Noooo, really?
I've never had any version of a PS, my Mrs bought me an Xbox about 12 years ago that hasn't seen the light of day in about 11 years!
Yeah HL, the gift that kept on giving. Incredible game in its own right, the narrative aspect was such a leap forward from owt we’d all seen before, so immersive.
Yeah HL, the gift that kept on giving. Incredible game in its own right, the narrative aspect was such a leap forward from owt we’d all seen before, so immersive.
But the mods! I loved Team Fortress but CS was my bag. Was at UNI at the time and built a proper top tier PC (for the time) and still to this day, I doubt I’ll ever sink more hours into a game than I have CS. It was like crack for me and I’m sure it was a large cause of two relationships failing
I’ve never been better at an online game than I was at CS.
Then HL2, which was even better IMO and Portal. Amazing.
You ain’t been to bed? Wow! Kudos dude1.6 I was the king. Seriously, if there were online sweaty rats like there are today, I would be up there for knowing every grenade spot, every angle, every bunny hop. I can hang in CS:GO these days if I really focus and try...for a bit...but let's face it, that attention span and the old wrists just can't do that shit anymore
But it is 5.39am and myself and my youngest have been up all night playing SoT and we've managed to sink everyone who came at us (I'm not going to lie, mostly him, he's a beast at boarding!), so I can still occasionally do the hardcore gaming nerd session
Either very late 90’s or very early 2000’s. Sold itself on being gory if I remember correctly, you could shoot peoples limbs off etc? The multiplayer was decent too.
You ain’t been to bed? Wow! Kudos dude
I woke up stressing about work at half three so am currently downstairs under my duvet salvaging spaceships.
Are these things normal for people our age?
1.3 was my absolute peak dude. Like you, I knew everything about every map and gun. I was in 3 clans and took it all very seriously. So much so, and this I am mildly ashamed of, that I used to scoff a packet of chocolate coated coffee beans before every practice / match in the belief it made me even better! Used to buy them in bulk from wholesaler.
Gamertag was obvs VoLuMiZa in the time honoured upper and lower case.
Either very late 90’s or very early 2000’s. Sold itself on being gory if I remember correctly, you could shoot peoples limbs off etc? The multiplayer was decent too.
Should you have been playing that as a child? Remember it being age restricted
This period of my life is great for gaming. Had to put it to one side while being a dad, partner and carer for a few years but now … I have enough time to really enjoy stuff again.I stress about work all the time. But gaming is such an escape, as much as I'm into music and used to be more into drawing/computer art, nothing encapsulates everything and can take your mind of stuff quite like getting absorbed in a good game.
And the coffee bean trick is no different to all these god awful gamer drinks they have out now! In fact, it must be healthier
I missed this mention @P-Nut but I'd say SoF was a late ninties engine. It was around the time where stuff like Deus Ex was working with the earliest forms of ray tracing (oh yes, the sound engine was an early form), and games like HL were working on bigger and more complicated scenes and AI to work within it. SoF was doing stuff with collision detection and hit reg over multiplayer well ahead of it's time. These games really were a breed of their own, this was when things were still being pushed. Without these, there'd be no Halo to do what they did with AI and texture mapping, no F.E.A.R which was the last actual true AI leap and is still on par today with anything at least with bullet physics.
Plus...you can't forget ever blowing legs off in the subway level with the shotgun
On that note, SiN is another one that was criminally overlooked and the reboot should have taken off more.
Do you just mean the original Doom? I played quite a bit of that, but I liked Doom 2 much better. Less anonymous maps, more cool enemies - it basically perfected the game as far as I'm concerned. Possibly the game I played the most ever!
Was it that one that had really good offline gaming as well? Like all the capture the flag modes etc against AI. Or was that the Quake variant? One of those I played quite a bit - but never online.
Yeah that’s the one. I agree the D2 is better but I mostly treat them as one game rightly or wrongly. I rarely play through 1 without carrying on into the second and even now, love them both, they still play so well.
I have done only a few run-throughs of Doom 1, but dozens for Doom 2.Yeah that’s the one. I agree the D2 is better but I mostly treat them as one game rightly or wrongly. I rarely play through 1 without carrying on into the second and even now, love them both, they still play so well.
And there’s still some secrets I don’t remember when I restart each time
I’ve never given that too much thought tbh but now you mention it there were occasions you’d open a door and all hell would break loose between enemies.I have done only a few run-throughs of Doom 1, but dozens for Doom 2.
One thing (among many) that I love is that enemies will start fighting each other. With some of the huge birds in Doom 2, the best strategy is actually to run rings around them so they hit each other and start killing each other off. It's a great pity more games don't have that element; or at least, it's been extremely rare in shooters I've played.
Never played it but wasn’t it just the same game with less pixelated graphics? Always assumed it was.
Speedball 2
This were the best time of my life. Still remember how excited I would get when my dad would drive me and my brother to Electronics Boutique to go pick a game each. Nothing has got me that level of excitement since.
Nah, completely new game, very good leveldesign and slightly better graphics. Highly recommended - played it 2-3 years ago for the first time ever as well (it‘s been released on PC recently I think).
It’s on Gamepass, will check it out.
That game felt so revolutionary at the time. Few games left me in awe but its up there with the likes of Unreal, Half Life 2, Outcast and several others what seemed like technologically groundbreaking games.
Either very late 90’s or very early 2000’s. Sold itself on being gory if I remember correctly, you could shoot peoples limbs off etc? The multiplayer was decent too.
Should you have been playing that as a child? Remember it being age restricted
I was only joking mate, didn’t we all?
