"Jonathan" <jrcdehc@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "QUINN R PAYNE" <quinnpayne@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> > "BananaOfTheNight" <bananaofthenight@hotmail.com.nospaam.please> wrote
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> > > > Why is it that I always turn to TA for a totally satisfying gaming
> > > > experience? I have shelves of games but none has kept me coming back
> for
> > > > more like TA !
> > > > I have spent hours-days-months playing each campaign in easy to hard
> > > > settings over and over again, and I still keep coming back for more.
> > When I
> > > > play the Core I hate the Arm, when I am the Arm all Core must die,
> what
> > is
> > > > its never ending attraction? In my very humble opinion I have never
> > found a
> > > > more compelling game, others have come close but never quite reached
> the
> > > > lofty heights achieved by TA.
> > > The music might have something to do with the game's massive
'enjoyment
> > > quotient'. When done right, the music in a game can really complement
> > > the gameplay, and TA's music is joint top of all the games that I have
> > > seen (joint with Thunder Force IV on the Mega Drive).
> > >
> > > What can beat rolling your tanks across the landscape to some
inspiring
> > > Wagner-ish tunes? Couple that to the battles themselves where you can
> > > have literally hundreds of sci-fi, laser-wielding metal doom-machines
on
> > > screen at once, all pounding away at each other (with hundreds of
> > > projectiles as well) and you have a really inspiring scene.
> > >
> > > Finally, it had a lot of ideas that were ahead of its time - true LOS
in
> > > a 3D environment (no camera rotation - that came a bit later) that
made
> > > you want to try again with you units in a different position (is the
> > > radar van better safe behind my tanks, or up on that hill.....).
> > >
> > > Modern strategy games (at least ones with nice lasers and stuff)
simply
> > > don't have that many units on screen at once - you need that real
sense
> > > of scale for your battles to be complete.
> > >
> > > > Where oh where is the continuation of this game, a proud
son/daughter
> of
> > a
> > > > gaming masterpiece to give me lost nights sleep,a yearning to finish
a
> > level
> > > > that borders on the lunatic, missed meals and missed appointments?
> > > What happened to Cavedog? The only real successor to TA could be made
by
> > > them (and not some generic in-house EA developer).
> > >
> > > > cruel,cruel developers and holders of its software rights give us
TA2
> > > I don't know if the developers are actually responsible for there
being
> > > no TA2 - the publishers (or whoever holds the rights) will have to say
> > > "We want another TA". I remember that Volition were perfectly happy to
> > > make another Freespace game, but Interplay didn't want to make another
> > > FS and they want under (so there will never be another Freespace).
> >
> > The person mostly responsible for creating TA, Chris Taylor, has started
a
> > new game company called Gas powered games, wich recently announced a new
> RTS
> > game in the works
http://www.gaspowered.com/press.php
> > published by EA. This is going to be our best bet for the next TA like
RTS
> > game. To add to that GPG has purchased the domain name
> SupremeCommander.com
> >
http://www.vgap.net/sc.html wich is a fairly good indication that this
> will
> > be at least a spiritual successor to TA.
> >
>
> Any idea on a release date?
>
> I was promised 4th Qtr 2004 like two years ago....
>
> And my TA is crashing in XP constantly (or units won't fight)...
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
>
No release date as of yet, probably late 2005, they(GPG) are working on
releaseing Dungeon Seige 2 right now for holiday 2004 so any news on the RTS
we will likely get after that. just speculation, of course.
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