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I could sit here and gush about and quote Darkplace all day too but  KNOCK IT OFF YOU TWO THIS IS THE EARLY FPS MEGATHREAD
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To win the game, you must defeat this Renwick customer.
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Apr 23, 2021 15:00
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https://youtu.be/ijrx_8eUB44 One of my favourite bits in any comedy. Had no idea anyone had heard of this outside of the UK.
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Apr 23, 2021 15:24
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There needs to be a sequence where you're on bicycles dubbed with motorcycle noises while chasing the level boss
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Apr 23, 2021 15:27
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The Vile Stuff posted:Had no idea anyone had heard of this outside of the UK. Played on I wanna say the Sci-Fi Channel in the US years ago and my friends and I became obsessed with it. Amazing that someone tweeted about their light gun version within days of someone posting about their dream FPS version lol Al Cu Ad Solte posted:KNOCK IT OFF YOU TWO THIS IS THE EARLY FPS MEGATHREAD I post the only way I know how - by placing one letter after the other in quick succession. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Apr 23, 2021 |
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Apr 23, 2021 15:27
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I thought we all agreed that Darkplaces is bad and ugly, good only for very specific applications?
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Apr 23, 2021 15:33
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Groovelord Neato posted:Played on I wanna say the Sci-Fi Channel in the US years ago Adult Swim IIRC
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i'm a one wad lover, in a two iwad lane bop bop
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haveblue posted:Adult Swim IIRC Looked it up and it was Sci-Fi Channel first but yeah it also played on Adult Swim.
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Apr 23, 2021 15:58
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laserghost posted:I thought we all agreed that Darkplaces is bad and ugly, good only for very specific applications? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Vbf7WG0fY&t=77s I am unreasonably bothered by the thread title for this reason. please change it to Garth Marenghi's Fitzquake Mark V
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Kins I'm sorry for derailing the thread but also. More FPS ideas: Melee - Shovel Pistol(s) - Dagless's Revolver and Sanchez's semi-auto Thornton's shotgun I forgot Dagless uses a flamethrower at the end of episode 1 I don't think there needs to be an excuse why military ordinance is hanging around a hospital. There's a rocket launcher there for some reason. Since Dagless is an expert in the arcane and black arts, the BFG/Plasma tier weapons could be magic powers. Me writing the design document for this game I'll never make: 
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The Vile Stuff posted:https://youtu.be/ijrx_8eUB44 I knew it after investigating a bit after watching the IT Crowd.
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The Vile Stuff posted:https://youtu.be/ijrx_8eUB44 British humor has been popular with American nerds since Python, and these days with the internet its a lot easier to follow random British comedy shows.
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Hey what's the best Build Engine game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXBBGjUjy2c
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Apr 23, 2021 17:14
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Zaphod42 posted:British humor has been popular with American nerds since Python, and these days with the internet its a lot easier to follow random British comedy shows.
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Apr 23, 2021 17:20
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Couldn't get into Powerslave because of the wonky arsenal. How do you make an FPS without a shotgun equivalent? The Player Dude even has one slung over his back on the cover art!
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Shoehead posted:Hey what's the best Build Engine game?  Shadow Hog posted:TBH this somehow literally never bothered me. The M60 machine gun just felt incredibly punchy to me, it basically filled the same niche in my head (even though in terms of gameplay, it really doesn't) and quickly became my workhorse. I feel like this might be more true of the console ports than the DOS one, though, depending on how reactive to being shot enemies were on the latter (which, despite literally replaying some opening levels of said DOS version in Raze a few days ago, I can't remember with much certainty - getting hit almost always stuns enemies on Saturn, though). Y'know I never played the Saturn version, I wonder if I should give that a shot. I hear it's kinda like a metroidvania as opposed to level based?
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Y'know I never played the Saturn version, I wonder if I should give that a shot. I hear it's kinda like a metroidvania as opposed to level based?  .And it's kind of both, I guess? There are distinct levels but you revisit some of them frequently with new abilities obtained from later levels, letting you unlock new areas in them. Really, though, I'm not sure how else such a game would've worked on the console, short of literally being like Metroid Prime and loading in every individual room tied to every individual door constantly.
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Zaphod42 posted:British humor has been popular with American nerds since Python, and these days with the internet its a lot easier to follow random British comedy shows. I get that, but it's pretty niche even here. I guess Matt Berry doing well in the US will have helped. Cool to see so much love for it on a predominantly American site though!
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The Vile Stuff posted:I get that, but it's pretty niche even here. I guess Matt Berry doing well in the US will have helped. Cool to see so much love for it on a predominantly American site though! I think UK comedy is more well known in the US than maybe you realize. David Mitchell was a meme on these forums and I've even seen "Benny Harvey RIP" graffiti around my dumb town in a state so conservative and unimportant that 80% of Americans would probably gesture vaguely toward the midwest if asked to point it out on a map. Not just nerds, either. Growing up, virtually everybody was quoting Monty Python in school and I'd wager that if you could ask the entire country "what is the best/most important sketch comedy group" Python would win out, as long as you don't count "Bill Burr", "Family Guy" or "what the gently caress is a sketch comedy?" as answers and execute anyone who mentions SNL on the spot.
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Adult Swim also introduced me to Look Around You and I will always be grateful
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I want to watch Darkplace but I never had any of the channels when it was showing. Is it officially streaming anywhere or do I need to track down Youtube vids?
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catlord posted:I want to watch Darkplace but I never had any of the channels when it was showing. Is it officially streaming anywhere or do I need to track down Youtube vids? It's on All 4 if you're in the UK (or have a VPN!)
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Apr 23, 2021 21:05
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catlord posted:I want to watch Darkplace but I never had any of the channels when it was showing. Is it officially streaming anywhere or do I need to track down Youtube vids? Every episode has been on youtube in full for like a decade
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Apr 23, 2021 21:06
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Carpator Diei posted:The environmental aesthetics definitely deserve to be in a better game, in my opinion. The enemy sprites... have character. But yeah, the sounds and especially the enemies' lines need some work. The United States posted:It also aired on Adult Swim (Cartoon Network) in the US, which immensely helped its popularity Along with quite a few other British comedy shows, which all had the common thread of being weird as hell(more than a few kids probably got traumatized by staying up too late and being exposed to Old Gregg)
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Convex posted:It's on All 4 if you're in the UK (or have a VPN!) Ah, thanks! treat posted:Every episode has been on youtube in full for like a decade And thank you! I try to find the official channels before turning to Youtube, but sometimes it's just the easiest place to find stuff. Best place to watch Lost Tapes, so far as I know.
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treat posted:I think UK comedy is more well known in the US than maybe you realize. David Mitchell was a meme on these forums and I've even seen "Benny Harvey RIP" graffiti around my dumb town in a state so conservative and unimportant that 80% of Americans would probably gesture vaguely toward the midwest if asked to point it out on a map. Guess I didn't phrase it well, I mean Darkplace is / was pretty niche in the UK. I know British comedy has a generally good rep abroad. If anything, from what you're all saying, it sounds like Darkplace got more support in the US than at home: it was unceremoniously dumped late in the scheduling on channel 4 and took years of campaigning from the fanbase for it to get a proper DVD release. I vividly remember coming home from the pub as a student, turning on the TV at just the right moment to discover Darkplace. As great as on demand streaming is, you don't really get those kind of serendipitous what the gently caress moments from it.
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Well good thing i hadn't bought that alien isolation nostromo dlc cuz its being packaged free with the epic giveaway today
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site posted:Well good thing i hadn't bought that alien isolation nostromo dlc cuz its being packaged free with the epic giveaway today I have yet to actually play any game I've gotten from Epic or otherwise use Epic for anything other than logging in to collect the free game. Not sure if that counts as a win in Epic's book.
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I played ghostbusters and tried enter the gungeon for about 5 minutes but definitely have not paid for anything
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treat posted:I think UK comedy is more well known in the US than maybe you realize. David Mitchell was a meme on these forums and I've even seen "Benny Harvey RIP" graffiti around my dumb town in a state so conservative and unimportant that 80% of Americans would probably gesture vaguely toward the midwest if asked to point it out on a map. "Are we the baddies?" is a bit of a meme at this point, I imagine lots of people get linked to random Mitch & Webb skits from youtube who never even sought out the show by name. So yeah, pretty widespread at this point.
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TOOT BOOT posted:I have yet to actually play any game I've gotten from Epic or otherwise use Epic for anything other than logging in to collect the free game. Not sure if that counts as a win in Epic's book. Same but mostly because my laptop is a decade old pile and most of the games they've been giving away would make it implode if I tried running them
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I haven’t spent a penny on Epic and have only spent like $50 total in Steam since I get most things on there for free too. PC gaming owns.
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My mate who has infinitely more patience than me somehow played through that Ghostbusters game on Epic, and it was a bad mix of movie fanservice and dated Gears of War worship. It also has terrible optimisation and can easily dip framerate into 20-somethings no matter the settings and the specs. And the cutscenes are interpolated recordings from the original game, bloating the game size into PS4 levels. It basically killed my good memories of the first movie.
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laserghost posted:My mate who has infinitely more patience than me somehow played through that Ghostbusters game on Epic, and it was a bad mix of movie fanservice and dated Gears of War worship. It also has terrible optimisation and can easily dip framerate into 20-somethings no matter the settings and the specs. And the cutscenes are interpolated recordings from the original game, bloating the game size into PS4 levels. It basically killed my good memories of the first movie. It's been years since I played but what do you mean by this?
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:It's been years since I played but what do you mean by this? The Epic version is a remaster with updated graphics. iirc you can't even buy the original any more as it was delisted.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:It's been years since I played but what do you mean by this? It'd be funny if they meant "interlaced."
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:It's been years since I played but what do you mean by this? Cutscenes are raw video files, MP4 format I think. And some of them are in 3840x2160 format so they desync and lag when your PC tries to scale them down to your display resolution.
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azurite posted:It'd be funny if they meant "interlaced." No, they are poorly upscaled versions of the videos from the original release of the game so every file is like 5 times the size but looks about the same so the game needs a (comparatively) huge amount of hd space I like the game itself tho, and the fan service
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