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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:New trailer for FEAR-like indie FPS Trepang2 Hope it doesn't forget one notable aspect of FEAR: a slew of uberguns.
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 time to go back to quakespasm and try dwell
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Carmack Talk: I just finished Masters of Doom. If you haven't read it, you drat well should. It does a great job of capturing how truly brilliant Carmack and Romero are - and what tremendous assholes they must have been back then. It was particularly timely as I'm pushing my way through Quake for the first time and it is definitely growing on me. Its a clusterfuck of a title, with the weapons and art design and enemies nearly incoherent. And yet the mashup somehow works and becomes the whole drat point. Also, I'm just happy it avoids the Duke Nukem embarrassing 90s attitude (Remember when Nintendo had a hilarious 'play it loud' slogan?) that particularly defined that entire era. Narcissus1916 fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Aug 26, 2021 |
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Aug 26, 2021 23:24
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Aug 26, 2021 23:53
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I figured “Masters of Doom” was required reading for the thread. It’s amazing and I need to re-read it. Anyway it definitely goes into Carmack’s ticks and speech patterns.
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Aug 26, 2021 23:59
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Quake and Spice Girls being contemporaries seems so wrong even though I know it's accurate.
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Aug 26, 2021 23:59
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back in the late 90's/early 2000's quakecon days, my pals and I would goof on Carmack by adding "mnnnglayven" to the end of sentences, like Professor Frink
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Aug 27, 2021 00:30
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Charlie Brooker!? I knew he did game mag work but wow
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Aug 27, 2021 01:34
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I was mostly kidding, since he has hyperthymesia, which has led to an insanely good memory. Look like one in a billion people have hyperthymesia. I'm not saying Romero doesn't, but like show me a 5 year extensive diagnosis where his brain scans can be compared to everyone else or it's just "he had a great memory and is exceedingly confident in it" which no one would argue at all.
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Fun fact: Brazil's biggest comic franchise, Monica's Gang, once published this story of some of its characters playing Quake. It was published back in '98, and it's surprisingly faithful to the reference material.  More info in the story writer's blog: http://emersonabreu.blogspot.com/2009/05/cebolinha-e-cascao-no-mundo-de-quake.html http://emersonabreu.blogspot.com/2011/06/quake.html Negostrike fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Aug 27, 2021 |
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Aug 27, 2021 04:24
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MJBuddy posted:Look like one in a billion people have hyperthymesia. I'm not saying Romero doesn't, but like show me a 5 year extensive diagnosis where his brain scans can be compared to everyone else or it's just "he had a great memory and is exceedingly confident in it" which no one would argue at all. Yah, I mean to be clear this is something Romero claims and not something that an SA forum poster made up :-) but I wouldn't be surprised if it is a loosey-goosey self-diagnosis.
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Aug 27, 2021 05:01
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I wonder if people still consider it cheap to use the lightning gun underwater? Yeah it kills you but it also kills everyone else!
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Aug 27, 2021 05:10
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I just played some Quake and some were complaining about camping. Really brought me back.
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Aug 27, 2021 05:11
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Been replaying Quake on normal because I couldn't recall if I ever played through all of the episodes or just died a lot in DM. Episode 4 is my least favorite by many country miles. Not even the general difficulty increase, but the levels have too much zig-zagging for keys with more enemies warping in to slow me down. Get out of my drat way, ya drat dirty apes!
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Aug 27, 2021 05:27
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Indie FEAR-alike Trepang2 have released a new trailer to mark the news of their signing with Team 17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU1hbxDnmjk
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Aug 27, 2021 06:22
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KajiTheMelonMan posted:Well, after all this Quake talk, it's time to go mess around with....Raven's stuff! Let's see how this all goes All of these games are good. Enjoy them.
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Aug 27, 2021 06:34
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Lol must have lost the scan for that one, thanks
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Aug 27, 2021 08:34
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Negostrike posted:Fun fact: Brazil's biggest comic franchise, Monica's Gang, once published this story of some of its characters playing Quake. It was published back in '98, and it's surprisingly faithful to the reference material.
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Aug 27, 2021 08:44
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxLYN3rgKkw Neat looking mod that swaps the timeframe of the Half-Life 2 campaign. Highway 17 at night looks cool and moody, Ravenholm during the day looks hilarious in a fun way. Always up for another excuse to play HL2. Devs said release might be soon.
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Aug 27, 2021 11:36
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Zaphod42 posted:Serious? Dude I can't remember the projects I worked on 6 months ago in complete detail much less years ago. That's nothing. Again, I was kidding, especially with the last line, since he usually corrects former coworkers in detail after wishing them well. I know he's ok. I'm just really used to him tweeting about all of these details that he seems to be the only person who remembers, so it was a little weird to hear him say "I don't remember..." And yeah, HE says he has hyperthymesia, who knows if that's the case, or if he just somehow remembers a ton of stuff from his time at id 
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Aug 27, 2021 11:42
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90s Cringe Rock posted:brazilian shambler's waxed Just leave a lil shambling strip
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Aug 27, 2021 12:12
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Guillermus posted:Heretic 2 is actually better game than both Hexen 1 and 2. I definitely remember it as being better than everything else in Hexen / Heretic Too bad it's so hard to play now, took me forever to get a hold of it again a few years ago when I wanted to do a replay
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Aug 27, 2021 15:12
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Uh what's the deal with these prices for the Hexen 2 mission pack? I'm sure I remember it being at least £120 cheaper when I bought it a few years back 
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Aug 27, 2021 15:15
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S19ldqoLbos Civvie weighs in.
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Aug 27, 2021 16:12
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Him trying to talk around the fact that the anime sex game is an anime sex game is pretty funny.
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Aug 27, 2021 17:18
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Is Civvie Canadian? He sounds like Wayne from Letterkenny and I can't STOP thinking about that
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Aug 27, 2021 18:03
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Narcissus1916 posted:Is Civvie Canadian? He sounds like Wayne from Letterkenny and I can't STOP thinking about that
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Aug 27, 2021 18:12
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So Dread Templar's good now? I played the demo last year or whatever and found it pretty mediocre.
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Narcissus1916 posted:Is Civvie Canadian? He sounds like Wayne from Letterkenny and I can't STOP thinking about that 
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The Kins posted:He's from New England, apparently. Ah, so almost.  Also, I don't hear the Wayne comparison at all.
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Aug 27, 2021 18:17
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Mordja posted:So Dread Templar's good now? I played the demo last year or whatever and found it pretty mediocre. I bought the EA version and then refunded it in under an hour. Its not "bad" its just terribly generic to me and the buttrock is especially grating
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Same. I want to like Dread Templar but it's just kinda. There. I appreciate the fact that it exists though, I just think it's super cool how folks are able to make their own drat dream shooters.  I have ideas but not the skillset 
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Aug 27, 2021 18:41
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haveblue posted:I found an ogre somewhere (I want to say E1M6) that was completely unresponsive, he didn't react to me standing next to him or shooting him repeatedly. Made a good obstacle for avoiding the fiend, at least. Dredging up an post that's a few days old here, because I've finally tracked down where I've seen this bug and what might be the fix: https://www.quake-info-pool.net/q1/qcfix.htm Specifically it's the fixes which change lines like: self.nextthink = self.nextthink + random()*0.5; into self.nextthink = time + 0.1 + random()*0.5; Technical info on why that's a problem: self.nextthink is actually reset to zero by the Quake engine each time a think function runs, so the original line of code can be reduced to self.nextthink = Most of the time that's still OK, but there's something like a 1 in 2^32 chance of random() returning exactly zero. If that happens, the entire calculation = 0, and the ogre will never run the initialisation code that brings him to life.
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Aug 27, 2021 20:32
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KajiTheMelonMan posted:- Heretic
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I jumped back into Quake because of the remaster and I've just made it to episode 4. 1) I completely forgot just how good the music is. 2) Playing Quake is about 10x more stressful than Doom. I can't really explain why, maybe it's due to all the trap spawns. 3) This 30-ish year old game is way more fun than most things released in the last 10 years.
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Aug 27, 2021 21:59
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I find Doom way more stressful in harder levels for some reason. Quake feels a lot easier to me.
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The Kins posted:Indie FEAR-alike Trepang2 have released a new trailer to mark the news of their signing with Team 17. I'm glad that's still being worked on. It's been ages since I heard anything about it and was afraid it got canned. The world needs more quality F.E.A.R. style games. Even Selaco's looking like one, minus the slow-mo.
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Aug 27, 2021 22:21
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SeANMcBAY posted:I find Doom way more stressful in harder levels for some reason. Quake feels a lot easier to me. Maybe I'm just a big baby and Quake spooks me. On a side note, the item sound effects are iconic. I'm hard-pressed to think of another game where picking up ammo and health sounds so good.
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Dramicus posted:
I mean, the most common enemy has a loving grenade launcher. I definitely feel way more on-edge, in a good way, then when I'm blasting through Doom.
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Doom is more death by a thousand cuts. You die because an imp you didn't see in a corner of a room, a chaingunner you reacted too late, a mancubus fireball you couldn't avoid because you were busy avoiding Revenants rockets. The accumulation of little mistakes kill you.
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