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Turok 3 Remaster has been delayed a couple of weeks, from November 14 to 30.
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Rev. Melchisedech Howler posted:1gb update for Dusk... could it be? lol The Kins posted:Turok 3 Remaster has been delayed a couple of weeks, from November 14 to 30. gently caress!!!! oh well, gives me time to save to buy it on every console i own 
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Nov 10, 2023 18:48
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site posted:stolen from the discord, there's a sin sourceport out holy poo poo controller support and Linux,... plz lemme know if anyone gets this going on Steam Deck
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Nov 10, 2023 18:49
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site posted:stolen from the discord, there's a sin sourceport out wow, thanks!
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Nov 10, 2023 19:37
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Convex posted:try this, it helped me: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1788544354 This helped a bit, thanks.
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Nov 10, 2023 19:42
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site posted:stolen from the discord, there's a sin sourceport out Oh drat, definitely something to check out. I haven't been able to really get into SiN despite wanting to, hopefully this will help.
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Nov 10, 2023 20:01
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The Kins posted:Dario Casali (of too-many-revenants infamy and made-a-few-games fame) is doing a 25th anniversary developer commentary playthrough of the original Half-Life, drawing on old documents (including a very early design document where the game was called "Belly of the Beast") and personal diaries to bolster quarter-century-old memories. His commentary has been interesting but oh boy his gameplay is painful to watch sometimes. I didn't even know hl1 scientists could heal you, or I memoryholed it.
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Nov 10, 2023 21:29
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site posted:stolen from the discord, there's a sin sourceport out Just checked this out after a friend mentioned it and I can almost immediately see why it took so long for someone to be madlad enough to bother source porting SiN. How do you take a game like Quake 2 that has perfectly good movement and screw it up like that? Yet another layer to the enigma that is SiN.
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Nov 10, 2023 22:18
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Crustashio posted:I didn't even know hl1 scientists could heal you, or I memoryholed it. They only do that if your health is really low, and given how effective armor is in HL1 it is perfectly possible to play through the whole game without ever getting your health low enough to trigger it.
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Nov 10, 2023 22:35
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Nostalgamus posted:They only do that if your health is really low, and given how effective armor is in HL1 it is perfectly possible to play through the whole game without ever getting your health low enough to trigger it. I remember the scientists healing me a lot. 
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Nov 10, 2023 22:52
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blink twice if this is you rocket pan
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Nov 10, 2023 23:30
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Doctor Bishop posted:Just checked this out after a friend mentioned it and I can almost immediately see why it took so long for someone to be madlad enough to bother source porting SiN. How do you take a game like Quake 2 that has perfectly good movement and screw it up like that? Yet another layer to the enigma that is SiN. Having played a bit more of it, I can safely describe SiN as feeling "playable in spite of itself", since it seems like it tries to undo everything that worked about Quake 2's movement and shooting but doesn't do quite enough to actually ruin the core gameplay, just weaken it considerably.
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Nov 11, 2023 00:11
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repiv posted:blink twice if this is you rocket pan On the one hand, Half-Life Remastered would be great. On the other, Black Mesa exists, and nobody wants to put up with OG Xen.
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Nov 11, 2023 00:42
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Grimthwacker posted:and nobody wants to put up with OG Xen.
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Nov 11, 2023 00:46
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repiv posted:blink twice if this is you rocket pan Sorry, not us.
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Nov 11, 2023 01:20
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I love OG Xen. Black Mesa Xen was created by a Tedium Elemental.
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Nov 11, 2023 01:54
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If I had to guess, the HL1 stuff is probably an update for better Steam Deck support to mark the game’s 25th Anniversary and the launch of the OLED Deck.
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Nov 11, 2023 02:39
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BM Xen is impressive as a fan mapping achievement. They made a lot of content that works, and some of it looks and plays well. It feels much less like Half Life 1 and more like 2 though. BM is already kind of HL2 inspired obviously but with the new content here it feels particularly marked. Sometimes very explicit inspiration, like with the three beam generator puzzle based on the reactor in Episode 1. It also doesn’t do the pacing of the game as a whole any favors. HL1 is a pretty long game and BM Xen has to take like twice as long as the original Xen. I do kind of like original Xen. 90s FPS campaigns are required by Gaming Law to have a final zone that’s hosed up and weird and Xen has to be near the peak of that. The stoner wallpaper skyboxes, the abstract geometry that might be organic or industrial or just weird chunks of land, the sound when you stand in the healing pools, the longjumps. It’s got a great inscrutable alien atmosphere that the BM version loses a bit. Real X-Files poo poo The bad part is the aliens. Flying guys are annoying and slow to kill. Alien soldiers are slow to kill too, and alien soldiers and vorts both reward corner-camping. The boss fights aren’t great either. BM Xen has some obnoxious or unfun fights but it’s no worse than the original in that regard.
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Nov 11, 2023 02:59
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Mordja posted:I remember playing the Beyond Sunset demo from a year or so back and not loving it. Is the current demo on steam a new one? Apparently the demo changed a bunch and very frequently according to civvie. The version he showcased in the roundup was in all likelihood the one I played and I loved it a bunch and he did too. That said, no idea if they're the same one. A month or 2 ago they changed it again, this time simplifying some of the platforming sections at the start which was insane; the movement was one of the game's best parts. It was very responsive (provided you didn't get surrounded) and if you hosed up, it was generally a skill issue
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Nov 11, 2023 03:03
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skasion posted:The bad part is the aliens. Flying guys are annoying and slow to kill. Alien soldiers are slow to kill too, and alien soldiers and vorts both reward corner-camping. The boss fights aren’t great either. BM Xen has some obnoxious or unfun fights but it’s no worse than the original in that regard. My favorite was dumping all my good ammo into the gonarch then not being able to rebuild my arsenal by the time I get to nihilanth
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Nov 11, 2023 03:06
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Inside me is an angle and a daemon, for I embrace both OG Xen and BM Xen.
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Nov 11, 2023 03:29
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I genuinely liked the first BM Xen section, then 20 minutes into the gonarch fight I was ready for the game to be over. Then you go through another hour of factory but alien.
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Nov 11, 2023 03:46
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Wow dusk feels amazing to move around in.
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Nov 11, 2023 05:23
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Dusk fwiggin owns
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Nov 11, 2023 05:56
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Crustashio posted:Then you go through another hour of factory but alien.
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Nov 11, 2023 12:10
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The spinny elevators can go straight to hell. Perfectly disorienting and the vorts move around on the catwalks so there's a good chance you're getting popped before you can figure out where the hell they are
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Nov 11, 2023 12:12
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https://twitter.com/kinofabino/status/1723038058503971035
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Nov 11, 2023 15:17
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In Training posted:Wow dusk feels amazing to move around in. My fave part of Dusk is every time you play a level that feels exactly like a specific 90s shooter, and it's a different one each time, and both the vibes and gameplay are perfect, but it's still unmistakably Dusk.
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Nov 11, 2023 15:32
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skasion posted:BM Xen is impressive as a fan mapping achievement. They made a lot of content that works, and some of it looks and plays well. The latter half of Black Mesa’s Xen with the interminable conveyor belt section should have been completely scrapped. The stuff before that was imaginative and well-realized, even if the Gonarch fight was badly mistuned, but once you move inside it’s like you’re traveling back 10 years to their first draft of the mod.
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Nov 11, 2023 15:35
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OG Xen kind of sucks but it's not exactly a super long section so I guess I never really minded it. Parts of BM Xen were fine but it went on way, way, way too long and had way too many of the same style of puzzle. It just wasn't very fun and mostly very tedious. If I play BM again I'll just quit at Xen like it used to end.
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Nov 11, 2023 16:01
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Soldier of Fortune kinda falls apart at the end, and suffers from that late '90's-early '00's FPS problem of "hitscaners in your blind spot hit you for big damage the milisecond you enter their line-of-sight", but it was a pretty fun romp. I reckon I'll pick up Double Helix in the future, but next, Trepang2!
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Nov 11, 2023 16:41
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If you hated that part of SOF1 boy do I have news for you about SOF2.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Lot of love for DEUS EX in here Missed this on the last page but I'm all for whatever this is
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Nov 11, 2023 17:50
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BM Xen is really cool and does a good job of making Xen feel like a place instead of random platforms in the void. I liked the factory, it's just 2-3x longer than it should have been.
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Nov 11, 2023 18:16
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Lemon-Lime posted:BM Xen is really cool and does a good job of making Xen feel like a place instead of random platforms in the void. Same here. I liked BM Xen and that factory was just too long but overall felt like a proper new world. Original Xen was ugly, felt like a bunch of custom maps thrown together and the awful last section before Nihilanth was...
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Nov 11, 2023 18:39
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Missed this on the last page but I'm all for whatever this is Wow that interface really is Deus ex lol
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Nov 11, 2023 19:15
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site posted:Wow that interface really is Deus ex lol I literally thought it was a Deus Ex mod lol
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Nov 11, 2023 19:38
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As I've almost certainly said before, for me the Xen factory map feels either too abstract or not abstract enough. Also I feel like they struggled to actually link each map together. My memories are that you end up going between maps in all sorts of weird, unnatural-feeling ways. Though I also haven't played HL1, let alone Xen specifically, in just short of forever.
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Nov 11, 2023 20:20
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John Murdoch posted:As I've almost certainly said before, for me the Xen factory map feels either too abstract or not abstract enough. That's because of polygon face limits. I miss those days.
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Milo and POTUS posted:5.5 hours of gameplay for 9 bucks on the Beyond Sunset EA. Not a bad trade at all especially since I played it on easiest and I imagine it'd look even more favorable if played on a real difficulty, although you can't exactly use the demo as a reference since it's so wildly different from the base game. Apparently 2 more episodes to go too (although they were getting shorter in turn) so I'd feel comfortable saying that there's probably at least another 2.5 to 3.5 hours ahead. Fundamentally think it's a good game hampered by feature creep, or at least an inability to know exactly what they wanted to do with the game. The FPS stuff is good, bordering low key great. The RPG elements are very wanting. I feel it was a huge mistake to force them any more than was in the demo. I got a lot more opinions but I'd have to stew on them a bit more. Props though, ep 3 culminates in an actually pretty good turret section, a rarity in any game, although I got the feeling it would have been frustratingly difficult on any difficulty above medium and even that might be a contest How did you finish episode 2? I've hacked the network 4 times with the Ice Breaker but there's a 5th disc and I'm not sure how to proceed.
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