samuraigaiden
Arcane
You replace any game OST with the Quake soundtrack and it's going to be atmospheric as fuuuuuck. Even Pilotwings 64
Anyone who denies Quake atmosphere and art direction is crazy
It has an awesome medieval/biotronic feel to it and is more Lovecraftian than most stuff marketed as such
Doom 3 is the best tech-demo game that people don't like that isn't Half-Life 2.
It still looks good. Gameplay-wise it's different though -- I'd say it's much closer to Monolith's Condemned, so comparing the two is a bit dumb.Not a tech demo, it's a slav game that doesn't look as good as Stalker.
Dumb to compare with Stalker, or dumb to compare with Doom 3? I'd say it's both dumb to mention it in the context of cool ‘tech demo’ games and also ‘FPS essentials’. It looks thoroughly mediocre, which isn't really a huge problem to me, but, like, come on, man, y'know, right, doncha think? Even Stalker is actually quite poor. That's slavgame quality.It still looks good. Gameplay-wise it's different though -- I'd say it's much closer to Monolith's Condemned, so comparing the two is a bit dumb.Not a tech demo, it's a slav game that doesn't look as good as Stalker.
Unfortunately most of its cool tech is undermined by poor performance and instability. You still end up with just a good game, there's a high chance you'll have to turn some of the 'cool' features off.
- Doom; Doom 2FPS Essentials
- Doom; Doom 2FPS Essentials
- Heretic; Hexen; Hexen 2
- Quake; Quake 2
- Powerslave
- Blood
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Shadow Warrior
- Turok; Turok 2
- Unreal
- Half Life; Half Life 2
I still didn't play Amid Evil yet, if that's really as good as Hexen stuff then put that in the list.
Great list, just maybe add Descent
It was a tech demo game for NVIDIA PhysX. Here's a cool video showing off the effects
ftfy- Doom; Doom 2FPS Essentials
-Heretic; Hexen;Hexen 2
- Quake; Quake 2; Quake 3
-Powerslave
- Blood
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Shadow Warrior
- Turok; Turok 2
- Unreal; Unreal Tournament
- Half Life; Half Life 2
- Sin
- Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight
- Stalker
- System Shock; System Shock 2
- Deus Ex
I still didn't play Amid Evil yet, if that's really as good as Hexen stuff then put that in the list.
that's kenshi. stalker is quite decent, sometimes overambitious, sometimes overachieving. i mean, just the effort put in dog packs behaviour is superior to the one put in whole recent games.Not a tech demo, it's a slav game that doesn't look as good as Stalker. By the way, Stalker is the best worst best game ever.