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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Mongoose on October 12, 2011, 02:43:08 pm
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Steam's been having one of their week-long publisher sales for THQ's titles, and today is the Red Faction series' turn. The first two games are going for $2.50 each, while Guerrilla is going for $5. Since I don't own any of the games, and they're one of :v:'s babies, I might be interested in picking them up. Are there particular games that I should go for/stay away from? I know 2 doesn't seem to have a very good Metacritic score.
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I've never really understood the hate-on for 2.
Then again, I played 2 before 1, so....
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Well, if I'm planning on getting the first one and Guerrilla, I don't see any reason not to throw 2 in there for the hell of it. :p
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I think I'll only be getting Guerilla. I absolutely loved the demo and the open world.
Edit: I allotted myself $100 for Steam games... I've almost burned through half of it. At least I haven't bought any expensive new games.
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RF2 is fine. Nothing remarkable, but fine. Worth $2.50 at least.
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Eh I'm thinking about getting Armegeddon... I know it didn't score well and it felt like not much more than "let's blow stuff up"
but it has that Descent level in there...
Guerrilla I felt was too open... errand running. they made a destruction engine, forgot the game maybe?
R1 was... ok. Ugly and short and not much of a story...
R2.. can't remember much of it.
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I really liked Guerrilla (you can skip most of the errand missions) because it felt like GTA: Mars.
Armageddon has some issues (nonsensical plot for one, not being Guerrilla the other :p ) but has very fun weapons and vehicle segments.
Just don't think about the plot, at all.
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Oh man, I totally forgot about that Descent level in Armageddon. Not that it'll run on my system anyway, but maybe eventually.
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God knows how many years ago, I was in a game store. On the shelf, I saw two Gamecube games. Rogue Squadron 2, and Red Faction 2. I'd played Rogue Squadron 2 before, and ****ing loved it, but I did not yet own it. I had never seen Red Faction 2 before, but had fond memories of playing the first Red Faction on my mate's PS2. As I was merely a young teen, and Australia had a penchant for charging $100 for a game, I had only enough money for one.
I chose Red Faction 2.
One of the worst decisions of my life.
**** RED FACTION 2.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emBQRoviLp0
I say we grab RFA... then snag the meshes and effects from it.
THQ-time travel-ception
On another note I think it'd be wise to read the Steam forums.... There's a lot of problems with RFG due to the DRM.
RFA has no such problems and has 16 co-op maps with 2 modes of play.
The DLC adds 4 maps/missions, an orbital strike, a tank, and some other stuff.
So yeah I bought RFA... down with DRM!
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RFG has always had serious problems running with DRM off consoles. I'm still
getting got it anyways...Oh man, I totally forgot about that Descent level in Armageddon. Not that it'll run on my system anyway, but maybe eventually.
I suggest you wait a few years to buy. By that time not only will the price be even lower it'll probably run on any new system you might have at the time.
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The Descent level sooooo has me craving a new Descent with modern graphics and physics...
It was like telling me I can have my cake... but the part I was allowed to eat was tiny :(
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I thought the particle effects were awesome. Napalm laser and convergence laser > all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DAsY4lFedUU#t=110s
The game is unbelievably crashy on Win XP though. I've gotten corrupted split save files that wiped my abilities and scrap,
even broke some of co-op on me. I swapped it to the DX10/11 version on 7 and it's only died 1 time so far.
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The Descent level sooooo has me craving a new Descent with modern graphics and physics...
It was like telling me I can have my cake... but the part I was allowed to eat was tiny :(
Descent with Geomod. Now THERE's something you'd have to watch out for
"I'm just going to shoot these missiles over here and OH WAIT tunnel collapsed..."
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Indeed, a new Descent with Geomod, updated graphics and the same awesome feel could be an amazing game.
BTW, I wonder why nobody seems to rip off Descent, while other FPSes of tha time (like Doom or Quake) are heavily imitated. I haven't seen any 6DOF FPS newer than D3 (not counting some obscure multiplayer game).
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Indeed, a new Descent with Geomod, updated graphics and the same awesome feel could be an amazing game.
BTW, I wonder why nobody seems to rip off Descent, while other FPSes of tha time (like Doom or Quake) are heavily imitated. I haven't seen any 6DOF FPS newer than D3 (not counting some obscure multiplayer game).
Well Miner Wars.... which I found extremely blah last time I tried the alpha. Maybe it will get better before release /shrugs.
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I'm gonna see if I can't rip the Descent HUD out of RFA... no promises though. Friggen game crashes XP like it's getting paid to do it.
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*coughfartspitsputter-http://www.multiupload.com/Z6HCVRF4VS-heffalumpsnwhoozles*
Link will go dead in a few days on it's own so, get while it's hot.
Nuke would have a field day with RFA... just about everything hud, menu, or weapons wise is all done via commented out LUA.
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It was so hot, it's only 0 bytes large
Website isn't liking me, albeit why would you host the file there?
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New link...
...and because I hear you don't have enough mystery in your online diet.
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I like my internet enigma free