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The Kins posted:Not an FPS exactly, but sufficiently adjacent: The original 2004 Star Wars Battlefront has received a big update to revive online multiplayer on Steam and GOG, with cross-platform play between the two platforms. Is there a preference on which platform is best? Edit: for the Dark Forces sale, I mean
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The Kins posted:This is from back in February, but I just learned about it - The Steam version of Descent 3 now has upgraded, native, 64-bit Linux and Mac ports done by Ryan C. Gordon. If you own the Windows version, you have these for free. No plans to bring these improvements to the Windows version, which is a real shame because it could really use the extra TLC. Holy crap I'm gonna buy and replay this
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May 1, 2020 15:32
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Ah, page 1998, the year of Thief: The Dark Project.
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May 1, 2020 15:37
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chaosapiant posted:Is there a preference on which platform is best? Jedi Knight has its issues on both platforms with varying degrees of well-meaning but ultimately-unfinished fixes applied. I threw together some words that I probably link all too much about fixing the Steam version, they probably apply equally to the GOG version as well. Old disc copies probably need a bit of extra work to make the CD Audio work as OGG files. The remaining games in the series are Quake 3 engine and thus relatively easy to jiggle into compliance with just console commands and the occasional config file twiddle. PC Gaming Wiki would have more. They're probably more or less identical on both platforms, so just get the GOG one so there's no DRM wrapper.
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May 1, 2020 15:42
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Ah, page 1998, the year of Unreal and everything that came from it.
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Dave Angel posted:Ah, page 1998, the year of Thief: The Dark Project. I really need to properly play Thief. It's sitting here, installed, with the latest patch/fan fixes but I'm so intimidated by how large each level is. e: I'm pretty secure in 1998 being the single best year in video game history.
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Tippis posted:Ah, page 1998, the year of Unreal and everything that came from it.   (From 1995's Extreme Pinball)
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May 1, 2020 16:05
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I tried replaying Jedi Outcast about a year or two ago, even wrote up a big ol review in this thread. The lightsaber fights and use of Jedi Powers is still the greatest a game has ever done, especially with dismemberment turned on. Dueling in particular comes down to who can through the other's defenses first for that clean cut that slices your torso in half in a sweet 360 degree slow mo panarama. It feels like every other "Jedi" game (looking at you, force unleashed) focused too much on "hack enemy multiple times until red health bar goes away". Hell I even liked the first two levels without force powers/lightsaber because they felt like a good "Dark Forces" homage. The problem is the level design isn't great, and Nar Shadaa is one of the worst FPS levels ever designed holy gently caress. I played it until I got to the Doombringer but I was getting bored. The action is great, but then you spend way too much time running around bland rooms trying to figure out where to go next because there are no waypoints.
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May 1, 2020 16:36
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Anybody play that lovely Postal game last year? Tried so hard to be edgy. I doubt it'll ever go anywhere and nobody will remember it.
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May 1, 2020 16:39
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catlord posted:So, I was annoyed when Techland put their Hexen-like, Hellraid, "on hold." It's been talked about before, I was really looking forward to it, especially since we don't get a lot of people explicitly naming Hexen (and I think Witchaven, but I'd need to check that) as inspirations. I was SO hype for Hellraid. One of the biggest gaming disappointments I can think of recently.
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Solaris 2.0 posted:The problem is the level design isn't great, and Nar Shadaa is one of the worst FPS levels ever designed holy gently caress. I played it until I got to the Doombringer but I was getting bored. The action is great, but then you spend way too much time running around bland rooms trying to figure out where to go next because there are no waypoints. Jedi Academy also suffers from this from time to time too, there's been plenty of times I've been stuck in a room for several minutes trying to force sense a secret button or something when I think i'm blocked only to find out that force sense is used for that maybe one time and never again 
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May 1, 2020 16:58
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dnf and prey are looking great at e3! can't wait!
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May 1, 2020 18:11
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:What's your favorite track? Mine's probably Big Gun. I like the tracks that feel like this hopeless battle against impossible odds. Bitterman is couragewolf before couragewolf. Bite off more than you can chew....AND CHEW IT. Between Quad Machine and Big Gun here. The OST owned and ripped the audio CD tracks and kept the wav files on my PC. When I got my first mp3 player back in 2003 (a creative MuVo 128mb), these two tracks were among the first stuff I listened to in this marvelous new MP3 player we started to get!
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Guillermus posted:Between Quad Machine and Big Gun here. The OST owned and ripped the audio CD tracks and kept the wav files on my PC. When I got my first mp3 player back in 2003 (a creative MuVo 128mb), these two tracks were among the first stuff I listened to in this marvelous new MP3 player we started to get! Yooo me too! My first mp3 player had Quake 2 tracks, NiN, Sting, the entire Ghost in the Shell soundtrack, and Kate Bush. Good times.  I think eventually I managed to rip the tracks from SiN, stitch them together in some rudimentary audio editor program, and I put them on there too.
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May 1, 2020 18:25
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I love Civvie content but I don't get his love for Postal. For something that's supposed to simulate mayhem they got boring fast.
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May 1, 2020 20:20
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Postal 2 still has the best kick of any FPS game.
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May 1, 2020 20:31
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Evil Egypt looks really good The first levels are exploring tombs and pyramids, almost Indiana Jones style, but eventually it turns into more malefic...            
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May 1, 2020 20:35
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ETPC posted:dnf and prey are looking great at e3! can't wait! That Half-Life game looks like it might be decent, but I think Daikatana'll blow it out of the water.
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May 1, 2020 20:51
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catlord posted:That Half-Life game looks like it might be decent, but I think Daikatana'll blow it out of the water. I'm getting excited about Prey, it had a great E3 demo
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May 1, 2020 20:55
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sin's gonna kick half-life's rear end, count on it!
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May 1, 2020 21:02
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ETPC posted:sin's gonna kick half-life's rear end, count on it! You guys are all wrong, Klingon Honor Guard is going to be the hit of the year!
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May 1, 2020 21:05
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I'm looking forward to Blood 2, it looks so dark and realistic. Blood was hardcore as gently caress so there's no way Blood 2 can be bad.
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May 1, 2020 21:13
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The Kins posted:Not an FPS exactly, but sufficiently adjacent: The original 2004 Star Wars Battlefront has received a big update to revive online multiplayer on Steam and GOG, with cross-platform play between the two platforms. I remember Battlefront '04 having some good maps that never got to Battlefront 2.
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ETPC posted:sin's gonna kick half-life's rear end, count on it! "Guys, I think we should release SHOGO now. Yeah, I know Half Life's coming out in like two weeks, but what are the chances of it overshadowing our release?"
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May 1, 2020 21:39
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SCheeseman posted:Postal 2 still has the best kick of any FPS game. This is a grave insult to the Duke3D double kick.  I'll grant you that it's up there, though, with how you can rearrange the results of your mayhem with it.
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Max Wilco posted:"Guys, I think we should release SHOGO now. Yeah, I know Half Life's coming out in like two weeks, but what are the chances of it overshadowing our release?" I forgot Shogo and Blood 2 came out two weeks apart. Ubisoft did the same poo poo with Beyond Good and Evil coming out two weeks after Sands of Time.
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Sodomy Hussein posted:I remember Battlefront '04 having some good maps that never got to Battlefront 2. There's literally no reason to play SWBF1 lol
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Flubby posted:I love Civvie content but I don't get his love for Postal. For something that's supposed to simulate mayhem they got boring fast. they're legitimately bad games and pretty much like some old flash game from newgrounds built into a 3d engine. really nothing in them even feels satisfying to use and the npc ai is just. so godawful.
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The Kins posted:Dark Forces 1 is a DOS game, so both Steam and GOG are pretty much the same, being wrapped in an old version of DOSBox. Check out the Dehacker posted earlier to enable vertical mouselook! it might be the steam wrapper causing problems, but i actually just bought Jedi Academy and i've been having a lot of problems with the game just randomly deciding to hardlock on any given loading screen in windows 10. it also generally kinda runs like poo poo for some reason, i suspect i may need to throw DGVoodoo at it or something?
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:it might be the steam wrapper causing problems, but i actually just bought Jedi Academy and i've been having a lot of problems with the game just randomly deciding to hardlock on any given loading screen in windows 10. it also generally kinda runs like poo poo for some reason, i suspect i may need to throw DGVoodoo at it or something? There's also OpenJK you can try, I think I used that when I played a bit of Jedi Academy, but I don't know how feature complete it actually is and I didn't get too far before I got distracted by something else.
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Doom clones are so boring! Shoot things and finding keys? Boring! We need FPSers with mission objects and story!
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*nods* the Marathon trilogy
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1998, the year Penny Arcade began, appropriately their first strip was about an FPS(SiN if I recall correctly) and shooters would make up a large amount of their content in the first couple years of the comic(including a lot of jokes at Daikatana and Jon Romero's expense)
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drrockso20 posted:1998, the year Penny Arcade began, appropriately their first strip was about an FPS(SiN if I recall correctly) You do!
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So were the loading times for SiN really that bad back then?
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Johnny Joestar posted:they're legitimately bad games and pretty much like some old flash game from newgrounds built into a 3d engine. really nothing in them even feels satisfying to use and the npc ai is just. so godawful. Even watching the Postal 4 video, there’s a part where he’s in a gunfight with some store clerk and he shoots them with a Desert Eagle 4, 5, maybe even 6 times before they die. I don’t think they flinch or anything the entire time. It just looks soooooo unsatisfying.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Even watching the Postal 4 video, there’s a part where he’s in a gunfight with some store clerk and he shoots them with a Desert Eagle 4, 5, maybe even 6 times before they die. I don’t think they flinch or anything the entire time. It just looks soooooo unsatisfying. i've never made it a secret that i hate the gross poo poo they put in the games, but even setting every single bit of that aside i know from personal, hands-on experience with postal 2 that the gameplay just absolutely sucks. i'd rather play a gta game if i want to fart around in a sandbox, because the component parts of those games make for a much better experience all-around. i seriously don't know why civvie would be enamored with the series other than nostalgia, because the actual shooting sure as hell ain't it.
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drrockso20 posted:So were the loading times for SiN really that bad back then? I remember it taking a least couple of minutes to load on my PC (Pentium II?) at the time. I also remember a bug were the first mutant boss just freezes and you can still attack and kill it. Apparently it's AI switch didn't work.
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Postal 2 has juuuuust enough little details and systems, as juvenile as...pretty much all of them are, that I can at least understand being charmed by it if only briefly. For a comparatively tame example, you don't see games even nowadays letting you splash gasoline around and then light it up. That's still legit kinda cool. As an actual game though, it's pretty loving bad.
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Using a cat as a silencer is pretty special. Pissing on people until this puke is, as well.
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