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Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-21T16:46:15+02:00

Statistics: Posted by Brutus — 21 Dec 2013, 16:46

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-21T10:45:14+02:00

Just hop right in to FAF bud it's a different style of play to skirmishes anyway. Also check out some Gyle replays to get an idea of how to play over at

www.youtube.com/felixlighta

Statistics: Posted by Flynn — 21 Dec 2013, 10:45

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-20T17:10:36+02:00

I was 12 when Total Annihilation was released in '97, and I played it online from early '98 until about 2000. I got regularly curb-stomped on the MSN Zone until I studied some replays from TAG_ROCK and other top players to learn BO's and economy. (I still have a lot of classic TA replays; I wonder if there would be an audience for a few nostalgia casts?)

Then I got out of gaming altogether, and after college I decided to spend a few years as a starving artist. I slept in my car on many a night, and until this year, I'd still been lugging around the same computer on which I used to play TA. Now I'm 28, above the poverty line, and looking to get into FA, but I'm waiting until I can actually beat the AI consistently before I play on FAF... XD

Statistics: Posted by Vaito — 20 Dec 2013, 17:10

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-20T10:23:10+02:00

Nihkaeda07 wrote:
Come back to life!!

Lets see, which year did TA come out? 1997? A relative of mine was a alpha/beta tester, using the 'Mplayer' client to get paid playing upcoming games. They essentially played Starcraft and TA side by side, and TA won out because of the overall mechanics and awesomeness. So, the first time I played TA I was probably four years old.
Then my whole family pretty much were squealing fan-girls when Supreme Commander was first publicly announced. We loaded that up on our machines the first day we could grab it off the shelf ( And they were the LAST ones on the shelf ). Lets see... I was... I believe I was 14 years old! A total Noob!

On an embarrassing note, no one in my family knew about the queuing or orders using the 'Shift' key in TA until I connected the dots that TA was created by the same person the made Supcom and tested it out AFTER Supcom's release.
HurrDurr.

: D!

-Nihk

Wow! How could you even play TA without knowning that!? On another note, how cool that your whole family was raised on TA

Also it's surprising how young some people were when SupCom came out, some of you that were 12 in 2007 would have been too young to have even heard of TA I practically got into SupCom because it was said to be TA's "spiritual successor". I did come in expecting something more similar to TA, but I ended up liking SupCom in it's own right.

Statistics: Posted by Flynn — 20 Dec 2013, 10:23

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-16T01:25:03+02:00

I first saw SupCom FA on the shelf of a BX in Colorado Springs in '07--that was the first I'd heard of Supreme Commander. It looked cool, so I went and downloaded a demo, was thoroughly confused (and limited by hardware), and didn't bother with it for years after.
Fastforward to the college years. In 2011 (or '12?) I was playing AoEII with a group of guys, and one of them asked if I'd tried Supreme Commander. I found the pair of games on Amazon for right around five dollars apiece and decided to give them another go. Played the vanilla campaign and loved it. Played the FA campaign, and thought 'well, at least the units are cool'. Downloaded Sorian AI. Then found out about FAF through TA4life's casts and started getting serious.
I never played TA, in fact I'd never heard of it until PA was announced .

Statistics: Posted by Euclid1 — 16 Dec 2013, 01:25

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-16T00:58:44+02:00

I was 12 when SC first came out, but I didn't actually know about it until 2011.......I know really late. I did play two games on GPG net before it went down.....on a single core 3.3 ghz......*shudder* I averaged 8-12 frames per second.......got SC, FA, and TA in 2011 and started FAF earlier this year. I'm a really good noob......and I would like to thank TA4Life's casts on youtube. They introduced me to the game.

Statistics: Posted by frizzyhair55 — 16 Dec 2013, 00:58

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-14T19:06:03+02:00

I was 12, absolutely loved the game, was complete shit and was an absolute raging little piece shit, but loved the game. Also i tried to play seton's on a 2.4ghz core 2 duo, oh man the insults that were hurled at me.

Statistics: Posted by Aulex — 14 Dec 2013, 19:06

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-14T13:47:01+02:00

I must of been 18 at the time. Didn't enjoy it that much due to the fact I had no clue how to play it properly.
My buddies and I tried to lan a few times but it lagged so much on our pc's at the time.

Years later I decided to get it out again and play it with a better mind set and it has to be one of my favorite rts games.

Statistics: Posted by Tsarza — 14 Dec 2013, 13:47

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-14T13:21:48+02:00

16. One of my friends had read about it, played the demo as soon as he could and showed it to me about a week before the game was released. I bought it right away.

Statistics: Posted by Plasma_Wolf — 14 Dec 2013, 13:21

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-14T05:36:54+02:00

Oh do I feel old in this group.
In my late 50's when FA came out. Living in the wilderness with a dial up connection wasn't condusive to on line gaming.
Glad the group is keeping it alive, maybe sometime I'll learn how to play better.

Statistics: Posted by ATinkerer — 14 Dec 2013, 05:36

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-13T16:49:27+02:00

I was 19 and in my 2nd year of college when TA came out.

Totally more impressed with it than Starcraft at the time, and I played both. Wondered why more people weren't hyped about TA compared to Starcraft.

Statistics: Posted by Pathogenic — 13 Dec 2013, 16:49

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-13T04:36:25+02:00

Hehe funny topic.
I was 15 at Sup Com release, i remember my little brother and i were very excited the week before release and we had watched like 20 times the vanilla trailer. We had failed to get beta keys so the frustration was big
Then we had to play at the parents' computer and there the problems started : lag land appeared! My brother played some skilled ranked until reaching the so incredible top 500 when i prefered at that time stay a good noob and play art of defense!

Statistics: Posted by Lu_Xun_17 — 13 Dec 2013, 04:36

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-12T23:32:21+02:00

Oh wow, old Total Annihilation...

I was 12 when it was out, and I got it simply for the cool box art. I still have my original discs. What a game that was.

I anxiously awaited Supcom when I first saw the awesome trailer. Since it only showed the UEF and Cybran, I truly assumed it was still the Arm and Core. I got it shortly after it launched, but my computer couldn't run it. Something about "shadow rendering" or whatever when I tried to install it. I was in the service then, and right out of high school, so i didn't have much money to mess with my computer. I think I sat on Supcom for almost two years before I finally got to play it.

Statistics: Posted by vtine85 — 12 Dec 2013, 23:32

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-12T21:21:53+02:00

Ah yes, the good old days of trying to play super laggy Seton's games with my Core2Duo E6300 and getting yelled at by the Seton's pros for being so noob. Since then I've upgraded to an E8400 then to a Haswell i5-4670k. So a definite improvement in the lag, but not much change in getting called a noob by the pros.

Statistics: Posted by Cynic — 12 Dec 2013, 21:21

Re: How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

2013-12-12T20:13:22+02:00

Come back to life!!

Lets see, which year did TA come out? 1997? A relative of mine was a alpha/beta tester, using the 'Mplayer' client to get paid playing upcoming games. They essentially played Starcraft and TA side by side, and TA won out because of the overall mechanics and awesomeness. So, the first time I played TA I was probably four years old.
Then my whole family pretty much were squealing fan-girls when Supreme Commander was first publicly announced. We loaded that up on our machines the first day we could grab it off the shelf ( And they were the LAST ones on the shelf ). Lets see... I was... I believe I was 14 years old! A total Noob!

On an embarrassing note, no one in my family knew about the queuing or orders using the 'Shift' key in TA until I connected the dots that TA was created by the same person the made Supcom and tested it out AFTER Supcom's release.
HurrDurr.

: D!

-Nihk

Statistics: Posted by Nihkaeda07 — 12 Dec 2013, 20:13