Topic: Kasavin is leaving Gamespot!

[Quemaqua]

C&C is just kind of lame now.  I too enjoyed Red Alert, and the original was huge for me.  I screwed around and found a way to rip the soundtrack for my own devices, even.  But the games have really stagnated and the franchise as a whole is just very bland and boring.  There's very little left of interest there, in my opinion.

[PyroMenace]

Well Tiberium Sun was just bad and Generals I never played and it did look rather bland, I see what you mean. But from what I've seen of the new C&C it does look to hold some promise and breath new life in the series again. I guess what I'm really pointing at is the new game which has impressed me thus far.

[Quemaqua]

It could be fine, I just really don't see the need for another modern warfare themed RTS.  I mean, I'm sick of RTS games in general that aren't Dawn of War, and C&C seems like one of the more boring franchises that one could work on.  And really, it doesn't matter, he's just gonna' be doing some producing, and the project is already well underway, so he's really going to be doing more work on the tail end rather than from the ground up.  It's just a shame he didn't announce some game and company that all of us would be totally wowed by and stuff.  Hopefully this will be a stepping stone to that eventual goal, but it's just a little anti-climactic because all of us were so devastated that he was leaving.  I think we wanted him to be leaving for not only an opportunity, but also for something really impressive.  I don't doubt we all wish him well regardless of the project, just too bad it isn't one we can't be more excited for.

[sirean_syan]

C&C of the past = awesome

C&C of the now = not so great

At least that was how I fell about how they handled things with Generals, the use of the franchise for Renegade, and somewhat Tiberium Sun (I have to admit I liked the styling of things).

C&C3 has hope since it's not a straight out modern affair and it loaded with all sorts of that fun future tech. I just saw the other day that the third army is going to be an alien buggish/War of the Worlds mix and you can guess (or know) that I'm a huge sucker for. At least it looks fairly cool still even if the game doesn't flow as dynamically as something like Relic's games.

[Pugnate]

The C&C games seem to be immensely popular even among those who aren't big followers of games. I could never see the appeal though. On one hand the theme was of a futuristic war, yet the graphics and story were just too campy for me to enjoy the setting.

[Quemaqua]

You're not alone, Pug.  It worked for the early games, but that's one thing that keeps me away now.

[sirean_syan]

kasavin's last review? Kinda interesting in that the game will probably be one of the last hurrahs for the PS2. It's almost fitting really.

*sniff*

[TheOtherBelmont]

kasavin's last review? Kinda interesting in that the game will probably be one of the last hurrahs for the PS2. It's almost fitting really.

*sniff*

Hell yeah, I was keeping my eye on this game and now I'm probably going to buy it, I just bought Okami though, so I probably won't buy Rogue Galaxy till after I beat Okami.

[Quemaqua]

Funny how many "last hurrahs" we keep seeing for the PS2.  Seem to be more all the time.  I looked at this one briefly and thought I wasn't interested... I'm not sure I've yet changed my mind, but at least it turned out well.

[scottws]

Don't PSX games still get made?  I wouldn't be surprised if more PS2 games still come out for some time to come.

[TheOtherBelmont]

Funny how many "last hurrahs" we keep seeing for the PS2.  Seem to be more all the time.

Yeah, God of War 2 is still coming out in March.  Also Scott, PSX games are not being made anymore, at least in the US, hence why some of the classic PSX titles like the FF games, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and many, many others are so hard to find now and cost so much on Ebay.  Don't know about Japan though, didn't a Dreamcast game just get released there recently?

[sirean_syan]

Not sure, but I remember hearing an honest to goodness Genisis game came out. It was some old school RPG.

[PyroMenace]

Man... 8 years later and this is what Gamespot has become. A fucking clickbait site.

I thought when they did their last downsizing of the GS team they would focus in on video content like Giantbomb is doing, but then I saw that linked on facebook like a bunch of other trash clickbait shit sites you would see. They seem to have some decent people working there now like Danny O'Dywer and Mary Kish but they really don't capitalize on their personalities much. I guess I can see what CBS interactive is doing, have a gaming site that gains the respect of it's audience and then another sister site that enacts the worst ad practices possible to grab whatever traffic giantbomb throws its way, pretty much getting their cake and eating it too.

[Cobra951]

God, listicles.  I never click on them anymore, unless they come with a credible guarantee of everything being on one page.  OK, maybe two, if it's really long.  How the mighty have fallen.

[gpw11]

Yeah, it's really really annoying when sites do that.

[Pugnate]

As far as listicles go, that's not a bad one I feel. I also don't mind clicking for each one when they've been as tastefully presented as that.

Bad listicles are really bad though. Artificial and just pure click bait.