| Late night C&C passions [message #49452] |
Sat, 27 September 2003 22:15  |
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bigejoe14
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This has got to be one of the most bizzar things I do right now. I seriously play way too much C&C in order to do this. I do this whenever I'm going through stress and other problems (family, school, work, life in particular.)
Sometimes, late at night, I'll walk out into the living room and grab my Tiberian Sun soundtrack. I'll pop it into my computer and listen to only one particular song... "Lone Troop." I'll pop it into my computer and play that song. Then I'll just lay my head on the desk, close my eyes, and think. I'll just think and think and think. I think back to when I first played C&C. I remember playing the demo, the first mission. I remember exactly what I did. every single move I made. Hell, I remember how I didn't even know what to use that MCV for. All I did with it was move it behind a bunch of sand bags and put my men around it. I even remember when my dad bought me the game. I even remember the exact date. November 16th, 1995. I even remember the exact time I held it. I held that box at 7:30 PM.
When I'm laying there on my desk, I just have flashbacks about some particularly amazing experiences I had with C&C throughout my life. I remember when I played my first game of Red Alert. I just though that it was astoundingly better than the original. All I did for a long time was play Red Alert. I touched no other game. Red Alert was the only game for me at the time. By the time Tiberian Sun came out, I was still playing Red Alert like a drug addict. It wasen't until that day that I pulled $40 dollars out of my pocket for the sequel to the game that has brough most of us here. Tiberian Sun pulled me in deeper than ever before. I almost felt like I was living off of these games. There was one point in time where I had no computer for about 4 months. I was depressed for about 2 of them.
I even tried playing other games at my friends house, who at the time, had a better computer than mine. They just didn't fill the void. When I got my computer I played Tiberian Sun like you would not even be able to comprehend. I just sat there in that chair looking at that monitor pounding the oblivion out of the AI. I was eventually grounded for bad grades in school and all my computer games were locked away until I got my grades higher. My grades went up pretty fast and they let me have my games back. I was able to keep a healthy balance between life and Tiberian Sun. But I would have episodes while I slept. As if I lived and breathed C&C while I slept. I would eventualy wake up and come back to reality. But when I slept and had those dreams, they were practicaly my nirvana. As if I was re-incarnated.
When Red Alert 2 came out I got that the day it was released. I played that a lot, but not as much as with Tiberian Sun. There is nothing else much that happens after Red Alert 2. Everything I play now is just some stupid material possesion. But those first 3 games that I played really were something else. After I bought Tiberian Sun, it felt like I had acheived the glow so to speak. It was practically the peak of my C&C lifestyle. That just really opend the door for me to see what C&C was really all about. Even now as I write this, I am listening to that song I mentioned earlier. I am having flashbacks that are so crystal, they are beyond all comprehension.That first mission for GDI, that first mission for the Soviets, the first time I held the long awaited sequel. C&C is my nirvana, Westwood and C&C have really impacted my life and have left a huge legacy behind them.
Now you may think that this is just some bullshit that I made up just because I was bored. You may also think that I need to be locked up in a psyco ward for what I have just told you... beleive what you want. I am just telling you this to let off a little steam in my life and to share my experiences. If you would like to share you C&C experiences also like I did, fine. If you would like to take this post as a joke and crack shit at it, fine. I just put this here for the above reasons.
Thank you for wasting you time reading this. At least I'm now not the only one who know's I do this.
l8rs
WHATEVER, FAGGOT
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| Late night C&C passions [message #49464] |
Sat, 27 September 2003 23:55  |
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Cpo64
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Registered: February 2003
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The C&C universe is to real to be made up.
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| Late night C&C passions [message #49467] |
Sun, 28 September 2003 00:02 |
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TheMouse
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Registered: March 2003
Location: My Desk
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C&C hasn't been a late night passion for a while... lately it has been something else... 
Although I remember back when I played the Tiberium Dawn demo... I remember everything about that... those were the days. *sigh* Its a shame the series was never completed. 
I remember getting red alert, and playing that... I thought "WOW! this is the greatest game..." I remember getting tiberium sun... and playing that for hours on end as well. I remember Red Alert 2 the best. I enjoyed that game more than tiberium sun.... C&C, and westwood have had such an impact on so many people... In fact, didn't crimson and blazer meet on the renegade forums?
Its really amazing how one series of games had the power to captivate so many people, all with one thing in common: The fact that they could enjoy a game together... I think I was 7 or so when I first heard about C&C. probably older, but it seems that long. some times I will still play those games for hours on end... Games don't have what they did before. Games used to be well thought out, well done... now, they just arn't. there is only a hint, a glimmer of the innocence and fun left behind the covering of coporate schemes to make money.
Its sad and unfortunate that EA had to ruin westwood. I miss westwood, and the games. but, as all good things do, they had to end.
(why can't I ever write stuff that good for school?)
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| Late night C&C passions [message #49470] |
Sun, 28 September 2003 00:12 |
Cadet1288
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Registered: September 2003
Location: The Boonies, Virgina, USA...
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Heck, I remember pounding my hours into N64 Command and Conquer. I remember the first time I ever heard of the game. It was 5 years ago when I went over to a neighbor's house and I watched an older kid play it for almost an hour. I fell in love with C&C at first sight. I got really hooked when I got Renegade. I play it everyday and try to be as active in the community as my life can allow. This series was and still is truly the real deal...
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| Re: Late night C&C passions [message #49577] |
Sun, 28 September 2003 16:02 |
flyingfox
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Registered: February 2003
Location: scotland, uk
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| bigejoe14 |
Now you may think that this is just some bullshit that I made up just because I was bored. You may also think that I need to be locked up in a psyco ward for what I have just told you... beleive what you want.
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Your a very good writer & you can describe your thoughts very well. I think that qualifies as praise. Well done.
I think you already know why you think so much about C&C. When you began playing, you didn't really have anything much to think about at the time, except smaller things like school. If you had a job or something to keep you more occupied you would probably think less of C&C but it would stay in your memories. Maybe you should consider a job as a writer for something? Perhaps a game magazine? 
I have a passion for these games too however the only games I have played are Tiberian Sun & Renegade. I did dedicate a lot of thought to Tib sun when I was really into it, but I don't think I was as hardcore as you. I enjoy Renegade too, & probably spend too much of my free time playing it, but I really do need to think about the bigger picture in life. They're only games.
Games that make an impact on ya, sure. 
AMD Duron 50mhz (fan 100RPM), GFX 4Mb Voodoo, 2GB HD 20RPM, 2Mb RAM, DVD-ROM 0.2X speed, system can run Tetris at decent speed
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