and the other one monitoring my base or the current battlefield. Makes me want to drop $600 on another monitor. Anyway, since this is a sub forum, I thought I'd leave you with a sub pic. Yes, you can choose surface mode or submerged mode. The story behind the picture is that the computer closest to my friend was going nuts building naval units. While doing a raid, I found that it was building a super-battleship. My friend and I both went after the shipyard, but it was too late. The Yamato II was at sea. It proceded to obliterate my friend's costal regions and fended off his barage of torpedo planes. Finally I decided to sneak some subs up a narrow, shallow river that ran around his main base. Guess what I found...? Pic: http://www.bigplasticfork.org/supcomsub.jpg It's a truly awesome game. Well worth the $50. __________________ Complex numbers are all fun and games until someone loses an i.

02-25-07, 09:38 AM	#2
NeonSamurai Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Socialist Republic of Kanadia Posts: 3,044 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	Ya i like it, though it has had a shaky launch and is extremely hardware intensive. It has also been a shaky launch there are a couple of different crash/bsod/reboot bugs. A suspected memory leak or 2, and other problems. Hopefully though they will get fixed soon __________________ SH3 Newbie Guide Links and other helpfull stuff

03-03-07, 12:44 PM	#6
Safe-Keeper Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Norway Posts: 3,234 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Both my brothers, as well as my cousin, own this game. I didn't like it, though, mostly because I played it MP with my brother without having played the tutorial first, and it was not intuitive. Not only was the resource/power management pretty different from what I'm used to (which is not a bad thing), but there were no tool-tips or other info on how to handle my economy. Really fun when you don't have the option to read the manual or play the tutorial. I got into it in the end, but it still does not appeal to me. I don't like the looks of the vehicles anyhow, or how you end up with giant robots fighting each others like in some Japanese manga movie. It just isn't my type of game. __________________ First Strike Mod tester. Hardcore sub skipper.

03-03-07, 11:59 AM	#5
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,054 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	I liked the Total Annihilation back in the day, and I really wanted to like this one too. But it just misses the feel that TA had, it´s not a bad game, but it feels alittle flat to me.