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[smaug]

IT TOOK ME 11 HOURS, BUT I FINALLY BEAT BROKEN ALLIANCE ON "normal mode" as a necromancer. Holy crap I lost like 15 times before. HoMM2 is one of my favorite/fun games and I still have so much to do (Test more strategies and units), I've never had this much fun with CRPG's. Not sure if I should move on to heroes 3 before at least doing the campaign.

 

[smaug]

Should I move on to Heroes 3? Is it really that much better? I would like to play knight and barbarian heroes, they just suck so much in this game. (Might)

 

[PulsatingBrain]

I've only played a little Homm2 so I don't have a great insight on it, but I can say that I jumped ship to Homm3 as soon as i played it and was hooked as fuck for years. I burnt out on it at this point but had many great years with 3. Might is still weaker than Magic though.

What have you got to lose in trying it? Homm2 isn't going to vanish

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

I've installed again Quake to revisit the original campaigns, but instead tried Arcane Dimensions, which I downloaded a long time ago. After going through, I need to take a break because the level design was so good, and they were filled with so many enemies that playing vanilla game will feel a little bleak. I really like the different themes, and creative traps plus of course the architecture, filled with so many details and interesting locations. I took a break and will leave the test maps for later.

I liked the added weapons and monsters, which are making encounters more interesting and you can more often be a witness of monster wars. Especially observing Shamblers beating the new Ogres was fun. While playing I also was reminded about the slow movement in today's FPS games. Here it's like being on marathon, dodging grenades, projectiles and trying not to be "hugged" by some beast.

The secret level, which is unlocked by finding all the hidden runes. It feels more like Unreal. It's more of a tribute level, where we can read some tomes about each modder, but the design is really breath taking.

Spoiler

 

[Icewater]

Never played Quake but man that shit has some great aesthetics. I see where Unreal got its inspiration.

 

[spekkio]

Behead those who insult DS2. Some quality vistas:

Also: two blacksmiths who could convert boss souls into shitty special weapons, when all you need to git gud is this:

Spoiler

And Heavy Crossbow

 

[PrettyDeadman]

The way it's meant to be played:

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Never played Quake but man that shit has some great aesthetics. I see where Unreal got its inspiration.

Arkane Dimensions is a level pack which was created way after Unreal was released.
And a lot of the level there seem to be inspired more by Unreal than by Quake to be honest.

 

[DraQ]

Never played Quake but man that shit has some great aesthetics. I see where Unreal got its inspiration.

That looks like a pretty modern mod, so it's more likely that it got its inspiration *from* Unreal (and those bizarre sections of Dishonored).

Original Quake, OTOH, isn't all that likely to have inspired Unreal given the timeline of development.

 

[Stormcrowfleet]

Never played Quake but man that shit has some great aesthetics. I see where Unreal got its inspiration.

To this day I still think Quake 1 and all the architecture, mods, etc. is among the best in video games. It's peak performance aesthetic. Aged pretty well too, especially the atmosphere.

Trolling as an invisible gravelord ninja in blighttown while people pass behind me and don't see me (first screenshot in this thread, so please forgive the format):

[EDIT: I edited the format thanks to PulsatingBrain ]

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Stormcrowfleet When you upload a pic, go to "get share options" at the top right of the pic, then copy BBcode Forums. The link will be formatted already just to paste right into a post for direct link

 

[DraQ]

To this day I still think Quake 1 and all the architecture, mods, etc. is among the best in video games. It's peak performance aesthetic. Aged pretty well too, especially the atmosphere.

Unreal did better job most of the time, but there is no denying that Q1 was some monocled stuff in terms of atmosphere and did some clever and eerie stuff with the environment (including deleted/invisible brushes in lightmaps).

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Messing around a little with Black Mesa. Gotta say, the Chuckle Brothers mug really took me off guard

 

[Vorark]

Sure my deah Shirley.

W-what if they water down the beer?

Suggar, spice and everything nice!

Remember me and my friends would all pile up on the computer to solve the cases. Good times.

 

[eXalted]

Might is still weaker than Magic though.

I prefer Magic too but I've heard that, on the pro scene, everyone prefers Might.

 

[someone else]

Rimworld.
187 old tortise dying from old age in my warehouse, went manhunter but turn back to passive, probably because of dementia.

 

[Reinhardt]

Saved by friendly witches

 

[Jimmious]

187 old tortise dying from old age in my warehouse, went manhunter but turn back to passive, probably because of dementia.

FYI they all turn passive after/if they sleep once

 

[Baron Dupek]

STALKER - Lost Alpha: Director's Cut
good grief

what a crap
There are way better mods there that get way less exposure than this shit
They had resources and original dev's support but it was clear as day they are terrible at developing anything. Animations sucks and models have borked meshes (to create balding scientist they merged two heads together, like, who the hell does that? I know devs do a lot of trickery but this is nuts).

Spoiler

it's a mess
check this - sprint fast into the chamber to launch cutscene, but it bugged out and I had to witness some NPC, my doppelganger that I have to possess in cutscene but failed - staring at the hologram.

:andhairamug:

this was segment from Half-Life-segment, everyone pointing at weird name (Gordon) yet still let him in.
okay

Bandits - Phoenix Rising

played it on VMware Player
What a time to be alive, back then my GPU was too shit to run it and now virtual PCs are good enough to emulate that crap.
That infamous mission with train escort was easy - just run to the final destination, AI will ignore the train if you're not around.

P.dope soundtrack too

Spoiler

Final mission at Jericho's wall was actually p.easy if you don't follow the quest makers.

Or you do, like modern gamers and

have to fight 2 bosses, then get chased by remnants of all these gangs you fought agains through the whole game
good riddance

 

[octavius]

Might is still weaker than Magic though.

I prefer Magic too but I've heard that, on the pro scene, everyone prefers Might.

High stats in Attack and Defense combined with cheap spells like Mass Slow = win.
Magic damage tends to become less useful the bigger the armies get.
So Might heroes with Wisdom are generally best IMO.

 

[Danikas]

Civil war

 

[DraQ]

What do you mean? I've never noticed anything odd in the lighting like that.

IIRC there was a courtyard/room in Q1 somewhere (not secret, normal, open "arena) with open sky above, when you looked on the floor, there was a large quake symbol shaped shadow cast across entire floor without anything to actually cast it.
(If anyone has screenies, please post)

There might be some other cases as well.

Good and subtle, if technically simple way of creating eldritch atmosphere.

 

[Mark Richard]

Coming to the end of my adventures on Surviving Mars. Turns out the foremost step to terraforming Mars is to heat up the planet with greenhouse gases and release a significant amount of carbon dioxide. This creates the conditions needed for rainfall...

Except it's acid rain that makes Mars look like a Bladerunner hellscape. At first I thought something had gone horribly wrong, but the acid rain does eventually clear up as the atmosphere improves. A hundred years later this old ball of dust is starting to look green in the right ways.

 

[DraQ]

IIRC there was a courtyard/room in Q1 somewhere (not secret, normal, open "arena) with open sky above, when you looked on the floor, there was a large quake symbol shaped shadow cast across entire floor without anything to actually cast it.
(If anyone has screenies, please post)

There might be some other cases as well.

Good and subtle, if technically simple way of creating eldritch atmosphere.

I found it, it's in E1M5:

Apparently, this was done by hiding brushes inside a sky-textured box:

Inside:

Light passes through these surfaces, but they still block visibility, so the model can't be seen normally. Though you can still reveal the box if you shoot at it, as projects will pass through it and be occluded from view.

Ah, so it's a different technique than I thought.
Pretty cool nevertheless.

 

[Icewater]

Never played Quake but man that shit has some great aesthetics. I see where Unreal got its inspiration.

Arkane Dimensions is a level pack which was created way after Unreal was released.
And a lot of the level there seem to be inspired more by Unreal than by Quake to be honest.

Really? I assumed that at least the textures and such were the game's stock resources.

Original Quake, OTOH, isn't all that likely to have inspired Unreal given the timeline of development.

Quake came out in '96, Unreal in '98. That's plenty of time for the aesthetics to be influenced by Quake.