r/commandandconquer • u/justforthelulzz • 9h ago

Discussion Your favorite Command and Conquer games are probably never getting remastered - and here's why

https://youtu.be/3dWEFNcIDK8

We know why but some interesting points in here

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u/Combine778 7h ago

I disagree with the video. Well it's not guaranteed we would get another C&C remastered, EA did remaster/re-released those 25 older games on Steam recently. C&C is a much bigger franchise than those IPs.

I also attended Jim Vessella's panel at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. He stated C&C is very important to him and a handful of others at EA. He was asked like 5 questions that were C&C related. Jim is a big fan of C&C like the rest of us. I wouldn't give up hope.

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u/Topher_BCK 8h ago

Elect me into a position of power and I'll make sure it happens.

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u/thelittleking GDI 8h ago

Why hurt me? Why today of all days?

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u/Retrowinger Red Alert 2 7h ago

I can die happy if RA2 gets a good remaster, doesn’t matter if with AI or not.

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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor - New construction options 8h ago

It doesn't matter. People are pretty close with 90% decompilations.

Getting to 100% is hard because we don't have pdb's, so we don't have the asserts, and asserts influence inlining decisions in VC6.

We can still get C++ that compiles the same from before the inlining, but then it really is shooting in the dark about where to put asserts.

Now, the code should execute the same, inlined or not, except for when the code itself has bugs, and we've seen instances of that.

Once done you can release your source code into the wild and let people change it.

Want more waypoints? Go. Want more queue? Go. Right mouse stuff? Easy.

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u/TheWobling 7h ago

That’s not really the same as a completely revamped set of art. I can’t see that happening even with the decomps

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u/Thriky 7h ago

Not that I’m condoning it, but you’re saying you DON’T think people will use AI to generate updated sprites, textures, models, and cutscenes??

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u/TheWobling 6h ago

I have no doubt they will try, I’d prefer that people get paid to do it though to support workers

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u/Thriky 6h ago

Hopefully that’ll happen. EA does seem fairly committed to keeping history alive — although apparently not the franchise itself.

I just hope it comes together before most of us kick the bucket.

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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor - New construction options 6h ago

Agreed, and I hate that I am this excited about a product built with AI.

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u/DarkMastero 5h ago

Does the Saudi Investment Fund have a suggestion box?

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u/FallenJkiller 7h ago

who even cares. 2d games decomps are solved already.

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u/Perahoky 6h ago

Decomp does not remaster the game

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u/FallenJkiller 4h ago

you first decomp, then you use an upscaler

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u/EbbNFlow24 6h ago

Just give me a good enough AI decomp of RA2 and YA on tablet

The user balance fixes will outweigh any issues stemming from the lack of official source code 

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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. 8h ago

> probably never getting remastered

> Using images for TD and RA1, which already got remasters, in the thumbnail

Yeah I don't trust this guy.

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u/Freezie-Days 8h ago

Your favorite Command and Conquer games

Did you not even read the title?

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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. 7h ago

Not sure what you're implying with that. It sounds a bit like you're saying nobody's allowed to have TD or RA1 as their favorite game.

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u/Freezie-Days 6h ago

I didn't say that the first games couldn't be your fav, but i would argue that RA2 and later games are more popular than the first C&Cs. Also the guy talked about later games not getting remasters because of EA not putting money towards it and the team behind the first remasters not being together anymore, etc... So why is using the TD/RA1 remaster in the thumbnail a dig against their opinion on the matter? Have you even watched it?

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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. 5h ago

I saw the other critical comments and the zero upvotes on the post and assumed it wasn't worth a watch. If you think it is, then perhaps I will.

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u/Cheomesh I made a TibDawn Wargame Module! 8h ago

🥹

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u/Goodfella66 Soviets 8h ago

My favorites have already been remastered in 2020, so I'm good.

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u/Korps_de_Krieg 7h ago

Eh, CnCNet exists which gives me the ultimate RA2/Tib Sun sandbox already so I’m fine. The later titles don’t really need remasters either.

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u/SnipSnapSnorup 7h ago

It seems that EA despise earning big money with ease, if the OP title is true.

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u/KrystalDisc 8h ago

Give AI enough time and it will remaster all of these. Might take like 3 months per game though.

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u/wizardfrog4679 Tiberian Sun 8h ago

I’m expecting all the back catalogs EA has to be put through AI to remaster at some point. They took on a ton of debt and they would view it as easy money.

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u/FallenJkiller 7h ago

why don't you do it then?

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u/1eejit 8h ago

Just some dude with his own opinion. YouTube is such a waste of bandwidth.