Hmm, sun screen needed?

[TheBlackOut 7]

As I watch and watch the trailers over again....

 

Notice its bright out? Like Texas bright! I thought the end of the world was suppose to dark and gloomy, or is that just me?

 

I remember seeing a screenshot that looked like it was dark but nothing in the trailers.

[Saracen 16]

The dark and gloomy will be coming soon, you'll just have to wait a little longer. These conditions you describe are predominantly within the Red Zones, and what better place for the Alien Side to start their invasion than within the habitat they are most suited to.

 

Now lets consider the lack of explanatory detail gone into weather control, Ion Storms, Day/Night Cycles, and even the music which helps give the game that dark and gloomy atmosphere, and then you'll begin to realise the surface has only just been scraped thus far.

 

I believe that once we have the Scrin well and truly into the picture, we'll start to see a larger picture emerge outside the box. And after the new year, more and more detail should begin to start flooding in about all the catergories above.

 

You'll get your dark and gloomy, this is just the calm before the storm. :wink:

[rEdaSbLood 1]

yes..i trust in King

[Mario 0]

The dark and gloomy will be coming soon, you'll just have to wait a little longer. These conditions you describe are predominantly within the Red Zones, and what better place for the Alien Side to start their invasion than within the habitat they are most suited to.

 

Now lets consider the lack of explanatory detail gone into weather control, Ion Storms, Day/Night Cycles, and even the music which helps give the game that dark and gloomy atmosphere, and then you'll begin to realise the surface has only just been scraped thus far.

 

I believe that once we have the Scrin well and truly into the picture, we'll start to see a larger picture emerge outside the box. And after the new year, more and more detail should begin to start flooding in about all the catergories above.

 

You'll get your dark and gloomy, this is just the calm before the storm. :wink:

 

do you think they should have Dark Gloomy and Creepy music?

[comander starlin 6]

yes because that is part of the C&C and Si-Fi Genre

[Saracen 16]

do you think they should have Dark Gloomy and Creepy music?

 

I think the music should be adaptive to the Zone you are in within the current condition of your mission. So yes, dark and gloomy in Red Zones, with deeply dark and sinister heavy metal going on during battles. Something like that would work well.

 

I think if there's a wide enough spectrum of music, everything could fit into place.

[comander starlin 6]

well as long as the games music is as good as Earth 2160, or better i will be happy.

[Woofna 0]

I like that idea. Peaceful, orchestral protoss-like music themes for blue zones, uneasy, shifty music for Yellow zones, and gloomy, doomy music for red zones.

 

The music should be variant on the zone you're in, the style of mission, your current situation, the side you're playing for, etc.

 

I think all 3 sides should have their own music set.

 

And the situation music should be like this

 

Fighting offensively, winning: Heavy metal upbeat

Fightly offensively, losing: Heavy metal, desperate feel

Fighting defensively, winning: Upbeat techno

Fighting defensively, losing: Dark techno

Building up forces, not much happening: Ambience

Incoming superweapon: Doomy music

Outgoing superweapon: Music builds up while it approaches, heavy metal explosion when it blows

 

Using a commando to infiltrate: Quiet, sneaky sounding music

Approaching the enemy base with overwhelming force: Marching, anthem-y music ( think Stomp )

 

Overwhelming force is approaching YOU: Doomy, "all hands on deck" music.

 

It should add to the feel of the game. Like when you hear the music that plays and it signifies a superweapon incoming, your heart should go into your throat and you should get a feeling of dread. And when you're pushing 60 Mammoth 27s towards the Nod base, the metal anthem should make your heart race and your blood flow.

 

Seriously. I want the music to help create certain parts of the game give you goosebumps.

 

 

Edit: Though less intricate than this theoretical music system, Generals did have a system. But that lead to a lot of points in the game with NO music for turtlers like me. Ambience would be nice, but you should still randomly have upbeat music even if you're just turtling and nothing's happening.

 

 

Edit 2: Goosebumps. When I was playing Yuri's revenge once, my CD screwed up and stopped playing music. So it was quiet, just the sounds of units. But by a godly coincidence, when I sent a MASSIVE force of Apocalypse tanks towards a Yuri base and they began walking through the initates without even slowing down before they hit the base walls, halfway through walking through the infantry and just about to hit the base walls, Drok starting playing, and since Drok is heavy and takes off so quickly, that perfect timing and perfect music gave me goosebumps. It was like an RTS orgasm. Seriously, the first note of Drok happened exactly in tune with the first explosion. I want C&C 3 to do that regularly.

[comander starlin 6]

wow you have taking a while to write that with all those posts a minute ago. and that is a good idea but very RPG fell about it, i like Kings idea of the zoned music.

[Woofna 0]

wow you have taking a while to write that with all those posts a minute ago. and that is a good idea but very RPG fell about it, i like Kings idea of the zoned music.

 

I'm just full of ideas today. I should go write a crap theory book.

 

It must be the new Starbucks coffee I just bought. That's why there are so many haiku-writing pseudo-intellectuals in Starbucks. It's not the image, but the coffee itself. They put a mind drug in it.

 

SEE?! ^^^^ I just made another crap theory on the moment! What is wrong with me?

[-NickoheaD- 0]

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/8425/picture18lr5.png

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/1223/picture21qp0.png

 

I've been looking at those screens, and it has made me question. Does this really look and feel like a post-Tiberian Sun setting? The absence of a dark and gloomy atmosphere has been something that's been worrying me over the months, and especially now after seeing the above screenshots. Seriously, should such areas even exist?

 

On an unrelated note, are those octagonal borders underneath the selected units in the first screen for real? :?

[comander starlin 6]

wow you have taking a while to write that with all those posts a minute ago. and that is a good idea but very RPG fell about it, i like Kings idea of the zoned music.

 

I'm just full of ideas today. I should go write a crap theory book.

 

It must be the new Starbucks coffee I just bought. That's why there are so many haiku-writing pseudo-intellectuals in Starbucks. It's not the image, but the coffee itself. They put a mind drug in it.

 

SEE?! ^^^^ I just made another crap theory on the moment! What is wrong with me?

 

dam that is what coffee does to yah that would explain why i think what those nod shoulders are saying that.

[Woofna 0]

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/8425/picture18lr5.png

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/1223/picture21qp0.png

 

I've been looking at those screens, and it has made me question. Does this really look and feel like a post-Tiberian Sun setting? The absence of a dark and gloomy atmosphere has been something that's been worrying me over the months, and especially now after seeing the above screenshots. Seriously, should such areas even exist?

 

On an unrelated note, are those octagonal borders underneith the selected units in the first screen for real? :?

 

The plot was heavily eddited during the creation of C&C 3 to create a more atmospherically diverse game, but I assume it will stay mostly gloomy. Undeniably, we are seeing mostly the Blue Zone atmosphere, which will be bright and sunny. There WERE bright sunny parts of TibSun, though they were rare. The atmospheric conditions in yellow zones and red zones include more impressive grahpics, like Ion Storms, clouds, advanced tiberium growth, slude, algea, etc. and as such probably take longer to develop. Keep in mind we're only seeing the tip of the Tiberium ice berg here.

 

Have hope. Things take time.

[Woofna 0]

wow you have taking a while to write that with all those posts a minute ago. and that is a good idea but very RPG fell about it, i like Kings idea of the zoned music.

 

I'm just full of ideas today. I should go write a crap theory book.

 

It must be the new Starbucks coffee I just bought. That's why there are so many haiku-writing pseudo-intellectuals in Starbucks. It's not the image, but the coffee itself. They put a mind drug in it.

 

SEE?! ^^^^ I just made another crap theory on the moment! What is wrong with me?

 

dam that is what coffee does to yah that would explain why i think what those nod shoulders are saying that.

 

Just Starbucks coffee. I got a free Gevalia coffee maker and felt classy, so I thought I'd buy classy coffee to make in it. I think this coffee's drugged.

[comander starlin 6]

i think all star bucks coffee is because i get a bit crazy on their coffee and not anyone's else's.