Comments on: Square Enix To Publish Supreme Commander 2

By: Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan — Sun, 31 May 2009 09:44:25 +0000

Everyone in this comment thread talking about spikey hair and katana using robots is bigoted against the Japanese.

Prove me wrong (racist).

By: gav

gav — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:19:55 +0000

Supreme Commander Forged Alliance is an Epic game – I love it! Our clan plays this regularly. It’s just a pity about all of the network issues pinging other players in GPG.net. We all play via VPN and I assume other do too – this is probably why the numbers shown online playing is not an accurate representation of the FA community.

Is Chris Taylor on board?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:38:40 +0000

Maerd: No, no ninja robots with laser swords. Robots with building-sized axes would be awesome though.

Or chainfists.

SupCom3 to be published by Games Workshop!

By: Maerd

Maerd — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:11:29 +0000

A few things we don’t want to see:
-Robots with laser swords and extremely agile movements aka gundams. (Hey, it’s what all japanese perceive as ‘Robot’.)
-Commander for each side is a robot with white hair and samurai swords.
-Annoying voice acting that please 7 year olds.
-All explosions are done with minature hearts/stars popping out instead of fire and death.

By: FlamingDemon

FlamingDemon — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:15:20 +0000

@MeestaNob!

No doesn’t look like it. In a strange turn of events the press release about this news was from the Europeon branch of Squenix announcing that the U.S. branch of Squenix have formed a “strategic partnership” with GPG, commencing with the development of SupCom2.

By: MeestaNob!

MeestaNob! — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:50:16 +0000

So is THQ still publishing everywhere else?

By: SwiftRanger

SwiftRanger — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:00:25 +0000

You ‘might’ miss the option to play online (on GPGnet anyway) with the three original races, if you only have FA then you can only play with Seraphim on GPGnet. SupCom is also a lot more friendly to new players with its campaign and video tutorials but FA has the better standard interface.

I’d say go for the gold version, I don’t think it’s that much more expensive than one version seperately. Keep in mind that the focus is a bit different in FA (more based on map control, vanilla SupCom is more of a turtle heaven due to the abuse of cheap mass fabricators which got nerfed in FA) but FA is where the buzz and the community is (not only the competitive ranked stuff but the AI/interface mods and custom maps as well) and you can still tweak the hell out of everything.

By: RichPowers

RichPowers — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:36:53 +0000

Wow, this is very random news.

Is it fair to say that GPG is all over the place when it comes to publishers? Demigod with Stardock, Space Siege with Sega (and on Steam), and now SupCom2 with Squeenix.

SupCom is a very demanding game, that’s for sure. I’ve only played the demo, but I really enjoyed setting the AI to turtle and then coming up with elaborate ways of invading their base.

Will I be missing out on anything substantial if I skip the original and go straight to Forged Alliance?

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:23:09 +0000

This is… bizarre. Then again, Square and Disney teamed together for Kingdom Hearts so it is not as if there is no precedent.

Neither TA nor SupCom will ever win any awards for great writing. Though I did miss the bombastic narration of TA when confronted with some very boring exposition in Supreme Commander. Still, it’s not as if you play the giant robot games for the interpersonal drama–you play them to build an army of spider robots with death rays.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:13:04 +0000

I need to add. I really enjoy playing sup com. But its ‘feel’ is hollow. I like applying strategy on a grand scale, but i always personalise certain units and buildings. Sup com makes it hard.

In age of empires free for all games i would strip mine areas or islands transport all my spare sheep and a few villagers there and have them build political refuge filled with nothing but houses and farms. And ask players to send a single peasant as an emissary.

They would be safe there as any who breeched the refuge would have breeched “international law”.

Also in sacrifice? Manahoar un commitee, usually ends in someone summoning a volcano.

Coh lacks free for all so i play the game they sold me instead.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:36:55 +0000

Supcom always felt like a battle between toys. No personality, no features beyond the numbers. And up close the animations were like fleas skipping on a tiny replica island.

5 meaningful units over a thousand meaningless mods. Coh fo life.

Stardock? Squemix? Who is next? Another s or it in alphabetical order?

By: Fat Zombie

Fat Zombie — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:09 +0000

Any game which would allow you to recruit a group of typical FF-style JRPG characters, then order them into a wall of robo-death robots and ten-story miniguns/gatling lasers/R-cannons, would be worth buying!

Still. Woo, Supcom 2, etc.