I tried to replay Doom 3 recently and yeah, would have been better if it was way shorter. As it is, it becomes a repetitive slog pretty quickly.
I liked Quake 4 better but also lost interest soon after being stroggified, even though that made the game actually more fun to play. I would play it again, Doom 3 I’m happy not touching. Also the expansion for Doom 3 sucks, don’t believe the hype.
I tend to agree with this. Although my favorite FPS might be the old AvP from Rebellion. But they don’t have as impressive a resume as those two companies. Raven especially was at the top of my list for a long time. Elite Force ruled. One of the very few good Star Trek games. And I’m into Soldier of Fortune, okay? It was a good game, I swear
Monolith will forever be dear to my heart because of NOLF. So rare that games have a great sense of humor
Ok so…last year I played Elite Force all the way through. The aesthetics were pretty great, but nearly every level overstayed it’s welcome and the back half of the game was really repetitive and filled with super generic arenas fighting generic enemies in generic envriments. The enemy AI is super boring.
Half-Life 2’s constantly changing scenarios, weapon set, and excellent enemy placement kicks it’s ass.
That’s not even getting into my confusion that HL-2’s short fast physics puzzles are somehow apparently worse than the absolutely awful jumping puzzles of Half-Life 1.
And Ravenholm was great. It felt weird and that was a good thing. The constantly changing scenarios in HL-2 are it’s greatest strength. You’re almost never just fighting combine in a boring room, you’re always encountering them in new places and new contexts.
Like…HL-2 is a good shooter. It’s better than most raven games and I love Raven’s stuff. But Raven’s stuff can be really sloggy, and wildly uneven.
My favorite part of Half-Life 2 is that every time you show up at a resistance base the Combine rolls in with Striders and gunships like you’re just a lodestone for misfortune
Besides FEAR, the mid 00s had Far Cry, Riddick, Tribes: Vengeance, SWAT 4, Raven Shield and that ambitious but janky Boiling Point Road To Hell.
More like the golden age compared to the last ten years.
last ten years FPS’s discovered movement again, glorious fast technical movement everyone seemed to abandon after Starsiege Tribes and PC shooters withered in the move to console and the simplicity of Call of Duty
Quake 3 is the goddamn best 3d platformer ever made
glad I wasn’t the one to go ‘actually the early-mid 00s were better for shooters than the early 10s’ even though that’d be the cliche thing for me to say
I basically abandoned the genre with the rise of military propaganda shooters and its only stuff like neu-wolf and nu-doom thats revived it for me.
the 00s also had STALKER, Serious Sam, Jedi Knight 2, early TF2, UT2k4, Tribes 2, and Zeno Clash
Preach
The best things about Half-Life 2 are:
They’re removing the login requirement for the re-releases. Also I’m downloading Doom 3 on my Switch because I am dumb and really curious to see how it looks and runs. Maybe I will finish it this time.
i think about duct tape mod a lot
Idk about that wrt movement. Outside of Titanfall and Doom, what else is there?
Oh and obligatory read:
RIP
After that first playthrough I don’t think anyone continues HL1 after you reach Xen, so HL2 has that going for it. Barrel physics in HL2 consist of clicking on the red thing and waiting for a chain reaction.
Idk for me the hype for Episode 3/HL3 came out of a desire to resolve the HL2 story and the potential of the gameplay improving on the already excellent EP2. HL games innovated and popularized a lot of things but at the end of the day they were just good FPSes.
Xen is good
Destiny, Call of Duty, Wolfenstein… we even got a Tribes revival for a period there. The energy was mostly concentrated from 2013-2016, but it’s still echoing and doing good things.
Anything good that exists in Destiny is negated by the god awful ammount of grinding. It’s discouraging to see so many people seemingly enjoying such badly designed, pointless waste of time games.
Very often I think it’s more useful to discuss aspects and movements and celebrate them for what they are without the context of the whole; certainly a lot of appreciation for ‘bad’ games is a celebration of pieces and aspects and attitude.
I was really good at multiplayer for soldier of fortune 2 and red faction 1 for some reason
When I played this I was just walking about the jungle enjoying the sites, then I was attacked by a FLYING JAGUAR and I turned the game off and uninstalled it