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Generals Zero Hour vs Red Alert 2
Which one wins for you?
Zero Hour easily wins for me. Very active community. Lots of tournaments and excellent game play. Not slow like AoE2, not fast like RA2. Just the sweeet spot.
Which one wins for you?
Zero Hour easily wins for me. Very active community. Lots of tournaments and excellent game play. Not slow like AoE2, not fast like RA2. Just the sweeet spot.
I really love Generals/Zero Hour, but the original Red Alert is my jam, having gotten it for Christmas when I was 12 and I still play it these days. I used to just sit in classes 6th grade and draw maps I wanted to play on.
Then and now, I only played Skirmish, as I've never been particularly adept at multiplayer RTS games.
Multiplayer RTS is an entire different game too. And I do mean that as broad as I said it.
I vastly prefer slowly building up and figuring things out or trying out something versus having a set build order and min max everything to win. The former is relaxing, the latter is stressful.
When you play with friends that also like the former playstyle you get this great mix of multiplayer competitiveness without the sweaty try hard stuff. That's the best of both worlds.
Yup, that's exactly where I sit. I just want to turtle up and then crank out a bunch of units and crush the AI with little resistance; a good ole Comp Stomp. Red Alert skirmish is what I'd call my "cozy game."
Thank goodness someone else plays the game like I do. It's very much a cozy game for me too. Nice to know there's a term used (albeit in another game) for this gameplay style. With limited free time, a 15-20 minute turtle>trounce is a nice little break. Especially since OpenRA came out, that's the version I play now.
I struggled to get into OpenRA. It thought it could be a new obsession for me, but the changes made to it just throw me off and I ended-up not really appreciating them.
I enjoy the predictability of the original AI, which I think is why I call it my cozy game. Though, I admit I did install an AI mod for RA in the hopes of changing things-up, but I haven't really played since then, as I haven't gotten the itch back yet.
Red Alert 2 was my introduction to C&C games so has a special place in my heart, but my friends and I found the Contra Mod for Zero Hour while we were in college and played way too much of that for our own good, so is the winner in my book.
Never got into competitive play at all, but co-op with friends against the hardest AI was always a joy
There are tons of online competitive games on gameranger, radmin and cnc online! Give it a chance. The community is nice:)
Man that Contra mod was so much fun. I once hid stealth nuclear bomb trucks all over the map with a group of friends and when I detonated them all it crashed the game. Fond gaming memories.
These are my two favorite C&C games by a wide margin, so this is a tough one because they are quite different from each other. RA2 is the first game in the series that I truly enjoyed and payed a ton of, so I think I'll give it the nod (heh), but Generals/Zero Hour had a lot of unit variety and fun tactics.
The intro movie to RA2 and Hell March are amazing, and while Generals is very special and I greatly enjoyed it, nothing really matches the charm that RA2 had for me.
Hats off to the composer by the way. The charge and energy in this game is great.
I can't verify at the moment, but I think that KMFDM contributed some tracks to this game
I never really got into RA2 and to be honest I preferred RA1 more (not to mention OpenRA is a thing), I'd go with Generals. I dunno, Generals just feels memeable, the entire series is memeable but Generals has the GLA which is the most hilarious faction ever
Its a coin flip since they're different enough to almost be different genre's of RTS. Given that RA is mostly known for its lack of base building units, and generals was the first game to change that formula, you're basically looking at the top of the two.
That said personally I logged WAAAAAAY more hours in Generals, so it's probably that, but I also never got any of the RA2 expansions, to my sadness. I do like watching competitive gameplay of either, as there's some really neat stuff that occurs in these games which makes them fantastic to watch.
Zero Hour, solely because of Pure Pwnage.