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This Voidpoint/3DR poo poo is disappointing but not surprising. Top 4: Quake 2 Half-Life 1 (mainly because of mods) Soldier of Fortune FEAR 1
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They should've done Soldier of Fortune first before Kingpin.
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Sep 6, 2020 21:43
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Lemon-Lime posted:As someone who replayed SoF 1 and 2 a couple of years back I can tell you that in actual fact neither game is particularly fun or interesting outside of the gore system. Counterpoint, exploding neo nazis with the microwave gun is actually very fun. e: What the gently caress's up with these remasters all having the "Reloaded" subtitle? 
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Sep 6, 2020 22:52
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Guillermus posted:Agreed, SoF games are still fun imo (I kinda prefer 1 to 2). SoF1 MP is fun to play still. I haven't tried to play in years but I remember for a while SOF1 MP was just every server having the infinite ammo cvar turned on and everybody runs around with shotguns.  I also prefer 1 to 2. 2 just feels weird now, like they tried making a tactical shooter but it's not quite there.
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Sep 6, 2020 23:30
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It's very cool that some hanger on dipshit from the last dying days of OG 3D Realms was able to bring the company back Pet Semetary style. Say what you will about the incompetency of George and Scott but I'm not sure "willingly associate with known neo Nazis" is a business move they would have made
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Sep 7, 2020 15:38
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Yeah to me these are the same thing. I am very smart.
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Sep 7, 2020 17:38
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SeANMcBAY posted:I’ve been looking at various videos of old FPS games I’ve missed and Solider of Fortune 1 looks fun. Am I wrong to assume this? It is pretty fun. The gore system goes a long way to making it entertaining, but the game's also got a pretty decent set of weapons. Some of the realism settings (like the weapon weight system) can get in the way on the default higher difficulty settings, but the game also gives you the option to completely tweak everything difficulty-wise so you can, say, carry every gun in the game and make the monster closets spawn infinitely but they're also really stupid and have the aim of Star Wars stormtroopers. The second game, like I said a page or two ago, is a really weird early 2000s attempt at a tactical shooter. It predates Call of Duty ironsights style gameplay and just features a ton of nasty hitscanners that will really kick your rear end while they throw grenades at you with pinpoint accuracy. SOF2 isn't completely terrible but the most fun is had setting the difficulty all the way down. The third game, not even by Raven Software, is an incredibly lovely and weird budget COD ripoff. If my memory serves me correctly, it was a completely unrelated game that Activision slapped the SOF name onto.
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Sep 7, 2020 19:48
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Volte posted:I don't think Duke has much to do with it specifically, it's just that the retro FPS scene has very long roots. It was a community full of edgy teenagers in the 90s and some people never grew out of it. I was not surprised when I found out the Ion Fury lead dev is TerminX, who I remember from the 3D Realms forum in like 1998. I don't remember any of his posts or anything specifically but judging by the stuff I do remember about interacting with people from that community, that whole thing makes a lot of sense in context. His meltdown in the DNF thread sure was something. 
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Sep 8, 2020 14:13
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:I have played approxiamately zero (0) FPSes that replicate the Remington 870 with folded stock that Sarah Connor uses in Terminator 2: Judgement Day and I have a good frown about this fact at least once a day. You can do this in Payday 2.
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Sep 13, 2020 11:32
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Did they ever get around to fixing the starting weapons to not be rear end? It's a game that makes such a poor first impression and gives you the completely wrong idea about what the gunfeel of the game is like, which aside from those starting weapons is really good. They're not completely terrible now, but you'll still want to move on from them as fast as you can.
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Sep 14, 2020 01:50
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SeANMcBAY posted:Has anyone tried that Goldeneye remake from a decade ago that replaced Brosan with Craig? How is it? I really want to play some Goldeneye but N64 emulation always sucks poo poo for me. I thought it was fine, it really is just a reskinned Call of Duty. The stealth mechanics are incredibly simple, and the highest difficulty takes away health regen in favour of GE64 style armor vest pickups if that's your thing. It make take some doing to find since Activision lost the Bond license almost a decade ago and all those games got pulled from digital storefronts.
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Sep 16, 2020 20:01
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Barudak posted:I do not understand remaking XIII and cutting the one thing everyone loved about it which was the completely unique artstyle mixing with the sound design to create comic book panel look. That the rest of the trailer is trying to hype up XIII's completely bog standard and small arsenal is even more baffling. Yeah I'm interested to see what, if anything, they change gameplay wise. Would love to see the forced stealth stuff get the axe because there's a lot of it, but it just looks like they changed the art style (not for the better) and not much else.
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Oct 18, 2020 11:32
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:
I'm watching video of the first level now and it's just... how the hell did they gently caress this up this badly? I don't even know if I can still refund if I bought it like 6 months ago. It's installing now anyway...
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Nov 11, 2020 00:34
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I remember the last couple of levels of SS3 being "better". Game would've been more fun if it let you rip with the Devastator shotgun. Made it about half an hour through the XIII remake before giving up and requesting a refund. It's just too weird and jank. How the hell hard could it have been to just throw in widescreen support and upres the assets? Also they don't even have proper multiplayer or bot match. Completely hosed the dog.
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Nov 11, 2020 20:53
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I still remember playing a fuckton out of the XIII demo when I was younger. It had the opening level of the game and that poo poo was burned into my brain. Even taking away the weird changes like no throwing knives and immediately granting you dual wielding, the shooting just felt completely off. Grafting on COD mechanics (superfluous ADS, sprint and limited guns) made it worse and completely loving up even the cutscenes was kind of the last straw. They're all in-engine, except the intro, which reuses the original movie file except now its framed as archival footage being watched by some random FBI agent. Had to open a manual support ticket and ask for a refund because the regular refund system auto rejected it for being longer than 2 weeks, even though it was a preorder. 
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Nov 12, 2020 20:59
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Restrained Crown Posse posted:I have a friend who is still going to buy the remake of XIII "because at least it has split screen". You should let him know it doesn't even have the full map selection of the original release.
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Nov 14, 2020 14:16
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Overbite posted:Also get rid of the sniper rifle those are never fun. What are you talking about, the homing bullets are awesome.
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Dec 2, 2020 02:21
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I miss Action Half-Life and will always be bummed that the Source port never took off.
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Dec 12, 2020 20:33
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Maybe you shouldn't talk about shipping games, George. https://twitter.com/georgebsocial/status/1337557508710408193
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Dec 13, 2020 12:58
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IIRC it's somewhat a bit of both. Charlie Wiederhold made an internet post a while back breaking down exactly how much of the E3 2001 trailer was faked and what wasn't and a good amount of it was. Then fast forward several years and 3D Realms forums hanger-on Frederik Schreiber ended up buying 3DR's remnants and was able to find and play the old builds claiming they were nearly complete. Whether or not they see the light of day at this point is completely up to Randy and he'd rather just vaguetweet about it once every few years than actually do anything.
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Dec 14, 2020 01:57
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Grabbed the first code. The second code was already dead when I tried that one first.
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Dec 18, 2020 20:42
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Action Half-Life was pretty good.
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Jan 26, 2021 22:52
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Craig Goldeneye was fine. They actually put some effort into it with modifying the story to fit the Craig era; the worst part is excising Boris entirely. The way to play it is to crank the difficulty up which gives you the max amount of objectives in each mission and disables health regen. It's a bit simplistic in gameplay presumably because it was originally a Wii game. Bodies disappear instantly and stealth is largely "figure out the order in which to headshot each guard with your silenced pistol so they don't see each other before their corpses fade away".
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Jan 30, 2021 01:53
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The PC version of Nightfire is so loving bad it doesn't have any hit indicators for when you're being shot, you just lose bars of your health. It's also got some extremely obnoxious headbob.
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Jan 31, 2021 00:12
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catlord posted:Didn't that have a tie-in level to the movie coming out around the same time (Skyfall? I've managed to miss all the Craig films), but they didn't want to spoil anything so they released the last level of the game as DLC, then Activision lost the license so now you can't play the final level (not a bonus level, one that actually ties into the story) any more unless you buy the WiiU version, which was a later port so came out after the movie and had the DLC added into the base game? It's extra bad because it takes a scene from pretty early in the movie and makes it a boss fight and removes all the context surrounding it.
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Jan 31, 2021 02:19
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dracula vladdy AF posted:Also is it worth trying the PC version of Nightfire? No. E: since we're still on the subject that Goldeneye stream the other day is now archived and David Doak showed up on it at one point apparently. https://twitter.com/Graslu00/status/1355325394308759552?s=19 UnknownMercenary fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Jan 31, 2021 |
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Jan 31, 2021 05:52
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They never ever again reached the amazing highs of the FEAR 1 shotgun. The shotguns in FEAR 2 were loving trash and I remember nothing about the FEAR 3 shotgun.
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Feb 7, 2021 11:36
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victrix posted:'What was that Q1 mod... Arcane... Arcane something, dimensions? Yeah right, wonder if Civvie did a video on that, let's search. Hmm guess not. Wait something on rpgcodex.net about it? Weird, let's go see...' Your first mistake was going to RPG Codex.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:01
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The only Gman video I watched was about Vietcong and most of it was him getting mad that it was an early 2000s tactical shooter.
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Mar 14, 2021 20:45
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What if we just airdrop 100 rangers onto q3dm17?
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Mar 18, 2021 02:01
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New Colossus is a lot more tolerable once you get the semi auto upgrade for the assault rifle and start dual wielding that exclusively.
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Apr 11, 2021 18:01
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It was a garbage bullet spongey mess at launch, with a really stupid and nonsensical enemy weakness system. The co-op barely worked as well. There weren't checkpoints of any kind so dying at the final boss encounter of a mission sent you all the way back to the start. I think some of these issues were eventually patched but it was really rough out of the gate.
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Apr 12, 2021 14:21
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It had a really dumb vulnerability system where certain enemies would only take damage to certain guns, which were denoted by a bunch of very similar looking icons. It didn't make much sense and it was difficult to parse in the heat of the moment. Looking at the patchnotes, there's a line that says "Took a variety of actions to reduce the feeling of enemy “bullet sponginess”" but doesn't specify further. I just remember early on trying to use a shotgun in close quarters and it was ineffective because of their stupid damage system and it was loving terrible.
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Apr 12, 2021 20:37
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Goddamn Redneck Rampage is worse than I remember. I never finished it and only played it with cheats on but it seems so loving terrible.Weedle posted:true i was misremembering the tweet. in the one i was thinking of he was saying poor sales of syphon filter dark mirror killed the franchise, which i thought was odd because that game got a sequel Not to defend the guy because the original statement was stupid, but him complaining about the PSP having a huge piracy problem makes sense. Anecdotally speaking, I was literally the only person I knew out of like a dozen people who bought a PSP who also bothered to actually buy games for it. Syphon Filter Dark Mirror was dope as gently caress, though the sequel wasn't as good (and also ended up not buying that one  )
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Apr 21, 2021 18:59
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Farm Frenzy posted:I did not notice any weird fetish poo poo in the game. theres lots of anime girls but not porn or anything like that that I can recall. its a completely serviceable shooter with some fun mechanics I find it weird that the Early FPS thread has declared a game with excessive gore to be an outlet for the developer's gore fetish. Surely there haven't been any classic FPS games with lots of gibs. Also the goon kneejerk to label anything anime related as porn. The game was recommended to me through Steam's algorithm a while back and nothing looked particularly 'porny' to me; it just looks like another indie shooter.
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May 3, 2021 12:38
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Speaking of games with cursed Randy versions I finally got around to playing the console version of 007 Nightfire, which a lot of people swear is a both a really good FPS and one of the better ones that EA put out with the license. It certainly peaks very early on with a couple of open-ish missions before slamming down hard on linearity and some binary pass/fail bullshit in the second half. The underwater stealth driving mission is absolute loving dogshit, same with the final level where you float around in space defusing nuclear missiles. There's also an extended sniper sequence in the game that feels like Medal of Honor's snipertown but worse - probably works better in an emulator with save states but I was working with original hardware. Feel mixed on it overall but it's still better than Randy's version. After this the only Bond FPS that I haven't played would be TWINE...
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May 28, 2021 02:42
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I wonder if people still play Action Quake 2 in 2021.
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May 30, 2021 00:28
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Groovelord Neato posted:The only thing I remember from Quake 4 is the stroggification scene. It's got some really lovely railshooting segments in the first hour from what I remember. And not much else aside from the stroggification part, which really doesn't change much wrt gameplay.
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May 31, 2021 02:00
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david_a posted:What’s the best idtech 4 game? Prey? The Dark Mod? I'll go to bat for Wolf '09.
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Yeah the RWS guys have flirted with the alt-right for years now. They had Milo do a voice in that Postal 2 DLC that came out a few years back, which also had a bunch of Gamergate references if you knew where to look for 'em. It was kind of inevitable given, well, the Postal series as a whole really.
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