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by "SQUAD, CHECK IN." 11/28/2011, 10:57pm PST |
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It's like Monolith correctly identified the best part of Half-Life (fighting the marines) and built an entire game of nothing but that. Meanwhile, everyone else decided to focus more on the unskippable ten-minute introductory tram ride :(
Rafiki wrote:
After the enemies are all dead, the maziness of the levels does get in the way because of the bland shittiness of the levels. About 1/3rd of the game is a basement of dirty concrete rooms and rusty pipes, and then on into Generic Office Building. I always search everywhere in a level so I don't miss ammo and health (I'm enjoying the liberal placement of medkits on hard) and powerups, and more than once I found myself accidentally walking back towards the beginning of the level because every room looks the same. You don't need to replace mazes with corridors because players are stupid, you just need to put big obvious landmarks in levels so I know where the fuck I'm going and not build everything out of 1 antlion nest concrete texture.
I read a great article about how they addressed this exact problem in the sequel. Here it is.
(FEAR 2 was actually developed by the Condemned team, who - while masters of environmental storytelling - were sadly not the idiot savants of encounter design that the original FEAR team were. The result was a much friendlier, more polished game that was ultimately less satisfying to play. Still, I liked it.) |
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this sale is fucking gigantic by jeep 11/23/2011, 6:22pm PST 
by which I mean GOTY 2011 portal 2 is $10.19 if you didn't already get it NT by jeep 11/23/2011, 6:23pm PST 
Skip Mount and Blade and go straight to M&B:Warband. NT by Mr. Kool 11/23/2011, 7:17pm PST 
warning: Orcs Must Die sucks by fabio 11/23/2011, 11:15pm PST 
It gets better later... by Lurker 56498 11/24/2011, 6:32am PST 
What's the best tower defense game? by Fullofkittens 11/24/2011, 6:34am PST 
http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Game1.asp NT by I liked this one. 11/24/2011, 9:26am PST 
Immortal Defense. by Mischief Maker 11/24/2011, 9:45am PST 
Agree with this. It's amazingly tactile and has a ton of content. Good story! NT by Gutsby 11/24/2011, 11:40am PST 
Plants vs Zombies is the best casual one, also Defense Grid: The Awakening by Lurker #whatever number 11/24/2011, 9:53am PST 
Desktop Tower Defense by fabio 11/24/2011, 4:18pm PST 
Re: Desktop Tower Defense by Lurker #that 11/24/2011, 4:30pm PST 
This is all bullshit, by the way. NT by Gutsby 11/24/2011, 6:03pm PST 
nah by fabio 11/27/2011, 11:27am PST 
DTD has one winning strategy: Zigzag Ticket Queue. by Fabio Mimicker 11/27/2011, 7:53pm PST 
Re: warning: Orcs Must Die sucks by aaa 07/16/2013, 12:38pm PDT 
Portal 2 for ten bucks. YOINK. Oddbox for four bucks!? YOINK by Fullofkittens 11/24/2011, 6:12am PST 
$5 for New Vegas NT by fabio 11/24/2011, 4:19pm PST 
every grand theft auto game for $12.50 NT by jeep 11/25/2011, 8:54pm PST 
Re: every grand theft auto game for $12.50 by WITTGENSTEIN 11/25/2011, 9:33pm PST 
Quoi? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 11/25/2011, 10:33pm PST 
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/ NT by (Just in case you're serious.) 11/25/2011, 11:01pm PST 
yes 1 and 2 as well NT by jeep 11/25/2011, 11:46pm PST 
No London, 1969, if that's what you're holding out for NT by CattleHumper 11/26/2011, 11:50am PST 
Is Fear 1-3 worth $25? NT by Rafiki 11/26/2011, 11:51am PST 
$25 is about what I paid for each of the first two. I feel I got my money's wort by Jerry Whorebach 11/26/2011, 1:20pm PST 
I feel like I got my FREE worth out of Fear 1 by fabio 11/27/2011, 11:31am PST 
The combat in FEAR (ie the whole fucking point) is about a million times better by than the combat in Dead Space. 11/27/2011, 12:58pm PST 
We've kind of been over this a bit on here already but there are a couple of hor by Fullofkittens 11/27/2011, 7:10pm PST 
I think he was being sarcastic NT by thinking guy 11/27/2011, 7:40pm PST 
No, I was being serious. I had no idea people here were afraid of video games. by Jerry Whorebach 11/27/2011, 8:37pm PST 
Are you scared by movies? On your TV screen that plays Bill and Ted??? NT by Mischief Maker 11/27/2011, 8:44pm PST 
No, not really. Maybe my TV isn't big enough? by Jerry Whorebach 11/27/2011, 9:02pm PST 
also Eternal Darkness NT by Mysterio 11/27/2011, 7:51pm PST 
Aliens vs. Predator 1 by Mischief Maker 11/27/2011, 7:54pm PST 
True. The marine campaign feels like one long nightmare. Very effective. NT by Eurotrash 11/27/2011, 11:25pm PST 
FEAR 1 is hilarious by Rafiki 11/28/2011, 12:51pm PST 
Re: FEAR 1 is hilarious by Rafiki 11/28/2011, 12:52pm PST 
The scariest moment in FEAR... by Jerry Whorebach 11/28/2011, 1:30pm PST 
After putting 4 more hours into it by Rafiki 11/28/2011, 8:39pm PST 
My favourite thing about the drones is how they constantly bark status updates. by "SQUAD, CHECK IN." 11/28/2011, 10:57pm PST 
Found out what made FEAR's AI so good. Shouldn't surprise anybody by Rafiki 04/23/2012, 3:09pm PDT 
So the FEAR drones are a bunch of icycalms. by Eurotrash 07/16/2013, 3:08pm PDT 
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