The General Videogame Thread

[goopit]

Whelp, that's a whole lot of assumptions based on the fact the game is about a vampire who is also a doctor and there will be moral dilemmas. That sounds awesome to me, and also raises a ton of questions (how does a vampire decide "Hey, I'll help my one and only source of food stay alive! Wait, what uncontrollable urges to feed?" for example...) But I hope they learned a bunch of things after Remember Me, which could be a poster child for great ideas gone wrong (or rather, poorly implemented).

wb!

yeah when I was reading the comments I thought the same, it all depends on the execution of the idea. People are too dismissive nowadays.

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it's be great if it was a musical

anyone wanna watch some funny 4th wall breaking

 

[ReptilePZ]

So, STAR WARS Republic Commando was released on gog yesterday. I've never played it, but I've heard very positive things about it. Does anyone here have any experience with the game? I'm a huge fan of the SWAT franchise, so I'm wondering if it's anything like it.

Also, bringing @gregski 's attention to it, as it seems like it has a space marine vibe to it.

 

[Aaden]

I played it, back when it was released and had a lot of fun with it. Basically think Brothers in Arms with Clone Troopers, gameplay-wise, but more action-packed like your classic non-WW2 Shooter. Bonding with your squadmates was handled quite well, too, if I remember correctly, had some good narrative moments.

If SWAT is indeed SWAT (as in Special Weapons And Tactics) and not Star Wars A(nother) T(hingie) which I don't know, then no, it's not really like that. Not so tactical, not so focused on planning (talking from my long, long past SWAT3 experience, don't know if there's more to the franchise and if it changed). More like Rainbow Six: Vegas, or, as I mentioned, Brothers in Arms.

 

[ReptilePZ]

talking from my long, long past SWAT3 experience, don't know if there's more to the franchise and if it changed

There's a SWAT 4 that came out in 2004 (I think) and it's most excellent. If you can somehow find a copy of it, I'd highly recommend it, the best in the series imo. There's also an expansion that adds online co-op, which is absolutely fantastic, if you can get a group together, that's willing to play it properly.

Also, thanks for the info on Republic Commando, I think I'll give it a shot, even if I would have loved something a bit more tactical.

 

[sidspyker]

It's called Granny Tazing Simulator, get it right.

 

[ReptilePZ]

In the expansion, you could also just punch grannies, if you didn't want to use up taser charges.

 

[sidspyker]

Man I MISS those times dearly, it was so fun to play SWAT4 on LAN, back when LAN parties were also a thing

 

[shinobi2u]

So, STAR WARS Republic Commando was released on gog yesterday. I've never played it, but I've heard very positive things about it. Does anyone here have any experience with the game? I'm a huge fan of the SWAT franchise, so I'm wondering if it's anything like it.

Also, bringing @gregski 's attention to it, as it seems like it has a space marine vibe to it.

Second the vote on this game, probably one of the last great Star Wars games to comes from LucasArts. Only thing I wish is that it had an official co-op mode for the campaign. It hasn't aged the greatest, but it's still damn solid and worth picking up.

 

[Gilrond-i-Virdan]

GOG released Cyberia. I played it once when I was a student. Still remember extracting this music track from the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-3kGq6RKYo&t=1h15m4s

I had to write some parser to extract Creative Voice files from resource blobs. Can't find it now. I'll write one again

For the reference: http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Creative_Voice

 

[volsung]

That Cyberia looks pretty cool and very impressive for such an old game. Very cinematic.

 

[Gilrond-i-Virdan]

That Cyberia looks pretty cool and very impressive for such an old game. Very cinematic.

Yeah, it's essentially a lot of prerendered sequences where you can have some interactive parts as well. So it gives an effect of a full 3D game, but it really isn't (you can't control the camera most of the time). Cinematic is a very precise term for it. I remember the game having a dark mood. Some parts are very hard

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like when you need to navigate a bot through an infested tunnel:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=v-3kGq6RKYo&t=1h06m23s

 

[AutumnalWanderer]

[video=youtube;teH5Oowj-J8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teH5Oowj-J8[/video]

This is look pretty damn cool.

 

[Garrison72]

Unfortunately, I think us PC peasants will have to wait, but I have faith because the devs brought the first one to GOG.

 

[EliHarel]

About to play Fallout 3 for the first time. Any essential mods I should know of?

 

[AutumnalWanderer]

I wish I have enough money.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Witcher-1-Collectors-Edition-ORYGINAL-Very-Rare-/171657934745?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27f79c3799

 

[Ljesnjanin]

Actually, after my experience with Skyrim and Bethesda's filler approach, maybe STALKER will be the better game for now, and Fallout 3 should be left for a really dry era in my gaming life.

Wise decision
But if you change your mind, you can try FWE...Major gameplay overhaul:
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/2761/?

 

[Blothulfur]

About to play Fallout 3 for the first time. Any essential mods I should know of?

Yes install and play Fallout: New Vegas.

 

[volsung]

Yes install and play Fallout: New Vegas.

About to say the same thing...

The best part is this is stand alone so you don't need Fallout 3 at all.

 

[SkycladGuardian]

[video=youtube;teH5Oowj-J8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teH5Oowj-J8[/video]

This is look pretty damn cool.

I was pretty excited, until I found out it's a MOBA Game

 

[AutumnalWanderer]

I was pretty excited, until I found out it's a MOBA Game

Not exactly, watch Angry Joe's video, at the end, he says that the developers planning to make a episodic story mode for this game.