Report of C&C 3 Community Summit 06 from Assassin!
Just like me, Assassin, webmaster of CnC Source, came to the C&C 3 Community Summit back in december and I had a pleasure to meet him there (and also some trouble to understand him, since he speaks a bit too fast for me). Anyway, he has recently posted a report of his experience in that event and everything he learned on it. He also posted pictures of the event, including one where I was clearly jetlagged due to the 6 hours time zone difference and the lovely 19 hours long flight. Yea, I knew I wouldn't escape it
. He brings the most complete report in terms of C&C3 info, some Tiberian Sun Rising exclusive information and the reason why Cabal got cut from the game.
You can start HERE and there are 5 pages to read, so it's a lot of information, for sure, and a lot of pictures as well. Here's a quick quote:
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"Next we discussed Cabal I wanted to know why Cabal was killed off. In the pod cast interview Mike Verdu had said there were many stories left to be told and Cabal was a story line that wasn’t going to be told yet was the conclusion. But he didn’t hint whether they intended on telling it in the future or not but that Kane was the main villain in C&C3 and Cabal just didn’t fit as the main villain. Which I agree in that respects, but talking with Jason he explained there were many reasons why Cabal was dropped and this was discussed in great detail within EA. One reason was as Mike said, Kane is the villain of C&C there is no replacing that and Cabal just didn’t fit that role for this C&C game we needed Kane back. Another reason was that a very small amount of people actually played TS Firestorm all the way to the finish. So there aren’t a lot of people that are aware of the full Firestorm story. Which they have the sales figures so they’d know and speaking with many community members not a lot have finished Firestorm which was disturbing. So a contributing reason to drop Cabal was in the interests of keeping the story where people knew what was going on, so they continued from Tiberian Sun. But Cabal hasn’t been completely ignored, neither has the Forgotten. C&C3 contains a Data Node feature like Renegades, where it stores information on story, units, etc Jason said story’s explaining what’s happened with Cabal and the Forgotten would be told through that feature of the C&C3 menu as well as a lot of Cannon was going to be included in there for those hardcore fans wanting to know the finer details of the C&C story."
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As you see, they've took Cabal and many of the Firestorm elements due to lack of sales. It's really a pitty to see this kind of attitude, although I agree that Firestorm campaign missions were boring, because most of them were solo missions... kinda lacked base building, which is something that suits better on a FPS game, honestly. Anyway, it's really bad to see this kind of thing because bad sales isn't a reason to create an inconsistence in the game. Although Kane is a much better villain than Cabal, and removing Cabal in the way they did isn't exactly inconsistent, ignoring many factors of the Firestorm campaign as they did ruins the storyline.
But, back to the original subject, it's a great article and a must read one. Check it out! For those wondering why I ignore certain IGN/GameSpot articles and promote fan articles instead, I'll go straight to the point. Fans's commitment are to other fans, unlike these big sites that have contracts with EA and other sponsors or are not entirely in touch with the C&C cannon as we are. They usually write articles with many redundant info, describing what they see and hardly motivating the fans to question the features of the game. And I don't think they have the same passion that a true C&C fan would have when writing an article like this. So, that's my personal opinion. What is yours? Share with us.
