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verbal enema posted:L4D2 owns The wombo combo of Evolve and Back 4 Blood proved to me that most of the magic of L4D 1 & 2 came from Valve lol.
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This doesn't SEEM to be related but even if you don't know or care about (or even like?) Hypnospace Outlaw you may wanna tune in here in just under 2 hours.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufMl2DlWX7w
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If this is what yo--I mean your friend was teasing last year, I'm looking forward to seeing the very confused reactions from people who weren't paying attention. 
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Arc Hammer posted:Dunno if 2009 is enough to warrant "early FPS" but I went back to play Left 4 Dead 2 and it's still a load of fun. The plane crash during Dead Air still looks amazing. Linguica fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Apr 5, 2022 |
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Gaspy Conana posted:This doesn't SEEM to be related but even if you don't know or care about (or even like?) Hypnospace Outlaw you may wanna tune in here in just under 2 hours. Fuckin YES Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer!! Zane LIVES!
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thedangergroove posted:Fuckin YES Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer!! Dreamsettler has a page too.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Man, USS Darkstar. I played that on my PC when I still had dial-up, and asked a friend from school to download it on their cable internet and burn it to a CD. I probably paid them with a ham sandwich for the favor--but the point is, this was WAY before I had a real understanding of "cut content". Like, I remember e-mailing somebody from Acclaim Entertainment because the manual for Turok 2 (PC) had enemies in it that weren't even in the game; their response was something to the effect of "yeah they're not in the game" and I thought it was so bizarre that a game might have things and then, you know, not have those things. Same. Objectively, I'm pretty sure USS Darkstar doesn't hold up compared to the last 20 years of HL mods but it's still my favorite by a mile, I'm a little scared to ever go back and play it again. So many of my Darkstar memories involve being scared of some horrifying creature or sound I'd never seen/heard before but now my pendulous balls are 20x larger (metaphorically speaking, baby photos imply my balls are exactly the same size now as the day i was born) and it wouldn't have the same effect these days.
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Darkstar has the first meme I remember Coconut Monkey's Gravy Trader
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Hell yeah USS Darkstar. That was my System Shock 2. And I played through System Shock 2!
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Also Half Life mods in general. What a wonderful thing to have when you’re 12 and penniless.
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I really wish my dad was still alive so I could show him the modding scene nowadays 
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l4d2 owns. i have a soft spot for the l4d1 levels since that's the game i spent much more time with friends playing, but 2 in general has quite a bit of content between 1, 2, and the three dlcs
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l4d1 owns more cuz the gun models were better they were low slung so it felt like it was where the player characters held them lfd2 has them pressed up against my cheek like cod and it drives me INSANE
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also dual pistols in lfd1 with scroll wheel up and down bound to fire was THE poo poo
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USS Darkstar was the HL mod that was like a zoo spaceship, right? If so, I played it.
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i still love the overall aesthetic and feel of source games like half life 2 after all these years, there's something chunky and nice about the engine that does it for me
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USS Darkstar still slaps, absolutely give it another whirl.
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wish they’d make a normal single player game again. i hear alyx is very good. but, yknow. lol
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Weedle posted:wish they’d make a normal single player game again. i hear alyx is very good. but, yknow. lol it’s mind blowing
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Weedle posted:wish they’d make a normal single player game again. i hear alyx is very good. but, yknow. lol If only I had any room to comfortably use a VR set.
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Johnny Joestar posted:i still love the overall aesthetic and feel of source games like half life 2 after all these years, there's something chunky and nice about the engine that does it for me Agree. Source games still look very nice to me. I'm hoping they put more of them on Switch after Portal.
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Titanfall 2 using source looked and ran so well on consoles that it boggles my mind that no other devs used it
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Deakul posted:If only I had any room to comfortably use a VR set. You can play Alyx sitting down.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Titanfall 2 using source looked and ran so well on consoles that it boggles my mind that no other devs used it Titanfalls branch of Source was extensively modified, at the very least the rendering and streaming was totally rewritten OG Source would catch fire if you tried to do levels as big as Titanfall/Apex does
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as a counterpart to barudak having a terrible time, which isn't shocking because they seem to play every game in the most rear end backwards way, i'm having a stellar time with nightmare reaper. the level design gets a little repetitive but it's otherwise a ton of good explosive fun. you know if you don't want to rely on a single weapon, you can just Not, and keep switching it out. or you can keep that one as a reliable workhorse but keep swapping new weapons when you get them in each level because the game showers guns at you. no one is forcing you to use the same gun all the time, you're supposed to experiment lol
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Source for me represented the turning point between "old-gen" and "next-gen." To this day, if a game looks about on par with a Source game I'll still think it looks pretty good.
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SeANMcBAY posted:Agree. Source games still look very nice to me. I'm hoping they put more of them on Switch after Portal. Quantum of Phallus posted:Titanfall 2 using source looked and ran so well on consoles that it boggles my mind that no other devs used it
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There's also that S&box thing Garry Newman was cooking up as a follow-up-of-sorts to GMod, but I have no idea how anyone has their hands on that at the moment. Probably shady backroom dealing (or rather, "please join our Discord to even get access to the signup forms", which may as well be the same thing to a guy like me who only joins a server or forum when he knows he's gonna get a lot more out of things than a single transaction). Still, can't come soon enough, GMod is... pretty ugly-looking for me for whatever reason these days. I suspect it's the bloom or other similar postprocess FX, seems you can't have any mildly-bright area without the lighting blowing out on your models, and turning bloom off only seems to help so much.
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i can feel serotonin in my brain every time i hear the clonk of a wooden box in a source game
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chaosapiant posted:You can play Alyx sitting down. That sounds really awkward but then again I've never used a VR set.
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Mordja posted:Source for me represented the turning point between "old-gen" and "next-gen." To this day, if a game looks about on par with a Source game I'll still think it looks pretty good. Honestly, same. Mostly playing older and non-AAA games probably doesn't help though.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:This was one of Valve’s biggest strengths with their source games imo. Leaning so heavily on a specific art style instead of going for photo realism was a great decision. Heck Team Fortress 2 still looks great in 2022 if you run it at max graphics and even at the potato settings I had to use on my previous laptop while ugly it was a charming kind of ugly Linguica posted:I still play L4D2 on Expert Realism mode all the time. IMO it is for co-op what Doom 2 is for the single player FPS. Over the weekend I bought The Anacrusis to check it out and while it's obviously unfinished, it's still kind of striking that the goal of a 2022 game is basically "re-implement a less charming Left 4 Dead 1 with no PVP" That game was such a buggy mess when I tried it a couple months ago, also for whatever reason every attempt at a L4D2 clone fucks up the difficulty in really obnoxious ways The Kins posted:The Portal Switch port is being done by NVidia, who previously threw Half-Life 2 onto Android, so I assume those'll come at some point. Even Valve barely seems to want to do anything with Source these days, I wonder if their lack of games in recent years might be less them being lazy(though that certainly has a role) and more that their developers just hate working with Source and all its spaghetti code and don't want to use it but due to how central it is to their image as a developer they can't just abandon it for a new engine without causing some really bad optics so they instead just opt to not make games since they get unlimited income from Steam anyways and their corporate structure makes it easy for them to get away with being lazy fucks too
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I think it's because it's cheaper and easier to harvest $Texas from steam and pay fewer developers who can focus on that rather than developing big games that may not sell. When they do develop a game it's to push something else, Alyx was to push VR, that card game was probably engineered to foster community market sales that they keep 15% of. Maybe there'll be a surprise steamdeck-focused mobile game.
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koren posted:Does anybody have any recommendations for single player half life mods? I've only ever tried USS Darkstar, the half quake series and I recently just played through poke646. Is there a decent community hub for half life modding? HL:Caged and Cry of Fear are really good. The second one is a TC but if you like horror it's a good time. I just started Poke646 the other day, need to finish it. I kept passing it up because the name sounds like a Hawaiian pop punk band from 2001 but it's fun. L4D2 chat: Glubtastic maps are way fun but also torture and I can't stop playing them. Played Buried Deep recently and its really well done and has some good Doom references. Anyone have any recommendations for campaigns that are not on the workshop?
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Hey hey, let's not forget them buying a popular dota2 mod, Autochess, and releasing their own unspectacular version of it for an easy green harvest of broke-brained dota players! (nevermind the perennial income from dota itself) Valve has income, man. edit: Asking for a new Half Life game is like asking for a new Chrono Trigger game. That IP is dead and buried man, just look for others to make the games you like. edit2: And don't say Alyx, as mentioned above it's a pretty transparent push to get people into VR and nothing more Serephina fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/kinsie/status/1511008318696804358?t=c_EgN96_90vo0mE1kRQNug&s=19 *constantly refreshes reelism's site* 
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Does Nightmare Reaper get better? I'm closing in on 2 hours after just beating the first boss and while it's fun, the levels feel very samey, the enemy types haven't really evolved, and most importantly I still struggle to make out what's going on, no matter how I mess with the settings - feels like I'm straining my eyes. The guns are fun and feel good but even that's not so interesting - yeah there's a lot of different perks but not so many weapon types. Feel like refunding if the formula doesn't get any better for me or if they shake it up down the line, very much a fun but shallow pool kinda game.
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drrockso20 posted:Heck Team Fortress 2 still looks great in 2022 if you run it at max graphics and even at the potato settings I had to use on my previous laptop while ugly it was a charming kind of ugly it's probably because literally no one at the company other than maybe 5 or 10 people do any work at all and the fact that source 2 exists in any form is basically a miracle remember how they absorbed two or three dev studios a few years back, including the one doing that egyptian adventure game that got a lot of attention, and then cancelled every game 2 months later site fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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Artelier posted:Does Nightmare Reaper get better? I'm closing in on 2 hours after just beating the first boss and while it's fun, the levels feel very samey, the enemy types haven't really evolved, and most importantly I still struggle to make out what's going on, no matter how I mess with the settings - feels like I'm straining my eyes. The guns are fun and feel good but even that's not so interesting - yeah there's a lot of different perks but not so many weapon types. Thats the game, basically. It'll introduce more enemies and you'll stop seeing old ones, but fundamentally either a 5-10 minute level will appeal or it won't.
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