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puberty worked me over
May 20, 2013

by Cyrano4747

Abandon posted:

clive barker;s undying, although it got the lovely fps tank-vs-tank syndrome on later levels. you know the thing where 90s era fps's just get soul destroying because youve got to stand there and shoot things gently caress knows how many times with a shotgun until they keel over for a whole level. except in undying it's the scythe of the celt thing

Tank syndrome did suck in that game but it made some of the fights pretty hard even against normal mobs. Especially those teleporting invisible things. Either way more shooters need the weapon and enemy design of CB:U. A lot of monsters in that game didn't gently caress around and didn't feel artificially difficult unlike so many other shooters.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of The Earth if you can get beyond some of the clunkiness is one of the best FPSes ever made. I like to think the bugs and clunk are all part of immersing the user in the madness that is the mythos.

CB:U and CoC both seem to fall into the games that are more about concept, art, and atmosphere than anything else which is what makes them rather special compared to say Halo. Same reason why Blood is the best build engine game.

puberty worked me over fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Aug 14, 2014

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