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Because I want to support the developers who gave me some of the best games i've ever played?
It takes more than resolution to make art look good and suitable, though. I think they botched the C&CR new art. Thankfully the original graphics are included though, and that the project is open source. It's still a tragic failure to make the best use of such a special project, though.
No, it's not. If you download and try it instead of just making assumptions, you'll see that OpenRA is a (mostly) working engine with skins for C&C, RA and Dune2000, plus a few of the campaign missions. Impressive work for a bunch of volunteers but it's not a game you can sit down and play from start to finish, and it probably never will be. The AI is completely useless and will just stop fighting for no apparent reason, you have to copy the FMV and music from your original discs because including it would be illegal, and there's no actual campaign structure to take you from one mission to the next. It's a fan project, and the only thing you can really use it for is multiplayer sessions with friends you can trust not to cheat.
I think that it wouldn't be illegal to include the original game content in a fan project because C&C, Red Alert, and Tiberian Sun were all released by EA as freeware back in 2010.
Exactly! I realize the graphics are not top of the line.... but it is Red Alert redone with more up-to-date graphics... and I am more than fine with that. I missed Red Alert. This is also about nostalgia for many of us. The hours and hours and hours spent on Red Alert and in WestWood Chat... there are just lots of feels in this. We are all allowed to like what we like. Why it matter so much to others always just blows my mind.
The kind of people that see others REALLY excited about something and decide "Hey, I want to knock them down a notch or two" are the worst types of people, in my opinion. How miserable must OP be to post something like this just in the hopes to make us feel bad and make them feel better?
Just go play OpenRA and have fun. Let us have our fun. This has zero affect on anyone in a negative way. Yeesh!
Unofficial patch projects like mine are a bit of a special case there, since, in essence, they're just upgraded releases of the original games, not 3rd party projects using the game's assets.
Lemon Sky are a digital art studio. So did the art and animations and that's it. Petroglyph were the ones to dig into the source code, update elements and interface, rework the game into a new engine, remaster the music, sound effects etc and pretty much everything else including the video upscaler.
Begging your pardon, but the ORIGINAL working title of Command & Conquer was "Dune 3."
At this point, it's entirely possibly that's only slightly better than an industry legend, but I believe it. I'm certainly open to the possibility of being wrong.
If you're unfamiliar with the history there, do yourself a favor and go play Dune 2. Definitely not as polished as C&C, but still a REALLY fun game. Though personally, I prefer the original Dune, as it is less action-oriented and has more of the feel of the books. Take Total War, remove the ability to directly-command battles, put it in the Dune-iverse, and crank back the ol' time machine about forty years (that last step is crucial).
I once heard the same thing and since one should never fact-check a good story I believe it :-)
Touche, goodman.
Personally, I mostly just WANT to believe it. Sure; it could be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I've honestly never looked into it but it fits the facts. Given the similarities between Dune 2 and C&C, it's almost inconceivable that it's not true. I suppose it's possible that instead of "we lost our license; change the title" it was something more like "we want to tell a story that won't really fit in the Dune canon."
Whether literally true or not, it's very clear if you've played them both (and especially if you played any of the later Dune games), that C&C is Dune 3, even though it's not technically called that.
I mean, I literally linked to, and quoted, the official sources that the name came from. What more proof do you need? :-\
Settle down, Sparky. No need to get defensive; no one is attacking you.
You gave evidence, not proof. I gave no evidence whatsoever. But it doesn't matter; I've acknowledged that my version of events is likely just an industry legend and all-but conceded that I'm wrong.
And I'd love to see what Fortress of Stone would have been like.
Also: "during development" is a pretty ambiguous statement. As a design professional myself, I'd hesitate to put a timestamp on when "development" officially "began" on any given project. It's not of-the-wall to assume development of Dune 3 began before Dune 2 was even released.