Archive for March, 2010

Mass converters considered harmful

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Let’s be honest, Supreme Commander had severe balance problems with mass fabricators. They were simply too good, and rapidly obviated the need for map control. They replaced strategic fights for mass points with ugly, exponentially growing resource farms.
Forged Alliance rectified the issue somewhat by nerfing mass fabricators (and removing the T1 mass fabricator [...]

Skirmish is where it’s at

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

I just played my first skirmish game (after beating the first eight campaign missions), and I must say, skirmish is where it’s at. Skirmish is the hat to campaign’s head. If you’re getting bored of knocking down set-piece after set-piece in campaign mode like I am (including dozens of minutes of building up [...]

GameStop breaks SupCom2 street date for XBOX360

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

According to a GPGnet forum post, the XBOX360 version of SupCom2 is now available in GameStop stores nationwide. Apparently GameStop had a “We’ll do it live!” moment and broke the street date, releasing copies of the game for sale on March 12th instead of March 16th. Now it looks like GPG (or Square-Enix; [...]

Supreme Commander 2 first impressions

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Supreme Commander 2 arrived earlier today in the mail, and naturally, I’ve been playing it, in the same reflexive manner as how, upon reaching the surface of a pool following immersion, I take a breath. I don’t have nearly enough experience yet with the game to attempt a full review, but here are my [...]

Forged Alliance reminds me that it’s all about the fun of it

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Supreme Commander 2 is in the mail! While waiting for its arrival, I’ve been keeping myself occupied with Forged Alliance, which I’ve never played through before. I’ve been playing the missions on hard as UEF and I just completed the fourth mission. Let me just say … wow. GPG was not [...]

Supreme Commander 2 is out

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Supreme Commander 2 was released yesterday! I’m curious to hear any first impressions. I don’t have the game yet (I’m quite busy at the moment), but I shall be getting it just as soon as I finish up Forged Alliance.