Civvie 11 - Retro FPS Boomer

BrunoMattei said:
The in name only sequel and a completely and thoroughly average FPS experience.
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I always thought Quake 1 was more interesting just because it was a more haunting, borderline horror experience. Quake II's got an amazing soundtrack, but its world, enemies, and weapons are nowhere near as engaging, which is ironic given the first game's development suffered from a lack of clear vision.

I really wish Quake would return to the Lovecraftian inspired world of the first game.
 
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Is quake 4 any good. Its made by Raven which is a developer I trust (at least before activision gutted it)
 
Notgoodwithusernames said:
Is quake 4 any good. Its made by Raven which is a developer I trust (at least before activision gutted it)
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I played Quake 4 on xbox 360 back in the day.
It's mediocre, which was typical of raven software output at the time between 2006-2010 (this was before their attempt at making wolfenstein).

The game has a very slow intro, a lot of the segments are just doom 3 tier corridors and point A to point B tier level design with only 1 or 2 side areas and most of the weapons are capped until you upgrade them via story progression.
the game got interesting at the 1-2 hour mark when you become stroggified but the appeal wears off since all it does is boost your armor and translate strogg language which is for the health refill stations and trivial background shit.

Story is bland and generic but the game itself is either one of those you'll complete once and forget about it, or stop playing and forget about it.
 
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Notgoodwithusernames said:
Is quake 4 any good. Its made by Raven which is a developer I trust (at least before activision gutted it)
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I like Raven too so here's my probably opinionated take:
The gunplay is fine and there a few nice setpieces but just watch the strogg transformation prcoess on youtube, you won't miss the rest. Q4 somehow felt more plastic looking than Doom3 probably because it was less dark, but that's more the engine's fault. With tempered expectations you can get some fun out of it.
 
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biophonic said:
I played Quake 4 on xbox 360 back in the day.
It's mediocre, which was typical of raven software output at the time between 2006-2010 (this was before their attempt at making wolfenstein).

The game has a very slow intro, a lot of the segments are just doom 3 tier corridors and point A to point B tier level design with only 1 or 2 side areas and most of the weapons are capped until you upgrade them via story progression.
the game got interesting at the 1-2 hour mark when you become stroggified but the appeal wears off since all it does is boost your armor and translate strogg language which is for the health refill stations and trivial background shit.

Story is bland and generic but the game itself is either one of those you'll complete once and forget about it, or stop playing and forget about it.
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It's not a bad game, but on the 360 I recall it suffering from some horrendous framerate drops at times. Main thing I remember was it had some of the stupidest achievements ever, including one that required you to reach #1 on the global leaderboard.
 
The_Penultimate_Warrior said:
It's not a bad game, but on the 360 I recall it suffering from some horrendous framerate drops at times. Main thing I remember was it had some of the stupidest achievements ever, including one that required you to reach #1 on the global leaderboard.
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I mean, that actually sounds like an achievement.

I miss games that had creative and hard to obtain achievements.
 
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Overcast said:
I mean, that actually sounds like an achievement.

I miss games that had creative and hard to obtain achievements.
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Within a week you'd have people who'd block the top spots, so getting it legit was impossible. I actually knew someone who got it - he had 8 xboxes so he could create his own ranked matches, and used a very specific technique where it would glitch and give you more xp. Even then it took him months, and had to nicely ask the people at the top if he could overtake them just long enough to get the achievement.
 
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Brain Problems said:
Speaking of Raven, it's a goddamn travesty that Hexen and Heretic are sitting in the FPS dust bin. Yes, I know Amid Evil was similar but it isn't the same.
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I don't really care about Hexen, but I'd totally be down for a Heretic 1 remake.

Give Corvus a voice actor with Stephan Weyte's panache (but not Weyte himself, I don't think he fits the character), bring back all the OG guns, items and enemies, and update the maps to modern standards. You wouldn't even have to change the map layouts all that much: they managed to squeeze an enormous amount of ambience out of the Doom engine with those maps. They're great already, just give us a proper 3D engine that works out of the box on modern computers, and decent graphics to go along with it. Get the guys making Wrath: Aeon of Ruin to do it, I'm sure they could do a great job of it.
 
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Of all the shitty DOS jank out there, a Brazilian game of all things broke the man. I don't think even the developers managed to finish that game without it crashing on them.
 
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I like civvie but i really don't understand the appeal of watching somebody suffer while playing barely working trash that is bad in the most uninteresting ways possible.
After seeing one shitty doom ripoff or an asset flip horror game you pretty much saw them all, but videos about them are really popular for some reason.
 
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Dreamer said:
I like civvie but i really don't understand the appeal of watching somebody suffer while playing barely working trash that is bad in the most uninteresting ways possible.
After seeing one shitty doom ripoff or an asset flip horror game you pretty much saw them all, but videos about them are really popular for some reason.
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That's not really Civvie's gimmick, though. Yeah, he occasionally plays extreme trash, but he also shows off a lot of the classics, as well as modern indie retro shooters, that would otherwise be forgotten. And even with the extremely janky shit (like Daikatana) he tries to focus on the more original or interesting parts.

This one, though? I don't think there was anything original or interesting about it. I had no idea Brazil even had computers in the 90s. Clearly, allowing that to happen was a mistake.
 
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Thanks to Civvie I’ve gotten both blood and shadow warrior. I suckmat both though and for some reason in shadow warrior enemies don’t drop weapons only ammo (is it random like in blood?
 
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Dreamer said:
I like civvie but i really don't understand the appeal of watching somebody suffer while playing barely working trash that is bad in the most uninteresting ways possible.
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For me the appeal of that episode was that I had never heard of it before and I know more about boomer shooters than is recommended. I would absolutely have played that game in 1998 just to see what's going on, it's a novelty, but I would never do that now. By playing it he provides a valuable service for people like me.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
You Zoomers seem to really struggle with Blood.
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I'm an early Millennial and I remember having a much easier time with Blood back when I was a teen playing it on the original DOS. Trying to play it today, though? That game is kicking my ass.

Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
For me the appeal of that episode was that I had never heard of it before and I know more about boomer shooters than is recommended. I would absolutely have played that game in 1998 just to see what's going on, it's a novelty, but I would never do that now. By playing it he provides a valuable service for people like me.
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Usually the issue with old games and Civvie is like... outdated or crummy design. But they have their own little saving graces. Vargihna Incident doesn't seem to have any redeemable features, though. The best parts of the video were his Alex Jones jokes, the game itself is so bad he couldn't even make fun of it properly.
 
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