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Post by Tomo on Sept 12, 2021 13:40:33 GMT
Yeah, Syndicate was amazing. Almost a proto open world game. Others that made the biggest impression on me were: Spellbound Dizzy, SWOS, Syndicate, Hired Guns, Monkey Island 2, Chaos Engine.
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Post by hedben on Sept 12, 2021 13:43:31 GMT
Did anyone else load up the Syndicate level that had crowds lining a street, and then zap like 50 civilians at once with the laser that fired in a straight line? Or just me...
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Post by Matt A on Sept 12, 2021 13:48:07 GMT
The only weapon I can remember was the minigun. The game was so detailed, drawing your weapon meant police and people reacted
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Post by Tomo on Sept 12, 2021 13:54:09 GMT
youtu.be/rEnuOk7npK4?t=3800I mean look at this, explosions, awesome guns, dystopia, civilians, blood, multiple controlled characters - just amazing.
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Post by Chopsen on Sept 12, 2021 16:55:59 GMT
1. why are the guns squeaky?
2. why are the cyborgs wearing MC Hammer trousers?
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Post by andytheaverage on Sept 12, 2021 20:52:20 GMT
I remember playing Planetside 2 back in the day, and pretty sure I joined a few RPS gaming nights too.
I'm amazed that no other game has ever really tried to copy PS2 as it was amazing when it all clicked, especially the sense of scale when a full convoy set off from a base.
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Post by minimatt on Sept 13, 2021 4:27:18 GMT
/waves - 'nother RPS refugee here, many thanks for the life raft  |
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Post by Frog on Sept 13, 2021 6:02:43 GMT
Welcome mate |
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Post by Lizard on Sept 13, 2021 6:14:39 GMT
Welcome!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2021 8:31:42 GMT
/waves - 'nother RPS refugee here, many thanks for the life raft You say that now - wait until the food runs out. Welcome |
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Post by Psiloc on Sept 13, 2021 9:10:18 GMT
Welcome RPS people! I've enjoyed reading some PC nostalgia- I haven't been a PC Gamer since about 2003, and I'm an absolute dunce when it comes to building one, but I have a few fond memories from back then. I was a Spectrum, Atari and Amiga kid, but my introduction to proper PC gaming would have been Carmageddon, late 90s. I spent so many hours just on the free demo level, knew it like the back of my hand. The powerups were genius- nothing beats getting a Solid Granite Car pickup and turning an opponent into one of those car cubes you see at scrapyards. I loved Carmageddon and its a game that always gets a look when I'm dabbling with DOSbox to this day. At the time the size of the levels and the car physics were something else. That and Rebel Assault 2 kept my interest for a long while |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 13, 2021 9:17:46 GMT
I thought the levels in Carmageddon were really weird. Like you were just driving around in a giant open map that happened to have a race in it. I know it wasn't strictly a racing game anyway, but if they wanted a destruction derby-type thing, it might have been better to have maps that you could actually find other cars in.
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Post by Psiloc on Sept 13, 2021 9:27:06 GMT
In-universe that was sort of the point; you're racing like madmen around real cities and stuff. But yeah it was important to pay attention to the signage or you could get lost
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Post by hedben on Sept 13, 2021 9:48:40 GMT
I'm not sure I ever won a level of Carmageddon by completing the race anyway- it always seemed better to try to eliminate every other opponent. There was also a victory condition for killing all the red-blooded pedestrians green-blooded zombies, but you had no chance at that unless you were in Stella's car with the electro-bastard ray Great game |
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Post by Phattso on Sept 13, 2021 10:07:34 GMT
Carmageddon was also the most amazing LAN game to play - it was in heavy rotation with things like Quake, Warcraft 2, and Screamer Rally 2 at Casa Phattso back in the day. Ah, the Halcyon days of my early 20s. |
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Post by Psiloc on Sept 13, 2021 13:11:21 GMT
I met up with my childhood friend a few years ago, he's the one who had Carmageddon when we were kids. We still had the intro narration committed to memory (zombie version)
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Sept 13, 2021 13:16:14 GMT
carmageddon was a pixelly mess an my old pentium but i loved it. applying the blood patch felt like i was playing a better version than others with their faux green blood.
however, everything changed when i whacked in a 3dfx card !
i must've put hundreds of hours into it and effectively achieved god mode when the game glitched and i received the invincible police car.
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Post by minimatt on Sept 13, 2021 14:29:56 GMT
So I see the thread convention is to date oneself horribly with fond memories (loaded high, with memmaker.exe) of wrangling PC hardware of yore when the volume rating of a case was a measure of the quantity of blood its stamped metal shards would draw.
I do have a t-piece tree somewhere from my first techy job which still had bits of novell netware / windows 3.1 on 10base2. And IPX/SPX. As for games, I did play and love early Elites as a kid but nostalgia is bad, old games were good, but there are better ones now, the most disappointing thing about new Elite was how faithful it felt to the originals and how thin that offering feels now.
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Post by Sarfrin on Sept 13, 2021 14:56:16 GMT
Buddy, I will personally drive round a cnuts house and fuck him in the arse if he's homophobic, racist or just asking for it with appropriate monetary compensation. I found a 50p down the back of the sofa last week. Will that do? |
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Post by Sarfrin on Sept 13, 2021 14:59:10 GMT
Talking of first computers, mine was a Dragon 32 if anyone remembers such a thing.
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Sept 13, 2021 15:12:19 GMT
Not a PC as such but the first system I had was a Sega SC3000.
A basic cartridge, Yamamoto, Monoco GP, star jacker, golf, plus a load of other games.
I'd genuinely love to still have it but it disappeared when my grandparents moved countries.
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Post by dominalien on Sept 13, 2021 15:26:40 GMT
We should have a thread for that.
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Sept 13, 2021 19:18:23 GMT
Talking of first computers, mine was a Dragon 32 if anyone remembers such a thing. [br When shopping around for a new computer to replace my aging Commodore VIC20 I had to get my mum to ignore the County Store salesperson trying to fob us off with a Dragon32. Admittedly if I had got my own way with the MSX I wanted I wouldn't have been much better off. The second hand Spectrum did the job. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Sept 14, 2021 1:00:05 GMT
Hello everyone. I'm here too.
Everything seems to move much faster here...
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Tomo
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Post by Tomo on Sept 14, 2021 4:10:21 GMT
Dragon32, cor never heard of that. Nice. Looks like a BBC Micro.
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Post by deebs on Sept 14, 2021 4:49:15 GMT
It was Welsh, and was the answer to the speccy and the C64. It wasn't half bad either, it just lacked RAM.
If you want to talk about obscure 8bit, look no further than the SAM Coupe. Awesome speccy compatible machine that was kind of a halfway point to the Atari ST.
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Post by Danno on Sept 14, 2021 6:18:04 GMT
Hello everyone. I'm here too. Everything seems to move much faster here... Hello, welcome |
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Sept 14, 2021 11:34:13 GMT
Actually, I made a mistake, it wasn't a Dragon 32 they tried to foist on me, it was worse, a Tatung Einstein... In later years I seem to recall seeing that it did actually have a Spectrum emulator of some sort for it though...
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Sept 14, 2021 11:36:11 GMT
It was Welsh, and was the answer to the speccy and the C64. It wasn't half bad either, it just lacked RAM. If you want to talk about obscure 8bit, look no further than the SAM Coupe. Awesome speccy compatible machine that was kind of a halfway point to the Atari ST. I was tempted by one of them when they relaunched with souped up variants but didn't bother in the end. I remember the Spectrum magazines bigging up the original (and oddly they jumped on the Cheetah Gamate handheld too) but ended up with an Amiga instead (actually a CDTV I got cheap with an external floppy and keyboard, that wasn't quite 100% compatible with KS 1.3, partially to do with CDROM eating RAM I think). |
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Post by gamecat on Sept 15, 2021 10:33:27 GMT
Talking of first computers, mine was a Dragon 32 if anyone remembers such a thing. my xbox id thing is poke654950, I can forget what day it is but don't think I'll ever forget the Dragon speed up poke. I may still have the thing in a the loft somewhere.. |
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