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For I have played FEAR...

Started by JongWK, July 04, 2006, 11:18:55 PM

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JongWK

July 04, 2006, 11:18:55 PM
... and it is good.

:arcade::arcade::arcade:
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~~Gary Gygax (1938 - 2008)

Cyberzombie

#1
July 05, 2006, 01:05:52 PM
Okay, you're going to have to tell me more than that.  I'm not exactly current on the electronic games market, seeing as I'm playing Final Fantasy VII.  (And Civ IV, but we'll skip over that, since it doesn't help my case that I'm an archaic dinosaur.)
 

JongWK

#2
July 05, 2006, 11:01:02 PM
Quote from: CyberzombieOkay, you're going to have to tell me more than that.  I'm not exactly current on the electronic games market, seeing as I'm playing Final Fantasy VII.  (And Civ IV, but we'll skip over that, since it doesn't help my case that I'm an archaic dinosaur.)


F.E.A.R. is the first FPS I've liked since Wolfenstein 3D (yep, the original one). The AI is fiendishly good, and the game uses Japanese-style psychological terror to great effect.

Official website.

Wikipedia entry.
"I give the gift of endless imagination."
~~Gary Gygax (1938 - 2008)

kryyst

#3
July 14, 2006, 04:31:49 PM
It's probably just me but I have yet to play a FPS that is gripping, enthralling or puts me on the edge of my seat.  The bit of fear that I played was better then some but after awhile it quickly feels like all the rest.  Same with the big hoopled Prey.  Why I waste my time downloading them I'll never know.  I'm just greatful such a service exists that I'm not wasting money on the same damn game over and over and over again.
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UmaSama

#4
August 27, 2006, 05:57:32 AM
Quote from: JongWKF.E.A.R. is the first FPS I've liked since Wolfenstein 3D (yep, the original one). The AI is fiendishly good, and the game uses Japanese-style psychological terror to great effect.

You're trying to say that you didn't like games such as MOHAA, Undying, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, HALF LIFE for christ sake????:confused:
I confess that FPS aren't good enough lately,but I trully can't believe you couldn't found one of your liking in more than 10 years.

JongWK

#5
August 28, 2006, 12:29:48 PM
My computer didn't have the required horsepower for them, and I always leaned towards strategy games like the Civ series. What I'd seen (endless clones of Doom and Duke Nukem), wasn't particularly encouraging.

Right now, I have the following games in my computer: Civ 4, F.E.A.R., Diablo 2 LoD, Freelancer and some console emulators. I'm thinking of getting Sid Meier's Pirates! at some point.
"I give the gift of endless imagination."
~~Gary Gygax (1938 - 2008)

UmaSama

#6
August 29, 2006, 12:30:42 AM
Quote from: JongWKWhat I'd seen (endless clones of Doom and Duke Nukem), wasn't particularly encouraging.

What R u talking about???:confused:
There were very few Duke Nukem clones, being Serious Sam the only remarkable of them.
As for Doom I strongly believe that almost every FPS is a sort of clone of it, given that Doom defined what FPS are today.

JongWK

#7
August 29, 2006, 01:46:14 AM
Quote from: UmaSamaAs for Doom I strongly believe that almost every FPS is a sort of clone of it, given that Doom defined what FPS are today.

Sorry, but the original Wolfenstein 3D forever became my benchmark for FPS fun. Once you shoot undead Nazis, going against demons isn't that big. ;)
"I give the gift of endless imagination."
~~Gary Gygax (1938 - 2008)

UmaSama

#8
August 29, 2006, 01:57:36 AM
Now that you Do have the hardware needed to play top games, please for the love of all the gods do me the favor to play at Least Half Life 2:D

Alukrd

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September 04, 2006, 11:58:08 PM
Quote from: UmaSamaYou're trying to say that you didn't like games such as MOHAA, Undying, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, HALF LIFE for christ sake????:confused:
I confess that FPS aren't good enough lately,but I trully can't believe you couldn't found one of your liking in more than 10 years.

u missed out the CoD saga, Day of Defeat: Source, Counter Strike saga

and i back u up in your statement... it can't be that in all these years there was never a good shooter u didn't like...

UmaSama

#10
September 06, 2006, 01:15:56 AM
Quote from: Alukrdu missed out the CoD saga, Day of Defeat: Source, Counter Strike saga

and i back u up in your statement... it can't be that in all these years there was never a good shooter u didn't like...

I got a theory, it could be that Jong being older than us, just got used to the old kind of FPS, you know the ones we've heard of but never trully played, like some sort of ancient legend.:D
Just kiddin' Jong, please don't use your Asian superpowers with me.

Marco

#11
September 06, 2006, 09:26:17 AM
I wasn't that happy with FEAR. I do respect what they did with it--but the battle-zones seemed pretty similar to each other and, well, kinda drab. They *did* do a bang-up job on the AI and the J-horror stuff was reasonably on target (although it did seem to lack the air of utter incomprehensibility that I associate with Japanese horror).

So, yeah: pretty good technically but it didn't excite me visually.

-Marco
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JongWK

#12
September 06, 2006, 09:50:52 AM
Quote from: UmaSamaI got a theory, it could be that Jong being older than us, just got used to the old kind of FPS, you know the ones we've heard of but never trully played, like some sort of ancient legend.:D

Hey! I play state of the art games! Tetris, Pac-Man, Pong... ;)

Seriously, I didn't have a good computer to play FPS in the 90s, so I basically skipped the genre until now.


QuoteJust kiddin' Jong, please don't use your Asian superpowers with me.

TOO LATE!!!

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