[CubaLibre]

Yeah, but do they go to Chernobyl?
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[Tulpa]

No they go to intact bomb shelters and trash them to make them look more STALKER
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[remote]

The game is great but this is incredibly stupid.
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[allensmithee]

Is there a demo for STALKER? I've always wanted to play it, but I don't know if it would run on my computer.
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[Mikey]

[remote]

[negativedge]

there is a demo for stalker on pirate bay if you know what I'm saying

[allensmithee]

Ah, Steam. I always forget Steam. I'll keep my eyes peeled, thanks.

[Ronnoc]

Have I bragged about my Russian version of Stalker? I have a Russian disc of Stalker, it's pretty neat. Video games with dialog systems are really great ways to practice a language, protip.

[remote]

Wouldn't mind being able to play it in Russian with subs.
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[scratchmonkey]

[remote]

To be fair I actually don't mind the accented English dialogue, but it creates some kind of weird dissonance and I would just prefer Russian as a matter of principal.

You know, sort of like how I wouldn't care to see an Akira remake with Japanese-American actors speaking English.
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[scratchmonkey]

I was being a bit hyperbolic; it's certainly not as bad as it could be -- it would have been glorious to play in the original though.

[Ronnoc]

If I get bored this summer, maybe I'll do a concurrent playthrough. Brush up on my Russian and be a good Sbro for once.

[bza]

I bought Call of Pripyat in Russian because I couldn't wait for the English release...it was an interesting experience! I used a patch that basically machine translated it all horribly but it was still mostly playable. The huge anomalies and rarer artifacts are great, and the giant maps are way better because they actually reward exploration.


I'd like to play through it again in real English though.
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[CubaLibre]

Those animations are retarded. Oh if only they made the Opera in Source...

Still, it could be good.
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

Was hoping this would be a sequel to Action Doom with no hitscan weapons :(

[Tulpa]

AHL2v2 looks as shitty and unfun as every other version of AHL.
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[Tlon]

I beat The Darkness a few weeks ago. Thought the last level was pretty underwhelming. They tried to do what Half-Life 2 did but it didn't quite work. Still, the City Hall sequence was amazing and the atmosphere was great. I actually liked the characters, which is rare in a game.
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From way out beyond the stars
To kill us while we stand here
It will store our brains in mason jars

[costel]

[Mr. Mechanical]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/05/05/rage-to-ship-with-full-level-editor-id-studio/

[notbov]

Proof I need to pay more attention: why didn't anyone tell me Brink was objective-based and not some random amalgam of game types, CoD-style, like I though it was? That changes everything.

It's pretty much went from "This game may be neat" to "This is probably going to be the best MP FPS until BF3 comes out". Sure, Splash Damage has essentially made the same damn game for the third time in a row (the class and play mechanics seem nigh identical to Wolfenstein:ET and Enemy Territory: QW), but, shit, when the base is that solid, why the fuck not.
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[Dracko]

[field balm]

do the current action mods have the same awesome kicking mechanic as aq2? I don't get the hate, I loved that shit.
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[Tulpa]

aq2 is great, none of the current action mods are. AHL and its various iterations adds in a bunch of dumb bullshit and kind of stops being fun immediately. Really nice community when it was strong, though.
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[Dracko]

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[Dracko]

"Dear Activision: I want to kiss my squadmate's forehead at the end of a round."

[Maztorre]

This animation reel is hella impressive. I know boojiboy will enjoy this since I know he dislikes the lack of physical avatar presence in most of Valve's output.

[boojiboy7]

Yes, Maz, I would play that game a lot. I love feeling actually connected to in game environments.

[Dracko]

Very stiff. But perhaps stiff was something that'd function well with the HEV suit.

Incidentally, Crysis 2 does this quite a lot. You may want to take a peak at it, booji.

Video makes me want to replay Half-Life again.
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[boojiboy7]

Yeah once it gets a bit cheaper, I will pick up a console version of it, I'm sure.

[Toptube]

that does a good job of showing what a person imagines in their head while they are playing FPS games. I.E even though most FPS games have very stiff animations and limited movement controls, I'm always imagining that I'm leaning against ways, peaking over railings, lunging with a melee attack, etc.

[remote]

Yeah, I want to play HL1 like that.

I probably should have grabbed Crysis last time it was on sale.
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[CubaLibre]

I wouldn't say it's worth buying. The first half is reasonable fun marred by a couple of flagrantly stupid design decisions. The second half mostly I was admiring how hot it could get my videocard.
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[Hekatoncheir]

I'm all for body awareness in FPSs, but the thing about those Far Cry style first person animations is that your head is always wobbling in this floaty way like you're a snake hypnotized by a snake charmer. Why is the camera always tilting? I feel like when I move in real life I have a pretty good ability to keep my head level with the ground (and if I don't, my brain corrects for it, so why model it in a video game?)

Would be a shame if control was wrested from the player at all those parts of HL1. Smashing vent covers might look silly when you think about it, but it's still more satisfying than a canned animation that plays every time you get to a vent (Arkham Asylum). And like toptube said, you never really think about it if you're controlling it. It's an abstraction and your imagination fills in the rest.

(still this video is pretty cool)
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[costel]

As I openly stated in my gushing thread dedicated to F.E.A.R. full body immersion in FPS games needs to be a standard. That video was incredible, and barring some indeed, snake like camera movements, I don't see any reason why more and more hasn't been done with the form.

Looks I need to pick up Crysis 2 as well.
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[CubaLibre]

As Heka.. said, one problem with "body awareness" in FPSes is that it's too easy to make into QTE-like canned animations that are actually less immersive than a less visually realistic, but more realistically responsive "floating camera" model. There's already a pretty fundamental disconnect between FPS controls and actual body movement (chiefly the head/eye problem, also body awareness, digital movement/analog stick aiming etc.), and games which don't take this into account tend to seem weirdly foreign and "cinematic." I get a better feeling of my own movement in Doom than in Crysis.
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[costel]

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[Dracko]

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