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[Cthulhu]

I also like Superweapons.  Watching the Monkeylord plow through the enemy's defenses is always fun.

If Dominions 3 weren't micromanagement hell it would be a lot of fun for this reason too.  A lot of the high level summons are crazy awesome (If a banelord hits a guy with his sword the guy ages to death within seconds)

[a1s]

I've always hated super weapons, their sooo cheap...

If by cheap you mean expensive as all get out, then yes. Yes they are.

I have to second that. Super-weapons are not efficient or cheap (think about how many technologically superior tanks you didn't build just so you could get that stupid A-bomb in Hearts of Iron). They are very cool though, and if games were anything like real life, they'd serve as deterrent to your enemies (as it is, they are just there for your [sick] amusement).

[zchris13]

Ohhh.... Watch as those pretty lasers splash against the Fatboys shields.... OOOOOhhhh... Pretty...

[umiman]

You superweapons detractors must be horribly boring people. You don't build a giant friggin' super ultra gun of ultimate doom because it is cost effective or efficient. You build it because it's a giant friggin' super ultra gun of ultimate doom and shooting it will make 3 billion people cry out in sheer terror and suffering while completely awestruck at the incredible way they all died.

Then some plucky teenager with schizophrenia will blow it up but hey, that's part of the game.

[zchris13]

Personal experience, Umiman?

[Kagus]

I must admit to being a superweapon fan.  There's just something so damned satisfying about having this massive and flashy gun o' death that you not only do not need to but are in fact highly discouraged from building an army of.  Flashy guns just don't look cool if there are fifty others just like it scattered around.

I think the Aeon really got the awesome superweapons of SupCom.  But then again, I've only read about them and watched videos.  But I still think a gargantuan mothership-type UFO with a devastating air-to-surface beam in the middle of it ranks at a higher level of freakin' awesome than a big tank that makes smaller tanks.

Or that Cybran gunship...  That thing was just sad.


EDIT:  Should we convert this thread over to a "games with superweapons" discussion?

[Megaman]

slighty off topic: If you play multiplay on 4x games(i they magically have it) Human players are much more diplomatic.

[Vester]

You superweapons detractors must be horribly boring people. You don't build a giant friggin' super ultra gun of ultimate doom because it is cost effective or efficient. You build it because it's a giant friggin' super ultra gun of ultimate doom and shooting it will make 3 billion people cry out in sheer terror and suffering while completely awestruck at the incredible way they all died.

Same reason we build megaprojects.

[Kagus]

You superweapons detractors must be horribly boring people. You don't build a giant friggin' super ultra gun of ultimate doom because it is cost effective or efficient. You build it because it's a giant friggin' super ultra gun of ultimate doom and shooting it will make 3 billion people cry out in sheer terror and suffering while completely awestruck at the incredible way they all died.

Same reason we build megaprojects.

Yeh, but with a superweapon at least it's their people.

[umiman]

Oh? So that's what superweapons are for?

[Funk]

crushing your foe befor you with a cool weapon.
only thay often take to long to make or get trash easy or are to weak.

[Asehujiko]

I must admit to being a superweapon fan.  There's just something so damned satisfying about having this massive and flashy gun o' death that you not only do not need to but are in fact highly discouraged from building an army of.  Flashy guns just don't look cool if there are fifty others just like it scattered around.

I think the Aeon really got the awesome superweapons of SupCom.  But then again, I've only read about them and watched videos.  But I still think a gargantuan mothership-type UFO with a devastating air-to-surface beam in the middle of it ranks at a higher level of freakin' awesome than a big tank that makes smaller tanks.

Or that Cybran gunship...  That thing was just sad.


EDIT:  Should we convert this thread over to a "games with superweapons" discussion?

All the awesomeness of the CZAR is negated by the pile of cheese that is the Galactic Colossus. I still think the UEF wins because of the cannon that fires school buses full of gunpowder across the entire map and the submarine that can be left alone in a corner with autobuild turned on for the entire match to spit out 100 bombers near the end.

[zchris13]

You mean the atlantis.  That thing is bitching.