everyone's bushing the blood 2 ? saying its kinda shitty and all that jizm , but i found its pretty spectacular . 

 

yay or nay? 

Was fun at first but it got too repetitious and predictable after awhile. It did have its moments though. 

Needed to leave the facility. It's odd that they didn't do that. 

Glados is the facility, it wouldn't have been Portal without her, but thats where the "2" comes in.

It feels like they copped out. 

 

Anything around post-2003 isn't really old skool, imo. If it looks and feels old skool, then it's just a bit shit.

Undying just gets in there. It's long and unique, has a story... it's a game i'll still remember in 30 years time. Definitely must-play.

Blood I played through maybe 1/4 of it and decided it was shit and deleted it forever.

WOT is a good looking game... though I think it went a bit down in quality in the second half

Daikatana was bad enough after a few levels - that got deleted.

Gunman Chronicles I liked... it was a Halflife mod but released as a full standalone game.

Definitely play SOF1/2, NOLF1/2 and RTCW - they're all classics.

There's also FAKK2, Alice, Rune if you want include third person. 

Speaking of 3rd person action btw, remember that melee action\hack&slash game Blade of Darkness with awfully bland environments and pretty cool fighting system and hardcore difficulty? Probably not, because it wasn't any successful...
Now PS3 hit Dark\Demos Souls is pretty much a remake of it, it even inherited dull looks of the original ;) 

Who doesn't remember Blade Of Darkness?? Fairly good summary, the fighting system was great even though it was bloody hard. Good lighting compensated for the average environments. I liked it a lot once I got used to it. 

Have to pop in here...gotta agree on the awesomeness of 2.5d shooters

Coming back on the mention of Cybermage : played it ages ago - controls are a little funky, disregard the first sewer level. But once your used to the controls and past the first level your in for a good time. Its a comic book adaptation with the author involved in the game creation.

Blood, all time favorite, there are still some very good levels/episodes being released. 

http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/cyberpunk-games/cybermage-darklight-awakening/ 

Kona... "Blood I played through maybe 1/4 of it and decided it was shit and deleted it forever.
*flame*flame*flame*
You did not decide it was "shit", you didn't like it, the game sure is not "shit"! It shits all over you rather.

Yeah, there :P 

On another note, anyone else grab Section8:prejudice in the steam sale ?
I am surprised this game got so little attention post release...gfwl maybe, but its a pretty good tribes/quake wars hybrid thingy, beats the pants off BF3 for me. 

But it would feel very dated now fo sho. Maybe on account of it being so old! 

True, the worst being the build engine mouse control, bmouse.exe helps a bit but yeah...whatever happened to transfusion ? 

I just discovered it: looks like a nice puzzle game..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iABxhj0ExA0#! 

$7.49

http://www.greenmangaming.co.uk/games/strategy/warhammer-40000-dawn-of-war-ii-retribution/ 

Review of Turok (2008)
http://www.etherealhell.com/etherealhell/reviews/2012/turok.php

I really enjoyed it! 8/10. 

"Everything seems murky and drab, with fog drenched over everything." God yeah the Turok series has always had a thing, nay, a fetish with fog :P In fairness for performance reasons but now it probably just has to be there to "be" Turok. 

This will be a fairly short review of the past two hours that I just wasted playing Serious Sam 3.

Take everything that was good about Serious Sam, throw it away and release. That's how Serious Sam 3 was made.

When the most fun thing about your game is the sound the protagonist makes when pulling the head of a common spider enemy then you know you are doing something wrong. When your players spend more time wandering around and getting lost in your maze-like levels than they do fighting enemies, then you know that you probably need to making a few changes here and there.

We kept thinking it was going to get better, but it didn't. Maybe it does 3 hours in? 4 hours in? Not worth any more of my time to find out.

And since when was Serious Sam about story? Why the fuck are there cutscenes?

Shit. 

Yeah the start is really meh, it does get better 3 or 4 hours in actually, but even then it's still not as good as the previous entries. :(

Haven't finished it, but there were a few pretty cool fights.
All the dust smoke that appears when you shoot at stuff is annoying cause it blocks the view so much.
Also the new enemies soldiers with hitscan weapons suck, especially considering they aren't brightly colored like the other monsters so they blend into the environment and are hard to spot. 

Thanks for posting that review of cybermage, it looks really crazy from those screenshot. Also, that cyberpunkreview.com site is pretty intense :) I've got some film recommendations from them that look exciting (Ghost in the Shell) 

you are in for a treat! I can also recommend Patlabor. akira is way to fucked up and weird for my taste. 

It is seriously special.