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Quantum of Phallus posted:https://twitter.com/pripyatbeast/status/1552455358131539969?s=21&t=3itlmo7Xxov_FPXZ_QuABg Easy peasy: Duke3D Half-Life Unreal Tournament Blood Doom II
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Quantum of Phallus posted:https://twitter.com/pripyatbeast/status/1552455358131539969?s=21&t=3itlmo7Xxov_FPXZ_QuABg
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I'm playing Ashes 2063 and now that I'm getting into it it's real good. And the soundtrack fucks severely. Would recommend. I'm also using it to test out the Doom mod I've been working on and I keep finding new bugs as a result, but I think I'm getting close to a release. Quantum of Phallus posted:https://twitter.com/pripyatbeast/status/1552455358131539969?s=21&t=3itlmo7Xxov_FPXZ_QuABg What kind of sad person puts Goldeneye on there and not Perfect Dark. And no Descent either? E: for me, Half-Life, UT99, and Blood¹ are easy picks, but Duke3d vs. Marathon Infinity and Dark Forces vs. Doom 2 vs. Marathon 2 are all hard picks, especially if we're talking just the base game and not the full ecosystem of mods that have sprung up for them. ¹ Despite my nostalgic affection for Q2, Blood has dynamite, the flare gun, and a large supply of cultists and that's hard to compete with. ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Jul 28, 2022 |
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Jul 28, 2022 03:04
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I think it’s safe to assume that ND is doing Quake 2 eventually.
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Jul 28, 2022 03:11
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What would a Quake 2 remaster look like? An RTX version with an art and environment pass?
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Quake 2 would be a weird choice IMO. As far as I've seen Nightdive's other releases were about getting the game out of licensing hell and/or updating the tech to be playable on modern systems, and neither of those are really necessary for Quake 2. It could use a new default configuration that gives it WASD mouselook controls and sets the resolution to something modern and the renderer to OpenGL. I guess while you're at it, replace the CD audio system with playing the music off of the hard drive? A new single player expansion campaign? Unless it was a straight up remake designed to look good with the RTX version that came out a while ago, I can't think of much to add to it.
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Jul 28, 2022 05:23
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New console ports would make it worth it.
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Jul 28, 2022 05:29
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They previously showed interest in doing Dark Forces, and while normally I would say good luck with Disney if it's doing something with one of their IP's, but in this case when it's not really adding new content or anything, it's sort of free money, and Disney does like money. So I wouldn't 100% rule it out. Edit: The original tweet about it https://twitter.com/pripyatbeast/status/1085351093863759872
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Hmm, lemme try and apply Facts and Logic to this dumb meme list:
Using my incredible powers of precognition (I know nothing and am wildly guessing), I'm gonna guess that Night Dive have taken over the ROTT project and are whipping out something else for Id. Maybe Wolfenstein? There hasn't been a console version of that since the PS360, and there's a lot of improvements that could be made, to say the least.
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The Kins posted:and are whipping out something else for Id. Maybe Wolfenstein? There hasn't been a console version of that since the PS360, and there's a lot of improvements that could be made, to say the least. So with a game as old as Wolfenstein question always comes up, like what does a remaster actually include? Some control stuff yeah, and making it easier to run on modern systems, but after that? It's not like a new physic engine and mouse look is going to add anything. For anyone here hanging out for a Wolfenstein remaster, sort of curious whats on the wish list of stuff you'd like to see done?
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I would pay for a Quake 2 remaster if it adds muzzle flashes.
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dr_rat posted:So with a game as old as Wolfenstein question always comes up, like what does a remaster actually include? Some control stuff yeah, and making it easier to run on modern systems, but after that? It's not like a new physic engine and mouse look is going to add anything. An option to use the Mac graphics I guess?
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dr_rat posted:So with a game as old as Wolfenstein question always comes up, like what does a remaster actually include? Some control stuff yeah, and making it easier to run on modern systems, but after that? It's not like a new physic engine and mouse look is going to add anything. Packing in Spear of Destiny and maybe the Mac/Console levels and weapons Maybe some fun optional visual remixes, like light levels and floor/ceiling textures A new episode? (But the new maps they made for the easter egg in Youngblood sucked, so maybe not.) Make the game legally available in Germany for the first time since the laws have changed in recent years Include whatever behind the scenes material can be excavated from the archives (EGA graphics sheets etc.) It couldn't be an elaborate high-budget project by its very nature, but there's a few things that could be done to reintroduce an entire genre's Patient Zero.
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I'd love to see a remaster of the original Unreal. Game was really beautiful back then and honestly deserves better than being remembered as some kind of a singleplayer spinoff to UT.
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BattleMaster posted:Quake 2 would be a weird choice IMO. As far as I've seen Nightdive's other releases were about getting the game out of licensing hell and/or updating the tech to be playable on modern systems, and neither of those are really necessary for Quake 2. Quake II seems pretty ripe for a remaster like the one they released last year of Quake. Not a weird choice at all. Get native widescreen in there, matchmaking, some subtle updates to weapon and enemy models like they did for Quake. The last console version of the thing was on the bonus disc with Quake 4 for the 360, almost 17 drat years ago, it's a pretty conspicuous hole in the id lineup on consoles. QuakeCon next month!
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anilEhilated posted:I'd love to see a remaster of the original Unreal. Game was really beautiful back then and honestly deserves better than being remembered as some kind of a singleplayer spinoff to UT. That would involve Epic actually acknowledging Unreal actually existed tho.
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Turin Turambar posted:Heretic/Hexen pack? I'd love this. Also Heretic 2 desperately needs a remaster
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ilmucche posted:is void bastards any good?
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It's got a limited shelf life, most people don't do a second playthrough after the The trailer might not say so fully, but it's about mastering things in a fps/roguelike sort of way where you do increasingly hard smash & grabs while trying to be clever about things. edit: yea I must have left the game open or something, it was not 30 hours despite what steam tells me. Serephina fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Jul 28, 2022 |
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Release date trailer for neato looking Half-Life 2 mod Entropy Zero 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy0n-JGjHhw Looks pretty extensive. Devs said there's a full fledge 7 - 8 hour campaign. I'm not so hot on playing as the Combine but I'm sure it goes in some interesting directions given some snippets in the trailer. Also, Adaca is finally out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1765780/ADACA/ It's worth the money. I love this game. Beat the campaign again to see if there were any significant changes from the previous beta build, and I saw I got a special thanks in the credits for playtesting. 
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Serephina posted:It's got a limited shelf life, most people don't do a second playthrough after the 30+ hours of the first run, and I'd recommend it on a sale probably. 30 hours??? i beat it in like 8-10 hours and was getting pretty bored by the end, it's very fun and tense for the first 4ish hours and unlocking new weapons and gadgets is fun, but once you have a big HP pool and some resurrections ('heart starters') you become functionally unkillable and can start sprinting through levels especially because you rapidly stop caring about ships/nodes (it's got a slay the spire style map) that don't have plot items on them.
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Foul Fowl posted:30 hours??? i beat it in like 8-10 hours and was getting pretty bored by the end, it's very fun and tense for the first 4ish hours and unlocking new weapons and gadgets is fun, but once you have a big HP pool and some resurrections ('heart starters') you become functionally unkillable and can start sprinting through levels especially because you rapidly stop caring about ships/nodes (it's got a slay the spire style map) that don't have plot items on them. yea, edited to fix that. I must have done either a few more runs that I've forgotten about or left the game open or something
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I like Void Bastards but definitely agree with the "10-30 hours" assessments. It's decent but doesn't have the legs of a lot of other Roguelites. I might have liked it more if there were additional reasons to gently caress with the ship's systems. Like by default, you only need to turn the power on--on occasion, a ship is powered off when you arrive, and you need to power it on. That's it. But it'd be cool if there were reasons to turn the power off, tamper with systems, etc. I want it to feel like I'm actually assessing the layout of a ship and how to board it, where to go first, etc. rather than the rote process of turn power on -> beeline to valuable item -> leave.
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heretic, hexen, hexen 2, heretic 2 all deserve a remaster and more attention. They're good games.
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Going through Doom in its entirety for the first time... Slough of Despair really lives up to its name.
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UnknownMercenary posted:Going through Doom in its entirety for the first time... Slough of Despair really lives up to its name. There's a town called Slough in the UK and it always makes me think of that. Although the Doom version is too tidy
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I like Void Bastards but definitely agree with the "10-30 hours" assessments. It's decent but doesn't have the legs of a lot of other Roguelites. I feel like Void Bastards missed an opportunity to take inspiration from Cryptark here. For those who haven't played it, it has a similar premise -- you're raiding a series of randomly generated derelict starships full of things that want to kill you. In Cryptark, though, there are loads of possible ship systems and each ship gets a random subset of them, so you have systems for things like: - powering the turrets - powering the alarm systems - repairing other systems you've disabled - obscuring your minimap - spawning more enemies and many more, and a major aspect of each level is looking at what systems the ship has where and planning which ones you can ignore, which ones need to be destroyed and in what order, and what routes you'll take between them. Now, in Cryptark all the systems are bad for you and the only way you can interact with them is to blow them up, but VB could go further -- have ship systems that are helpful to you but start disabled, hostile to you but start enabled, have effects that are not strictly good or bad but do change how you have to approach matters depending on whether they're on or off, etc. Even systems that don't do anything on their own but change the way other systems work. God, an FPS version of Cryptark would be so sick. I think Void Bastards is the closest we've gotten to it.
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Another problem void bastards has is that the maps are uniformly flatter than Doom's. It's not quite as flat as Wolf3D, but there is no real attempt at verticality. Just a few railings and slopes here and there. The enemy AI is very rudimentary as well. It all works together to create gameplay with very little variety or emergent properties.
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Mandalore talks Marathon 2 (Bungie's best game  )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQaNQ_uePFk
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Mandalore talks Marathon 2 (Bungie's best game i honestly did not know that frog blast the vent core was from marathon until i watched this
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ToxicFrog posted:I feel like Void Bastards missed an opportunity to take inspiration from Cryptark here. For those who haven't played it, it has a similar premise -- you're raiding a series of randomly generated derelict starships full of things that want to kill you. In Cryptark, though, there are loads of possible ship systems and each ship gets a random subset of them, so you have systems for things like: Shutup, I just replayed Cryptark the other day. It's such a good game, it's killing me that there aren't more like it.
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