What game are you wasting time on?

[Darth Roxor]

Enemy space marines in Return to Na Pali not only pick up their fallen buddies' better guns, but also steal your medkits when they are hurt

 

[NecroLord]

Enemy space marines in Return to Na Pali not only pick up their fallen buddies' better guns, but also steal your medkits when they are hurt

How do you like their hitscanning assault rifles?
Told you, bro!

 

[NecroLord]

I'm playing Hitman: Codename 47.
The first entry in the Hitman Series. Rather primitive, rough, but a fun game. Every series has a beginning.
Can be very frustrating. Had a lot of fun with the following missions - Massacre at Chau Cheung Fish Restaurant, Lee Hong Assassination, Traditions of the Trade. Some very good missions, but also some really bad ones: The Jungle missions.
Now I am at the Rotterdam Harbor where I have to ice the gunrunner Boris and disarm a fucking nuke.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Enemy space marines in Return to Na Pali not only pick up their fallen buddies' better guns, but also steal your medkits when they are hurt

How do you like their hitscanning assault rifles?
Told you, bro!

I don't mind so much because they die very fast to the same assault rifle lol

 

[Fargus]

I'm playing Hitman: Codename 47.
The first entry in the Hitman Series. Rather primitive, rough, but a fun game. Every series has a beginning.
Can be very frustrating. Had a lot of fun with the following missions - Massacre at Chau Cheung Fish Restaurant, Lee Hong Assassination, Traditions of the Trade. Some very good missions, but also some really bad ones: The Jungle missions.
Now I am at the Rotterdam Harbor where I have to ice the gunrunner Boris and disarm a fucking nuke.

Back in the days it was innovative. One of the first games that used ragdolls in my memory, body dragging mechanics, dual wield with different gun in each hand. And the theme of contract killings was not something ive seen before in games. Today Hitman 1 really is just a dated and frustrating game though. Finished it many years ago and dont plan to come back. The contracts you've mentioned were probably the only fun ones in the whole game and they worked well as replayable sandboxes to mess around, back when i had the youthful enthusiasm for that kinda thing. The jungle mission is a fucking sick joke. You need to navigate through the shitty cloaka of stretched jungle, then find some idol for spearchuckers, find a dead pig to trick the jaguar, then kill a coked up druglord with m60 in his guarded mansion... and imagine doing it all over again if you fail too many times. Nowadays you'd do yourself a favor if you just watch a longplay.

 

[NecroLord]

I'm playing Hitman: Codename 47.
The first entry in the Hitman Series. Rather primitive, rough, but a fun game. Every series has a beginning.
Can be very frustrating. Had a lot of fun with the following missions - Massacre at Chau Cheung Fish Restaurant, Lee Hong Assassination, Traditions of the Trade. Some very good missions, but also some really bad ones: The Jungle missions.
Now I am at the Rotterdam Harbor where I have to ice the gunrunner Boris and disarm a fucking nuke.

Back in the days it was innovative. One of the first games that used ragdolls in my memory, body dragging mechanics, dual wield with different gun in each hand. And the theme of contract killings was not something ive seen before in games. Today Hitman 1 really is just a dated and frustrating game though. Finished it many years ago and dont plan to come back. The contracts you've mentioned were probably the only fun ones in the whole game. The jungle mission is a fucking sick joke. You need navigate through the shitty cloaka of stretched jungle, then find some idol for spearchuckers, find a dead pig to trick the jaguar, then kill a coked up druglord with m60 in his guarded mansion... and imagine doing it all over again if you fail too many times. Nowadays you'd do yourself a favor if you just watch a longplay.

Hitman Contracts is considered a sort of "remake" of Codename 47. It remastered some of the missions from the first game.
One of the best games in the series and my favorite one. Really awesome, you should play it.
Also a lot darker in tone than the other games. A lot more sick stuff.
All the missions take place during the night, which reminds me of Deus Ex.

 

[Fargus]

I'm playing Hitman: Codename 47.
The first entry in the Hitman Series. Rather primitive, rough, but a fun game. Every series has a beginning.
Can be very frustrating. Had a lot of fun with the following missions - Massacre at Chau Cheung Fish Restaurant, Lee Hong Assassination, Traditions of the Trade. Some very good missions, but also some really bad ones: The Jungle missions.
Now I am at the Rotterdam Harbor where I have to ice the gunrunner Boris and disarm a fucking nuke.

Back in the days it was innovative. One of the first games that used ragdolls in my memory, body dragging mechanics, dual wield with different gun in each hand. And the theme of contract killings was not something ive seen before in games. Today Hitman 1 really is just a dated and frustrating game though. Finished it many years ago and dont plan to come back. The contracts you've mentioned were probably the only fun ones in the whole game. The jungle mission is a fucking sick joke. You need navigate through the shitty cloaka of stretched jungle, then find some idol for spearchuckers, find a dead pig to trick the jaguar, then kill a coked up druglord with m60 in his guarded mansion... and imagine doing it all over again if you fail too many times. Nowadays you'd do yourself a favor if you just watch a longplay.

Hitman Contracts is considered a sort of "remake" of Codename 47. It remastered some of the missions from the first game.
One of the best games in the series and my favorite one. Really awesome, you should play it.
Also a lot darker in tone than the other games. A lot more sick stuff.

Played that too Hitman 2 was the only game i've never finished aside from two new seasons of the reboot, because back then i had such a shitty bootleg version of it that i just lost interest and for some reason never came back. Also eddited my previous post a bit.

 

[NecroLord]

I'm playing Hitman: Codename 47.
The first entry in the Hitman Series. Rather primitive, rough, but a fun game. Every series has a beginning.
Can be very frustrating. Had a lot of fun with the following missions - Massacre at Chau Cheung Fish Restaurant, Lee Hong Assassination, Traditions of the Trade. Some very good missions, but also some really bad ones: The Jungle missions.
Now I am at the Rotterdam Harbor where I have to ice the gunrunner Boris and disarm a fucking nuke.

Back in the days it was innovative. One of the first games that used ragdolls in my memory, body dragging mechanics, dual wield with different gun in each hand. And the theme of contract killings was not something ive seen before in games. Today Hitman 1 really is just a dated and frustrating game though. Finished it many years ago and dont plan to come back. The contracts you've mentioned were probably the only fun ones in the whole game. The jungle mission is a fucking sick joke. You need navigate through the shitty cloaka of stretched jungle, then find some idol for spearchuckers, find a dead pig to trick the jaguar, then kill a coked up druglord with m60 in his guarded mansion... and imagine doing it all over again if you fail too many times. Nowadays you'd do yourself a favor if you just watch a longplay.

Hitman Contracts is considered a sort of "remake" of Codename 47. It remastered some of the missions from the first game.
One of the best games in the series and my favorite one. Really awesome, you should play it.
Also a lot darker in tone than the other games. A lot more sick stuff.

Played that too Hitman 2 was the only game i've never finished aside from two new seasons of the reboot, because back then i had such a shitty bootleg version of it that i just lost interest and for some reason never came back. Also eddited my previous post a bit.

That Tony Montana assassination mission in Colombia is a fucking nightmare. I sniped his ass right from the start of the mission (since I had a sniper rifle), but then you have to plant a bomb in the drug factory...
I will play Silent Assassin after I'm done with Codename 47. This is when the Hitman series took off and became BIG. Silent Assassin was a huge success and for good reason. It's a really good game. Many cool missions.

 

[Fargus]

I'm playing Hitman: Codename 47.
The first entry in the Hitman Series. Rather primitive, rough, but a fun game. Every series has a beginning.
Can be very frustrating. Had a lot of fun with the following missions - Massacre at Chau Cheung Fish Restaurant, Lee Hong Assassination, Traditions of the Trade. Some very good missions, but also some really bad ones: The Jungle missions.
Now I am at the Rotterdam Harbor where I have to ice the gunrunner Boris and disarm a fucking nuke.

Back in the days it was innovative. One of the first games that used ragdolls in my memory, body dragging mechanics, dual wield with different gun in each hand. And the theme of contract killings was not something ive seen before in games. Today Hitman 1 really is just a dated and frustrating game though. Finished it many years ago and dont plan to come back. The contracts you've mentioned were probably the only fun ones in the whole game. The jungle mission is a fucking sick joke. You need navigate through the shitty cloaka of stretched jungle, then find some idol for spearchuckers, find a dead pig to trick the jaguar, then kill a coked up druglord with m60 in his guarded mansion... and imagine doing it all over again if you fail too many times. Nowadays you'd do yourself a favor if you just watch a longplay.

Hitman Contracts is considered a sort of "remake" of Codename 47. It remastered some of the missions from the first game.
One of the best games in the series and my favorite one. Really awesome, you should play it.
Also a lot darker in tone than the other games. A lot more sick stuff.

Played that too Hitman 2 was the only game i've never finished aside from two new seasons of the reboot, because back then i had such a shitty bootleg version of it that i just lost interest and for some reason never came back. Also eddited my previous post a bit.

That Tony Montana assassination mission in Colombia is a fucking nightmare. I sniped his ass right from the start of the mission (since I had a sniper rifle), but then you have to plant a bomb in the drug factory...

Oh yeah i forgot about the bomb. That mission really felt like some 90s autistic point&click just with guns and stealth.

 

[AdamReith]

I love how the game punished you for not blasting him through a window with a constant barrage of one liners that basically disable you as he opens up with his machine gun.

 

[NecroLord]

I love how the game punished you for not blasting him through a window with a constant barrage of one liners that basically disable you as he opens up with his machine gun.

If you are quick enough, you can run behind him and slice his throat, which is an instant kill. Better than having to shoot him 9 times...

 

[pickmeister]

Speaking of the original Hitman series, probably even more than the gameplay and nostalgia, I absolutely love replaying them for the soundtrack. With the biggest jump between Codename 47 and Silent Assassin, the soundtrack just gets better and better with Contracts being my favorite.
Even the main menu music gives me goosebumps:


A shame Jesper Kyd's soundtracks are mostly for bad games the last 10 years.

 

[NecroLord]

A shame Jesper Kyd's soundtracks are mostly for bad games the last 10 years.

Haha, yeah, whatever pays the bills, right?

 

[Fargus]

Used to listen to this theme over and over. Only a handful menu themes have that effect. My second favorite would probably be Chatwood's "Welcome Within" from PoP 2.

Back when i actually gave a fuck about soundtracks in vidya. Soundtracks in new games are passable at best, but the games are even worse heh.

 

[Tavar]

I've finally received the Analogue Mega SG which I pre-ordered back in November and I've spent some time playing Sonic 3 Complete and Shinobi III on it. I'm very surprised how much smoother the games run in contrast to emulating them with Keiga Fusion. The colors are also much more vivid. I just wish you had the option to save every game like you have on an emulator, but I guess this in acceptable sacrifice to make for authenticity.

 

[Vyadhis]

I've finally received the Analogue Mega SG which I pre-ordered back in November and I've spent some time playing Sonic 3 Complete and Shinobi III on it. I'm very surprised how much smoother the games run in contrast to emulating them with Keiga Fusion. The colors are also much more vivid. I just wish you had the option to save every game like you have on an emulator, but I guess this in acceptable sacrifice to make for authenticity.

Does it work on a CRT? I have a little one on my desk I got at a homeless shelter that I haven't put much use into.

 

[Ezekiel]

Playing Crazy Taxi again. Not coming close to the scores I reached two years ago. It's weird how much better I drive on the 27 inch monitor than on the 65 inch TV.

 

[Tavar]

I've finally received the Analogue Mega SG which I pre-ordered back in November and I've spent some time playing Sonic 3 Complete and Shinobi III on it. I'm very surprised how much smoother the games run in contrast to emulating them with Keiga Fusion. The colors are also much more vivid. I just wish you had the option to save every game like you have on an emulator, but I guess this in acceptable sacrifice to make for authenticity.

Does it work on a CRT? I have a little one on my desk I got at a homeless shelter that I haven't put much use into.

It only has a single HDMI output, so not out of the box. The crafty salesmen at analogue will sell you a fancy DAC for this use case, though. Anyway, if you want to get a Mega SG, you'll probaby have to look in the used market. Analogue said that they won't produce any more units, but I'm not sure whether they are serious about this or just used it to drive up demand.

 

[pickmeister]

Tried Baldur's Gate 3 for the heck of it. Knowing how degenerate it is, my expectations were low. Laughing at bad games is not a bad pastime.

Beside the disgusting gory part of walking through sphincters, there's not much I can say about the game. The only thing I can point out is that the writing is dumb and the game as a whole is just boring.

What a disappointment. I was prepared for a bad game, not a boring one.

 

[NecroLord]

Alright.
So, I finished Hitman: Codename 47.
The last two missions can be rough (just as the entire game can be), in "The Setup" you have to kill a Dr. Kovacs in a mental asylum. However, someone called Dr. Ortmeyer calls the fucking Special Forces on your ass in an ambush. Grab a syringe from the office near the reception room and an Uzi (should you need it). IMMEDIATELY take Dr. Kovacs's clothes off his body. The rest of the mission is smooth sail after that.
The last mission "Meet your brother" is nuts. You have to fight a few of Agent 47's clones. They are fast and very accurate. I managed to complete this mission without dying once. Grab a kevlar vest and an MP5 with some ammo from a room right after you emerge into the corridor after killing the guard.

Can't wait to jump to Silent Assassin. This is the game that really put Hitman on the map, when the series took off and became big.

 

[TheCumGuzzler]

Since Jesper Kyd's name is mentioned..
Such a shame Dark Tide's soundtrack was wasted on that shitty game

 

[pickmeister]

Alright.
So, I finished Hitman: Codename 47.
The last two missions can be rough (just as the entire game can be), in "The Setup" you have to kill a Dr. Kovacs in a mental asylum. However, someone called Dr. Ortmeyer calls the fucking Special Forces on your ass in an ambush. Grab a syringe from the office near the reception room and an Uzi (should you need it). IMMEDIATELY take Dr. Kovacs's clothes off his body. The rest of the mission is smooth sail after that.
The last mission "Meet your brother" is nuts. You have to fight a few of Agent 47's clones. They are fast and very accurate. I managed to complete this mission without dying once. Grab a kevlar vest and an MP5 with some ammo from a room right after you emerge into the corridor after killing the guard.

Can't wait to jump to Silent Assassin. This is the game that really put Hitman on the map, when the series took off and became big.

I always end up cheesing the last mission by finding my way to the room with minigun and camping the mission out.
Always fun to see those clones ragdoll under the minigun barrage.

Damn, gotta replay the second one soon for the music alone.

 

[NecroLord]

Alright.
So, I finished Hitman: Codename 47.
The last two missions can be rough (just as the entire game can be), in "The Setup" you have to kill a Dr. Kovacs in a mental asylum. However, someone called Dr. Ortmeyer calls the fucking Special Forces on your ass in an ambush. Grab a syringe from the office near the reception room and an Uzi (should you need it). IMMEDIATELY take Dr. Kovacs's clothes off his body. The rest of the mission is smooth sail after that.
The last mission "Meet your brother" is nuts. You have to fight a few of Agent 47's clones. They are fast and very accurate. I managed to complete this mission without dying once. Grab a kevlar vest and an MP5 with some ammo from a room right after you emerge into the corridor after killing the guard.

Can't wait to jump to Silent Assassin. This is the game that really put Hitman on the map, when the series took off and became big.

I always end up cheesing the last mission by finding my way to the room with minigun and camping the mission out.
Always fun to see those clones ragdoll under the minigun barrage.

Damn, gotta replay the second one soon for the music alone.

Yes, great soundtrack.
Again, some shit missions too (like the first one in Japan).

 

[Great Deceiver]

Replaying Dark Forces with the Force Engine and having a blast. I haven't done a full playthrough since release (so almost 30 years ago), therefore I remember almost nothing.

It's a great game and missions are shorter than I remember. I'm using the Community Patch but since I couldn't be arsed to read the notes, I'm not sure what has changed.

I'll be doing a full Jedi Knight 1/2/3 run afterwards. Last time I played JK 1 I used the old jkgfxmod. I saw that there's a new interpreter/engine called OpenJKDF2, is it good?

 

[NecroLord]

Replaying Dark Forces with the Force Engine and having a blast. I haven't done a full playthrough since release (so almost 30 years ago), therefore I remember almost nothing.

It's a great game and missions are shorter than I remember. I'm using the Community Patch but since I couldn't be arsed to read the notes, I'm not sure what has changed.

I'll be doing a full Jedi Knight 1/2/3 run afterwards. Last time I played JK 1 I used the old jkgfxmod. I saw that there's a new interpreter/engine called JKDF2, is it good?

Honestly, I haven't heard about JKDF2. Hopefully you won't have many problems getting Dark Forces 2 to run on your system, as getting it to work on anything which isn't Windows 7/XP can be a real pain.