Supreme Commander Games Released on GOG

June 10th, 2020, 01:26

Three of the very best RTS games have been released on GOG this week.

Supreme Commander Gold Edition

https://www.gog.com/game/supreme_commander_gold_edition

Supreme Commander 2

https://www.gog.com/game/supreme_commander_2

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June 10th, 2020, 04:30

Good games if you're into RTS. I'm not much into that genre anymore myself, but Supreme Commander was one of the last RTS games I really enjoyed. Never played the sequel.

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December 23rd, 2020, 04:45

Originally Posted by JDR13
Good games if you're into RTS. I'm not much into that genre anymore myself, but Supreme Commander was one of the last RTS games I really enjoyed. Never played the sequel.

Lucky you, keep it that way.

Supreme Commander can spoil other RTS games in a number of ways. I remember the waypoint queuing system being very impressive. It's so well done the kind of things you could pull off with that would take a while just to describe and end up sounding overly convoluted.

So a simple example would be having a flying transport pickup and delivering a harvester to various locations all over the map letting the harvester clear out each area, airlifting it between each location and finally returning it to base, then both going their own way along their separate waypoint queues.

It's so many leagues above anything else, it's not just a great waypoint system, the waypoint queues for different units can interact, and then you also have things like pickup/dropoff zones if I remember right.

That game did so many things that should have become instant standards for RTS games.

Wish the campaign/levels itself were better designed though.

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JDR13

December 23rd, 2020, 21:46

Not my style of game but I'm sure happy to applaud great old games bringing more classic titles to those that will truly appreciate them!

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December 28th, 2020, 15:48

Originally Posted by JDR13
Good games if you're into RTS. I'm not much into that genre anymore myself, but Supreme Commander was one of the last RTS games I really enjoyed. Never played the sequel.

Same. The last great RTS I enjoyed. There was just something so supremely satisfying in watching giant mechs go at it.

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