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Who here has actually played the following: Bioforge: Journeyman Project: System Shock?
#21080121 - 01/06/15 09:59 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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or Alone in the Dark?
any of the above games anyone played before?? and beaten?
i played System Shock and ... it was fucking awesome, and just mindblowing for an older game. i also played some Bioforge and some Alone in the Dark, and Bioforge is ridiculously innovative and difficult... i am watching a lets play of it, and it's fucking bonkers. Alone in the Dark too, i wanna check out. i don't know if i'll ever been able to beat them though.
Journeyman Project games are the only one's i've played and beaten, save 3: Legacy of Time. never got a chance to beat it, or get very far. but 2: Buried in Time was one of my favorite games ever, and is epic in everyway. 1 was too buggy to play mostly, but i tried it, and got pretty far actually. it's extremely innovative. i want to play the updated version of it called Pegasus Prime, in fact, i've always wanted to, but couldn't up until recently... GOG has it now, since earlier last year...
whoa, it looks phenomenal.
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Re: Who here has actually played the following: Bioforge: Journeyman Project: System Shock? [Re: akira_akuma]
#21080321 - 01/06/15 10:52 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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PS: here is a good, and kinda funny lets play of Bioforge. (in sections of course)
see how awesome games USED to be. this is basically interactive computer art, at this point, and isn't fun by our modern standards... but still... just imagine trying to beat this game back in the day. so genius.
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Re: Who here has actually played the following: Bioforge: Journeyman Project: System Shock? [Re: akira_akuma]
#21088413 - 01/08/15 04:53 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Major nostalgia game for me. One of the first I played. Right around the time of Descent, Zeliard, and Warcraft: Orcs and Humans.
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Re: Who here has actually played the following: Bioforge: Journeyman Project: System Shock? [Re: Heffy]
#21088449 - 01/08/15 04:58 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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haven't heard of Zeliard before. looks like a cool game. and Descent and Warcraft are super nostalgic classics to me, too.
but you're referring to Bioforge, right? or Journeyman Project. because the latter was a major title for me too.
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Re: Who here has actually played the following: Bioforge: Journeyman Project: System Shock? [Re: akira_akuma]
#21103023 - 01/11/15 05:23 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm amazed by how the gameplay mechanics in some of these old rpgs seems to have more progressive features than what I find in many new games, especially considering the limited computing resources that game devs had to work with.
Combat and character development felt so much more satisfying and rewarding in some of those old games. I wonder how contemporary game devs didn't seem to learn any lessons from those old gems.
It feels like game studios today are either less capable of delivering than their forebears were or they are deliberately making rpgs more casual to appeal to a wider audience.
Or I'm just getting old and crotchety.
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Re: Who here has actually played the following: Bioforge: Journeyman Project: System Shock? [Re: quartet]
#21104195 - 01/11/15 09:08 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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quartet said: I'm amazed by how the gameplay mechanics in some of these old rpgs seems to have more progressive features than what I find in many new games, especially considering the limited computing resources that game devs had to work with.
Combat and character development felt so much more satisfying and rewarding in some of those old games. I wonder how contemporary game devs didn't seem to learn any lessons from those old gems.
It feels like game studios today are either less capable of delivering than their forebears were or they are deliberately making rpgs more casual to appeal to a wider audience.
Or I'm just getting old and crotchety.
dude totally on the same page here, been gaming since atari.. I find a total lack of depth in most new games nowadays... and when they bring back old franchises like simcity, they completely butcher it with simplicity, drives me nuts!
I mean, I really enjoyed skyrim... but compared to morrowind, it was a huge step down other than graphically... oblivion was kind of in the middle.
it's definitely them trying to appeal to a larger demographic... aka 'profit'
and that sucks...
I'm wondering what the new roller coaster tycoon is gonna be like, if that gets dumbed down I'm gonna be pissed.
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Re: Who here has actually played the following: Bioforge: Journeyman Project: System Shock? [Re: LuSiD9]
#21110498 - 01/12/15 10:13 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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System Shock 2 is amazingly good. I haven't played the original but 2 was damn near perfection. It was exceedingly obviously where Bioshock got all it's influences and ideas from. Though imo SS2 actually did it better in most cases.
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Re: Who here has actually played the following: Bioforge: Journeyman Project: System Shock? [Re: Cj-B]
#21111151 - 01/12/15 11:21 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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2 is great. but... clanky.
but that's just a given for that day and age in gaming... just getting off the "old school" and goin on new.
1 though man... is as amazing and seriously even more complex,... and for an older game... VERY advanced.
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Re: Who here has actually played the following: Bioforge: Journeyman Project: System Shock? [Re: akira_akuma]
#21111766 - 01/13/15 02:47 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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akira_akuma said: 2 is great. but... clanky.
but that's just a given for that day and age in gaming... just getting off the "old school" and goin on new.
1 though man... is as amazing and seriously even more complex,... and for an older game... VERY advanced.
You'd be surprised at how modern it looks with a couple mods. Check it, it makes the game infinitely more atmospheric http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1e4s2v/system_shock_2_with_mods_looks_amazing_for_a_pc/
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