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Dual Wielding Conceptually: Bad rear end, I have two guns Dual Wielding Reality: Thank you for giving me half a gun, wheres the other part?
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I liked the needler and the plasma rifle, but while the plasma pistol was useable I found the charge mechanic a bit fiddly in combat sometimes. Surprisingly, but delightfully so, Halo has a great shotgun. I would even say one of the top-tier game shotguns even.
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Jan 26, 2022 05:01
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I had to go to GOG, buy IW and install that visual mod(no modded visuals, just higher res). I can deal with ugly but the performance was downright unacceptable. I play a lot of games on my OG Xbox and I am struggling to remember one running as poorly as IW. Butcher Bay can get really hideous with the dynamic resolution but its still playable.
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Jan 26, 2022 05:38
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Barudak posted:Dual Wielding Conceptually: Bad rear end, I have two guns Also dual wielding reality: where are my melee and grenades?
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Jan 26, 2022 06:17
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Disposable Scud posted:I had to go to GOG, buy IW and install that visual mod(no modded visuals, just higher res). I can deal with ugly but the performance was downright unacceptable. I play a lot of games on my OG Xbox and I am struggling to remember one running as poorly as IW. Butcher Bay can get really hideous with the dynamic resolution but its still playable. as bad as the graphics might be, i'd probably fix the "restart the entire program on load screen" first if I had to pick one QoL thing for IW
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Jan 26, 2022 08:22
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Didn't Morrowind do that too? Thats wild.
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Jan 26, 2022 08:51
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Disposable Scud posted:Didn't Morrowind do that too? Thats wild.
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Jan 26, 2022 08:59
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Disposable Scud posted:Didn't Morrowind do that too? Thats wild. I think that one also had a problem where everything in the entire world would move 1mm left every hour or something, so after a few hundred hours some of the NPCs started falling off the map or clipping into walls
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Jan 26, 2022 09:21
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Call me a heretic but I only like dual wielding where I can fire both guns by just pressing one fire button instead of faffing around with both mouse buttons/triggers.
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Jan 26, 2022 12:10
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Call me a heretic but I only like dual wielding where I can fire both guns by just pressing one fire button instead of faffing around with both mouse buttons/triggers. No, I completely agree. With one exception: The Darkness. The Darkness had the absolute best dual wielding pistols I have ever seen in a game, including these insane little details like your left or right hand wrapping around cover if you were near a wall. It felt insanely good and visceral, and I was incredibly disappointed when Machine Games offered dual wielding in The New Colossus and it was nowhere near as good or fun. Give me a version of TNC where B.J. remains dead, Anya is the protagonist and her weapons of choice are dual wielded pistols. Or a sequel to The Darkness that doesn't take a huge dump on its predecessor's story. Both would be awesome, thanks.
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Jan 26, 2022 12:34
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The Kins posted:Only on Xbox, IIRC. Even then, Morrowind only did it when it was low on memory IW does it every time
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Jan 26, 2022 13:41
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I have IW on OG Xbox as well and it’s a nightmare to play. Probably the worst performing game I attempted on that machine.
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Jan 26, 2022 13:44
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I have IW on OG Xbox as well and it’s a nightmare to play. Probably the worst performing game I attempted on that machine. I remember Doom 3 coming out a little while later and completely embarassing it on a technical level. Honestly that port was super impressive considering the target hardware, and the cuts to the levels actually made it a more pleasant experience imo
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Jan 26, 2022 13:45
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Yep that’s a great port. Looks amazing on a crt
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https://twitter.com/Crytek/status/1486309465485946883?s=20 Crysis 4 announced
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Jan 26, 2022 13:53
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It's me, the weirdo who really likes the Crisis 2/3 story and hopes 4 is good too
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kirbysuperstar posted:It's me, the weirdo who really likes the Crisis 2/3 story and hopes 4 is good too You weirdo!
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Jan 26, 2022 14:03
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I'm the weirdo that appreciates Crytek for being technical marvels but finds Crysis just...bland
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Jan 26, 2022 14:18
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The Crysis suit/body horror thing is the direction I wanted Halo to go
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Tiny Timbs posted:The Crysis suit/body horror thing is the direction I wanted Halo to go I haven't really played Crysis at all beyond a few minutes here and there; what's the body horror aspect of it? Do you meld with the suit?
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Jan 26, 2022 14:40
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It’s a body horror in that your body will experience the horror of how boring the games are
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Jan 26, 2022 14:42
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In Crysis 2 the main guy dies and is basically the suits meat puppet
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I haven't really played Crysis at all beyond a few minutes here and there; what's the body horror aspect of it? Do you meld with the suit? Yeah, the longer you wear it and the more you depend on it to fix and enhance you the blurrier the boundaries between the suit and the wearer become, to the point where it irrevocably takes over your meat functions and stores your consciousness. This is from Crysis 2. I never played the third one so I don't know how things develop from there. Halo still basically goes there but more figuratively than literally. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Jan 26, 2022 |
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Quantum of Phallus posted:https://twitter.com/Crytek/status/1486309465485946883?s=20 I'm trying to figure out if "join the journey, be the hero" is any sort of clue about the gameplay -- almost makes it sound like more of an MMO direction, but maybe it doesn't mean anything really. verbal enema posted:Imo boss fights do not belong in FPS's Sometimes an FPS feels a little empty without some kind of new enemy functioning as the end boss, but it's definitely way more important to have a well-designed area for the final encounter to take place. I can think of so many memorable big showdowns from Doom maps, some of which involve the Cyberdemon or Mastermind, but never just "here's a room where you have to shoot this boss a lot" Convex posted:I mean its worth ten times that amount for the soundtracks alone. gently caress me tracker music ruled Fun fact I recently discovered, VLC media player (for PC and Android) natively plays tracker music including the .UMX files pulled directly from the Unreal games. Just plug and play.
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suuma posted:I'm the weirdo that appreciates Crytek for being technical marvels but finds Crysis just...bland Crysis was good!... for like.. 40% of the first game.
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Turin Turambar posted:Crysis was good!... for like.. 40% of the first game. Yea, the jungle stuff was fun when it was just humans. But then I say the same thing about Far Cry 1
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Despite THQ now owning them, every time I think of Crysis/Crytek, I'm reminded of the digital war crime that the Timesplitters games haven't gotten any true love and support since TSFP, aside from backwards compatibility via the Xbox recently.
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Jan 26, 2022 15:15
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for decades i waited on Timesplitters remasters and then xbox just said "gently caress it, they work on One/Series now" thank you Bill Gates
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Quantum of Phallus posted:for decades i waited on Timesplitters remasters and then xbox just said "gently caress it, they work on One/Series now" Yeah, i'mma need more than that.
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I hope remasters are coming still since it would be cool to play them on PC and Switch.
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they emulate pretty well on Dolphin, that’s how I played them for years until Xbox Series got them
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Mousepractice posted:
This is awesome. Also the art rules. Turns out Cruelty Squad is ugly by choice.
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Is Crysis on Switch worth playing? I know on a technical level it’s supposed to be pretty solid, but I think they cut a level or something and obviously you can’t use any mods.
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david_a posted:Is Crysis on Switch worth playing? I know on a technical level it’s supposed to be pretty solid, but I think they cut a level or something and obviously you can’t use any mods. It’s not bad tbh but if you have any other modern console or PC then they’ll be much better. If you want to play it on the go, it’s a decent port. Drains battery faster than any other switch game I’ve played.
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One thing I remember about Far Cry way back when is I never even realized trigens were a part of it until I played it in like 2009 or so because back when the game first released they were like never featured in any of the marketing or previews I saw. It's like Crytek realized "oh these stupid bullshit enemies suck rear end and nobody likes fighting them," and then they do the same goddamn thing with Crysis years later.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I haven't really played Crysis at all beyond a few minutes here and there; what's the body horror aspect of it? Do you meld with the suit?
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yeah both games fall off a cliff once you start fighting aliens
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Yeah, from what I recall of Crysis 2 you start out as a soldier wearing a supersuit and gradually the soldier gets more and more damaged and the suit gets more and more capable until by the end you're playing as a sentient supersuit with a corpse inside it
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So apparently that Serious Sam expandalone is out. Anyone give it a spin?
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haveblue posted:Yeah, from what I recall of Crysis 2 you start out as a soldier wearing a supersuit and gradually the soldier gets more and more damaged and the suit gets more and more capable until by the end you're playing as a sentient supersuit with a corpse inside it I think the twist is you've always been dead inside the suit.
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