Upvoted for Total Annihilation. (Also, educational.)

Probably the closest RTS games I can think of to this scale are things like the Total Annihilation series (loads of units) and the spiritual successors Supreme Commander and Supreme Commander 2 (loads of units and a large difference in scale between some of them).

There's nothing comparable to the Battle Cruiser in this clip, but there are units that are hugely different in size, like the Ultralisks shown here.

I don't really think I'd call it a "close call" when one guy gets totally annihilated.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Take it away, Rush:
"A lot of people have been saying this kind of thing. It's been one of the raging debates about where we are as a country, and have we lost the country. That's what this is all about. So went back, I went back to the news archives. And look what I have here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. This is USA Today, April 26th, 2011. Headline: "Americans Depend More on Federal Aid Than Ever." It's not Romney saying it. Ha-ha. It's USA Today, shazam. It's the Drive-By Media saying it.
"Americans depended more on government assistance in 2010 than at any other time in the nation's history." Exactly right. It's why Obama has to be stopped. It's not what this country is, as Obama said his convention, "It's not who we are." This is not who we are. Forty-seven percent of this country's population is helplessly dependent on the government because of policies created by Barack Obama and the Democrat Party year after year after year. Why are they dependent? Nobody's saying that all 47% of 'em are slackers. Nobody's saying that all 47% of 'em are losers. A lot of them are victims of Obamaism, of the Democrat Party. They're victims of liberalism. They're victims of an economy that does not grow. They're victims of an economy that shrinks. They are victims of an economy where there are fewer jobs and where there's less income to be earned. They are victims of failed Democrat Party policy after policy after policy."


Look I'm not fan of either party, in fact I hate politics in general... but this one-sided rhetoric doesn't help anyone... The headline reads that in 2010 Americans depended more on government assistance than ever", then it gets subtlety tweaked into "47% of the country is helplessly dependent on the government" Really?? 47% helplessly dependent??! Nice little shift there... And Obamaism? wtf does that even mean? So they really believe that before Obama took office everything was great then one year later it had all turned to shit?

Again, I don't care for Obama or any politician's for that matter, but do you not see how this kind of divisive rhetoric will only drive people further apart then they already are? What's the endgame, a civil war between the 'right' and the 'left'? I just don't get what people like Rush actually want other than the total annihilation of the left. Isn't democracy supposed to be about working together (even with opposing views) for the good of the people? Or am I wrong about that?

Isn't it fascinating how every four years, we seem to always be at a tipping point between total destruction and prosperity?

There should be a study done or something...for some reason, every four years, our union is just a heartbeat away from being completely and totally annihilated by a mustache twirling villain who conspires to put you in chains and shoot your dog too.

Amazing that we've survived this long. Every four years, somehow we've managed to avoid the total collapse of the United States.

Someone should look into that.

Jeremy Soule has been one of my favorite game music composers ever since he gave Total Annihilation, a real time strategy game featuring giant robots, a full orchestral score.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CBTZqO83WQ

>> ^NicoleBee:

I wasted SO MUCH TIME playing this with my brother against AI


Downvoted because any time spent playing Total Annihilation can not be classified as a waste.
That is a fact. I believe that if you look up the definition for "not wasting time" TotalA is the first hit.

>> ^NicoleBee:

I wasted SO MUCH TIME playing this with my brother against AI


Have you played Supreme Commander 1? Part 2 diverts from what made TA so great IMO, but part one is awesome.

I always preferred the more turrtley RTS's like Total annihilation and Homeworld. Starcraft was a little to twitch for my tastes. I wonder if my tastes have changed enough to like this one a bit more...Find out soon I guess

That's fair - it's all machines and that doesn't lend itself well to drawing the player in as well as Blizzard does it.

I really love the battles though. Some of the 3 and 4 sided multiplayer battles I've been in are truly epic - and the strategy involved is very interesting. The massive scale and intelligence-gathering tactics and counter-tactics mean you really have to be able to respond very quickly (in terms of techologies and/or units).

When I do purchase SupCom 2, it would be nice to have other sifters to play against - we could even record matches and have them posted on the sift.>> ^gwiz665:

I played it a bit and played the old Total Annihilation too. The main problem I had with it, was that the units had no "soul". I had no real empathy for them, which is something Starcraft and Warcraft does well.
I did love that they simulated every gunshot and that it's a much grander scale though. If SupCom 2 improves on the first and makes it a bit, well, better, then I might just try it out.

I played it a bit and played the old Total Annihilation too. The main problem I had with it, was that the units had no "soul". I had no real empathy for them, which is something Starcraft and Warcraft does well.

I did love that they simulated every gunshot and that it's a much grander scale though. If SupCom 2 improves on the first and makes it a bit, well, better, then I might just try it out.

Yes. Let's have more regurgitated bullshit. These big corporations hardly every create anything new...they just buy some company that has a cool idea and run it into the ground with 8 sequels while charging every moron $15 for DLC "extras" that were really just things stripped from the original game.

Yes. Wave hello Call of Duty, Total Annihilation (Supreme Commander), Command & Conquer, Medal of Honor, Need for Speed, Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Wolfenstein, Tony Hawk, blah blah fucking blah.

Sequels are one thing. Giving people more of what they want is fine. It's the stripping of features, massive "reboots", etc, that I have a problem with. If you change the game enough that it isn't much like the original, fuck you, do not use the name again.

If they reboot the Mechwarrior series and do a good job, awesome. If a "reboot" game is a lot like the original but updated for new technology, great. But, if all your new shooter has in common with the original game is that it's a shooter created by a studio that still employs the janitor that was cleaning the toilets when the original was made, call it something else. All of you know God of War IV or Call of Duty 8...THOUSAND will be a giant pile of crap.

Don't give in. Open your eyes. Buy something else.

Ronald Reagan? Stopped the Cold War? Yeah, but putting the USA in to massaive debt through building astonishing amounts of nuclear weapons in an arms race with USSR, ISNT, creating peace. Unless of course, you count the total annihilation of Humanity thorugh a nuclear holocaust, the peaceful way?

Can you tell whom voted for Mr. McCain last November? And whom voted for Mr. Obama in that crowd?

If I recall recent history, thanks to quite a number of individuals (under Mr. Obama's leadership), what could have been a economic depression, wasn't. I guess that isn't much, right?

I cheer the president for his award. Its an award being given to an AMERICAN. Not that all you folks outside the USA are bad people or anything. I'm sure if the Nobel had one for being 'Stupid' or 'Making War', Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney would have won several times (maybe gotten in to Guiness for the most straight times to win a Nobel award).

PC Gamer here too. I was playing Lord of the Rings online as well Knives. Played on Landroval for about a year, the RP there was the best I've seen in an MMO anywhere. I'm back to WoW for now though due to an old friend coming back. I found my break made that game incredibly fun to come back to.

I've always been a PC gamer. I owned a Nintendo 64 for Goldeneye, then later got into Mario Kart. And a Sega Genesis, Sonic was the bomb, but that's about it for consoles.

I play just about every type of game... well.. till MMO's came along now they eat my life. Oh god.. Old Republic.. my soul is lost 4ever....aaaaaaaah

Fanboy of: Half-Life series from the moment Half-Life: Day One got leaked to the net a few weeks before it hit retail. Total Annihilation (Oh the LAN matches we had.. ). Baldur's Gate series. System Shock / Bioshock. Etc, etc...

>> ^Raigen:
the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or "Moho."


So THAT'S where the "moho" in "Moho mine" comes from!

Total Annihilation fans, you know what I'm talking about.