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[Kamikazi]

Generals 2.... hmm... THAT WOULD BE FRIKKIN' AWESOME!!!!!! =o

[Soul]

Let's just hope they don't half-ass it and put some actual effort into a background story.

[Admiral FCS]

Just like what Strategia did?

On topic: If there is Generals 2, I hope it'd be easy to mod, and keep all teh goods General/ZH Have.

Off again: Err, maybe because my comp craps, but I thought Generals' SAGE is better than RA3/C&C3 SAGE...

[Sharpnessism]

I hope they don't try to make 12 generals again. Even on a basic level, some generals are WAYYY too similar to each other (Nuke & vChina, vGLA & Demo, humvee generals). No more than 9 Generals after the expansion, hopefully. The generals should be different from each other but not too different, something like vChina and Infantry would be nice, having radically different units but still keeping some basic links and feel.

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Let's just hope they don't half-ass it and put some actual effort into a background story.

EA will have a bad base, considering CCG and ZH's storyline. Hopefully they'll focus on the game play element, variety, and balance.

[KiraSama]

i am the only one than want a sudamerica faction if they put a new side? :x

apart from that as far as is easy to mod and the dont push it to the side like kane's wrath ...

[CodeCat]

Am I the only one here who's wondering what Generals 2 would actually be about? Generals hardly had a story, so what is there to follow up on?

[E.V.E.]

Well, maybe they noticed that a Story was lacking big time, so they could do a Campaign wich would invovle every General.

A Member has once posted a similiar Thread as an Idea for a Mod here, wich sounded quite Nice.
Basically it was about a Campaign wich involved each General, depending on wich Faction you choosed you had those Generals as Allies or Enemies ...

- E.V.E.

EDIT: Yeah, General Tao as an Allie, that would be nice.

[Lord Atlantis]

I am interested in seeing what the story is going to be about... just no real world spin offs. Actually have some imagination behind it...

@ EVE, that actually sounds kind of like the campaign idea behind Red Alert 3.

Edited by Lord Atlantis, 15 August 2008 - 23:45.

[Stinger]

I hope they use the Generals Selection System as it was intended to be from the Command Centre where you would choose your General. I don't care much about the story, but I would like to see the three original factions make a return.

And, for Heaven's sake, f**k the sidebar back to hell where it belongs.

[Nem]

Stinger, on 15 Aug 2008, 19:56, said:

And, for Heaven's sake, f**k the sidebar back to hell where it belongs.

QFT!

My only wish is that it is as easy to mod as generals.

[E.V.E.]

No way.

They're game needs to advanced, and RA3 already looks very complicated.
If they wan't to make any Progress, they need make Generals II even more Complicated.

So I doubt it.

- E.V.E.

[Kichō]

Nem, on 16 Aug 2008, 1:05, said:

My only wish is that it is as easy to mod as generals.

By looking at RA3's file structure, I'd say it's the same as TW/KW. Though of course RA3 uses an Enhanced version of SAGE, so should Generals 2.

[Ion Cannon!]

As long as you have the tools needed to mod the game, any game is pretty easy to mod.

[Uber Daisy]

E.V.E., on 15 Aug 2008, 20:08, said:

If they want to make any Progress, they need to make Generals II even more complicated.

- E.V.E.

What a silly thing to think.

If they want the game to have a successful community, they need to keep modding simple, yet expansive. It worked for UT2004 and CSS. If they care for the modding community, they'll go easy on the complexities this time around.

And "advanced" != "complicated."

[Nem]

Daishi, on 16 Aug 2008, 12:01, said:

And "advanced" != "complicated."

QFT! (twice in one thread hmmf)

It can be as simple as generals, it just depends on how they decide to make it.

[E.V.E.]

The more new stuff they add (mechanics, better Engine wich opens more possibilities but is more complicated etc.), the more complicated it will get to mod it.
If they don't add new Stuff, there's no Reason to buy it.

I don't know whats so silly about that thing to think of.

- E.V.E.

[Kichō]

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As long as you have the tools needed to mod the game, any game is pretty easy to mod.

That's if EA releases these tools, you know what happened to KW...

[E.V.E.]

Well, maybe that was something that will never happen again.
If they pull the same of with the Expansion of Red Alert 3, then we can be worried.

- E.V.E.

[Kichō]

Was browsing PlanetEA and found out Generals 2 Fan Art:

http://planetcnc.gamespy.com/View.php?view...ail&id=2249

[JJ]

lol @ comment of the picture

[Jazzie Spurs]

"No, just no."
Awesome! XD

[General Kirkov]

I swear to God if they forget Rusia I am going to be so pissed off I may kick a girl in the balls.

[Nem]

EA seems very happy with there 3 faction + subfaction set up, its highly unlikely Russia will be included in this project we don't know exists.

[Crazykenny]

I just hope it doesnt run on SAGE II (with extra crispy limitations and bugs)

[Waris]

But if EA once again feels like banking on current 'hot' international affair then there is every chance not only for Russia to have a part, but also a wholesale change of conflicting sides.

I'd like to see every side in the original Generals to be represented by different entities but with their goals/aims unchanged. E.g. maybe NATO in place of the USA, Russia in place of China and a secret terrorist organization hell bent on inciting Mutually Assure Destruction by provoking nuclear war between NATO and Russia. Sounds similar already? Instead of relying on rag-tag Great War-era weaponry this terror organization may be equipped to an extent they more than matches either NATO or Russia, but limited to their few numbers, maybe because to be able to utilize high-tech weaponry only a select few money-worshiping mercenaries are enlisted, to forward the harmful cause of said Organization.

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On the other hand, this sounds too close to a certain RTS series... XD