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Postal 2 is saved from total garbage by knocking someone’s head off and the puke flies out their neck. It is otherwise a meme game with worse humor than 4chan.
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on this page we are completely and utterly shocked at how much half-life has crushed everything in its way and changed the industry so much already
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May 2, 2020 04:07
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Aw, I missed 1998, year of Duke Nukem 3D! Kusogrande just put up a cool video of it. Four players competing in a blind run of this classic FPS. https://youtu.be/WTAfHcBDdrs
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May 2, 2020 04:15
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Very controversial of id to go hardware-rendering only for Quake 3! On the other hand, real-time tessellated curves! 
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May 2, 2020 04:17
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Macs get q3test first, suck it winblows losers
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May 2, 2020 04:21
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whoa, dnf isn't using quake 2 anymore! they are switching to unreal! don't worry though, george said this shouldn't effect much  ........hey, wasen't prey supposed to come out by now?
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May 2, 2020 04:29
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I was not prepared for descent  (This is accidentally a 1999 joke, but I mean I did download Descent 3 and play it for a while, and now I have a headache. The mouse control seems a lot twitchier than I remember.)
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Aw, I missed 1998, year of Duke Nukem 3D! Kusogrande just put up a cool video of it. Four players competing in a blind run of this classic FPS. At first I wondered why this was in Kusogrande and then I remembered it had an unauthorized Genesis port
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0G6WPuss4
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May 2, 2020 06:04
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Hot take incoming: Duke3D is only a little less dumb than Postal, all in all is not that good of a game, and even if you disagree with those two points, Quake 1 and Doom are way better.
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haveblue posted:I was not prepared for descent Some old games have issues with modern mouses and their super high dpi.
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May 2, 2020 08:09
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Descent's mouse speed also seems influenced by the frame rate, so it's utterly uncontrollable on my modern fancy computer but on my lovely ppc Mac that barely gets 20fps it's a lot more playable.
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Sodomy Hussein posted:Hot take incoming: Duke3D is only a little less dumb than Postal, all in all is not that good of a game, and even if you disagree with those two points, Quake 1 and Doom are way better. Everybody likes different stuff, I personally find Duke 3D to be a masterpiece. Maybe that didn't impress, but take a look at E3 from last year. He's fighting ants from space or something! EDF's best vs ants from space, wild ideas here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5wwSti5FQk
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May 2, 2020 09:24
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Heavy Metal posted:Everybody likes different stuff, I personally find Duke 3D to be a masterpiece. Now that looks like it has some promise at least.
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May 2, 2020 09:59
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started actually playing through doom/2/64 for the first time, guessing I'm not saying anything controversial in that thy flesh consumed kind of sucks? e: first couple of levels, at least
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May 2, 2020 10:09
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX5CpBfTg4o By no means the best UT tune, but I have just heard it so many times. Chatting via the built-in IRC client on #planetunreal, joining a random clan and then never even having a single match against others, having installed so many mods that it took minutes for the starting menu to load... 100% pure uncut nostalgia. Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 10:48 on May 2, 2020 |
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May 2, 2020 10:13
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VileLL posted:started actually playing through doom/2/64 for the first time, guessing I'm not saying anything controversial in that thy flesh consumed kind of sucks? Civvie actually devotes a lot of time to exploring this exact topic, and the answer is yes it sucks.
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May 2, 2020 10:14
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VileLL posted:started actually playing through doom/2/64 for the first time, guessing I'm not saying anything controversial in that thy flesh consumed kind of sucks? You have to know it's supposed to be like an expansion for the original game (even if truly it isn't). And expansions in the 90s were always harder than the base game, it was understood that the market was people who had beaten the game and wanted more and be a real challenge. Still, Romero went a bit too far away in the first two levels, yeah.
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May 2, 2020 10:26
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Angry_Ed posted:At first I wondered why this was in Kusogrande and then I remembered it had an unauthorized Genesis port
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May 2, 2020 10:39
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First level is American McGee in Thy Flesh Consumed, isn't it? Its an absolutely genital busting start to a WAD, especially if you are me and didnt know there was a rocket launcher in stage 1. The official Doom 2 expansion, No Rest for the Living is wonderful, fire that puppy up.
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May 2, 2020 10:46
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Turin Turambar posted:You have to know it's supposed to be like an expansion for the original game (even if truly it isn't). And expansions in the 90s were always harder than the base game, it was understood that the market was people who had beaten the game and wanted more and be a real challenge. Still, Romero went a bit too far away in the first two levels, yeah. that definitely makes sense, i think i'm very much being thrown by the reliance on stuff teleporting in behind you, it just seems to go against the established rules, and ends up diminishing the accomplishment of cleaning out a room when you can step on something and immediately have three barons show up. very much prefer having them exist behind an actual wall rather than just popping in arbitrarily
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May 2, 2020 10:51
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Barudak posted:First level is American McGee in Thy Flesh Consumed, isn't it? /checks wiki You are right.
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May 2, 2020 10:54
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Skip Thy Flesh Consumed, just play Sigil
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May 2, 2020 11:06
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Turin Turambar posted:/checks wiki I only know this because I looked it up to make sure I knew who to curse
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May 2, 2020 11:12
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My hot take is that Doom and Doom 2 are middling games but their legacy and the tools left behind raise them to greater heights than any successor. The lack of a singular vision really hurts their pacing and the final product ends up feeling like a Greatest Hits collection of music where you have one disc you’ll listen all the way through and every other disc is like “well that’s neat, I guess *stuffs into box forever*” Plutonia is better than the vast majority of Doom 2 but it sucks you have to be intimately familiar with it to really succeed. And Doom 64 was always good you just needed to be able to see.
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May 2, 2020 12:15
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I want to post in the year of my favorite arena FPS ever. Unreal Tournament will always be my top fps ever (mp) tied with Unreal (sp).
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May 2, 2020 12:31
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This is so loving cool. I hope (but doubt) this will be released in full: https://twitter.com/danielwienerson/status/1256479140900777985?s=21
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May 2, 2020 12:32
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Not quite an fps, but I've recently started a replay of a 1999 game I remember fondly from back in the day, Drakan: Order of the Flame. There's a touch of jank to it but it still has its charms, switching between swooping around a big open world on a dragon and fighting through caves and dungeons on foot is quite fun. Drakan was number two on the August, 1999 Softrend chart, least we forget. I even found a community patch for it which has it running great on a modern system at ultrawide resolution. If I get to the end of it, I may finally move on to playing the PS2-only sequel that followed it. Thief: Gold also came out in 1999, so a shout out for that too.
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Dave Angel posted:Not quite an fps, but I've recently started a replay of a 1999 game I remember fondly from back in the day, Drakan: Order of the Flame. There's a touch of jank to it but it still has its charms, switching between swooping around a big open world on a dragon and fighting through caves and dungeons on foot is quite fun. Drakan was number two on the August, 1999 Softrend chart, least we forget. I even found a community patch for it which has it running great on a modern system at ultrawide resolution. If I get to the end of it, I may finally move on to playing the PS2-only sequel that followed it. I was just about to post about this game. I actually rebound the flying dragon controls to the joystick setup I had been using on descent for years. I remember loving it and spending tons of time in it, but I can’t find a single retro game YouTube review, play through, or even mention of it.
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Drakan 2 was pretty good and it’s weird as hell it was a PS2 exclusive. It didn’t compromise either, the levels were just as big as PC, maybe even more open with hidden secrets and side quests and no loading.
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al-azad posted:My hot take is that Doom and Doom 2 are middling games but their legacy and the tools left behind raise them to greater heights than any successor. I wasn't fond of Doom and Doom 2 when they were released. I could tell that the tech was great but I felt other games like System Shock were taking that first person run around game play and doing something interesting with it. At this point with over a decade of FPS that I've hated, I'm much happier with the games. I still don't like Quake, though.
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May 2, 2020 14:52
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I still have this MP3 on my computer to this day, because it's a pretty decent Jungle/DNB track!
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Knee-Deep in the Dead still holds up though, the level design is just great. The levels had a good mix of exploration and combat which none of the other episodes got right.
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where the hell did all these wrong people coming out of nowhere with terrible opinions about E4M1 and E4M2 come from
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May 2, 2020 15:28
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Arivia posted:where the hell did all these wrong people coming out of nowhere with terrible opinions about E4M1 and E4M2 come from People that are bad and wrong. 
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May 2, 2020 15:34
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Classic Doom and Doom 2, including TFC, is the poo poo and still easily my favorite shooter, barring a small handful of levels from Doom 2. I also think No Rest for the Living and Sigil live up to them.
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May 2, 2020 15:37
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E4M2 is hard as hell but it’s easily one of the best levels in D1/D2.
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May 2, 2020 15:42
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Nah, everyone makes good points. Some come down to personal preference or what the designer had in mind for the experience. I think we can all agree that the doom2 city maps become a massive boring slog on anything but perhaps the first play through. I'd argue you need those lower points to achieve those crushing highs, amirite???? Kazvall fucked around with this message at 15:49 on May 2, 2020 |
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Nothing wrong with E4M1 and E4M2 by themselves but by placing the hardest levels at the beginning makes the whole episode feel... slapdashed?
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Doom 2 maps are fine, there are some stinkers but if we look at official releases, I love that No Rest for the Living exists and somehow it makes a smooth transition to Doom64. Not a big fan of TNT and Plutonia but if you look just at the official releases, The Ultimate Doom and Doom 2 are loving solid and on top of the best FPS of all time. For those that haven't played NRFTL, give it a go. It's an exelent chapter and must play before Doom64.
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