Axeldeath

Bump! Finally! A response. After trudging through pages of console fanboys telling me that 99% of all PC gamers will pirate this game there's finally some positive news. -edit- LOL. Some fanboys just started a petition to keep Dark Souls console exclusive, this is hilarious.

I rate Deus Ex by today's standards, I rate Star Control 2 by today's standards, Half Life, Wolfenstein ET, Fallout 2, Daggerfall etc. I still consider them good, even great, it's age has nothing to do with it. A good game is a good game, I respect titles like Doom for being revolutionary (at least the engine was) but that doesn't mean I have to place them on top of a pedestal and announce that they are the greatest games ever made.

Some emoticons annoy me to no end. Some don't. Hmm.

I just watched a few Youtube videos. They seem to focus on graphical fidelity as a selling point, but it just doesn't look that great. It also reminds me of Siren, both atmospherically and gameplay-wise, too bad that game wasn't very good. If it did come to Steam I'd leave it for a couple of years and pick it up for $5-10 at most.

Links?

Going through my Jimi Hendrix album on Audiosurf.

No it's not. Marathon was released a year later and solved almost all of those problems. Carmack just didn't spend enough time on the game, he'd done Wolfenstein before Doom and when they moved on to levels that used verticality they should have known that it the player would want to look up. The other problems were design decisions, like it having no premise or story to create an "all action experience". But that's not why I put it on my list. It's there because people go crazy about how amazing it is and how it beats every other modern FPS, when they're clearly seeing Doom through metre thick rose-tinted glasses. Yet they'll still flame you if you don't see what's so good about it.

Downloading the free version of Starcraft 2 (the first 5 single player missions), I feel like some RTS and I've played too much Company of Heroes.

It's a game mechanic to further the horror theme. What makes humans scared? It's the feeling of helplessness, that's why horror games with weapons have to rely on shock horror, because you don't feel scared when you can just kill everything with a gun. I guess you just don't like that feeling.

Very well. The competitive scene for the Modern Warfare games- This is the thing that irks me the most about Modern Warfare, there's actually a competitive scene for it on PC. What disgusts me is that there's actually auto-aim on the PC version, auto-aim has no place in a competitive FPS, to be competitive you're supposed to have some skill, and auto-aim is the antithesis of skill. Doom- Where do I start. No free-aim, no jumping, monsters that are indistinguishable from the background, bad game mechanics, no premise, textures where each pixel is easily visible, bad gunplay and the fact that every other arcade FPS does it better. Doom is nothing more than a museum piece in my opinion. World of Warcraft- Bad combat, grind, fetch quests, grind, community of 10 year olds, grind, grind, grind, grind. Bioshock 2- I've already expressed my views on this on another thread. So to stop Kirky from having a heart attack I'll refrain from writing it all out again. The Witcher- Boring combat, convoluted storyline, too many fan-service boobs, main character isn't relatable at all and THE STORY STARTS OFF WITH AMNESIA, GREAT. Dead Space 1 & 2- They wouldn't be up here if they didn't market themselves as a horror game. It's an action game with some nice enemy models, that's pretty much it. The ending is atrocious and the character getting a face and a voice in the second game was quite jarring, it wouldn't have been so bad if he was less generic than a COD/BF terrorist. Civ V- Maybe it could have been fine on its own, but this was a sequel to Civ IV. It lost huge amounts of its complexity because they thought that making the game on console was a good idea, it wasn't, strategy games just don't work on console. There isn't a market for it and all it does is ruin the PC version, strategy games with complexity require a lot of buttons and menus to go through to allow for all the things you need to be able to do to feel unrestricted.

Confirmation on their official twitter isn't confirmation? Not really solid, it is just Twitter. edit - http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/01/12/hooray-stalker-2-development-to-continue-in-spite-of-recent-closure-talk/ I don't get this, how do you go bankrupt, only to be able to get back to Stalker 2 "full steam ahead". Publicity stunt?

I'll wait to see the price for each DLC before I next lol.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/01/11/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-to-get-20-chunks-of-dlc-in-nine-months/ LOL

First time I've seen that second link, I'm not putting too much faith in a tweet though. I'll wait until there's actual confirmation about it.

Link? I've only seen the Twitter stuff.

He thinks the rep system should be removed.

Reading old posts. In other news, COD 13 just got announced. How unprecedented.

Bumpity-bump 1. Valve 2. Bethesda 3. Looking Glass Studios 4. GSC Game World 5. Obsidian Eidos Montreal and Arkane Studios get an honourable mention. Eidos will take 3rd place if Thief 4 is awesome, and if Dishonoured is as good as it looks- they'll be taking second.

Bump. I've recently finished Clear Sky, I have the other two on my Steam account but I'm yet to download them. Maybe it's lucky I played Clear Sky first because I found that game to be utterly mind-blowing on my first playthrough, hopefully I'll enjoy the other two. The (GSC World?) shutdown (I know there are rumours but I'll wait to hear a confirmation), was truly a tragedy to gaming. Perhaps the worst since Looking Glass closed it's doors, there was no other game like it, and I doubt there'll be one to fill the void. No doubt there'll be a few copy-cats but much like X-com copycats they'll never be as good as the original. I hold out a little hope that 4A Games might get the IP, I know that they're only game (Metro 2033) is a linear game but it captured the sad, lonely atmosphere perfectly. I'm sure they'll wish to start on a different series (whether it be a new IP or Stalker) after Metro: Last Light.

Just for comparison. COD MW1 COD MW3 Crysis

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Hrmm... I find myself almost out of rep to give. Eighty points left. This sucks...

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