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remote
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HL deathmatch was so much fun, with the laser-guided rockets.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:19 pm |
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| Dracko wrote: |
| smeggy wrote: |
| In S.T.A.L.K.E.R. there are no women at all, just a barren landscape from which The Mother has been erased and only the hard masculine features of male-male combat and camaraderie are left. |
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I always found this sort of peculiar and bothersome. Did they do this consciously, or was it a result of budget constraints, or...? Perhaps women were left entirely out of the Zone because, at least from the perspective of the men making the game (assuming there are no women at GSC Game World) and males playing the game, the presence of women would have been a familiar Other (though it may be gross to think of women as "the Other," I use this term in relation to this perspective) and this would have taken away from the lonely atmosphere -- prison-like (or church-like, militant) despite its open nature. Maybe it just follows Tarkovsky's Stalker, in which the men venture into the Zone while the Stalker's wife stays behind, angry and frustrated... because, I guess, the atmosphere of solitude is better for spiritual yearning...?
I guess a need for homosocial bonding is about as good a justification for it as any of these.
What does this smeggy person think of Portal?
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:53 pm |
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Marked One's a bit more complicated than that, since there's more to his past than the game initially lets on.
A lone wolf, though, yes. But what does this have to do with the absence of women?
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:20 am |
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| DonMarco wrote: |
| I wasn't aware STALKER was still relevant. Didn't some other slightly better awful post-apocalyptic |
Oh, look, it's DonMarco.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:47 pm |
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Damn. Rage looks much better than I'd expected at this point.
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 8:13 pm |
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The game is great but this is incredibly stupid.
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 10:42 pm |
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| AllenSmithee wrote: |
| 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. |
I don't think so. I just read something about a German multiplayer beta that was passed off as a demo or something, but it's not legit.
The game is fairly cheap, though, and you can probably get it for a few bucks if you keep an eye on Steam sales.
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 5:17 am |
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Wouldn't mind being able to play it in Russian with subs.
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 5:21 am |
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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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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 7:11 pm |
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Yeah, I want to play HL1 like that.
I probably should have grabbed Crysis last time it was on sale.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:58 pm |
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Looks like fun—I just wish I could play Serious Sam HD without it crashing on me, now that I bought it...
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:58 pm |
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Still can't seem to care at all about Halo.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:56 am |
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Yeah, I'm getting a real William Gibson vibe from E.Y.E, and it looks like a perfect middle ground between Deus Ex and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Really looking forward to playing it.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:34 pm |
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| AllenSmithee wrote: |
| All I've really been playing has been FPSs lately. Marathon and Doom. |
Well, if you're trying to be complete... Before Quake, and assuming we're just skipping past everything before 1993 (Wolfenstein 3D, Blake Stone, etc.), play—in roughly chronological order—In Extremis, System Shock, Rise of the Triad, Operation Body Count, Quarantine, Heretic, Descent, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Hexen, Strife, SkyNET, Powerslave, Marathon Infinity. Then play Quake, Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Goldeneye, Hexen II, Jedi Knight, Quake II, Unreal, Half-Life, Thief, System Shock 2, Half-Life: Opposing Force, Wheel of Time, Quake III, Medal of Honor (PSX)—and then a break before the 2000+ games:
Thief 2, Daikatana (don't take my word on that one; I've just always been curious despite its bad reputation), Perfect Dark, Deus Ex, Alien Vendetta (Doom WAD), No One Lives Forever, Half-Life: Blue Shift, Serious Sam, Halo, Metroid Prime, Painkiller, Doom 3 (for... perspective), Half-Life 2, F.E.A.R., Half-Life 2: Episode One, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Bioshock(?), Portal, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3 (if you like), Crysis(?), Mirror's Edge, Killing Floor, Left 4 Dead 2, Amnesia, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, No Rest for the Living (Doom II WAD), Fallout: New Vegas, and... well, that's about all I can come up with. Crysis 2, maybe? Bulletstorm? E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy might belong on this list. I'll hopefully find out about that soon. I'm still curious about Singularity, Cryostasis, and probably some others.
Assuming you haven't already played any of these, of course (which I actually assume you have—I just felt like making a big list, I guess). Also, I'm obviously stretching this a bit by listing things like System Shock, Thief, Deus Ex, Portal, Mirror's Edge, Amnesia, the Fallout games, etc., but I suppose there's enough crossover to include them here. I wasn't about to go quite as far as including games like Ultima Underworld, The Elder Scrolls, Arx Fatalis, Dark Messiah, etc. just because they're first-person. That could be another post, in another thread...
Did I miss anything important?
This reminds me I really want to play System Shock 2 again. I can get it running in Windows 7, but it still crashes no matter what when I go to choose a career—which has something to do with the video codecs, I think, even though the intro video plays fine without crashing the game. Any help?
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:27 pm |
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I thought about including Redneck Rampage, but between Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood, I felt I had enough of the goofy games from that era included.
Still probably worth a mention, though!
Oh, Smithee: do give System Shock 2 a chance if you can get it running. It's a huge improvement, and nearly as good as Deus Ex—some might say even better.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 4:47 pm |
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Oops, yeah, I was even looking at youtube videos of Shogo and Outlaws and neglected to list those.
Call of Cthulhu is one I still mean to play some day.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:47 am |
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id is like a band whose lead guitarist and irreplaceable bassist left after their indie days and the first few (awesome) albums.
They keep releasing albums and they sound pretty polished now, but the spirit just ain't the same.
(I'm still hoping for the best, though.)
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:56 am |
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| remote wrote: |
| This reminds me I really want to play System Shock 2 again. I can get it running in Windows 7, but it still crashes no matter what when I go to choose a career—which has something to do with the video codecs, I think, even though the intro video plays fine without crashing the game. Any help? |
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| By the way, remote, I encountered the exact same bug last time I tried running SS2. Haven't been able to figure out how to get past it so let me know if you have any progress in that regard. |
Got a fix. After copying the SHOCK folder to a games directory or whatever, run SS2Tool and then extract these videos to your data\cutscenes folder: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=60LH0N53 - let it overwrite the old ones. They're reencoded for DivX, so that should enable the game to run in Windows 7 if you run it as admin.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:38 am |
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Mr. Mech: I still had it crash on me once when I chose my sensory deprivation training, but after reloading it went through fine. Not sure what that was about.
Maybe it'll still be a little finicky, but it should at least be playable now. Just save often.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:18 am |
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Some SS2 concept art. Yeah, I think I'm gonna do this right after I finish my current run through Deus Ex.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 4:05 am |
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selectbutton
Suddenly, I'm reminded why I hate video games so damned much.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 6:16 pm |
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Hm. I guess if the development is being handled by Hidden Path that might mean there's still some hope for HL3.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:45 pm |
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All I meant was that it could still be announced soon, even, rather than a few more years down the line.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 12:44 am |
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| CubaLibre wrote: |
| Oh. Well, I mean, whatever. There are many games to play. |
Well, uh, yeah. I know.
(...?)
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 12:43 am |
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| negativedge wrote: |
| the bobbing HUD annoys me a lot for some reason. I hope there is some option to keep it stationary |
I like what one of the comments pointed out, actually—how it looks like the guy might be holding HUD device in his other hand, or something.
The Blade Runner-ish stuff with blimps displaying advertisements gives the game a neat look. This feels like something on par with Blake Stone amongst all the bigger FPS games...
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:05 pm |
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That video is all kinds of great.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:23 pm |
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Please, please, Hawken, be as amazing as you look...
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:43 pm |
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Some small interiors blend seamlessly with the exteriors. Looks great.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 1:14 am |
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it's like being locked in a knife-wielding psychopath's basement, with the door to the sunlit upstairs left open
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 1:23 am |
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| RT-55J wrote: |
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| Oh man, it exists. It like, really exists, or at least the logo does. Shit! |
Actually, for all we know that could the logo for valve's top secret bovine FPS: Calf-Life 3. |
or just
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:43 pm |
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Uh-oh. I wonder if it'll be released the same week as Armored Core V.
Damn, it looks nice.
Buying it for PC, especially with that Big Picture mode on the way...
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:00 pm |
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It's silly, but I don't mind that one bit if it's as fun as it looks.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:10 am |
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oh shit, i forget ea was the publisher
i guess it's not coming to steam, huh
hm
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 1:03 am |
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The especially funny thing is where they come right out and say, "Our game will be more canonical than Prometheus."
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