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It doesn't help that there's an enemy type that can only be permanently killed with explosions. The grenade launcher was probably meant to be the iconic weapon since it's something that could not exist in that form in a 2.5D engine, but the RL is so much more usable
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In my headcanon, the night sentinels rescued the doom slayer from being trapped under the ceiling that fell on him after he plasmaed at the cyberdemon who had fired the rocket missiles at him
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DoombatINC posted:Nothing beats the original Marathon when it comes to how a HUD should be - noisy, belabored, physically diegetic and two-thirds of the motherfucking screen Anything that’s static hud is pixels your 68030 doesn’t have to rasterize 
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Mordja posted:OK but did they hire FakeFactory? What's Alyx look like? "Orbifold Studios" is a Voltron-like amalgamation of several mod teams but not that one so Alyx will probably be OK or at least not that bad
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Doom 2016 was one of the few games that could do a solid 1080p60 on PS4
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Convex posted:MP2 has the best version of the theme tune It also has Late Goodbye, the first and far from the last time Remedy worked with Poets of the Fall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzsiE44Lz_w
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khwarezm posted:Can somebody give me a primer on what Embracer group is why they seemed to be in the process of destroying the European games industry? The Embracer business plan was basically: -Take out loans -Buy out as many game studios as they can -Sell the huge bundle of game studios to the Saudi sovereign wealth fund for more than the cost of the loans -Walk away with a profit But then the financial winds changed and the Saudis declined to buy, leaving Embracer with a huge pile of game studios and also a huge pile of debt. They're taking the axe to the former in hopes that it can make the latter go away or at least become smaller Someone could theoretically buy them out of the remaining studios, but it would take an awful lot of money and there aren't a lot of players with that kind of money to spend and also that kind of faith in video games
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chaosapiant posted:Is there a reference or something I can read about the Saudi company buyout stuff? That's the first I've heard of that piece. This is the source Wikipedia used for that claim: https://www.axios.com/2023/08/14/saudi-arabia-savvy-games-embracer-group
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It was a good twist, the mistake was the game continuing for several hours after that
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Boltgun just needs some tweaks like nav points, better communication that you're taking damage, and toning down those loving champions
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Milo and POTUS posted:Did you not have that terrible comic in the funny section? You mean The Wizard of Eye Dee?
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Mythbusters should have considered ammo weight when they had a guy strap on a dozen guns and run an obstacle course
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On top of cool rendering tricks Dark Forces also supported rotating brushes and a bunch of other things. I never dug into it but it was probably as scriptable as, say, Hexen. Levels had triggered voice lines and narratives, integrated cutscenes, complicated switch-driven mechanisms, and other stuff
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I beat Doom Eternal, so you almost certainly don't fight multiple marauders in the base game
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Dark Forces remaster is pricy but good. It looks exactly like I remember it (which means it looks significantly better than the original actually did) Forgot how many of those goddamn land mines there were, though, and how often they were hidden in piles of pickups
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In Training posted:Oh yeah I forgot they're making a marathon reboot. Isn't it like. A PUBG clone or something. It's been described as an extraction shooter, so more of a Tarkov clone, or at least that's their go-to inspiration example. No in-game material has been shown and it's currently targeting 2025
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Marathon 1 had an arsenal mod or two, but Infinity made the concept unviable with changes to how its mod support worked
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KISS Psycho Circus was one of the very few games to receive a positive review on the SA front page back in the day
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anilEhilated posted:Do the episodes add any guns? HL2's lackluster arsenal is the main reason I never went back to it. Other than the throwable bombs in the episode 2 finale, no Fil5000 posted:Yeah but leaving it on a massive cliffhanger blows, given they never got around to following up on it. Does (HL: Alyx) retconning it out of existence with time travel fuckery count as following up on it?
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Just a necessary step on the evolution of the genre towards its ultimate form: a game where you shoot boomers
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Tiny Timbs posted:Sorry, gender isn’t a toggle Not until you find the new chemicals in the storeroom
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Mind you, people were also buying crap like D!ZONE in stores which was nothing more than levels you could legitimately download from idgames FTP mirrors for free. At 33.6kbps or lower, this would take quite a while (and that's assuming you had internet access for your Doom box, which was not a given like it is today), so compilation discs still had some value
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The Kins posted:The Descent 3 source code has been released. It's not compilable out of the box due to missing proprietary bits for video files etc. but hopefully it can get massaged into something that makes running Descent 3 on modern systems slightly less of a mess. Whoa, that's really cool! I always had a soft spot for this game even though it has a lot of weird decisions and flaws (and bugs, especially in the mac/linux update that got released not that long ago), maybe now it can be cleaned up
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Sir Lemming posted:It's been a while, but I remember it being more "modern" for better and for worse. It attempts to have a narrative and different mission objectives and stuff to make the game about more than just shooting robots, with mixed results. Kind of a similar franchise arc to Doom now that I think about it. Yeah, all the levels are scripted and have multiple updating objectives and storylines. Sometimes this means you're flying around neat working mechanisms as you do the things, sometimes it means you go on awful key/switch hunts, sometimes it means the level glitches out and can't be finished because only 49 out of 50 targets spawned I remember some of the enemies being really, really annoying to fight because they're a little too maneuverable. Going outdoors is really cool, though, and the engine supported some pretty advanced effects like volumetric fog The music is also great, but unfortunately a lot of it can't be listened to outside the game- it's assembled dynamically from short loops and the masters were lost at some point so there is no canonical mix to track down
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Jehde posted:Turn the map on and doom is a twin stick shooter. Enter the right cheat code and you're not even joking
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The main thing I remember about Rage 1 is that it doesn't have an ending, it just crashes to a halt all of a sudden. It's like they brought in Neal Stephenson to write the script
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Hasturtium posted:Phil Spector gets to know game studios the way Galactus gets to know a planet, or Brainiac gets to know civilizations. Phil Spector, Herald of Microsoft
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The Division has (had?) the Dark Zone, which I think people were into There's probably a way to make an extraction shooter that's fun to play even if the hardcore streamers will poo poo on it. In fact that's what I'm banking on for Marathon since supposedly hardcore streamers got to play an alpha version already and did poo poo on it
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Speaking of Marathon: https://twitter.com/Bungie/status/1788955765710983655 (This is the same Aleph One-based Marathon that has been free for years, just now available through Steam)
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Baked lighting is also raytraced, just not fast enough for real-time interaction And it's not really fair to say engineering vs art is a tradeoff. Engineers make tools and artists use them, they're different skill sets. Making the tools more powerful and intuitive and more likely to deliver what's wanted on the first try doesn't mean what the artists do with them is now less important. And it certainly doesn't mean the engineers can now do what the artists do by themselves If the game looks like rear end it's the fault of whoever decided to cut back on artists
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Years ago ITT someone described Hexen as a playable heavy metal album cover and I don't think anyone can do better than that Also worth noting that each class's final weapon unlocks fairly late in the game so it's more like 3 classes with 3 weapons each most of the time. A number of inventory items also function as weapons, though haveblue fucked around with this message at 16:02 on May 13, 2024 |
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