Free Command & Conquer Download

[Tan]

In case any of you hadn't heard about this promotion that started yesterday:

http://www.ea.com/redalert/news-detail.jsp?id=62

Full game, both discs from the official EA site to celebrate the 13th Anniversary and the release of the newest game in the series. Many of you already own it of course but a version that doesn't require any discs   while remaining legal is always a treat all the same.

[two_scoop_steve]

thanks tan, i'm checking it out now. can you guys believe i never played this?

[Tan]

thanks tan, i'm checking it out now. can you guys believe i never played this?

Well to be fair, PC gaming was a lot more elitist 13 years ago than it is now, more hardcore, expensive and hands-on than the "pop the cart and put power on" of the consoles in those days.

To be honest, I enjoyed the PS1 versions a lot more than the PC ones. The PS1 had a mouse, was more "couch compatible" and an RTS is much more fun on a 27 or 32" TV than the typical 13" monitors of the time.

[Tondog]

thanks tan, i'm checking it out now. can you guys believe i never played this?

Well to be fair, PC gaming was a lot more elitist 13 years ago than it is now

Maybe so, but PC gaming (and a lot of the hardcore PC gaming fanbase) is quite elitist to this very day.

[Tan]

thanks tan, i'm checking it out now. can you guys believe i never played this?

Well to be fair, PC gaming was a lot more elitist 13 years ago than it is now

Maybe so, but PC gaming (and a lot of the hardcore PC gaming fanbase) is quite elitist to this very day.

I was referring more to the technical and user know-how than the arrogant attitudes elitism is now. Elitism now is clan warfare, OS, and hardware snobbery and console gaming scorn. All of that is a mere shadow of what PC gaming used to be. When many people were playing Mario, others were playing hardcore 3D simulators on a scale not seen by today's standards. Bleeding edge stuff or years ahead of consoles, that's what PC gaming was. Tiger Woods 2008? Yeah Links 386 Pro did all that 16 years ago, welcome to the early 90's console gamers.

Any noob can play a PC game now and any noob can even do minor repairs or upgrades to their rig. Back then Windows was foreign ground only a small % of PC users even knew how to use, even fewer could be comfortable opening their machines and getting their hands dirty. DOS was a second language and establishing a connection to play Doom II with a friend was more difficult than setting up a network is today.

If you were serious about PC games back then you were serious, everyone else played shareware games on school computers and pretended they were.

[Sirgin]

I've never played this game before either, thanks Tan!!!

Two free downloads on one day, this must be christmas

Elitism now is clan warfare, OS, and hardware snobbery and console gaming scorn.

PC clans can be so uptight. Sometimes I wonder whether these people are still having fun playing their games or whether they just play out of fear of being kicked from their clan.

And it's unbelievable how PC gamers still try to make us look bad because "consoles sucks" and "console's hardware is garbage". To tell you the truth, the graphical difference is getting smaller all the time. Both PC's and consoles have their advantages and disadvantages and you can't just go "X sucks but Y rules".

[phoenix1967]

What are the system requirements?

[Sirgin]

What are the system requirements?

Very low I'm guessing. It's a 1995 game.

And:

-This software contains support for Windows XP/98/Me/95 with installation instructions. This software is not supported by Windows Vista, however there are community driven strategies and tips available for making the software function on Vista which you can find on our various fan-sites.

I have Vista 64bit, might be tricky to get it going for me

[Tondog]

What are the system requirements?

The reason why EA doesn't list the requirements is because if you can see that webpage and you're on a Windows machine, you can play it.

I have Vista 64bit, might be tricky to get it going for me

Sucks to be you.

[Sirgin]

I have Vista 64bit, might be tricky to get it going for me

Sucks to be you.
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[cyberfluxor]

I actually hadn't played these games until I purchased them as apart of the First Decade release. I really like the N64 release and the Saturn/PS1 ports stuck to the PC roots of gameplay and story line. I'm more of a Warcraft, Age of Empires, and Total Annihilation RTS gamer than C&C, but it's still worth checking out if you haven't before.

To be honest, I enjoyed the PS1 versions a lot more than the PC ones. The PS1 had a mouse, was more "couch compatible" and an RTS is much more fun on a 27 or 32" TV than the typical 13" monitors of the time.

I use to have a cargo furniture couch as a computer "chair" in middle and high school, then my brother moved out and took it with him. I really miss that feature of gaming in my youth, and it wasn't bad using a 15" monitor from 3 feet away.