/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4919782]

What are some overlooked retro FPS i should play?
either on pc or console

[Anonymous No.4919871]

>>4919782
>Redneck Rampage
>I N J AP A N E S E
Is /vr/ the only quality board on this website besides maybe /lit/ and /a/?

[Anonymous No.4920081]

Powerslave
Redneck rampage rides again

>>4919871
>/a/
>quality
Not with thier taste

[Anonymous No.4920094]

>>4919871
>/lit/
>quality
you're shitposting right?

[Anonymous No.4920161]

Doom
Doom 2
Duke Nukem 3D
Quake

[Anonymous No.4920179]

>>4919782
chasm the rift

[Anonymous No.4920182]

>>4920161
He said overlooked

[Anonymous No.4920202]

>>4919782
Based Redneck Rampage Japanese version box poster

[Anonymous No.4920209]

Is the GOG version of blood improved compared to the DOS version? I'm running it through dosbox and the mouse aim is all fucked, I would also like to run it at a higher resolution

[Anonymous No.4920212]

>>4920209
Use BloodGDX

[Anonymous No.4920362]

Blood is not overlooked at all. It's massively hyped up in /vr/, despite being an average game at best.

[Anonymous No.4920371]

>>4919782
That is some quality shit right there. One of the most underrated series ever.

[Anonymous No.4920391]

>>4919782
Requiem - Avenging Angel (don't expect it to be GREAT, or even that much better than average, but it IS extremely interesting and ambitious and the beginning area is CREEPY AS FUCK)
SiN Gold
Strife (aka what if someone asked "how much shit can we make the Doom engine do?" has full voice acting, an actual story, semi-open levels, in-game shops, NPC interactions, etc.)
Kingpin - Life of Crime (an FPS experience that to this day is not quite like any other, features tons of great ideas, though with admittedly middle-of-the-road execution [not to mention poor balance], all-in-all recommended)
Rise of the Triad (fucking batshit insane over-the-top FPS with TONS of gore, was almost shocking to see a game this violent in 1994, if you like Wolfenstein 3-D then this kind of plays like a beefier version of that, highly recommended)
Armorines - Project S.W.A.R.M. (one of the many N64 FPSes, but unlike the bulk of them this is still fairly obscure, but it's worth giving a shot as it's actually an OK game)
Quake II on N64 (technically an all new game using the base Quake II gameplay + a split-screen 4 player mode, highly recommended)
Descent
Descent II
Descent III
Forsaken (the best Descent clone ever)
Aliens versus Predator 2 (PC)
Crime Cities (PC)

[Anonymous No.4920447]

>>4919782
People tend to overlook DOS Powerslave because of console Powerslave being so unique & well-made. But the DOS game is still quite fun.
>>4920179
Great art & models in this game, absolutely horrible engine and level design. Maybe check out the Doom mod that replaces the weapons with Chasm weapons.
>>4920362
Average? Come the fuck on. The fact that they made 10 weapons (almost all with alt-fires) all fun & satisfying to use is an accomplishment. And that's just one above-average feature.

[Anonymous No.4920492]

>>4919782
Shogo MAD

[Anonymous No.4920514]

>>4920492
This. It's completely broken (and unfinished, they scrapped about 75% of the game to make it in time for release) but still fun.

[Anonymous No.4920535]

>>4920514
They scrapped 75% of the game? What? Single Player was long as hell for its time. Game played just as good as Sin

[Anonymous No.4920537]

OH and here's another one

Sin

[Anonymous No.4920551]

>>4920391
Sin Gold is fucking awesome and I urge everyone who hasn't played it yet to go right now an DO IT.
It was so advanced for it's time too.
For example it had branching pathways in mission like if you destroy certain structures in earlier levels that's gonna affect it later when you come back.
Too bad it was buggy as shit when it got released alongside Half Life and got overlooked because I genuinely feel it's in the same league as half life.
But now the GOG version runs flawlessly on modern systems
The only fix you need to do is to limit the fps because on modern systems it runs at like 1000fps and that bugs out the games physics
Just type cl_maxfps 125 (or whatever else framerate you would like) in the console

[Anonymous No.4920568]

>>4920535
Yup. Craigy Boy said it himself, Shogo was too ambitious for its own good. Six months before release they realized Shogo is reaching feature oblivion and scrapped a bunch of work on it.

A lot of the content is actually stuff like features and mechanics. Early on, for example, they wanted open level design on-foot to allow multiple ways to complete objectives, like what Deus Ex did later. There was going to be some sort of stealth system, which was half implemented in the game (before you reach an enemy, try turning on third person mode and seeing what they do when idle. they look around, and if you reach their sight that's when they shoot). And there was a level that took place in an elementary school with you playing as a kid version of Sanjuro, textures, models and audio dialogue from it still survive in the game.

[Anonymous No.4920571]

>>4920568
From the game files.

[Anonymous No.4920573]

>>4920568
>>4920571
One of the levels actually contains the entirety of another level. I don't have any pics to back this up, but you can just use "mpclip" on the 09_Comm1 map and you can see what I mean.

[Anonymous No.4920585]

alien trilogy
alien resurrection (ps1)
aliens vs predator
aliens vs predator 2
blake stone: aliens of gold
blake stone 2: planet strike
one unit whole blood
blood 2: the chosen
catacomb 3d descent
catacomb abyss 3d
catacomb apocalypse
catacomb armageddon
chasm: the rift
chex quest
corridor 7: alien invasion
corridor 8: galactic wars (prototype)
cyclones
daikatana
damage incorporated
defiance
delta force 1-?
descent 1
descent 2
descent 3
devastation
dirty bomb
domination: episode 1: first contact
the ultimate doom
doom 2: hell on earth
master levels for doom 2
final doom
doom 64 (n64)
duke nukem 3d + gorillion of expansions
erradicator
extreme paintbrawl
fate (demo)
flying heroes
goldeneye (n64)
hacx
half-life
half-life: blue shift
half-life: opposing force
half-life: decay (ps2)
halo?
halo 2?
halo 3???????????
heretic
heretic 2
hexen
hexen 2
hovertank 3d
in pursuit of greed
ken's layrinth
killing time
kingpin: life of crime
kiss: psycho circus
legend of the seven paladins
marathon
marathon 2: durandal
marathon infinity
nam
necrodome
no one lives forever
no one lives forever 2
no one lives forever 2: contract jack

[Anonymous No.4920591]

outlaws
pathways into darkness
perfect dark (n64)
postal 2?
powerslave(exhumed)
quake
quake: scourge of armagon
quake: disolution of eternity
quake 2
quake 2: the reckoning
quake 2: ground zero
quake 3 arena
quake 3: team arena
realms of the haunting
redneck rampage
redneck rampage: rides again
redneck rampage: suckin' grits on route 66
requiem: avenging angel
rex blade: the apocalypse
rise of the triad
rise of the triad: dark war
rise of the triad: extreme
seed
serious sam: the first encounter
serious sam: the second encounter
serious sam: the next encounter (gcn, ps2)
shadow warrior
shadow warrior: twin dragon
shadow warrior: wanton destruction
shadowcaster
shogo
sin
soldier of fortune
soldier of fortune 2
star trek: elite force
star trek: elite force 2
star trek: klingon honor guard
strife
system shock
system shock 2
trespasser
turok
turok 2
turok 3 (n64)
unreal
unreal: return to na'pali
unreal tournament
will rock
wolfenstein 3d
wolfenstein 3d: spear of destiny
william shatner's tekwar
witchaven
witchaven 2
world war 2: gi
zar
zpc

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[Anonymous No.4920607]

>>4920591
quake 2 64

[Anonymous No.4920628]

the world is not enough for n64 and ps1 are two different games

[Anonymous No.4920643]

>>4919782
This >>4920447 Blood is often mentioned and quoted because of how solid the game is. It may have some flaws, but it's all stuff that plenty of other FPS had, so i don't feel like to penalize it. Other then that there are plenty of titles, but i'm a little drunk so don't expect i remember them all. It all depends on what you mean for overlooked, though... I'll throw you some names then the choice is yours: Unreal, Heretic, Hexen, Eradicator, NAM, Strife, Blake Stone, Rise of the Triad and last but not least Postal2 (not retro, but it's nice to see that some threads of this game are still present nonetheless. So in the end i've only named a few overlooked ones, but at least they're surely good titles).

[Anonymous No.4920661]

>>4920571
I see. I don't think it could've been good with open level design since there was not much dialogues and choices unless they were going for GTA-like flow of the game.

Either way, I can only imagine what Shogo 2 would be like if they actually made it today

[Anonymous No.4920675]

>>4920661
Again, they wanted the game to be more like Deus Ex and it ended up being more like a basic classic FPS by the end of development.

[Anonymous No.4921112]

>>4920591
>witchaven
Some games were "overlooked" for a reason yknow...

[Anonymous No.4921347]

>>4919782
Pathways into Darkness
Cybermage
Eradicator

Alien Breed 3D II: The Killing Grounds
Powerslave/Exhumed (PC version)
An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire
Realms of the Haunting
Assassin2015

[Anonymous No.4921360]

>>4921112
I didn't played it
I want help to keep adding shi..fps on that list

[Anonymous No.4921392]

>>4921360
It's not a very good game, mainly due to the bugginess. It feels like the game is held together with glue. M210 (creator of BloodGDX) has a sourceport in progress, perhaps he'll improve it enough to make it more fun.

[Anonymous No.4921401]

Huuuuuuuush Puppy!
Sourceport when

[Anonymous No.4921407]

>>4921392
Hope he adds an option to mod the ghost out.

[Anonymous No.4921410]

>>4921360
*play

[Anonymous No.4921413]

>>4919782
Sin, No One Lives Forever

[Anonymous No.4921417]

>>4921407
2 spoopy 4 u? I love the ghost, it's one of the most unexpected scares in video game history.

[Anonymous No.4921420]

Necrovision, also the expansion
It's like a Painkiller and Wolfenstein hybrid with a terrible starting level that most likely made normies reluctant to play the rest of the game

[Anonymous No.4921481]

>>4921417
It's copied from Corridor7, you know.

[Anonymous No.4922310]

>>4919782
Dark Forces and Dark Forces II
Dark Forces can be described as Star wars Doom, but I think it's better than doom in some ways
>Better levels
>Better puzzles
>Better story
>Can jump
>More weapons
DF II is actual 3D (like quake) and is excellent as well.

[Anonymous No.4922974]

>>4921481
Most of the developer's games were supposed to have it.

[(Hype)rion No.4923435]

>>4919871
>/a/
Haha nope
/m/ is a quality board though. Fav board along with /vr/.

[Anonymous No.4923850]

System Shock 1 is an AMAZING fps/rts game filled with a massive amount of ambience through UI and general game mechanics. In the game you can prone, lean, blind fire around corners, prime grenades and throw them, some guns have power settings and you can overload them and throw them. One of my fondest memories with the game is leaning an SMG into a doorway and gunning down several cyborgs.

[Anonymous No.4923930]

>>4923850
Frankly, of all the FPS/dungeoncrawler hybrids I've played (Catacomb3D, Pathways into Darkness, Cybermage, HeXen 1, Battlespire + some King'sFields and ShadowTowers), System Shock 1 was BY FAR the most ass-backwards and clunky one gameplay-wise. EVEN with the mouse movement (not mouselook, mouse movement, I was playing the original floppy version) and partly rebinded with autohotkey keys, and all the while moving from prone position only in order to factor out the inane body simulation physics. The contrast with PiD alone in particular is just fucking stunning.

I mean, muh opportunities and muh possibilities are fine and dandy, but it's a classic "quantity doesn't equal quality" situation. SS1 simply plays like complete and utter dogshit.

[Anonymous No.4923936]

>>4923930
Hexen is not a dungeon crawler hybrid at all. The only RPG element is the class system.

[Anonymous No.4923985]

>>4923936
It's not about the leveling system (although I wouldn't say the "pure" dungeoncrawler-lites of its time, like Anvil of Dawn, Stonekeep, Lands of Lore, had a terribly complex leveling system), it's about being a combination of a maze game and a treausurehunt.

I mean, you can steamroll the majority of HeXen and its addon on any difficulty by spamming first mage's weapon only, that's how much the combat isn't the focus in that game. Not to mention, that the maps are not 100%able in terms of enemies due to respawn - and not to mention that there isn't any level statistics in the game to begin with. The monsters are not treated as opponents, and the combat isn't treated as a goal-in-itself, the monsters are treated more like the parts of the traps, and the combat is more like part of the means by which you overcome these threats (and where positioning yourself correctly and using appropriate items on right occasions is of far more importance than having them moves and cosplaying a God of War or something). Overall, it has typically dungeoncrawlish leveldesign, even if not grid-based (which isn't a requirement since, well, Ultima Underworld existed for, like, three and a half years already by that time).

[Anonymous No.4925625]

>>4919871
/vr/ and /m/ are my magnum opus

[Anonymous No.4926478]

>>4920202
this post always makes me happy