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quote:I replayed the Azure Sheep mod for Half-Life 1 to see if it was as good as a remembered. I remember waiting anxiously for the PC Gamer with the copy of Azure Sheep on it's disc, and then discovering it was missing a vital file after the fact. I loved that loving mod when I was a teenager, loved it to bits - but as I replayed it over the years the love faded gradually but surely until the last time I played it and made it a point to keep track of the corridors. I took this screenshot of a typical corridor which should serve CR's post quite well:  The loading screen happens at that very last corner. The ENTIRE rest of that thing is completely useless. The same thing could of been accomplished with a simple airlock. It did have some neat ideas, gaining the HEV suit half way through the mod with proper arm graphics and stuff to go with it was a really neat idea that I wish more mods did. Kate was like a really early version of Alyx, but she didn't have any real dialogue or purpose (and let's not get started on how loving awful HL1 companions can be at following you - Heart of Evil is one of my favourite mods but it was awful for this)
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If you want a quick summary of Azure Sheep, look at these two images:  Because those two are at least 50% of the mod.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:29
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Personally, as bad as all that was, the thing that bothered me the most about Azure Sheep was that the generic female security guards are called Barniel. They could have gone with Bernice, Beatrice, Bernadette, you know... actual names that people have in real life. They could have gone with Thelma, to continue the original reference with Barney's name, or Betty, to create a new reference. But no, they just made some poo poo up.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:23
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Well, a 21 year old game almost made me poo poo my pants. W-W-WELCOME TO MY DEATH MACHINE, INTERLOPER!
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Sep 24, 2015 22:25
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Well, a 21 year old game almost made me poo poo my pants. Good, isn't it? 
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Sep 24, 2015 22:48
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It won't be the last time that you'll jump in your seat, either. The developers did a fantastic job of making it seem like a malign intellect is in total control and always one step ahead of you. Really makes the SHODAN of System Shock 1 seem more frightening and formidable than the SHODAN of the sequel.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:57
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There's also a funny callback in 2 when she tries the same thing with almost exactly the same line, and manages to summon the weakest enemy in the game. 
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Sep 24, 2015 23:13
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I'm fairly certain that if you take your time and explore your surroundings on that level in SS1 there is a way to disable that trap.
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Sep 24, 2015 23:28
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Anyone have $3500 USD burning a hole in their pocket? How about a lantern? Own your own Cacolantern! That thing is creepy and amazing. I'll stick with my plush Caco, thank you very much.
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Sep 25, 2015 03:37
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bbcisdabomb posted:Anyone have $3500 USD burning a hole in their pocket? How about a lantern? If I had ridiculous disposable income, you bet your rear end I'd buy that. Also, whud up plush Caco buddy 
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Sep 25, 2015 04:41
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He even modeled the uh... Rear features.
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Sep 25, 2015 07:40
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So how do cacodemons mate? Are there male cacodemons? Are pain elementals simply matured lost souls?
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Sep 25, 2015 07:42
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Every cacodemon is born with 3-6 already fertilized eggs that they lay over the course of their lifetimes. Baby cacodemons hatch from the eggs by learning how to hover and then smashing themselves into walls until the egg breaks.
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Sep 25, 2015 08:12
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System Shock veterans: how the frickle frack do I get the isotope from level 2 so I can power up the shields around the laser? The audio logs talk about grabbing an envirosuit, but the totally lovely rear end vague as gently caress guides people have written say it's on level 7, which is somewhere I can't even remotely get to at the moment. I feel like Hal from Malcom in the Middle. 
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Sep 25, 2015 11:10
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i played system shock for the first time yesterday, so i'm not an expert. i just walked into the room with the isotope, walked around the back side of the force field, pressed the switch, the force field came down, and i picked it up. this is with all the difficulty settings at 2. A bunch of logs around the area complained about radioactivity in the area, but if you've enabled the regeneration station i can't see why that would be a problem...
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Sep 25, 2015 11:29
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:System Shock veterans: how the frickle frack do I get the isotope from level 2 so I can power up the shields around the laser? The audio logs talk about grabbing an envirosuit, but the totally lovely rear end vague as gently caress guides people have written say it's on level 7, which is somewhere I can't even remotely get to at the moment. What's funny about this to me is that Walter White pretty much did the same sort of thing with his water heater/floorboards or something.
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Sep 25, 2015 11:40
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Segmentation Fault posted:So how do cacodemons mate? Are there male cacodemons? 
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Sep 25, 2015 13:37
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:System Shock veterans: how the frickle frack do I get the isotope from level 2 so I can power up the shields around the laser? The audio logs talk about grabbing an envirosuit, but the totally lovely rear end vague as gently caress guides people have written say it's on level 7, which is somewhere I can't even remotely get to at the moment. Suck it up. Quickly run in to the room with the isotope on level 2. You can remove the radiation using a detox hypo. You won't suffer from radiation while carrying the isotope.
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Sep 25, 2015 14:40
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Project Brutality remains pretty freaking dope, and very well balanced for a mod that accepts suggestions from a moddb page. I'm thinking about dropping a few suggestions of my own, including some more pump shotgun shell types. Maybe an EMP or tesla shell type that fucks with cyber type enemies and screws up their attacks in some manner? (Stuns are bullshit and can be abused.) Also Chinese Tony Danza is Comic Book Doomguy.  And asking him to remove that stupid SMG and have the spec ops guys drop a kit that upgrades your starting pistol into an uzi or auto glock instead.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:24
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Segmentation Fault posted:So how do cacodemons mate? Are there male cacodemons? A pain elemental and a Cacodemon float back to back, rotate forwards, and do a "cloacal kiss" like birds. ...I'll get my coat.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:43
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I also have hopped onto the System Shock train as of last night. Spent several hours clearing Level 1. I'm beginning to understand why people said the music wasn't that good. It sounds pretty great listening to it on its own, but due to the iMUSE-ish way it plays the music in-game, I end up listening to the square wave opening of the music the entire time with it almost never playing the cool guitar part (apparently that's saved for combat). Also, man, enemies respawning whenever I go wandering for a little while isn't paranoia-inducing at all, nope. (At least it's just the low-level mutants. For now.)
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Sep 25, 2015 16:59
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Back when I played SS1 I got hopelessly stuck at some point. I think there were only a few decks I hadn't visited but I had no idea how to unlock them. I remember endlessly walking around on a really dark deck filled with some kind of flying stealth manta rays and like zero resources. I had some kind of laser sword with unlimited ammo but they were still chipping away my health in every encounter.
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Sep 25, 2015 17:04
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Well, this is odd news: The writers of thoughtful and wordy games like The Sea Will Claim Everything and The Talos Principle are confirmed to be writing Serious Sam 4, which barring a serious chance in mood is likely to be neither thoughtful nor wordy. They've worked with Croteam in the past, so clearly they know what they're up against, but it'll be interesting to see how they adjust to the different attitude.
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Sep 25, 2015 17:18
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Wamdoodle posted:If I had ridiculous disposable income, you bet your rear end I'd buy that. Also, whud up plush Caco buddy Oh, hey buddy 
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Sep 25, 2015 17:31
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The Kins posted:Well, this is odd news: The writers of thoughtful and wordy games like The Sea Will Claim Everything and The Talos Principle are confirmed to be writing Serious Sam 4, which barring a serious chance in mood is likely to be neither thoughtful nor wordy. They've worked with Croteam in the past, so clearly they know what they're up against, but it'll be interesting to see how they adjust to the different attitude. I wish Croteam would do the writing again. Vanilla Serious Sam 3, which was done by a third pary, was way less funny than the DLC, which was done by Croteam.
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My understanding is that the ending for Serious Sam 3 was also uncharacteristically dark. Something like the entire Earth getting blown up by a collision from the Moon shortly after Sam enters the time portal, meaning he isn't just a goofy "mankind's last hope for survival" pastiche, he's literally the only human left alive. Kind of excessive, if you ask me, and not even in the goofy sense of excess the series otherwise revels in.
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Sep 25, 2015 19:06
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Croteam is a weird developer. They vanish for years without so much as a peep, then come back as if nothing happened.
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Shadow Hog posted:My understanding is that the ending for Serious Sam 3 was also uncharacteristically dark. Something like the entire Earth getting blown up by a collision from the Moon shortly after Sam enters the time portal, meaning he isn't just a goofy "mankind's last hope for survival" pastiche, he's literally the only human left alive. Kind of excessive, if you ask me, and not even in the goofy sense of excess the series otherwise revels in. That reminds me of the original ending to Army of Darkness which was canned for being too depressing.
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Guillermus posted:Oh, hey buddy Hol-lee hell I'm getting that plush marine too. Why isn't there a complete plush doom beastiary? Sonic and System Shock take place in the same reality!? 
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Sep 25, 2015 20:42
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Wamdoodle posted:Sonic and System Shock take place in the same reality!? "Look at you, hedgehog, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors..."
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Sep 25, 2015 20:44
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Geight posted:That reminds me of the original ending to Army of Darkness which was canned for being too depressing. Weird, it's the only one available on my DVD of it. I much prefer the ridiculous EZ-Mart ending though.
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Sep 25, 2015 20:44
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Convex posted:Weird, it's the only one available on my DVD of it. I much prefer the ridiculous EZ-Mart ending though. That is weird. The DVD I have has the EZ-Mart ending normally, and the Apocalypse ending as a special feature. Is yours a UK version or something?
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Sep 25, 2015 20:46
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I'm running GZDoom (I can't quite remmeber which version) on my work PC, and when I look up or down, it no longer gives me true up or down, it's the fake, 'Duke-like' up and down, where the perspective gets all weird. Any idea how I can fix this?
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Sep 25, 2015 20:49
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I'm running GZDoom (I can't quite remmeber which version) on my work PC, and when I look up or down, it no longer gives me true up or down, it's the fake, 'Duke-like' up and down, where the perspective gets all weird. Any idea how I can fix this? Make sure you're using the openGL renderer to avoid y-shearing.
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Zaphod42 posted:Make sure you're using the openGL renderer to avoid y-shearing. Rupert Buttermilk posted:Hey, so just a heads-up, if you happen to be rocking two monitors, and the left one (whether it's your main display or not) is listed as monitor #1, and you have it set up as Portrait, GZDoom will refuse to acknowledge the other monitor, and will consistently gently caress up the resolutions for you, so the game is constantly taller rather that wider. Thank you! I guess long ago, when I was trying to figure out my initial problem, I did mean to change vid_adapter in the .ini file, rather than renderer. Yeah, it was running in software mode. All good now, and now on my proper screen! 
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Geight posted:That is weird. The DVD I have has the EZ-Mart ending normally, and the Apocalypse ending as a special feature. Is yours a UK version or something? Yeah, this one. At least it has the 4:3 version of the first movie I guess.
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Sep 25, 2015 21:06
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haveblue posted:"Look at you, hedgehog, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors..." Jumping on SHODAN eight times kills it
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Guillermus posted:Oh, hey buddy The way the spines look on those books weirds me out, is that normal in non-English books? I have a couple Cinebook Melusine collections and they have similar spines and it weirds me out there too. Also, I adore the fact that you have Shadows over Baker Street. And of course your plush Doomguy and monsters.
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Just destroyed the mining laser in SS1. If the game ended right here, I'd faint because of how loving awesome the experience was. BUT I STILL HAVE TH REST OF THE GAME TO GO  Incredible. This game is a miracle. Why don't they make immersive sims anymore?  I feel like parts of the genre got absorbed into others, like Watch_Dogs ( ) but...it's not the same.
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