Command & Conquer: The Motion Comic Teaser Trailer Options

[ORCaLoVeR]

As Kara "Starbuck" Thrace once said in Battlestar Galactica=

What the Frak is that?




Seriously, if they made like a serie of C&C with the style of 3D animation (Like in Starship troopers, or THe Clone wars) i would have loved it and accepted it glady

This just looks like a simple comic
If its free, no worries
If its not

[mirza044]

I'm really worried as to where this series is going. I miss the C&C3 days, where the biggest problems were merely balance issues and story plot holes. Now we have to worry about C&C4, which plays and looks nothing like a Command & Conquer game, and lacks the strategy involved in resource gathering, base building, powerplants, mass attacks with multiple types of forces, and is overall just way too linear and dull. The game is in no way an improvement over C&C3 - not even graphically.

And then it doesn't get much better - the EALA team is being replaced, so I wouldn't be surprised if support for C&C4 is just dropped with the new team. Many much needed patches won't be made for the people that actually do like the game, and instead we have to deal with a new team that probably knows nothing about the series. Hell, they've already talked about broadening the series and eliminating C&C's RTS formula.

Frankly I don't think a novel or comic is a bad idea. They can be an excellent way of expanding the C&C universe. What worries me is the direction the C&C universe is heading, both in story and gameplay now, and how more media can simply mean more ways they can ruin this for us.

Again, I'm not opposed to change and expansion, but I am opposed to the new direction.

everything what he said

[Apoc]

I said this on our official forums, it bears repeating here with some additional context....

I would like to say something a bit off the cuff here, a little from the personal side, because as a human and not a talking robot, I have that right to =) Yea, I am the middle-man Community Manager, but I have to have a spine as well, hehe.

Our development team is helping on the consultation and fiction of the motion comic ONLY, but the art and motion graphics are being done in conjunction with Ape Entertainment and our lead video editor. The dev team is working around the clock on finishing the game right now. So for starters, anyone who thinks this is is money/time being taken away from the actual game, is absolutely wrong. Wherein we are not that nieve to try and do something that would take away from the actual game, it baffles me that people can still laud accusations such as this.

Lets talk about the motion comic itself?

We wanted to provide a glimpse at the artwork style, so before you pass judgment on an incredibly short teaser, lets step back for a moment and realize this is a teaser trailer. Like many other movies and games that tease with a glimpse, this nothing different. Fully realize its not pleasing to many of you who want the full thing, I myself get irked at teasers, but I also realize it is pleasing and salivating to many others. We will be discussing the motion comic more in depth on BattleCast Primetime this Friday.

Also, the guys window is not open =) Rain is hitting it. I think you're allowed to be driving by tiberium with your window closed. He isn't driving in the tiberium, lol.

Finally, in regards to CNC4 support, I will not detail specific promises or commitments, but I can tell you there are plans in place despite rumors regarding the future of our C&C team. Our head of RTS, JVC has been working closely with me and a group of devs on this plan. The game will not come out with no support. We will absolutely do our best with the cards we are dealt. I've personally been in meetings in the last week regarding this.

Thanks,
APOC

[[NE]Fobby[GEN]]

We wanted to provide a glimpse at the artwork style, so before you pass judgment on an incredibly short teaser, lets step back for a moment and realize this is a teaser trailer. Like many other movies and games that tease with a glimpse, this nothing different. Fully realize its not pleasing to many of you who want the full thing, I myself get irked at teasers, but I also realize it is pleasing and salivating to many others.

The problem isn't the fact that it's a teaser, I think most of us understand that a teaser is put out to get people excited. All I'm saying is, it's near impossible to come to a substantive opinion concerning the art style of this series. Teasers should get people to say "Wow!", but this one just didn't do it for me. It's basically one image with not much in it. Anyway, good luck with the series, I do intend on watching it once it's up.

This post has been edited by [NE]Fobby[GEN]: Thursday 4th February 2010 6:25 AM

[purplescrin]

Hmmm. Ape Entertainment.... now that's a comic studio we haven't heard of. I wonder how many episodes will the C&C comic series bring.

Possibly the best C&C spinoff comic right now (and the only one) is still Zee Hynoptist's Tiberium Legos.

This post has been edited by purplescrin: Wednesday 3rd February 2010 11:21 PM

[sith_wampa]

Wait a second, the title says trailer. This is a screenshot. ~_~

[gben]

This discussion has gone off on a tangent... but I wanted to clarify my original comment on the style...

I like comics... black and white and moody especially! And this is what the first image we saw was and what *I* was expecting.
I was greatly dissapointed only in the choice to make a motion or animated comic which style wise I absolutely despise! It's the bastard illegitimate child of comics and animation!

However, in terms of concept, brevity etc... I have no trouble with what I have seen... I actually like teasers that only show a glimpse (literally), and continue look forward to this concept.

[TheBlackOut]

Sigh... just. Sigh.

[Aro]

Wow, I actually laughed at the video. I didn't think C&C could be destroyed anymore than it already has been. I hate to sound like a fanboy and all that **** but I honestly do not believe what C&C has become. Kudos for the new ideas, but this is not the way to go, seriously...

[Raptor 4000]

The cowards! The fools! Did they learn nothing from that disasterous C&C novel?

Also, motion comic? Why am I suddenly thinking the cutscenes from Freedom Force?