Video game thread

@Barhandar  
>lower moddability out of the box.  
Indeed, this is true. Still, there were people who persevered and worked with what they had, with some going as far as to make entire sourceports for both Doom3 vanilla and the BFG edition. Of the 2 versions, usually the vanilla versions has the upper hand in modding attention.  
>lower Quality  
Yes to most of the gunplay. The story, however, is more of a mix of a FPS with survival horror elements. Personally I find that the story they made for Doom 3 as being for the most part, less of an unpolished clusterfuck than Doom: Eternal In my opinion. Eternal does have better modability from what I can tell, though. Doom 2016, however, is more in the middle; in-between the other 2.

@Barhandar  
Also helps that Doom 3 wasn’t anywhere close to the only game in town in its time. There were dozens of direct competitors in terms of shooters and hundreds of other contemporary games in general. When Doom first released, and in the years after, what else did you have that was anything like it beyond Raven’s Heretic? Most of the “Doom clones” I’ve seen that sprouted like weeds in that era were more accurately Wolfenstein3D clones, and even the best use of the Wolf3D engine, or imitation of it, wasn’t going to compare. Add to that a more limited market of games in general paired with the practice of shareware, ensuring everyone would at least give the game a try, and you had a recipe for an unstoppable juggernaut.

@Officer Hotpants  
I bet none were as good as Super Noah’s Ark 3D.

I just realized. The VR version of LA Noire doesn’t include all the missions from the original game. It only has 7 out of the 28 cases you play on the original version. That’s not even half the game, and they want you pay $30 for that? What a ripoff. Why wouldn’t they remake every case for vr gameplay? I especially would’ve loved to see what the Quarter Moon Murders case would look like from a vr perspective. I’m very sad and disappointed now. I would’ve gotten a VR headset just to play all of LA Noire in vr.

@Humble Oriathan  
Rockstar doing a cash grab? Say it ain’t so!

@GuiltyGrimoire  

 
That’s a fucking piece of Plagiarism.

I love that in This is The Police, there’s an entire story scene about stealing a man’s shoes at gunpoint.

@Absol95  
It’s not, though. As trash as Color Dreams/Wisdom Tree has always been, they legitimately licensed the Wolfenstein 3D engine as part of an licensed Hellraiser game, but when Doom came out and management decided making a Hellraiser game clashed with their Christian values, they resprited what they had and Super 3D Noah’s Ark was “born”.

@Humble Oriathan  
I’d love to hear their excuse for that one. And for why they’re totally justified in releasing the rest of the cases as individual DLC.

@Officer Hotpants  
Disk Locked Content

@GuiltyGrimoire  
There will come a day when AAA video games will be locked to the hardware they were installed on like Windows OEM licenses. Mark my words.

@GuiltyGrimoire  
Pfft. “Disk”.
 
@EverfreeEmergencies  
Completely believe this.

If a game is going to have DLC, have it not be in the base game disc initially, nor have it be required to get the full ending.

I hate the name of pubg. Battlegrounds is the perfect name for a battle royale, and then Player Unknown put his stupid name in the title. Like he’s somebody. It isn’t even his actual name, as in Sid Meier’s Civilization. It’s his internet handle. I guess we’re just lucky it isn’t SSJNaruto69’s Battlegrounds.
 
The full name is too long and stupid, pubg is garbage both to look at and say. I’m glad people settled on Plunkbat out of that mess, and I’m glad the name Plunkbat upsets Player Unknown as much as it does.

@ANoobis  
The whole game just feels like yet another DayZ derivative. Heck, there’s probably a DayZ server that behaves exactly like pubg.  
>the name Plunkbat upsets Player Unknown  
That’s great. Didn’t he also get upset when some game added a frying pan melee weapon?

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Fortnite is also just a DayZ derivative. That’s why the building mechanics exist, and why its name is Fortnite. It used to be a resource-based multiplayer zombie survival game where the win condition was surviving for two weeks. Epic just stripped out the survival stuff and made a battle royale when they saw how potentially profitable it could be. They really should have changed the name. Fortnite means nothing now.
 
He’s suing NetEase, the devs of the Chinese mobile games Knives Out and Rules of Survival for generally ripping off pubg and reselling it as their own. Considering that NetEase even included the “winner winner, chicken dinner” victory message in both games, he’s got a good case.
 
Where it gets stupid is the addition of the frying pan in the legal brief. “Other shooters didn’t use a frying pan before pubg.” As though the golden frying pan hadn’t already been in TF2 for years.

@ANoobis  
PUBG’s name doesn’t bother me quite as much. Also, even though there is no 50v50 mode nor as big of a Battle Pass, PUBG does have some advantages over games such as Fortnite.  

@ANoobis  
wasnt the regular frying pan awarded to those with left for dead or something?

@TeamBlueplant  
I don’t know. I know that the golden frying pan was a promotional item for purchasing L4D 2.

@Absol95  
If this was a corporate meeting you’d already be flying out the window.

@Officer Hotpants  

 
I definitely get your frustration there. Many companies, especially Western AAA devs, have their heads up their asses as well as being too focused on their top investors.

@Absol95  

@Officer Hotpants  
This is why the fondle test is important. Generic brand has a better chip to air ratio in my experience too.

The first video game I ever got from the store was Zoo Tycoon 2: Endangered Species, and after getting home I found out it was an expansion pack and I couldn’t play it. So, being 6 years old, I started crying and my parents ended up having to drive all the way back to Walmart to find the base game.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Remembering that far back is hard, but I want to say the first PC game teen me ever personally purchased (not including “dollar demo discs” from a local PC shop) was original Tyrian off of Epic MegaGames’ (yes, that Epic Games) website around 1996-1997 (mother’s credit card with permission); if it wasn’t that, it was the original release of Warcraft II from a Software Etc. about 30 miles north of home.
 
Prior to those, pre-teen me was purchasing used NES/SNES games decommissioned from local rental shops for cheap with allowance, while PC interests had to be covered by my grandfather who knew what the family’s computers could run. First PC game purchased for me, though, was probably the original DOS version of SimAnt around 1991, and 7 year old me would drive my grandparents nuts refusing to get off of their PC until I had cleared the Full Game mode for the n th time. I think I still have one of the 5.25” floppies used to store my saves stashed somewhere.