I ban NH because I haven't tried Last Light out yet, but I will soon. Before that, I don't want to make any conclusions.
"Don't judge a book by its cover", right? Bad side of meaning of this saying is that it works in two sides. Example - C&C4: they promised cool game, I gave it a try and fount out that they made sh*t (I liked more or less unit concepts and some of music + they at least returned Nod subterranean units, like Scorpion or Widow tanks, but the rest is horrible, especially base building... oh right, there isn't base building).
Or Supreme Commander 2 that was actually worse than SupCom FA (three only things they did are: some units like Cybran Adapter 3 in 1 unit (AA, mobile shield and anti-missile - Cybran-style), storyline and music).