Command & Conquer 4 trailer features the art of fetching tiberium

Ha ha don't worry you weren't the only one to have read the title twice!

On a more disturbing note, I clicked through to the article while still believing that's what it said.

Bad times.

I am glad you just read the headline wrong
I read the:
"tap, tap, tap."
as.........um.....*clears throat*.......some verb that can usually be found on the internet,
in groups of three and starts with "f" , plus it looks exactly like "tap".

Need I be more specific?

Also! Wasn't tiberium covering, like, 40% of the planet in CC3? How did we 'Get a leg up' on that?

Without these elements it would be pretty basic and would get boring very easily. It would be like FPS only you are commanding them.

So you're saying that the any game in the Total War series gets boring fast because you gain your resources off the battlefield? That doesn't really make sense.

Like I've said, in reality you wouldn't harvest resources on the battlefield. Your currency (money, Tiberium, trees, etc.) would take place out of a pitched engagement. Same for training fresh troops unless there was a horrible reason for there to be inexperienced and untrained soldiers on the battlefield.

If they need some form of "fan service" (which is what the Tiberium gathering is), then why not incorporate a mission where you have to defend a harvesting/processing plant and deploy some of your engineers or soldiers to operate the machinery needed to do so?

To answer what I already know will be mentioned, yes, sometimes you need something realistic in a game. It's what draws you into it most of the time, especially in games like this.

Look at Killzone 2: sure, it wasn't the best of games but it was somewhat realistically fulfilling. Not in the sense that your health regenerated and a mere human could take many, many bullets, but in the fact that what was shooting you was currently available. There may have been slight changes to weaponry, but it is mostly rooted in modern firearms.

Humans have mastered space travel and colonizing other planets, but they still shoot each other with standard ammunition that has to be packed and manufactured somewhere in some factory. It brings a sense of realism for me, if that makes any sense to you guys.

There are other games that do this, taking a realistic approach even in fictional games that break scientific laws. I don't know, maybe I'm just fucked in the head.

The answer to your question is quite simple: these maps are supposed to represent great areas of land. The scale isn't like the RTS component of Total War, where you only play over a small battlefield; it's more on the scale of the turn-based component (sans turns, of course.)

In other words, you're not "mining on the battlefield", you're mining in one place to fund your battles in another.

1.21 GIGAWATTS!!

Or maybe it's a Samsung ad.... or a joint effort by Verizon and Samsung... either way, someone should be forced to eat glass for that ad.

some of the big appeal for me in RTS is base building. It just feels wrong not to build a base.

*tiberium fumes.