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I remember the Heavy Gear games had wireframe mode assigned to a keyboard hotkey. All my friends and I played the whole game that way, we thought it was extra cool robot vision mode.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I know I've brought it up before but I would LOVE a remaster of the Heavy Gear games. I recall the second one being a particularly beautiful game for the time too, with some good cinematic camera work as well.
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Aug 31, 2023 02:08
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Sometime late into the Heavy Gear campaign I finally noticed what the formula for your "threat rating" (aka max loadout) was; it's the amount of guns you have multiplied by how fancy your HUD/sensors where. So I turned off literally everything and just walked around with no UI assistance, while carrying an absolute mountain of guns. Made the back half far too easy, to be quite honest!
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Aug 31, 2023 02:25
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Arivia posted:I remember the Heavy Gear games had wireframe mode assigned to a keyboard hotkey. All my friends and I played the whole game that way, we thought it was extra cool robot vision mode. Oh you'd love the Battletech cartoon then
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Aug 31, 2023 02:30
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Heavy Gear was a bit limited by using the aging Interstate 76/Mechwarrior engine. It had neat Wing Commander 3 style live action cutscenes though. Heavy Gear 2 looked great for its time and was an all around achievement for the mech genre, too bad it didn't sell much and remained stuck on PC, if it had gotten a Dreamcast/PS2 port it might be more widely remembered, then again, given Slave Zero, maybe not. CG cutscenes sadly don't have the same theater actor charm, but they were better looking than most CG cutscenes at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tAwv0hjxSU
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Oh man, I would fuckin love a remaster of MW2, MW2 Mercs, and Heavy Gear 1 (never played 2). I sunk hundreds, probably thousands of hours into those games as a kid. MW2 Mercs was the first "real" computer game I ever played. I remember when we got our first computer I woke up early to play on it, and was playing some Galaga clone or whatever. My dad wakes up, comes over and says "Want to see something way better?" Boots up MW2 Mercs, and I was like  Apparently my dad was impressed also, because I remember him saying that he stayed up until 3am the night before playing it.We still bond over MechWarrior - he plays MW5 almost everyday. E: should also mention that my Dad got the game from a joystick pack-in promotion at Sam's club. It was a Thrustmaster joystick, that came with two games. MW2 Mercs.... and loving Duke 3D. I mean holy poo poo, what a deal! chocolateTHUNDER fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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Aug 31, 2023 03:33
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The First Person Id Software Games Time Has Forgotten, aka Doom RPG, Wolfenstein RPG, and what the hell is Orcs and Elves? Nintendo DS? What? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0fwb9jKtIg
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Aug 31, 2023 03:37
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The Heavy Gear games are probably never going to be re-released, much less remastered at this point, unfortunately. iirc there were major issues with negotiations between Dream Pod 9 (the people that make the tabletop game) and Activision that made it impossible, and it probably doesn't help that the company trying to license a third game a few years ago went extremely poorly. There are at least actual third party patches and stuff that help to make the games run on modern systems now at least, but that's probably it.
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Disproportionation posted:The Heavy Gear games are probably never going to be re-released, much less remastered at this point, unfortunately. iirc there were major issues with negotiations between Dream Pod 9 (the people that make the tabletop game) and Activision that made it impossible, and it probably doesn't help that the company trying to license a third game a few years ago went extremely poorly. Eh, Battletech/MechWarrior had some pretty nasty licensing stuff going on for most of the 2010s but we managed to get three games (MWO, Battletech, MW5) out of it. Not really sure the demand for Heavy Gear is there, though.
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I think it's less copyright weirdness and more that the two companies couldn't come to an agreement on a new licensing contract, and DP9 being a small company and getting burned by the aforementioned 3rd game has made them very cautious to not have that happen again. And yeah, they're games I really like, but I don't think they were massively popular even at the time.
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Disproportionation posted:And yeah, they're games I really like, but I don't think they were massively popular even at the time. I don't think so either; I happened to get both copies at a Half-Price Books but I never recalled seeing them (at least not in any meaningful quantities?) on store shelves, and nobody I knew played either of them or had any familiarity with them.
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Guillermus posted:https://twitter.com/pagb666/status/1697143393191653719?t=aeGQ0LE1mf9Aj7l4lvwSww&s=19 my god! what is that man doing to his slipgate!!
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Aug 31, 2023 09:47
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Oh hey it's that person who does all the walkthroughs on youtube. I love their work!
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Milo and POTUS posted:Oh hey it's that person who does all the walkthroughs on youtube. I love their work! Fellow spaniard and old rear end #Doom on irc-hispano user back in the days. Great non commentary walkthroughs on his channel
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I just want Black to get a PC release and a remaster. And Bodycount too, it was a fun bad game.
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Guillermus posted:https://twitter.com/pagb666/status/1697143393191653719?t=aeGQ0LE1mf9Aj7l4lvwSww&s=19 
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Assepoester posted:The First Person Id Software Games Time Has Forgotten, aka Doom RPG, Wolfenstein RPG, and what the hell is Orcs and Elves? Nintendo DS? What? You'd have to wipe my memory to make me forget about Orcs & Elves!  I imagine I have a very old iPhone collecting dust in a shoe box that still has Wolfenstein RPG and Doom II RPG, although I never even booted up the latter.
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Worth noting that Doom RPG and Doom 2 RPG have lovely reverse-engineering-induced Windows ports, should you wish to see them for yourself in a convenient, hi-res form. Sounds like Wolfenstein RPG is in the works, too!
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Orcs and Elves for DS was massively superior to the phone version so guess who bought it twice??? God I miss those games.
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Guillermus posted:https://twitter.com/pagb666/status/1697143393191653719?t=aeGQ0LE1mf9Aj7l4lvwSww&s=19 Finally the quake/unreal tournament crossover we've all been waiting for!
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Disproportionation posted:I think it's less copyright weirdness and more that the two companies couldn't come to an agreement on a new licensing contract, and DP9 being a small company and getting burned by the aforementioned 3rd game has made them very cautious to not have that happen again. Cream-of-Plenty posted:I don't think so either; I happened to get both copies at a Half-Price Books but I never recalled seeing them (at least not in any meaningful quantities?) on store shelves, and nobody I knew played either of them or had any familiarity with them. This reminds me that the copy of Heavy Gear 1 we had was marked "NOT FOR SALE IN NORTH AMERICA" on the discs. My father got it at a local computer show (remember those?) so I'm guessing the source of procurement the vendor used was....less than official haha.
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Not an fps but apparently this was put together on zdoomcodo27 posted:You think you've seen it all site fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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It's so drat crazy how talented some people are.
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GZDoom: "Because it's there!"
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new captain wayne trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_4U4lDC1mo the demo ruled (that one enemy's charge attack can gently caress off tho)
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GUI posted:I just want Black to get a PC release and a remaster. Word. Single-player "tacticool" shooters where you mow down dozens of mooks at a time that aren't CoD or Battlefield are practically non-existent these days. Believe me, I've looked. In fact I just re-rewatched Frenzy the Killbot's LP of Black and it still looks like dumb fun.
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Grimthwacker posted:Word. Single-player "tacticool" shooters where you mow down dozens of mooks at a time that aren't CoD or Battlefield are practically non-existent these days. Believe me, I've looked. In fact I just re-rewatched Frenzy the Killbot's LP of Black and it still looks like dumb fun. If you have Game Pass Ultimate, it’s on it if you wanted to give it a whirl.
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Grimthwacker posted:Word. Single-player "tacticool" shooters where you mow down dozens of mooks at a time that aren't CoD or Battlefield are practically non-existent these days. Believe me, I've looked. In fact I just re-rewatched Frenzy the Killbot's LP of Black and it still looks like dumb fun. It's the kind of game that would really benefit from a higher frame rate and snappier controls imo
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RIP Volitionquote:A year after the underwhelming release of the Saints Row reboot, and just two months after celebrating 30 years of operation, Volition has been closed.
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Embracer bought all these companies in an attempt to flip them to the Saudis for over $2 billion dollars but it fell apart so now they’re scrambling to find ways to stop hemorrhaging money. Volition never really recovered from Agents of Mayhem. They followed it up with a mediocre remaster of SR3 and it seemed like the Saints Row reboot was doomed from the start.
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First red faction was a fun if mostly novel game. I didn't bother much with the story, just dug holes into the walls like some sort of dwarf so I could shoot idiots
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One of my favorite things about the original Red Faction was granting these idiots a merciful death
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to hell with orders, die capek
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Red Faction was probably the first shooter I actually recognised as like, an entry in a genre (we didn't have a pc that could particularly run 3d stuff very reliably, and before that I'd only really played alien trilogy and demos of quake 2 on the PS1) and I thought it was extremely cool as a kid - to be honest I still think the story is pretty interesting as shooters go but the VA is absolutely dire. It's also the first shooter I had with a deathmatch mode so I got to learn that I was actually quite good at shooters at the exact same time that my dad learned that he was actually quite bad at shooters.
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Oh yeah, beat the Black Labyrinth. All in all, it was more Amid Evil--which is good--but didn't feel like a notable leap forward in any appreciable way. A few too many underwater sections, and the last boss just felt weirdly haphazard with its attack patterns. Like, I could see the concepts they were going for, they just didn't feel cleanly executed.
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I think I prefer the base game at this point. There's some insanely cool stuff in BL (swords) but ultimately I just liked the level design and above all color palette of the first
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The 7th Guest posted:relentless frontier targeting Q1 2024 for early access release, probably will be at realms deep Looks like that machine gun has terrible gunfeel, getting that impression even without sound, ouch.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Finally the quake/unreal tournament crossover we've all been waiting for! Gaping Worlds
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