i think it would be wise for all parties to leave well enough alone.
my personal opinion is that many of the rabid sfb fans are exactly that. they have that right to be if they like that style of game. there is nothing wrong about liking a game a particular way.
what
is wrong is when they - or anyone - speaks from a position that
their way is the best way. Funny someone should bring up boring. In my experience (and i am not alone), sfb can get boring or manotonus.. any game can get that way.
What is important - and what any game should be judged on is: a) does it reach its target audience. b) does that audience like the game. c) what is its life span in relation to the fan. (does the fan recommend it to his pals and the community grows)
that all said, those before sfc2 and sfc3 after are two completely different targeted audiences because
business drives it that way. From my understanding, all the sfc series games made money.
< MY opinion - NOT TALDREN's>
as far as my personal opinion. SFC3 had a lot of potential - however due to
business decisions, it became more than just the red headed step child. I will leave it at that. A lot was done with the 531 build. Yes, I believe that somthing close to my Generations at War mod could have been developed and it would have squelshed a lot of criticism.
Currently, out of the box and just patched (no mods) - the game suffers from a lack of detail. In short, too much was taken out of the game, or at least not put back in. There are many NON sfb examples of good games with a high level of polish which was allowed.. Medal of Honor, HALO, even Wolfenstien: Enemy territory. The one thing which SFC3 has over ANY of the sfc games is the single player game. It suprasses any of the single player games of the past. period.
Game play wise, though, in retrospect, I just think too much was cut out. The good news is, though, Taldren allowed enough stuff IN to where we can mod the game. There are at least 5-7 mods out there for SFC3 which are all downloaded significantly. At least 4 of them have over 1,000 downloads. 3 of them have well over 6,000 downloads. These mods, I believe, show what could have been.
The last thing about sfc3 is this: it provides the tools necessary to make a cannon sfc game. No other sfc game allows those of us who are trek fans the ability to have truly different racial primaries and to a degree heavy weapons - which are based on the television shows and movie productions. I am one of those who say good riddence to missiles and plasma as it was in sfc1&2. it created too many balance problems one way or the other. (that does not mean it is wrong, just means that is my opinion). SFC3 provides klingon, romulan disruptors (which are different and have racial flavoring.).. not just varying degrees of phaser 1s, 2s and 3s. So for those of us who are trek fans, SFC3 is more of a God-send than some will ever know. It just simply had too much detail removed from it.
The last thing which has really killed sfc3 was any sort of patch getting caught up in legal issues when paramount and activision decided they couldnt get along and did a law-suit thing. this killed it. period. you cannot even find it in stores any more. they actually RMA'd the game instead of letting the copies out there get sold.
</end sfc3 opinion>
now.. about sfc1&2. truthfully, i am bored out of my mind a lot of times when it comes to that game. for me, at least, it becomes the same thing over and over again.. and in most cases it is who has the biggest carrier or most missiles. My most fun time really came in sfc1 SL matches and with SFC2 general war where a lot of those things simply were weeded out. that does not make any of those games lesser. it simply means i like other types of games.
here is the breaking point where some people just will never get it.
just because
you like the game a certain way does not mean everyone else does. Nor does it make
your way superior. There are people who are still playing Quake of all things and will probably for years to come because it is what
they like. (I my self have found a version of marathon which i like to whip out a time or two.)
I think a lot of my objectivity on somthings - just to do the opposite of what some of the SFB fanatics wanted to do. why? because their arrogance drove me away. whether or not some of the sfb fanatics like it or not, your arrogance has done this community harm over and over again. driving away the average gamer (i know, they are probably just dumb people to you).
Before some of you guys point fingers at this person - I would take a long look at your self. Games are places for people to spend their off time. not to be redicculed because "they dont understand" or because "they like fps games." By the way, some of the most strategic games I have played (and i have played a LOT of games) are fps games. Try playing the Rainbow 6 series.. or splinter cell. and i havent even talked about RTT games.
So dont burn the guy at the stake. Try instead offering some sympathy. might get you a little further than you think. The world does not begin and end with SFB. (well, not for most of us.
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