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C&C has really dated controls today, too. The C&C remaster added a lot of modern QoL improvements.

• ethbr0 4y ago
  Try Populus again.
  • viraptor 4y ago
    Or not... I had such good memories of it, but then tried it again a few years ago and, uh, it's just terrible. The concept is still cool, but it's just pain to play. The memories were way better.
    • ethbr0 4y ago
      Yeah... the whole "put esoteric graphical buttons required for frequent and repetitive game actions on a static background around the viewport" is thankfully consigned to the dustbin of history. I realize why it was done: maximizing interactive graphics on the limited hardware of the day by shrinking the rendering region. But good god, making core user interface elements that unusable is a fever dream only someone completely unfamiliar with time-motion studies or prior mainframe keyboard art could dream up. They could have at least made it hands-on-keyboard and had a shrunken viewport.