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Coolest game for ages or what?
I mean yeah, maybe the gameplay is too slow, and maybe it needs one hell of a PC to get going, but this game kicks some serious butt. Superb graphics and some great music too.
Shame about the length though. I finished it on hard in 3 days. Oh well, back to waiting for Doom 3.
I mean yeah, maybe the gameplay is too slow, and maybe it needs one hell of a PC to get going, but this game kicks some serious butt. Superb graphics and some great music too.
Shame about the length though. I finished it on hard in 3 days. Oh well, back to waiting for Doom 3.
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Coolest game for ages or what?
I mean yeah, maybe the gameplay is too slow, and maybe it needs one hell of a PC to get going, but this game kicks some serious butt. Superb graphics and some great music too.
Shame about the length though. I finished it on hard in 3 days. Oh well, back to waiting for Doom 3.
I mean yeah, maybe the gameplay is too slow, and maybe it needs one hell of a PC to get going, but this game kicks some serious butt. Superb graphics and some great music too.
Shame about the length though. I finished it on hard in 3 days. Oh well, back to waiting for Doom 3.
Good game, but it's far from great. There's nothing original in it, and it's far too short but it's great fun while it lasts. It looks amazing as well, which is a bonus.
There's news of a patch that fixes a whole host of things, in addition to options to edit your walking speed and dodging speed. THere's no release date for it yet.
Yay, celebrate the formulaic first person shooter with pretty graphics.
You will of course excuse me if I don't start jumping up and down waving "UNREAL 4EVA" banners, won't you.
You will of course excuse me if I don't start jumping up and down waving "UNREAL 4EVA" banners, won't you.
Don't shoot the messenger, chief. I don't even have the game.
You'll be pleased to hear that I wasn't talking to you...
Unreal 2 is a good game, but if it had kept some of the things it actually left out, it could have been a great one. It doesn't even have that fanastic looking space walk on an asteroid belt level which I was looking forward to.
Insane Bartender wrote:
> Yay, celebrate the formulaic first person shooter with pretty
> graphics.
>
> You will of course excuse me if I don't start jumping up and down
> waving "UNREAL 4EVA" banners, won't you.
*Sigh*
First words spoken to me by a Notable for ages, and they are the typical superior sarcastic nonsense I expected.
Give me a well-known first-person shooter *without* pretty graphics, Mr Bartender (considering release dates). I enjoyed Unreal 2. It was slow, dull and too short. But I still enjoyed it. Metal Gear Solid 2 was repetitive and slow. But I enjoyed that. Most beat-'em-ups are highly repetitive button-bashers. I love those. Sorry if you don't like me.
And as for the banner - you're excused.
> Yay, celebrate the formulaic first person shooter with pretty
> graphics.
>
> You will of course excuse me if I don't start jumping up and down
> waving "UNREAL 4EVA" banners, won't you.
*Sigh*
First words spoken to me by a Notable for ages, and they are the typical superior sarcastic nonsense I expected.
Give me a well-known first-person shooter *without* pretty graphics, Mr Bartender (considering release dates). I enjoyed Unreal 2. It was slow, dull and too short. But I still enjoyed it. Metal Gear Solid 2 was repetitive and slow. But I enjoyed that. Most beat-'em-ups are highly repetitive button-bashers. I love those. Sorry if you don't like me.
And as for the banner - you're excused.
And, incidentally, this thread was an experiment for me. Whenever I spend time bothering to write an 'intelligent' (by my standards, not yours) thread, nobody ever replies. I spend thirty seconds writing this, and I get 6 replies.
I only do it for attention. I'm sure you have a higher purpose.
I only do it for attention. I'm sure you have a higher purpose.
Small Frog wrote:
> Give me a well-known first-person shooter *without* pretty graphics,
> Mr Bartender (considering release dates). I enjoyed Unreal 2. It was
> slow, dull and too short. But I still enjoyed it. Metal Gear Solid 2
> was repetitive and slow. But I enjoyed that. Most beat-'em-ups are
> highly repetitive button-bashers. I love those. Sorry if you don't
> like me.
My point is, first person shooters have become massively formulaic, and with exception of slowly improving graphics, rapidly increasing minimum specs, and some new levels, there is very little to choose between most of them.
Revolutionary FPS games:
Doom
Half-Life
System Shock II
No-one Lives forever
And that's it. The latter because it actually delves into the shooter taboo of humour, the one before because of its frankly superb mix of FPS and RPG that Deus Ex tried and failed to plagerise. Half-Life because it single handedly revived the genre and Doom for pretty much single-handedly creating it (although it wasn't the first game in the genre, it was the more influencial).
I was almost tempted to put Halo on there as well, since it is, in fact, quite well removed from the norm. For a start, you're not "one of the grunts" only inexplicably harder, it has the balls to make out from the beginning that you're already "the man" and far superior to all the grunts who look up to you with dreamy eyes once they've removed you from your cryogenic hybernation thingy.
And I never said I didn't like you. I hurl abuse at everyone. In time you'll realise that the majority of it is the result of an overly cynical mind, and not to be taken to heart.
> Give me a well-known first-person shooter *without* pretty graphics,
> Mr Bartender (considering release dates). I enjoyed Unreal 2. It was
> slow, dull and too short. But I still enjoyed it. Metal Gear Solid 2
> was repetitive and slow. But I enjoyed that. Most beat-'em-ups are
> highly repetitive button-bashers. I love those. Sorry if you don't
> like me.
My point is, first person shooters have become massively formulaic, and with exception of slowly improving graphics, rapidly increasing minimum specs, and some new levels, there is very little to choose between most of them.
Revolutionary FPS games:
Doom
Half-Life
System Shock II
No-one Lives forever
And that's it. The latter because it actually delves into the shooter taboo of humour, the one before because of its frankly superb mix of FPS and RPG that Deus Ex tried and failed to plagerise. Half-Life because it single handedly revived the genre and Doom for pretty much single-handedly creating it (although it wasn't the first game in the genre, it was the more influencial).
I was almost tempted to put Halo on there as well, since it is, in fact, quite well removed from the norm. For a start, you're not "one of the grunts" only inexplicably harder, it has the balls to make out from the beginning that you're already "the man" and far superior to all the grunts who look up to you with dreamy eyes once they've removed you from your cryogenic hybernation thingy.
And I never said I didn't like you. I hurl abuse at everyone. In time you'll realise that the majority of it is the result of an overly cynical mind, and not to be taken to heart.
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