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[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 61 points 2 weeks ago

The base game was standard global war on terror apologia, but the expansion pack ends with the US finally learning to get their nose out of everyone's business after the USS Reagan is destroyed by a stolen US super weapon, and China becoming the unipolar power of the world. inshallah-script

[–] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 55 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] OutrageousHairdo@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago

It will look real nice when it's done!

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Middle Kingdom = Middle Earth Elevensies confirmed

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

I WILL BUILD FOR CHINA!

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 51 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Edie@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And collapse from iron deficiency

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[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 48 points 2 weeks ago

Whichever one of you’s got the lathe, don’t forget curry-space

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 47 points 2 weeks ago

Ak47s for everyone!!!

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone googled "Terrorist Logo" and gave it the ol' flip horizontally

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's not an exact copy (game, irl), but I'm willing to believe some :fedposting: threw prompts into the :torment: Nexus until a suitable one fell out.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

And here I was giving the :fedposting: some intelligence points...

[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 39 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh i remeber the GLA ! It was such a well designed rebel faction , and it precursed VIEB and Tunnels in a way one has to really respect in Hindsight.

They even had sucide Bombers which is why they had to censor the game in germany and replace them with suicide drones..

[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

and the "Armed Mob" ! and you could upgrade up the Mob with Ak's and Molotov cocktails.

[–] djphdk@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

AK-47's for everyone!

That quote is just burned into my brain forever

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Pretty sure the GLA workers upgrade was that you bought them new shoes or something like that

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thank you for the new shoes

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reminds me of reading/listening about the experience of YPG volunteers from abroad where they explained that you had to purchase your own gear and weapons from the black markets so most of them were fighting ISIS in flip flops and trainers.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Good close toed footwear that doesn't rot or fall apart is almost as important as food for running a war. : (

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[–] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Some of the stereotypes like the SCUD missiles, Chinese hackers etc. were really on the nose lol.

[–] TheDrink@hexbear.net 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

C&C had such great mechanics, it's a shame it also came from the "every non white character has a really offensive accent" era of voice acting.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think except the TIberium Wars series, both Red Alert and Generals had offensive steriotypes, Red Alert 3 is pretty much a cartoon, the US and Soviet portrayals are pretty funny though. The Japanese one is just offensive, even though they are Imperial Japan.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Complete with George Takei as Emperor of Imperial Harajuku and a school girl commando iirc. Also I think the Nazi Star Wars lady and The Anti-Vax lady were in it.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

The Nazi Star Wars lady was the Soviet sniper, I forgot who the anti-vax lady was. Some players used to joke saying Yuriko was the long lost Japanese daughter of Yuri from Red Alert 2. Btw, Red Alert 3 felt really fucking weirdly horny for no reason, Red Alert 2 had sexual jokes but both men and women were dressed in Sci-Fi armor and clothing for most of the time, even Tanya had a modest look. Tim Curry, JK Simmons and David Hasselhoff were pretty funny

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Jenny McCarthy. Let me double check it was her. Yeah. McCarthy portrayed Tanya.

And yeah, weirdly horny. Red Alert I was reasonably straight. II got goofier. and then III was just horny cartoon ridiculousness.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIRPcICB-iY

Yeah, this promotional video, compared to the RE1 intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QB9BSuwrbQ

RE1 was always fun. "What if Einstein went back in time and merked Hitler so WWII didn't happen?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91eoGZOcwo

Fucking lol the Allies aren't wearing Nazi uniforms but aren't not not Nazi uniforms. Tanya's not wearing a shirt, but, like... she's not wearing booty shorts either.

The series also gave us the Hell March which we should probably bring back as a theme song because it's so fucking good.

I wouldn't mind seeing FMV cutscenes come back. They were always fun. Usually very campy, which was the right mood for many games.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think Red Alert I was supposed to be a serious prequel to the first Command and Conquer game, the one about Tiberium and Kane, the only silly thing in that game was Stalin dancing in London. I have absolute no idea why EA did that to III, only to kill the entire franchise some years later.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

The later games really seems to lose the sense of what made the early games work so well.

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[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

The entire game was censored in Germany, all the soldiers were replaced by androids and robots (like Half-Life 1). And I think it wasn't an actual drone, but rather a barrel of TNT and RC car. China was renamed to Asia Pact and the US to Western Alliance. GLA was renamed to IBG (Internationale Befreiungsgruppe - International Liberation Group).

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 35 points 2 weeks ago

The CIA is wholly unoriginal.

[–] AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee 26 points 2 weeks ago

I will work for food!

[–] OutrageousHairdo@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
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[–] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago
[–] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] LeZero@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing stops the mail!

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

NO FUCKING WAY. Next you are going to say they actually have Generals named Dr. Thrax, Prince Kassad and General Juhziz.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

General Jizz 😭😭😭😭

[–] a_party_german@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

New technology available General:

Arm the Woke Mob

37 pronouns for everyone!

(sorry posting this again, I just thought it was such a good joke for old C&C Generals players)

[–] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Angry mob sounds

WE HAVE NEW PRONOUNS!

[–] Verenata@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Nehehehehehe nobody stop the ~~mail~~ gender

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

CAN WE GET A GOD DAMN BAUDRILLARD EMOTE

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Toxin GLA + tunnels + toxin terrorists then harass with angry mob while sending the terrorists from the tunnels to take out production

Depends if they're on generals or zero hour i guess

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Remembering when the worker speed upgrade finished the gla worker would say "thank you for the new shoes" lol

[–] Verenata@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

But this was the logo in my bfs and my versions doggirl-sweat

Is it different in the americaland version?

Edit: my bf "as far as i can tell goggling, this is the logo of the restructured GLA from the cancelled game Generals 2 cos that's not in my game".

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's the GLA logo for the cancelled Generals 2 Game. In that game they were actually Global and had agents from Russia, Europe and Latin America

[–] Verenata@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

One part of me is sad it never got a sequel but like omg it was soooo racist lmao.

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