[thatguy]

This took me by surprise. Saw a news post over on TIGSource and saw just one screenshot provoke my interest.



It is a really cool FPS with the level design similiar to Wolf3d (flat one level map design) with the gorgeous visuals of Contra/Metal Slug and HD painted textures. I thought the game was designed for low resolutions but when I bumped it up to 1440x900, the texture for the gun was in beautiful HD with gorgeous painted textures. Despite using Quake (darkplaces version), it uses 2d monsters and sprites. Check it out, i know you'll love it. It is great to see that you can capture the beauty of 2.5d on more advanced engines.


You can download the alpha at http://www.retroblazer.com/

http://www.youtube.c...d&v=rqOKRLeKDts

[Jinroh]

Really rad, man from the video it is off the hook. I'm gonna have to dl and try it out later. ^^ Thanks for posting it. ;3

[Sebastian]

That looks pretty damn amazing.

[Danukem]

Judging from the videos, it has exquisite graphics with very satisfying explosions and fast paced arcade style gameplay. But I only saw three weapons and they all seemed very similar. I think I would get tired of shooting those little balls after a while and hanker for a hitscan shotgun, grenades, a beam weapon, or just about anything different.

[Jimmy]

MUSTPLAY.

[Person of Color]

Looks very Metroid-ey. I'll hook up my computer when I'm not feeling sick and give it a go.

[Hank]

s.b.Newsom, on 16 January 2012 - 02:48 AM, said:

This took me by surprise.

Me too. Still, I've got to give this a go!
It reminds me on Wolfenstein, with better graphics ... back to work for me, but thanks for the find dude.

[thatguy]

DeeperThought, on 16 January 2012 - 10:31 AM, said:

Judging from the videos, it has exquisite graphics with very satisfying explosions and fast paced arcade style gameplay. But I only saw three weapons and they all seemed very similar. I think I would get tired of shooting those little balls after a while and hanker for a hitscan shotgun, grenades, a beam weapon, or just about anything different.

Like many sidescrolling shooters?

This is an 'alpha' game. Not the full/final product.

Hank, on 16 January 2012 - 03:02 PM, said:

Me too. Still, I've got to give this a go!
It reminds me on Wolfenstein, with better graphics ... back to work for me, but thanks for the find dude.

Idea, make an HD port of Wolf3D with updated sprites,textures, sounds and levels in this same engine. It would be just like any worthwhile HD remake of a game. BRB going to hit up Carmack.

[ReaperMan]

I love it!

[Person of Color]

I just noticed the wasp sprites were ripped from Sonic Robo Blast 2, a zDoom based game. They recolored them though.

[Jblade]

It looks amazing, but the gameplay is really dull - I know of course it's an early alpha so hopefully they have some good ideas to spice it up a bit. It would be a shame to have that amazing artwork and then stick it over a unoriginal shooter.

[ReaperMan]

Descent, on 17 January 2012 - 07:39 AM, said:

I just noticed the wasp sprites were ripped from Sonic Robo Blast 2, a zDoom based game. They recolored them though.

I read from some of their videos that those were just place holders, as well as some of the sounds.

[Mikko]

Cool visual style & audio but very boring. I actually never bothered to finish Wolf3D for the same reason. I hate how you have to rape the mouse button to make the pistol fire rapidly.

[Lunick]

I saw it last night and thought it was pretty cool to play through.

[thatguy]

Mikko_Sandt, on 17 January 2012 - 05:29 PM, said:

Cool visual style & audio but very boring. I actually never bothered to finish Wolf3D for the same reason. I hate how you have to rape the mouse button to make the pistol fire rapidly.

You hate raping the mouse button? Get a new weapon. There are reasons why games do certain things. Most of the time, its not to piss you off, but to balance the game. Getting the assault rifle allows you to hold down the trigger but you have limited ammo.

[Tea Monster]

Looks like the borrowed the colour scheme from Doom 64

[Mikko]

s.b.Newsom, on 17 January 2012 - 09:47 PM, said:

You hate raping the mouse button? Get a new weapon. There are reasons why games do certain things. Most of the time, its not to piss you off, but to balance the game. Getting the assault rifle allows you to hold down the trigger but you have limited ammo.

In most oldskool shooters you hardly ever have to go back to the first weapon after two or three levels. Here you run out of rifle & shotgun ammo very rapidly.

[thatguy]

Mikko_Sandt, on 18 January 2012 - 04:40 AM, said:

In most oldskool shooters you hardly ever have to go back to the first weapon after two or three levels. Here you run out of rifle & shotgun ammo very rapidly.

Thats good game design. You'll find that using your pistol to find secrets and destroy non-enemy objects, you'll have more than enough ammo when you need it. Game tactics.

[Mikko]

Secrets are supposed to be bonuses, not something you need to explore in order to be able to use weapons other than the pistol. So, that's bad game design if anything.

[thatguy]

Way to miss the point. They didn't want you to feel like you can use whatever weapon you want. Guess what? You don't have to find secrets to keep ammo. Just don't abuse limited ammo weapons. Resident Evil sucks because you have to look for ammo which is rare...lol its good game design.

[Danukem]

s.b.Newsom, on 18 January 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

Way to miss the point. They didn't want you to feel like you can use whatever weapon you want. Guess what? You don't have to find secrets to keep ammo. Just don't abuse limited ammo weapons. Resident Evil sucks because you have to look for ammo which is rare...lol its good game design.

I haven't played it yet but...rare ammo is good game design for an arcade style fast paced shooter? That doesn't sound right. Then again, Mikko is the sort of player who tends to rush through levels.

If James and Mikko both say it gets boring fast --something I already suspected from watching the videos-- then I'm betting it gets boring fast.

[Mikko]

If by rushing you mean that I don't hug every wall then yeah.

Btw, I do take my time to look around when there's a reason to, like cool aesthetics or for the sake of mood. But looking for closets that store a few bonus items isn't my idea of "time well spent". I do investigate if I see something that could be a secret but I don't backtrack for the sake of secrets.

s.b.Newsom, on 18 January 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

Way to miss the point. They didn't want you to feel like you can use whatever weapon you want. Guess what? You don't have to find secrets to keep ammo. Just don't abuse limited ammo weapons.

Abuse how? You think I miss? Hah, you're speaking to the wrong dude.

I played this game all the way to the fifth level or so (where I died for the first time, then called it quits) and I still found myself using the pistol more often than any other weapon. Can't remember many times in, say, Quake 2 that I had to resort to the Blaster after the first map.

[thatguy]

Mikko_Sandt, on 18 January 2012 - 06:11 PM, said:

If by rushing you mean that I don't hug every wall then yeah.

Btw, I do take my time to look around when there's a reason to, like cool aesthetics or for the sake of mood. But looking for closets that store a few bonus items isn't my idea of "time well spent". I do investigate if I see something that could be a secret but I don't backtrack for the sake of secrets.



Abuse how? You think I miss? Hah, you're speaking to the wrong dude.

I played this game all the way to the fifth level or so (where I died for the first time, then called it quits) and I still found myself using the pistol more often than any other weapon. Can't remember many times in, say, Quake 2 that I had to resort to the Blaster after the first map.

I think what they wanted to do is create the emphasis on the main weapon and the other weapons are seen as 'temporary powerups'. Sort of like a lot of retro shooters.

[Jimmy]

Resident Evil sucks because the controls are bollocks and it's boring.

[Lunick]

I'm bumping an old thread, fight me Mblackwell/Hendricks

The game has reached the stage of Steam Greenlight http://steamcommunit...s/?id=375199095 but the release date is apparently 2016.

Also some new videos:

[Marphy Black]

The bloom looks pretty overdone in those videos. It's quite a stark contrast (literally!) from the alpha. I can't really see what the point of it was apart from taking away from the nice, clean aesthetic they had achieved before.

And maybe I'm just a bad person, but I'm terribly bemused by the fact that the art style apparently transformed from anime to furry.

[Carl Winslow]

The art style has pretty much always been furry since the first public release,so.

Also, there's a secret keybind in the game to make it where you can charge the guns like in megaman. I can't remember what it was, seeing as it's been 3 years now since I tried this.

[HulkNukem]

I like the art and the color style, it really pops and looks great. Also, sprites look real good.

But man, it looks more like a Wolfenstein engine game than a Quake one as far as level design goes; everything seems to take place on a 64x64 grid and barely any multi-level rooms. What gives?

[Lunick]

Well it was once upon a time a Wolf3D mod...

[Person of Color]

I wouldn't even call the art style "furry," that cybernetic animal shit existed back in the 90's and no one gave a fuck because it was awesome.