Why do people play this?

[SKaREO]

When Planetary Annihilation: TITANS is available, why would people go back to this dead game? I understand, during its time it was very hyped. But let's face it, the gameplay is just mediocre compared to PA:T. So what keep you coming back to this instead?

[WaRp]

this game is awesome
one of the best 10 pounds 8 ever spent

[SKaREO]

It's dated, though. Time to evolve. Pick up a copy of PA:TITANS if you haven't already, it's probably the best RTS game ever made.

[Ceejay]

Do you work for the developer of titans?

Personally I played Planetary Annhinlation, I have it, I was even an early backer. I found it boring as hell to play when it came out, regardless of the patches. As for Titans, many early backers feel that was a kick in the teeth, it should have been a free addon/patch, as it is, PA still feels like an unfinished game and not worth the money paid,

I have no desire to go back and play it, where as I have spent countless houses on sup com, sup com fa (I had it on disk before the steam version so the hours are wrong)

I am not quite sure why, on paper it should be great, but it just does not work for me. I would actually rank it as one of the most boring stratergy games. The potential was huge and they just did not deliver, at least for me and many others (hence the countless threads on the pa forums).

Lately I am playing the Star Trek Armarda III mod for Sins of a solar Empire, that is a fan made mod, free and it feels so much more polished and finished than PA and makes me want to go back and play it more each time.

[Gralzeim]

"Why do people play this instead of Planetary Annihilation"

Because Planetary Annihilation needs like 12-16 GB RAM to really get the most out of it, and I have 6. Also, just not a fan of the gameplay. I have PA, and Titans doesn't add enough to make me want to throw extra money at the devs.

Planetary Annihilation was a nice experiment, and an interesting idea (though not without flaws, horrid optimization, and not enough automation), but adding a few super units and calling it a brand new game doesn't make it worth the price, to me.


Meanwhile, Forged Alliance and Supreme Commander 2 have solid gameplay that, despite their age, still holds up. Especially when you add mods to the mix.

[Muddy Water Salesman]

Supcom faf > PA:titans for one reason, Supcom faf has experimentals like PA:titans "super units" supcom did it first abd better PA:titans is a boring old ripoff from an actulaly great game

引用自 SKaREO：

"Chess is boring" is something a very young naive person might say, but not a refined strategy gamer. In fact, Chess is the empirical standard in strategy gaming, during the Cold War it replaced armed conflicts in the geopolitical spectrum. There's an obvious reason why the designers decided to use one faction: balanced gameplay.

TITANS is also played on a globe which opens up far more depth in strategy and tactics. We have super units now that can crush an enemy commander to bits. The UI is the best I've ever seen in any game. You seem to think that quantity > quality, and I simply disagree with you there. Balance is of the foremost importance when designing a competitive strategy game.

[Sirius]

Just got PA. Not impressed. Not getting "Titians" Expansion / DLC / The Thing That Should Already Have Been In The Game, because I don't see how that will improve things for me.

It juts feels like a carbon copy of SC with tacked on gimmicks, and the performance is ridiculous.

Just because a game is "dead" doesn't mean it's not good. Just because there's a newer *-like doesn't mean we have to abandon the things we love to play.

Newer isn't always better. In fact, it rarely is.

[AzarathTV]

2 solutions : 1) you work fo the devs
2) you are huge fanboy and PA:T is your religion, you trying to convert us

[AzarathTV]

he get banned from titan... so stop talking to him, he is trying to know who have the game, for account hack and play titan again.

[Jinor]

I play SupCom: FA because it is an awesome game and a true heir to the TA legacy. Planetary Annihilation does not have the feel and atmosphere a TA successor should have in my humble opinion.

[belatedcube1021]

you may as well ask someone why they are playing Halo CE instead of Halo 5

[Dr John]

In a word? Sheilds. I hate not having sheilds in Titans and PA. This is why you need to build 10 level 1 factories and churn out hundreds of units as fast as possible, and rush the enemy before they get too big. In many ways FA is more fun than Titans, and there are more options for trying different tactics. Plus, FA has a story, 3 different factions, and a single player game that is awesome. But I play FA and Titans. Most of my FA playing friends however never warmed up to PA and Titans, and don't play them at all.

[Combine54]

引用自 SKaREO：

"Chess is boring" is something a very young naive person might say, but not a refined strategy gamer. In fact, Chess is the empirical standard in strategy gaming, during the Cold War it replaced armed conflicts in the geopolitical spectrum. There's an obvious reason why the designers decided to use one faction: balanced gameplay.

TITANS is also played on a globe which opens up far more depth in strategy and tactics. We have super units now that can crush an enemy commander to bits. The UI is the best I've ever seen in any game. You seem to think that quantity > quality, and I simply disagree with you there. Balance is of the foremost importance when designing a competitive strategy game.

titans is paid update. Nuffsaid /thread

[Stoltskai]

Also Supcom is ALOT easier to run on a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ computer (like my own) than PA trust me I tried

[steelwork]

i ll add one more things. there is awesome mods for supcom fa that add again more strategy.
it add tons of units (very different units), fun, new AI etc...

total mayhem (available, new units for all factions, experimentals units for each tier, new defense systems, experimental defence for all tier, etc...)

battle sector: earth (in dev, 2 new faction, infantry units, no perfect aiming (guns aren't 100% accurate anymore) and more to come)

brewlan (available, add mines, special engineers, new experimentals, walls for all tier, etc...)

and more
http://www.moddb.com/games/supreme-commander/mods

what feels interresting in supcom is that it feels like a big chess war game as planetary annihilation feels like a space ant war game (now with TITAN :D)

there is way more depth in supcom than in pa:t . tho pa:t seems more appealing, more friendly than supcom.

[TAG_Utter]

PA is a +/- decent game but stays on FA shadow only , but FA its the ultimate RTS game to any player ,there isnt nothing bether at this moment that can take out this old game.

Last days for what players say FAForever there was always + 1k players online ....to a 2007 game thats just daam awsome.