Trepang2 - spiritual successor to F.E.A.R., "sequel we never got"

[Alienman]

Disgusting modern UI.

 

[Bad Sector]

Lithtech Jupiter EX (the iteration of the engine FEAR1 and its expansion used) was basically diet id Tech 4. IMO it looks perfectly fine but as far as FEAR is concerned it isn't really the engine looks, etc but the weapon feel, physics, interactivity (well, mainly around breaking stuff :-P), AI, etc.

but humans looked plastic

I think this is more of an art issue than an engine issue. There aren't many games made with the engine (and aside from Monolith's games pretty much all of them are low budget shooters) but based on a few i've seen the engine can avoid that plastic look.

 

[Tacgnol]

I think this is more of an art issue than an engine issue.

Yeah plastic looking models is usually an art issue, though some engines default shaders make the issue look worse.

 

[Eyestabber]

Played the demo, seems ok, but I'm not impressed. Enemies are fucking mega bullet sponges, fear enemies went down relatively fast and their omniscience doesn't help. What's the cloak even good for anyway? So far this looks meh, fighting in pitch black environments is not really fun.

 

[StrongBelwas]

June 21st this year.

 

[GrafvonMoltke]

Can't wait to turn generic bad guys into red paste

 

[DemonKing]

Was there even a Trepang 1?

Loved FEAR (at least the original) so might pick this up if the reviews are good.

 

[Morgoth]

Looks generic as fuck.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Looks generic as fuck.

You were much more positive about a practically identical trailer 2 pages ago. I guess your soul has further blackened.

 

[Morgoth]

Looks generic as fuck.

You were much more positive about a practically identical trailer 2 pages ago. I guess your soul has further blackened.

My tastes and demands have increased.

 

[Tyranicon]

I'll buy it if the AI is good, but the mention of bullet sponge enemies make me weary.

 

[Tweed]

Looks like the real deal to me. I've been waiting for this one for a long time and I hope to God it doesn't suck.

 

[Ivan]

I've played the combat demos, and it's fun, but I'm more concerned to see if they can pull off creating a satisfying campaign with proper level design and not just combat arenas. It's fun, but that doesn't cut it for me, as I recently saw in Severed Steel.

 

[Morgoth]

Pretty, noisy, and bland.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

"This busywork only highlights how heavily this game leans on it's combat"

This vidya industry faggot is telling on himself.

 

[DemonKing]

Dual wielding nade launchers!!!

Might have to check this out as I loved FEAR back in the day although I think they really needed a different title as the one they picked is meaningless to most people and confusing with the "2" at the end given this isn't a sequel.

 

[Infinitron]

https://af.gog.com/game/trepang2?as=1649904300

 

[Duraframe300]

I think they really needed a different title as the one they picked is meaningless to most people and confusing with the "2" at the end given this isn't a sequel.

Well, it's the title squared by 2. And there is only one game, technically 1 squared by two is still 1.



j/k fully agreeing with you. It's a confusing title.

 

[Jenkem]

 

[Zewp]

I refunded within an hour. It just does nothing better than FEAR did back in 2005. Even the combat is a step back from FEAR. There's no reason to play this while FEAR exists and still plays well and looks great on modern hardware.

For $15 this might have been an interesting experimental game, but for $30 it's a massive ripoff.

 

[Tacgnol]

Does this one have perma upgrades like FEAR had?

 

[motherfucker]

Stupid motherfucker plays a fast-paced FPS on a gamepad then complains it's too hard without focus.
Kill all games journalists.

 

[Twiglard]

Interesting enemy squad AI but shitty gunplay. Not worth paying for.

 

[Ivan]

I tire of being a joyless fuck myself and try to remember to enjoy things on their own merit. I had a suspicion that this would be undone by a shit campaign/level design. Of course, I'd like to get my own hands on it to determine for myself, but it looks like I was right. The bones are there, but this definitely lacks the theming and mystique that made FEAR the whole package that it is (at least before they drove Alma to death in the sequels)

I refunded within an hour. It just does nothing better than FEAR did back in 2005. Even the combat is a step back from FEAR. There's no reason to play this while FEAR exists and still plays well and looks great on modern hardware.

For $15 this might have been an interesting experimental game, but for $30 it's a massive ripoff.

 

[Zewp]

I tire of being a joyless fuck myself and try to remember to enjoy things on their own merit. I had a suspicion that this would be undone by a shit campaign/level design. Of course, I'd like to get my own hands on it to determine for myself, but it looks like I was right. The bones are there, but this definitely lacks the theming and mystique that made FEAR the whole package that it is (at least before they drove Alma to death in the sequels)

I refunded within an hour. It just does nothing better than FEAR did back in 2005. Even the combat is a step back from FEAR. There's no reason to play this while FEAR exists and still plays well and looks great on modern hardware.

For $15 this might have been an interesting experimental game, but for $30 it's a massive ripoff.

Yeah, I was quite excited for this one, so it's not even like I was going into it with the intention of shitting on it. I wouldn't mind a proper spiritual successor to FEAR at all, but this unfortunately just isn't it.

They did say that they'll consider releasing modding tools or a level editor later, so maybe there's hope that modders can salvage something from it.