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It's worth playing the 2009 Wolfenstein game without mods first, but if you like it but wish it was more like RTCW, the great Retrostein mod has you covered. It changes the enemy health, behaviours, weapons effects for a more RTCW like experience, and there's more of an incentive for hunt for gold or Tomes of Power. There's two versions: one which removes the annoying "Tip: Press R To Reload!" pop-ups, but it also disables the "Press to select the next area" notifications as they're linked sadly. The second version keeps these popups/map notifications if you're not too familiar with the levels. Raven never released a SDK for it, which is a drat shame given all the enhancements they made to the engine.
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Breaking News: Embracer has sold Saber Interactive off to, uh, Saber's co-founder. 3D Realms/Slipgate Ironworks is included in the transaction, hopefully sparing them any further humiliation (at least, of the non-self-inflicted kind).
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https://twitter.com/davidlcraddock/status/1767587291269054928 Anyone watched it?
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The Kins posted:Breaking News: Embracer has sold Saber Interactive off to, uh, Saber's co-founder. 3D Realms/Slipgate Ironworks is included in the transaction, hopefully sparing them any further humiliation (at least, of the non-self-inflicted kind). I think this relates to divesting assets which are inextricably linked to Russia and/or Tim Willits
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Turin Turambar posted:https://twitter.com/davidlcraddock/status/1767587291269054928 4h 35m 
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Quantum of Phallus posted:4h 35m That truly flies by.
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Thanks for the heads up on that documentary. You can actually buy a DRM-free copy directly from here which comes with an extra PDF, soundtrack and some wallpapers. Also I just remembered my main beef with Prodeus (outside of the dumb save system and it getting very repetitive) was the forced vignette that creates a severe tunnel vision effect. Thankfully there is a mod to fix that now. Convex fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Mar 14, 2024 |
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Foul Fowl posted:you should also play sigil 1 and 2 if you've not already Sigil 1 & 2 and the Machine Games expansions for Quake and Quake 2 are legitimately some of the best shooting you can do at the minute.
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Was Bungie's goal with Halo 2 to create the most infuriatingly irritating roster of enemies ever featured in an FPS? The loving rage monkies. The RAGE MONKIES. There's no way playtesters didn't go "Hey man this absolutely loving sucks why is this in here?"
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Bumhead posted:Sigil 1 & 2 and the Machine Games expansions for Quake and Quake 2 are legitimately some of the best shooting you can do at the minute. 
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The Kins posted:Breaking News: Embracer has sold Saber Interactive off to, uh, Saber's co-founder. 3D Realms/Slipgate Ironworks is included in the transaction, hopefully sparing them any further humiliation (at least, of the non-self-inflicted kind). Hoping that this stops the bleeding for 3D Realms/Slipgate. Also that Tempest Rising will see the light of day.
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Was Bungie's goal with Halo 2 to create the most infuriatingly irritating roster of enemies ever featured in an FPS? The loving rage monkies. The RAGE MONKIES. There's no way playtesters didn't go "Hey man this absolutely loving sucks why is this in here?" What playtesters lol. There’s no way they tested most of the campaign beyond the bare minimum of “can these levels be played without making the Xbox explode”, they were absolutely scrambling to get online mp working in any way shape or form quote:Butcher has a much more specific, prosaic theory for what made Halo great – and, it turns out, what disappoints him so bitterly about Halo 2. “We had about four to five weeks to polish Halo at the end. No more than that. And that last five per cent is responsible for 30 per cent of the success of the game, or more. That’s the period in which we really had a perfect storm. The team was all there, everything was working great, the Xbox hardware was finally there and good, and we just were able to relentlessly execute on that. The entire game came together within that four- to six-week period. https://web.archive.org/web/20070122073112/http://www.edge-online.co.uk/archives/2007/01/inside_bungie.php
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:It's definitely a fantastic mix, done well. I ended my night tonight in the asylum, when the old-timey wheelchair (those already creep me the gently caress out) rolled into the room I was in. Deakul posted:
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I'm a big fan of the idea of remastering Quake 3 and letting Machine Games do whatever they like with some single player stuff.
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bbcisdabomb posted:I don't know if anyone has said thanks for your posts about HROT and Czech culture but I want to say thanks. As someone who grew up in America it's really interesting to hear how different things are elsewhere, and even more so to see how many weird little cultural in-jokes HROT has. Milo and POTUS posted:That little egg game is great
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The Kins posted:Breaking News: Embracer has sold Saber Interactive off to, uh, Saber's co-founder. 3D Realms/Slipgate Ironworks is included in the transaction, hopefully sparing them any further humiliation (at least, of the non-self-inflicted kind). Apparently there's a patch for Graven stuck in publisher approval limbo, I hope this gets it unstuck. I was really hoping that game would be good.
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I doubt it would to happen but it would be cool if Machine Games did a bonus campaign for System Shock 2 for the remaster.
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anilEhilated posted:Thanks for thanks! I was genuinely curious how the game managed to come across since a lot of the stuff is incredibly specific, so I'm glad people appreciate the explanation. Big thanks from me as well as it was what prompted me to play it in the first place! (I already owned it but it was further down the queue)
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BattleMaster posted:I doubt it would to happen but it would be cool if Machine Games did a bonus campaign for System Shock 2 for the remaster. I'd like to see a Machine Games imsim, Riddick and the nu-Wolfenstein games already lean pretty close to that formula.
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Prodeus wasn't bad. It was solid with a nice variety of weapons and lots of good setpiece maps (for the most part). I'm looking forward to the expansion episode (or whatever it's supposed to be). What I think is a crying shame is that the map creation feature didn't get any community support. There were some really impressive community maps from what I played. Trepang2 is the best "FEAR successor" to come along in a long while. Lots of fun, even if it's kind of short (like six main missions and six side missions), but there are a ton of combat simulator challenges that I should get around to doing.
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Cultic is 8 dollars go get it if you haven't it is no word of a lie the best retro shooter around.
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Cultic is 8 dollars go get it if you haven't it is no word of a lie the best retro shooter around.
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I bought Turbo Overkill. HROT will be next. Maybe this sale, maybe not, unsure. No regrets. The demo for TO is insane. Also: Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Cultic is 8 dollars go get it if you haven't it is no word of a lie the best retro shooter around. I don't often agree with gmanlives, but he said that Cultic is, overall, closer to Resident Evil 4 than Blood, and he's not wrong. Go buy the Resident Evil 4 FPS game. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Mar 14, 2024 |
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Turbo Overkill is one of my favorite things to come out of the genre. If I had to provide any criticism, I think the only thing I'd say is that it is incredibly long.
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turbo overkill is good choice ^^^ yes agreed
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I think the only thing I'd say is that it is incredibly long. Good. Literally more for me. 
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Turbo Overkill is one of my favorite things to come out of the genre. If I had to provide any criticism, I think the only thing I'd say is that it is incredibly long. I wouldn't have picked it up if not for you evangelising it and you were incredibly right. Turbo Overkill is better than Doom Eternal imo
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Pseudo-update on Agent64, which I'm personally excited for. If it has half the features as Perfect Dark 64/XBLA, well....  https://twitter.com/Agent64game/status/1768363976994197671?t=atvHlKjCYx5zk4JETwcGZA&s=19
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Cultic is 8 dollars go get it if you haven't it is no word of a lie the best retro shooter around. bargain
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Bumhead posted:I'm a big fan of the idea of remastering Quake 3 and letting Machine Games do whatever they like with some single player stuff. This would be cool as hell
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I just realized that Turbo Overkill isn’t the same thing as Sprawl, another cyberpunk movement shooter that came out last summer which I didn’t end up really liking Anyway I gave the TO demo a shot and it is better than Sprawl Should I be playing this like Tribes and just constantly looking for things to slide on whenever I’m not in the air Also why is slide default bound to leftctrl? I mean ok, it’s nominally crouch, but it’s also your melee attack. I put this on my mouse side button asap skasion fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Mar 14, 2024 |
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skasion posted:Should I be playing this like Tribes and just constantly looking for things to slide on whenever I’m not in the air Is this a trick question? They gave you a chainsaw leg to slide with. Get a load of this guy "should I use the chainsaw leg?"
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skasion posted:I just realized that Turbo Overkill isn’t the same thing as Sprawl, another cyberpunk movement shooter that came out last summer which I didn’t end up really liking Well sprawl and to are nothing alike. Anyway, Sprawls good, but get it on sale
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skasion posted:I just realized that Turbo Overkill isn’t the same thing as Sprawl, another cyberpunk movement shooter that came out last summer which I didn’t end up really liking Why is the crouch button bound to the crouch button? 
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Dramicus posted:Is this a trick question? They gave you a chainsaw leg to slide with. Deakul posted:Why is the crouch button bound to the crouch button? Similar mechanic in Cultic, where when you crouch while moving you kick, but there's no chainsaw attached to the knee. All games need chainsaw legs. Whenever you crouch while moving, and you slide, everyone should be asking "where's chainsaw leg?"
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More thoughts about Cultic now that I'm (almost) done. I'm at what I believe to be the final level. I've been through the excavation area and past the huge wall of fire. What's the deal with the slowdown? I don't always get it, even if I one-shot someone's head off. When I do get it, how is it supposed to help me? Or is it just a style thing? Goddamn, the chainsaw guys always startle me. That big round room where your walkway is like a cross and you have to go investigate the 3 separate doors..... YEESH. I set one on fire and he immediately walked off the edge, so A+ there. I really, really got pulled in by the environmental storytelling, backed up by the notes. Especially that investigator guy's journal, because you know it'll end badly. And I wondered how the game would present his 'final' note, because as we all know, right before you die, whatever's going to kill you obviously gives you a minute to jot your thoughts down. I'm satisfied with how they did it, with him holed up between the walls, slowly dying from a gunshot wound, which actually gave him enough time to write out his final note. The asylum is probably my favourite part so far. It's up there with the creepiest parts of RE4, like that hallway on the island with the wiggling back of 'something' in the dumpster, or parts of the village as night falls. I'm looking forward to playing the Interlude and Survival mode, both of which I know nothing about. I need more Cultic! Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Mar 15, 2024 |
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