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Total Annihilation was waaay better! :)
by tomc1985 10y ago
Total Annihilation was waaay better! :)
- Synaesthesia 10y agoEh different philosophies. I also loved TA though.
- nercht12 10y agoThat got revised and rewritten as the FOSS game ZeroK [1]. The original is still under copyright, but the guys who did ZeroK started with it as the code base and then gradually removed all the proprietary code. Surprisingly for a FOSS game project as big as it is, it's still actively developed. [1] http://zero-k.info/ http://zero-k.info/
- tomc1985 10y agoThere's TA:Spring project too
- niuzeta 10y agoMy pick was Dark Reign. Boy was it ahead of its time. :(
- TulliusCicero 10y agoIt's impossible to say, TA never took off and so never had a large competitive scene like SC/BW had, and so you can't really evaluate its balance. And the balance is probably the most legendary thing about Starcraft 1, that it was so well-balanced even though each faction was radically different.
- tomc1985 10y agoI always felt like SC was too balanced. TA at LAN parties was more fun because most people weren't so practiced at it (To be fair, Blizzard is excellent at doing balance. So good in fact that it also took a lot of the fun out of WoW; four hours of grinding for a +2% stat increase...)
- TulliusCicero 10y agoThere's a certain type of fun that comes from experimenting and figuring things out and wacky times. And there's a certain type of fun that comes from mastery of a well-designed system.