Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post
When the game in question could easily replace their zombies with just about any other generic monster or enemy and doesn't utilize any of the strengths that the setting can bring to a story, then no it's not a zombie game. It's a game that happens to have zombies in it but the zombies are incidental to everything else. The zombie modes in COD could use rabid racoons or bears and not substantially change the formula. And games like RE4 and 5 aren't really zombie games at all.
I'm not going to overextend myself in this with a wall of text. I'm just going to say I think claiming "these things don't do the stuff that I think could make it better" doesn't allow you to discount it from the genre. Call of Duty could replace Russians with yettis and the story would probably make more sense... but it's still a military shooter. And if those things you think these games lack are feelings of isolation, fear, and a desperate need to gather resources to survive, I'd be hard pressed to name an alleged Zombie game that doesn't have those things.

Not to get too off topic, but I never played many of the older C&C games that were apparently good, so I don't really care about the announcement of a new one. And I care even less because BioWare are doing it. I've played enough of their games at this point to simply accept that I don't like them (not to mention BioWare is now made up of four separate development teams, only one of which being the original that made the games everyone raved about like KOTOR, Mass Effect etc. Guess who isn't making this new C&C game by the way).
I thought you were into older RTS games? If you're familiar with the genre (THEY'RE NOT STRATEGY GAMES BECAUSE THEY COULD BE DOING SO MUCH MORE WITH THE SETTING!!! (j/k)) then you might not find them as impressive. But C&C is my favorite RTS series. Generals was the only one after the departure of the original developers, Westwood (now Petroglyph - check out End of Nations(no excuse not to, I linked it for ya )) to maintain the superb quailty of the older games, and arguably surpass it.

I don't care for Bioware much myself, but that's due to a creative choice, I'm just not interested in their flavor of game. But I do recognize and respect the care they bring to their titles so I'm happy about this.