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Post by Discoalucard on Jan 27, 2017 22:13:50 GMT -5
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Post by GamerL on Jan 27, 2017 22:36:06 GMT -5
We had a recent discussion about the game in General Game Chat but JDarkside wrote the article even though he's not posting on the forums anymore? I'm a little confused.
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Post by Discoalucard on Jan 27, 2017 22:46:10 GMT -5
He's still contributing to the site, just taking a break from the forums.
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Post by GamerL on Jan 27, 2017 22:58:55 GMT -5
He must still be lurking though otherwise this is a huge coincidence.
Anyway after reading the article I've really got to replay this game, half the stuff I've forgotten about, including the Chinese lady and her Terracotta warriors (I do remember the giant black dude with the tiny head though, the article forgets to mention that in a flashback sequence he has an afro), of course it has been almost 13 years since I played it.
Also the plot point that sticks out in my mind the most is the profoundly stupid revelation that World War 2 was not actually fought over stopping fascism but over control of psychic artifacts, one which was later retrieved from the moon during the moon landing, which actually happened in the early 1950s, huh?
Still, I remember the game being a lot of fun, I miss good, clean, unpretentious fun "video game" video games like this.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Jan 28, 2017 0:14:52 GMT -5
The plot was absolutely silly but yea, that game was a lot of fun, even if it got really annoying at later levels.
Hell, sometimes I'd just load up the test chamber and play with the powers.
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Post by zerker on Jan 28, 2017 9:22:49 GMT -5
So my web browser has informed me that the PNG screenshots are, in fact, just renamed BMP files rather than actual conversions. Not that low-res uncompressed images are really going to hurt bandwidth much nowadays . On-topic: My XBox-owning friend had a copy of this game and he really rather enjoyed it. Never knew it had a Windows release. I was primarily a GameCube owner at the time (on the console front), and was bummed it didn't get a release for that. When I picked up a PS2 later, I didn't go back to grab it for whatever reason.
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Post by GamerL on Jan 28, 2017 20:06:33 GMT -5
It was really sad to see Midway fall on their face so hard early in the 7th gen.
You had games like Blacksite: Area 51 and Stranglehold which looked like they could have been interesting, but were flops (Blacksite was basically unfinished) then as a last Hail Mary they released Mortal Kombat vs DC but it wasn't enough to save them, a proud American mid-tier developer known for very goofy, very American good clean fun games all the way back to the classic arcade days executed Miller's Crossing style by the brutal 7th gen.
Supposedly Midway was working on 7th gen sequels to both Psi-Ops and The Suffering but they never came to fruition.
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