[OLD VERSION] What is Tiberium? - Command & Conquer Lore
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
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A comprehensive essay on the history of Tiberium, the alien crystal at the centre of the Command & Conquer series.
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Renegade X artwork "The End" by Renx-Killa
Footage from Command & Conquer, Tiberian Sun, Firestorm, Renegade, Tiberium Wars and Kane's Wrath - Westwood Studios, EALA
Music by Frank Klepacki, Jarrid Mendelson, Steve Jablonsky and Tevor Morris
With thanks to KeybladeWXV for his help with production
#cnc #commandandconquer #tiberium
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Kane’s Shiny Head Reflected The Ion Cannon
Best comment, top kek
You are kek as you are now
they say his shiny head was the basis of nods obelisks of light
The truth is GDi fire Ion canon on Decoy Temple
@@Rat_Fบcker No - they hit the right temple and Kane was badly injured. But he lived because he’s not truly human: he is many thousands of years old and was apparently known to the Scrin before the came to earth - unfortunately, that’s all we can really be certain of regarding his background...
I'm just glad C&C content is trending in 2019.
Yes! Wtf! I'm happy YT recommended this to me; I was super surprised and happy that someone's still willing to write stories on and dive into this franchise. So good!!
C&C, Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert and being remastered!
@@manynukes11 They are??? Well that's just freaking amazing.
www.ea.com/en-gb/news/details-command-and-conquer-remastered
Here's the news in case anyone's interested.
I wouldn’t be to exited, it’s EA after all. Hopefully optimistic
It's an awesome story that could easily be made into a movie
I like how you excluded the events from C&C4. This video deserves a ton of views!
There was a C&C4? Never heard of it! Sounds to me like it doesn't exist
I once heard a man say C&C4 was his favorite command and conquer. I killed that man.
@@Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan CnC4 doesnt exist and so doesnt that man.
Can you put cnc4 on toast? Is it food? Can I eat it?
@@ezroid7791 ya might get poisoned if ya do :v
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
-Kane
spec ops reference?
"Once again, the world is quick to bury me."
You can't kill Kane. He shrugged off a direct iron cannon blast to his body. He is indestructible
Merto-man
@@Ake-TL It's a common quote, originally by Mark Twain.
"The Earth proved herself a challenge for which the invaders, a contingent of collectors and not conquers, were ill prepared." My favorite sentence :D
That all changed when the scrin nation attacked
@@kobra6660 Earth: *GIT OFFA MAH PROPERTY!!!*
Anything Sci Fi will prove that Humans are stubborn bois
@@scottm8292 imagine humanity in space. We would just be impossible to kill then. Tiberium be damned.
@@commmander64 I imagine humans in space, and I feel like _we_ are the scourge. Steadily surviving, adapting. Colonizing planets, Forming them into our habitats. Surviving. Endlessly moving on.
*We did it to the bears back home, We'll do it to you alien bears out here.*
_We don't have to outrun you. We'll catch up when you're out of breath._
Natgeo quality tiberium documentary
Lol
"BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TIBERIUM?!?" - one concerned harvester boi
Tiberium will set us free
@@rtx_____ i feel the glow
We must have more!
There is never enough!
Yes, more Tiberium!
This land grows rich!
We need more!
harvester bois have the best lines!
@twinblade98 Dangerous cargo!These air filters working? These are the most memorable lines from gdi`s harvesters,at least for me 😊
Fields of green!
I don't know if anyone else caught it, but...
"Across the gulf of space ... envious eyes" - Dude, GREAT War of the Worlds reference!
That book is very good
It's nice to see someone else catch it.
Exactly
Ayy I recognised the reference!
And slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us
Well done, my brothers!
"Beautiful Glow"
- NOD Harvester Operator.
That Nod Harvester was all I could hear in my head when I was getting the Kane's Wrath flybys, it's so beautiful
"Dont let them touch the crystals!"
Hermaeus Mora The wonderful glow! Can you not see it, general?
@@NoStringsPrd 'The Crystals are Calling' I wonder if that was metaphor of if the driver had auditory hallucinations?
@@eagleandy1 Or if they truly were psychically calling to their harvesters....
Thanks for making this. C&C lore doesn't get enough love. Tiberium is one of the most terrifying substances in ScFi.
It really is! It's such a simple concept but makes for a fascinating world and conflict, and it ties in so elegantly with the gameplay
Phazon from Metroid Prime is basically Tiberium plus a central hive mind (which is a living planet). And seems to be capable of spawning nigh-immortal, intelligent, Phazon-based clones of things it's assimilated (such as Metroids of various types, as well as Samus herself). And it can even corrupt ghosts
@@BroadwayRonMexico Phazon, Tiberium, Grey Goo, and all those alien parasite races that eat planets worth of resources to replicate themselves are all scary for about the same reasons.
@Cole Park Infection forms of Flood at least give you an instant conversion, and spore infestation doesnt seem to affect potential targets 100% of the time (we see some people survive spore exposure without infection). By contrast, Phazon gives a slow, agonizing transformation in all cases and can infect via radiation that's well above Chernobyl levels. And the biggest thing that makes phazon scarier than the Flood is that it even corrupts *ghosts*
Man this can be a movie
A great one if they don't put hollywood bullshit in it
The Tiberium attack was definitely an attempt to terraform the planet while also "mining" almost all available resources. This has probably happened thousands or millions of times already, leaving some really strange and eternally useless planets behind. Luckily, the Tiberium explosion at Sarajevo totally screwed the Scrin as they expected to come and see a ball of Tiberium ripe for the picking. Instead they met an intelligent species (probably first contact for them, the weapons are most likely used for inter-fleet competition) that was in the process of exploiting Tiberium without being mastered by it. At this point we had steadily been increasing our mastery over the miracle substance, even beginning to contain it, ignoring the damaging properties while using the quick and easy mining ability to enter a second industrial era, the Tiberium Age. It is actually possible that the Scrin may have never invaded, as the Tiberium may have been fully mastered and exploited before it reached critical levels and tripped whatever sensors the Scrin had on us.
We'll never know for sure, because sadly this video covers all existing content on the subject. Period. I'm so mad. This was a good story and it just ended in the middle.
P.S. Thanks for putting out some good C&C content, it shouldn't feel like winning the lottery but it does.
I enjoyed your comment but after the scrin campaign this was a scouting/mining force and that they have a invasion force and they were going to invade/destroy earth so o do belive that the scrin has much more to show than there first force but I have no confirmation of this so its just a theory I have
Well to be in fact, it is likely Kane wage war is to able humanity had better and superior weaponry and tactics by the time he Scrin arrived.
Just look that the GDI manage to wipe both NOD and Scrin both despite they had a bad start.
@@TricksterPoi well the what we know about the scrin is so limited we can really only guess there motives/strongest units/what they want/and why they want what they want (tiberium and most likely energy or they need it to live) so really I'm just assuming that scrin has a very powerful invasion force that even gdi could not win against but you know opinions and theories and such
@@TricksterPoi one last thing we mustn't forget the scrin tower it could blow up the earth or take all of the tiberium and power...something with the energy like a superweapon so powerful it could be devastating to earth like a mothership the size of america
@Artuurs Z. thats the joke 4 is shit and disowned need it be explained?
Watching this after Covid 19 Pandamic makes it even darker and believable.
😇
@@B.CREAT1 Until cnc 4 ending showed up
@@hoangnguyenbui4614
WAIT there is a CnC 4?!
Not really? Covid 19 is nothing like Tiberium.
23:08 Kane: You can't kill the Messiah
EA: Hold my beer
Kane lives in death!
EA killed the game, couldn't kill the Messiah ;)
EA fools, don't you know you can't kill the Messiah?
Kane lives in Mods!
@@seongwookhong6608 Thank God for OpenRa
@@alwaysangry2232 moron, Kane defines the Tiberium series, and he is not a Gary Stu because he fails every freaking time unlike for example Rey or Captain marvel, l2p n00b before using terms u don't understand.
3:14 This is has to be the most savage introduction to a new character ever. You gotta love Kane for this alone Lol
Its what most of us grew up with, and its a defining moment for Kane, Nod and C&C
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 tiberium just based nanotechnology claytronic alien
Seth, what an idiot!
Kane casually just popped em
I love how you completely disregard C&C 4, that atrocity should have never happened. Kane's Wrath ending is still the cannon ending for me, as Legion awakens the dormant cyborgs from Tib Sun and recover the Tacitus.
I wish that the ending of Kane's Wrath was explained better. Kane obtains the tacitus again, and then what? All of it is obscure.
Plus, that final mission was really anticlimactic. It could've been made better. Other than that, the expansion is pretty good.
Preach it brother 🙌
Once the tower is completely built, it is not destructible.
However, Kane does need to learn more about the visitors(Scrin) and what he needs to prepare for Ascension. He somehow knows the tacitus is related to the visitors and only Legion can translate the secret of Scrin, leading to the first step before Ascension. :)
Let's guess whether Kane can ascend. :-)
the "4th game" was never ment to be since it it was meant to be a spin off for tablets but after EA found out that it wasnt going to sell very well they decided to port it to PC to try and squeeze what little money they could from it
This is Ahoy-Tier. Just sayin.
He's even got an amazing voice, too.
@@CaveyMoth this renamed carbon nanotube
Good comparison
Thank you for covering the most unjustly forgotten RTS sagas of all time. Today it's all StarCraft, and, while good, and even great, it's no C&C.
Peace through power, brother!
Thanks for watching dude, Kane lives in death!
@tlessmo
There is video where some dude said that EA is remaking these older c&c n prob bringing new ones and that some of the old westwood studios ppl r in it too
@@Terminate1783 I hope that is so, but given EA's track record I doubt it would be very good unless some serious overhaul occurs in their corporate HQ. Even if another company wanted to they wouldn't dare sell the rights to this series to them. If old employees get in on it, they'd at least have to change its title.
@@spasjt
ruclips.net/video/MlMLEIDdIn0/видео.html
This short video bout it
Video is by EA but i dont h8 them anymore they made apex many ppl like it ive tried it and it was fun n no p2w so maybe they can make c&c comeback...
I think Tiberium is more interesting twist on Spice from Dune.
KANE LIVES!
PEACE THROUGH POWER!
They were inspired by the book actually
IN DEATH
KANE'S WORD IS ALL
computronium bionanomechanical AI highly advanced nanotechnology
Oh man this channel seriously needs to be bigger. I love that even people that didn't grow up around the franchise can understand how it shaped an entire generation now.
David Seitz It really is a fascinating series. I always struggled to get Tib Dawn/Sun working for years, so I missed out a lot on the Westwood games. Joined at Tib Wars and always wanted to go back and play it’s predecessors as Tib Wars was just so great and interesting
David Seitz im 13 years old and i would wish i lived in the times of this game
@@scrubdub4792 Times were so much better back then...
Dude, you sound so professional , this could be aired on the Discovery channel and people would think its a real documentary. 10/10
Thank you so much mate! That really means a lot
@@NoStringsPrd its truth , your voice really adds to the immersion :)
Your Documentary videos are like Poetry in action
I see you're acting as though C&C 4 didn't happen.
Good man.
Command and Conquer LORE! Yes!
@Artuurs Z. We don't talk about Twilight.
Man.. I love it when Command & Conquer lore is explained and expanded. Doesn't seem to be nearly enough of that for this game. Subbed! It was interesting to see how much the Earth changed over time ever since Tiberium made first landfall.
My classmates thought i was watching school stuff
Ahahah 😂
Ha
Hahaha!
Still more educational than my math teacher.
This feels just like a discovery channel documentary though
You should narrate for audio books.
With the self-replicating nature of the second stage of Tiberium, the most likely trigger of a Liquid Tiberium explosion as Tiberium spreads throughout the planetary crust, would be contact with the Earth’s superheated mantle.
Given the devastation caused by the relatively small 2047 Temple Prime detonation, it is highly likely, perhaps even inevitable, that humanity’s inhabitable time on Earth is limited.
And one day, it will come to a brief, violent end.
Perhaps it is no wonder GDI has spread into space.
except that you can actually survive in a Tiberium covered planet.
(Project Regenesis and World Altering Missile)
@@dontblameme9468 Not if liquid Tiberium Exploded on the scale to Destroy the planet
I guess tim curry was right all along.
that makes sense.
@@robber233 Too bad space will now be corrupted by what he hates the most.
Seriously, thank you. C&C was and still remains the best sci-fi action RTS series out there. The last game was a disgrace and a shitty attempt by EA to cap off the series so it could focus on its other projects, which became rejects anyway. BUT - Your video proves that the intrigue, scope and depth of this Tiberium Universe is still as engrossing and entertaining as when we first saw the green crystal in the 90s. Perhaps EA will go bankrupt (a very likely possibility) in 10 years and someone will restore Kane's Vision and bring about a lasting Peace through Power.
God I fucking hate EA
@@quocvietophu1627 Hopefully, with the awesome remaster released June 5th of this year of C&C Red Alert and Tiberium Dawn they can, at long last, redeem themselves.
oh my god i love this video
awesome editing and it even disregards cnc4 as a cnc game and ends where cnc3 leaves off
at this point, the FPS Tiberium was supposed to continue the story, but sadly (for us fans anyway) it looks like the Scrin may never return after all
it's 2019 but the Tiberium universe still holds its appeal
Thanks dude, very glad you enjoyed it!
I read the C&C3 novel recently, the game Tiberium was set to draw significantly from it, more a tie-in to the novel than the games. It wasn't really all that good, I kind of feel like we're probably not missing much with that game not coming out tbh, it could have been great but looks like it probably wouldn't have been.
The Tiberium world is a fascinating world. I found out when making this how the Scrin mutate themselves with Tiberium to fill certain roles. What if Tiberium and the Scrin aren't even from the same planet? The Scrin need Tiberium to live, it's not just a resource to them, it's life or death. What if the Scrin are their planet's Forgotten, after Tiberium wiped out all non-Tiberium-based life. Obviously this is conjecture, but I can't help but see links between the Scrin and the Forgotten, that given enough time the Forgotten would become the dominant life on Earth, fully dependent on Tiberium to live. It's fascinating stuff.
EA is releasing a C&C remake..mainly because Blizzard is working on WarCraft 3 Reforged. So EA still remembers that C&C exists..maybe they will do something with it..altough i honestly hope not, if they keep making it shit like that elusive C&C4
They are actually working with a lot of the old Westwood team on it though.Even Frank Klepacki is back for the music!
I think EA knows it has messed up and finally wants to do a project the right way. Google it and see for yourself the Petroglyph team is releasing updates on Reddit fairly often!
@@WackGloony I have zero faith in EA to learn from their mistakes. But on a less glum note, I always knew about C&C, but I grew up playing Starcraft, so it never really took off with me. I knew about Tiberium through cultural osmosis, but it wasn't until I played a certain mod for Rimworld that I really started to dig in and appreciate the C&C universe.
Life has a strange way of doing business.
@@WackGloony Looking at how EA has treated other franchises (Star Wars Battlefront, Sim City etc.) I really have my doubts that they realized they've "messed up" because they generally just don't care
It is a rare occurrence to come across a video I didn't know I have been waiting for my entire life.
fictional substance is can growing quickly
I'll add my praise for just forgetting about 4, it doesn't deserve to exist. Good job on the vid!
Why don't you like Command and Conquer 4 so much? I'm not trying to troll or scoff, I'm just curious. Personally, I liked the Command and Conquer 4. Yes, now it’s impossible to build bases, but on the other hand, you don’t have to fear that some kind of homosexual bastard will smash your base with a huge crowd of mammoth tanks. Now the emphasis is on tactics and strategy.
The only trouble, from my point of view, is the dependence of the game on the Internet, and the need to register on the Electronic Arts website.
@@jamesschultz2039 because its a cash grab that changed all the core aspects of C&C I mean it was meant to be a game called C&C Arena if I remember right but EA quickly said "nope slap a campaign in and ship it out" all it was meant to be was a cash grab.
Tiberian Sun is and always will be one of the finest created RTS games ever. And I love Westwood for creating one of my most beloved game genres.
Let's not forget Tiberian sun Firestorm. ☺️
Not sure. Niche added DLC units that serve no real purpose, imbalanced and sometimes broken tib mutation mutants, and not a whole lot of extra campaign missions, even with less interesting story videos. Tiberian Sun didn't need the expansion. Im happy it's there, but it didn't need it. Only thing that is nice, is the skirmish random map options to include the new mutant/tib overgrow textures AND the ion storm. Funfact, even today, online Tibsun overshadows online play compared to Firestorm. To sum it up, it's nice that it's there, but it's pretty useless. And no, I didn't forget about it. I just don't find it worth mentioning. But alas, I did now with this comment.
I'm very impressed, great video. As a C&C veteran, you sir deserve a medal.
Don't forget a campaign ribbon.
"Great shot"
Мерзкий Мутант. 😎🖖
finally a worthy documentary of the fascinating tiberium!
Kane wrath had such a build up of what was supposed to happen. Translating the scrin symbols at the ending cinematic, revealed that the Earth warp gate is open and the 2nd phase begins invasion. To bad EA threw all that away well at least we will see with what is gonna happen with the remasters...
Typical GDI Propaganda...
Amazing. I mis the game
Computer Assisted Biologically Augmented Lifeform damaged. Please shut down all non-essential operations.
I will never forget this.
*Intruder alert. Alert canceled. Intruder alert. Alert canceled. Intruder alert. Intruder canceled. All intruders, please report to the detention facility.*
*ATTENTION! Nuclear missile sequence initiated.*
Fucker knows how to get me to click, i will always click Tiberium.
Considering, Kane was correct about the Scrin and everything else, i'm more inclined to believe he discovered, and named it after the Caesar.
Isn't Kane of Scrin descent? does explain is ancient age.
I'm currently writing a biopic on Kane, and to my understanding of the little we know, I'm pretty sure Kane is human. Abnormal, but human.
@@NoStringsPrd FUCK YES!!
I love C&C even though I wasn't born in the 90's it's still one of my fondest games. Btw there's an awesome fan website I found and it'll be cool if more people knew about it. brotherhoodofnod.org/
@@NoStringsPrd It should be noted that although references to nod has been found by archaeologists it's entirely possible that Nod could have been inspired by the past rather than the past having been formed by Nod.
He did, GDI was as shady as NOD was
Covid 19: "Ok, I tried, I give up"
This was fantastic, narrated and produced to the quality of some of the best RUclipsrs out there, you should be extremely proud of your work
11/10
Thank you for the kind comment, it really made my day, you have yourself a good one!
Blueballed by some rare lore right there
Subbed
Holy shit dude! This is like watching a real documentary lol. I love it!
John Rosales kane shames you. this IS a real documentay
All aboard for the C&C remaster hype train !!
Who else is excited ?
I cant imagine EA botching a remaster.....
Then again its EA...
*cough*Battlefront*Cough*
In before the microtransactions
this is the first time i have had someone explain to me the true nature of Tiberium. I knew a lot about its mutating and toxic properties, that it mines minerals and is generally mysterious, but never that it mutated plant-life and that the early stages were basically pods with roots
I still wonder about the visceroids, though. Are they sentient?
All the scientists that originally researched Tiberium all concluded that it wasn't dangerous. That would be a very strange conclusion if there were blossom trees, as it would indicate a clear mutagenic property of the substance. Each game showed Tiberium as progressively more and more dangerous as well, in C&C 95, troops could stand in Tiberium for a long time, while by C&C 3, death would occur quickly.
Which leads me to think that's a purposeful part of Tiberium's 'evolution.' First it's seeded on a planet. Depending on how the asteroid breaks up, it's likely to very limited in area it'll be seeded. If an indigenous species detects it and finds it's as dangerous as it is in C&C 3, they're much more likely to attempt to eradicate it there and then. But if it appears safe? They'll likely study it, discover it's a useful method of extracting resources, and deliberately spread it themselves; something we see occur in C&C. After a certain period of time, it undergoes a small change, allowing it affect native life, particularly in a manner that facilitates its growth. By this time, either the native species has spread the Tiberium itself, or there's no native life in the area able to suppress the Tiberium.
As Tiberium spreads further, its main objective is no longer simply propagation, but also somewhat eradication of native life, and this may also be triggered if it detects an attempt to limit or destroy the Tiberium as seen when GDI decontaminated the atmosphere. It changes again, toxic gases and its characteristic radiation increase. Presumably, there may have been a few more stages, as we know liquid Tiberium was starting to naturally appear.
Still theis means that these scientists were plain stupid: initially - "OK, this green crystal desolates the soil and is toxic to humans, but nothing to worry about"; later - "in mutates the foliage into indestructible toxic trees and causes various mutations in human and animal tissue, we don't know how to deal with it".
Mateusz Sławiński That's why I think that the initial tiberium that landed didn't affect the local flora or fauna. It sucked up minerals, but didn't release any gases or infiltrate into any living organisms. It may have even avoided carbon altogether.
Thus, humans find the tiberium, play around with it, find nothing wrong but that it is rich with all sorts of goodies. It seems to be all positives. Then the tiberium undergoes its first change as it's no longer in that super vulnerable initial infection stage. It infects stationary organisms and converting them to spread the tiberium via the air.
That's where C&C95 starts off, with most of the scientists having already looked at it and determining it doesn't affect organics, but it very, very clearly is now (blossom trees don't appear on any of the early maps as far as I remember, and the early videos on tiberium are largely positive, focusing on how they're a great resource). As the game progresses, the dangers of tiberium are being brought to the forefront, as can be seen by the videos on tiberium changing tone on it being less of a 'easy mining system' and more of a toxic, ecological disaster.
@@LordRunty Actually, even if juvenile T "just" sucked minerals, scientists should get suspicious as it could potentially devastate soil (which happened later anywhere). Well, meybe research staff was full of optimism and didn't care about side effects.
@@mateuszslawinski1990 That's certainly true, but compared to conventional mining, it might just be seen as win all around.
I vaguely seem to recall it being touted as a method for extracting materials from already devastated soils from mines in one of the videos or the manual, but I'm probably just confusing it with something else.
2:24 "Of the SECOND WORLD WAR"
When he mean second world war. He is not talking about the real WW2 where the allies fought against the axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan). He means the Red Alert universe WW2 where the Allies fight the Soviet Union.
Wait so Red Alert is connected to this Universe?
@@Delicious_Oreoz Kane shows up in Command and Conquer: Red Alert, which came a year after Tiberian Dawn.
It was intended that RA would be a prequel to TD, but when they made Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 they went separate ways. They still share a lot of code, to the point you can import elements or maps from one game to another.
@@Delicious_Oreoz no they are not
@@ismaelsantos5378 devs said red alert is AU
@@rallyecars7449 tf is AU
Oh dear... When I realised you just excuded C&C4 from your video I felt soooooo relieved. Good. This way great vid remains great from begining to the end! :)
@Michaelle Green We don't know that for sure, though I personally tend to agree with it... On baisis that ANYTHING would be better then C&C4 was. Though actually I might yet be surprised, so maybe I should watch out what I am writing here...
I know, I know, Mobius’ “non-carbon-based element” statement sounds like technobabble coming from the mouth of a madman, but only until the later games when you gain a better understanding of Tiberium. If his work in treating those affected by the properties of the then-enigmatic crystal, not to mention the later cutscene where he calls it a lifeform, are any indication, he was certainly trying to word it right. But why “element?”
*Before 1995, there had never been anything that acted quite like Tib encountered in human history, and now he’s on TV trying to sum up what that green stuff that’s killing people is without sounding like even more of a crackpot than he already does.* Think about it: it grows like a plant, spreads like an advanced engineered virus, creates its own crystalline structures containing valuable minerals like a chemical, and most of all, *evolves*. It’s not an “element,” sure, but without knowing the actual origin of Tiberium, the poor doctor likely couldn’t come up with a good classification for it as a *natural* phenomena that didn’t need a lot of explanation. In the moment, though, the “element” description does fit somewhat with Tiberium’s specific reactions with other materials (converting flora into Blossom Trees, synthesizing gases that are normally the result of chemical reactions, etc.) After all, he was being interviewed on a scientific talk show, so time limitations do make things difficult. Kinda hard to fit much of what I just said about Tiberium into his responses to the host while expressing just how excited he is about his research into the substance.
C and C is my childhood
I never played any C&C but this video was very comprehensive and entertaining. I have no clue to how much time you invested in this but I love this video so much. I like your choice of words and even how you "tell the story" of what happened. Like you would record it for the humans in a few decades. It is so good. Please make more of this and continue this great great work!
I never played this game, nor did I even really knew it existed, this video though hooked me up, like I was there, in the Tiberium wars myself.
One Vision. One Purpose.
Heretic...
PEACE THROUGH POWER!
KANE LIVES!
@@StarFyodperor KANE LIVES THROUGH DEATH
PEACE THROUGH POWER
KANE LIVES!!!!!
Kane Lives !!!
16:36 This makes me wonder, since the U.N. and by extension "the Global defense" initiative fully reclaimed what was Germany, does that mean they also restored the German government and allowed large groups of German refugees, if any ethnic germans survived the initial tiberium devastation, to resettle their homeland(s)? And by that I mean the German states, Saxony, Bavaria, Hamburg, and the other 14 states. Which brings me to my next question, what is the status of the UN's member nation states' "sovereignty"? What I mean is, in the insueing chaos following the wake of the Tiberium wars and the 'Scrin' invasions did the states of what was left of earth that was still "habitable" willingly gave up much if not all of their sovereignty to effectively become a one world "quasi-government"? (more like a multi-national economic dependency and mutual defense alliance, in theory..)
note: Never played any of the games, just only recently getting into the lore and backstory for this series.
Excellent question! Due to the global Tiberium crisis, the traditional concept of a sovereign nation is no longer applicable. Some time between the First and Third Tib Wars, GDI became a supranational military force, sort of a nation in of itself. This seems to have been well under way during Tib War II (the one with James Earl Jones in it), so this predates even the Scrin invasion. To quote the Intel Database from C&C3;
"Over time, power and sovereignty have been gradually ceded to GDI and the national identities of the participating countries have faded. In 2047, that process has reached its final stages: while there are still technically individual Member Nations, the reality is that GDI has become a unified political and military super-state."
I think the reasons for this are the global-scale threat of Tiberium, the fact that many nations simply became uninhabitable to terrestrial life and don't really exist anymore, and the fact that Nod is working to encourage this. Individual national militaries and treaties are simply not capable of dealing with this world. GDI has sort of become a governing body over the United Nations, not just the UN group but over the nations themselves, so GDI kind of rules Germany, because it simply has to in the face of the literal threat of extinction. I'm sure each nation has its own government for local politics if the nation is capable of running things as normal, but GDI can simply swan in and do what they like. That's kind of my understanding. It's good then that GDI seems to be run with some degree of morality, even to a fault. If you think of UNSC from Halo, ONI will do literally anything in order to beat the Covenant, even if it's morally repugnant. GDI does things 'the right way', even if it means an increased risk of faliure, as seen in the final mission of C&C 3.
Love the ideas in your other comment too! Could be a good jumping-in point for new players since it's been so long since the last one.
Since you mentioned you've not played C&C, if you're at all interested in trying it out, the earliest three games (Command & Conquer, Red Alert 1 and Tib Sun) have all been legally released by EA as freeware. You can download them prepatched by fans at cncnet.org/ Also check out cncnz.com/features/technical-support-help-guides/ for help setting up and for any issues!
@@NoStringsPrd
Hey, just wanted to say thanks for the comment and recommendation! I was actually surprised when I got a reply and from you of all people after realizing how old this video was. As for my idea for either a main title series or maybe just a spinoff I was inspired by age of empires series with its dozens of playable civilizations, each with their own slight bounces in particular areas of expertise in the arts of waging war. Plus from what I gather from Kane's bio, this period of reconstruction and recontituition of old world nations could be used by him to lay the ground work for his future plans, what ever they might be. Basically by the 2090s to earlier 2100s seeing as most people lived in the designated "yellow zones" with little to no real authority and marginal aid for too few of these displaced refugees from the GDI or the now more or less defunct United nations (existing practically in name only). These diverse survivors of many nations and cultures, living in the ruins of their former homelands were understandably frustrated by the perceived lack of empathy for their plights. While efforts are well underway by the GDI and what was left of it's more intact and autonomous "member" nations to cleanse and stabilize many of the yellow contaminated zones, even they are stretched thin, they need help. An idea is proposed by many members of the UN council and even several high ranking commissioned officers within GDI high command; *why not let the survivors of the old countries do a lot if the work for us?* Despite much backlash by so called "anti-empowerment" groups (do not what to give too much responsibility and ultimately 'sovereignty' back to member states) within the council, the motion passes, and a plan is put into effect, many of the surviving members of their former homelands will be given sonic technology, sonic heavy tractors, containment fields, with some of the more prominent member nations even given manufacturing facilities that can produce more of these technologies depending on needs of any given problem they might face in order help to make them more self sufficient, not having to rely on direct GDI involvement and thus in the minds of the planners save on costs and already limited resources. Opponents to the plan don't like it because they feel thus will embolden and empower these fledgling groups of survivors, especially the groups with their own production facilities to start thinking that; "hey maybe we don't need the GDI's heavy handed presence anymore," to which supporters are like; "well we've given them the means, without us they wouldn't be able to retake their homelands, why would those we helped turn on us"?
Basically the idea is to start of the game as one of these reestablished or even newly formed nation states, maybe again set within the last decades of the 2000s. depending on which faction you choose from "former" UN member states that while technically are still apart of the GDI or maybe an entirely new country that's recognized by the UN but not a member has only just recently been allowed to form it's own military (within loosely follwed and weakly enforced accordance of internationally recognized "laws" on limits of militarization for none UN member countries) must determine how they go about to further reclaim or even take territory at first in the name the "international community's" world wide efforts to reclaim earth "for the good of humanity" but may later say we take this in the name of OUR people.
They'd already "given up their sovereignty" to GDI long before Tiberium happened.
@@NoStringsPrd tib sun and red alert 1 are for free? noice.
You should do a video on just Kane alone based on your theories. Why do the Scrin have records of him, and how is he impossible to kill. I hope one day we get the real answers, but would love a video talking about these topics.
Funny thing, a biopic on Kane will indeed be the next video! It's been recorded and is in early editing. I'll need a little time to polish it off, but I hope you'll enjoy it when it comes out!
I'm kind of trying to make these lor videos more satisfactory closure than what actually happened with C&C4. I'm not sure if we'll ever get an official continuation and 4 butchered the finale, but I reckon there's enough in the canon games to form a satisfactory conclusion
@@NoStringsPrd Sweet, can't wait to see it!
6:07 , every guy stared at the same point of the screen...
booba
The Overlord will come one day. And Earth will face full might of the Scrin. seqeul that never came T-T
Just imagine Overlord's surprised face after he saw that humanity used all Tiberium and there's nothing to mine :D
@@mateuszslawinski1990 Yeah... But I don't think next time he comes he would want to mine Tiberium because the Scrin suffered humiliating defeat I quite sure if I were him I will retaliate with everything the empire have because the Scrin force that came to Earth at that time were only a mining operation not expedition force
@@unknownbenefactor8029 On the other hand whole purpose of invasion would be lost if all the T was mined (unless Scrin are stubborn and wipe of humanity to seed Earth once more).
In the eye of Scrin lose to Human almost like we lose the fight with the monkey because they think they were superior than Human
I don't think the Scrin's ego is as bruised as you make it sound. If I remember correctly, the Scrin considered us to be a "type 5" civilization, while third world countries were classified as type 4, which they thought was dangerous to deal with. Of course I have no idea how high their scale goes or where they place themselves in it, since it's clear that they're not following Kardashev.
They were tricked into arriving early and were only equipped for mining. They kinda went into the fight knowing that they couldn't win, so their tactics were focused on creating diversions and building a gate to gtfo.
One day, EA will go under and new company will do CNC justice. Remake CnC4 with the quality it deserve.
Using Blur studio graphics just like they did when they remade Halo 1 & 2.
It's funny that you are not the only one who says such nonsense. My advice to you is calm down. Electronics Arts will NEVER go bankrupt. NEVER. At least as long as there are people who buy their products, and there are a lot of them. And there is nothing you can do about it. Well, if you only create an organization like the Brotherhood of Nod, and mercilessly kill everyone who buys EA products. But I am afraid that such an organization will not last long, because it will be eliminated by special forces.
@@spasjt ea buy almost failrue tried to adopt new brought company but failrue
Very well done and a fun video. One....Little thing though.....
You didn't mention how the tiberium veins could move on their own enough to attack and destroy any vehicles, either too slow or just too big to avoid them.
> A great video filled with love for one of the most iconic franchise in the gaming history
> only 8k subscribers.
The world sucks
I'll do you one better. Who is Tiberium?
Everyone always asks "Who is Tiberium" but no one ever ask "How is Tiberium" :C
But you all forget, when is tiberium?
Love this channel 2020 c and c will always be relevant. Loving the remaster and I’m learning so much on this channel amazing work
Beautiful just beautiful and leaving out the mess that was C&C 4 has earned you a sub!
Thank you, and welcome!
As a german I was very happy when I heard that Germany of all places was turned from a yellow to a blue zone.
Still hanging in there this little country, still fighting against all odds ^^
"The beautiful glow..."
Absolutely how I felt going through all the panning C&C3 footage
I swear he destroyed the second refinery :)
"We must have more"
Yes, more Tiberium
顧鳴 The Crystals are calling...
I sure hope that one day, the C&C conclusion we were wrongfully denied to us, will finally be written. And that a proper game will be made of it.
To some degree Tiberium seems similar to Phazon from Metroid. They both is alien, both introduced by metheors (intentionally), both have very strong mutagenic and radioactive properties, both can be used as weapong and enegry source, both slowly converts planet and its life into something alien.
Only difference is that Phazon look more organic, while Tiberium is crystalline.
15 Reasons Why i Love C&C 3 TW:
1. its my Childhood game i played alot
2. It has a Great Lore!
3. its also my Dad's Favorite Game
4. It has Cool robots and Mech's Especially Infantry and AirCrafts
5. It has Been around for a Long time
6. It brings Back Old School Memories 7. The Graphics
8. GDI is Like a Futuristic FBI for Me
9. it Trains my Brain
10. I love RTS games
11. Its the Only RTS game i have On my PC so it was My Only Option
12. The War Between NOD and GDI Has a Good Timeline
13. It has REAL People in the Cut scenes(i think)
14. The Campaign is Great and has Alot of Missions Not like Kane's Wrath
15. It Has a Kind and Good Community
12 years later and the short teaser, for C&C3, still gives me chills. I remember being overwhelmed with emotions and happiness knowing C&C was back! It still is too.. community is strong in Kane's Wrath from watching Green_Zero's videos on youtube.
nice little war of the worlds reference there at around 18:30
I watched this like 5 times
6:08 we need more tv news broadcasters like that
Nope, we have plenty.
Damn. This feels like it was made by the developers! Or the writers! Damn good job!
I love how you did this. it's like watching a documentary on the history channel
Someone's been replaying the campaigns waaaaay too much. Great video though.
15:59
"I used the stones to destroy the stones"
Did you do it did you destroy the tiberium?
Yes
What did it cost?
A tiberium
I am dead, lmfao
Damn. This is very well made man. Probs to you for researching the game this well. The old awesome cinematics and your explanation all builds up to a very interesting video. Thanks!
Only true fans ignore the existance of C&C4 - also known as: "the horror from the abyss which shall not be named".
u just named uhhhw.. u know what!...
u are no better! ( ･ิ︷･ิ)
Ah yes, the "Cocks & Cunts 4: eSPorTs rEAdY! (eAt iT sTardCraft)" or "How we stopped caring about the C&C franchise and went on to town on the 69th Sims expansion".
"Non-carbon based element" Yea like every other element, mr scientist
The significance is that it's an inorganic substance. Organic matter will always be carbon based on earth, so the fact that it's inorganic yet seemed to be alive was the main point. Remember that it hadn't transformed into a proton lattice yet. That also means the Scrin are inorganic lifeforms
The word "compound" comes to mind, suddenly.
@@ServantofBaal A scientist is going to know what the words mean, and a layman isn't going to be more confused if you say _compound,_ which might make sense, instead of _element,_ which is, at best, redundant.
@@boobah5643 Yes, so he slipped up with the wrong word. Big deal
@Count Cobalt no, they are carbon based with a silicon shell. Big difference
Just imagine if NoD and GDI had pooled resources and farmed this properly
GDI prudes want to destroy it, while NOD perverts want to stick it in themselves and everybody else. A sort of progress vs tradition conflict. That's why Nod went from a terrorist organization to some sort quasi-communist revolution.
@Michaelle Green wouldn't the forgotten be like 'the 1%' since they survived purely by some miracle
Its like if fossil fuels were growing instead of being depleted, interesting!
Except fossil fuels don't turn you into Fossil fuel base lifeform
@@Rat_Fบcker because we already are.
A certain, nostalgic and luxuriant gem suddenly grew into my recommendations! This was a joy to watch, and I loved the commentary - on par with a script for a documentary.
All throughout the video, I can't help but shake off the feeling that this style of gaming documentary is inspired by *XboxAhoy*. If so, you've chosen an amazing idol!
Fun fact about GDI general James Solomon at 11:09. The guy who plays James Solomon is James Earl Jones. And if his voice sounds a bit familiar he is infact the person who voiced Darth Vader from Star Wars.
Oh he also voices Mufasa from the Lion King
Yyyup, this is awesome. As a long-time fan of the series, I had most of these events playing in my head already. But having them all layed out in this nice, concise, well-scripted manner is awesome. Also, kudos for covering the entire Tiberium Trilogy! I do wonder if we'll ever get a fourth installment to close the franchise out. Perhaps it could be called "Tiberium Dusk" to parallel the "Tiberium Dawn" this series started on.
Silos needed.
Thank you for not adding C&C4, to be honest it was a very unfair ending for the saga, a bad game and it ruined what we all remembered of the Tiberium series. To me, this does not feel empty but rather a better taste ending than "official" ending of the saga.
That means a lot, thank you, I was worried that abruptly ending where KW did might feel like an empty ending to the video
I've never even played C&C and I can't stop watching
Luke Alley play it. I picked it back up about a month ago. I’ve loved it since I first played it on N64 as a kid 😬
This was really fun to listen to, even though I was never that into C&C universe. Well done :)
Tiberium Sun, such a good game. You had editors and the likes, everything you needed to make the perfect mission.
Kane is obsessed with bible stuff, so it's possible he's the original Kane who murdered his own brother, given how he's able to survive stuff that nobody else would.
Agreed.
That’s sort of the whole point.
Hyped for the C&C Remaster by Petroglyph Games with music by Frank Klepacki.
published by EA
... Makes we wanna fire up the game. i haven't played it in years, but it was fun.
I've played C&C since I was maybe around 12 years old (23 now and still playing) and I simply cannot believe how amazingly beautiful and intense the lore of the game is, I never realized it! Your narrating and hard work on the video deserve so much credit by all C&C and Sci-Fi fans alike, very very good job.
Fantastic video! Command and Conquer is my favorite gaming series of all time, and it brings me a lot of joy to see that people still care about it. I'm sad though that you didn't continue on the history of tiberium past that.... um. 4th game.... and talk about the TCN nodes and tiberiums eventual end. but all in all thank you for keeping this amazing series alive.
Glad you enjoyed it dude! I skipped all the TCN stuff because the story from the one we don't talk about is really just bad, and doesn't fit in with the other games, so I consider it non-canon. The TCN itself isn't very well explained, all the Tiebrium is now gone, and it's really contrived to allow for the zone capture gameplay. We just pretend C&C4 didn't happen.
Toadacus31 Unfortunately there’s not a whole lot you can say. The world is ending, so we built some Hubs and sent most of the tib to the tower to power it up. There’s not a whole lot of depth behind the TCN
The thing I appreciate about C&C, and what makes Tiberium so scary compared to other SciFi all consuming beings/materials, is how agonizingly slow the stuff is. And it's not invincible. It's not something like the flood where "a single spore can destroy an entire species". Or the Tyranids and Zerg. Tiberium feels like something that could potentially exist in our world. It has very real weaknesses. It can be dealt with. Shoot, GDI started to contain it and beat it back before Nod intervened. The fact that it feels more real to me, makes it so much scarier.
Absolutely agree with this
It's crazy because I've played almost all the c&c games since red alert and I've never followed any of the story line... lol ... Not too shabby! =D
I must say I absolutely love this video, it makes me realize how good of a story command and conquer has with tiberium and everything.
This was a real treat to watch. Give yourself a pat on the back, 'cause you deserve it!
"The crowd goes bananas" is enough of a reason for me to subscribe.
This caused me to buy the whole pack on steam.. you should get yourself some money from steam and ea
If you're also interested in the older games, C&C, RA1 and Tib Sun are all legally freeware, you can get them free and prepatched by fans from cncnet.org/ and for set up of any C&C game try cncnz.com/features/technical-support-help-guides/
Unfortunately RA2, Ren and Gen are only digitally available from Origin, but there are also physical CDs
Enjoy the games!