While they remain mostly unchanged from the Origin version, it does include some updates to the map editors to make them work in 2024.
See here for some comments from the producer that made it happen:
Command & Conquer™ The Ultimate Collection now available on Steam
Submitted 8 months ago by prograhammingdev@lemmy.prograhamming.com to games@lemmy.world
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/39394/Command__Conquer_The_Ultimate_Collection/
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prograhammingdev@lemmy.prograhamming.com 8 months ago
Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Give me a Dune 2000 remake. I love that game.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Emperor: Battle for Dune was also fun.
ripcord@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Man, Dune 2 was so innovative at the time. And I didn’t appreciate it enough (I was pretty young). I actually liked Dune 1 better at the time.
It’s also weird to me that you can draw a (almost) direct line from Dune 2 to World of Warcraft.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
OpenRA is better
Quetzlcoatl@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
What does open ra stand for?
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Red Alert
meco03211@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Possibly Red Alert? A popular branch of the CoC games.
rdri@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is better than Red Alert? But is it better than Renegade?
richmondez@lemmy.world 8 months ago
OpenRA is a game engine and the games built on it are mostly fan C&C like games that are skinned to look like the early actual C&C games. The engine can’t even play the original missions and mp maps.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Indeed, but someone has recreated the original Red Alert and that’s really all I need.
Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 8 months ago
OpenRA is only 3 games
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Custom maps abound! Combined arms is great too.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t like a few of the changes they make to gameplay. In particular, I don’t like being able to build more than one structure at a time. I know RA2 started it, but I didn’t like it in RA2, either. Being able to build a power-hungry defensive structure and the power plant to run it at the same time takes out some of the strategy, in my opinion.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Fair enough, but I believe there may be a toggle for that.
aksdb@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They are all marked as Singleplayer. Is that just a mistake or did they strip out any multiplayer functionality?
Also: will this require Origin?
slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Seeing as a fair chunk of those games used IPX and GameSpy I am not shocked by the lack of multiplayer.
JordanZ@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[deleted]PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yuri’s Revenge had dolphins with laser beams strapped to them as a commandable unit and you’re worried about the logistics of small arms destroying a tank?
pleb_maximus@feddit.de 8 months ago
Also: will this require Origin?
Caved and got the bundle.
I installed Red Alert 2, it doesn’t need Origin. But at least on my Linux install the main menu is just a black screen. :(amlor@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There are community projects that make those games run like a charm on modern systems. Tiberian sun and red alert 2 run perfectly on my steam deck. Check out pcgamningwiki
prograhammingdev@lemmy.prograhamming.com 8 months ago
Store page does not list Origin as a dependency, but I can’t know for certain
Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Red Alert 2 was the only game where I watched the cutscenes.
Fuck that game was good. I’d argue at the time it was a perfect game.
MumboJumbo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
RA2 definitely had some quality cut scenes, but Kane with the Brotherhood of Nod and whoever that suit from the GDI was were both pretty awesome too. That was my first jump from soley video game graphics to something more immersive. Online play though, RA2 was the best, especially p2p with my friends on nurple maps.
Gigan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Damn, I might have to pick this up. Had lots of fun with these games as a kid.
DdCno1@kbin.social 8 months ago
Not to be confused with the Remastered Collection.
wahming@monyet.cc 8 months ago
So is this using the newly lowered prices everybody was buzzing about yesterday?
billiam0202@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Entire pack is priced under $20, with a 50% discount. So less than $10.
SnugZebras@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
They lowered the prices of the the games already available, but today they added everything before c&c 3 and red alert 3 to steam.
bighatchester@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was literally thinking about how I wanted to play something like command and conquer today . Just went I bought this , hopefully it works well on Linux.
1984@lemmy.today 8 months ago
I guess this is nice for nostalgic value, but where is new, modern real time strategy games like this? It’s been a very long time since anything new existed.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 8 months ago
There’s still some stuff going on, but it’s quite dead yeah. In the broader scope of RTS games you still have stuff like Age of Empires 4 and Beyond all Reason, both of which I find a lot of fun. But neither are really much like C&C. What is like C&C is Tempest Rising, which is currently under development. I played the demo and it did feel very C&C like, which is good, but time will tell how polished it will be on release.
ICastFist@programming.dev 8 months ago
Worth noting: Beyond All Reason is FOSS and a really good Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander type of game.
You can also try Zero-K for something with less flashy graphics and more unit customization, also FOSS.
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They all cashed out on MMOs, The Warcraft series completely died off when WoW went online.
ripcord@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mean, there was StarCraft 2 after it. And the Warcraft 3 remake thing. But yeah, they mostly lost interest (in anything that wasn’t just an absolute fucking printing press for money like WoW was)
bstix@feddit.dk 8 months ago
The RTS genre got drowned by cellphone apps doing the same thing.
The games don’t have high technical requirements, so it’s a perfect match for phone/tablet apps.
However they’re also quite easy to program, and easy make graphics for, so the market is swamped with clones of clones of stock code and stock graphics, so no developer can approach it seriously anymore.
The best games in the genre are good because they have carefully balanced gameplay, but that takes time to discover for the players, so even if someone made the perfect game, it’d never be discovered amongst the shovel-ware.
Cybersteel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Company of Heroes 3?
1984@lemmy.today 8 months ago
I wanted to but the reviews show it’s a train wreck.
pazzeda@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I’d recommend checking out Planetary Annihilation, Planetary Annihilation:Titans, Supreme Commander 1/2 and their mods