It reminds me of the war between the Autobots and Decepticons in Transformers or the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War from Star Wars. In all cases, you have two sides hellbent on each other's destruction all in the name of ideology.
It's on a whole nother level though. They destroyed *everything*, all civilization is gone save for two angry mobs of robots in this dead galaxy, made of burnt-out stars and burning planets...
That's what the conflicts I mentioned eventually degenerated into for many of the combatants on both sides. Pure visceral hatred for each other because they've killed one another's friends and loved ones.....
the music is amazing the story is compelling the carnage is unending the graphics were gorgeous greatest RTS i ever played. 13 years later and it still kicks ass.
What began as a conflict over the drainage of the corrupt swamp in Washington, have escalated into a political war that have decimated the civility of political discourse in America. Both sides dignity now crippled beyond repair, they continue to fight in all aspects of political life. Donald Trump and the corrupt political establishment have all but exhausted the publics trust in democracy, in their struggle for domination. This is a fight to the death. For the corrupt political establishment, the only hope is the complete controll of all three branches of government.
This is the kind of introduction narrative that leaves tears in your eyes and chills down your spine. I love it. I come back to this intro on a semi-regular basis jsut to invoke that sense of awe and dread.
Oke, dude no jokes here, THAT EXACTLY bugs me alot aswell! i was just about to comment that right now, but first read that you posted that. The lyrics of the intro is so complete, except for that one part where they can just really put their title into the intro. hahaha, still best intro EVER
Naaa, "complete elimination of the other", sounds great in Spanish. In other words, the English pronunciation of that phrase gives Spanish-speaking Latinos a chill.
@@fernando.liozzi.41878 Oh, that's cool I guess. Do you mean how it sounds translated into Spanish, or how the English line sounds to Spanish-speakers?
Billylegota IDK you should look into Spring RTS, balanced annihilation specifically. Its free, and works on windows and linux. I have played PA and Sup Com, and can say that BA is the best successor to origional TA thats out there now
Try Beyond all Reason, BAR. Its the successor to a spring-engine based TA mod called Balanced Annhilation. A modernized TA-experience with vastly improved UI, graphics, balance and unit limit... And easily 150-200 players online at any time in any timezone (Not counting passworded servers) - at the moment theres 10 filled up 8v8 servers and several smaller ones...
Golden 90s for gaming...every other new game was fresh, original, trying to bring something new and then there were those gems like Total Annihilation with epic soundtrack and new RTS ideas...I loved RTS back then - C&C, Warcraft, Starcraft, Earth 2140, Z, Settlers, Populous, KKND, Age of Empires, HoMaM, Civiization, X-Com....jesus, the list goes on and on....and those were just strategies, I don't count how many rpgs/adventures/fps shooters I played....and that was like few years in 90s. It was nice unitl it lasted, good memories though
Yep The late 90s and early 00s had so many good titles Honestly the entire 00s were great as well I don't think things started to slow down until the 2010s
Probably the greatest real-time strategy game of all time. starcraft, while very fun, doesnt come close to this game in my opinion. ive spent hundreds of hours on total annihilation. whenever i dont feel like playing an online multiplayer game, i play this game.
It's kind of sad to think that if Cavedog hadn't gone bankrupt then Starcraft would never have surpassed TA in popularity and people would probably still be playing TA (and TA2!) on mass today :(
@@llynellyn Cavedog never had the prestige(?) or advertising blitz that Blizzard had for any and all its properties after perhaps the very first Warcraft. Starcraft was nowhere near as good a game as TA and still trounced it in sales and obliterated (annihilated?) TA in public memory. I don't think Cavedog had the ghost of a chance. And that despite a vastly (VASTLY!) superior product.
I mean, sure we have our preferences, and TA is excellent; but shitting on SC just make your praise for TA seem facetious at best. This game only having two playable races, _and those races being pretty similar,_ pretty much kills its longevity.
This intro movie is so Epic! I have never seen a better introduction to a RTS game since. This game was created with love, not just for money as the game industry is doing today. Old ideas are being recycled and I still have to see an RTS to surpass TA.
Pvt Gibs SupCom is debatable as it was limited in some places (It was still an awesome game though) Rome Total War is a totally different kind of RTS game so that can't really be compared, same goes for Starcraft which for some reason people have always compared with TA as if one is better than the other when really they are totally different games. One is about huge robot armies the other is about Aliens, Terrans and Ahem, monsters.
Pvt Gibs sup com and its brother are as good except SC2 with the stupid bullshit. halo wars was stupid, havnt play fire emblem, but total war is different, and so is starcraft.
+Brutal Espard I wish they did total annihilation 2 (or 3 if you count kingdoms but I don't) for me supreme commander is great but doesn't give the same feeling as TA.
This intro absolutely deserves a modern remake. With the same music of course and same directing shot-for-shot, but modern graphics. Wouldn't that be awesome ?
@@Applewille Yeah... I find it extremely unlikely they would capture the same atmosphere. Masterpieces such as this happen due to an incredibly unlikely combination of storytelling, graphics, music, gameplay etc that all fit together just perfectly. I think, even if the dev attempted to just make everything "exactly the same, but updated", the chances of them nailing the atmosphere would be
What I will always love about the intro is how it in the end transited from cinematic view into the full 4:3 ratio of its age to absolutely fully dive gamer into the atmosphere and switch to game menu screen
@@Jebsucks Think he's referring to Supreme Commander (a spiritual successor made by the same team). Personally I'm torn which of the two is better as each has little advantages.
greatest RTS of all time. nothing like it. nothing more satisfying that finally completing your super long range artillery platform for the first time when your a kid...activating it and cackling 'ITS A LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!' while watching it acquire a target and that first deafening crack as it opens fire......oh....the memories..
I remember a friend of mine sending me a save file in which he'd build like 45 buzzsaws, filling the rest of the map with reactors to power them, and set them to hold fire. There was a single enemy engineer left in the map and he dared me to order them to fire. My Pentium III ground to a halt completely, and after about 5 seconds it managed one frame. Good times!
I miss this game so much. I don't have it anymore as some guy stole ALL of my CDs, DVDs, and games back in 2011. I am the guy who created the Warrior unit for my one and only faction I would ever play in multiplayer, the Arm. I was only a kid at the time, but I took so much pride that they selected my unit for their patch. It was also my first ever computer game so that was a big to me as well. My dad had bought it for me in 1998 when I was 9 or 10 years old and I fell in love with the game. No RTS has really ever compared since then besides Starcraft....and i'd still prefer TA over Starcraft.
I feel you, though you can buy the game on steam and GOG and play it, nothing beats the knowledge that you still have that well worn CD that you could, if you had one, put into your disk drive and fire up, I still have my disc, and I even have a cover-less manual for the game somewhere, those items I will treasure until I die. Total Annihilation was the game I fell in love with, it was my introduction to RTS games, and sparked my love for the genre, I am always saddened when I realize the series is dead, and will most likely stay that way, a total annihilation 2 would be... incredible. Edit, I see I am a necromancer, well, oops?
They have, the problem is that they actively try and remove the things people love, and replace them with micro transactions, or put them in DLC if you're lucky. Maybe one day companies will remember that they can make money if they actually make good games.
@@ToaKoran If the fans band together, I believe that they can convince a "made by gamers to gamers" company like CD Project Red to make a game like this, if they managed to go from making 3 which are played in third personto one massive game in first person, I believe that they can make a game that can simulate thousands if no millions of units across a planet or even a solar system RTS style, with processing power to spare.
I was 5 when this game was released, and my kindergarten drawings suddenly changed into TA gameplay arts (like gameplay screenshots), so the kindergarten teachers were sort of worried about me... :o) oh and I learned to swear from Duke Nukem. :D
I was born the year it came out, but I remember playing it, I think it was my first video game, too. still play it and it's open sourced TA based game, Spring RTS.
This is one of the best games i have played in my life. Easily in the top 10. Bought it as a little boy because of the cool cover art, got excited like christmas when the intro played and did not touch another game for at least a year. It is the definition of an ageless classic
It has been 23 years and this is still the best title cinematic in strategy gaming. That letterbox-to-full-res wipe at the end? Goosebumps every time. *chef's kiss*
I remember this game so well... Best strategy game of it's day and ever devised. A battle between the last Core and Arm commander, the last surviving remnant (supposedly) of a very ancient and long lasting war. I remember installing the Core Contingency and playing on the water world maps at the start. You felt so vulnerable in the water with your Commander since his attacks where effectively nullified. On land however his d-gun was unbeatable unless you knew his location and ranged him, especially with a battery of big berthas or intimidators. His number one foe imo. Since few maps limited their range. The small maps those big guns fired across the maps like annihilation artilleries. Only to be joined by the auto-artillery Vulcan and Buzzaw. To finish any advancing skirmish.
Can even see a some Intimidators and Berthas firing @ 1:32. Best part was having so many of them they started acting like anti-air flak guns.. Shooting at aircraft from across the map and taking out squadrons of close grouped fighters.
A tactical I use to take out commanders early is to build as many peewees or flashes as possible then sending them right into the enemy base. If even just two get though you might as well win because if that commander is set to "return fire", one of them will hit him. Before the commander can shoot back, the other hits him. This goes on and on without the commander shooting back until he is destroyed
shiwanabe true. I only play with the AI because I have the old game so I can't get into a game with anyone because only a few others have the original discs. For the thing with the fleas, peewees and flashes are still very easy to make, as they are still tech level 1. Plus, they have better armour, so you have a better chance of getting though an enemy's early defences
Carter Adams The reason I tend to use Fleas is that they hit the AI before it has any combat units other than the commander. Factory -> Fleas is well within the starting metal. Last time I used that strat it was on the four corner lava map. I think I got 2 of the 3 AIs with fleas and then had to actually fight the last one. And tbh, I've never tried it with other units. It's abusive enough that I didn't really want to optimise it. A very good point that Peewees and Flashes are also good for it. I wonder if any of the Core units are decent for it. *Shrug*
This game had the most EPIC naval battles in all of the RTS. Or at least of the ones I've played 😉 I'll never forget how those Millennium and Warlord battleships exchanged fire.
(Who was looking for the "play button" after finishing this intro.....old habbit i guess) So sad that SC 1-2 didn't have the love/care/time put into it as this game did.
TA is the greatest ever RTS. I played this over the past 10 years or more and still do. My 9 yr old son is a huge fan too now. he first played it when he was just 7.
What I love about this game is that Cavedog got the concept of pure mechanised warfare just right, no humans, no animals, just self-replicating robots having a war that won't end. It was a perfectly made game and I hope people don't forget about this game.
im sorry, this game shits all over Supreme Commander, almost purely due to nostalgic reasons, i cannot remember how old i was when i first got this game
I've played thousands of hours of both online/offline and would have to disagree, while TA is debatably better than SupCom it's only by a small margin.
Thats awesome haha ! Argus Assault class Mech idd, my fav one able to carry the Longtom arty :p Yours seem to be a Loki, but i might be mistaken, i haven't played Mechwarrior in a long time :/ I might try Mechwarrior Online, shame on me that i never tried it before !!
MECHcore Mech Warrior online is a strange beast. I tired it, or rather, my friends tried it, and it's not like the classics, it's more an FPS, than a simulator. Also, I think this is a Loki, I'm not sure... I've lost the image, to the sands of time. It would have the name... I've been playing a bit too much TA, and a bit too little Mech Warrior. I need to turn this around. Also, no shame given. Mech Warrior Online is a strange game, more FPS than Simulator, and it's a different game, than the previous title. I Hope Mech Warrior 5: Mercs changes this. But, I digress.
I also play TA, Steam sells one now one with high resolution, but no multiplayer, and i do not know if TA Spring still exists :/ Got Supreme Commander also, pretty good and multiplayer :) Btw here a picture from the Argus Mech i.imgur.com/5XUXko8.jpg And The Argus ingame picture i took Mechwarrior 4, chasing others from my group :p i.imgur.com/yqFjIhq.jpg
MECHcore Thanks. Well, Game Ranger can be used for Ta multiplayer, and I've found a mod for the game, it's called Total Annihilation: Escalation. It's a awesome mod, and it re balances most of the entire game, but that means no more MT forests, unfortunately. This can also be played on Game Ranger. It has a small community, but there are a few games that go on, all the way to today. It's always good, to have a small, but active community.
If only he replaced *the complete ellimination of the other* into *the total annihilation of the other* . Still every sentence in this intro is perfect, giving me chills from my balls to my neck.
This is what I dream of inside my head, when 20 years later playing modded minecraft paired with Enemy Siege mods and Turret mods. Once a commander, always a commander
Imagining factorio as a prequel to this game. The last clone commander of the Arm escapes Core captivity and must establish base on a new world. Eventually you'll need to build a warp gate (launch a rocket into space) in order to start liberating different worlds from their cold robotic clutches.
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"Their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war"
Man, it's been over a decade and that line still gives me the chills.
It reminds me of the war between the Autobots and Decepticons in Transformers or the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War from Star Wars. In all cases, you have two sides hellbent on each other's destruction all in the name of ideology.
It's on a whole nother level though. They destroyed *everything*, all civilization is gone save for two angry mobs of robots in this dead galaxy, made of burnt-out stars and burning planets...
The scale's different but the concept's the same.
Not quite, I think the omnicidal destruction to the point where their reasons for fighting are rendered irrelevant is pretty unique.
That's what the conflicts I mentioned eventually degenerated into for many of the combatants on both sides. Pure visceral hatred for each other because they've killed one another's friends and loved ones.....
This game and many, many others wouldn't be nearly as epic without the masterful work of Jeremy Soule. Best game music composer ever.
That and *badumtish* John Patrick Lowrie's briefings. Both make the game feel much more epic.
the music is amazing
the story is compelling
the carnage is unending
the graphics were gorgeous
greatest RTS i ever played. 13 years later and it still kicks ass.
26 years later it still kicks ass and has a healthy, though small multiplayer playerbase
Another 13 years later, and this comment is still 100% true.
@@VilleVaananenI've played this game since I was 5 never once have I played multi 😢
I have this intro memorized. I can recite it at will.
I know it’s also written in my brain forever.
@@VF-Krieger me toooooooooooo il ove u guys
What began as a conflict over the drainage of the corrupt swamp in Washington, have escalated into a political war that have decimated the civility of political discourse in America. Both sides dignity now crippled beyond repair, they continue to fight in all aspects of political life. Donald Trump and the corrupt political establishment have all but exhausted the publics trust in democracy, in their struggle for domination. This is a fight to the death. For the corrupt political establishment, the only hope is the complete controll of all three branches of government.
Me too 😅
Hahahaha same here :DD
29 years old now I remember playing this as a literal kid. Fantastic game. Always watched the intro
Check out Beyond All Reason. Its free. 3GB Download. Supports 32000 Units in one match for maximum annihilation.
You can get that feeling again playing Beyond All Reason, which is a free fan remake.
This is the kind of introduction narrative that leaves tears in your eyes and chills down your spine. I love it. I come back to this intro on a semi-regular basis jsut to invoke that sense of awe and dread.
20 years....still stands strong, its test of time,ftw :)
The Doom of the RTS world
i got supreme commander in boneyards back in the day
And 4 years later, it still dominates the narrative landscape ✊
Still bugs me that he says "complete elimination" instead of "total annihilation."
Oke, dude no jokes here, THAT EXACTLY bugs me alot aswell! i was just about to comment that right now, but first read that you posted that. The lyrics of the intro is so complete, except for that one part where they can just really put their title into the intro. hahaha, still best intro EVER
Naaa, "complete elimination of the other", sounds great in Spanish. In other words, the English pronunciation of that phrase gives Spanish-speaking Latinos a chill.
@@fernando.liozzi.41878 Oh, that's cool I guess.
Do you mean how it sounds translated into Spanish, or how the English line sounds to Spanish-speakers?
You know I've watched this intro countless times and know it by heart but this never occurred to me. Now I'm mad. >:|
To this day my dude
Still gives chills up my spine. They don't make games like this anymore
sadly. today you get spammed with garbage like Battlefield or CoD
Billylegota IDK
you should look into Spring RTS, balanced annihilation specifically. Its free, and works on windows and linux. I have played PA and Sup Com, and can say that BA is the best successor to origional TA thats out there now
They have vastly improved PA, just fyi. Definitely worth looking into at the very least.
Try Beyond all Reason, BAR.
Its the successor to a spring-engine based TA mod called Balanced Annhilation.
A modernized TA-experience with vastly improved UI, graphics, balance and unit limit...
And easily 150-200 players online at any time in any timezone (Not counting passworded servers) - at the moment theres 10 filled up 8v8 servers and several smaller ones...
Golden 90s for gaming...every other new game was fresh, original, trying to bring something new and then there were those gems like Total Annihilation with epic soundtrack and new RTS ideas...I loved RTS back then - C&C, Warcraft, Starcraft, Earth 2140, Z, Settlers, Populous, KKND, Age of Empires, HoMaM, Civiization, X-Com....jesus, the list goes on and on....and those were just strategies, I don't count how many rpgs/adventures/fps shooters I played....and that was like few years in 90s. It was nice unitl it lasted, good memories though
Yep
The late 90s and early 00s had so many good titles
Honestly the entire 00s were great as well
I don't think things started to slow down until the 2010s
18 years on and I can say this word for word and even hum each second of the music in the game. Forever my favourite game
Probably the greatest real-time strategy game of all time. starcraft, while very fun, doesnt come close to this game in my opinion. ive spent hundreds of hours on total annihilation. whenever i dont feel like playing an online multiplayer game, i play this game.
It's kind of sad to think that if Cavedog hadn't gone bankrupt then Starcraft would never have surpassed TA in popularity and people would probably still be playing TA (and TA2!) on mass today :(
Same here
@@llynellyn Cavedog never had the prestige(?) or advertising blitz that Blizzard had for any and all its properties after perhaps the very first Warcraft. Starcraft was nowhere near as good a game as TA and still trounced it in sales and obliterated (annihilated?) TA in public memory. I don't think Cavedog had the ghost of a chance. And that despite a vastly (VASTLY!) superior product.
that just proves marketing is more important than quality, which should not be the case
I mean, sure we have our preferences, and TA is excellent; but shitting on SC just make your praise for TA seem facetious at best.
This game only having two playable races, _and those races being pretty similar,_ pretty much kills its longevity.
The scale of destruction in Total Annihilation is just so beautiful.
This is the game that made me love RTS. Thank you Chris Taylor, for the best game i have ever played in my life.
I agree, and have absolutely heart-struck-loved a good few games in my life. But this is the one.
best narrator ever and sound track, John Patrick Lowrie and Jeremy Soule.
This intro movie is so Epic! I have never seen a better introduction to a RTS game since. This game was created with love, not just for money as the game industry is doing today. Old ideas are being recycled and I still have to see an RTS to surpass TA.
Pvt Gibs SupCom is debatable as it was limited in some places (It was still an awesome game though)
Rome Total War is a totally different kind of RTS game so that can't really be compared, same goes for Starcraft which for some reason people have always compared with TA as if one is better than the other when really they are totally different games. One is about huge robot armies the other is about Aliens, Terrans and Ahem, monsters.
tou parle anglis
Pvt Gibs sup com and its brother are as good except SC2 with the stupid bullshit. halo wars was stupid, havnt play fire emblem, but total war is different, and so is starcraft.
***** planetary annihilation is almost better then TA, almost.
+Brutal Espard I wish they did total annihilation 2 (or 3 if you count kingdoms but I don't) for me supreme commander is great but doesn't give the same feeling as TA.
This intro absolutely deserves a modern remake. With the same music of course and same directing shot-for-shot, but modern graphics. Wouldn't that be awesome ?
Oh yes although for it's time it aint too bad hell the animation is 20 years old
I have a feeling whoever did it would find a way to ruin it.
@@coops3600 Bringing an old masterpiece back to life, they wouldn't have to change anything. What could POSSIBLY go wrong! :D
@@Applewille Yeah... I find it extremely unlikely they would capture the same atmosphere. Masterpieces such as this happen due to an incredibly unlikely combination of storytelling, graphics, music, gameplay etc that all fit together just perfectly. I think, even if the dev attempted to just make everything "exactly the same, but updated", the chances of them nailing the atmosphere would be
It's called TA Spring, an open source project, look it up. TA in full 3d glory, without losing any of its charm. Fully moddable too.
Still play...
Nothing says "Come at me" like a line of 12 Big Berthas surrounded by anti-nuke missiles
or an army of super heavy tanks surrounded by Gunships and Anti Air Kbots marching in line
The Big Bertha Shotgun Array, the only way to Artillery
yeah these armies dont really look too exhausted to me mr narrator
What I will always love about the intro is how it in the end transited from cinematic view into the full 4:3 ratio of its age to absolutely fully dive gamer into the atmosphere and switch to game menu screen
It doesn't get more epic than this.
The sequel
@@Jebsucks Think he's referring to Supreme Commander (a spiritual successor made by the same team). Personally I'm torn which of the two is better as each has little advantages.
Back when devs made great game intros.
the air combat was still managed better then most of the newer strategy games, it was so well done
Kommissar Antilus aircraft using evasive manuvers and sometimes stopping mid air so an pursuing aircraft will overshoot
best thing is, the game is in fact just like this awesome intro pictures.
The way the music transitions from the sound of screaming violins to the sound the caterpillar tracks make of that tank in 1:55 is brilliant
This game had so many mods, hundreds of community created maps and units unlike now where most games have DLC with a fraction of the content.
Like Skyrim...?
Jack Attack Supcom is not free. (but its very cheap on steam)
Stchurdak Oh yeah, I'm amazed by what they're still doing. I can't believe they made a zoom mod for it!
Still has the community.
greatest RTS of all time. nothing like it. nothing more satisfying that finally completing your super long range artillery platform for the first time when your a kid...activating it and cackling 'ITS A LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!' while watching it acquire a target and that first deafening crack as it opens fire......oh....the memories..
I remember a friend of mine sending me a save file in which he'd build like 45 buzzsaws, filling the rest of the map with reactors to power them, and set them to hold fire. There was a single enemy engineer left in the map and he dared me to order them to fire. My Pentium III ground to a halt completely, and after about 5 seconds it managed one frame. Good times!
Good times! After you install the game, you can go to their website and download the units you can add to the game. Man! What memories!
man I've played this since I was 5, now I'm 16 and still play it occasionally
Three bucks on Steam. Just got it and it's a blast to play. Awesome story. Great graphics for the time, just get it, don't even think about it.
Best strategy game in my life
I miss this game so much. I don't have it anymore as some guy stole ALL of my CDs, DVDs, and games back in 2011. I am the guy who created the Warrior unit for my one and only faction I would ever play in multiplayer, the Arm. I was only a kid at the time, but I took so much pride that they selected my unit for their patch. It was also my first ever computer game so that was a big to me as well. My dad had bought it for me in 1998 when I was 9 or 10 years old and I fell in love with the game. No RTS has really ever compared since then besides Starcraft....and i'd still prefer TA over Starcraft.
you can still download the game from some websites.
It's on Steam now.
Yeah dude I remember the warrior, awesome unit, well done!
GOG.com has had Total Annihilation for several years now
I feel you, though you can buy the game on steam and GOG and play it, nothing beats the knowledge that you still have that well worn CD that you could, if you had one, put into your disk drive and fire up, I still have my disc, and I even have a cover-less manual for the game somewhere, those items I will treasure until I die. Total Annihilation was the game I fell in love with, it was my introduction to RTS games, and sparked my love for the genre, I am always saddened when I realize the series is dead, and will most likely stay that way, a total annihilation 2 would be... incredible. Edit, I see I am a necromancer, well, oops?
Still the most badass intro I've ever seen
Warhammer 40,000 - Fire Warrior (intro)
also looks great, check it out
Someday the game developers of this era should look back to games like this and try to find why they are so beloved
They have, the problem is that they actively try and remove the things people love, and replace them with micro transactions, or put them in DLC if you're lucky.
Maybe one day companies will remember that they can make money if they actually make good games.
@@ToaKoran If the fans band together, I believe that they can convince a "made by gamers to gamers" company like CD Project Red to make a game like this, if they managed to go from making 3 which are played in third personto one massive game in first person, I believe that they can make a game that can simulate thousands if no millions of units across a planet or even a solar system RTS style, with processing power to spare.
+ATM Enter +ATM Enter +ATM anybody? xD
28 years of gaming and Total Annihilation is *WITHOUT QUESTION* the best RTS I've ever had the honor of owning/playing ❤
Check out Beyond All Reason. Its free. 3GB Download. Supports 32000 Units in one match for maximum annihilation.
TY CGP Grey for reminding me of this great game!
TY CGP Grey for making something for me to accidentally click.
The music of this game. So epic
As a 2009 kid i discovered this masterpiece from my dad in 2012
It makes me an OG
Me: Existing normally at work
My brain: Peewee shooting at the screen.
Me: But I-
My Brain: PEEWEE SHOOTING AT THE SCREEN
I was 5 when this game was released, and my kindergarten drawings suddenly changed into TA gameplay arts (like gameplay screenshots), so the kindergarten teachers were sort of worried about me... :o) oh and I learned to swear from Duke Nukem. :D
I was born the year it came out, but I remember playing it, I think it was my first video game, too. still play it and it's open sourced TA based game, Spring RTS.
Come at me, bro!
Damn, this intro still pumps me up to play it after all these years! They dont make em like they use to.
The golden age of RTS is gone for good.
my dad gave me this game. I'm gonna give my PC to my kids and have THEM play the game. this game shall live on!
Saw this 20 years ago. Instantly enlisted to ARM
oh my god...oh my god...the airplanes segment....oh my goooooooooooooooooooooooood.
Awesome! Best strategy ever and trailer too! Can't stop listen this music=)
Love the song !
Even in 2013 i love this game.... and i just bought Planetary Annihilation !
those were the days..
This game, which is old enough to vote, still has one of the most compelling excuse plots in sci-fi war I've ever seen.
2022 and counting.Thanks to The community and artists and designers to give us new maps units mods to keep this gem alive n kicking!
my first RTS i ever played, was very good game
This is one of the best games i have played in my life. Easily in the top 10. Bought it as a little boy because of the cool cover art, got excited like christmas when the intro played and did not touch another game for at least a year. It is the definition of an ageless classic
the sound of that narrator still gives me chills 15 years later.....
One of my favorite PC Intros ever..... 20 years later
Still get goosebumps
TA Universe (dot com) still exists! People still play and mod TA.
I was extremely happy to know there were still people working on the game
the first PC game I ever played, and still one of my favs
It has been 23 years and this is still the best title cinematic in strategy gaming.
That letterbox-to-full-res wipe at the end?
Goosebumps every time.
*chef's kiss*
I remember this game so well... Best strategy game of it's day and ever devised. A battle between the last Core and Arm commander, the last surviving remnant (supposedly) of a very ancient and long lasting war. I remember installing the Core Contingency and playing on the water world maps at the start. You felt so vulnerable in the water with your Commander since his attacks where effectively nullified.
On land however his d-gun was unbeatable unless you knew his location and ranged him, especially with a battery of big berthas or intimidators. His number one foe imo. Since few maps limited their range. The small maps those big guns fired across the maps like annihilation artilleries. Only to be joined by the auto-artillery Vulcan and Buzzaw. To finish any advancing skirmish.
Can even see a some Intimidators and Berthas firing @ 1:32.
Best part was having so many of them they started acting like anti-air flak guns.. Shooting at aircraft from across the map and taking out squadrons of close grouped fighters.
A tactical I use to take out commanders early is to build as many peewees or flashes as possible then sending them right into the enemy base. If even just two get though you might as well win because if that commander is set to "return fire", one of them will hit him. Before the commander can shoot back, the other hits him. This goes on and on without the commander shooting back until he is destroyed
Or, you could just use 5 Fleas. Same result, less investment.
But that strat's only effective on the AI, any player who dies to that is obviously afk.
shiwanabe true. I only play with the AI because I have the old game so I can't get into a game with anyone because only a few others have the original discs. For the thing with the fleas, peewees and flashes are still very easy to make, as they are still tech level 1. Plus, they have better armour, so you have a better chance of getting though an enemy's early defences
Carter Adams
The reason I tend to use Fleas is that they hit the AI before it has any combat units other than the commander. Factory -> Fleas is well within the starting metal.
Last time I used that strat it was on the four corner lava map. I think I got 2 of the 3 AIs with fleas and then had to actually fight the last one.
And tbh, I've never tried it with other units. It's abusive enough that I didn't really want to optimise it.
A very good point that Peewees and Flashes are also good for it. I wonder if any of the Core units are decent for it. *Shrug*
Nostalgia hit me like a ton of bricks.
This was and still is the best 3D RTS ever created! Gives me chills just watching this intro after all these years ❤️
This game had the most EPIC naval battles in all of the RTS. Or at least of the ones I've played 😉
I'll never forget how those Millennium and Warlord battleships exchanged fire.
(Who was looking for the "play button" after finishing this intro.....old habbit i guess)
So sad that SC 1-2 didn't have the love/care/time put into it as this game did.
ARM are all hipsters. I'd rather live immortal as a chip.
10 HELLO
20 I AM LOYAL
30 GOTO 10
+MiniMackeroni Syntax Error in 10
TA is the greatest ever RTS. I played this over the past 10 years or more and still do. My 9 yr old son is a huge fan too now. he first played it when he was just 7.
Balanced Annihilation - Spring is where its at
childhood flashbacks
I should not cry... I shou... :'(
+Daiana Gonella I feel you
omg I just cried reading that...I feels you..
What I love about this game is that Cavedog got the concept of pure mechanised warfare just right, no humans, no animals, just self-replicating robots having a war that won't end. It was a perfectly made game and I hope people don't forget about this game.
So many memoryes... this was my very first Real Time strategy game, i'm commuoved to see it again :****)
Thanks for the effort !
Psyware literally a tear in my eye
back when games were great.
It’s 2022 and this game is still one of the best around. I’ll never tire of this intro 🔥
That 96-piece orchestra really did an amazing job in this game!
im sorry, this game shits all over Supreme Commander, almost purely due to nostalgic reasons, i cannot remember how old i was when i first got this game
I've played thousands of hours of both online/offline and would have to disagree, while TA is debatably better than SupCom it's only by a small margin.
Wdym better?
Supcom have way more graphics, fhn value and your camera arent stuck in the sandbox
"what're ya'll thoughts on transhumanism?"
me:
I was looking for this game for almost 10 years. Thank you very much for this video !!!!!
One word to describe it....
Perfect...
Lol fighting for 4000 years
Got this game together with my P3 450mhz, never heard of it before, then i got addicted ;o ( had an Amiga500 before with dune2, Settlers and walker )
An Argus!
I though I was only one of a kind... Playing both TA, and Mech Warrior.
These kind number more than I think.
Thats awesome haha !
Argus Assault class Mech idd, my fav one able to carry the Longtom arty :p
Yours seem to be a Loki, but i might be mistaken, i haven't played Mechwarrior in a long time :/
I might try Mechwarrior Online, shame on me that i never tried it before !!
MECHcore
Mech Warrior online is a strange beast.
I tired it, or rather, my friends tried it, and it's not like the classics, it's more an FPS, than a simulator.
Also, I think this is a Loki, I'm not sure... I've lost the image, to the sands of time. It would have the name...
I've been playing a bit too much TA, and a bit too little Mech Warrior.
I need to turn this around.
Also, no shame given. Mech Warrior Online is a strange game, more FPS than Simulator, and it's a different game, than the previous title.
I Hope Mech Warrior 5: Mercs changes this.
But, I digress.
I also play TA, Steam sells one now one with high resolution, but no multiplayer, and i do not know if TA Spring still exists :/
Got Supreme Commander also, pretty good and multiplayer :)
Btw here a picture from the Argus Mech i.imgur.com/5XUXko8.jpg
And The Argus ingame picture i took Mechwarrior 4, chasing others from my group :p i.imgur.com/yqFjIhq.jpg
MECHcore
Thanks.
Well, Game Ranger can be used for Ta multiplayer, and I've found a mod for the game, it's called Total Annihilation: Escalation.
It's a awesome mod, and it re balances most of the entire game, but that means no more MT forests, unfortunately.
This can also be played on Game Ranger.
It has a small community, but there are a few games that go on, all the way to today.
It's always good, to have a small, but active community.
I get the chills when the CORE commander turns and makes his little noise right at the end just before the log exploded onto the screen.
If only he replaced *the complete ellimination of the other* into *the total annihilation of the other* . Still every sentence in this intro is perfect, giving me chills from my balls to my neck.
Try to play Escalation.... so balanced and so epic mod for TA )
2017
Have this game and still playing
I can't favorite this enough.
oh man soo good. goosebumps
A legend was born
OH MY GOD THIS TAKES ME BACK TO MY CHILDHOOD
*Amazing game video from back in the day!*
*The Imperium of Man, in a grim little cloak in the corner*
"4000 years, Amateurs."
Peak Core would body the imperium.
LEGENDARY!!!! Suddenly I feel so old!
This is what I dream of inside my head, when 20 years later playing modded minecraft paired with Enemy Siege mods and Turret mods. Once a commander, always a commander
Mighty, and amazing. Roll on Planetary Annihilation!
The best soundtrack ever
One of the best RTS sound tracks ever, if not THE best.
Anyone who didn't play this never had a proper childhood
Imagining factorio as a prequel to this game. The last clone commander of the Arm escapes Core captivity and must establish base on a new world. Eventually you'll need to build a warp gate (launch a rocket into space) in order to start liberating different worlds from their cold robotic clutches.
0:36 Take it away, Jeremy Soule! (also did the music for SupCom, Company of Heroes, Harry Potter games, and Skyrim!)
Most innovative RTS of all time.
16 years later, I STILL remember the entire opening sequence word for word.
when i was a kid i was playing this game all days...what awesome memoryes...ive lost the CD.. :)