Truly Unreal?

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I guess it all ultimately boils down to what you look for in a game. On my part, I look for beautiful environmental settings to explore and wander around in and ogle to my heart's content, plus maybe some magic and sparkles. In this respect Unreal delivers for me -- and also Hexen, Hexen II and Shadow Warrior. Half-Life has precious little of these to offer -- it's like playing hopscotch on a minefield. But maybe most gamers are masochists who enjoy playing hopscotch on minefields, and that's what they look for in a game.

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quake2 single player SUX DONKEY DICK.....i got the game when it first came out, and i havent been able to finish the single player yet...i just can't force myself to sit through it! the multiplayer is tops though....beaten only by UT....even q3 can't beat q2(although after a while q3 will be able to, because of the community makin some kick *** mods) i just can't force myself to play a game where you run around in a muddy-reddish fortress, killing the same muddy-reddish bad guys over and over....all of q2's guys look the same...they are all undead looking reprossessed humans....and the ai? non-existant...they fire at you, and mabey even once in a while duck under a shot...and thats it. they are poorly animated....its obvious that ID makes its games for multiplayer only....

the ONLY part in q2 that has any atmosphere, or wow factor, is when you first find the enemy torture chambers, with your friends begging you to kill them....that is a MOMENT i will never forget.....but other than that there is no story line...nothing!

somebody make some more single player maps for UT...they ROCK!!! that one where you have to break into the palace to retrieve a stolen eightball launcher is sweet as hell....we need more like that.....i can only hope Unreal2 will be as good!

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Wolf Blackstar

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Hey now..... everyone's entitled to their own opinion.

I personally thought Q2 was great, having been been down the trail of Wolf3d, DOOM/2, Quake, and Q2. Id games weren't all, though, as the refreshing Duke Nukem 3D and SiN just added so many things to the FPS genre.

When I first played Unreal, I kept waiting for the weakness in gameplay that occasionally rears its ugly head in games with great graphics, but it never came. It was a solid and enjoyable game in all respects.

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This is an interesting thread...

I come from the curious position of never having played those classics Wolf3d or Doom. I started on classic Quake single player, and as a first FPS game that was really quite impressive! I loved the graphics, the sound, and the great atmosphere which had added flavour because of Trent Reznor's class CD audio. Mmm...

After playing this atmospheric nightmare, Quake2 came along. Sure, the graphics on my new 3d accelerator were quite good but the single player experience always left me feeling kind of flat. It all seemed too similar and repetetive.

Unreal came along, and I lapped it up. Superb graphics, great music by Alexander Brandon and Michiel Van Den Bos. I loved the "real" atmosphere, the interaction with the harmless Nali, the nature of the game as one flowing world.

I dabbled in Duke3d in the early days but the graphics made me feel sick and the level design left me frustrated as to what to do. But I liked its sense of humour. I tried a demo of Half-Life but after Unreal it didn't really impress that much.

I think the three single player games that have really made an impression have been:

Quake - it was a nightmare, and I loved it /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif.
Quake mission pack 1: Scourge of Armagon - Improved on Quake in so many ways.
Unreal: Perfect!

I'm done enthusing now. It's just that Quake 2 and HL never really hit the spot...

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i don't know bout the rest of you, but reading Hellscrags post made me feel old... I've been playing since the original Wolf3D. Though the very firt FPS game i ever played and got me into the whole genre was Blake Stone: Aliens Of Gold. Anyone else remember that game? It was awesome.. at the time i liked it better then Wolf3D, but that was before i realised how much fun killing nazi's was. I was so excited when i first heard about Quake, especialy after being so disapointed by Doom 2 (which was the EXACT same thing as the original, plus a few extra monsters and only ONE gun). As for Duke Nuke 3d, i like it. When i played it, it was brand new so to me the graphics were amazing. I remember being at a computer store and seeing a demo of Duke Nukem 2 playing on a demonstration computer that was set up there and loving it... i was blown away by the news of the sequal being in complete 3D... Though my favorite game was still the original Blood, i just love being evil. ah... that was a nice stroll down violent-memory lane.. As for the new games: i just recently got a new computer, went from a P166 to a 600, which is a pretty big leap, so i haven't even bought any new games yet (lack-o-moola, feel free to send donations!) so all i can base things on are demos. I didn't much like Quake 2, idunno, nothing was really wrong with it, just didn't strike me as very fun... though i have to disagree about Half-Life, i love it, it kicks major *** . SiN is okay, not the best... Thief is amazing and totaly different.. and i of course love Blood2. I wish i could say my opinion on Unreal, but the lazy bastards didn't make a demo.. boo! okay i think i'll shut up now (heretic and hexen fits somewhere in there too...)

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i don't know bout the rest of you, but reading Hellscrags post made me feel old... I've been playing since the original Wolf3D. Though the very firt FPS game i ever played and got me into the whole genre was Blake Stone: Aliens Of Gold. Anyone else remember that game? It was awesome.. at the time i liked it better then Wolf3D, but that was before i realised how much fun killing nazi's was. I was so excited when i first heard about Quake, especialy after being so disapointed by Doom 2 (which was the EXACT same thing as the original, plus a few extra monsters and only ONE gun). As for Duke Nuke 3d, i like it. When i played it, it was brand new so to me the graphics were amazing. I remember being at a computer store and seeing a demo of Duke Nukem 2 playing on a demonstration computer that was set up there and loving it... i was blown away by the news of the sequal being in complete 3D... Though my favorite game was still the original Blood, i just love being evil. ah... that was a nice stroll down violent-memory lane.. As for the new games: i just recently got a new computer, went from a P166 to a 600, which is a pretty big leap, so i haven't even bought any new games yet (lack-o-moola, feel free to send donations!) so all i can base things on are demos. I didn't much like Quake 2, idunno, nothing was really wrong with it, just didn't strike me as very fun... though i have to disagree about Half-Life, i love it, it kicks major *** . SiN is okay, not the best... Thief is amazing and totaly different.. and i of course love Blood2. I wish i could say my opinion on Unreal, but the lazy bastards didn't make a demo.. boo! okay i think i'll shut up now (heretic and hexen fits somewhere in there too...)

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Hellscrag

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Yeah, not liking HL much is very much a minority point of view.

It is odd that Epic didn't make a demo... anyway, if you're looking for a place to buy unreal, try online...

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