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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I had zero issues with the cliffhanger. I mean, they're telling a story, of COURSE there's going to be a 3rd one, so who cares? The game, I felt, was long enough, I was ok with them not shoe-horning in an earth level or two at the end of what we already got. I guess when you run out of money (because stuff like Oni didn't really sell brilliantly) you take the offers that come your way.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about the free, undocumented hard drive formatting tool that was Myth 2. Well, I can't imagine Oni helped much either in the aftermath of that- they spun off a whole other studio to make it and it did pretty poorly if I remember rightly.
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Mak0rz posted:Isn't Steam's market share massive compared to those platforms though? Last I saw those numbers was a few years ago so maybe it is different now. Yeah, I suspect most people only bother with EA games on it, but they've probably got a decent user base from stuff like Mass Effect 3 that never got a release anywhere else and that sold really well.
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Sep 13, 2017 15:57
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Hey, does Unreal 2 count as an "early FPS"? Because I've suddenly got a hankering to play it and I'm wondering if it's worth me grabbing it from GoG.
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Sep 20, 2017 10:23
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The main thing I remember of the game was the "defend this point with laser fences and poo poo" sections, which I don't think I'd seen anything like in a game up to that point.
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Sep 20, 2017 10:52
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Random story: I remember playing the first Ghost Recon with some guy that I worked with, he gave me a copy of it which also included 'extensive gun mods', and he would talk for hours about 'how I modded <this gun> to be more realistic' and 'I had to change <other gun> because I needed something slightly cheaty, but still kind of real'. He went on and on and on, and I'm thinking 'whoa, neat! I wonder what these look like...' Yeah, I remember getting a huge pack of new guns for the first Rainbow 6 (or maybe Rogue Spear) and while it had a picture of each gun to sit in your HUD, there were no in game models whatsoever and I just took the minigun all the time.
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Sep 20, 2017 14:08
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haveblue posted:The main thing I remember about Unreal 2 is this front page article about it which is probably now incredibly dated but still accurate insofar as the game sucks. This contains a diss of Space 1999 so he lost me.
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Sep 20, 2017 14:24
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No director in the world was going to make the "bulldozing a crashed fighter into space" scene any good.
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Sep 24, 2017 15:33
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Regular Nintendo posted:What gave you this hankering? I had U2 back in the day and it was legit one of the most boring fps experiences I've ever seen. I'm talking like, a year later I thought "there's no way it's as bad as I remember" and I'd reinstall and sure enough, it was. I just remembered the defence missions being pretty fun and different for the time and was wondering if they held up. Don't worry, based on the response here I've no intention of grabbing it from GoG and playing it again, I'm happy enough knowing it's rubbish.
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Sep 26, 2017 09:10
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Lemon-Lime posted:You haven't experienced SWAT4 properly until you've played it with other people and spent the entire game tasering and beanbag shotgunning each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E33Z0RPWuHs Basically like this but with every shot hitting a teammate.
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Sep 29, 2017 12:13
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The Kins posted:
And then the narrator says "No, John, you are the demons."
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Wamdoodle posted:Ha! I guess Max is kinda like the Doom Marine in that he mows down whoever is opposing him in droves. The main difference is that Doom Marine isn't ever anxious or conflicted, and he never monologues.
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I remember before the Xbox launched in the UK, one of the people at the branch of Game I worked at bought one in the US and brought it in. After we played the opening of Halo there was a bit of a pause and the store manager said "Well that makes the PS2 look like a big pile of poo poo then." I mean, it didn't really, but the feeling at the time was very much "gently caress, how did they manage this on a console?" At the time it was pretty staggering.
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haveblue posted:The most fun I've ever had an in MP game was a custom match in one of the Haloes where you respawned with a random weapon and kill counting on the scoreboard was disabled (by selecting one of the objective modes but everyone agreed to ignore it and just shoot each other). No competition, no resentment, just gleefully exploding over and over for as long as everyone wants. You're a better person than me, because the most fun I had in an MP game was in gun game mode in CoD Black Ops where I repeatedly stabbed people which caused them to drop back down the rankings.
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Oct 19, 2017 13:56
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And very high bullet damage, and locational damage as well. Man, AQ2 just felt really good to play.
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Oct 19, 2017 22:48
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Guillermus posted:Hitman 1 was really ahead of its time with ragdolls and cool factor. I loved that the first mission, the typical sniping from a roof could be made from different spots and in one you could avoid the chopper that came afterwards for you. Or even kill the gunner and leg it. That first mission really was cool. Up the lift, assemble your rifle, shoot the dude, drop the rifle, leave. It did a really good job of making you feel like a hitman from a movie.
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Nov 15, 2017 15:07
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I think you could do a Trespasser remake now and have it work as intended, and it'd be a lot of fun. I bet all the voiceover stuff from Richard Attenborough and Minnie Driver is either in terrible quality audio files or completely destroyed though. Edit: The studio that made it was bought by EA, changed names three times and now does additional content for Battlefield games, so yeah, that poo poo is long gone. Fil5000 fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Nov 16, 2017 |
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SwissCM posted:A remake of Tresspasser feels obvious to me. All the technical elements for it to work are in place now, even the weird-rear end hands system could be replaced by VR controls. Yeah, and just discarded for non VR users. I like that they tried to do something different with the controls but gently caress me, it's a total mess to actually play.
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Guillermus posted:Dredd 2012 is loving awesome and I hope the rumours of netflix doing a series with Karl Urban are right. Yeah, they nailed both Dredd as a character and the overall aesthetic really well. I can't quite work out how Rebellion haven't managed to make an actual good Dredd game.
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Dec 9, 2017 18:40
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david_a posted:Speaking of terrible made-for-TV looking games, everyone’s favorite Unreal engine Doom remake is apparently still trucking. Behold the most vicious punching animation mankind has ever seen: That super shotgun is doing pretty well considering he keeps stuffing new shells in and not ejecting the spent ones.
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Dec 29, 2017 16:30
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Groovelord Neato posted:FreeSpace 3. Don't you dare make people think about this. It's been two decades and I'm just about past the idea that this might ever happen
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Fame Douglas posted:I'd take a Starlancer 2 instead, if Freespace 3 isn't in the cards. Star Wars: Squadrons was very unfulfilling. There is extremely good reason to believe that the creative team behind Starlancer have all forgotten how to make actual games over the last decade and now can only make assets and jpegs of those assets.
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Jul 27, 2021 15:47
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Calico cut pants! If you don't give you get a really loud video of the blast pit tentacles screaming about pissing your pants
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Aug 12, 2021 22:09
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Man, I really need to play NOLF2 again, it was a ton of fun. I must have the disc around here somewhere. It's a crying shame we'll never get a third one.
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Convex posted:This month's Retro Gamer magazine has a special retrospective on Capstone software, and lists their 'essential games' as: From somewhere deep beneath the ground I can FEEL Civvie laughing himself to death at this
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We doing bad 90s videogame adverts?   That last one doesn't even make sense because the Germans are the good guys.
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Convex posted:
"We're all trying to figure out who opened that portal!"
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Mordja posted:I assume you are talking about SPACE MARINE but SPACE MARINE was dope and not a Gears clone anyways. Yeah it kicked rear end, especially when you got a jump pack and a thunder hammer.
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:I've been staring at the Doom 3 pistol for about 20 minutes now, thinking "what the gently caress": It looks like they're going for Deckard's gun in Blade Runner without knowing how guns operate even slightly
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Convex posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1978800/AQtion/ Oh god, right in my nostalgia.
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The thing that always made me laugh about the SS2 assault rifle is that the degradation in that game is so bad you couldn't fire an entire extended mag from a pristine one without it breaking on you.
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In case anyone inexplicably wants to see more of Chaser than Civvie crammed in to his video, forum goon Giragast did an LP of it twelve years ago and it's a fun time. https://lparchive.org/Chaser/ (although his best work is probably his Project IGI LP) I'm old enough that I'm having nostalgia for old LPs of even older games.
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anilEhilated posted:I think it's the lack of a dedicated mod scene. Doom WADs have been pushed far above and beyond the limitations of the original over all those years. Build, meanwhile, has Death Wish and... That's really it, isn't it? Which is odd because back in the day Build had a WAY easier level editor to work with than Doom did. Or at least that's how I remember it, because I used to make lovely Doom and DN3D maps to deathmatch in with my friends and I could get a decent one up and running in build a lot quicker.
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Lemon-Lime posted:This is a problem with sniper rifles, which should not be in any multiplayer video game, not with PvPvE. Snipers either seem to be the best gun in a multiplayer game or they feel horribly underpowered, there doesn't seem to be a lot of wiggle room inbetween those extremes.
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Gearbox CAN make decent games. The Borderlands series is good at what it's trying to do, even if that thing isn't to my taste a lot of the time. They just happen to also make plenty of poo poo (and then try to pretend that actually it was someone else that made the poo poo).
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:https://twitter.com/BuildEnginePics/status/1594417632853139457?t=4llc1Hznin8P17Mblt4_vw&s=19 Just imagine what Capstone could have done with that.
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skasion posted:Did he not already? See a lot of these games are copy pasted, most of the titles, gameplay mechanics, so it gets a little confusing.
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PsyClops posted:I forget, did they ever fix the weird way shotguns handled in SW2? It felt less like 'here's some pellets, get close to end a man' and more like 'you have a 45 degree blast radius in front of you when you pull the trigger and everyone in the radius eats the same damage.' I think that's how shotguns in Payday 2 worked (the "everyone that gets hit takes full damage" part anyway) and it made shotguns feel pretty cool and good
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HolyKrap posted:Maybe he just forgot his Duke Nukem flash drive in the bathroom and the janitor took it No one noticed it was there for ages because it was buried sixteen folders deep in child pornography.
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Barudak posted:Fun thing I learned, DOS Box does not seem to like having to work with a Japanese keyboard. Ah well a little key rebinding and Witchaven 2 is working just as crap as you'd think, but on purpose. I would just like to add my voice to the bewildered masses. "Duke Nukem 3D does not exist quite how I want it so I'm going to buy the video game equivalent of a lobotomy and it's sequel, a game even Civvie refused to play" is a hell of a take. Godspeed, Barudak.
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