Louis Castle admits Command & Conquer is a cash cow

In a rare moment of sincerity, Louis Castle admits Electronic Arts will keep on spewing more C&C games until no one wants to buy them anymore. For us singleplayer fans, this means we'll never get any closure for the story.

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[Kodaemon]

If you only treat the game as a product, it's reasonable. But not if you have any sort of integrity.

What would you prefer, a short, well thought out series which ends on a high note, or a soap opera that some day gets axed because of poor ratings and leaves you with an unresolved plot?

[BanjoGate]

Red Alert was completed with Yuri's Revenge. I say this because in RA3, everything that has happened in that universe was whiped away. They killed the story so much with RA3 that the only thing relating to ra1 and 2 are the chronosphere and iron curtan :\

[furiso2]

Ok, this has now officially make me hate EA. Only in it for the money and not the story. It destroyed what Westwood Studios stood for.

[BanjoGate]

I agree. The only tie in that I would like would be ra1-dawn with ra2 as a spinoff if the Allies won ra1. Simple and sweet

[charliec81]

Since I can't send you the link, I might as well say it here:

Yes, the Westwood team planned that. They even planned a Renegade 2, to somehow tie the Allied ending of RA2 to the Tiberiums toryline.

Though, all this being said; I admit I never got Westwood's intention to tie the Tiberium storyline to the RA one. Hardcore fans of the Westwood originals would disagree with me, but I like to think of them as seperate.

[charliec81]

This intention (ra1Soviet-dawn) was before EA came. Then, when EA bought them over and were pushing towards a different direction, the team then had a different idea, one that involved Yuri (which I think you may have read) . I have the link, but suffice to say is that Yuri was an acolyte of Kane.

[BanjoGate]

and cnc4 would of involved aliens. Its all really complicated. Easier to think of things as ra1 - dawn-sun-wars..

It was intended to be ra1-dawn-sun-ra2-twilight. The third game of tiberium was ALWAYS intended to be twilight.

[BanjoGate]

No, thats not how it was intended.

RA1 was supposed to be a prelude to Tiberium-anything, the soviet ending was to be cannon because Kane is posing as Stalin's advisor and kills him, saying Russia will serve NOD.

That would go to tib dawn, then tib sun, then cnc3 would of involved Kane building a time machine and sending somebody to take over Russia with tiberium tech.

It would somehow tie in RA2 (which splits off of RA1/tib timeline)

[charliec81]

IIRC, the only real 'tie' was that Yuri somehow knew Kane through uses of the chronosphere or some stuff like that, but, by that time, EA was already pushing for two seperate timelines.

Which I honestly prefer, since I like to think of the RA series as an alternate world war series, and the Tiberium series as something else.

But hey, that's me.

[charliec81]

Well, some of the Westwood team was still attached to EA for Yuri's Revenge, and were'nt fully removed until Zero Hour, so in a sense, you were right.

[BanjoGate]

Here is RA4 in EA's crappy style

Allies take over the world and send the entire planet back in time by mistake. Now you have allies vs allies vs soviets vs soviets. I'm amazing, no?

They killed it because RA3 was supposed to tie into the Tiberium universe

[charliec81]

I guess I stand corrected on that :\

I wonder what they could possible come up for Red Alert 4 (and yeah, I didn't like Red ALert 3, even though I like the Japanese Empire)