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Post by Pwnix on Sept 6, 2015 13:10:03 GMT -5
I was a huge fan of the first Unreal. Unreal Tournament as well. I played both constantly as a youngin'. I just love the gorgeous atmospheric environments of Unreal. The sounds for picking up health and being underwater in Unreal give me crazy Nostalgia Attacks. I really like Doom/Wolfenstein and the other Id stuff as well but I didn't have nearly as much exposure to that stuff so I just don't feel the same about them. I don't think I've even played Quake at all. I probably should.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2015 2:43:24 GMT -5
Courtesy of a user at zdoom.org:
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!
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Post by dskzero on Sept 9, 2015 11:22:58 GMT -5
Man I should have really been here ranting about Marathon instead of the general chat thread
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2015 17:01:40 GMT -5
dskzero: You seem conflicted as to whether to consider Marathon 2 a good game or a bad one.
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Post by dskzero on Sept 9, 2015 17:50:58 GMT -5
dskzero: You seem conflicted as to whether to consider Marathon 2 a good game or a bad one. It's mediocre. It's at is best a fun and somewhat innovative Doom clone but at its worst is a pretentious, obtusely designed game that can't shake off the idea that it is inferior. I just want to finish all three games for novelty's sake but it's also fucking hard and it's irritating.
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Post by Neo Rasa on Sept 10, 2015 11:57:09 GMT -5
Rebellions first Aliens vs. Predator game has a mode with some unique maps and some regular ones where players can cooperatively fight unending hordes of whatever faction they're not playing as. This is called "firefight" or "horde mode" today because it was popularized as such by the Gears of War and Halos series, but is there any FPS before Aliens vs. Predator that offers this?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2015 15:09:17 GMT -5
Rebellions first Aliens vs. Predator game has a mode with some unique maps and some regular ones where players can cooperatively fight unending hordes of whatever faction they're not playing as. This is called "firefight" or "horde mode" today because it was popularized as such by the Gears of War and Halos series, but is there any FPS before Aliens vs. Predator that offers this? Are you talking the one with the 3D environments and 2D character sprites (as opposed to what's now known as AVP Classic 2000)? Because if so, no, I don't think any other FPS did that first.
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Post by Weasel on Sept 10, 2015 15:09:52 GMT -5
Nah, I think Classic 2000 is what he's referring to, not the Atari Jaguar game (I don't think that was Rebellion's work?) (edit: should have looked it up first, i'm an idiot).
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Post by Allie on Sept 10, 2015 15:31:01 GMT -5
I don't play much through many FPS games, but I sort of had a soft spot for SHOGO back in the day.
It was ugly as sin, and it asked you to make a stupid-idiot jump down a shaft early on, but I had fun with it.
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Post by dskzero on Sept 11, 2015 4:49:31 GMT -5
I could never get Shogo to run on my PCs for some odd reason (same as Blood, same engine I believe). The idea was awesome though.
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Post by Neo Rasa on Sept 11, 2015 10:58:57 GMT -5
Lithtech is too strong, the only engine powerful enough to render KISS according to Monolith.
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Post by dskzero on Sept 15, 2015 10:24:02 GMT -5
That's another mediocre game I've meant to play for like a decade by now.
Next to Tekwar and that medieval game.
Marathon 2 still keeps me busy but since I already killed off most of the stuff I had to do at the office I can play it somewhat freely. It's MUCH harder than the first.
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Post by dr_st on Sept 21, 2015 8:59:02 GMT -5
Also, I love DooM. I think I've spent more time playing it and mods for it than any other game I have ever owned. Period. You know, that's probably true about me as well. There was a time when I really thought it was the best game ever. I don't think so anymore, but am still very fond of it. I played a lot just goofing around, I never even got very good at it, but I still love it. Heretic/Hexen I also like, although the puzzles in Hexen can get on one's nerves, and Heretic, despite being technologically superior to DOOM, never appealed to me quite as much. I've played Quake through (on the easy setting), but after that there is a long gap in my 3D shooters. I don't think I played any of the sequels (Heretic2/Hexen2/Quake2), or Unreal. Tried Half-Life, but couldn't get the hang of it (this was before I knew how to play modern FPSes properly), and at that point I was already devoting far less time to games in general, so I never completed it.
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Post by Colonel Kurtz on Sept 21, 2015 11:33:45 GMT -5
I honestly thought this thread would be about shoot'em ups... It's interesting to see the mark Halo has left in gamers' consciousness (before and after Halo...). Doom was my only shooter before, well, Halo I guess. I didn't have a PC at the time, and everything shooters happened on PC, consoles were really left out of that style of games.
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Post by dskzero on Sept 21, 2015 14:40:36 GMT -5
I've never played Halo.
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