Supreme Commander Dev Announces 'Kings and Castles,' Chris Taylor Gets His Cockerel out

Ugh, TA:Kingdoms? Again? Didn't Chris learn the first time that it sucked and noone wanted to play it? :\

I read this as Chris Faylor ):

"...and unspecified 'next-gen' consoles."

I thought RTS's were the only genre to escape the grasp of the console lust, I was wrong.

Prepare for a onslaught of below-par RTS's meant for nubby little controllers and simple thinking. Gotta round up those Modern Warfare players.

This is comming from a has powered games fan...

There seems to be a recent spurt of games like this now. I didnt realize it until recently but the Total War series is basically a 3d version of the 1996 game "Lord of the Realm 2." I'm not saying it intentionally set out to remake the game, but the overal gameplay is very similar. Check out videos on youtube for "Lord of the Realm 2"

King Aruther came out in October 2009 i think and it's basically Total War in a Fantasy setting. Here's a vid
gameplay vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-3U5vXRd7Y

Now this game from Chris Taylor sounds like another attempt with perhaps the primary difference being to merge the strategic map with the tactical via continuous zoom. That could be a very interesting thing i must say. Imagine instead of "turns" that your troop movements were all real time on the world and at any time you could then zoom into a battle that was about to take place and take control of it in real time as the rest of the game ocntinues to move in real time.

I'm interested! But isn't Stardock making a similar game?! OH SHIT DEVELOPER SHOWDOWN

That is one cute horse.

Supcom was amazing, and Supcom 2 looks great, but can't help but be reminded by how bad TA: Kingdoms was.

What did i just watch?

Will any units have Death Coil or Death Pact?

I picked up the Supreme Commander gold edition a few weeks ago. Lots of fun, but damn it eats my machine alive still. E8500@4ghz and 4850, on large games it still slows down to shit. :(

I look forward to seeing my peons enter enormous building queues.

I still like devs like Chris Taylor and Peter Molyneux. Their starting point for game design always seems to be based on an idea, rather than thinking what sells the most right now. Also although they don't always pull off these ideas I love they make the sort of games you get excited about when you're reading the previews even if you do get disappointed when you actually play the game.

EXACTLY my thoughts.

First thing I thought of was oh fuck, Kingdoms.

Hahaha

so this new game is... supreme commander with new skins?

sounds good to me to be honest :)

By "next-gen consoles", does he mean the ones that are about four years old, or is he planning on development taking another three years or so?

Also...not a fan of the try-hard funny schtick.

Wish there were more details.

looking forward to it... I was blown away when playing supreme commander on my dual screen setup with the incredible sound of the game...

it was the first RTS where I could build a infinite automated war machine...

the base shields, the ferry routes for transporting your units straight from the factory to the battlefield...

damn it was awesome....