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my bony fealty posted:Wanna revisit Return to Castle Wolfenstein though. Great game. If you get that bundle upthread it's got it plus a whole bunch of stuff you should have at this point anyway. The new blood games are a must get and viscera fest owns too. Oddworld is loving fire and honestly as much as I love the aesthetic of the sidescrollers, I think it's the most fun to play in the series. Quake and Doom must haves too. Only reason I'm passing is I don't think I can get up to 3 games I want. Maybe hong kong, anomalous and.... ???
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Also without Quake 4 we wouldn't have Steve Blum having a conversation with Steve Blum. Okay, actually, that probably would've happened eventually anyway. 
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Everybody's constantly talking about Patrick Stewart in Oblivion, but nobody's talking about Peter Stormare in Quake 4--the first true celebrity in video games by four months
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Jan 19, 2024 07:24
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Real Tim Curry and Mark Hamill erasure
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Everybody's constantly talking about Patrick Stewart in Oblivion, but nobody's talking about Peter Stormare in Quake 4--the first true celebrity in video games by four months Fuckin' Christopher Walken was in Ripper in 1996
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Dennis Hopper, Stephanie Seymour, and Grace Jones were in Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller in 1994
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John Goodman was in Pyst, which admittedly, we may not want to count for dignity's sake.
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John Murdoch posted:Also without Quake 4 we wouldn't have Steve Blum having a conversation with Steve Blum. I think it happens in Doom 3.
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I wanted to say Steve Blum's career had tapered off, but I looked and he's still in 50 things per year.
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Name Change posted:I wanted to say Steve Blum's career had tapered off, but I looked and he's still in 50 things per year. I think he actually released a statement about the recent SAG AFTRA deal with that voice copying company, dude is still trucking.
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why did you want to say thjat
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Because Gianni stole his spike voice and also can do a raccoon
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The Slave Zero Prequel Prequel Level Set for Quake 1 Rerelease from 2022 is fun, might not call it more than that, but hey, fun. Quake is Good.
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All this talk of Wolf09 makes me want to play it. Too bad I never bought it before, so I guess I'll have to do a little research...
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Speaking of Doom 3, I think the main reason it often ranks so low in video game lists is it's being put in the wrong game series. For me, the correct ranking goes like this: FEAR FEAR 3 (Co-op, ignoring the story) Doom 3 FEAR 2 FEAR 3 (Solo) Doom 3 just feels to me like it shoulda been marketed as FEAR 0.5 haha
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The Kins posted:In other news, DuskDev's punted out a slightly enhanced standalone version of another one of his DreadXP compilation games, the made-in-a-week Doom 3 tribute The Pony Factory. I was bummed when I saw his brother tweeting out his own puzzle game saying he needed to make ends meet because I would've assumed My Friendly Neighborhood sold well but I guess it's only the lovely no effort mascot horror games that print money.
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Gloomy Rube posted:Speaking of Doom 3, I think the main reason it often ranks so low in video game lists is it's being put in the wrong game series. Yeah but out of all those games, Doom 3 has the worst shooting in any AAA fps. But x2 also the plasma gun has a loving sweet reload sound.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:All this talk of Wolf09 makes me want to play it. Too bad I never bought it before, so I guess I'll have to do a little research... Well, that was incredibly easy!
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Well, that was incredibly easy! It's literally sitting at the Internet Archive (and you can grab a few mods at moddb too!)
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Guillermus posted:It's literally sitting at the Internet Archive (and you can grab a few mods at moddb too!) any recommendations?
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I'm going vanilla no mods, but I'm disabling the headbob and increasing the FOV. The default headbob and FOV are insane on my 1440p widescreen monitor. It's like BJ has a severe case of vertigo whenever sprinting.
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the Retrostein mod is good fun, imo - use version 1.0b if it's your first playthrough also this is essential
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That Slave Zero/Quake tie-in was cool! I'm still not really interested in the actual game they're making since beat 'em ups are really my thing but still, a cool little thing. Impressive the amount of work that went into it, even if a lot of the enemies and weapons were pretty much reskins in function, but there are a few more unique ones as well. Beating the game even unlocks a couple new toys that you can use if you feel like playing through the episode again! I will say that, visually speaking, I thought the first couple maps were more interesting than the others. Well worth a look!
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Arivia posted:any recommendations? Quoting from the reddit thread I found time ago: quote:Carnage: This mod makes corpses stay in the level permanently as long as you are in that level, along with breakable items such as wooden crates staying for a longer period of time: https://www.moddb.com/mods/carnage-permanent-corpses-and-debris/addons/carnage-mod Personally Wolf Redux 1.3 is good enough for coming back after years. If you have issues with Windows 10: https://www.moddb.com/games/wolfenstein/downloads/w2009-fixed Edit: then there's this one if you want Nazis to speak german quote:-"German Axis" Language Mod: This mod changes the dialogue of Nazi enemies into speaking German instead of German-accented English. If you have recently played the MachineGames titles and are bothered by Nazis speaking English this mod can remedy that: https://www.moddb.com/games/wolfenstein/addons/wolf-sp-mod-german-axis-language-mod-v12 Guillermus fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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I still haven't played FEAR  Still need to resume my Quake 2 playthrough, to be fair
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Narcissus1916 posted:I still haven't played FEAR FEAR was probably the best FPS I played that decade. Make of that what you will. Oh, man, what I’d give for Night Dive to re-release THAT game.
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I don’t think I’ve ever actually liked a wolfenstein game. They all have issues that bug me into not wanting to play anymore.
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Overbite posted:I don’t think I’ve ever actually liked a wolfenstein game. They all have issues that bug me into not wanting to play anymore. The New Order rules.
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Deakul posted:Yeah but out of all those games, Doom 3 has the worst shooting in any AAA fps. Yeah...the game with one of the most legendary shotguns of all time should not be put that close to the game with one of the worst shotguns of all time. 
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Quake 6 confirmed? Check the left side of the whiteboard @ the timestamp (43:40): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__CsgNHr7ZQ&t=2619s
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Though at least said worst shotgun can easily be fixed by changing a single line of code... which then immediately trivializes the already procedural combat by being so good at consistently murderizing things outside of melee range. But y'know what, if the combat balance is utterly trounced by making the shotgun not comically ineffectual, then frankly it deserves to be clowned on.
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manero posted:Quake 6 confirmed? Check the left side of the whiteboard @ the timestamp (43:40): It's obviously a joke. There isn't even a Quake 5.
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John Murdoch posted:Yeah...the game with one of the most legendary shotguns of all time should not be put that close to the game with one of the worst shotguns of all time. I'll admit that I literally am the wrong audience for this because for me fear and doom 3 are both about finding lore objects because I don't really care about the gunplay, I just like exploring and atmosphere and stuff, when I play doom I play on easiest because I just wanna explore the cool levels [this is also why hexen is my favorite]
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Rocket Pan posted:It's obviously a joke. There isn't even a Quake 5. Does Quake Champions count? Hell, does it count anywhere?
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Wolf09 seems pretty cool so far. Indiana Jones looks cool, but I really hope Machine Games gets to cap off their Wolfenstein series. I know some people didn't like TNC, but I loved it and am still pretty hyped to see it what they do next.
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Hasturtium posted:Does Quake Champions count? Hell, does it count anywhere? Quake Champions is Quake Champions, not Quake 5.
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Gloomy Rube posted:I'll admit that I literally am the wrong audience for this because for me fear and doom 3 are both about finding lore objects because I don't really care about the gunplay, I just like exploring and atmosphere and stuff, when I play doom I play on easiest because I just wanna explore the cool levels [this is also why hexen is my favorite]
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anilEhilated posted:The trouble here is gunplay quality is probably the biggest difference between the two, with FEAR being one of the all time greats and Doom 3 being... Doom 3. I dunno, I legit thought FEAR turned into a surprisingly intimate, creepy family drama on top of an effective as hell action game with strong horror elements. What story elements were articulated in Doom 3 were frequently pretty interesting; I dug the little moments conveying how bad the UAC was at maintaining morale and any kind of check on Dr. Betruger’s increasingly weird bullshit. My biggest issues outside of the central gameplay loop were the voice work - not the talent so much as recordings sounding very much like they’re in a booth, with no ambient audio mixed in to convey a sense of place… and also poo poo like “guy doing a labored Jack Nicholson impression” or “one voice actor does at least three different Asian characters with no variation from one performance to the next.” If they’d fleshed out the game world a little more to start, and had some more content in the PDAs than basic instruction and here’s the next password, I think it could have been above and beyond. In conclusion, Doom 3 is a land of contrasts… But Resurrection of Evil, I like a lot more.
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Gloomy Rube posted:I'll admit that I literally am the wrong audience for this because for me fear and doom 3 are both about finding lore objects because I don't really care about the gunplay, I just like exploring and atmosphere and stuff, when I play doom I play on easiest because I just wanna explore the cool levels [this is also why hexen is my favorite] don't know if you're aware but you don't even need to have monsters on most doom maps: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/No_monsters_mode
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So, playing Half-Life on Hard was a terrible idea and I'm not enjoying myself any more, and I have Delta Particles to play for that particular itch, so I'm giving the Quake II remaster a whirl! It's very good! I don't really hold QII In as high regard as OG Quake, but it's still a fun shooty game and the remaster provides all sorts of nice tweaks. I've always liked the mechanics of the pump-action double-barrel shotgun. It's so needlessly overkill, and it makes that nice chunk-chunk sound when it's pumping.
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