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treat posted:I'd always heard Halo 3 was the best one but I played like 5 minutes of the intro and immediately dropped it because I was pretty burnt out having just played Halo 2. What's so great about it? Does it have rad set pieces like the walking fortress and highway vehicle fight from 2? Yeah. 3 has probably the best set pieces of any of the games. The scarab fights in 3 beat the scarab fight in 2 by miles. It’s a bit slow to start though. Imo the third level (Tsavo Highway) is the first really good one.
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Supremely dope looking Doom TC that's a remake of Iron Assault https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjODoBYMGdU
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The United States posted:Ah a classic of the short lived era where stompy mech games were made with 2.5D engines I remember this game. It was very not good as I recall but it did get me interested in mech combat so MechWarrior 2 became one of my next purchases and I loved it!
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System Shock remake twitter just posted this: https://twitter.com/SystemShockGame/status/1470736764532928515 So maybe some news soon? Release date?? Man who give a poo poo anymore
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Was just checking for Blood mods and came across this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VSYZmjqwFc Going to try it out now! Link to the download here: https://www.moddb.com/mods/blood-upscale-pack/downloads/blood-upscale-pack-v21
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:System Shock remake twitter just posted this: I can’t keep track of the numerous system shock reboots going on. Is this the nightdive one?
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I can’t keep track of the numerous system shock reboots going on. Is this the nightdive one? Erm, there's only the one. Yeah the Nightdive one. Then there's System Shock 3 by Otherside Entertainment but that seems to be in some kind of bizarro limbo. Nightdive is also remastering System Shock 2, which I'm sure far more people are excited about lol. Edit: and another thing: https://twitter.com/primemattergg/status/1470740145980780553 Looks like they have a publisher now. Figured they would publish it themselves like they've done everything else. I'm sure they blew through that 1.5 mil from the kickstarter already so they probably needed the cash to cross the finish line. https://www.pcgamer.com/system-shock-remake-is-coming-next-year-so-heres-15-all-new-screens/ Oh boy oh boy               
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shock shock shock watch the system get hurt
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The Quake Christmas Jam for this year is out! It looks like one of the largest jams (by participation) in recent memory... 26 submissions. We have Ionous and Sock to thank for herding the necessary cats for this one. If you're not familiar with the xmas jam schtick: uses Arcane Dimensions, and the playable space in each map has to fit inside a 1024 unit cube (the player is 48 units tall), so these are usually bite-sized maps with some quirky idea or else a map that REALLY uses and re-uses the available space. Oh, and often some Christmas thematic tie-in too. :-) For this release the necessary Arcane Dimensions code and assets are included, so you don't need a separate installation of AD to play it. JLaw fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Dec 14, 2021 |
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JLaw posted:The Quake Christmas Jam for this year is out! It looks like one of the largest jams (by participation) in recent memory... 26 submissions. We have Ionous and Sock to thank for herding the necessary cats for this one. Nice, looking forward to playing this over the Christmas break!
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Doom wad where she follows you around Automata 10 Pack fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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We're never getting half life 3  edit: that's a two year-old fan art fake and lame Cast quantum phallus into the mines. Boooo! Zedsdeadbaby fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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I wish I understood this, so Im just gonna imagine it was for a canceled Half-Life looter shooter
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:Cast quantum phallus into the mines. Boooo! We can't, the username is too good.
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Sunder has updated, even if its thread's OP hasn't. MAP20 "Whispers of the Gnarled King" is ready, and its 4000+ monsters are waiting. For you. Call now.
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The Kins posted:Sunder has updated, even if its thread's OP hasn't. MAP20 "Whispers of the Gnarled King" is ready, and its 4000+ monsters are waiting. For you. Call now. That's map 16. The new map is map 20, Beneath the Waves of Styx. It looks like this  
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Woolie Wool posted:That makes me curious if a GZDoom MechWarrior could work.
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Interesting quote from Night Dive regarding No-One Lives Forever in this PC Gamer article:quote:NOLF is somewhat unique in that multiple parties need to agree in order for this game to see the light of day. Recent mergers have actually made this situation somewhat easier. And Nightdive just won’t give up!
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I'll wait patiently foe their release because I can't get the original with patches to work fine. I said the same about Blood and we ended getting it!
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Fil5000 posted:Man, I really need to play NOLF2 again, it was a ton of fun. I must have the disc around here somewhere. It's a crying shame we'll never get a third one. Runs and looks great on modern machines, I was playing it during ths ummer
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NOLF 1 & 2 were such ridiculously fun games. I really should attempt to dig out my old discs and play them again.
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Aren't those available for download as genuine abandonware these days? As in, no-one is (or was) able to figure out who'd have a properly claim on it to demand it being taken down from the download sites, so they just slapped a bunch of modernisation and anti-DRM patches onto it and let it out into the world?
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Sorry to be the turd in the punch bowl but the first game hasn't aged well at all. The stealth bits really put a damper on the whole thing. NOLF2 is still excellent though, beginning to end. Ninja trailer park is possibly my favorite thing, ever.
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Yeah the first game's got its shortcomings regarding the stealth stuff, it's admittedly pretty slapdash in the same way that any attempts at "stealth" moments were the original Red Faction (e.g. some fucker sees you regardless of LoS because reasons, of course). To be honest I find that despite being far from perfect, the wonky stealth stuff is still somewhat part of the overall charm in NOLF's case... sort of. In RF however it was nothing short of infuriating. All that aside, it'll be worth playing through the first NOLF at least once more, just to watch a fat man explode after eating dinner. (I agree that NOLF2 is a much better game and just blows the original out of the loving water all the way though.) In other news, no idea if this has already been mentioned before in the thread but fans of PSX Doom can now happily gently caress around with M+KB control, and (if they so desire) play the game at 60fps with a renderer that doesn't create massive holes in the floors/ceilings of large sectors: https://github.com/BodbDearg/PsyDoom Obviously you need your own copy of the PSX game to copy the necessary files into the directory and all that jazz, but hey, feels drat good to play the genuine article rather than a GZDoom mod and *not* have the framerate tank to 12fps on Perfect Hatred. It even supports the old co-op/deathmatch modes 
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:In other news, no idea if this has already been mentioned before in the thread but fans of PSX Doom can now happily gently caress around with M+KB control, and (if they so desire) play the game at 60fps with a renderer that doesn't create massive holes in the floors/ceilings of large sectors: Unreal, thanks for the link. Love the look of that game.
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I liked NOLF2 but the ending just kind of ends. Good ride up until that point. Contract Jack is bad though.
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