[Altered Reality]

djdori11, on 03 January 2014 - 03:34 AM, said:

Have anyone here tried Tron 2.0?

Oh yeah. It's absolutely nerdgasmic.

djdori11, on 03 January 2014 - 03:34 AM, said:

Do you guys know about any other somewhat modern but old-school like PC FPS's?

[Gameplay Nut]

djdori11, on 03 January 2014 - 03:34 AM, said:

Have anyone here tried Tron 2.0?
It's one of the last somewhat old-school PC FPS, considering it was released in 2003 for PC only first and developed by Monolith.
I played it for like 1-2 hours and it's an old-school fps in heart, but it has some modern FPS elements and RPG elements too, but so far it seems really good.
Do you guys know about any other somewhat modern but old-school like PC FPS's?

Wolfenstien (2009) is a nice blend of old and new. It gets a fair bit wrong but it's still fun to play, and that's rare for a modern straight-up FPS.

[Jimmy]

Foxley, on 03 January 2014 - 03:02 AM, said:

-I tried multiple times to play The Legend of Zelda series and i just couldn't (for long) because they were ducking boring (with possible exception of the A Link to the past)

-I dislike snipers (in any game), because they are usually retarded 8 year olds, but other than that i still hate them, because they are pansies, i mean if he's a coward in a video game, what would he be in real life?

The Legend of Zelda series is super overrated and A Link to a Past is one of my most favorite games. A Link to a Past, Link's Awakening, and the two Nintendo 64 titles are the only good ones. Even the two Nintendo 64 games only appeal to a certain demographic and I remember even as a kid thinking how ugly they were. MUH TRIANGLES

Also being a sniper in real life takes huge balls because you're a sitting duck.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

It's also not point-and-click as the games make them out to be. Being a sniper takes a great deal of physical endurance and coordination.

[MusicallyInspired]

Twilight Princess was the most enjoyable experience of Zelda game I've ever had. And I played through and loved LTTP and OOT. I still have not yet played MM. I am embarrassed about that. I plan to rectify it....eventually.

[Kathy]

Never played a Zelda game.

[MusicallyInspired]

Not even the first one? I'm so sorry.

[Lunick]

I really dislike the 3D Zelda games. My favourite would probably be the Phantom Hourglass or The Minish Cap.

[Foxley]

Jimmy, on 03 January 2014 - 09:05 AM, said:

Also being a sniper in real life takes huge balls because you're a sitting duck.

Being a machinegunner (role I prefer) also takes a lot of balls as you are first one to bite the dust in large sieges, if the opposing side has snipers or designated marksmen, the rest of the army can't proceed with a lead wall in their way.
Also it requires muscle to carry a steel lead-launching beast.

But to prevent this turning this thread into a bunch of people defending/attacking a role they like/dislike , (nearly) ALL roles are important and can't function on their own, imagine an army full of snipers/pilots/drivers/scouts/any specialized role.

[Jimmy]

Foxley, on 03 January 2014 - 02:11 PM, said:

Being a machinegunner (role I prefer) also takes a lot of balls as you are first one to bite the dust in large sieges, if the opposing side has snipers or designated marksmen, the rest of the army can't proceed with a lead wall in their way.
Also it requires muscle to carry a steel lead-launching beast.

But to prevent this turning this thread into a bunch of people defending/attacking a role they like/dislike , (nearly) ALL roles are important and can't function on their own, imagine an army full of snipers/pilots/drivers/scouts/any specialized role.

Indeed, I just didn't think it was fair to criticise snipers as being cowards. (In video games, sure.)

The ballsiest role in the military is war photographer though. Those motherfuckers don't even carry guns.

[Fox]

Speaking of real war, lonely infantry doesn't penetrates the enemy territory, neither intends to engage in close-combat. So yes, being a marksman is by far the most risky situation, comparable to espionage.

Foxley, on 03 January 2014 - 02:11 PM, said:

Also it requires muscle to carry a steel lead-launching beast.

The burden real-life marksmen put on their bodies is insane, besides also carrying heavy weaponry.

[Altered Reality]

Kathy, on 03 January 2014 - 12:50 PM, said:

Never played a Zelda game.

Neither did I.

[Blue Lightning]

>CoD 1 was amazing. The music and the missions and everything was just about perfect. And the add-on "United Offensive" was very good. I felt starting with CoD 2 it went downhill from there.

> Half Life 2 was very good although the combat wasn't always great. But the atmosphere wowed. And the vehicle sections were amazing.

>Dark Messiah Might and Magic is extremely under rated. It offered more in an FPS than I had seen before...or since really.

>Duke 3D goes without saying...amazing, innovative, and still fun to play.

>Black Mesa is amazing for graphs, gameplay, sound effects and everything else! Some levels are not as large as the original, but they suffice. (Where is Xen?)

>Bioshock...atmosphere, politics, plasmids, 50's music...a landmark game for sure.

[The Commander]

Blue Lightning, on 06 January 2014 - 07:55 PM, said:

>Black Mesa is amazing for graphs, gameplay, sound effects and everything else! Some levels are not as large as the original, but they suffice. (Where is Xen?)

You didn't do any research into this one did you...

Quote

Features:
Play for FREE! You need not purchase anything!
8-10 Hours of single-player gameplay, up to the Lambda Core chapter.
Feast your eyes on over 2,000 custom Models and 5,000 custom textures – more than HL2!
Experience over 2,000 choreographed scenes and over 6,500 lines of dialogue from all new voice acting!
Subtitles in English, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, German, and Finnish!
Immerse yourself in an all new soundtrack and over 2,300 custom sound effects!
Feel the impact of custom systems such as the Face Creation System, Custom Gib System, Deathcam and more.

The full game is going to be sold on Steam.

[Lunick]

The Commander, on 06 January 2014 - 10:38 PM, said:

You didn't do any research into this one did you...


The full game is going to be sold on Steam.

Sold? Or do you mean freely available on Steam when finished

[The Commander]

Sold...

http://www.moddb.com...thday-half-life

[Lunick]

The Commander, on 06 January 2014 - 10:44 PM, said:

Sold...

http://www.moddb.com...thday-half-life

ಠ_ಠ

However, " In fact shortly after the Steam release there will be a completely new free version of the game" is good enough for me.

[Micky C]

I'd be willing to spend up to $5 on that.

[Person of Color]

Lunick, on 06 January 2014 - 10:56 PM, said:

ಠ_ಠ

However, " In fact shortly after the Steam release there will be a completely new free version of the game" is good enough for me.

"Black Mesa: Half of Uplink" available NOW!

[Jimmy]

Uplink was better than some of the missions that came with the game, I have no idea why it was cut.

[X-Vector]

Altered Reality, on 03 January 2014 - 06:27 AM, said:

Gameplay and overall quality issues aside, the nighttime maps of Terminator 3: War of the Machines serve as a far more effective love letter to the eighties than that lazy cheesefest called Blood Dragon.
Probably because it wasn't really intended to be a love letter to the eighties in the first place.

[OpenMaw]

I can't really agree with that. I mean, Blood Dragon had some rough edges, but it felt far more like an early 80s movie transformed into a game then anything else i've played. It was the "Grindhouse" of video games.

War of the Machines is good, but it's lacking the right ambience and atmospherics to really sell the right feel.




Controversial opinions?


- Final Fantasy sucks. It's over hyped. It hasn't interested me once, it's only gotten dumber since the end of the SNES era.


- Resident Evil stopped being good Survival Horror after Code Veronica. RE4 is a solid game, but it's not Resident Evil anymore, and had they resisted the need to make it an action shooter, we would have avoided the awful cover shooters we've gotten since.

[X-Vector]

Commando Nukem, on 08 January 2014 - 12:41 AM, said:

War of the Machines is good, but it's lacking the right ambience and atmospherics to really sell the right feel.

Interesting, because to me that's exactly what Clever's got right, it does really have that post-apocalytic doom feel that a Terminator game needs and it beats the technically superior Terminator: Salvation in that respect.
Not that it means much in practical terms; when I tried to play a Termination bot match in the demo version yesterday, the game just idled at the score screen, with points for both sides set to zero - I guess that's got something to do with the demise of Gamespy.

As for Blood Dragon, I find it strange to see a developer that professes a love for the eighties (in film) and makes the effort to hire Michael Biehn go for the knee-jerk "80's = cheese" approach.
Escape from New York, The Thing, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Aliens - these are the sort of films Blood Dragon is/should be based on (which the soundtrack makes no bones about) and all of these are thankfully far more serious, dark and atmospheric than Ubisoft's effort.
There is a place for humour in games, but I think the tongue-in-cheek style was done far better and more appropriately in GTA: Vice City.
Like so many other attempts, Blood Dragon tries too hard with too little wit to show for it (even Rockstar seems to have missed the mark with GTA V) and on top of that I don't appreciate the hypocrisy of mocking current gaming tropes while simultaneously revelling in them (takedown prompts, QTE's, item glow, HUD clutter, etc.).
In the end though, the colour scheme alone is reason for me to steer clear; it's all two-tone hues of red and blue and when it isn't, it's green, which doesn't help.
To me, rather than an 80's film, Blood Dragon looks like a simplistic, misguided approach to the 80's style with the digital post-production techniques and aesthetic mindset of the 10's (i.e. heavy digital colour grading and the like).

Personally, I'm cautiously hopeful that we'll see another 80's GTA in the not too distant future.

[Person of Color]

Are we really debating the artistic integrity of the 1980's? REALLY?

[Sangman]

Kathy, on 03 January 2014 - 12:50 PM, said:

Never played a Zelda game.

I never owned any of the old consoles (well any console for that matter actually)... so neither have I. I haven't played most of the classic games to be honest.

Blue Lightning, on 06 January 2014 - 07:55 PM, said:

>CoD 1 was amazing. The music and the missions and everything was just about perfect. And the add-on "United Offensive" was very good. I felt starting with CoD 2 it went downhill from there.

Eh COD1 and UO are fantastic but with the exception of the British desert campaign I thought COD2 was fucking brilliant as well. For me MW started killing it... I remember looking forward to there being an actual plot instead of a bunch of "random" WW2 battles, too bad the plot was as retarded as it was.

[Kathy]

Dial V for Viper, on 08 January 2014 - 10:02 AM, said:

Are we really debating the artistic integrity of the 1980's? REALLY?

What are you talking about?

Sangman, on 08 January 2014 - 02:42 PM, said:

I never owned any of the old consoles (well any console for that matter actually)... so neither have I.

I had a NES clone, but that was it. Console gaming was very foreign to me until PS2.

[Hendricks266]

Dial V for Viper, on 08 January 2014 - 10:02 AM, said:

Are we really debating the artistic integrity of the 1980's? REALLY?

They're not called the Degener80's for a reason.

[Engel220]

I've never played any Zelda games either, or many Mario games aside from Super Mario Bros 2. I've never really cared for any Nintendo stuff outside of arcades, and even then I usually wind up on old Sega or Midway machines, anyway.

[Jimmy]

I'm one of the few people who put in the effort to beat the real Japanese Super Mario Brothers 2 (known as "The Lost Levels" elsewhere.)

I have never cussed at a television screen so much in my entire life.

[Person of Color]

That game is fucking terrible. I wouldn't have released it in the States either.

The levels are fucking ugly too. It looks like Mr. Creosote vomited tiles all over the screen.