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Voxels are slow as hell compared to sprites/models, at least in the way they are currently integrated into the Doom engine. Somebody made a voxel wall segment to see what it would look like, and, while pretty cool, just that one wall was enough to chug the engine noticeably. Ken Silverman (the
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M.Ciaster posted:Yeah performance was mostly what I was worried about. Plus, I have no idea how to make voxels in the first place so that was just me idly wondering about stuff If you're feeling masochistic, you can download SLAB6 which was the tool used to create the voxel models for Blood, Shadow Warrior, and the Doom Voxel Project.
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I've been inspired to replay Unreal. I remember that UT99 had higher-quality versions of some of the textures. Do I just install the HQ textures off UT99 disc 2 and copy over the texture files from UT to Unreal with the same file name? Also, is there a go-to modern renderer for UT99? There doesn't seem to be an equivalent to Unreal 227. Does the CD version of AvP Gold not work on modern Windows? The Steam page for AvP Classic seems to imply as much.
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Apr 10, 2015 13:21
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closeted republican posted:For Unreal 1, download the textures over at http://www.unrealtexture.com/Unreal/Website/Downloads/Textures/HighEnd/HighEnd.htm
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I was under the impression that Future Shock /SkyNet got decent but not great reviews. A 1996 FPS just isn't going do justice to the future war setting, though. I think I tried playing the demos on my 486 SX 25 back in the day but they nearly melted it 
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Apr 17, 2015 14:26
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Elliotw2 posted:AVP 2000 is actually really garbage if you're not playing in multiplayer, AVP2 is a considerably better game for solo play. It's kinda odd how the game is like halfway between the old-school wheelbarrow of levels and a more modern story-driven campaign. From what I remember there sorta is a story but you have to really pay attention or you'll miss it. Mostly the game just shoves you in familiar locales from the movies with little pretense.
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Apr 17, 2015 17:10
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The Kins posted:Y'know, I'm starting to get this vague feeling that the first couple generations of Lithtech were a bit arse. Call it a hunch...
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Apr 17, 2015 17:37
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closeted republican posted:There was a show? Oh god.
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Apr 18, 2015 00:11
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:I don't think I "get" Rise of the Triad. You get a pistol and a machinegun, some missile weapons that aren't different enough to justify having so many, and some magic weapons. The God Mode powerup is neat, yes, but Dog Mode isn't as funny the second, third, or 40th time. Shrooms and elastic mode are headache inducing. There's barely any enemy variety, health pickups are kind of dumb, and you don't collect ammo so that sensation of finding a secret stash of goodies is gone. I'm halfway through the second episode and I'm still finding pistol and machinegun pickups as if I didn't get those on the first level, although I'm guessing that's for pistol starts or something. I know it started out as Wolf 3D II before they lost the license or whatever, but I really hope that also caused it to be heavily delayed because a souped-up Wolf 3D engine was pretty lame in 1995.
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Apr 20, 2015 22:36
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For some reason I own KISS: Psycho Circus. Did it get good reviews at the time? All I remember is a mess of super dingy faded colors and gray, lots of gray. One dude had a whip, right? The memory is like of a dull headache. I don't remember any part of that game bringing me joy.
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Apr 23, 2015 01:35
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laserghost posted:Yup. It looks kinda goofy in-game, but works as a "something completely different from id's own creation". Can't find it anywhere, but I remember the 0.5 or 0.6 version had very absolutely terrible pinky, sort of bipedal mouth thing.
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Apr 26, 2015 15:53
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They were based in Dallas. It was probably just the first best subway map they found in an image search.
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Apr 28, 2015 03:09
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nexus6 posted:Where's a good place to start learning to make Doom mods/maps?
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May 5, 2015 19:31
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site posted:Unrelated, but has anyone with a win7 machine had any trouble getting Tron 2.0 to play? I installed my old copy, but as soon as the intro movie plays the drat thing locks up no matter what compatibility/administrator settings I have on. Honestly I'm not even sure what the problem is because I have other q3 engine games running just fine. From googling around a bit there appears to be a fan patch floating out there that will add widescreen support and presumably work on modern machines.
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May 5, 2015 19:34
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The Kins posted:That's not nearly the most interesting thing in the Blood alpha. The emails grousing about how
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May 14, 2015 03:02
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Ken Silverman is and the plan on how to get the gently caress out of their business relationship with 3DR are.
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Doesn't Bioshock 2 at least have a part where you go underwater? That was one of my biggest disappointments about the first game. They show you that whale swimming by early on and there's the initial cracking walkway but after that the game might as well have taken place on a moon base (the occasional ankle-deep water didn't really effect much). I was hoping to see more areas filling up with water, traverse through some completely flooded areas, wander through some weird underwater flora, and fight sharks or something.
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May 14, 2015 19:42
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toasterwarrior posted:It plays like a deathmatch round. I seem to remember that the original idea for Prey was like this, except I don't think it was supposed to have normal grunt enemies. So sorta a FPS Shadow of the Colossus without the Colossal part I guess.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Just curious, did you know about this?
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May 29, 2015 17:53
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Has there been a post about CyberMage: Darklight Awakening somewhere in this thread? I drooled at the screenshots of it in the PC Gamer review but my 486 wasn't hot enough to play it. Occasionally I still remember that the game exists and wonder about What Could Have Been. There seems to be some YT videos but it doesn't look all that amazing (reminds me of Marathon with those large, poorly animated sprites).
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SavageMessiah posted:I think I posted a description many many pages ago (or possibly the last old fps thread) that never made it to the OP, probably because I am terrible at writing things. I have it, cd, comic book and all. It's a pretty cool game, I played through it a few years ago and found that it held up pretty well. I didn't beat it because the difficulty of the last level combined with the goofy controls made it un-fun.  I'll probably never play it since I won't have nostalgia to smooth over the rough parts and 1995 controls. I'm kinda curious about the game though; does it have any neat tricks or ideas that haven't been done in a Doom mod somewhere? From what I remember the PC Gamer review talked about a cool battlefield level shrouded in fog but I didn't see a video of anything like that on YouTube.
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This is a long shot... I was looking through my old PC Gamer mags trying find the review of CyberMage when I saw an intriguing blurb about an upcoming game. This is the entirety of the description:quote:Creation  The screenshot is pretty murky but I think that's a ray swimming around some underwater canyon. This was from the March 1995 issue so it would seem it was almost done but I can't find any reference of it online. Does anybody know if it was released at all? EDIT: Turns out I just needed to read the next issue I had. This was a Bullfrog game (of course) that was cancelled in 1997(!) so I guess it wasn't working very well. I found the worthless 1995 trailer for it as well as a French video showing some snippets of gameplay. david_a fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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ookiimarukochan posted:A guy I was with school at did his work experience (2 weeks) at Bullfrog, and this was the upcoming game he was most excited about, so it's a real shame it was cancelled. Also, RIP Bullfrog. They might not have consistently made the best games, but they were by far the coolest games of their era.
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The level sizes in Undying are also very unfortunate. They chopped up the levels into annoyingly small chunks to fit on consoles of the time, but the console port never happened.
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It doesn't bounce so I don't think the flak cannon counts as a grenade launcher. The eightball is fun when you actually hit one of those slippery bastard Unreal enemies with a full set of grenades, though. I don't think it's the greatest grenade launcher since the reload time is kinda annoying though and most of the Unreal bestiary is too drat good at jumping out of the way for it to be very satisfying.
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Tippis posted:WASD origins 
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Zaphod42 posted:Gotta listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oxIrAX39M This is the real version; get that PS2 garbage outta here  Also nobody linked to Yahtzee's song?
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Aw, I liked the emulated version better. DDDAAAAMMMNNN IIIIIMMMM GGGGGGOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDD
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I'm pretty sure Doom Legacy still supports split screen. On the other hand, that engine has been mostly a buggy slurry of gimmick features since it still ran on DOS.
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Iikka made Doom levels too!
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7 different New Graphics! Wow! Half of them appear to be Barney judging by the cover. Truly a Good Great CD-Disc!
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Doesn't Blood have some bug where the difficulty level gets maxed out whenever you save/load or was that another game?
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Severed posted:I poked around the videos a bit and found this:  The fact that it's 50 minutes long is the most embarrassing part.
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Heavy Metal posted:General question if it goes in here, any recommendations for a really good fast-paced classic 90s or early 2000s shooter I may have missed? Especially with good level design pre-Serious Sam/Painkiller open kill fields style? (Though I like that too). I've played most I think, at least most of the notable ones, just throwing this out there. Jedi Knight, the first one, I had somehow missed that until a few years ago for example. Shot in the dark here I know.
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Heavy Metal posted:Thanks. I've been meaning to play Riddick, have that on GoG. I do dig Shogo, have never played AvP other than a demo I think. Is the first one by Rebellion the best single-player wise? I actually dig their game Dredd vs Death so hey, AvP could be a fun one to try. I'm playing through the game now but got sidetracked with something else after finishing the Alien campaign.
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khwarezm posted:So I've been playing unreal gold, and the enemies and weapons are interesting, but Jesus Christ this game has a really bad case of 'lovely Water level' syndrome. 
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closeted republican posted:Chizra sucks when you first play though it, but it becomes one of your favorites in a replay. Trivial issues like "fun" or "gameplay" (  ) aside, that level gets a free pass from me forever because when I played it back in '98 on my Voodoo2 I thought it was the most beautiful level ever created (I plead the 5th on my thoughts of replaying it for the first time in 13 years a few months ago). The mysterious jungle temple theme is still the coolest one in the game and always reminds me of Indiana Jones & Tintin. The only other theme I liked nearly as much was the floating islands. Either one is much better than slogging through the half-dozen gargantuan spaceships in the game.
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Shadow Hog posted:Chizra does pretty much have the best music in the game, gonna agree with that.
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SparkTR posted:Did Chasm The Rift ever get noticed for its dismemberment system back in the day? I've been playing it a bit and not only is it visual pretty awesome when an enemy pops after a shotgun blast, but it has gameplay implications as well. For example you can aim your shot to take off a soldiers weapon arm, essentially removing them as a threat while you shoot at other guys. I mean, I know tech moved faster back then but coming out only a year after Quake I feel it did some interesting stuff there. But no, I'm pretty sure nobody took notice of Chasm for any reason.
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I played through Doom 2 for the first time in a decade or so using this newfangled Brutal Doom thing that I had never bothered with before. Somebody found these books in a library discard pile and gave them to me because they knew I was a big Doom fan:  The strategy guide actually came in handy! It's far easier to look up a map in there than browsing doomwiki.org on a phone trying to find where the %*$# that switch is. One level I got stuck in because I had thrown a grenade into a room and coated it with blood, completely hiding a switch. BRUTAL Overall the book is about as bad as you would expect. The multiplayer guide looks like he grabbed a marine training manual and copy-pasted some BS in there without ever play testing it.  (click for readable) Yeah, sure, "echelon right." Nobody in the history of mankind has ever played coop Doom like that. There's also a Romero interview in the back, but nothing too interesting. Some hype for Quake which was still in the Hammertime phase. Mr Ed Dille seemed to refer to Romero as the coding genius of id which was a bit odd but I'm sure he didn't go out of his way to correct him. The Doom book seems to have slightly more effort behind it since it includes screenshots in the level descriptions instead of just an annotated map and wall'o'text description. It even includes E4! As for the game, Doom 2 was less tedious than I remember, although some of those bullshit traps become bullshit cubed with Brutal Doom. FU Sandy for that stupid rocket launcher trap in Map 9: The Pit. I thought Brutal Doom was goofy but amusing. I feel like there's probably features I'm missing but whatever.
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