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chocolateTHUNDER posted:I fully bought into the hype of this game on 360, and it was a complete mess on console also. It was unplayable due to various network issues for the first month or so, and by the time it was fixed it completely killed whatever playerbase it had. I got it on the 360 aswell and we got a good EU goon group ready to play (even a Splash Damage goon) but we got constantly kicked out due to the netcode and the game got boring in no time. I got burned well but hey I could trade it for something else so the damage wasn't so bad. That's why I never preorder digital, if I preorder something is retail because I can at least trade it for something else.
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Convex posted:PC Gamer posted a cool article about weird early FPS games. I posted about Forbes Corporate Warrior in this very thread a couple of weeks ago. Coincidence? Or Conspiracy?  Cream-of-Plenty posted:How about Forbes Corporate Warrior?
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i got lucky and got the caco hat and quake 1 rocket launcher in my quake champions boxes, but the game still feels laggy and weird
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juggalo baby coffin posted:i got lucky and got the caco hat and quake 1 rocket launcher in my quake champions boxes, but the game still feels laggy and weird Yeah I played a bit last weekend and the game just felt "off". Couldn't quite put my finger on it.
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I dig Quake Champions, had good luck with it, maybe lower latency servers etc, I like the feel of it. And I'd even pay upwards of eight dollars USD if they put Duke in that, especially if he said a bunch of weird stuff when he spawns like the Quake guy does. Also put Max Payne in it, a cop on the edge. Or maybe there could be an offbrand free-to-play FPS arena game with all the other-ran characters, like the Sony Smash Bros game thingy, would be potentially legendary. Speaking of amazing one liners, how did I miss Rogue Warrior? This Dunkey vid here is the funniest thing I've seen in some time, any vid of this game would probably be funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZDBDWAt1DI&t=5m32s Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Aug 24, 2017 |
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Heavy Metal posted:Speaking of amazing one liners, how did I miss Rogue Warrior? This Dunkey vid here is the funniest thing I've seen in some time, any vid of this game would probably be funny: "Bethesda Softworks and Rebellion present Rogue Warrior, aka Mickey Rourke Cursing Into a Microphone for an Hour."
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Heavy Metal posted:Speaking of amazing one liners, how did I miss Rogue Warrior? This Dunkey vid here is the funniest thing I've seen in some time, any vid of this game would probably be funny: Rogue Warrior is a masterpiece if only for the end credits music. If you haven't heard it yet, here you go. thedangergroove posted:So how long til we get Commander Keen in Quake Champions? What would be better, classic cartoony Keen or ridiculously gritty redesign?
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Why not both? Doomguy got all designs.
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catlord posted:Rogue Warrior is a masterpiece if only for the end credits music. If you haven't heard it yet, here you go. Holy moly that's good stuff, Mickey Rourke was on! That this hit just months before he starred in Iron Man 2 is pretty great.
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BroTeam get a lot of stick for being Monkey Cheese but their video for Rogue Warrior is a favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x4lj2p2Dhc&t=70s NoneMoreNegative fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Aug 24, 2017 |
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NoneMoreNegative posted:BroTeam get a lot of stick for being Monkey Cheese but their video for Rogue Warrior is a favourite: gently caress it picked this up on Humble for £1
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catlord posted:What would be better, classic cartoony Keen or ridiculously gritty redesign? I would LOVE to see a gritty redesign of an 8-year-old running around with a zapper and football helmet. 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:also I saw this gallery: Also seems to capture what always happened to me, how i never really "got" the scale in grid mode and the levels always came out wicked cramped and tuny
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I just watched this 1 hour video of Mick Gordon about how he created Doom 2016 music and while 1 hour is insane, the dude is so great, funny and interesting to listen to, that it will be even short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4FNBMZsqrY I'ts from GDC 2017 (uploaded like 2 days ago).
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His distortion pedals are not cheap stuff. They're the real deal. Hell of a creative way of creating new sound.
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Guillermus posted:I just watched this 1 hour video of Mick Gordon about how he created Doom 2016 music and while 1 hour is insane, the dude is so great, funny and interesting to listen to, that it will be even short: Sort of an aside, but genuinely curious, how is a one hour talk "insane"? There are countless examples of much longer talks about similar subjects, seems pretty normal.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urza2sbU68Q https://github.com/Jackathan/MarcLaidlaw-Epistle3/ so marc laidlaw posted what episode 3 was going to be. like, all of it.
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Yep. Interesting ending for the game. At least we have closure I guess, valve has no interest in hl anymore.
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I think I accepted like 6 or 7 years ago that Valve had no interest in making a new Half-Life game or episode; managing Steam and selling gacha poo poo for old multiplayer games pays more I guess
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Oh man, that would have been a loving insane game. It's a massive shame we'll never get to see Half-Life go full Marathon Infinity (that's the one where the things went nuts, right? I'm trying to do a playthrough of the first one right now and then hopefully move onto the rest).
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I still think we will see a new Half-Life sometime. I can agree moving on after 10 years makes sense, but not for me, games have taken longer. This is a company with seemingly infinite funds/resources, they'll get around to making a HL3 some day I think. It's cool that Mark got this thingy out there though.
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Wow, so HL Ep3 was going to be going to the magic ship, then magic happens. I'm shocked.
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ETPC posted:im genuninely really hosed up right now. half-life is extremely important to me on a personal level and is part of a ton of happy memories. I never browse this subforum, but I just had to in the wake of this news. I totally know how you feel. It's surreal... I had basically a wasted childhood playing HL and assorted mods with my bro and randos online and was so -there- when HL2 came out we played it the moment we could finish getting it downloaded at like two in the morning on a school night when neither of us were supposed to be awake. Heavy Metal posted:I still think we will see a new Half-Life sometime. I can agree moving on after 10 years makes sense, but not for me, games have taken longer. This is a company with seemingly infinite funds/resources, they'll get around to making a HL3 some day I think. It's cool that Mark got this thingy out there though. Even if there is a new Half Life game, it's genuinely not going to be the same thing. The writing team is long gone, and a lotta the core people involved probably are too. It'd be a facsimile, and that's if they can get over their incredibly stupid management system to even get a decade old game project off the ground when they can keep the company going on the minimalist of effort in any of their microtransaction garbage and then spend the rest toying around with fancy hardware.
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ishikabibble posted:I never browse this subforum, but I just had to in the wake of this news. I totally know how you feel. It's surreal... I had basically a wasted childhood playing HL and assorted mods with my bro and randos online and was so -there- when HL2 came out we played it the moment we could finish getting it downloaded at like two in the morning on a school night when neither of us were supposed to be awake. I guess it's a nice thing for the many people treating this like a funeral, because they'll be in for a sweet nice surprise when a Half-Life 3 gets announced some day. And it'll probably end up being good, although indeed probably quite a bit different. Me, I just thought it was cool that this writer got his ideas out there and off his chest, and it has no effect on the future of the series.
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Linguica posted:Wow, so HL Ep3 was going to be going to the magic ship, then magic happens. I'm shocked. ling not now bb 
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The valve 'flat' structure is such bullshit. Seems to me no project gets completed now unless it's a real piecemeal bullshit effort. The core games of Dota and CS are from 15+ year old mods with some balance and cosmetics added, seems not having a teams with a lead team pushing the game and the others not having as much of a say means nothing meaningful is being produced at valve. A lot of small projects but no big great games. There are probably projects in projects too like hey let's work on this little function for steam it'll be cool but who gives a poo poo I wanted the valve I loved in 98 and 04
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Sort of an aside, but genuinely curious, how is a one hour talk "insane"? There are countless examples of much longer talks about similar subjects, seems pretty normal. By insane I meant "too long for most people". I watched all the noclip interviews wich are longer. Hell, I even watched the 6 hour long video about Dark Souls from Mathewmatosis in one sitting like a TV series marathon.
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This hits me right in the feels. I even used to write for a hl2 fansite for about a year back in middle school. Someone at the top needs to crack the whip once or twice.
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ETPC posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urza2sbU68Q I tried reading through this earlier, but even reading through it with the corrected names, it was still pretty hard to read through (in the sense that it one of those things where I feel my eyes starting to glaze over while I read it.) The general gist I got from it was that Gordon and Alyx find that Borealis, and it turns out to be some kind of multiple-points-in-time sort of thing. There's a debate on whether it should be used or destroyed. Alyx kills Mossman and uses the Borealis as a missile to destroy the Combine, but the G-Man teleports in and takes her away once it launches. It turns out the Borealis is nowhere near enough to destroy the Combine, and the Vortigaunts come in and rescue Gordon from the Borealis before it explodes. Then Gordon ends up in...I guess in stasis like between HL1 and HL2? It doesn't really sound like much of a conclusion, which makes me think that it was only intended to close out the HL2 Episodes and leave the plot hanging for Half Life 3. I'd point out that this probably what Laidlaw himself had conceptualized for Episode 3, so if it actually had been put into production, it might've been changed or re-worked for the final product. Something I've heard thrown around a lot is that Valve was skeptical about doing Half Life 3 because they didn't want to repeat of the controversy with Mass Effect 3's ending.
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eames posted:The story kind of matches the leaked concept art I remember seeing one those pieces when it was first revealed on Planet Half-Life like ten years ago. Also: https://twitter.com/marc_laidlaw/status/900960760481726464 https://twitter.com/marc_laidlaw/status/900971191019622400 https://twitter.com/marc_laidlaw/status/900976858526646272 Maybe there's still hope. Maybe... Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Aug 25, 2017 |
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Half Life. At least Black Mesa came out (mostly) and is cool.
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Man that's a really dumb story that goes nowhere. "We found and pointlessly destroyed a magic ship, the end". Condolences to everyone who ever liked that series, but it's time to face the harsh truth that it's trash.
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Cat Mattress posted:Man that's a really dumb story that goes nowhere. "We found and pointlessly destroyed a magic ship, the end". Condolences to everyone who ever liked that series, but it's time to face the harsh truth that it's trash. The entire theme that runs through HL is that nothing you or humanity does matters because the Combine and whoever the G-Man works for are galactic powers engaged in a cold war and Earth is a lovely little backwater planet. That planned plot for episode 3 is completely in line with that thematic through-line (unsurprisingly, obviously, since it's the same author). It's good.
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Cat Mattress posted:but it's time to face the harsh truth that it's trash. I guess that's why so many people are jazzed about this info coming out and why people are seriously pissed at Valve for abandoning the series. Makes sense to me!
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Lemon-Lime posted:The entire theme that runs through HL is that nothing you or humanity does matters because the Combine and whoever the G-Man works for are galactic powers engaged in a cold war and Earth is a lovely little backwater planet. I guess it works on a meta level, because no amount of playing Half-Life is ever going to have any impact on the real world.
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