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I had that exact disc and several others from the same series. (Nice pre-release screenshot and degreelessness mode) There were also all kinds of clipart and JPG collections available with similar cover styles, obviously ripped from various BBSes. Some of them even had pictures of ladies with no clothes on 
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SeANMcBAY posted:I don't think Doom mapping would be nearly as prevalent today if we just had the Doom 1 roster. Absolutely agreed. Doom 2 adds essential mid-tier monsters that were sorely missing from Doom. They make combat more more varied and challenging. Doom with no Arch-Vile? No Revenant?! No thanks.
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Oct 10, 2022 19:39
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The Hell Knight is a big Imp, basically. More damage, more health, same basic attack pattern, same strategy needed against them, except they don't go down in a single shotgun blast.
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Oct 11, 2022 16:55
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Tiny Timbs posted:Cultic REALLY needs some "CRUDUX CRUOs" To be fair, it is hard to match the most characterful enemies in any FPS ever. MARANAX INFIRMUX!
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Oct 15, 2022 09:52
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I loved the assault mode, and whatever mode it was where you had to take over connected bases in order to win. Onslaught  UT 2004 was just plain old good fun.
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Oct 20, 2022 14:00
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Voxel Doom works really well because at a distance the monsters look exactly like their sprites and they still have their animation frames and eight distinct rotations to them. It's only when you get close that the added depth becomes obvious.
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Oct 23, 2022 17:38
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Blood has style and panache. It's the FPS equivalent of a Harryhausen stop-motion film.
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Oct 25, 2022 17:41
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The sprite rotation in Cultic is wrong and the dev says it's deliberate and will not be changed. 0/10.
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Oct 31, 2022 17:05
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Commander Keen 4 is still fantastic. And 5 and 6, of course. Certainly in the running to be my favorite games ever.
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site posted:two fallout 1 gzdoom games lol this should be interesting Hell yeah.
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I should dig out my Wii and play Metroid Prime again.SeANMcBAY posted:I didn't know that about PS2. GameCube games tended to look better to me usually. Yeah, GC and Xbox were jostling for visual quality, PS2's primary strength was the huge library of games. For games that came out on all three platforms – like Soul Calibur 2 – the difference was noticable. Of course the Xbox could do 720p on a lot of games, so it was probably ahead on raw power, but developers pulled some real magic on the GC. RE4 is another great example, it had to be reduced graphically to run well on the PS2.
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Between my sister and I, we have GC, Wii, Wii U, Switch, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, PS4, plus a few generations of GBA, 3DS and even a PSP. My GC is an early enough model that it has the digital AV port for the silly expensive component cable, which I've never tried hunting down, because gently caress that. Sticking with just one system seems silly, unless of course it's the mighty PC, choice of kings.
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Nov 9, 2022 07:09
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Zelda and Mario are still extremely good choices, Metroid too now that they've sort of started thinking about that franchise again. I don't think there are many games I've enjoyed quite as much as Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. WW is very high on the list for my favorite game ever.
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Counterpoint: it has Peter Stormare chewing the scenery and stealing the show. I like Q4. It's certainly not amazing, but it's solid.
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juggalo baby coffin posted:i was thinking about this earlier, whats everybody's favourite game in terms of sound design? like for whatever reason Either Quake or Half-Life.
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Serephina posted:Apparently '99, from the comments. Still kinda amazing how fast tech was moving back then, it was barely three and a half years between Quake1, Unreal, and Quake3. 1991 - Hovertank 3D, Catacomb 3-D 1992 - Wolfenstein 3D 1993 - Doom 1994 - Doom 2, Heretic 1995 - Hexen, Dark Forces, Descent 1996 - Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Descent 2 1997 - Quake 2, Blood, Shadow Warrior, Hexen 2 1998 - Unreal, Heretic 2 1999 - Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Descent 3 Things were moving fast in the 90s. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Dec 12, 2022 |
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Sir Lemming posted:Yeah I've been on a Descent kick lately and I was shocked to see that D3 was only 3 years after D2. In my mind it was this huge generational leap. Of course I probably did have to wait another year or two after it came out since my PC probably wasn't up to snuff yet. I still can't wrap my head around there only being ~1½ years between Quake and Quake 2, to me it felt like they were 4 or 5 years apart.
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repiv posted:that was a factor, but soft shadows are usually desirable for aesthetic reasons so a technique that can only model razor sharp shadows was probably doomed regardless of the patent situation 
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Groovelord Neato posted:UT99 is the goat and I'm not afraid to say it. It's solidly in the top 5 of games I've spent the most time playing. So many great mods and mutators, low gravity instagib matches are always a favorite. Still doesn't beat Quake 3
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Make Unreal up to UT2004 open source, Epic!
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LvK posted:I just found out that there's an unused voice clip in Quake Champions that announces Commander Keen and I've never been so sad that the game wasn't a hit It would have to be genocidal Keen from the first trilogy, not the family-friendly stun gun Keen from the later games.
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Bumhead posted:For me, the absolute best thing about Steam is that it's currently our closest collective library of the history of videogames. I was skeptical in the beginning (and preferred Doom 2 to Half-Life 2), but I quickly became a convert and now I have 700+ games on my account. Valve have done great things for PC gaming and for gaming on Linux in particular. I recently bought a Steam Deck and its dock, and now I have gaming setup that's mostly as straight-forward and grab-it-and-go as a Nintendo Switch. It has the same mobile+docked experience, but with my entire Steam library plus anything I can install manually on Linux, it rules. I can play RDR2 on a handheld device with surprisingly good performance, it's wild. Not to mention that basically every old-school FPS can run perfectly thanks to amazing source ports. Stick+gyro aiming takes some getting used to, but I can see how you could become really accurate quote easily.
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david_a posted:I haven’t really looked at the Deck closely; you can dock it and basically turn it into a normal PC? Yes, more or less. The official dock is just a USB-C dock in a Deck-friendly form factor, and the deck is normal PC hardware with an AMD APU, 16GB DDR5 and an NVMe SSD. Any USB-C DisplayPort or HDMI dock should work (not DisplayLink). SteamOS is based on Arch Linux, with the Steam Deck UI and configuration preinstalled. If you select Switch to Desktop in the power menu, it'll put you on a pretty standard KDE Plasma desktop. The biggest difference from a normal Linux install is that the root directory is immutable, so you can't install software normally. Luckily most software is available as Flatpaks and can be installed through Discover, KDE's "app store". I'm using my Deck as a laptop, with a tablet stand plus a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. It works surprisingly well, though the 7" screen is on the smallish side.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Honestly, charm and wackiness are kind of all it has going for it, and I say this as a fan. And still the best gibs ever.
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The most important thing about 40K lore is that they're all the baddies. Except maybe the Orks. They're just intergalactic football hooligans on a massive never-ending bender.
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