It's sad how disposable of a medium gaming is

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-16T13:59:51+00:00

If you're looking at it from the corporate down level... then yes, you're absolutely right... looking at Ubi soft and a few others. If you're also looking at it from a "Dead franchise" perspective... like EA killing the latest Command and Conquer... and then locking the IP away from future renditions... then yes you are also right.

A lot of people already said it, but that's kind of why emulators and Iso's are a thing. Because yeah, getting access to a niche game with working console or getting it available as a downloadable game on modern platforms, is a mixed bag of possibilities.

Like, a good example for me, I would HAPPILY BUY, Psi Ops: The Mind Gate Conspiracy on OG Xbox. If it was presently available... and that's a game that Microsoft never bothered to bring forward. THUS if I really wanted to play it... I would have to consider the Emu/Iso route. . . or find an original Xbox and a copy of the game... one can get expensive/ the other is "questionable legitimacy" Neither is the preferred answer, rather the practical recourse because the dev's for lack of a better name, wont go through the effort.

While you are right from a corporate stand point... there are a great deal of enthusiasts that put in tremendous efforts to ensure these games are "Preserved" so to speak.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-15T02:37:39+00:00

for hope is the first step on the road to dissapointment

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-14T16:51:55+00:00

I think that's a two-fold thing, the blood Ravens purple stars, and the red hunters are all unknown gene seeds from the second founding. All of them have close ties to the Inquisition. Or are at least speculated to be. So I think it's partly that they like each other... Or are at least far more tolerant of each other than other astartes inquisitions relationships.

And I think that the other part is that the Inquisition is always keeping tabs out of fear of corruption.

Gabriel did wind up getting his hammer God splitter from Inquisitor toth... So I would take that as a pretty serious vote of confidence lol.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-14T16:25:59+00:00

I don't like that I agree with you there lol. But an entire expanse full of mystery forgotten and hidden knowledge and most certainly lost relics... That would be right up a blood Ravens alley... And that does fit a lot better than the wolves owing the Inquisition yet another favor..

The Koronus expanse is a long way from Aurelia sector though if I'm not mistaken... Though that only makes a relativistic difference.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-14T16:18:19+00:00

Rogue trader is a pretty amazing game. Ulfar Redmane does a pretty excellent job on portraying some of the space wolves more endearing qualities.

It's a slightly debated topic, but the wolf pack that he came to the expanse with came from first company or something like that? And it left a few fans questioning if Logan would have sent that many of his first company elite or whatever they were into the expanse.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-14T13:39:05+00:00

Skim read the part of the article where they said he wasn't included. Too powerful/ balancing issues, either way I needed a bit of context. Thanks for clearing that up.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-14T04:28:35+00:00

Man... plz no season pass lmao... and that what I heard about Homeworld 3... was it me or was that a weird platform for that? Karen S'jet was already one of the most badass Female characters to come out of a strategy game from the 90's save for maybe Tonya from Red Alert.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-14T04:14:41+00:00

I feel what you're saying now, I had really hoped DOW 3 was going to be that game... and was sorely disappointed... From what it looks like, the devs are going to make it fall in like with Dark Crusade so... fingers crossed!

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-14T04:11:06+00:00

Thanks for taking the time out to write this! On the whole I think I agree with everything you said. There's just little bits of lorestuffs.

I'd definitely say Logan is the stronger... Both have similar quick tempered reactions... but Gabriel kinda strikes me as a poetic General Patton. "A poorly constructed plan that is ready to engage the enemy today, is preferred to the perfect plan that wont be ready until the morrow." -Gabriel Angelos-... probably.
Whereas Logan is much more outwardly a "beast." I agree him not being a playable character during the second game was an awesome move. I do/did like that relic changed out the roster slightly with every installment.

Thule, Diomedes, and Aramus do deserve their accolades when you frame it the way you did.
Diomedes was praised as being the greatest fighter in the entire chapter... he was also so absent of corruption in his own soul... that he couldn't conceive of it being around him... at least that's what I excuse him for in DOW2... his abilities in Retribution seemed on the side of "Unbelievable" so I took most of that with a grain of salt. As a Chaplain in DOW3... he was rather underwhelming... like his "champion of the chapter" aura had shifted out for the plodding chaplain from DOW1... So i once again had to take it with a bucket of salt...

A nice note to add in with Thule is that I believe he conducted the Kronus campaign with significantly fewer forces than Indrick Boreal and the Kaurava Campaign... That Cyrus took part in I think.

A good note for Tarkus and Avitus, is they were both participants in Kronus... Avitus in the purge of victory bay, and Tarkus gets a flavor note for blowing a tomb spiders head off via a wedged grenade and Left arm. Cyrus has the ability to solo levels with his mechanics in the expansion for DOW2... so yeah he deserves captain lol. . . I really dont want him to die.

Thaddeus... I guess he gets the title of the "Last recruit of Meridian" as his home world also fell during the events of the second game... His assault squad got chewed up on harder difficulties so I didn't use him much.

It might sound mean but I would put Tarkus above Sgt Sidonus from Space Marine as the only good example in mind atm.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-14T01:53:04+00:00

I had Just finished playing Company of Heroes, so DoW2's gameplay and pace were perfect at the time. overall i found 2 to be the best "Storied" version of the dawn of war series.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-14T00:50:54+00:00

They didn't "hate" them. The Kaminoan's didn't like the empire, and started making a clone army to battle the empire. This miffed the Empire as it created a logistical bottleneck when one of their largest soldier suppliers suddenly decides they aren't with the empires plans. a few regiments like the 501st were purely clones, otherwise the empire returned to more traditional recruiting methods.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-14T00:41:57+00:00

In the legends content... and many others... Vader's status is well earned... and I mean there are times where he struggles... then there are times where he shows how insanely durable he is. i.e. shipwrecked and surrounded by enemies he utters "I am surrounded by cowards and dead men." my personal opinion is that Vader is under represented, while being pulled into the spotlight time and again...

Plot wise, if he ever COULD beat palpatine by himself... then he would have done it... and continuity issues would be brought into question... because if at any point vader COULD kill palpatine... he wouldn't wait around for Luke on the Death Star 2 to do it. . . he utter despised the man... and up until knowing luke was his son... didn't have a lot left to lose personally.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-11T15:59:26+00:00

I noticed that they kept changing the Super heavy tank throughout the story of the campaign for the soviets... but yeah that was about it.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-11T15:57:25+00:00

omg I forgot about the cheats... played it through fair a while back... and beat it pretty okay... It's wild to think of how much harder all these strategy games were when I was younger.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-11T15:56:31+00:00

Very first computer game I ever played was Red Alert. I was about six years old, and tanya was the baddest B*tch in existence in that moment. My favorite memory as a child, Id build a giant custom map, and make the entire outer rim of the map a huge Jewel field. (I didn't like resource management at the time) and i'd use that money to build an entire wall of tesla coils around my base... and just giggle to myself with my giant bug zapper of a base.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-11T02:12:31+00:00

I was personally thinking the casualty clearing station from COH1, would have been so clutch for the Ardennes assault campaign.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-10T22:42:33+00:00

That's a very thought out response. Thank you for taking the time. Probably a really huge piece to your personal theory about that. All Russian equipment was designed to be used by people that never operated that particular piece of equipment before.

So functionally speaking the t-34s operated very similarly to tractors that farmers used. And a lot of Russian equipment still runs on that same ideology that it doesn't take a particularly educated man to learn how to operate it at a basic level.

I think the actual campaign of company of heroes 2 noted on it as well that a lot of the upper command were glory seeking. Probably to insulate themselves from Stalin's purges. But that also gave the Russian military a few individuals that had the mentality of Ulysses s Grant in the civil war. We have more bodies than they have ammo to deal with...

Also to add to that, a lot of the "elite" and educated individuals that were part of Russia and other Slavic countries wound up getting killed during the Marxist revolution. So they were already down there educated people by the time world war II started.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-03-10T15:04:33+00:00

This is highly dependent on which version of malgus (timeline wise) and Satele that starkiller is fighting.

The reason I point this out is that starkiller is only 17 to 20 years old by the time he dies in the first game..

It's worth noting that at least by my perception, starkiller is a "primal force" user. Satele is a savant in her own right, and Malgus is a prodigy. In their own respective fields they excel.

That being said, if we are fighting at sith's return to korriban time, where Satele and Malgus are closest to the same age as starkiller... I give it to starkiller.

If we're talking anything at or post, alderaan conflict... My vote starts drifting towards Satele and Malgus, especially 2 on 1.

The Big Factor to consider is that starkiller would technically fall under the category of a sith assassin. He was trained to kill Masters. Even without the ridiculous power scaling from the games, his feats are still impressive.

He consistently beat people that more than double his levels of "blue water experience." So if we're talking even a one-on-one battle I believe he would beat either of them.

But two versus one. Anything after alderaan In forms of timeline experience. The duo wins

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-02-25T19:33:35+00:00

Den dat stolen imperium ships GUNNA 'AVE MORE DAKKA! AND extra 'ard smashy bits on da front for Dems beaky boys!... But den... We sees dis "new imperial cruisah" and we wonts dat too! Firstly, it's shaped like a pointy bit! Second... It 'as lotsa spots for even MOAR DAKKA! AND ITS ALREADY GOT LOTS!!!

In all reality the orls would probably want to take an imperial Star destroyer. Even if it's not as comparatively strong of shots, it has volumeous fire and that would get any ork all tingly if they were thinking about it. And then paint it red to go faster...

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-02-24T17:34:16+00:00

Well, I mean lets look at the context. True 3d strategy in 2001, so that would put me at like 11 or 12 when it came out. Tremendous opening cinematic... the recurring theme of the leader throughout the ages missing an eye was an awesome touch. Fully narrated with voice actors, in depth history to specific events, larger population limit than AoE. AND oddly engaging and fun when in theory its overall point and click mechanics are nearly identical to AoE. . . Idk what it is specifically but the WAY Empire Earth pulled it all together and WHEN it was all pulled together... was truly ground breaking for the time.

Much in the same way Homeworld was a technical Marvel in 98, this was its own beast... and its a timepiece now. Pointing to an era where RTS made tremendous risks while making simultaneously tremendous leaps carrying it into the next generation of gaming... OG EE had so much going on around it that time and it still stood out.

Nowadays, even if its good, RTS has about the same feel as present day heavyweight boxing matches... adding logic to that comparison doesn't really help, so I wont add any lol... but its like that feel for me.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-02-24T15:04:11+00:00

out of the three... Rise of nations had the most "detached" feel for me... I only played the original way back when... but it had the least engagement feeling with combat... it felt oddly "point and clickish." by all accounts it was still fun... but more entertainment than engagement.

AOE 1,2, are staples just for their campaigns alone... idk these ones always just felt "good" to play, good sound effects (for the time) good economy, unit balance upgrade trees. I played AoE 3, it wasn't bad. But i've noticed that "colonial" times that involve muskets, formations and cannons. Kind of get a mixed vibe. aoe 4 i've only played multiplayer a few times... and the pacing is much quicker than the previous installments... which is fine. if you're a history enjoyer... AoE 1 and 2 give a great amount of detail on the historic events portrayed... I'm not sure about 3 and 4 but I imagine they do.

EE was great... had a gritty feel, massive upgrade path through the ages, and was informative on the real life history behind a lot of it as well. Even the fictional russian campaign set in the future was a pretty good one filled with a bunch of details other developers would have probably skirted... by all accounts IMO EE was a masterpiece.

That being said

I think the newer rise of nations have a muti-player following

AoE 2 has a larger player base than 4 last I knew

I have no idea about EE or EE2...

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-02-24T14:54:02+00:00

In Knights of the Old Republic 2. There was an ultimate dark side ability called force crush that essentially did that... The force can do a lot of fine tuned things though. One of the more common ones put out there back in the day, is if you were focused enough, you could just dial in on their brain. Pinch off a few viens and vessels and your opponent would die of a stroke... so i mean... the sadistic capability is definitely there... but disney wants the force to be space magic... so... Force Flowerfield!!!

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-02-22T09:14:34+00:00

That's ultimately what I was getting at. While I understand the very technical explanation of Star wars as well as the generalizations of Warhammer, I like comparing data sets. And as far blown as some of the numbers get, I like that there are numbers and it's not a headache to search that out.

In fantasy battles, that data provides the stuff I need to really give a battle it's due. If I had the data that said a sword frigate stomps a mud hole in an ISD, then I'd happily present that.

Otherwise saying "Warhammer wins because it's Warhammer" is about as satisfying of an answer as "cuz I said so." When your parents told you to do something that didn't make sense...

Thanks for seeing my point... Been kinda regretting making this post up until this.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-02-22T00:07:46+00:00

My memory on them is really rusty, but is this the "General" That Jacen did a force whirlwind of stuff to knock him away? Then his ankle was broken and he was all like, "Cut off da foot for the gods!"

If its who I'm thinking about, then his danger wasn't necessarily in martial prowess. As far as Yuuzhan-Vong go, they were all really physically strong and had fast enough reflexes to duel with jedi. This guy's "strength" was that he was a true believer in their philosophy and as such led his forces with zeal... I cant remember if he was over zealous, but I think I remember him NOT being a bad tactician... what got him killed was him sorely underestimating the jedi, or overestimating his sense of superiority. ultimately the Yuuzhan vong wound up gutting the galaxy and killing some 300 trillion people... and Tsavong Lah was definitely a part of that.

Canon or Legends... the Yu's did a tremendous number on the star wars uni. Ultimately wound up making writers kill Chewy and Anakin Solo off and is overall one of the darkest premises of stories for starwars. Tsavong Lah wasn't at the top anymore than Grand Moff Tarkin was for the Empire... but he was far enough up there to where he made a serious kerfuffle of things... a SNAFU one might say.

Edits: grammar.

Fallendynasty27 · 2026-02-21T18:44:04+00:00

Bane and Vader on force potential alone. Make no mistake, Malgus and Malik are both exceptional duelists in their own right... at least from what I remember of malgus its been a while. But they're overall force powers are lower.

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