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CJacobs posted:Copying a post from elsewhere to draw attention to it: It's probably some idiot sending out rote letters for stuff picked up by an automated crawler and could probably be stopped if the DoomRL guy emails someone at id, but still, I can't wait for Bethesda to start going after Doom mods for being ~unauthorised use of their brand~.
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Hope Gearbox will join the fun and ask TerminusEst to remove Duke from Samsara. Let's make this year godawful on all fronts. I'm uploading all the archived DoomRL version to the Internet Archive, so our favourite roguelike will be safe in Canada.
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Does anyone know if it's possible to get square/pixel particles in Quake 2? It has it in software mode, but there doesn't seem to be anyway to emulate it in hardware, texture filtering is easily turned off but unlike Quake 1 there isn't an r_particle command.
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Cat Mattress posted:They're not asking him to C&D DoomRL itself, but remove the word "Doom" from meta tags and stuff. DooTRL. But gently caress Zenimax.  KozmoNaut posted:Wait, what? Seconding this, Darksiders 1 was an enjoyable romp through Not-Zelda. Darksiders 2 takes a little while to get going and is somewhat bogged down in its extra bits taken from Diablo but its still a fun game to break over your knee.
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ChickenHeart posted:As a nice little callback, Mick Gordon (and the guy from Sonic Mayhem) played some of Quake 2's Descent Into Cerberon during the Doom performance: Aw poo poo! I'm hoping this means that Quake Champions has remixes of music from the other Quake games, that'd be tight as hell.
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To this day the QUake 2 and Unreal soundtracks get me pumped to shoot low poly badguys in their faces.
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The only bummer about Darksiders is that the budget clearly ran out at some point because the last dungeon is super repetitive and bland garbage and doesn't have the amazing character of the other dungeons, especially the spider city, which imo is the coolest dungeon ever in a 3D Zelda (or Zelda-like in this case).
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Dec 2, 2016 15:34
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Click here to read 1600+ words about air vents.
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Isn't it canon now that Gordon would crawl into air vents for fun before everything went to poo poo?
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This little piece about house maps looks interesting as well: http://thetrashbang.tumblr.com/post/153944917140
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Negrostrike posted:This little piece about house maps looks interesting as well: http://thetrashbang.tumblr.com/post/153944917140 wow those maps make me miss The Specialists
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Keiya posted:Yeah well that guy's an idiot. He responded to people arguing for a 15-year copyright term that we somehow want him to starve to death... the gently caress. Wait, what?
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Which version of Pathologic should I be getting? I keep hearing great things about this weird game and I've been tempted for years to play it, but it kept falling off my radar and I don't trust any gaming sites for reviews or opinions except job and industry focused ones, so I'm kinda blind here. I think it's by the same devs that worked on The Void and I really liked it as a surreal waifu simulator with color puzzles. Also, which version of System Shock 1 do people prefer? Regular or Enhanced?
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haveblue posted:Isn't it canon now that Gordon would crawl into air vents for fun before everything went to poo poo? I think? Wasn't that in the PS2 manual or something?
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I always liked the interpretation that most people in Black Mesa hate Gordon because he's a mute weirdo who likes to crawl around in air vents and always shows up late for work. Which is why they make him do all the manual work and never let him in on any of the big secrets.
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uncleKitchener posted:Which version of Pathologic should I be getting? I keep hearing great things about this weird game and I've been tempted for years to play it, but it kept falling off my radar and I don't trust any gaming sites for reviews or opinions except job and industry focused ones, so I'm kinda blind here. Pathologic isn't really an FPS even to the extent that The Void is. I mean yeah you're a first person and you can shoot stuff, but shooting isn't even close to the focus of the game. Like The Void it's a resource management/survival game at heart, but in The Void your ultimate goal is to survive long enough to kill just about everything and you're given plenty of ways in which to do so, whereas in Pathologic you're just trying to get by till time is up. Get the Classic HD edition though, the original version's translation is rubbish and makes the game way more difficult to understand than it needs to be.
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They are working on a remake of Pathologic , and released a demo for KS backers yesterday, and people are sying the studio is livelier than ever. So I'd wait for the remake at this point.
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uncleKitchener posted:Which version of Pathologic should I be getting? I keep hearing great things about this weird game and I've been tempted for years to play it, but it kept falling off my radar and I don't trust any gaming sites for reviews or opinions except job and industry focused ones, so I'm kinda blind here. Pathologic is a strange game. At the best of times the english translation is incomprehensible, and it is not very fun to actually play. It is kind of neat to explore the insanity of the setting but dont go into it expecting to be having a fun story driven FPS.
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Cephalectomy posted:Pathologic is a strange game. At the best of times the english translation is incomprehensible, and it is not very fun to actually play. It is kind of neat to explore the insanity of the setting but dont go into it expecting to be having a fun story driven FPS. Did you play the original version or the Classic HD? It's still a pretty complex plot but the translation is way, way better.
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I played the original version a long time ago and I couldn't tell you a thing about what is actually going on in that game haha
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I really like how The Void was released here, with a guide, booklet with poems (!) and soundtrack CD, at a budget price. For some reason tho, it was renamed to Tension.Rocket Pan posted:As a heads up, I've started uploading playable builds, which you can check out here. It's quite rough around the edges so be sure to check the notes. There's seems to be a problem, after running it yells at me that it can't find vcredist140.dll on my PC, which I've actually installed, but for the sake of it, I've reinstalled the 2015 VC++ Redistribution. So what should I do now?
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Cephalectomy posted:I played the original version a long time ago and I couldn't tell you a thing about what is actually going on in that game haha There was a decent LP of it on here once, the main takeaway I remember from it is that you haven't a prayer of understanding the plot until you play all 3 characters.
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laserghost posted:There's seems to be a problem, after running it yells at me that it can't find vcredist140.dll on my PC, which I've actually installed, but for the sake of it, I've reinstalled the 2015 VC++ Redistribution. So what should I do now? Did you install the x86 (32bit) one as well? It's an x86 build so it'll need the x86 redist.
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haveblue posted:There was a decent LP of it on here once, the main takeaway I remember from it is that you haven't a prayer of understanding the plot until you play all 3 characters. The Doctor was kind of understandable in a babelfish sort of way, then the haruspex or whatever his name was became quite a bit less understandable and i couldnt parse even a tiny bit of the girls story. I just remember the game itself being a chore to play because if you didnt do things exactly right people would die of the plague and it would somehow make even less sense and it was just an all around exhausting experience.
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uncleKitchener posted:Also, which version of System Shock 1 do people prefer? Regular or Enhanced? It's one of those games where there's no point in not using the rerelease. All it does is make the game run on modern systems and make the controls slightly less terrible.
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Lemon-Lime posted:It's one of those games where there's no point in not using the rerelease. All it does is make the game run on modern systems and make the controls slightly less terrible.
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david_a posted:I believe it forces the music to be General Midi output, which is worse because the GM versions of the songs were total afterthoughts compared to the original FM synthesis ones. I played through my CD copy in DosBox and just remapped a couple of the keyboard keys. While you're right, you can change the MIDI device with a clever bit of Hex editing. http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/System_Shock:_Enhanced_Edition#Select_MIDI_Device Though it'll still probably require you to mess around with VirtualMIDISynth and/or MUNT (does System Shock even support Roland MT-32?) beforehand.
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Coolio, I got a good idea of what to choose now. Also, any way of not getting my rear end handed to me on Blood because of the damage bug? Should I play on harder difficulties or stick to the one in the middle?
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It's a bug in Blood but I think offsetting an increased enemy presence by making them weaker is actually a good design concept. Do you want a power fantasy where you fight entire hordes of hapless mooks, or a more serious thing with much less enemies but they are more dangerous?
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IIRC it's not just enemies, though, you actually hurt yourself more due to the save bug as well (eg: with splash damage).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR8QSJ1shO8
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Shadow Hog posted:IIRC it's not just enemies, though, you actually hurt yourself more due to the save bug as well (eg: with splash damage). You hurt yourself more on lower skill settings? That means you hurt yourself less on harder skill settings; reinforcing the arcade feel it involuntarily provides. Or do you mean that you hurt yourself more on harder skill settings? Then I guess it's to be expected.
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I don't think it changes when the map loads, but on save load, you basically one-shot yourself with your dynamite on the lowest difficulty setting. Considering how it adheres to the Build Engine staple of asking you to blow up everything, that's kind of annoying.
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Cat Mattress posted:It's a bug in Blood but I think offsetting an increased enemy presence by making them weaker is actually a good design concept. Do you want a power fantasy where you fight entire hordes of hapless mooks, or a more serious thing with much less enemies but they are more dangerous? All the cultists having dynamite doesn't really excite me, so I play on the difficulty just below that, I kinda like the damage bug because it makes me feel like I'm not really cheating, just changing the perks my enemies have. But I don't mind the dynamite cultists. I think I just like my enemies having defined roles?
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Just don't play on easy, then. Keep in mind the original question was to choose between "medium" and "hard". Kind of redundant since there's already this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5AFHu8Xrw4
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I remember playing through Blood on the equivalent to Ultra-violence being pretty hard but doable. It's just that the game is just loving hard anyway, so you might as well be playing the game on Caleb Must Die mode where you can die from two hits. Turok was fun. Finished it and it all felt like a nice fluid game I can keep coming back to. Never finished the Chronosceptre and the tree top village level was a pain no navigate when trying to find secrets, but it was a super solid package. Going back to SiN again, because it's just one of those games I need to go back to every once in a while.
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Why not just play Moon Man Doom with Trump Doom? it's not like there's enough changes in Trump Doom for errors to happen
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Negrostrike posted:This little piece about house maps looks interesting as well: http://thetrashbang.tumblr.com/post/153944917140 Hey! I think that guy's banner is from Halfquake: Amen. Finally, someone else who knows about that mod. 
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uncleKitchener posted:Going back to SiN again, because it's just one of those games I need to go back to every once in a while. Speaking of which, it's NOT part of GOG's winter sale. Might as well buy it anyway because you never know how much longer you're elders are going to be around. Which is a terrible thing to say considering how little time I direct toward my own family.
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catlord posted:All the cultists having dynamite doesn't really excite me, so I play on the difficulty just below that, I kinda like the damage bug because it makes me feel like I'm not really cheating, just changing the perks my enemies have. If anything, having the regular cultists use dynamite actually makes the game easier since they spend more time tossing those at you instead of using their bullshit hitscan weapons.
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