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by **TheLoneTerran** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:16 pm

Hmm. I've been playing with this in my head for a day or so and got curious. This is a topic to list a game that has at least one sequal or expansion, i.e. Starcraft, Warcraft, Halo, whatever. Describe the pro's and con's of the original and expansion/sequels and tell us whether you think they can stand side by side or not.

StarCraft/StarCraft: Brood War:
Original Starcraft: Excellent cutscences, revolutionary for it's time, superb sounds, solid story.
BroodWar: Lack of cutscences/quality of the few it has, feels rush/thrown together, new, desperatly needed units such as medic. Awesome new abilities such as heal, restoration, charon booster upgrade for Goliaths.
Verdict: While I love Broodwar, I believe that StarCraft sets a better foundation and was more thourougly done than BroodWar, but don't discount it, it's an awesome game.

I'm sure there are others but I will hold onto them to see if this thread takes off. Don't forget games like Planetside, it does have an expansion. And I know some of you have played old, old games such as Homeworld and Homeworld II, compare those games as well. Oh, and I don't want this to break down into a Halo vs Halo 2.

by **Gunther** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:25 pm

I played Homeworld but not Homeworld II. The original game was innovative in its 3 dimensional aspect for a RTS game. Any of you guys play HWII?

by **BigBossMonkey** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:47 pm

HW2 was fun. (still out of town, trolling forums)

by **jediknight** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:19 pm

Cant Believe none of You Guys know about The Total war series!!!! Shogun total war>Medieval total war> Rome total-war and the best RTS ever (soon to be released ) Medieval Total war 2!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlm4_pJZ ... otal%20war
there's just one game play video (yes that's real game play!) also The campaign map is like CIV games (but waaayyy better) Rtw is almost that good. Medieval 1 is good as well but Graphics are just 2d battle's, shogun is same. also the games have a EXCELLENT Modding community(the mods are better than the original game's) I play these game's at least 5 hrs a week since they came out. Ill post more video's/info as i get it.

by **TheLoneTerran** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:12 pm

What makes Shogun better than Medieval and Medieval better than Rome?
Compare them and tell us. It might get recruits for people to play your favorite games with you.

by **rhonnin** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:06 am

ALot of this will be subjective of course, after all cutscenes had been done in Wing Commander long before SC, I wouldn't have called them revolutionary in SC because they were used more effectively in WC to advance the story and actually had higher production value, not to mention for alot of people cut scenes aren't a pro.

by **Damaen** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:24 am

The Definitive Guide To Zelda(tm)

Zelda 1: amazing.
Zelda 2: not amazing. side scroller = sin against god.
Zelda, link to the past. basically an snes zelda 1. amazing.

i think its all sorta downhill a bit after that.

by **TheLoneTerran** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:18 pm

Zelda: Link to the Past > every other Zelda game and possible every other SNES game. Except maybe for Super Mario RPG.

by **jediknight** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:32 pm

TheLoneTerran wrote:What makes Shogun better than Medieval and Medieval better than Rome?
Compare them and tell us. It might get recruits for people to play your favorite games with you.

lone how can I tell you when you have no refrence to them (AKA played any of em). Besides theres game review's. besides the games cost like 10$ shogun/medieavl plus exspansion's. But honestly RTW is 3rd best selling RTRS/TBS ever. Hell it's been out 3 years almsot and still cost 30$.

this shows some gameplay it has http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ByzWDyB ... otal%20War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlm4_pJZ ... otal%20war
there's just one game play video (yes that's real game play!) also The campaign map is like CIV games (but waaayyy better) Rtw is almost that good. Medieval 1 is good as well but Graphics are just 2d battle's, shogun is same. also the games have a EXCELLENT Modding community(the mods are better than the original game's) I play these game's at least 5 hrs a week since they came out. Ill post more video's/info as i get it.

some more http://www.youtube.com/results?search=M ... rch=Search

by **Damaen** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:09 pm

TheLoneTerran wrote:Zelda: Link to the Past > every other Zelda game and possible every other SNES game. Except maybe for Super Mario RPG.

best rpg EVER that isnt chrono trigger. bowser cries. all the time. that in itself is unbeatable.

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