Too bad all those mods are PC only. I don't really game much on my laptop these days.
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Retro inspired FPS games (Dusk, Ion Fury, etc) are some of the best games on the market right now
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If I could hug this thread, I would.
Devil Daggers is one of the most brilliantly designed games in recent memory. Amid Evil was pretty great even if my excitement for it petered off towards the end. Cannot wait for Wrath.
Devil Daggers is one of the most brilliantly designed games in recent memory. Amid Evil was pretty great even if my excitement for it petered off towards the end. Cannot wait for Wrath.
You can play some of the less-extreme wads on a phone. Even on iOS, there's a port that comes with freedoom but will happily take doom2.wad and some pwads.
Hmm, never thought about playing wads on my phone. But, what app do you recommend or need to start playing? Would love to give it a try.
There is only one melee weapon in an arsenal of projectile weapons.
It's not really melee-based at all. There's your starting weapon and that's it. Some of the weapons look like they're melee weapons, but they're mostly "magic" projectiles.
It's very Quake in how it plays and is worth a look.
Final Judgement is the one I know on iPhone. Controls are OK. You will need to feed it your copy of doom2.wad (or whatever iwad you're using) but it takes files through the files app. There are a few different control options.
Scythe's the megawad I was playing last time I loaded it up, apparently.
Oops. Forgot to mention I'm on android. I'm gonna search around to find out the best way to play wads on android.
My mistake, I'll wishlist it.
Android's easy mode for source ports!
The axe in Amid Evil's great, it's chunky and useful and when you swing it it draws the target closer, so it's got a much longer effective range than you'd expect. It's nothing like the Quake axe.
Rather enjoyed Nightmare Reaper. It's very much in the Rise of the Triad splinter of the classic FPS genre.
I've got Dusk and Amid Evil waiting for me, but I just need to make the time to get into them. Same with the remaster of Blood. Got three episodes left of it.
A real shame about Ion Fury and anything this new 3D Realms touches. Apparently they got the wrong message and thought being casually bigoted assholes was part of the throwback charm.
Speaking of which. I'm curious what the deal with the Hedon guy is. I know he draws porn of the main character, but that alone isn't too much of a problem, right?
I've got Dusk and Amid Evil waiting for me, but I just need to make the time to get into them. Same with the remaster of Blood. Got three episodes left of it.
A real shame about Ion Fury and anything this new 3D Realms touches. Apparently they got the wrong message and thought being casually bigoted assholes was part of the throwback charm.
Speaking of which. I'm curious what the deal with the Hedon guy is. I know he draws porn of the main character, but that alone isn't too much of a problem, right?
Bought and downloaded Delta Touch for android for around 2 bucks and managed to run doom on it. Will play around with it for awhile before testing out mods.
Oh I'd completely forgotten about this one, feels like it was revealed forever ago. Still no store page anywhere.
Dusk, Amid Evil and Ion Fury got me back into the shooter genre in a big way.
I completely fell off the genre years ago as shooters got more and more gritty & self-serious. But the recent string of killer retro-shooters reminded how fun simple, twitch arcade-style gameplay can be.
Absolutely floor by top to bottom quality found in Dusk, Amid Evil & Ion Fury. Man, what a trip.
I completely fell off the genre years ago as shooters got more and more gritty & self-serious. But the recent string of killer retro-shooters reminded how fun simple, twitch arcade-style gameplay can be.
Absolutely floor by top to bottom quality found in Dusk, Amid Evil & Ion Fury. Man, what a trip.
Thanks for adding a new game to my wishlist, had no idea this existed. There's so much happening that I can find tons of cool stuff!
Just watched the trailer for this, looks fucking good. On my wishlist it goes!
One of the things that took be by surprise with these retro shooters is how well they perform on modern tech.
I remember back in '99 upgrading to a Voodoo2 card just to play Quake/Half-Life and even then it struggled to get 30fps at a low 4:3 resolution.
But today I can revisit this classic era of shooters at a blistering 120fps on a high-res, liquid-smooth G Sync monitor.
It makes my brain do backflips of glee as it tries to reconcile vintage gameplay loops on modern hardware.
I remember back in '99 upgrading to a Voodoo2 card just to play Quake/Half-Life and even then it struggled to get 30fps at a low 4:3 resolution.
But today I can revisit this classic era of shooters at a blistering 120fps on a high-res, liquid-smooth G Sync monitor.
It makes my brain do backflips of glee as it tries to reconcile vintage gameplay loops on modern hardware.
Until you play Quake 2 RTX and watch your FPS drop to double digits. Developers could make visual showcases out of these games, with RTX etc, but it would go against the aesthetic appeal of these games. Consumers want these games to look like they're straight out of the 90s, and a positive side effect of that is that they don't take a beastly PC to run well.
Fire up Doom 2 with Russian Overkill on a big slaughtermap and watch your FPS hit single digits when you fire the big stuff.
Dusk runs amazingly, though, and so do a bunch of the newer games - it's only when someone does something really stupid with the older ones that you get a slideshow.
Anyone remember STRAFE? It kind of kicked off this whole renaissance. I backed the KS but never really got to the game, and every time a thread like this comes up nobody mentions it. Where did it go wrong?
It was a rogue-like. There were a few retro inspired shooters before this latest batch, but what separates these ones is the great level design and enemy/weapon/tileset variety. People like old-school shooters for the smart levels, not just shooting stuff. Rogue-likes have boring level design
It was? I only played it very briefly during the beta and honestly didn't remember. So it's all randomly-generated? Well that explains it. Really not a fan of that type of design either, and now I don't regret not going back. Glad they got to make their game and glad to help, though. Did enjoy the music and aesthetics.
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If that's that case, yeah, that'll kill it. I only like a very small amount of rogue like games as it is, much less FPS rogue likes.
Gimme that classic FPS mission structure and let me go nuts.
Overload is so good! It's a shame how much it got overlooked in these classic shooter discussions and that the developer had to disband. I'm still super glad it got made though.
Yall need to check out the demo for ULTRAKILL
It's like someone tried to specifically engineer catnip for me.
A fast-paced FPS that is heavily influenced by DMC (including parrying projectile attacks!) that controls like a dream.
The texture warping can be disabled if the look is not to your liking.
It's like someone tried to specifically engineer catnip for me.
A fast-paced FPS that is heavily influenced by DMC (including parrying projectile attacks!) that controls like a dream.
The texture warping can be disabled if the look is not to your liking.
Oh, will totally check this out. Kinda dig the texture warping too, though I do tend to turn off some of the more retro flavoured visuals (like pixelization in Dusk).
My biggest gripe for the game was that it touted being 1993 yet it had synthwave instead of butt-rock
Dusk, Amid Evil and Ion Fury were all good games IMO, with Dusk perhaps being my favourite of the three. I really liked Project Warlock too, and Prodeus seems promising. Can't wait for Wrath.
Desync was such a huge letdown for me. They were so intent on making a hard game, they forgot to make a fun one.
Desync was such a huge letdown for me. They were so intent on making a hard game, they forgot to make a fun one.
oh i didnt know this got finished! i loved the demo they had out a long time ago
I was looking for a decent TSS on Switch. Browsed around today for some options. Decided to jump in on Assault Android Cactus+ since I've heard good things about it.
Played for a bit and I'm already satisfied. Seems just right. While I enjoy the genre, I prefer games that have set stages rather than a pure arcade structure, so this works for me.
I still need to get back to Nuclear Throne. Great game, but I'm not feeling the roguelike thing right now. On that note, the eShop is sorely missing Monolith, which is quite possibly my favorite TSS ever.
Played for a bit and I'm already satisfied. Seems just right. While I enjoy the genre, I prefer games that have set stages rather than a pure arcade structure, so this works for me.
I still need to get back to Nuclear Throne. Great game, but I'm not feeling the roguelike thing right now. On that note, the eShop is sorely missing Monolith, which is quite possibly my favorite TSS ever.
nah, they made a plenty fun one.
Game is a bit more willing to work with the abstract end of 3D combat, but it's the closest thing to a style on em fps
I mean, that looks very appealing to a tiny niche of people who are willing and able to memorise every spawn location and practice to the point where they can basically play out each level like a choreographed dance routine.
To normal players however, it's just a frustrating exercise in insanely fast foes who can hit you from miles away and who constantly spawn on all sides of you with no warning.
DUSK is one of the best games I've played, such a fantastic arsenal, atmosphere, combat, music. Hell, everything.
I even love the artstyle, it imitates the old games but still has enough stuff that those games couldn't handle that it makes it look great (The meat grinder, for example)
I even love the artstyle, it imitates the old games but still has enough stuff that those games couldn't handle that it makes it look great (The meat grinder, for example)
Plenty of normal players don't get that good and still play for the challenge and learning systems. Dsync does an atrocious job explaining itself because it deals with so much abstract visual language, but once you know what exactly are rock, paper, n scissors in the game it's pretty straight forward in terms of dealing with any enemies, especially long distance ones.
Tho I understand the sour take on the game, because again: it's maybe the worst game I've played in terms of explaining fucking anything.
