Looking for shooter game with money

[Gregz]

What about Mechwarrior 4? It probably isn't what you're looking for, but it's free now. Here.

This is a good suggestion, I re-play it annually, good combat mechanics and upgrades.

 

[CorpseZeb]

A.I.M and A.I.M 2 by 1C. Quite corny and somewhat unusual titles, but what games made by 1C aren't that...

 

[someone else]

What about Mechwarrior 4? It probably isn't what you're looking for, but it's free now. Here.

Is my signature invisible?

Re: AIM 1 & 2, played one of them, it was horribly buggy.

 

[CrazyLoon]

Everyone's signature is invisible. Now I see...

Maybe try Nitro Family.

 

[jagged-jimmy]

How about "The Saboteur"?. Cannot say anything, but i heard it's good, so it's on my list.

 

[Monolith]

How about "The Saboteur"?. Cannot say anything, but i heard it's good, so it's on my list.

It was fun for a while, but too "gamey" and way too easy. It's also more similar to Assassin's Creed, with guns, vehicles and Nazis. They could have done much more with the whole premise. Still, it was enjoyable until it got repetetive. And I liked to see the Eiffel Tower in the back, in a zone that was supposed to be off limit until the later parts of the game, and how I was able to sneak in and climb to the top.

I didn't see Boiling Point mentioned so far. Awfully buggy, but patches and fan effort are supposed to make it playable nowadays. I couldn't get into it due to other reasons like awful story/presentation/VO though.

 

[Tel Velothi]

E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy.
It have money that you can spend on augmentations, powers, weapons and researches. I had a great time with this game (finished it 4 times). I must warn you though: It's VERY un-user-friendly (nice change from nowadays games).
Also as other have mentioned: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

 

[Lautreamont]

E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy.

"Psychological and mental trauma management" is listed as a game feature on the steam page

What's that about?

 

[Kitako]

Duke Nukem 3D

 

[Kane]

tribes ascend

 

[Tel Velothi]

E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy.

"Psychological and mental trauma management" is listed as a game feature on the steam page

What's that about?

I have no idea what they mean by that. I'm just guessing that they mean "mental balance". It's a bar (just like health and energy bar) - when it drops to zero (you're losing your mental balance by taking much damage in short period of time), you're going insane - there are couple of insanities, eg. Hearing voices, illusions, etc. But still, I don't get what they mean by "Psychological and mental trauma management".

 

[jagged-jimmy]

How about "The Saboteur"?. Cannot say anything, but i heard it's good, so it's on my list.

I didn't see Boiling Point mentioned so far. Awfully buggy, but patches and fan effort are supposed to make it playable nowadays. I couldn't get into it due to other reasons like awful story/presentation/VO though.

Boiling Point is known as Xenus 1 and 2.

 

[toroid]

E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy.

"Psychological and mental trauma management" is listed as a game feature on the steam page

What's that about?

I have no idea what they mean by that. I'm just guessing that they mean "mental balance". It's a bar (just like health and energy bar) - when it drops to zero (you're losing your mental balance by taking much damage in short period of time), you're going insane - there are couple of insanities, eg. Hearing voices, illusions, etc. But still, I don't get what they mean by "Psychological and mental trauma management".

I would describe the effect of a low mental balance as post-traumatic stress disorder instead of insanity.

Management of psychological and mental trauma is somewhat straightforward:
1. Don't allow yourself to be overrun and injured repeatedly (or killed).
2. When experiencing PTSD, perform a "maintenance" action on yourself.
3. ????
4. I haven't figured out how to regain mental balance efficiently yet.

 

[Tel Velothi]

I haven't figured out how to regain mental balance efficiently yet.

All you have to do is press "V" for maintenance (as you said earlier, but I don't know what you mean by "regain mental balance efficiently") - it takes 4-5 sec IIRC.
Also there is a research called Cosmogonical Metapsychology which gives you immunity to madness.

Here's a complete list of all "madnesses" via wiki:


- Paranoia: Player shoots uncontrollably.
- Inhibition: Player can't shoot firearms, can only use melee weapons.
- Paralyzing Terror: Player is unable to move.
- Visual Hallucinations: Player sees constant explosions that are not actually happening and visions of dead characters.
- Auditory Hallucinations: Player hears voices and sounds that don't exist.


I think they "overdescribed" this whole "management" - I wouldn't call it that - it's not that complicated since all you have to do is to press a button and all will be well in a few seconds.

 

[Konjad]

+1 for EYE Divine Cybermancy. It's like Deus Ex with less dialogues and roleplaying and more shooting (although you are also able to hack, stealth use psych powers etc). Shooting is a lot more fun in this game though. It has very sci-fi feel, pretty much the same as the first Deus Ex imo. You can play it SP or coop (I played coop with babitz and princess on CDS, it was really great). You have money, inventory, skills etc.

 

[toroid]

I haven't figured out how to regain mental balance efficiently yet.

All you have to do is press "V" for maintenance (as you said earlier, but I don't know what you mean by "regain mental balance efficiently") - it takes 4-5 sec IIRC.
Also there is a research called Cosmogonical Metapsychology which gives you immunity to madness.

Here's a complete list of all "madnesses" via wiki:


- Paranoia: Player shoots uncontrollably.
- Inhibition: Player can't shoot firearms, can only use melee weapons.
- Paralyzing Terror: Player is unable to move.
- Visual Hallucinations: Player sees constant explosions that are not actually happening and visions of dead characters.
- Auditory Hallucinations: Player hears voices and sounds that don't exist.


I think they "overdescribed" this whole "management" - I wouldn't call it that - it's not that complicated since all you have to do is to press a button and all will be well in a few seconds.

I'm referring to the bottom "mental balance" bar in the lower right hand corner of the screen. Once it's empty it doesn't seem to refill right away. Doing maintenance is a temporary fix as it only temporarily addresses the symptoms of having a low mental balance. The symptoms recur every few minutes and can be a serious pain in the ass during combat, especially when paranoia causes you to shoot up a whole magazine of ammo and you have to reload at a critical moment, or when paralyzing terror freezes you up while you're out of cover and under fire. The symptoms can easily lead to being heavily injured again, prolonging the depletion of mental balance. Or maybe I'm doing it wrong.

I haven't been playing very long so I'm sure there are some obvious things I have not figured out yet. But that's the way this game is, isn't it? It never holds your hand and is convoluted as fuck while also being unclear about how a lot of the gameplay details work and most everything is generally obfuscated by a light haze of poor translations. Also, it is obviously not finished. Though they are supposedly about to release a major patch and have free dlc in the works along with more planned updates. I do recommend it, though. It has heavy rpg elements and is complex enough in most aspects so as to be interesting to explore and play. It would be interesting to see how many different viable character builds there are.

 

[Tel Velothi]

Wow, I didn't have such big problems with mental balance (and mind you it was not high, about 38 I think). I'm pretty sure maintenance fill the mental balance to full and symptoms are gone. Ofc it will start to drain again if you will receive heavy damage in short period of time.

 

[someone else]

So I got Prototype and I don't think it has money or trading, thought it was odd considering the setting but then RE4 has trading. It has evolution points which is more like experience points and it is more brawler than shooter. The engine seems pretty good.

 

[Gregz]

+1 for EYE Divine Cybermancy.

This one looked really good, but I couldn't play it more than 10 minutes without becoming nauseated/headache from motion sickness. Headbob has to be the most damaging and idiotic FPS mechanic in the history of the genre (and they even added motion blur making it worse). And, of course, the idiot GUI coder made it so there's no way to disable it, not even via console.



I'm genuinely pissed because it looks like a great game.

 

[Tel Velothi]

+1 for EYE Divine Cybermancy.

This one looked really good, but I couldn't play it more than 10 minutes without becoming nauseated/headache from motion sickness. Headbob has to be the most damaging and idiotic FPS mechanic in the history of the genre (and they even added motion blur making it worse). And, of course, the idiot GUI coder made it so there's no way to disable it, not even via console.



I'm genuinely pissed because it looks like a great game.

AFAIR headbob can be disabled in options (I think only patched version had option to disable it, so you must update the game first). Hopefully it will help you, because it really is a great game.

 

[Gregz]

AFAIR headbob can be disabled in options (I think only patched version had option to disable it, so you must update the game first). Hopefully it will help you, because it really is a great game.

I will look into this thanks.

 

[toro]

Project Entropia. You basically shoot with money.

 

[Jasede]

This has been said before but you must never, ever play Borderlands without friends and/or alcohol. Even then it can get stale by the third or so DLC.

 

[Gregz]

AFAIR headbob can be disabled in options (I think only patched version had option to disable it, so you must update the game first). Hopefully it will help you, because it really is a great game.

I checked the patch notes...nothing about headbob.

Is there any chance you could fire it up real quick and verify that the option is available? I don't have the means of checking.

This has been said before but you must never, ever play Borderlands without friends and/or alcohol. Even then it can get stale by the third or so DLC.

Said many times before, and wrong every time. I soloed through Borderlands and all three DLCs with great mirth while playing the Siren. Awesome game.

 

[Jasede]

How'd you do it!? I'd think the scenery and enemies and even just the basic item-hunt premise would bore you.
Note: I don't think less of you for liking it, but for most people I know the game isn't much fun alone.

 

[Gregz]

How'd you do it!? I'd think the scenery and enemies and even just the basic item-hunt premise would bore you.
Note: I don't think less of you for liking it, but for most people I know the game isn't much fun alone.

Well,

• I love adventure shooters (Far Cry)
• I'm a total loot-upgrade junkie (Diablo II)
• and I enjoy referential humor (Army of Darkness, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, etc.)

It was all there for me.

Initially I had beef with the UI (headbob! , FOV, etc.) but I found a few tweaks that made it playable.