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Salmiakki

rip. this is so insane i love it

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# ? Aug 23, 2015 17:14

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# ? Jun 9, 2024 20:26

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metal gear solid v the phantom pain releases september 1st, 8 days from now

# ? Aug 24, 2015 11:56

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# ? Aug 24, 2015 17:20

ron color

that's true

# ? Aug 24, 2015 17:26

Pomp: by Fluffdaddy

I want arena shooters back

# ? Aug 24, 2015 18:12

dogdisaster: by Lowtax

Pomp posted:

I want arena shooters back

i think they were making a f2p unreal tourney, not sure how that'll turn out..

bad likely

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# ? Aug 24, 2015 18:19

Pomp: by Fluffdaddy

Epic has made no good games in over a decade

# ? Aug 24, 2015 18:22

arnbiguous

why not just play Quake Live

"first, do no harm"
- james spock

# ? Aug 24, 2015 18:24

Pro Target

yea quake live is still good despite the hosed up auto-bhopping and poo poo they added

# ? Aug 24, 2015 19:10

Pro Target

not an arena shooter but ive been playing cs:go a lot lately and i think its a really good competitive game./ thanks all

# ? Aug 24, 2015 19:11

arnbiguous

CSGO in casual deathmatch is pretty much a good arena shooter. It would be cool if it had plasma rifles and rocket launchers though

"first, do no harm"
- james spock

# ? Aug 24, 2015 19:12

Pro Target

im full of poo poo posted:

CSGO in casual deathmatch is pretty much a good arena shooter

uhh i disagree sinmce it doesnt have

- Advanced Movement (275->300 bhopping doesnt count)
- Item control
- vertically oriented maps
- high health pools

# ? Aug 24, 2015 19:14

arnbiguous

This is all true and I am wrong

"first, do no harm"
- james spock

# ? Aug 24, 2015 19:17

Scaly Haylie

Pro Target posted:

uhh i disagree sinmce it doesnt have

- Advanced Movement (275->300 bhopping doesnt count)
- Item control
- vertically oriented maps
- high health pools

hi, could you break this down a little for me? i wish to expand my game design vocabulary.

# ? Aug 24, 2015 20:02

Pro Target

umm, Advanced Movement is any movement system more complex than 'hold down WASD key and jump', so rocket jumping, double jumping, bunnyhopping, basically exploiting the characteristics of a games physics engine to move in unconventional ways (intentional or not)

item control is a concept from arena shooters which usually have specific spawn points for where you exert pressure on your opponent to prevent them from getting, say, health pickups or grabbing the rocket launcher and monopolizing those items for yourself

Arena shooters tended to have a lot of vertical maps and generally made a lot more use of the Z axis than modern 'realistic' shooters

also you had a lot of health in them comparatively so it woudl take a long time to kill someone (has the effect of 'smoothing' out damage so you couldnt get frags just from a lucky hit as much)

# ? Aug 24, 2015 20:19

Pro Target

id love to see someone make a modern 1v1-focused arena shooter because i think theres a lot of potential for a middle gorund between team-tactical shooters and fighting games in the realm of DIgital Electronic Sports

# ? Aug 24, 2015 20:25

Pomp: by Fluffdaddy

What about StarCraft 2 :xd:

# ? Aug 24, 2015 20:42

Pro Target

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqkJ9jOmCy4 good poo poo

# ? Aug 24, 2015 20:45

railroad terror: choo choo

I put the N64 in the living room the other day, and have been playing the following VGs:

Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey

Mario Party (original)

Super Smash Bros (original)

Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer

# ? Aug 24, 2015 20:53

tao of lmao

iirc gretzky hockey has the glow puck that was on fox sports for a hot minute

# ? Aug 24, 2015 21:14

railroad terror: choo choo

tao of lmao posted:

iirc gretzky hockey has the glow puck that was on fox sports for a hot minute

You remember correctly. They should bring it back! FoxTrax Glowing Puck

# ? Aug 24, 2015 23:38

Sordas Volantyr: Now, everybody, walk like a Jekhar.

(God, these running animations are terrible.)

Pro Target posted:

id love to see someone make a modern 1v1-focused arena shooter because i think theres a lot of potential for a middle gorund between team-tactical shooters and fighting games in the realm of DIgital Electronic Sports

http://store.steampowered.com/app/338170/

meant for multiple people, but works just fine 1v1.

(also, i hope you liked the railgun, because that is the only weapon)

# ? Aug 25, 2015 00:17

Pro Target

instagib degenerates arena gameplay

# ? Aug 25, 2015 00:49

yoober

instagib is a fun way to kill 20 minutes but nothing more. 3v3/4v4 clan arena is more fun in pretty much every game. also instead of instagib maybe you could play 3v3 ctf4 because it is the greatest

# ? Aug 25, 2015 01:14

Pro Target

or uhh... just play 1v1 like god intended

# ? Aug 25, 2015 01:27

nignog.wav: by Nyc_Tattoo

I just got 30 kills with shadow fiend mmmmm

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# ? Aug 25, 2015 01:29

joke_explainer

Pro Target posted:

umm, Advanced Movement is any movement system more complex than 'hold down WASD key and jump', so rocket jumping, double jumping, bunnyhopping, basically exploiting the characteristics of a games physics engine to move in unconventional ways (intentional or not)

item control is a concept from arena shooters which usually have specific spawn points for where you exert pressure on your opponent to prevent them from getting, say, health pickups or grabbing the rocket launcher and monopolizing those items for yourself

Arena shooters tended to have a lot of vertical maps and generally made a lot more use of the Z axis than modern 'realistic' shooters

also you had a lot of health in them comparatively so it woudl take a long time to kill someone (has the effect of 'smoothing' out damage so you couldnt get frags just from a lucky hit as much)

i remember a small group of friends as a kid playing the quake 1 intro map and how important item control was, and everyone learning little patterns to run trying to deny the best items and how the metagame extended from there as you could exploit how predictable they'd each be after a while (though we'd try to switch it up for that same reason). surprisingly fun gameplay for a map that was not intended to be any sort of arena (its just the like, stage select map you start out with in quake 1) but we played the poo poo out of that.

i miss tribes and tribes 2 as well, those were great games.

# ? Aug 25, 2015 02:13

Pro Target

Tribes 1 was such a weird and good game, thjeres really nothing like it. I remember reading about it in PC Gamer Magazine and wanting to play it so badly and then getting to and having it live up to all the hype. As far as skill ceiling in shooters its probably the absolute pinnacle as well

# ? Aug 25, 2015 04:05

Pro Target

The best advanced movement, almost every weapon a projectile instead of hitscan, just a really perfect game

# ? Aug 25, 2015 04:06

joke_explainer

incredibly satisfying nailing a spinfusor shot when all parties are ridiculously fast ballistic projectiles

# ? Aug 25, 2015 04:06

tao of lmao

high level tribes play is a thing of beauty

# ? Aug 25, 2015 04:09

Pomp: by Fluffdaddy

I MISS TRIBES SO MUCH

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# ? Aug 25, 2015 04:28

Pomp: by Fluffdaddy

tribes ascend could at least scratch the itch even if it was never as good as Tribes 2 but the loving dev is poo poo and didn't support it for fuckall and then abandoned it for another god drat moba

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# ? Aug 25, 2015 04:29

Pro Target

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6uiyP_PxJk

# ? Aug 25, 2015 15:09

Sordas Volantyr: Now, everybody, walk like a Jekhar.

(God, these running animations are terrible.)

Pro Target posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6uiyP_PxJk

those dramatic sound effects are the best

also, do the maps wrap around or something?

# ? Aug 25, 2015 15:23

Pro Target

Sordas Volantyr posted:

those dramatic sound effects are the best

also, do the maps wrap around or something?

nah they dont, vanilla tribes would kill you if you went out of bounds, they do plays far into the outskirts of the map to build up enough speed for good flag grabs tho

# ? Aug 25, 2015 15:33

Pro Target

i really wish tribes had caught on competitively like quake 3 so we could see what a fully evolved meta looked like... theres a ton of sloppy play in all the comp matches i can find recorded

# ? Aug 25, 2015 15:40