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HROT definitely requires a certain sensibility to the "eastern bloc oppressiveness" vibes.
The original Quake has a similar appeal, in a way I am unable to describe. Did it, and found nothing, because in the video it is written HORT, not HROT. With Hrot it is easy.
Queak inspiration, watch the last 20 seconds of the vid....
Yeah, the looks are different from iD maps, but the textures look 100% percent that they come from a Quake custom map. More than inspired, copied from a https://youtu.be/1v_X2v255W0
RetroFPS REAL TALK and final Ultrashill thoughts. I'm done with this for now. My two cents about retro games in 2020:
3D Realms is doing a great job with Wrath, Graven and Ion Fury. Recruiting veteran mappers to do what they do best. New Blood, apart from Gloomwood (made by a veteran Thief custom-mapper), all other games in their catalog feels more like a satire of old-school games, they remind me of those joke-wads from Doom community. I don't like it. Gloomwood looks cool. More like a Thief-style stealth game than a true FPS. But it's surprising the janky model/animation quality doesnt seem to have improved at all since Dusk. I know its still a one-man or at least very limited team, but you'd think they could hire or commission a modeler with the money from Dusk.
Ion Fury....I wouldn't get on with the build engine and sprites, but definitely got a strong theme and purpose.
This... New Blood, apart from Gloomwood (made by a veteran Thief custom-mapper), all other games in their catalog feels more like a satire of old-school games, they remind me of those joke-wads from Doom community. I don't like it. A request please:
If anyone does find any properly good / inspiring retro FPSes that are of the ilk that Tribal listed above, please do still link them with shots and gameplay footage etc. The concept is still valid... Thanks. If you're looking to get really fucking mad, look up Effigy, Endless Hunger and Perilous Warp. Utter fucking tart that people DROOL over, it makes me seriously wonder what these people get out of these games. Do they just hear buzzwords and dribble out a gleeful response? It's baffling.
let's hope it is an alpha and the brushwork simple blockout and not something which seems to be even worse than Dusk. Also, i think someone linked a video to it here before.
One of the 0.5% of RetroFPSes to actually show some potential including an aesthetic "theme" and some actual "design" is in Early Access...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/964800/Prodeus/ Cheers vigil for linking it on Discord. https://twitter.com/tdDaz/status/1326638392361226240
Gotta say, those shots show things like "theme" "atmosphere" "architecture" "harmony of aesthetics" and other such rarities. Even the hud is pretty tasteful. I've decided that Hard Reset, as minor and limited as it is, is a true retro-FPS.
Does it blend old skool simple / fast gameplay with modern production values?? Does it actually have a theme, purpose, design, satisfying weapons and a decent bestiary?? Yes to both. It has many issues: Movement is a bit sluggish, enemies are a bit bullet-spongey, almost all the cool architecture is a pure un-visitable backdrop, it's very arenay in places and quite 2-D in others, and if you care about such things the inter-mission story / dialogue is beyond terrible, it's also pretty damn short including the DLC. But I had fun with it. The double weapons and their plethoric upgrades are actually nicely done and fun, the enemies at least have a theme, the backdrops are really cool and the overall graphics are good. https://store.steampowered.com/app/407810/Hard_Reset_Redux/ it's dirty cheap now on gog: https://www.gog.com/game/hard_reset_redux
Here's some utter TURD that has been ruining poor viewers' eyes on Discord recently:
https://youtu.be/BIOJ6QURT5k Nail And Crescent aka we have one torch model and one SNG ripped off from Quake Chumps or somewhere and think that a load of box rooms and plain pillars are enough to make a game BECAUSE RTX. Minecraft HD-textured box-cow ahoy! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9F6I4gpeaEGcPDIvFC82pA/videos Psymmetry aka all the effects and none of the level design whatsoever. Snapmap ahoy! https://store.steampowered.com/app/807900/Hellver/ Hellver aka a pre-alpha test for devil fucking daggers being played on the gameboy or a pocket fucking calculator. Eye prolapse of horror ahoy! Nail and Crescent is claiming to be still WIP and really just a pack of content to make quake1-style levels in Quake2RTX. So, it makes sense that they don't have much content to show yet and also that they don't have any real level design. Maybe it's not ready to make a whole trailer, though.
Wow, that Hellver looks like it has EGA graphics or something.
Nail & Crescent looks like some bad case of everything looking like wet clay, look at those nail ammo boxes, it's like they are oily or greasy, oh god. What do you say about Core Decay? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1260940/Core_Decay/ Although it doesn't present itself as some Doom/Quake "romeric" shooter for "true warriors". And gameplay wise it seems different. Seem to recall enemies looking pretty naff tho. Haven't been following it closely. Feel free to post the latest media links if it seems worth it.
Last thing that was released is the the announcement trailer below. Not seen much since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjAvdzQhPQc This is before Ivar got the publishing deal but lot's of info.
https://quakecast.podbean.com/e/quakecast-47-ivar-hill-core-decay/
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