Screenshot thread

[ferratilis]

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Back in the days where Tom Clancy was still drawing breath and so "Tom Clancy's" games were still vaguely realistic. Poor bastard is probably turning in his grave.

Yes, unfortunately. This game is still impressive, especially with lighting, sound, even enemy AI is good. Most players who go for 100% stealth playthrough would not notice it, but if you get in a firefight, enemies take corners, peak and shoot, crouch to avoid getting shot, it's better than in most modern games tbh. Ubisoft will never be able to achieve the amazing run they had with first four games. It's a shame.

It's even more suprising when you think that Splinter Cell started development as a James Bond style game that was suppose to be an 'MGS2 killer." Thank god they took more inspirations from Looking Glass than Kojima, whew.

I have a vague recollection Ubisoft had to tone it down because Clancy vetoed large parts of it? I even recall, dimly, that he was against the series' trademark combined NV/IR goggles until Ubisoft found a manufacturer who had produced a similar prototype - proving that is was a likely future technological development - and then promising to set the whole game 3-4 years in the future.

Splinter Cell was mindblowing for me when it came out. I had put maybe 150 hours into MGS2 and MGS2 just felt like complete shit as soon as I played Splinter Cell with it's free camera, mini-sandbox style and non-animu plot.

From memory, my only criticisms at the time were that a) the final "boss" was a bit weak mechanically and b) the DLC were clearly levels chopped from the main game. What did you think, in the year of our Lord 2021?

I'm still not done, there are two missions left, and then the DLC levels (that I haven't played before). I've played the game on PC before, but don't remember the final boss being mechanically weak, we'll see. I'll write something about the game on the "what games are you wasting time on" thread as soon as I finish. The only mission I really strugged with back then, and now as well, was the CIA HQ infiltration. Everything else was well balanced.

Actually, I have all the games in the series ready to play as part of a SC marathon. I even got two versions of Double Agent: the OG Xbox version (which is great and is a proper follow-up to Chaos Theory, basically Chaos Theory 2) and the 360 version (which was done by Ubisoft Shanghai when 360 was released and is so terrible that it should be erased from existence). I'll play them all, for science. :D

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Darkwatch

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[octavius]

Hmm...never heard about Darkwatch before...
Checking with Mobygames I see it's PS2 and X-Box only.

 

[d1r]

Hmm...never heard about Darkwatch before...
Checking with Mobygames I see it's PS2 and X-Box only.

Emulation?

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Checking with Mobygames I see it's PS2 and X-Box only.

I've used PCSX 2. Mixing keyboard with mouse still didn't give me the aiming like in any native FPS, but I managed to finish it.
I've liked the mix of western and horror, plus main hero Jericho reminds me of some other character .

The weapons feel good, especially the shotgun has got that oomph that makes it fun to use. We can choose good or bad path, when it comes to some characters. That gives us different powers, and at the end - the ending. I've finished it as a good undead cowboy. The variety of enemies is sufficent, starting from standard reapers who can can be killed rather quickly to flying banshees and banditos who use shotgun. I instantly recognized Jennifer Hale voice, who provides guidance through the whole story. The levels could be bigger, but the good art direction and combat make up for it. I liked the soundtrack as well. Overall I felt that just like Bloodrayne, the game feels like it was inspired by some comics and then used as a source material.

 

[Alienman]

Wtf aliens.

 

[boot]

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[jackofshadows]

Black Book.

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Backers graveyard.

 

[Fedora Master]

Attila: Age of Charlemagne
aka Poor Man's Viking Invasion
aka ONE ENTIRE JABBERSLYTHE

WELCOME TO AENGELAND

Someone actually made an effort with these texts

 

[Cryomancer]

Gothic 2 + Returning. This time with better graphics

 

[Riskbreaker]

Condemned

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[abnaxus]

 

[A horse of course]

Doing a final pass for music and adding a few extra lines here and there (forgot to mention Baldur's Gate Reloaded). Should be ready to upload within a week if all goes well.

 

[Tweed]

Slow train to nowhere.

 

[Tweed]

Doing a final pass for music and adding a few extra lines here and there (forgot to mention Baldur's Gate Reloaded). Should be ready to upload within a week if all goes well.

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[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

have to admit these games look really nice. Wish I enjoyed playing them as much as I do looking at them.

 

[Citizen]

 

[Fedora Master]

 

[ferratilis]

Infiltrating Epic Games HQ

That's Tim Sweeney on the floor, unconscious

 

[FreshCorpse]

A random collection of recentish stuff from my screenshot folder. Because I am such an upstanding young man these are lossy webps instead of lossless pngs, I'll name the games and I'll spoiler any images after the first for a game.

Someone complained a few (hundred?) pages back about people needlessly posting (enormous) lossless pngs and I felt a pang of shame so here's a tip: if you're sharing from imgur you can just change the url file extension from "png" to "webp" and the things are 10% of the size while looking pretty much identical.

Katana Zero. 10/10 for art, 8/10 for gameplay, 2/10 for plot

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Deep Rock Galactic, which I'd never heard of but turned out to be a BOSS online co-op game:

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Endgame gear in Kingdom: Come Deliverance:

An Deadfire NPC I'm sure I've seen before somewhere:

A thought cabinet member in Disco Elysium that I really liked. Moralists are the in-universe centrists, patterned on the eurocrats that many otherwise great European countries still suffer. Could be considered a spoiler I suppose. I want to do a replay of this thing but the "Director's Cut" just sounds like a downgrade from the original release.

The first of the Tomb Raider reboot games. Can't in good conscience recommend this one. There isn't actually a lot of "game" in it but it is fun if you're after a modern day Indiana Jones film but slightly more interactive and with considerably less charming characters. Despite the fact that it's a 2013 game it still looks really, really good in many places.

Spoiler

 

[Mikeal]

Infiltrating Epic Games HQ

That's Tim Sweeney on the floor, unconscious

Man I didn't do replay of whole (four first games) Splinter Cell games in like two years. Time to make up for it.

 

[Ol' Willy]

Typical crowd in France:

 

[JDR13]

The first of the Tomb Raider reboot games. Can't in good conscience recommend this one. There isn't actually a lot of "game" in it but it is fun if you're after a modern day Indiana Jones film but slightly more interactive and with considerably less charming characters. Despite the fact that it's a 2013 game it still looks really, really good in many places.

Have to disagree here. I actually liked it more than the older TR games. It's a lot more visceral, and, unlike other TR titles, you're not spending most of your time looking for X key to unlock X area.

 

[Fedora Master]

Operation MANSLUT TO DEMIGOD is go.

 

[Sigourn]

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