Classic Game Postmortem: Command & Conquer
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5 жыл бұрынIn this GDC 2019 talk, Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle, Erik Yeo, lead designer for C&C, Frank Klepacki, Composer for C&C, and, Wetherill, C&C's VP of product development, deliver a Classic Game Postmortem on the landmark real-time strategy game Command & Conquer.
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@NUSensei 5 жыл бұрын
That opening was utterly nostalgic.
@ObsidianProductionsUK 5 жыл бұрын
Hey NUSensei! Here for some C&C between arrows?;D
@jamespfp 5 жыл бұрын
Soundblaster Config for DOS... that certainly does bring back many happy memories.
@antdude 5 жыл бұрын
Where's the rest of the ending?!?!!
@pifroggiMC 4 жыл бұрын
A bit late, but the version on the GDC site is a biiiit longer! :) Unfortunately it is also not the full thing, but at least you know what Louis was talking about. www.gdcvault.com/play/1025777/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Command-Conquer starts at about 56:15
@misomiso8228 5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love this game. Incredibly innovative both in gameplay and in the story telling medium. Was so sad that Westwood got gobbled up.
@darovi 5 жыл бұрын
Hopefully the remasters end up being good.
@HonorGames8 5 жыл бұрын
We were there, I'm glad GDC decided to release this to the public.For our summary:www.moddb.com/mods/tiberium-secrets/news/gdc-19-and-command-conquer-postmortem-recap They eneded with a performance from Frank, which is not on the video for some reason, probably rights reasons. It was Hell march BTW.
@crunchy7200 5 жыл бұрын
RA2 is one of the first videogames I ever experienced, and I still play it to this day, timeless...
@JanTuts 5 жыл бұрын
For me, Dune 2000 was my first proper PC game (as in, not a demo disc) and my brother bought RA2 soon after. :D Both long time favourites, alongside Metal Gear Solid, and Ocarina of Time!
@nicellisbrown 5 жыл бұрын
@@JanTuts Same here! :D ... Dune 2000 was my first game and it completely blew my mind! I truly felt like a god or something controlling little people. Not to mention it got me to read the novel when i eventually learnt how to, lol.
@MRayner59 5 жыл бұрын
Me too. It's probably my favourite Westwood game of all. Heard somewhere that the whole C&C series is going to get a make-over, but with EA you have to see it to believe it.
@silversolver7809 5 жыл бұрын
@@MRayner59 They've got Petroglyph-ie some of the original CnC guys, incl Frank Klepacki-tagged to do it, so looks like it's serious at this stage anyway.
@AdventureTimeWithAsh 4 жыл бұрын
me 2
@leakyabstraction 5 жыл бұрын
This is totally maxing out the nostalgia factor. I remember buying that PC magazine with an eye-popping grayscale cover photo from C&C that contained a CD with the actual demo of the game on it. I played the hell out of those 3 levels as a kid... Haven't played any strategy game I enjoyed so much ever since then.
@enilenis 5 жыл бұрын
Kia Montgomery's voice maintains a constant pitch, making it sound almost synthetic. What a unique timbre.
@dacedebeer2697 2 жыл бұрын
She's got a face to go with that voice too. Back in the day must have turned some heads.
@JanTuts 5 жыл бұрын
AH NO, WHY DOES THE VIDEO END THERE?!
@pifroggiMC 4 жыл бұрын
A bit late, but the version on the GDC site is a biiiit longer! :) Unfortunately it is also not the full thing, but at least you know what Louis was talking about. www.gdcvault.com/play/1025777/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Command-Conquer starts at about 56:15
@maify13 5 жыл бұрын
I love you guys . The Red Alert 2 and Yuri Revenge are my #1 games .
@thinkinmonkey 5 жыл бұрын
Where is the final part?!?! Pleeeeaaaseeee!!! In the end, really nice talk, very inspiring, all the challenges they faced reminded me about those far times where everything related to game development wasn't so obvious and natural as it is now, luckly for every one of us. New artists and developers should look back to those times and feeling how amazing was finishing a project despite all the technology limitation we had, all the uncharted routes those people had to navigate in order to create games and tools and designs and so on without help, internet, books, thousands and thousands of tutorials now available for free, just dream your game and work hard and smart every day for it!
@dontblameme9468 5 жыл бұрын
After 24 years Joe still doesn't age a bit just like Kane. Wait a minute... Joe and Kane both look the same. Joe and Kane both doesn't age. Joe and Kane both are awesome. Conclusion : Joe = Kane Does that mean Joe is secretly Kane pretending to be a normal guy? HE WAS THE MESSIAH ALL ALONG! KANE LIVES!
@Hadmin 5 жыл бұрын
Brotherhood. Unity. Peace.
@MultiMACOLO 4 жыл бұрын
Peace through power!
@samuelthomas1575 5 жыл бұрын
My heartfelt thanks to you for making my childhood awesome.
@MRayner59 5 жыл бұрын
I've been on a bit of C&C binge lately for some reason after I finally got Red Alert 2 to work properly, so the timing of this is absolutely perfect. Thanks for the great video, GDC!
@Kyrieru 2 жыл бұрын
I've never even played a C&C game and I can't help but grin through the whole thing. It really does sound like it was an amazing project to work on, and an amazing team.
@therealOXOC 5 жыл бұрын
LOVE! to watch these. Important game for me. This channel is awesome.
@mik310s 2 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite game series of all time, Kane is also one of my favourite characters, the dude that played him really got into that character and totally stole the game.
@silversolver7809 5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful game, wonderful studio. Great intro in the video, and thank you Louis for putting this together. Like CnC, very innovative and inspiring.
@antzpantz 5 жыл бұрын
Awwwwww…. where is Hell March at the end?!
@silversolver7809 5 жыл бұрын
That was a Red Alert piece, not CnC.
@HeatIIEXTEND 5 жыл бұрын
TD's soundtrack kicks all the follow-ups' asses, hell march is kewl but it ain't no Act on instinct.
@ProfSteve-xh6su 2 жыл бұрын
I truly loved the franchise not only the games itself but also to the community as well. It's always been my heart and soul....
@damnyousalazar 5 жыл бұрын
Frank Klepacki is a sonic god. Seriously, an immensely underrated video game composer.
@_zproxy 5 жыл бұрын
Openra lives on
@JanTuts 5 жыл бұрын
I played OpenRA Dune 2000 earlier this week! :D
@admiralbees1690 3 жыл бұрын
Love this game. Seeing that installation screen again genuinely made me feel warm inside.
@NeilRoy 5 жыл бұрын
What was the "something special" they ended that with? I was waiting to see what he was talking about then *poof*, video ends. :(
@zaooo 5 жыл бұрын
In the end of the GDC Vault video, Frank grabs a guitar and starts strumming as the Hell March is playing, but the performance is cut off there as well as there seems to be some technical issues? www.gdcvault.com/play/1025777/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Command-Conquer
@zaooo 5 жыл бұрын
If I had to guess, it might be a performance rights problem as it involves music, easier to just truncate for the Vault/KZfaq.
@ObsidianProductionsUK 5 жыл бұрын
I can't wait for the C&C95 and RA1 remaster.
@BlitzDragoon7115 5 жыл бұрын
Me too
@Ytnzy250 2 жыл бұрын
Let's hope they come over to the consoles; they'd be very welcome guests.
@LukeVilent 5 жыл бұрын
I don't even remember clicking the like button, but here it was, before 2:00
@BlitzDragoon7115 5 жыл бұрын
Awesome intro Thanks!
@mgeorgescu 5 жыл бұрын
Liked before watching ! Gotta finish some stuff first then I will watch this! AMAZING!
@StigDesign 5 жыл бұрын
Awesome to see this :D
@foulplay99 2 жыл бұрын
I upgraded my 486 DX2 66 to a CD ROM and sound card just to play this game! It was glorious :-) And this was one of the best DoS installs ever.
@DarthRaven9000 5 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha that audio guy at the end had one job. . .
@aquelaquelaquelaquel 5 жыл бұрын
EA employee for sure!
@mrcyberpunk 5 жыл бұрын
why yes youtube yes I would like that. RIP Westwood you were another level of developer, I wish to be just like you.. but you know.. ALIVE. lol
@nickymoloney4218 5 жыл бұрын
Petroglyph is involved in a remaster of the original CnC and RA. (Kane Lives!)
@ChristianRuppelt Жыл бұрын
Man, that Installation routine was something else … I mean … talk about immersion!
@HeatIIEXTEND 5 жыл бұрын
God bless Tiberian dawn, what a game; gameplay, presentation, sound, they don't make em like they used to.
@nickymoloney4218 5 жыл бұрын
Hope they can remaster them right, since the Original people are involved, from Petroglyph...
@Audiotrocious 5 жыл бұрын
Westwood Studios was my childhood
@KedKexKevin 2 жыл бұрын
Warcraft, Starcraft, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun. Golden age of gaming and soundtracks!
@mr.scottydoo 5 жыл бұрын
Oh lou you're just being lazy. Haha Good Stuff. Later they did it again with Blade Runner. Intel told them it could not be done. But they did it: "When we told Intel that we were doing a 640x480, 65,000 color game that emulates true color, with a 16-bit Z-buffer and six channel CD-quality audio, they said you can't - the PCI bus can't support it. So we felt good about ourselves, because we hadn't even mentioned the 750,000 polygons for the characters yet."
@TheMightyPirateTm 4 жыл бұрын
Great talk
@dezeekat 5 жыл бұрын
Holy shit! Finally!!!!!
@tkasch 2 жыл бұрын
These guys are absolute gods
@omegabeta3305 5 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love CnC! The intro clips where it showed the installation brought me back to the excitement of playing this game on my pentium 1. lol crazy.
@redking8585 5 жыл бұрын
Nod forever Kane will never die
@dontblameme9468 5 жыл бұрын
Peace through Power!
@pronoydutta614 5 жыл бұрын
If I am cut, do I not bleed?
@fernandohood5657 5 жыл бұрын
still playit everyday, on openra form, sure has some diferecnes from original but its a blast to play
@RyceKaeks 5 жыл бұрын
I remember playing Red Alert when I was about 3 on a Windows 95, it was one of the major influences that made me get into game design.
@nuborn.studio Жыл бұрын
The KZfaq Compression went nuts on this intro xD
@Lewdology 5 жыл бұрын
Aww too bad the finish didnt work out.
@Groaznic 5 жыл бұрын
Nox post mortem next, please!
@AgeCreationTutorials 5 жыл бұрын
According to an article by Variety (variety.com/2019/gaming/features/ex-westwood-devs-reminisce-about-making-original-command-conquer-1203169973/) the final part of the talk (which is cut off here) was a live guitar performance by Frank Klepacki.
@nintendude794 3 жыл бұрын
Good thing it was cut off, based on the intro performance
@Franciscomp70 5 жыл бұрын
The intro should've Hell March 2 or Grinder.
@LIKnott 5 жыл бұрын
Where's the rest of it!?
@knightwolf3511 5 жыл бұрын
C&C and AoE i say had top install on how they installed and what they did
@JanTuts 5 жыл бұрын
Aw yeah, this is going to be good! :D
@MBOmnis 5 жыл бұрын
Too bad we can't have awesome installation sequences like that anymore, since most games are behind DRM such as Steam.
@terra__ 5 жыл бұрын
As if games installed from CDs didn't have DRM. Anyone remembers StarForce?
@MBOmnis 5 жыл бұрын
Uh... I never said that, though.
@Vladislav888 5 жыл бұрын
Steam is not a DRM.
@MBOmnis 5 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is. You need it running (even in offline mode) in order to play any games you purchased in its Store. If you uninstall Steam, you lose access to your games until you reinstall it and keep it running in the background.
@Vladislav888 5 жыл бұрын
@@MBOmnis What you've just said has nothing to do with DRM.
@mbe102 5 жыл бұрын
For the Brotherhood!
@dontblameme9468 5 жыл бұрын
ONE VISION ONE PURPOSE!
@nuruddinshah684 5 жыл бұрын
PEACE THOUGHT POWER
@Masonicon 5 жыл бұрын
before C&C4 came out, it's one of my biggest fandom
@user-ts9tz2cc1h 5 жыл бұрын
one vision. one purpose!
@dontblameme9468 5 жыл бұрын
Peace through Power!
@nadelemonade5002 5 жыл бұрын
Dammit why cut it like that in the end :(
@aquelaquelaquelaquel 5 жыл бұрын
EA has a DLC for that
@testikuskitestdrivr6012 5 жыл бұрын
Westwood knew how to incorporate FMV in to their games, not like Sierra. Plus dope music tracks and innovative gameplay. Combination that could not be beaten then and gave rise for them to become the leader in RTS games of the 90s.
@nickymoloney4218 5 жыл бұрын
A remaster of CnC and RA is coming, though not very soon, a subreddit about it exists and news articles...
@DarkHorseSki 2 жыл бұрын
How could this video end without showing us the special ending they wanted to show???!?!!?
@mariodaniello 5 жыл бұрын
You can find "some" of the final surprise here (but not that much, sorry :( ) www.gdcvault.com/play/1025777/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Command-Conquer
@victorijapoosp 4 жыл бұрын
Remember registration cards?
@Nemo88881 5 жыл бұрын
rain in the night
@warriorcrab1319 5 жыл бұрын
Holy shit that Orangutan story, I couldn't stop laughing.
@bufordmaddogtannen 4 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised nobody talked about the sandbagging bug. 😁
@Ytnzy250 2 жыл бұрын
?
@bufordmaddogtannen 2 жыл бұрын
@@Ytnzy250 the enemy will not destroy sandbags. So you can create a sandbag structure that stretches all the way to the enemy base, then encircle it trapping the enemy in. Now that you don't have to defend against enemy attacks, you can focus on building a massive army, move it in bulk towards the enemy base, attack once and win the game.
@Ytnzy250 2 жыл бұрын
Never heard of that one. But that's cheating thou bruv, where's the fun in that? Okay, maybe the 1st time you be lol. 😁 👍
@bufordmaddogtannen 2 жыл бұрын
@@Ytnzy250 advanced levels can be frustrating because the enemi AI cheats and can build an army faster than you (and without the resources to do so). So used sparingly the sandbag trick can help. In c&c 2 they fixed it though. 😁
@slimebuck 5 жыл бұрын
23:33 - KANE LIVES.... AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Kenchan1337 5 жыл бұрын
Loved C&C then EA made a C&C mobile game and it's been AYYYYYYLMAO ever since. then again, i doubt they can compete with starcraft in the competitive space so what does that leave for a C&C type game?
@p_serdiuk 5 жыл бұрын
C&C was always about long single-player campaigns, world-building, and fun multiplayer. Its niche was occupied by series like Total War, Dawn of War, and Company of Heroes, but CA and Relic made some blunders recently and there is a lot of demand for new games from RTS fans.
@nickymoloney4218 5 жыл бұрын
They will remaster CnC and RA - originals, there is a subreddit...
@obbevermeij7285 2 жыл бұрын
C&C is a great game but the real magic happened in Dune 2, the first RTS.
@H34D5H07 2 жыл бұрын
Kane lives in death.
@TrevelyanOO6 5 жыл бұрын
Why cut off the special end?
@ZoidbergForPresident 5 жыл бұрын
Looks like the video is incomplete, is there a point to watch it? :p
@TaengJr 5 жыл бұрын
No, you're bad and you should feel bad!
@roca900 5 жыл бұрын
It starts at 00:04:00
@Franciscomp70 5 жыл бұрын
In games like this you just don't want to skip 1 second.
@RobM42 5 жыл бұрын
what you cut the ending off.
@HeatIIEXTEND 5 жыл бұрын
wew, EVA is a hottie
@patrikkarlsson9463 5 жыл бұрын
I LOVE Klepacki as a composer, but that was some god-awful guitar playing at the start there.
@servadac42 4 жыл бұрын
Yes and out of tune too.
@nintendude794 3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@ChenAnPin 5 жыл бұрын
"It took us forever to code C&C." "It took us five seconds."
@yrussq 3 жыл бұрын
compile not code
@euchridTHEmute 5 жыл бұрын
Command & Conquer rules.ini
@desireisfundamental 5 жыл бұрын
How I miss the old command and conquer. EA butchered it !!! Now we have command and conquer rivals which did the same thing that Blizzard is doing to Diablo. Two of my childhood friends being killed in front of me with no hesitation or remorse.
@KhalilArafan 5 жыл бұрын
tesla coils !
@deadwolf2978 5 жыл бұрын
WHERES THE SPECIAL ENDING???!
@meanmole3212 7 ай бұрын
Guys, I was not mentally prepared to listen EVA tell stories about her life.
@stanleyrandom7202 5 жыл бұрын
The content itself is great but sound levels are so screwed :( volumes are going randomly up and down.... A pain for non-english ppl to hear :(
@IronHeel 5 жыл бұрын
I just peed a little
@angrytigermpc 2 жыл бұрын
Joe Kucan has barely aged except for his (facial) hair color. Seth's actor though... Yikes, the years have not been kind to him :(
@marcusmeins1839 3 жыл бұрын
so mechanical man was a parody XD!
@486x 4 жыл бұрын
pretty sad. they only known for these 2 games , were they have made dozen of other rts.
@battalkruvazor3072 5 жыл бұрын
It's weird coming back to its opening scenes and seeing it clearly as the militaristic murican proganda as it was.
@lucasgreene1635 5 жыл бұрын
Music was great but honestly this game had some of the most poorly designed missions ever where it relied on player trial and error to figure out exactly what you were supposed to do. I particularly hate the mission where you just get like 3 vehicles and need to run directly through enemy fire to a fenced off area. Also the mission where you get 6 grendiers vs 3 turrets and a fucking tank right off the start is just pure bullshit.
@blacxthornE 5 жыл бұрын
Postmortem is sadly a bit too appropriate here. EA literally killed C&C with the final blow of mobile gaming.
@Lowlightt 5 жыл бұрын
Except C&C hd remaster is happening. So yeah, let the good old times roll.
@blacxthornE 5 жыл бұрын
@@Lowlightt can't wait for the shoed-in microtransactions!
@Lowlightt 5 жыл бұрын
@@blacxthornE part of the contract with petalgryph studios is no microtransactions and no. Loot boxes or skinshops.
@nintendude794 3 жыл бұрын
How bout that remaster, bois?
@olnog7553 Жыл бұрын
Weird way to end a video.
@koalabrownie 5 жыл бұрын
Skip the first four minutes
@TheBroz 5 жыл бұрын
koalabrownie If you suck, sure.
@nirv 5 жыл бұрын
Ok I'm skipping through this video and I see a lot of people's heads and not enough screenshots of game-related material. What the hell is this? Some big butt kissing postmortem?
@anonytube1679 4 жыл бұрын
I loved and still love C&C, but this presentation is total crap. Way too many "presenters". No clear direction, just random blah blah from many people. Too bad :-(
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