Yet another 3D Realms retro FPS in the works

Level design is better than Heretic and conveys fantasy themes pretty well.
What is obtuse is the whole find switch->pull switch->run around entire hub to find what changed->repeat cycle.
Even going Hexen II style faux adventure would have worked better.

 

That's what I meant by obtuse. You pull a switch and have no idea what it does, in which of the maps. Then you do this 30 more times.

 

I agree that it doesn't have to be a switch hunt. But I'd want to actually have to search for whatever I'm looking for like Hexen 1, and the path to it shouldn't be completely linear. But perhaps don't be as obnoxious as the egyptian hub in Hexen 2. Gotta strike a balance there.

 

Was the game revealed? Or is it just the Kingpin remaster?

 

Btw, i remember reading that 3D Realms wanted to finish original 2001 build of Duke Nukem Forever, which means they have engineers who can work on UE1.

 

geno
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...lds-of-duke-nukem-forever-ever-leaked.120567/

 

'Switch chasers' is the term. Heretic/Hexen are common examples.

 

Enjoy an MTV Cribs style look at 3D Realms & Slipgate's office, plus some footage of unreleased game prototypes (including SiN 2 running in Doom 3's id Tech 4 engine).

 

Great, a show that shows us all the cancelled games.

 

i'd prefer them to stick to eduke32, not this faux retro on unity.

 

But it's not Unity, it's Unreal Engine

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Nobody in 2001 marketed their FPS looking like that, ffs.

edit: In the video they specifically say it was meant to look like 1997-1999 3d graphics.

 

That looks so ugly. What's with so many of these recent FPS games having intentionally awful visuals.

It's far worse when you use a modern engine and then just make it look like total fuck. At least Ion Fury was actually on a version of the Build engine. If you're going to make a circa 2000 FPS, please for fuck's sake at least use UE1 or something.

Or better yet, just ditch the whole faux-retro aesthetic.

 

This will be great if they sort out the flat textures and texture warping weirdness. That game looks like a PS1 style game and not a 90's PC FPS game. It's gone a bit too far with the textures.

 

EDIT: Nevermind, this is actually his own project, not related to 3DRealms. He's making this and also working on Ghostrunners.




And this is his profile pic

And before someone says Hexen, Hexen 2 was from 1997, not 98

 

So it's an UE4 game with modern postprocessing effects, modern lighting, modern physics, and intentionally shitty lowpoly models.
Ugh.

 

I really hate this intentional low poly thing so many "classic style fps" are doing. The classic part should be the gameplay, not the graphics.

 

I'm fine with retro visuals as long as the game actually looks the part i.e. something like this, or if the game utilizes an old engine (even if it's a source port like in Wrath or Ion Maiden).

 

I don't mind with 2d sprites as I think they still look good in most cases. I'm really not a fan of the new wave of "retro" 3d models though.

 

What would be the legalese of 3D Realms releasing a Doom engine game, considering Doom is now open source ?

 

Dunno, has there been any recent commercial doom engine (or sourceport) games?

I would assume the licensing is still non-commercial, so they'd probably have to come to some agreement with Bethesda if someone wanted to use the engine commercially.

 

Doom source code (and any other idSoft games) was released under GPL license. This means any game based on that source code has to be open source too. No publisher is going to allow that.

 

In the original half life you ran as fast as cheetah and running and gunning was a viable strategy. You also had explosives with ludicrous power and some pretty serious firepower

It's with hl2 that they neutered the gameplay in every way. Shooting and fighting became this dull interloper between story sequences and scripted set pieces

 

In 2019 a game

Wops, he's working on Ghostrunners, those tweets were about his personal project