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Playdate: Red Alert 2 (04/19/2019)

It's time for Giant Bomb to enter the glorious and exciting field of Electronic Sports with Red Alert 2!

The crew of Giant Bomb invites you to join us for some fun times with video games.

Apr. 19 2019

Cast: Vinny, Dan

Posted by: Vinny

163 Comments

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Friday!

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what a great production set up by Vinny.

e-sports is here

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Mike could have had that first match if he'd focus fire on power plants instead of the weather control device. They go down so much faster, and crippling someones power supply can be very effective.

Also, the option to pick your starting location was an addition in Yuri's Revenge.

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Heads up, you can actually get RA2 working very easily on Windows 10 with https://cncnet.org/red-alert-2

Also lets you play online and set higher resolutions and stuff. There's also a ridiculously impressive mod for the Yuri's Revenge called Mental Omega which adds tonnes of new units, campaign and coop missions and a full new faction.

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RIP Westwood

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i dropped everything i was doing so i could watch this

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Are those mod mics?

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I googled "play red alert 2 modern pc" and the very first result led me to cncnet.org. smh gb lol.

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I googled "play red alert 2 modern pc" and the very first result led me to cncnet.org. smh gb lol.

I believe this is what they used for the networking. There were computer specific issues in getting it running, connected, and cloning the monitors for capture.

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@vinny well shit i'll go face the corner now.

edit: for the record i'm loving the video so far. gb pvp feeds my spirit. great to see mike!

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@vinny well shit i'll go face the corner now.

edit: for the record i'm loving the video so far. gb pvp feeds my spirit. great to see mike!

No. Now you must FACE ME! Glad you're enjoying it! Seemed like a fun one.

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More BeastSports!

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@rocketskates said:

More BeastSports!

Did you just coin that?

'Cause it's good!

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If you guys do more esports competition adding some fake sponsorship logos would be funny.

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Mike could join GB full time and I would be OK with that.

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@vinny: vinny you were the damn all star for this stream, this was incredible top to bottom. I'm so impressed. fucking balls out. E. Sports.

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And the battle begins!

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Heads up, Tiberian Sun is now freeware and runs great with Cncnet on W10. A great nostalgia trip for free.

Also, this was excellent fun to watch, please do more if you can.

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@aktane: Dawg, they got AIRPLANES AND SHIT!? What the FUCK!!

(I came to the comments to make the same reference lol)

Vinny, this was absolutely amazing and you did a wonderful job. Took what was going to be a great stream already and put it through the roof! Had a blast.

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@vinny WOW! Thank you for all the work in getting this running. This is a blast to watch.

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This looked easy enough, setting up GTAV must be a cake walk.

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E-SPORTS VINNY!

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peak dan

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"Freakzilla69: youf uckin suck" was very good

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Watching Mike just sit there and be nuked by Dan when he could've at least tried to send in the Black Eagles was so frustrating in the funniest way.

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Mike's face towards the end of the third match was fantastic, haha.

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"I always assumed this was WWII."
I'm going to have aheart attack.

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Is this the new best Playdate?

I think it might be.

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This made me like watching RTS games again, that last match was awesome. Please do this again, would make an excellent series.

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Lol 1500 to -3 this was really fun. Thanks Vinny this must have been a pain in the ass to set up.

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This needs to be a regular show. Incredible!

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This was a great feature, mega props to Vinny for the production for this. Everything worked great, much to even his surprise, lol!

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This was magic! More please!!!

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I definitely need more of this! So much fun to watch.

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This was really fun to watch

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Yay that was great! I played this game a bunch when it was new.

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OK, who do we need to talk to to greenlight this series?

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Love this!

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Pretty sure Dan has cheated before...something about handicaps

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This is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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This is too good. More Mike!

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As always, Mike is great.

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Red Alert 2 playdate, that doesn't include at least watching the glorious intro? That's a damned shame. Plenty entertaining still though!

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Really enjoyed this. Love Giant Bomb doing internal e-sports competitions; LAN parties were part of my life when I was younger and the team seems to enjoy competing among each other. And as others said, Mike is always great, too.

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This is incredible

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O hell yeah

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Edited By Anthony

This was a fantastic playdate. I'd watch Dan and Mike play more Command and Conquer all day. With Vinny's pro commentary of course. I love the isolation booth idea because even if you aren't familiar with the game, Vinny creates drama by finding out their attack plan and we can see if they succeed or fail their goals, and it's always funny.