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Project Warlock wins the "modern first person arcade shooter that harkens back to classic FPS games" race for me right now, especially after the patches to improve the graphics, framerate, and controls. But Ion Maiden is a strong contender for the forseeable future. edit: Until 5vke Nvkem comes out anyway.
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Ion Maiden could still be butt if the levels are bad and the enemy/gun variety don't improve. The seeker bombs are really fun but it has an smg and a mini gun when just one would be enough. Build engine shooters all have crazy weapons and I hope Ion Maiden has something weird in it too.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Upload pyromania to archive.org You could still buy the disk from them last time I checked so I don't think I can upload it. david_a posted:You have one of those discs? What does the explosion look like on there - is it a noticeably better quality video? I suppose it would be illegal, but hypothetically could someone make replacement higher quality explosions (higher res, higher color depth, smoother animation) for games? Yes it's much higher quality they were 800x600-ish uncompressed files and there are 2k and 4k dvds now. The ones in games chopped down in res and have less frames + any other edits for color/shape/speed etc that the artist wants. For example the explosion in Duke3d is a combo of parts of a couple of pyromania effects stuck together (the other pyromania explosion gif from Cyberia I uploaded last page is part of it for example).  You can make it as high quality as your hardware would allow. I don'd think there are too many limits for the source ports now (sprite limit I think still?). A lot of mods for them do this already but it can end up looking out of place.   The octo-brain's projectile attack  Flannelette fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Dec 16, 2018 |
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Overbite posted:I've been playing through DUSK (a lil way into ep 3 now) and I'm not sure I like it. The ammo is too scarce on everything except for pistols, the sounds are bad, especially the you got hit sound BOOF thing, the enemies take a lot of shots to kill and aren't that fun to fight. The levels are ok until partway into episode 2 where the game decides to become Doom 3 and make everything so dark you have to look at the world through a small yellow circle. It sucks. What difficulty is this? I thought the ammo balance was perfect on normal. Whenever I felt like I had to start conserving ammo, the mortar was always great to fall back on cause of it's ridiculously high limit, like 50 shots
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Dec 16, 2018 05:15
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Yeah I have no idea how you could run out of ammo in DUSK, there's no real bullet-sponge enemy type that I can think of and it's sprinkled around very liberally.
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Dec 16, 2018 05:21
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i never did have issues with ammo, if anything got low i'd always have multiple options to start flipping through in the meanwhile the only 'tanky' basic enemies are sort of the cyberladies and also that dog. thing. in the cart, but those never really felt too bad, especially since they weren't used too much.
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Dec 16, 2018 05:25
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True, the roboladies were a pain but the dogs went down in a few rivets, and with the speed that thing fire...
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Dec 16, 2018 05:30
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I've had ammo shortages, but that's probably because I'm playing on the "Cero Mierdo" difficulty with the additional modifier that makes you start each level/death with only the melee weapon.
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Dec 16, 2018 05:34
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Yeah, I never had ammo problems in any of the episodes.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I've had ammo shortages, but that's probably because I'm playing on the "Cero Mierdo" difficulty with the additional modifier that makes you start each level/death with only the melee weapon. oh are the levels designed to be pistol startable? that's dope
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Flannelette posted:The octo-brain's projectile attack Neat! I always just assumed it was drawn.
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DisDisDis posted:oh are the levels designed to be pistol startable? that's dope yeah, intruder mode is explicitly 'you start with only melee on every map'
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DisDisDis posted:oh are the levels designed to be pistol startable? that's dope If you select the levels from the menu you can also customize just what weapons and ammo you start with.
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I'm loving Dusk, the first episode was a solid retro FPS experience, with good weapons, solid gameplay, etc, but Episode 2 really made the game shine, showing better level design, better encounter design and more focus on atmosphere with some really good moments playing with darkness, claustrophobia, sounds, in general a descent to infernal madness; now it's one of my favorites of the year.
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Just finished Dusk. The final gauntlet took quite a few tries with a good helping of save-scumming on the second-hardest difficulty, but I'm happy to say that I put down Jakob on the first go. Is he supposed to be the same guy you see in portraits during the lab portions of Episode 2? Pretty much every level in Episode 3 had something memorable about it (The blood tornado is my personal favorite), and I'm finding myself already diving into another playthrough to hunt down all the secrets. Here's to hoping that 3D Realms' unannounced throwback game can live up to this.
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DisDisDis posted:oh are the levels designed to be pistol startable? that's dope
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Yeah I played on intruder mode and never really had ammo problems. I also never used the pistols because they were basically useless outside of the very beginning of episode 1
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Glagha posted:Yeah I played on intruder mode and never really had ammo problems. I also never used the pistols because they were basically useless outside of the very beginning of episode 1 They remain useful for killing soldiers and rats. Which isn't much, but it lets you save some bigger gun ammo for other stuff.
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Pistols are good with fast fire but kind of shabby otherwise. I wish they had another tier of upgrade after dual wield. Maybe you could clutch a third pistol in your teeth
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I just finished Dusk. Great game, I will only ding it in the enemy, both visually (80polygons don’t cut it, and their animations are pretty amateur) and gameplay wise they suffered of a bit of seaminess. Comparing with the master, Doom, it needed a few more original enemies, like the Pain Elemental (enemy spawner) or the Archvile (los attack + resurrector). Loots of enemies had the same role here. I think I liked more the second episode than the third one. The third also has some very good levels, but they are a bit all over the place in theme, while I loved the second because the cohesiveness and the slow in crescendo that it has.
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Dec 16, 2018 19:57
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Turin Turambar posted:I think I liked more the second episode than the third one. The third also has some very good levels, but they are a bit all over the place in theme, while I loved the second because the cohesiveness and the slow in crescendo that it has.
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Turin Turambar posted:I just finished Dusk. I can't believe someone praised the pain elemental
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Dec 16, 2018 20:36
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He is just cute! look at the cute little hands!
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I like the pain elemental when he's used sparingly and as a reason for you to get on the offensive fast. He's not all that fun to fight against when you've got full ammo/health and good wepons. Early game and with only a shotgun or something, he's fun to go against as he's an interesting threat.
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Wait did the pain elemental always have arms? How did I never notice this?? 
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Convex posted:Wait did the pain elemental always have arms? How did I never notice this?? Now, notice how the pain elemental's arms come from the imp or the demon (I forgot which, but one of the two), its horns come from the cyberdemon, and its eye comes from the invisibility sphere...
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Finally watched that Noclip Half Life documentary. It was really good. It's no big deal nowadays but the HL2 physics demo they showed with the barrels going through the plinko thing put a smile on my face. Also it convinced me to buy Titanfall 2 which has been fun so far. $6 on Origin at the moment. Not bad at all for a game that's only a couple years old.
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Titanfall 2 has one of the best SP in years and the MP, while not having a big community nowadays (but still pretty active) is a blast.
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Casimir Radon posted:Finally watched that Noclip Half Life documentary. It was really good. It's no big deal nowadays but the HL2 physics demo they showed with the barrels going through the plinko thing put a smile on my face. I did the same the last time somebody mentioned Titanfall 2 in this thread. That game has some of the most gorgeous skyboxes I've ever seen.
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A little late on this but I also found myself overflowing with ammo to the point I had to force myself to vary my weapons ups. I forgot I had the mortar most the time. That said if you are having trouble with ammo remember this game basically has the Half-Life 2 gravity gun. Dusk guy's basic throw is powerful enough to gib most enemies, even scarecrows, and severely weaken stronger ones. It's just not advertised with a gun model.
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Casimir Radon posted:It's no big deal nowadays but the HL2 physics demo they showed with the barrels going through the plinko thing put a smile on my face.
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Sikreci posted:There were a lot of bullshots back in those days and I remember seeing the E3 demo and being convinced it couldn't be real-time rendered on existing hardware. Never forget  (Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun - they provided faked screenshots to the press, and even on the back of the packaging they had bullshots; fancy lighting effects and majestic explosions were edited in)
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Lambert posted:Never forget One of the PSX versions of C&C had the C&C95 graphics on the jewel case but the DOS graphics in game. Very disappointing to me as a kid.
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Lambert posted:Never forget The Final PC-Version had GDI medium tanks in it? I get that the promo shot had an unused asset of a double-barrelled tank in it, but that second shot is a bit weird too.
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Lambert posted:Never forget They didn't get too far off the mark at least, oh and the real PC shot has infuriating craters right in the middle of the base as per regulation.
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Lambert posted:Never forget There's some off stuff about that "official PC version" screenshot too. Mainly the beginning of the nuke explosion from Red Alert 1, the medium tanks, and the rocket launcher trucks.
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Flannelette posted:They didn't get too far off the mark at least, oh and the real PC shot has infuriating craters right in the middle of the base as per regulation. In Dune 2000 you could rebuild concrete slabs to make your base pristine again. The Dune 2 slabs and Warcraft roads were things I missed in the C&C titles. Sure you could base-walk by building sandbags but it's not the same.
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Cat Mattress posted:In Dune 2000 you could rebuild concrete slabs to make your base pristine again. Tiberian Sun had buildable pavement, but it was only to block subterranean units from surfacing inside your base.
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Cat Mattress posted:In Dune 2000 you could rebuild concrete slabs to make your base pristine again. You can rebuild concrete in Tiberium sun too but it also had ground deformation where big explosion would make craters and knock the ground down a level and you can never fix it or build on it after.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Tiberian Sun had buildable pavement, but it was only to block subterranean units from surfacing inside your base. No, it also stopped craters from forming. Doesn't help for ones already formed, though.
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