I hope he's being sarcastic with the "AAA games"
In any case, i've bought AMID EVIL and DUSK.
AMID EVIL is definitely Hexen-like and is pretty awesome. The soul mechanic is fun.
And DUSK disappointed me a little with the first episode (kinda basic level design), but the second episode was amazing imho. Really looking forward to the third episode.
Amid Evil legit looks
baller to me. That artstyle is so messed up but so unique, i fucking love the look. Retroish but with PBR and what not. It is not supposed to
work, but it somehow does. AE and Warlock have the most interesting visuals right now, and Gibhard.
Usually low budget games do not have the same flair as AAA games.
What does
flair mean in this context? Because, due to AAA engines being available for free, even titles with lower budgets (And we are still talking millions here, so..) look decidely
AAA or well, atleast have a certain grade of
quality to them. So i am not sure what this is really. It is not like last-gen where low budget games looked visually quite apart from its AAA counterpart. If anything, lower budget games are looking more like their high budget brothers more than anything else because the costs for an engine are significantly more interesting for starting developers.
Please tell me Ion Maiden has level design similar to the games it's aping.
It looks great, but I need good and intricate level design in my FPS.
PS: Scorn looks pretty fucking promising but it's still quite hard to tell how this will play in practice I think.
Ion Maiden does. It is made by Voidpoint, which is compromised of members who are among the best mappers in the community. Some of them are involved in The AMC Team, a standalone Total Conversion of Duke that is like an A-Team meets Rambo kind of thing in a psycho-fantasy world. Really has a boatload of content, and its all FREE!
www.moddb.com/games/the-amc-tc
None of those games are my type of game despite their artistic/audio achievements.
You aren't elaborating
why that is, however. You pick a very limited field of view to have regarding games based on what i feel are outdated paradigms on what indie games look like these days. It feels
tormenting to willingly put yourself in such a close minded box, but hey, options exist for a reason. I am just saying i would never intentionally limit myself like that for such terrible reasons.
I just don't want to play any game that doesn't have sophisticated AI, decent graphics, and good audio.
- Sophisticated AI: Well we have not progressed much since FEAR, but really, what is your standard? What kind of AI is acceptable to you?
- Decent graphics: Most indie games use the exact same engine as their higher budgeted counterparts. Again, what is your standard here?
- Good audio: How can you judge a game on its audio if you never were to play it?
This is my take on this kind of commentary: You dismiss entire games on the vague pre-tense that their games must not feature decent AI, graphics or audio, without having tried the games in the first place.
Do you think that's a fair assessment of the hard work by developers of any game?
I don't want anything with indie-esqur graphics or side scrolling.
What does
indie-esqure graphics mean in this context? That games have a more unique look than most AAA games or how should i view this?
Now the bolded is really
reaching. You do realize you are in a thread about
first-person shooters, right? I can't tell if that side scrolling part is a joke that flies over my head or you mean something totally different when saying that, but i for one would love to hear what you mean by it.
Didn't see any mention of
Arthurian Legends, which I'm not even sure how to classify...
Its made with the 001 Gamemaker Engine and its like a successor to the Witchaven series that never came. Its awesome tho, outside of Ion Maiden pretty much the only retro game out there that actually uses a 2.5D engine to its fullest.
Sorry if there is a better thread to talk a bit about mods for old shooters, this is the best one I know of.
You know, we had a Doom mod/wad thread over on GAF that was full of stuff like this. Did anyone ever make a new thread for it here?
Yep,
Raptomex did one, and me and
Pasokon Deacon did one for the leftovers. Sadly, they are in Hangouts so they hardly see any visitors. It sucks because there is
a lot of effort in those OP's. Perhaps we can pull them back to video games instead of Hangouts? But here they are:
Classic Doom Community Thread
Classic Doom Community Thread: The Leftovers!
